Prairie Fire Journal

I am really pumped up about Libertarian Party candidate Yvonne Schick after her stellar performance in Thurday night's Texas U.S. Senate debate that was televised across the state on PBS stations. Bravo! Yvonne. You are a gutsy gal who isn't afraid to say what needs to be said. A true stateswoman who put principle and common sense above the pandering politics of the Republicrats.

Democratic candidate Rick Noriega and Republican incumbent John Cornyn danced around two important issues that have largely been overshadowed in the presidential race by the collapsing economy--the War on Drugs and the PATRIOT Act. Minor differences aside, both candidates largely agreed that these police-state actions should continue into the future. Schick, on the other hand, looked straight at the camera and without flinching or blinking said emphatically that she did not support the Patriot Act and that the War on Drugs should come to an end. Both are more destruction to individual liberty and the social fabric than they are constructive. We need common sense, not police-state thuggery.

I do have some issues with the Libertarian Party platform's advocacy of free-market capitalism. Sometimes you can't win on everything. At this point in the capitalist meltdown cycle, I don't believe the Libertarians could make things any worse economically than they already are. After all, Cornyn voted to bailout billionaires and Noriega nodded his approval. So I'm willing to forego that issue for the time being because I believe the War on Drugs and the Patriot Act are core fundamental issues that cut to the heart of our democracy (or what passes as such), and regardless of what kind of economic system arises from the current wreckage, protection of individual liberty from police-state incursions should always be paramount. If we don't have freedom, then the rest of it is meaningless.

Look out! Noriega and Cornyn. Yvonne Schick is on your tails and is poised to take a big chunk out of your butts. Texas progressive bloggers can write her off as a wacko if they want to, but if Democrats think Schick will just take votes away from Cornyn, they better think again. Noriega is everything I hate in the Texas Democratic Party and the Democratic Party in general. Nothing but fence-sitting, carrion-eating, police-state-supporting MOR panderers who are just as flakey and pathetic as the Republicans. Go get 'em girl! You got my vote!

UPDATE: I've done some internet searching on the rumor being blogged around by both the left and the right that Schick is a Scientologist. So far, I've found nothing credible to support this. Only unsubstantiated and unsourced commentary, mainly by people on the left and right who have a vested interest in seeing her opponents win the Texas U.S. Senate race. If anybody has verifiable information about this (besides the unsubstantiated info on TruthInScientology that the bloggers are linking to--don't you people read disclaimers before passing this stuff around?), then by all means post it in the comments.