In the past this blog has covered LP Presidential candidates George Phillies and Steve Kubby.
For those as yet unaware of the other candidates for the Libertarian Party 2008 presidential nomination, truck driving tax protestor and self-proclaimed spiritual heir of Mahatma Ghandi
Gene Chapman is also running for President.
Chapman is also seeking “Constitution, Southern, Goldwater-Reagan Conservative, Independent, Reform and Boston Tea Party nominations”. Among other things, Chapman is
a musical genius.
In the past, Chapman has gone on several death fasts to fight for freedom, and even attempted to set himself on fire at the IRS building. He was prevented from doing so because he was driving an RV with a leaky propane tank, and locked up in a mental hospital for Dysthymia.
Chapman is a technological pioneer in the field of in the use of audio and video blogs and comments, and along with his trusty sidekick Doug Kenline works diligently at keeping his opponents honest by urging them strenuously to include free site meters on their websites and inviting them on his audio blog radio show. They are fond of calling anyone who disagrees
with them “Satanist Communists” and “fancy fuck sock puppet boys”.
Chapman is, naturally, gathering attention from major national media outlets,
recently being invited on Fox and Friends, Good Morning America, CBS Morning News, Late Night with Conan O’Brien as well as being offered deals by
Dream Works Studio and Bad Boy Records.
He is also the subject of government conferences; the study of his ideas and work has drawn together multiagency taskforces including the IRS, FBI and possibly BATFE.
Recently,
Chapman staffer Kenline issued specific, graphic death threats against 18 year old Phillies staffer Jake Porter.
While we are as yet unaware of any specifically anti-Phillies or anti-Kubby websites, Chapman opponents have gone negative early with several attack sites put out by Elfino’s Mom, Frank Buckner, and some anonymous challenger.
But, what really brings Chapman to our attention at this time is his founding of
American Libertarian University. According to Chapman’s blog, “Libertarian legend Allen Hacker is looking over our offer to join the teaching staff of the American Libertarian University.” At this time, we are seeking independent confirmation of this report.
http://pauliecannoli.wordpress.com/2007/01/17/allen-hacker-to-be-professor-at-gene-chapman-university/
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I didn’t think it possible but …. by presenting Gene’s claims as fact (until of course people click on the links and see otherwise) I believe you may be an even bigger smartass than I am, Nigel. LOL
Good job, you should blog about Gene more often.
By the way, the Chapman Challenger link seems to go mistakenly to my blog, and the link to Frank Buckner’s anti-Gene blog seems to be broken.
Well now, Ms. Mom, for a professional reporter, it is really quite amateurish to miss the byline. This is by me, the Cannoli, you can call me Paul. Goo goo g’joob. Nigel’s take would be welcome, however.
By the way, I notice you too are a presidential candidate.
http://elfninosmomforpresident.blogspot.com/
Do you have an audio blog and a site meter? Maybe we can get Kubby or at the very least Knappster on there if you do. That would show good leadership.
I don’t expect I’ll make Gene a regular subject of my coverage at this time, but you never know, things could change – as a professional writer and researcher, you know how investigative subject interests can evolve.
Thanks for pointing out the bad and broken links – I’ll see about fixing those momentarily.
My real interest in this came about due to the connection to Allen Hacker. If you follow the Hacker link in my story and read our previous investigative reporting about this Libertarian Legend, you’ll see that he is an old and dear friend of Last Free Voice.
So, naturally, you can understand my excitement when I learned that Mr. Hacker is considering a position at American Libertarian University.
However, having been burned by unscrupulous sources before, I would like independent confirmation of this announcement by Doug and Gene. Would you, perhaps, be so kind as to use your investigative journalism skills to track this aspect of the story down further? That would show good leadership.
Even though you look like Rosie O’Donnell, I won’t hold it against you.
Nah, at this point I’m just having fun over at Gene’s blog, and I really couldn’t make this any more hilarious than Paulie already has. I really haven’t looked at Gene’s crap directly until today. I can say with great confidence, however, that Gene is a key-pecker and doesn’t look at the screen when he types:
That or he just thought that his keyboard had been invaded by the IRS.
