PSCU book club #3
News, Political ·Sunday May 17, 2009 @ 19:03 EDT (link)
Honey and I attended the third meeting of the PSCU book club (we missed #2). We're ostensibly studying The 5000 Year Leap, but it ends up being a conservative (and libertarian) discussion group. Honey and I each contributed what I thought to be some good points, and I may have swayed some people in the libertarian direction. As I noted, Mark Levin's book Liberty and Tyranny, subtitled A Conservative Manifesto, is actually an enumeration of libertarian principles—but conservative will sell more books, and libertarian manifesto was already taken by Ron Paul's book Revolution.
There was a good group; an even dozen including us; we had the back room at the Family Pancake House (on Redmond Way). The meeting started at 1600 and we arrived late at around 1630 (since I wanted to finish the lawn, more about which later), but it didn't matter much: the "meeting" (informal discussion) went on until we left at around 1815. I sat next to Mark, who showed interest in the Facebook Visible Vote application I mentioned (but who I unfortunately can't find on Facebook, due to the number of people with that name; I gave him a business card, perhaps he'll find me by email address). Alan was there again, and Jay and Cindy, and Dan the organizer, and several other people I'd seen before.
Another attendee, Vietnam veteran Scott Johnson, is considering mounting a senate campaign against Patty Murray. His goal, should he be elected, is to create a conservative/libertarian caucus that both sides will need to satisfy in order to pass legislation. I gave him a business card and volunteered my services for his campaign, primarily in technical areas such as creating a website. Of such ambitions as his great things are made, and I wish him well.
