Today was Newark Community Day, a local fair held annually on the University of Delaware's campus.

As usual the LPD ran an Operation Politically Homeless booth and Information table. We distributed party literature, including a flyer opposing the City of Newark's plan to have the General Assembly grant it very broad and vaguely defined new powers of taxation; and we collected names and email addresses of interested people.

Amazing, with all the talk about the Constitution from every quarter, I haven’t heard a word about today being the 222nd birthday of the Constitution of the United States. Not from Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck. And I’m really surprised…make that disappointed. In all fairness, I didn’t listen to either’s radio show today in its entirety, so I may have missed it if they did mention Constitution Day. Not from The News Journal or the Delaware State News. Not one word.

September 17th is Constitution day. Annually there is little to no recognition of this holiday. July 4th means nothing without the framework, of liberty, justice, peace and morality found in the Constitution. Unfortunately, nowadays most Americans don’t realize this. Corporate media, federally funded schools, the welfare/warfare state, nationalism, and questionable morality have led this generation to slip closer to a despotic and tyrannical state. It is one thing to maliciously ignore the Bill of Rights.

On September 17th our current operating system will be 222 years old and we’re on version 2.27. Version 1.0, The Articles of Confederation, had enough bugs in it that the system engineers designed version 2.0, The Constitution of the United States. We’ve upgraded it 27 times already and some of the upgrades have only served to make it more inefficient and less user-friendly. I think we have to ask ourselves if we’re willing to spend time fixing it or should we just upgrade to Constitution 3.0.

The Libertarian Party of Delaware is seeking donations of used or new computer hardware. If you have any unused computer equipment taking up space, please consider giving it to us.

What we need most is a server class Pentium4 (or better) multiprocessor system. But any hardware that is less than ten years old is welcome. For example:

• Complete systems, especially Laptops / Notebooks, working or not.
• Components, such as motherboards, CPUs, memory, peripheral cards, SATA drives, tape drives, DVD burners, monitors, etc.

This is the press release that went out this morning (7/10/09):

"The Libertarian Party of Delaware is proud to announce that Gwendolyn (Wendy) Jones will run for the 19th Senate District in the special election to be held August 3rd on the Libertarian Party ticket. Wendy is looking forward to representing the people of the 19th District and bringing a new spirit of liberty to Legislative Hall.

We may have survived the General Assembly's annual orgy of last minute legislation. The results remain to be seen. In less than 48 hours they were only able to burden us with $206,000,000 in new taxes and inflict 104 new laws upon us.

We are down to the last few days of the legislative session, when the General Assembly always goes crazy and passes more laws than they did in the preceding five months.

Here are some bills to watch out for:

Good: Tell the Speaker of the House and/or Lt Gov & Senate President Pro Tem that these are important to you and you want them placed on the agenda for a vote.

• HB 168 - Repeal of Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentences
  

The Libertarian Party of Delaware now has a Facebook Cause.

You can access it at http://apps.facebook.com/causes/284253?m=4ffa5b46.

From SURJ:

We need YOUR help!

On June 3rd, HB 168, which would repeal mandatory minimum drug sentencing, was considered by the House Judiciary Committee. The vote to release the bill to the House floor came in at 4 in favor and 4 opposed (1 Representative who was a co-sponsor was absent from the hearing, resulting in a tie). We need your help to get the bill out of committee in the House-- will you contact the four legislators who voted against releasing the bill to urge them to let the full House of Representatives consider the bill?

[Read the full article here]