Okay, I made a mistake. So, shoot me. (You’ll notice I will say that to you, but never to Gene and Doug. I assume you won’t actually do it.) LOL
Hiya, Paul. I gave Nigel a link on my blog, thinking this was one of his blogs. Well, technically I gave you a link, but it’s under Nigel’s name. I got to this blog from Nigel’s homepage link on Gene’s blog, so just made the assumption that it was Nigel’s. Obviously, I trust Nigel (gee, thanks, Nigel – this is all your fault! hehehe). Sorry again, I’ll fix the link tomorrow to reflect that it’s yours, and also add Nigel’s blog link if he will be kind enough to remind me of the url. I like give some “link love” (as Doug calls it) to other blogs which also comment about Gene, to give the readers some variety.
Yes, I am a presidential candidate. I’m not a real one like Gene, though. Or perhaps, I should say that Gene’s not a real one like me. I honestly believe I have a better chance than Gene of getting the LP nomination, even though both my campaign and Gene’s are obviously just jokes. I look better in a toga, I have an IQ above 96, and I make it a point to never, ever set myself on fire. Voters look for those qualities in a candidate, I am told. Also, my right-hand man Texino would never make bizarre death threats against my opponents’ 18-year-old campaign workers, unless of course he actually planned to kill them.
i’m just kidding about that. Texino would never post a death threat announcement on my presidential blog. Unlike Doug, Texino is smart enough to keep that kind of information to himself. Just thought I should clear that up.
Anyhoo ….
I’d love to do some checking into Gene’s claims about Hacker, but right now I’m pretty busy doing some real work which (surprisingly, I will admit) does not involve the all-pervasive undetectable sub-fabric of the universe. If Gene hasn’t updated us by the time I’m finished, maybe I’ll take a hack at it. However, I’ll have to make sure I’m stocked up on Goody Headache Powders before I start any project that reminds me of Xenu, clamheads, L. Ron Hubbard, or (worst of all, and I hope you don’t ban me for daring to say the name which must never be uttered by any sane individual) Tom Cruise.
On the bright side, maybe Goody will send me a free 50-pack since I just gave them a blurb. (hint, hint!)
I seriously doubt anyone is going to want to be affiliated with a “university” which has a diagnosed delusional as its Chancellor (and who many times misspells both “Chancellor” and “President”), and which exists only on a free blog, and in Gene’s fertile imagination. Well, except Allen Hacker, that is. I can see why Gene would like Hacker, though. They have a lot in common. Gene thinks God kills people for him, and Hacker thinks he’s God.
Think about that for a minute.
I have a cousin who thinks he’s God. Sometimes he thinks he’s Napoleon Bonaparte. At other times, he thinks he’s Joan of Arc. But the minute he thinks he’s Allen Hacker, it’s off to the nut house with him!
By the way, Rosie O’Donnell only wishes she looked like me …. er, looked like my son. I do believe Gene thought my son was me. Apparently Gene can’t tell males from females, which certainly explains both his lack of success with women, and his interesting relationship with Doug.
Toss me that url, Nigel, and I’ll add/correct the links tomorrow.
Hello again, Ms. Mom….
No ma’am. I would never shoot you. Unless it was with a videocamera and your prior written consent.
We are a group blog. Nigel blogs here. So do I. So does Stuart, Michelle, and C.E. Oberg. Gotta watch the byline to see who posted what. Stuart started this place, and perhaps he would extend you an invitation to cover the Chapman campaign as one of the writer/editors here. As far as I’m concerned, you are welcome to come on board.
I also have another blog
http://pauliecannoli.wordpress.com/
Which has so far mainly served as an extra archive of my posts here, but I have invited other writers to join me there and make it a group blog like this one. You are welcome to join me there whether or not Stuart wants you as an editor here.
Hope that clears things up!
