Is it Midnight for Liberty?

Join QL (in its speaker event for LPQC) to hear Dr. Philip Schoenberg lead a group talk on July 8 on the topic of "Is It Midnight for Liberty?," at OBA Grill on 104-02 Metropolitan Ave at noon (an exchange of ideas by attendees on the current path, or state of freedom in the US). This discussion will follow the monthly business session, covering Queens LP housekeeping and subcommittee updates.

Dr. Philip Ernest Schoenberg, a historian, will encourage people to choose topics of liberty to discuss. Discussion Questions are in honor of the 4th of July when we declared our independence to determine if we have been on the right path to liberty.
Directions: We will do a roundtable of discussion in which everyone can choose a question for us to discuss.

1. How do you define being a libertarian?
2. Should the American Revolutionaries be considered to be libertarians if they did not free their slaves?
3. Should there be any government regulation of guns and gun ownership?
4. Should people be allowed to discriminate against others on the basis of gender, handicap, color, race, or religion?
5. Should compulsory school attendance be considered a violation of liberty?
6. Should the states be able to nullify laws passed by the federal government?
7. Should the states be allowed to leave the Union any time they want?
8. Should the government be allowed to conscript people for national defense?
9. Should the payment of taxes be voluntary?
10. Should the government be in the business of issuing licenses whether it is barber, cab driver, doctor or marriage?
11. Should the government issue driving licenses?
12. Should the government be in the business of giving disaster relief instead of private charities and voluntary organizations?
13. Should the government own parks?
14. Should the government build and maintain roads and bridges?
15. Should we have a national referendum to determine if we go to war outside the territorial limits of the United States?
16. Should the government determine who can come into the United States?
17. Should the DOJ, FBI, and the police be defunded?
18. Should vaccination be voluntary?
19. Should people be permitted to commit suicide and have the right to get assistance?
20. In the 1930’s the Ludlow Amendment, introduced by Senator Louis Ludlow several times between 1935 and 1940, and voted on in Congress in 1938, called for a national referendum on any declaration of war by Congress, except in cases where the U.S. had been attacked first. It’s public popularity peaked at 75%, but support began to fall away after Germany invaded Poland in 1939. Since then, the US has engaged in over 100 covert or public wars, coup d’états, and an assassination. Do we need the Ludlow Amendment today?
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While we may pass the hat, there is no mandatory donation. However, all attendees must purchase $10.00 or more in food and drink over the two hour period (don't forget to tip!). There is street parking and the place is centrally located. You can travel there by taking the Q54 or Q23 bus to or along Metropolitan Ave, to 71st Drive. By subway, OBA can be reached from the E/F train (take the westbound Q23 bus from the Forest Hills station towards Metropolitan Ave), M train (to Metropolitan Ave, then take the Q54 to 71st Dr), or the A train (to Lefferts Blvd, take the Q10 towards Metropolitan Ave, then take the Q54 to 71st Dr).