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Garry Reed

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Born

in York, Nebraska, The United States

Website

http://selectedsalvos.blogspot.com/

Twitter

libergarryan

Genre

Philosophy, Humor and Comedy, Nonfiction

Influences

Robert A. Heinlein, Ayn Rand, Douglas Adams

Member Since

April 2014

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I began my professional writing career in the fifth grade. My first book had mimeographed pages, construction paper cover, staples for binding, and hand drawn Crayola based illustrations. I made 30 copies and sold them to my classmates for 10 cents each.

As an adult I became a freelance contract technical writer selling my skills to clients large and small from coast to coast producing technical manuals, logistic support analysis records and related documentation.

But I'm also a longtime freewheeling freelance Libertarian Opinionizer writing professionally for several online and newsprint outlets and briefly self-syndicated my own weekly column.

Since 2001 I've written over 1200 online and print media articles on political, social and cultural ...more

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Julian's Jailhouse Journal

In June 2010 I posted excerpts of Julian's Jailhouse Journal in Libertarian News Examiner after Julian was released from Rikers Island and made it available to all of his Tyranny Fighters. Here is that article:

Julian's Jailhouse Journal: Police State USA
June 17, 2010
10:43 AM MST

News from the liberterrain…

Seventy-eight year old veteran libertarian, Fully Informed Jury Association activist and indef Read more of this blog post »

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Published on August 14, 2015 09:31 • Tags: jury-nullification, libertarian, police-state, victimless-crimes

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“Because politics is the science of the possible, it only appeals to second-rate minds. The first raters only interested in the impossible”
― Arthur C. Clarke, The Fountains of Paradise

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