Vote For Pedro

Olberman on Death of Habeus Corpus

2006-10-22T20:06:00.000-07:00

Keith Olberman fires back at Pres Bush in these must-see videos:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6079153837274264742&q=olberman
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5588171599241538590&q=olberman

Lets stop the bleeding of our rights. Help restore them by voting Libertarian this election.

Habeus Corpus ... GONE!

2006-10-22T20:02:00.000-07:00

Your right to a free and fair trial was just signed away by president Bush. From the Libertarian Party web press release:

"I'm absolutely appalled," stated Libertarian Party spokesman Stephen Gordon. "With one stroke of a pen, President Bush has suspended a key component of the U.S. Constitution. The writ of habeus corpus has been perhaps the most vital component of our law since our country was founded, as it ensures that government must act within the law when detaining people suspected of committing crimes. With this act, we've clearly moved from the rule of law to the rule of Bush."

Fight back this election by voting for the Pit Bulls of Civil Rights protection - The Libertarians!

Land for Sale

2006-02-28T18:17:00.000-08:00

A local paper the "LA Alternative" published a story on how the Federal government is goinig to sell 85,000 acres of California National Forest to pay for some rural roads and schools. Here's the story in the LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-forests11feb11,0,1552161.story?coll=la-home-local

Here's a copy of my letter to the editor in response. We'll see if it gets published.

Thank you for the article entitled "Forests for Sale" in the February 17th edition of LA Alternative about the Bush Administration's plan to sell off 85,000 acres of land in California. It occurred to me that this is not actually the Bush Administration's land to sell, and is in fact your land and our land, to paraphrase the Woodie Guthrie tune. Why should we have to buy our own land? A fair way to transition this land from political to personal ownership is for our lawmakers to divide it up into small equal partitions and then give the partitions away via lottery to the people of this great nation. Then individuals can decide how to develop, or preserve and protect their partition of land and the only role for government would be to protect the civil property rights of the land owners, as it should be doing anyway. If the Bush Administration needs to raise money for rural roads and schools, perhaps they should look first to ending one or two of its seemingly never-ending and pointless foreign wars. There's a few billion ill-spent dollars for you that I'm sure could be put to better use.

Peter "Pedro" De Baets

New Blog

2005-11-16T18:27:00.000-08:00

This is my first blog entry on the Vote For Pedro blog. Since I''ll likely be on the California ballot again in 2006, I decided to start this blog to get things going. Which State legislature seat will it be? Senate District 28? Assembly District 47? Some other? I haven't decided yet. Let me know if you have any thoughts.