Reese Wood

(Janesville,WI).

[Reese Wood @LPWICHAIR]

Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from being told your bullshit does not belong here"
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@WisconsinMises @LPWI Its proposed for a meeting thats weeks away

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@LpmcBryce @LPWI I thought you you support physical removal

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The Libertarian Party of Wisconsin WANTS YOU to know about this: https://t.co/TlOiCYw0eu to find out more about them.

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You can’t dismiss alternative candidates as “non-viable” while also supporting barriers that make political competition harder in the first place.

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Measures like Wisconsin’s out-of-state petition circulator ban hurt third-party and independent candidates far more than Republicans or Democrats, who already have massive institutional advantages.

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Police State Camera Systems and ALPRs

By Jeff Kortsch

LPWI Contributor

Benjamin Franklin, in a 1755 letter to the Pennsylvania Assembly, famously said, "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Local governments and makers of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) believe you should give up some of your liberty for the possibility of a little safety. They say the devices help police solve crimes. That may be true but at what cost? Should the government be able to track your movements around the country by reading your license plate, storing identifying information about the make, model, color, and distinguishing features like political bumper stickers and keeping that information in a database where anyone with access can see it? What is done with that information and who has access to it? What government entities is that information shared with?

In the case United States v. Jones, the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the government’s installation of a GPS tracking device on the vehicle of Antoine Jones to track his movements for 28 days constituted an illegal search under the Fourth Amendment.

Today, ALPRs can track your vehicle without coming anywhere near it and you get to pay for it. Where did you go today? How long were you there? Did you pass a place where a crime was committed several times even though you had nothing to do with the crime?

If this sounds to you like Big Brother in George Orwell’s book “Nineteen Eighty-Four” or something the KGB did in the Soviet Union or the Stasi did in East Germany, it does to me too. Government should not be able to keep track of your whereabouts if you haven’t committed a crime, are not in the process of committing a crime or are not about to commit a crime.

The CEO of Flock Safety, Garrett Langley, said recently in an interview with Forbes that those who are keeping track of where ALPRs are installed, such as the website https://t.co/mooGFi3Udv, are “terroristic organizations”. Keeping track of how and where government is surveilling you does not make them a terrorist. After the revelations of Edward Snowden, the ship has sailed on calling those who are against mass government surveillance a “terrorist”.

Use tools like https://t.co/mooGFi3Udv, https://t.co/H5ExfJEoSe from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and https://t.co/ZmGFqmiJM1 from the Institute for Justice to see where there are ALPRs installed and report new ones that have been recently installed. If your local government is considering installing ALPRs, get involved in the process if they are doing the consideration in public. If your local government already has ALPRs installed, find out more information with open records requests on what is in the contract, what the cost to taxpayers is, how the data access is granted and who the data is shared with. Don’t give up some of your liberty for the promise a little more safety.

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Libertarian Party of Wisconsin Joins Lawsuit Challenging Petition Circulator Ban

[Urban Milwaukee PRs @UMPressReleases]

Libertarian Party of Wisconsin Condemns Lifting Boundary Waters Mining Ban
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[Reese Wood @LPWICHAIR]

@marthanoir39 @Phil_Rein @AustinShiloh1 @StevenNekhaila Brother, you're definitely nowhere near the kitchen.

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@marthanoir39 @Phil_Rein @AustinShiloh1 @StevenNekhaila Any problem with lpwi is related to me? Why are we perpetuating problems instead of working on solutions?

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@marthanoir39 @Phil_Rein @AustinShiloh1 @StevenNekhaila Lie? Mc has no candidates for any level office in Wisconsin. Any endorsement for your LNC candidates? Complete hypocrisy. Vote totals this year, and last year at convention dont lie. Unless you want to believe everyone who didn't support MC at convention is a conspiracy?

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@marthanoir39 @Phil_Rein @AustinShiloh1 @StevenNekhaila There was no take-over, just lack of MC support, otherwise MC would have succeeded.

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@marthanoir39 @Phil_Rein @AustinShiloh1 @StevenNekhaila The infighting is why no one wants to be involved. Rightfully so. The problems predate my time as chair, if thats not obvious. You like targeting me?

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@marthanoir39 @Phil_Rein @AustinShiloh1 @StevenNekhaila MC support doesn't seem to be booming. Where are the candidates from MC who are not seeking LNC positions?