Rolf Lindgren is currently listed as the press secretary for the Libertarian Party of Dane County and his recent activities are recounted in an Isthmus article from last summer.
Recall Cieslewicz: Local Libertarian leader Rolf Lindgren says enough is enough. He wants the people of Madison to raise up as one to recall Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz as punishment for the city's decision to enact an indoor smoking ban. Lindgren launched an earlier campaign, which failed miserably, to recall Gov. Jim Doyle.This week Lindgren drops an email to the libertarian website Hammer of Truth which the webmaster decides to cut and paste in unedited completeness, calling it “a must read merely for the satirical and literary value”.
Drug Prohibition: A Prison Story: On July 3, 1990, I was snared in what I soon learned was a new type of crime that hadn’t existed in all annals of human history from 3000 BC until our generation, the reverse-sting drug crime. … However, being an entrepreneurial person in a capitalist country who believes crimes have victims, I foolishly agreed to borrow money and meet Nick and his “friend” David Matthews. I went to the Fairfield Inn on the Madison east side with $10,750 in a Hardees cup.Absolutely no facts have been checked so believe the story to any degree you desire.
Of the financial law offenders many were crooks and many were not. One conspired to import 6 garter snakes from Canada, one sold guns to Oliver North and one cut down a Christmas tree on federal land. … There were mayors, assemblymen, prosecutors, CIA agents, city council members, tax resistors, a Federal Reserve Board banker, Cornelius Vanderbilt’s grandson, Pablo Escobar’s cousin, Roger Clinton’s connection, an IRS agent turned drug dealer and Al Gore’s cousin (who was released on January 21, 1993, the day after Al Gore took office).
