The Lady's Historic Journey
History was made on May 28th (Memorial day), when Lady Liberty took a vacation from her platform on Liberty Island, NY to walk the Bolder Boulder.
For those unaware, the Bolder Boulder is an annual road race, ten kilometers in length, which winds through the streets of Boulder, Colorado, and ending at the University of Colorado's Folsom field, every Memorial day.
Miss Liberty was accompanied by seven "Freedom Walkers" (Elizabeth Bennett, Chuck Wright, Greg Woods, John Pooch, Wesley Pinchot, Hans Romer, and Katrina Sailer), who passed out the LP's $1,000,000 bills. With an estimated 100,000 participants and spectators, the LP was introduced to more people on this one day than many outreach efforts - combined! Along the entire route of the race, one could hear Elizabeth and Chuck yelling out: "One million dollars! Get your one million dollars! Lady Liberty wants you to have one million dollars!" And it apparently was working, because thousands of these pieces or outreach literature were handed out along the course.
Our Lady had her run-in with repression (as is to be expected in Boulder), when the "Men in Black" shirts tried to remove her from the course with less that 200 yards to go. Stating that "stilts" are a violation of the rules, they tried to knock Lady Liberty out of the race. But the Lady is no stranger to authoritarianism, and after removing the "stilts" and walking closer to the stadium, she put them back on and boldly entered the stadium (which was filled to capacity), waving and holding her "Exercise Liberty or Lose it - Vote Libertarian" sign proudly high over head to the screaming crowd (the volunteers wore t-shirts which read the same)!
Yes, this event was a smashing success, but you'd never know it by watching the news or reading the paper, where we were completely ignored. But in the words of Lady Liberty: "We brought the message of freedom and liberty directly to the people, and the press cannot stop that!"
After the arrival at the stadium, the lady and her entourage made their way up to the upper deck of the stadium and around the horseshoe shaped complex, and then down to the Boulder Creek, where they made the one mile trek to the Boulder Creek Festival, where the LPBC had a set up an outreach booth. While the group made their way to the LP booth, Chuck Wright, being the die-hard that he is, stayed behind at the stadium, and handed out another several hundred or so, more of the $1,000,000 bills to the crowds within (several thousand total)! Way to go Chuck!
A big thanks to all who made this year's Bolder Boulder and Boulder Creek Festival a huge success, and a special thanks to Chuck who handed out more $1,000,000 bills on that day than the entire LPCO normally does in a whole year!
06/02/01 by Joe Johnson