If Steve Kubby drops out of the race for any reason, I’ll strongly consider voting for you at the convention. At that point, it may be a tough choice between you and Christine Smith. I could be a valuable deciding vote. You may want to start thinking about how to eat, ooops, I mean beat her out for my vote.
Sorry. Freudian slip. Anyway…
I think they could be quite the power couple. I’ll eagerly await whatever help you can give me in tracking down this story, but no pressure…take your time.
A wise decision. Otherwise, the next thing you know, he might present you with a $200,000 bill for the privelege of basking in his genius and receiving his helpful criticism of everything you do. Along with legal notice to collect.
I hear they have their own breeding program, with a litter of little brown ones on the way.
I used to blog at libertarianyouth.blogspot.com, but I just post here now because more people see it. I also post stuff at libertyforamerica.net.
Over on my archive blog,
http://pauliecannoli.wordpress.com/2007/01/17/allen-hacker-to-be-professor-at-gene-chapman-university/
Tom Blanton writes
How the hell does one “go on several death fasts?” I mean, aren’t you supposed to be like, um, !!!DEAD!!! at the end of death fast #1? At least it sounds like that’s the way it should work.
I guess Gene Chapman is just the kind of guy who doesn’t finish what he starts.
I’ve only read the details on he anti-Chapman blogs, so I haven’t heard his side of the story, but apparently he didn’t lose any weight either, or at least not much.
His girlfriend at the time, heard what sounded like him opening a potato chip bag and munching on some chips, while he was supposed to be on a hunger fast.
However, when she asked him about it, he said that a true Christian woman does not question her man’s leadership, or something like that, and that was the reason, or one of the reasons they broke up.
I don’t feel like finding the whole story again, maybe somebody else will come through with a link if they feel like it.
Nonsense. I am sure I tried something similar when I was about three years old, while attempting to get my way. I may have even claimed there was no law that required me to go to bed or something similar. However, my acting like that ended when my grandmother washed my mouth out with soap and water at about age three or four.
Bah, you’re one of those “pragmatists,” aren’t you, always putting electoral success ahead of dearly-held Libertarian principle. Curses!
Seriously though, you seem pretty fucking hilarious and intelligent. Would you like to blog here?
I know that nobody here takes Chapman seriously, but the man is a political genius. This whole immolation thing is the boldest political strategy used in years. I’m even thinking of launching a website called immolation.com where candidates for office can take the pledge:
If elected, I will set myself on fire.
The Republican and Democrat candidates would do well by promising to set themselves on fire upon nomination. This would guarantee that the conventions would get first rate coverage. Millions of people who normally pay no attention to politics would be brought into the process.
I don’t know about y’all, but I’ll vote for anyone who promises to set themselves on fire. This gives a whole new meaning to holding a recalcitrant politician’s feet to the fire.
Yeah, it’s about time a Libertarian candidate’s campaign caught fire with the voters!
Still looking for confirmation of the Hacker connection, if anyone knows anything.
What was it Badnarik said about lighting the fire of liberty one at a time. Sorry this is too funny
MHW
i just posted a couple of Gene videos on my blog, if anybody’s interested.
I likes me this ‘un heah:
http://chapmanforpresident.blogspot.com/2007/01/gene-campaign-announcement-speech.html
Badnarik is a campaign advisor, says Gene? Well I knew that Badnarik was a non-filer, and then I remember reading something about Hacker considering a position at American Libertarian University.
Fascinating, if true. Inquiring minds want to know: is this connection only in Gene’s mind. Or are these infamous bandidos fixin’ to team up like Bonnie and Clyde for real?
Any DJ mixologists out there down to do a mash-up of Flagpole Sitta and Misty Jizz on Jesus Promiseland? I heard that sittin’ on the flagpole in Durango is a hell of a place to drop a load, although I wouldn’t be brave enough to try it myself, I’ll tell you what.
The best reason to run for prez-ee-dan of these yoo-nited states? It ain’t for the money, it ain’t for the glory, and it ain’t for the free whiskey – it’s for the badonkadonk!
Thanks for posting these videoblogs. You’re showing excellent leadership!
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