Newsies: get a real second opinion

May 17, 1:57 PMDallas Libertarian ExaminerGarry Reed

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For all you reporters, editors, commentators, bloggers, and other word nerds in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex and everywhere else around the worldplex, how about getting a second opinion on your fast breaking social-cultural-political storyline? 

You probably already obtained one opinion, the politically correct opinion. Sure, you might offer the liberal view versus the conservative stance, or the Republican Party perspective contra the Democrat's position, but those two perspectives are just two sides of the same old plugged nickel. They're essentially one view, the big government view. 

A true second opinion to the official left/right collectivist propaganda two-parties–equals-one-partyline is the libertarian view. 

To spice up your story while offering your readers a genuinely meaningful alternative viewpoint, check out the Center For Libertarian Press Information at http://www.clipr.info. 

“Our goal is to produce timely, accurate press releases covering the Libertarian Party’s principles, positions and activities, then assist reporters by connecting them with knowledgeable interview subjects” - Thomas L. Knapp, coordinator of the Center for Libertarian Press Information.

Their opinions are so second opinion they're not even affiliated with or condoned by the official Libertarian Party. They do, however, reflect the Libertarian Party's stated and published principles.

So what does all this mean exactly?

Libertarians speak from a freedom frame of reference. Always. While the media attacked Bush for his justification of Guantanamo Bay and waterboarding and Star Chamber military tribunals in place of real courtrooms, they give a pass to Obama for tinkering with but otherwise continuing the same Bush policies that he promised to deep six during his Hope and Change campaign.

The real second opinion, then, comes not from the political establishment's paper-trained mongrel mutt media but from a libertarian news release:

“Every time it looks like justice will make it out of the woods, Obama falls off the wagon,” says Starchild, coordinator of the national activist group Grassroots Libertarians.

And: The Libertarian Party’s platform holds that “the Bill of Rights provides no exceptions for a time of war."

While the news hounds snarled and snapped at the heels of the Bush regime for not getting us out of Afghanistan they're saying little against Obama's planned escalation of that dirty little war. The neo-cons on the right, in fact, approve it.

So there is no left vs. right political second opinion. They quibble only over details and ignore the big picture. Libertarians, with the true second opinion, don't:

“The Afghanistan occupation costs the American taxpayer $2 billion a month,” says R. Lee Wrights, a member of the Libertarian National Committee. “That cost is rising, and the price in American and Afghan lives is unbearable."

And: The Libertarian Party’s platform calls for the US to “abandon its attempts to act as policeman for the world and avoid entangling alliances.”

CliPr.info was formed after a group of concerned Libertarian Party members felt the Party's official news releases were inaccurate, wrong, and even anti-libertarian, such as when the Party joined the swine flu panic and publicly demanded the closing of the US-Mexican border.

“Libertarians tend toward self-reliance and personal responsibility. When we realized we couldn’t rely on our paid headquarters staff to get the job done, we sat down and put together a volunteer project to take care of business.” - Thomas L. Knapp.

So, writers, reporters, editors, publishers, bloggers, citizen journalists, fellow Examiners, you’ll find these and other press releases at The Center for Libertarian Press Information. You’ll find libertarian interview subjects. You’ll find libertarian notions that may never have entered your intellect, or your dialect, before.

CliPr.info will provide you a true and dynamically different "second opinion" that will take the "mass" out of your conformist mass media manuscripts.

Public domain press releases. That means free. People who speak libertarian. That means freedom. What more could you want?

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