Under the terms of my parole, I’m not allowed to travel west of the Mississippi. Thus, I could not attend the national Libertarian Party convention in St. Louis this past weekend. But here are a couple highlights.
Corey Moore, the producer of the Voice of Radical Dissent, taped a lively sparring match between Wayne Allyn Root and Nicholas Burdohan, Kurtis Liston, and himself. The exchange with Root begins about 6 minutes into the podcast here. Root is very forthright about his political calculations and media strategy.
OK – as for the speeches – I was planning to link to Ernie Hancock’s concession speech. I have heard fine things about the speech. Ernie understood the Ron Paul Revolution much better than many people actually working for the Ron Paul campaign. But I haven’t found a link to it yet, so…
Similarly, I’m looking for a link to the audio or video of Bob Barr’s keynote speech to the convention. He had a line about how his 2008 Libertarian Party presidential campaign suffered from “meager resources.” (This line was not included in the text of his talk he posted on his own website).
Thanks for the mention Jim. I wish you could find that Hancock speech because it was very very powerful. I was so happy to finally get to meet Ernie and many of the great people at the convention!
Jim, I’m sure in a few days, a you tube video will show up with the speech. They’ve already posted a few youtubes from the Convention, so I’m thinking this will be up soon.
How long is the ban for? Was it because you failed the naked body scanner?
Jean, unfortunately, under the terms of the decree, I’m not allowed to comment on that.
I will say that that’s the last time I’ll ever accept a plea bargain.