Liberty & Justice for All

Liberty & Justice for All was the name of my show in the Travis County Libertarian Party's weekly series, Live & Let Live. That series is on Austin cable channel 10 from 8:00 to 9:00 every Saturday night. From January 2001 to February 2005 I had the regular second-Saturday show in that series.

However, in 2005 I changed party affiliations, from the Libertarian Party to the Green Party, so I am no longer a host on the series. I'm leaving this record of the shows I created on the web site, partly for the history they reflect and partly to give you an idea of the kinds of issues that I consider important in this country.


List of the show's guests and the issues we discussed:

Some of the "Date" items in the list are hyptertext links to the "News of the Month" segment of that month's show. Although there was a "News of the Month" segment in every show, I only started saving them with the outbreak of King George II's llegal war of  terrorism on the people of Afghanistan and his progressive denial of our Constitutional rights, using September 11 as justification (even though CheneyBushCorp was a major player in making that happen).

Date Guest Issue
January 2001 Mike Corwin & Cindy Beringer
(Socialist Party)
Anti-inaugural bash
February 2001 Karen Heikkala & Trish Taylor
(Drug Policy Forum of Texas)
Failure of the drug war
March 2001 Bob Morton
(Naturist Action Committee)
Nudists' rights as parents; Hippie Hollow suit
April 2001 Rahul Mahajan
(Austin Against War)
FTAA, Quebec meeting, & fast-tracking FTAA in Congress
May 2001 Hannah Riddering
(Texas NOW)
Growing threat to women's reproductive rights
June 2001 Jeff Hummel
(Libertarian Party)
His researches
July 2001 None Show not live this month.
August 2001 None Call-in about News of the Month
September 2001 Scott Henson
(Texas ACLU)
ACLU Police Accountability Project
October 2001 Christi Eubank
(Blue Heron Acupuncture)
Politics of health & breast cancer
November 2001 Ramsey Clark -- virtual guest
(former US Atty. General)
US manipulation of other nations' processes
December 2001 None Genetically modified foods
January 2002 Robert Jensen
(University of Texas)
Violations of the 1st Amendment
February 2002 Michael Badnarik
(Libertarian Party)
Violations of the 2nd Amendment
March 2002 Jere Locke
(Texas Fair Trade Coalition)
Free trade vs. fair trade; global corporatization
April 2002 Jon Roland
(Libertarian Candidate for Texas Attorney General)
Solutions to the problems in the Texas State Constitution
May 2002 Sylvia Shihadeh and Muna Hamzeh
(Palestinian activist and journalist)
The Israeli terrorism in Palestine
June 2002 No guest
Show not live this month.
(Texas Libertarian Convention)
July 2002 Invited guest was unable to attend. Heroes in the fight to bring King George II's crimes to light
August 2002 Jim Bryant
(Freelance journalist)
Interlocking mega-corporations and their activities
September 2002 Roger Baker
(Austin Against War)
The real reasons for the 9/11/2001 attacks; the reasons not to go to war against Iraq
October 2002 No guest The insanity of the upcoming Oil War II
November 2002 Bill Kelsey The US's history of using war as an instrument of national policy
December 2002 Deda Divine A conversation about the path America is pursuing now
January 2003 Danielle Tierney (Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region) The threats to our reproductive freedoms from the radical sacrilegious right
February 2003 Colin Cunliff (Field Coordinator, Lesbian/Gay Rights Lobby of Texas) The threats to the rights of sexual minorities resulting from the recent Republican "mandate"
March 2003 Yebuny Johnson (President, St. Edward's University Students United for Peace and Justice) The upcoming Oil War II -- why it is illegal, immoral, and stupid
April 2003 Gaea Logan (practicing psychotherapist) Why people won't see the evil of Oil War II, and how we can open their eyes to the truth
May 2003 No guest Where is the outrage at the things the government is doing to terrorize in our name, as it takes away our essential liberties?
June 2003 No guest The war in Iraq -- Bush's lies to get us into it, and the war crimes committed by US forces in it
July 2003 No guest Rev. Frank Garrett (pastor and KAZI-FM radio talk show host) was scheduled, but found he couldn't make it at the last minute
August 2003 No guest Two recent reports: (1) the current Federal push towards unverifiable voting, the machines that make it possible, and the corporations that make it crooked; and (2) news from the occupied territories of Palestine -- the Israeli army's unofficial, but real, policy of killing Palestinian children.
September 2003 Jenny Clark (a concerned citizen of Austin) The growth of unverifiable voting methods in Austin and across the United States, often using machines made by companies with major interests in the election outcomes.
I also discussed this story from the Guardian of Great Britain, written by a member of the British Parliament, about our government's allowing the 9/11 attacks to happen and its fight to prevent the truth from coming out.
October 2003 No guest An excellent summary of what's wrong with the way the Bush junta is ruling our country today, and how the fact that his "chickens are coming home to roost" makes him and his mob even more dangerous than before.
November 2003 Lauren Ross (Austin activist and environmental engineer) The events at the WTO's latest "Ministerial" at Cancun, Mexico, in September 2003 -- why the WTO must be fought, and how the forces at Cancun delivered a possibly fatal blow to that organization.
December 2003 Danielle Tierney (Director of Public Affairs, Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region) The problems surrounding the building of The Choice Project, a Planned Parenthod facility in south Austin.
January 2004 No guest Recent offenses against our liberties by the neo-conservatives currently in power in this country; more information about this country's illegal, immoral, and stupid war against Iraq, including this powerful indictment of the war, written as an attempt to answer a child's simple questions about it.
February 2004 Gary Nolan (Candidate for the Libertarian Party's Nomination for President) Mr. Nolan's candidacy and platform.
March 2004 Dick Underhill (Veterans for Peace) Next weekend's demonstratons in Austin and Crawford against "President" Bush and his war of aggression in Iraq.
April 2004 I was not able to do the show this month; I was recovering from open-heart surgery.  
May 2004 No guest --
Libertarian Presidential Candidate Aaron Russo was going to join us by phone, but we couldn't make it happen.
Some unpleasant truths about Bush and  Kerry.
Also, two on-the-scene reports from Fallujah, Iraq:
  o   By Jo Wilding
  o   By Rahul Mahajan
June 2004 None Show not live this month.
(Texas Libertarian Convention)
July 2004 No guest --
Caught up on the news of the political scene from the previous two months.
You can find links to the stories we reported on in the "News of the Month" page -- click on the date entry at the left of this row.
August 2004 Paul Davis (Austin martial arts instructor) Freedom -- what it is; how it's being taken from us
September 2004 Roger Baker & Chuck Wright (Austin activists) The coming end of the oil age and the effects that event will have on us
October 2004 Dick Pierce (Austin permaculture teacher) Permaculture - one way to mitigate the effects of the coming end of the age of oil
November 2004 Gerardo Akvarez & Adina Levin (Austin activists) The 2004 presidential election - its process (including the numerous instances of vote suppression and fraud), its results, and its likely implications
December 2004 ( Planned guest had to cancel) The frauds perpetrated all around the country to prevent the will of the people from being expressed in the 2004 presidential election
January 2005 None No show this month
February 2005       Shirley Smith & Andy McKenna
Austin Conscientious Objectors to Military Taxation (ACOMT)
The war tax resistance movement