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ATTORNEY-GENEERAL CANDIDATE A CAPTAIN STEERING TOWARDS FREEDOM
Albany, NY 10/2/06: Christopher Garvey is the Libertarian candidate for Attorney-General who criticizes Spitzer’s record. Garvey would investigate 9/11. He wrote “I have some doubts that the World Trade Center attack has been properly investigated. Investigation of 3000 murders in New York is within the Attorney General’s jurisdiction. We may learn some important things about the attack, if the pre-9/11 short-selling on airline and insurance stocks is properly investigated. Some people benefited from those trades and we should determine who benefited. What did they know? How did they know it? The attorney general has the power to so investigate. I would.” Garvey would also investigate racial, ethnic and class discrimination in the issuance of gun permits and the taking of private property by eminent domain.
Garvey is not just a patent attorney, but a sailing instructor and boat captain who steers a course towards freedom. Garvey declares: “I favor the Libertarian Principle: That people should be free to do whatever they want, except to initiate: force, a threat of force, or fraud against other people, or against other people’s property. The attorney-general has prosecutorial discretion. If elected, I would use this discretion, within the law, to enforce the Libertarian Principle. The enforcement of laws, other than laws preventing force or fraud, would be a lower priority. I would avoid enforcing laws that violated people’s Constitutional Rights and the Libertarian Principle. Where there is a conflict between government power and individual rights, my inclination is to protect individual rights.” Unlike Cuomo and Pirro, Garvey opposes gun controls and the drug war.
Garvey is a graduate of Columbia College and graduated from Yeshiva University’s Cardozo Law School. He resides in Amityville and practices law in Roslyn. In 1998, Garvey was the Libertarian Party’s candidate for Governor. The Libertarian ticket is headed by John Clifton for Governor and Jeffrey Russell for US Senate –30-
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