His wikipedia entry can be found here.

While Wikipedia is certainly not the final word on much of anything, Michael, if the Wikipedia account is accurate, lost the Green Party nomination for state senate in 2002 in part because he refused to disavow IRA terrorism.

He did secure the Minnesota Green Party nomination for US Senate in 2006, bringing in .5% of the vote. In 2008 he was denied the Minnesota Green Party US Senate nomination at the state convention.

I also point to his positions at On the Issues. On almost all of them I would take positions close to his. The only glaring exception is that, according to OTI, he supports teaching values in public schools. (Aug 2006). On that one we disagree indeed.

What did you tell them? No veiled answers, please… just the full text of your remarks.

Because it has been our experience that it is those who actually do the work are attacked and smeared.
That has been the case with the folks who left the Minnesota Independence Party also.

They are called sabotouers

Above and beyond that, you oppose governments using lethal force, but what about when non-lethal force leads to death due to pre-existing health problems? Above and beyond that, is assaulting a citizen who has never committed violence against another an OK thing in your ideal society? It isn’t in mine.

We had kept it small on purpose with about 30 activists invited and present.

Very democratic of you. What would you have done if someone came who was not invited?

Michael also wrote:

Only people who were serious about building a solid, effective response to the two party system were invited and welcomed.

I can’t help but wonder what criteria were used to determine who was “serious”. Did one have to be a “former” member of a third party? Did one have to be an armchair activist, spending most of their energy behind a keyboard?

Michael also wrote:

When those of us who were former Greens and Independence party folks were asked as to why we had left our respective political parties, we answered the question honestly and openly. The similarities in the answers from activists in both parties were duely noted.

I imagine that this same set of excuses would be used by those who left the Reform Party, Working Families Party, Labor Party, or any other alternative party. Some folks just don’t get the concept of not always getting their way. Politics is hard, and some don’t care to do the real work, preferring instead to complain about those who do want to do the real work.

~Carefully steps down from his soap box~

We can’t keep on doing things the same way we have in the past if we want different outcomes.

Suppose someone does not agree to pay a tax.

Do you send agents to arrest them?

If they resist arrest, would those agents use force – up to deadly force if they have to – to execute the arreest?

Spending money on roadways and highways has been one of the major socialist failures of the US government. And a greater tragedy as the world has chosen to follow.

It has caused the building of too many roads and highways, too many cars, too much air pollution, urban sprawl, congestion and traffic problems, reliance on imports, disasterous foreign policy in obtaining imports, plots and assassinations and coups by the CIA to obtain supplies and war.

The free market would use walking, elevators and people moving technologies which are much cheaper to construct and maintain, energy efficient, cleaner, and healthier alternatives in the absence of the socialist transportation system.

But, the government should provide more cute, little red fire-hydrants.

woof!

Interesting perspective.

And, as a former Libertarian and “Advocate for Self-Government”, I get what you are saying, and agree part way.

I just think that if government was fair, and ran very democratically (ie: something deeper than just a winner-take-all voting system), that there would be agreements among people that the government set some guidelines for group behavior, and collect and spend some money for group projects such as roadways.

I do believe that the government should not be allowed to execute/murder anyone. So, I am demanding non-violence of the government in that respect.

If one of these groups could articulate that, I could join.

I do not think that is expressly pointed out in the platform of the Peace and Freedom Party (trust me, I studied in, looking for a home.)

But, I don’t think it is oppositional to the Peace and Freedom Party, if I understand.

So, if the folks coalitioning came up with “non-violence” as a spelled out value or platform item, I might be “in”.

(Ummm…maybe I should not warn people!)

Now if our friends would only wake up to the FRAUD of their lives…
Climate Chaos? Don’t Believe it! (U.K. Sunday Telegraph Nov. 5, 2006)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/05/nosplit/nwarm05.xml
…the “climate-change” scare is less about saving the planet than, in Jacques Chirac’s chilling phrase,
“creating world government” ~ Christopher Monckton

Is Global Warming on the Wane? (2009) http://www.almanac.com/timeline/
Some scientists believe that an extreme cooling episode, potentially a mini-ice age, is imminent. Others think that it may already be under way.
We at the Almanac are among those who believe that sunspot cycles and their effects on oceans correlate with climate changes. Studying these and other factors suggests that a cold, not warm, climate may be in our future.
-By Joseph D’Aleo, From The 2009 Old Farmer’s Almanac

In a report titled The First Global Revolution, pg. 115, (1991) published by the CLUB of ROME, a globalist think tank, we find the following statement: ‘In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill…. All these dangers are caused by human intervention… The real enemy, then, is humanity itself’.”

WEATHER CHANNEL Founder -John Coleman slams global warming HOAX (1 of 4): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk8SSqc7ekM

John Coleman slams global warming (2 of 4): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PuyvDCF95U

John Coleman slams global warming (3 of 4): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saqIqea6C0s

John Coleman slams global warming (4 of 4): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9ZXdX3qtQI

WEATHER CHANNEL Founder – Al Gore is a FRAUD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B05xnnVjJk

Glenn Beck: Global Warming greatest scam in history: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft8LfE7AI2w
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“The underlying reason indeed why both parties have failed to take the people’s side in the present crisis is that neither party can openly attack the real evils which are undermining representative government without convicting themselves of treachery to the voters during their recent tenure in office.” Robert Marion La Follette, Sr.
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“Decades of compromise has left us with “two” political parties that have become so similar, it is nearly impossible to distinguish one from the other. With virtually no opposing power left in Washington, we are continually victimized by a lawless, one-party system that is driving us into moral and fiscal bankruptcy.” ~ Mary Starrett

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTahZE4q90U

“This country is a one-party country. Half of that party is called Republican and half is called Democrat. It doesn’t make any difference. All the really good ideas belong to the Libertarians.”
– (former long time ABC’s 20/20 host) Hugh Downs as a guest on Politically Incorrect 3/31/97