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This FreedomSummit will Rock the Planet - Dec. 4th-6th 2009 ($89 room Special Expires Nov. 8th)
Ernest Hancock Website: www.ernesthancock.com Date: 11-03-2009 Subject: Events: Arizona
FREEDOM SUMMIT 2009 Speakers Rights belong to individuals, not groups. Property should be owned by people, not government. All voluntary associations should be permissible " economic and social. The government’s monetary role is to maintain the integrity of the monetary unit, not participate in fraud. Government exists to protect liberty, not to redistribute wealth or to grant special privileges. The lives and actions of people are their own responsibility, not the government’s. Thomas
Woods (B.A., Harvard; M.A., M.Phil., Pd.D., Columbia Universety) is a
senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute and the New York Times
bestselling author of nine books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, Who Killed the Constitution?, and, most recently, Meltdown:
A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy
Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse (featuring a foreword by Congressman Ron Paul). His book The Church and the Market
won the $50,000 first prize in the 2006 Templeton Enterprise Awards.
Woods’ books have been translated into Italian, Spanish, Polish,
French, German, Czech, Portuguese, Croatan, Russian, Korean, Japanese,
and Chinese. Woods edited and wrote the introduction to several additional books, including We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now (with Murray Polner) and Murray N. Rothbard’s posthumously released The Betrayal of the American Right. A contributor to six encyclopedias, Woods is co-editor of Exploring American History: From Colonial Times to 1877, an eleven-volume encyclopedia. Woods has appeared on hundreds of radio programs, as well as such television programs as Glenn Beck, FOX & Friends, Scarborough Country, and C-SPAN’s Book TV. He lives in Auburn , Alabama , with his wife and three daughters. John Taylor Gatto
is an American retired school teacher of 29 years and 8 months and
author of several books on education. He is an activist critical of compulsory schooling and of what he characterizes as the hegemonic nature of discourse on education and the education professions. John Gatto did undergraduate work at Cornell, the University of Pittsburgh, and Columbia, then served in the U.S. Army
medical corps at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
Following army service he did graduate work at the City University of
New York, Hunter College, Yeshiva University, the University of
California, and Cornell. John Taylor Gatto is the author of great books including, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, The Exhausted School, A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling, The Underground History of American Education, Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher’s Journey through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling. John
Buttrick is currently the highest-ranking Libertarian in Arizona state
government. A graduate of Harvard Law, he has been a member of the bar
of Arizona, California, the federal Ninth Circuit, and the Supreme
Court. In May of 2001, he was elevated to a judgeship on the Maricopa
County Superior Court by Governor Jane Hull. Before being appointed to the court, John
litigated for Brown & Bain in a variety of areas including
antitrust, product liability, contract, environmental torts and
intellectual property, for clients such as IBM, Intel, Dupont, and
McDonald’s. John has campaigned in previous years for
the offices of state representative and governor as a Libertarian, and
has served on the Libertarian National Committee and National Platform
Committee. Conservative commentator Charles Goyette
-named “Best Phoenix Talk Show Host” by the New Times and “Man of the
Year” by his county Republican Party " recently caused a industry stir
when he was fired for political heterodoxy. Refusing to toe the Clear
Channel party line and support the war in Iraq, he was first
transferred from his high-profile druve-time slot to an evening
pigenhole, and then terminated by talk behemoth 550 KFYI fter his
contract no longer protexted him. Charles was quickly snapped up by
maverick, eclectic news/talk 1100 KFNX during morning drive time. In
May of this year he abandoned the Republican Party for the Libertarian
Party, explaining that the Republicans had abandoned any pretense of
principle. In Charles Goyette’s soon to be released
book, “The Dollar Meltdown,” he reveals the governmental errors that
led to the current economic crisis and the bumpy road ahead. “The
Dollar Meltdown” is a book about the financial future and what you can
do about it. And you can do something! You don’t have to be a financial
professional, expose yourself to risky leverage, or worry about every
tick of the markets… Once you understand the nature of the crisis you
will discover that there are common-sense steps you can take now to
