Excerpt from Mark Skousen's Forecasts and Strategies, February 1988:
Excerpt from Freedom Network News Bulletin Board, November-December 1988:
The Freedom Party of Ontario, for the second year in a row has produced a calendar that is bound to delight libertarians. The 1988 version was good, but it is even better for 1989 with slick coated stock and high quality three color printing. It is jam-packed with pithy quotes, plus photos and illustrations of libertarian luminaries both present and past. Each day features a brief note depicting Highlights and Dark Days of Individual Liberty. We recommend it highly -- as a matter of fact one is hanging in LI's office. Available in American and Canadian versions (an international version is also planned for 1990.) Price is 6.95 US, payable to: The Freedom Party of Ontario, P.O. Box 2214, Station A, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 4E3.
Excerpt from The Liberator, November-December 1988 (Advocates for Self-Government):
Did you know this coming New Year's Day marks the 158th anniversary of the first appearance of William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator (catchy name,eh?), an antislavery newspaper?
Also in January, you can toast the birthdays of Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine and Lysander Spooner. These are just some of the freedom highlights you'll find in the 1989 Calendar of Individual Freedom, published by the Freedom Party of Ontario.
The handsomely done calendar also "commemorates" freedom's dark days. For example, upcoming in January are anniversaries of such events as LBJ's announcement of the Great Society, the first statewide attempt at Prohibition (in Tennesee), the introduction of the world's first income tax (in Great Britain) and the forcible removal of the Sioux Indians onto reservations.
Each month also features a quotation, portrait and brief bio of one of freedom's champions. The honorees this time include Milton Friedman, Walter Block, Adam Smith, Ludwig von Mises, Josiah Warren, Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Jefferson, Murray Rothbard, Walter Williams, Maria Montessori, Clarance Darraw and Ayn Rand.
The Calendar comes in Canadian and U.S. versions. The difference is mainly in emphasis; Canada's, for instance, notes the anniversary of the beginning of socialized medicine in that country (a dark day for sure).
Excerpt from "Looking back - Bill Dwyer", The Trentonian, January 19, 1989:
HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862) said it: "If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure as it would be to pay them, and enable the stste to commit violence and shed innoicent blood."
Thoreaus's one night in jail for refusing to pay poll taxes for several years as a protest against slavery and the United States - Mexican War prompted his writing of "On Civil Disobedience," which was originally titled "resistance to Civil Government." His relatively small published output in his lifetime (two books and a few magazine articles) is a testament to the power of his pacifist and libertarian beliefs that live on today. Thoreau has been cited by both Martin Luthor King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi for his peaceful civil disobedience.
- Adapted from the "Freedom Party Calendar for 1989: Highlights and Dark Days in Individual Freedom," published by the Freedom Party of Ontario, Ontario, Canada N6A 4E3
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