Another great Raleigh Tea Party video with Fernie in a tricorne hat

One of the interviewees in the video below is Wake LP Chair Fernie Williams, pictured below in his tricorne hat. This video includes several mini-interviews that show a wide variety of perspectives from a few of the thousands of people that showed up for this Raleigh Tea Party.



This video was created by Dean Garris, producer of LibertyTube TV, a local TV program currently broadcast in Raleigh on RTN-10 on Tuesdays at 9 pm and Thursdays at 6:30 pm. This program also airs on The People's Channel in Chapel Hill, currently Mondays at 11:30am and 6:30pm. You can find an archive of past episodes of LibertyTube TV on blip.tv.

About the Libertarian Party of Wake County (2009)

The Libertarian Party of Wake County (Wake LP) is a county affiliate of the Libertarian Party of North Carolina. Wake LP members participate in a variety of activities, such as supporting Libertarian candidates for elected offices, working with local advocacy groups on state and local issues, and doing the studio work to broadcast the The Libertarian Alternative on RTN-10. Most recently, some of our members are forming a team to produce a local TV show.

Wake LP Organization
At the 2008 Wake LP Convention, members adopted a Statement of Organization (pdf) for the county party. At the annual convention in March 2009, members elected the following officers for the year:

                Chair – Fernie Williams
                Vice Chair – Joy Elliott
                Secretary – Susan Hogarth
                Treasurer – Stephanie Watson

In addition to an annual convention, Wake LP holds monthly business meetings. See Wake LP Meetings and Events for more about these business meetings and weekly social meetings for Triangle Libertarians.

Triangle Libertarian Meetup and Email Lists
For news from the Libertarian Party of North Carolina, sign up for LPNC Announcements. For online discussion relevant only to Libertarians in Wake County, we have a Wake LP email discussion list. Libertarians all around the Triangle are encouraged to join the Triangle Libertarian Meetup.

LPNC Executive Committee Members in Wake County
LPNC Executive Committee members from the Wake LP include: Stephanie Watson (Recording Secretary), Phil Jacobson (Member At Large), Susan Hogarth (Outreach Co-director).

Videos from North Carolina Tax Day Tea Parties

YouTube users uploaded some of the most informative and interesting videos from the recent tea parties in North Carolina:

Dr. Michael Munger: "Deficits are future taxes." (The introduction is cut off, but as seen elsewhere, Bill LuMaye mentioned that Dr. Munger was the Libertarian candidate for NC governor in 2008.)


BJ Lawson talking about transcending party lines, taking control of the local economy with the Piedmont Plenty, and the difference between the profits that corporations pay taxes on and the income that individuals pay taxes on. (Salaries are exchanges of time for money, not profits.)


Dr. John Lewis speaking for the Ayn Rand Institute at the Charlotte Tea Party. He talks about the inalienable rights of man and the ruling elite.

Thousands at Tea Party

There were thousands of people at the Raleigh Tax Day Tea Party at the Capitol April 15, and not all of them were "rednecks" or white, despite what you may have read in the News & Observer.

As noted here, the original organizer of the Tea Party is a simple housewife, Melody Aben. who's fed up with out-of-control government. It's a sad fact of political life that whenever a grass roots movement picks up steam, the old, established advocacy groups will inevitably co-opt it. That does not diminish the fact that many, if not most, of the folks who turned out were people like Melody.

Inevitably, there were also some "partisan" and anti-Obama slogans, some over the top in my view. But they were vastly outnumbered by the Gadsden Flag and signs that indicated the bearer "got it," who recognized the problem was not caused by the Democrats, but by both of the duopoly parties.

Another sign that the majority of the protesters got it was that we gave away all the literature from the Libertarian Party table, and 10 people offered donations for a copy of the Declaration of Independence/U.S. Constitution pocket edition published by the Cato Institute. Some were even wearing GOP stickers.

Mike Munger and B.J. Lawson gave rousing speeches. Check out the video shot by Jeff Paul here.

Tax Day Tea Party

Come party like it's 1773 at the State Capitol Building (East Side) from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Look for the LPNC table under the Liberty Penguin Flag.