Many roads to the same destination.
A nice day today. Went sight seeing all the way down to Conway, NH. The family had a good time.
As part of this vacation I have been making it a point to read a book given to me at the Liberty Forum entitled "Secure the Blessings of Liberty" by Robert Jones, an attorney from out in the mid west. The book deals with the understanding of the Constitution and how accessible the document is. It is a very good and simple read and I highly recommend it to everyone regardless of education or background.
Another thing I am taking pains to do is listen to Free Talk Live over the internet. Free Talk Live broadcasts out of my home town of Keene, NH. The hosts are committed Free Staters and Libertarian Anarchists. Their show is interesting, challenging and unashamed. You rarely hear the topics and discussion they put on regularly anywhere else. They do a great job of presenting interesting and challenging libertarian topics to the general public.
Finally, at least once a day, I check my email. And as usual I am bombarded with notices and calls to action from the National C4L. Also, I have been monitoring several intense debates among Vermont Libertarians, some opaque and others more mundane. All were presented with passion, knowledge, and a lot of heat.
If any thing I can conclude from all of this, coupled with the upcoming liberty extravaganza that is the Porcupine Fest, is that their are many ways to achieve a common goal. As all roads lead to Paris, all sincere efforts of liberty minded people and enterprises lead to greater freedom, liberty, and citizenship. There is no magic bullet, no simple secret, no single path to a future of liberty. All fronts must be explored. All efforts equally legitimate as long as each carry the common goal and cause of liberty. We need not agree on the specifics or the methods, we only need to agree that what made our nation and the State of Vermont great was our cultural, social, and ethical committment to liberty, property and life.
There are many groups, organizations, and mediums striving to inform, empower and energize the forces for liberty. Each offering their own piece of the puzzle. Their own ideas to achieve our common goal. Their own resources to arm our common effort. Each are right in their own way and actions. Each has something to offer their fellow citizens.
But like all human endeavors, the tendency toward competition leads many like minded groups to fight amongst themselves. Sometimes the greatest enemy of any movement is the membership of that movement. Intense and protracted fights often erupt. These fights tend to be destructive of the overall effort and demoralizing to the membership of the movement. Many a good cause have become lost causes because of the evils of in-fighting.
For any movement, such as ours, to be successful, we will need to learn to agree to disagree and fight even harder to find or define the common ground we all share. In order to do this, it requires each member to engage their fellow members, to interact, discuss, debate, and most importantly listen to each other. It is through this process of interaction and discussion we define what it means to be Vermonters for Liberty.
A nice day today. Went sight seeing all the way down to Conway, NH. The family had a good time.
As part of this vacation I have been making it a point to read a book given to me at the Liberty Forum entitled "Secure the Blessings of Liberty" by Robert Jones, an attorney from out in the mid west. The book deals with the understanding of the Constitution and how accessible the document is. It is a very good and simple read and I highly recommend it to everyone regardless of education or background.
Another thing I am taking pains to do is listen to Free Talk Live over the internet. Free Talk Live broadcasts out of my home town of Keene, NH. The hosts are committed Free Staters and Libertarian Anarchists. Their show is interesting, challenging and unashamed. You rarely hear the topics and discussion they put on regularly anywhere else. They do a great job of presenting interesting and challenging libertarian topics to the general public.
Finally, at least once a day, I check my email. And as usual I am bombarded with notices and calls to action from the National C4L. Also, I have been monitoring several intense debates among Vermont Libertarians, some opaque and others more mundane. All were presented with passion, knowledge, and a lot of heat.
If any thing I can conclude from all of this, coupled with the upcoming liberty extravaganza that is the Porcupine Fest, is that their are many ways to achieve a common goal. As all roads lead to Paris, all sincere efforts of liberty minded people and enterprises lead to greater freedom, liberty, and citizenship. There is no magic bullet, no simple secret, no single path to a future of liberty. All fronts must be explored. All efforts equally legitimate as long as each carry the common goal and cause of liberty. We need not agree on the specifics or the methods, we only need to agree that what made our nation and the State of Vermont great was our cultural, social, and ethical committment to liberty, property and life.
There are many groups, organizations, and mediums striving to inform, empower and energize the forces for liberty. Each offering their own piece of the puzzle. Their own ideas to achieve our common goal. Their own resources to arm our common effort. Each are right in their own way and actions. Each has something to offer their fellow citizens.
But like all human endeavors, the tendency toward competition leads many like minded groups to fight amongst themselves. Sometimes the greatest enemy of any movement is the membership of that movement. Intense and protracted fights often erupt. These fights tend to be destructive of the overall effort and demoralizing to the membership of the movement. Many a good cause have become lost causes because of the evils of in-fighting.
For any movement, such as ours, to be successful, we will need to learn to agree to disagree and fight even harder to find or define the common ground we all share. In order to do this, it requires each member to engage their fellow members, to interact, discuss, debate, and most importantly listen to each other. It is through this process of interaction and discussion we define what it means to be Vermonters for Liberty.
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