Overseas Military Libertarians Now Have Access to Libertarian Contacts

Washington, DC – For decades military Republicans and Democrats service members alike have been privileged to have overseas organizations supporting their parties’ causes in overseas expatriate communities. Now so does the Libertarian Party.

“I have tried to do this on a personal basis for many years,” says Gary Dale Cearley, founder of Libertarians Abroad, “but we just weren’t organized enough.” Cearley was introduced to the Libertarian party by a fellow shipmate when he served aboard the USS Arkansas. Although he has been out of the Navy now for many years, Gary Dale claims to understand what it is like to be politically active but not to have an outlet for it when working overseas. Cearley describes the Libertarian party as “right of the average Republican on free market, private property, and individual rights issues and left of the average Democrats on social issues.”

The main purpose of Libertarians Abroad is very simple: To inform Libertarian expatriate party members, Libertarian leaning expatriates, and undecided but interested potential expatriate voters regarding the policies of the Libertarian Party, its campaigns and its candidates. Libertarians Abroad also has a secondary purpose of helping American expatriates to register to vote and to vote in absentia.

Cearley is happy that the new website for Libertarians Abroad has been hung and is working, although it is still described as “evolutionary”. Libertarians Abroad as a group is now formed among the American community in Vietnam and currently there are some interested parties in a few other Asian countries. Gary Dale hopes that within the month he will be able to have organized some groups in Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and Australia. “We do not get involved in local politics around the world at all. We are only interested in helping American expatriates in peacefully changing things at home,” says Cearley.


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