The Dividing: Shining a Light into the Darkness

[Editor's note: Some comments under the articles referenced below (or eleswhere) have called into question the veracity of the facts in the articles. However, when asked for even one example of an error or lie, the commenters alleging falsehoods have gone silent.  This article first appeared this morning, May 29, at Red State]

It’s been quite a month for Washington State liberty activists, hasn’t it?  We’ve seen the RLCWA faced with an easy decision.  We saw the bulk of that body stand on the wrong side of history, and then we witnessed at the organization began to tear itself apart.  Through it all, a dedicated group of new journalists have been there to document and report on it.  Kit Lange at the Victory Girls Blog (see here, here, here, and here) Doug Parris and Roberta from the Reagan Wing (see the last 20-plus posts on the site) and Michelle McIntyre from Life of the Party (see here) have all been instrumental in spreading the truth about this group.   I’ve even waded into the pool at the Reagan Wing and here on Red State (see here, here, and here).  We tell the truth.  That’s it.  And we’re called “divisive.”

It’s worth noting that no one has made the assertion that anything that we’ve said is wrong or factually incorrect; instead, we’re told that we’re dividing the (liberty) movement.

Are we, though?  Are a few people the cause of division?  Or is the movement divided and a few people have the courage to point it out?  I would argue that the latter is true.  The movement for liberty in this State (and in fact, our Nation) is divided.  It is necessarily divided.  There are people committed to real liberty, and those who are not.

Memorial Duty: Pray for our boys who still sit in ‘dark holes’!

I listened to “KT” McFarland – senior national security analyst for Nixon, Ford and Reagan, and now for FOX News – some time ago as she commented on the sad state of affairs with the original mission objective in Afghanistan, long ago accomplished. We have now what is termed “mission creep,” finding things to do with taxpayer funds by the billions. We pay pederasts and they play with their young boys. We pay profiteers and help them harvest their heroin.

So there is no end in sight, no objective, no light at the end of the tunnel.

LOTRLC #9½ : Outnumbered. “A day… when the courage of men fails…”

Editor’s note: This article was written within 48 hours of the first day of business at the 2012 Washington State Republican Convention in Tacoma and uploaded to The Reagan Wing, where it has waited for nearly a year, although regularly revisited by our staff… Like the story of the Republican Liberty Caucus Kickoff in January 2013, Something held us back from publishing …until now. The author, was an eyewitness to the events discussed in Lord of the RLC #9: The Silmarillion Secret. This article is published now as a response to the comments of  Michael & Katja Delavar.

Standing on Principle at the Washington State Convention

Michele St. Pierre (c)2012

Lord of the RLC #9: The Simarillion Secret

Editor’s introduction: The Silmarillion is J.R.R. Tolkien’s history, in five parts, of the First Age of Middle-Earth – essential background material for readers of the  Lord of the Rings saga. We’ve appropriated its title and format for similar purposes in our current series, continuing the Lord of the Rings metaphor that has – eerily – become a living allegory for the GOP and its relationship to the conservative movement, the libertarian movement, and the Pro-life Fellowship of the latter two (who, like elves and dwarves, previously had little use for each other) that was created by the candidacy of Ron Paul.

The metaphor was originally conceived by Doktor Jeep, who is, among other things, a Rreagan Wing author, in two prescient sentences  that foreshadowed all the consequences to which the series is leading. This chapter (#9 in the series), like The Silmarillion, covers enormous narrative history, in what here can only  be summary. There is a lot of detail and documentation of which the following is only a synopsis. But this is one of the most significant synopses we’ve ever published. It contains the names (in bold) of the six (6) key destroyers of the Ron Paul and Rick Santorum Presidential hopes in Washington State.

“…nought but grief an’ pain…”

Someone found this letter floating through the clouds from Mr. Dubin in Seattle. He is an attorney, a good one it is rumored.

He is also the new chair of the King County Washington RLC, the infant child of the old RLC, the Republican Liberty Caucus… another one of those ‘GOP excitements’ which has been hanging around the shadows of the GOP for over twenty years.

Having served out it’s usefulness apparently, long ago, the RLC became arguably invisible, sitting on the shelf alongside dozens of other hulks which, like great ships, are left with but two elements of value… their license, and their hulls!
As providence would direct, the RLC appeared to have life literally breathed back into it’s lungs when 35 years of Congressman Ron Paul labor suddenly sprouted blossoms and began a mostly harmonious fruit-bearing, starting with the 2008 election season. Fast forward to the recent formation of the much hoped for branch of that Ron Paul Liberty Tree, manifest in the organization of RLCWA. The enormous King county provided the vibrant and rich soil seemingly perfect for a portion of that tree. But shadows might have crept across the horizon, or do they not?

The Problem with RLC National Leadership (2013: Bleeding into Washington)

[Ed Note: This is part three of Kit's series on the dark side of the RLC. Emphasis ours.  Part one was cross published at the Reagan Wing here and Part two here.  Kit Lange writes for the conservative blog Victory Girls. Clayton Strang is a Reagan Wing authorand writes for Red State.]

Exposing the Republican “Liberty” Caucus, Part 3: Shady Money and Shadier Leaders

by Kit Lange and R. Clayton Strang

Authors’ Note: This is the third installment in a series exposing the Republican Liberty Caucus for the leftist, pro-abortion, anti-Christianity organization that it is, and throwing open the closet on their corruption, lies, and machinations. Part 1 showed the first few years of history, and Part 2 brought it up to the present day. Part 3 focuses on the new leader of the RLC, and the largest state charter, Washington State, where this author was a paying member of the RLCWA until very recently. (Apparently our resignations were not accepted…read on.)

There are two kinds of issues: core, and peripheral—and these are different for every person. Core issues elect candidates, for they are what people camp on. Peripheral issues are the ones that you’re willing to negotiate on; a candidate may disagree with you, but you’ll still vote for him if he meets your core. One voter, for instance, may have considered the war in Iraq their number one priority core issue in the 2008 election—and the reason they voted for Obama, even if they disagreed with his social policies. A social conservative (or as some of them call themselves, liberty-minded conservative) holds one value above everything else: the defense of life. Some hold this as equal and even above the Second Amendment right to self-defense against tyranny, for the killing of an unborn child is the ultimate in tyranny.

We have already seen how the RLC has always been pro-abortion. Its leaders are staunch abortion defenders—even up to the minute a baby takes its first breath outside the womb. To hardcore “libertarians” like Dave Nalle and Bill Westmiller, a woman has the “right” to murder her child even as she gives birth to it, as long as it has not taken a breath yet. In order to attract social conservatives, however, they toned down their shocking belief system and made it “neutral,” claiming that “honest and ethical” differences of opinions could exist.  Current RLCWA leadership, including state chairman Sandra Belzer and Snohomish County Chairman Brian Landsberger, claimed they were pro-life, and offered assurances to prospective members that they could help the RLCWA change their platform to reflect life as the foundation of liberty.  Sadly, several pro-life activists actually believed them.

Parris Proposes a Truce

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for the largest mouths representing one people to quiet the political bands whose playing has separated them with another, the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God and the opinions of mankind require that they should declare a truce in the verbiage that impels them to the contention.