Craig Dawkins .....Liberty Thoughts

End the Lack of Political Choice in Oklahoma I first registered as a Republican in October of 1980 and cast my first ballot for president in favor of Ronald Reagan. The libertarian ideals offered by Reagan were not new, but a softer version of those spoken by Barry Goldwater. Goldwater was an electoral disaster in 1964. Even my home state of Oklahoma voted for Lyndon Johnson. That was the last time a majority of voters in Oklahoma voted for a Democratic Party presidential nominee. I officially left the GOP for good in October of 2014. The overt bigotry aimed at Muslims by a slew of militantly ignorant state legislators, affirmed by the Oklahoma GOP party chair was the final straw. Of course that was the last straw. But there were many other liberty destroying stacks of hay that had accumulated over the years. There was/is the overt hatred by many in the Oklahoma Republican Party of Hispanic immigrants. In fact, just last year, a smear campaign was launched by elements of the Tuls...

SAVE THE CHILDREN, END PROHIBITION!.... It's time for the drug war to come to an end. America cannot afford the incarceration costs, the damage to freedom imposed by the police state, and economic cost of destroying the productive potential of millions of people who cannot find work after being punished by the criminal justice system. It's a life long sentence for most of them who cannot become productive citizens and who return back to crime because it's their only option. It's wrong what society has done in order to maintain prohibition. "As far as people who have been harmed by police and still hate or hold a grudge, I have this apology: It was wrong for me to use violence against you for merely possessing or trading in drugs. My actions, though harmful, were without malice. I believed at the time that they were in the best interest of our community." http://www.vice.com/read/why-i-hated-being-a-cop?utm_source=homepage