protect yourself and your family and even to profit from the dollar
meltdown! Adam Kokesh was a Corporal in the United States Marine Corps Reserve and is a veteran of the Iraq War. He is currently an anti-U.S. occupation of Iraq activist. Adam majored in Psychology and Government at CMC. On September 2, 2008, Kokesh spoke at Rep. Ron Paul’s Rally for the Republic in St. Paul, MN,
where he stated: “While it is our responsibility now to resist tyranny
civily, while we still can, there may come a time when we will say to
the powers that be, be it with your blood or ours we have come to water
the tree of liberty … who will stand with me?” In April 2009, Adam Kokesh supporters created a draft website
to encourage Kokesh to run for United States Congress representing New
Mexico’s 3rd congressional district. Soon after, Kokesh launched an
exploratory committee, and on July 4, 2009, he officially announced his
candidacy at a supporter rally. On the
same day, supporters formed a moneybomb that raised more than $25,000
in a 24 hour period. On July 21 2009, Kokesh announced that he would be
running under the Republican party ticket. Sheriff Richard Mack is the former Arizona
Graham County sheriff, a long-time crusader for freedom and individual
rights and a Oath Keeper. Richard Mack gives lectures and give
seminars on constitutional issues relating to gun control, law
enforcement, States’ rights, the farce, otherwise known as the drug
war, and the oath of office. Mack has also been a consultant for
lawyers, and people in general helping them with cases of unlawful
arrests and police misconduct. Richard Mack has stood for “the little
guy” against “big brother” government. In 1994 Mack filed a lawsuit challenging
the Brady bill to stop the federal government from forcing another
unfunded mandate down our throats. Gary Franchi, Jr. is an avant-garde
filmmaker, television host, Managing Editor of Republic Magazine,
national grassroots organizer, and is the successor to the late Aaron Russo as the National Director of RestoreTheRepublic.com. RestoreTheRepublic.com is the legacy group formed in response to the success of “America: Freedom to Fascism” and was later singled out by Ron Paul for bringing tens of thousands of new patriots into the Ron Paul Presidential Campaign and the Ron Paul Revolution. In 2008, Gary co-hosted the Revolution March in Washington, DC that
was attended by 15,000 revolutionaries. He has recently produced a new documentary film
with award winning director William Lewis about detention centers and
the loss of liberty in America titled “Camp FEMA”. You can watch Gary
as he hosts the popular weekly show, The Reality Report, on Freedom TV. A prolific writer and
speaker, Professor Shaffer has presented several academic papers, led
discussions, and written numerous books and articles on social theory,
buisness and labor law. In his book, Calculated Chaos (1985(, he
explores the theory that “institutions are the principle means by which
conflict is produced and managed in society.” In his book, In Restraint
of Trade (1995), he demonstrates how the business system endeavored to
restrict competition between 1918 and 1938, and was the major factor in
the creation of the New Deal’s National Industrial Recovery Act and has
completed another book on The Redistribution of Authority. He has also
been interviewed on these subjects on network television, cable and
radio. Professor Shaffer
attended law school at the University of Nebraska and the University of
Chicago. Prior to his appointment to the faculty at Southwestern
University School of Law in 1977, Professor Shaffer served on the
faculty at the University of Nebraska College of Business
Administration where he taught courses ion business and law. Shaffer
currently teaches Administrative Law, Antitrust Law, Informal Systems
of Order Seminar, Labor Law, Property, and SCALE. Butler Shaffer’s new book Boundaries of Order
is scholarly, passionate, and a completely fresh look at a marvelous
intellectual apparatus by a mature intellectual who has been writing on
law, economics, and history for four decades. It is the treatise on
liberty and property for the digital age, one written in the
Rothbardian/Hayekian tradition with a consistently anti-state message
but with a unique perspective on how the great struggle between state
and society is playing itself out in our times. Mr. Bud Burrell has extensive experience
working with major brokerage firms on the trading desk and arbitrage
desk with almost 30 years experience " Industry authority, expert, Wall
Street veteran. Love him or hate him, you will always know where he
stands " his no-holds-barred style and frank honesty make his blogs a
must read, from one of the originals. View his landmark correspondences
in The Bud Files. Boston T. Party (aka Kenneth W. Royce, and founder of www.freestatewyoming.org)
is a shooting instructor, speaker, and the author of 12 books on guns,
history, law, politics, privacy, and government " selling well over
100,000 copies through www.javelinpress.com.
