Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

James Madison, Federalist 10

4th president of US (1751 – 1836)

I love this quote. It is simple and to the point and is part and party to my proposal. As most of you are aware that have read my column, I am a big fan of the life's work and astounding collection of written and living political philosophy that Is Dr. Ron Paul.

I have been reading a lot of articles on where the Ron Paul movement should go from here. Many of them are kind of fatalistic others are just one person's perspective but instructional to read just to know how many people are thinking on this subject.

What is obvious to me at least is this was not just a Libertarian or Conservative Republican movement. While both of these groups have strong Liberty Factions they do not have a corner on the market so to speak. I think what must happen is that the various Liberty Factions that came together in this effort around the election to President of Congressman Ron Paul should remain engaged.

They all have more common ground than they have differences. If there is no strong majority represented by the third parties as is evident from the voter turnout then the various party Liberty Factions must engage and coordinate our efforts with no regard for party affiliation.

We have a strong central source for our ideas already present and it is not Dr. Paul but in fact it is the US Constitution and our Bill of Rights. I must admit that an education in the Federalist Papers is important to understand the signer's intent to further guide our discussion and actions but everyone that is reading from the same page in the American Revolution should all be solidly behind each other no matter the party they belong to.

I propose that this effort be carefully and consciously reformed into an Alliance of Liberty Factions, or an “Alliance of Liberty Factions Political Action Committee” or ALFPAC. The Alliance of Liberty Factions charter should read something like this “Refer to the US Constitution and Bill of Rights for a copy of our Charter”. Or some such plainly clear message of origin of this Revolutionary thinking.

Thumbs up to second this proposal. (edited on 6.30.08)