John Clifton - Libertarian for Governor, New York

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MISSION

The strategic mission of the Clifton/Silberger campaign is to Bring Back Freedom to New York. This is to be accomplished by restoring in big ways and small a culture of liberty in the state, a task a Governor has a role in securing. Too many encroachments on basic civil and constitutional freedoms have already occurred---it's time to roll back the petty tyranny and proto-Gestapo darkness that is settling across the land.

If you are fleeced of your pocket book by Albany's tax-sucking vampires, and your very home is subject to clever takeover by a corporate lobbyist who convinces a bureacrat your abode should be turned into a mall, to what extent are your property rights being protected? If you want to smoke at an all-smoking club (where everyone has already consented to breathe the smoke), but you still have to sneak over the state border in order to find a restaurant where freedom is still legal, where has your personal liberty gone? What of your right to life, if you aren't permitted the modern means of self-defense, without a myriad of bureacratic barriers being thrown in the way of your ability to keep and bear arms?

The fact that we have to say "bring back freedom" is a backward admission that the protections of basic liberty are already going or gone. It's therefore no longer safe not to run for office, from whatever station of life one comes from, to undo the fade-out of the republic. What John Clifton as Governor could do, in office, is provide for immediate relief from and reversal of the trend, by instituting a series of strong first steps towards removing state force and fraud from the lives of New Yorkers. The Governorship would exercise authority to properly defend the liberties this state has depleted in recent years. If the Federal government resists, and threatens to yank funding unless New York stays in lock step with Tyranny Central, then it's time to just say, "yank it," or even begin the process of seceding from the central state. Either way, it's time the government acted as a servant, not as a master, and responded to petitions of the people for redress of its grievances.

Internally, the goal of LPNY is to obtain regular ballot status within New York. This can be done if the party receives 1% of the vote for Governor. For insider details on accomplishing that objective, see the layout of the whole Campaign Strategy. You can assist! Please help us obtain 50,000 votes or more this year, while getting us closer to returning Freedom to our state.