His “Boston’s Gun Bible” is a classic within the shooting community,
and his fiction novel Molôn Labé! has inspired a recent relocation wave
to Wyoming.
Boston’s newest and final title is “One Nation, Under Surveillance "
Privacy From the Watchful Eye”, which will be the topic of his retirement speech to mark the close of 20 years of book writing for the cause of Liberty. Mark is a criminal defense attorney. Marc J. Victor. P.C.,
which often sponsors debates and presentation on freedom issues. As a
former United States Marine and certified specialist in criminal law,
Marc endlessly and zealously defends citizens accused of crimes against
the state Marc’s political and professional credentials can be viewed at his corporate website. Ernest Hancock as been a freedom fighter
for two decades. Education through the use of the courts, the political
process and guerilla activism have made him well known to the general
public as a sincere defender of libertarian philosophy. Ernest Hancock as hosted his own show and
been a talk show producer. Over 600 of Ernest’s daily talk show in
shows in Phoenix, Arizona are archived at “Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock”
and his new radio show from Freedom’s Phoenix Studios, “Declare Your
Independence with Ernest Hancock” is archived on Freedom’s Phoenix here. Ernest is also the publisher of FreedomsPhoenix.com, a constantly updated portal to political news and information. Joel Skousen is an American conservative political commentator non-fiction Survivalist
author, and retreat consultant that specializes in preparedness topics,
particularly survival retreat and fallout shelter design and
construction, as well as what he calls “strategic relocation.”Skousen
is the founder and chief editor of World Affairs Brief, a
weekly news analysis service. He has done architectural and retreat
design consulting in both North America and Central America. Skousen is the author of several books including Essential Principles for the Conservation of Liberty, Strategic Relocation"North American Guide to Safe Places, The Secure Home, Survival Home Manual: Architectural Design, Construction, and Remodeling Of Self-Sufficient Residences and Retreats, and How to Implement a High Security Shelter in the Home. He also published a booklet titled 10 Packs for Survival, which he has also posted to several web sites. Skousen designs and consults on hardened
retreat homes, often including fallout shelters with HEPA air
filtration systems. In the book Dancing at Armageddon: Survivalism and Chaos in Modern Times
by Richard G. Mitchell, Jr., (2001) Skousen was quoted: “‘You never
want to make a house look like an obvious fortress. Those who want in
can always move up a bigger gun. There is no way you can design a home
to withstand RPG (Rocket-propelled grenade) rockets and tanks. I design
these homes so you virtually cannot tell inside or out that they are
any different from a conventional home.” Jordan
Page is a young singer/songwriter/guitarist who uses his music to
promote a message of peace while educating and mobilizing resistance to
tyranny and the erosion of American civil rights. He embodies the
protesting spirit of past years that is so rare in music today. He
believes that armed service is not the only way to serve one’s country.
Armed with the truth in song, he has raised up his voice in opposition
to extreme military foreign policies, the corruption of the Federal
Reserve, subversion of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, torture
of prisoners, warrantless domestic surveillance, and oppression
perpetrated by globalist elements in government. His songs are often
stirring, and always challenging. Jordan was a featured performer at the
historic Revolution March in DC in July 08, which featured Ron Paul,
Naomi Wolf, and Adam Kokesh as speakers and was attended by more than
10,000 people from across the nation. This event was proof of the
gathering strength of the Freedom Movement, and the need to bring its
message to the American public. |
Butler Shaffer
Boston T. Party
Ernest Hancock
