Phillies for President 2008

George Phillies is the first U.S. Presidential Candidate to receive a state nomination for the 2008 Presidential Elections.

To build an effective Libertarian Party, we need to do everything right. We need strong local organization. We need effective local candidates. We need libertarian affinity groups. And we need an effective flagship race, because many Americans only pay attention to one political race for a few weeks every four years. I'm running for President to move our party in all those directions. I'm build...

George Bush wants to rescue the education of our children, using all the wisdom and compassion he used to rescue New Orleans. The No Child Left Behind Act should be repealed. The Federal government should leave education to states, communities, and parents. 

When a country is a dictatorship that suppresses labor unions and shoots labor organizers, the goods it exports are stolen property, stolen from the workers coerced to make them. Stolen goods cannot be traded freely. We should not engage in 'free trade' in stolen property. Furthermore, it is only fair that all manufacturers pay the same taxes. We may differ as to what those taxes should be. How...

I support the Libertarian Party Platform. You cannot have open borders and a large-scale welfare system at the same time. You will go broke. As has happened before in our history, if you have open borders poor country governments will pay people to move here, promising them a better life in the New World. Each time we add a worker to the Social Security system, we enormously increase our (unfun...

The Federal government has no business regulating marriage. The Defense of Marriage Act and other similar Federal Laws and executive orders should be repealed. On the same line, there is no legitimate military interest in the sexual inclinations of soldiers, sailors, or airmen, and military regulations on this topic should be repealed. When the government forces some religions to follow the rel...

The Oath of Office of the President is to defend and protect the Constitution of the United States. When a President takes office, he should place his hand on one place: the Constitution and the Bill of Rights he is swearing to protect. When an Advisor tells the President "The Constitution is not a suicide pact" as a justification for his illegal deeds, he is urging that our government be overt...

American law and tradition make clear: The accused are entitled to speedy trials before a jury. The accused may not be tortured until they confess. Evidence obtained through torture is not admissible. The accused has the right to crossexamination of the witnesses against him. Older readers will recall the days before Miranda, when prisoners in American jails were likely to be abused until they ...

For three thousand Americans, their relatives, and their families, peace with Iraq is now too late. Those three thousand Americans made the ultimate sacrifice for their country: They died fighting a pointless war in a foreign land. We cannot undo the sacrifice that they made. We should seek to ensure that more Americans do not go forth, courageously, only to make the same sacrifice in the dista...

Libertarian Presidential Candidate George Phillies gives a State of the Union message. He doesn't bother responding to George Bush. Instead, he writes an honest report on the actual state of our Republic. He opens "The American people can see the truth. The United States is on the wrong track. The state of the Union is not good, and it is getting worse by the day. Our brave men and women perish...