mark feldman, as he challenged us at our 2016 convention, i need those of you that are be what you want to be libertarians. those good-looking on tv libertarian, those christian libertarians and the aps libertarians, the jefferson libertarians and the ron paul libertarians. i need the gary johnson libertarians, the dave smith libertarians and all of the libertarians. absolutely, i want to speak about the policies i will push forward as i travel across this country. i got my start in this political activism opposing the war in iraq. i got started in the city of d.c. were my first war protest was. if you question that i can handle the stakes, make no mistake, i was feet away from right police as they hold batons, riot shields ready to bash our skulls in, still i spit in their face and said, no more war. i urge an end to all wars, all foreign funding a proxy wars, i want to bring our troops home. we do that by supporting the defend the guard legislation in every state across this country. [applause] i also know the crippling effects of inflation in this country. i know what it means to gro