Mike Seebeck

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Michael Seebeck
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Personal Details
Birth: 1973
Indiana
Education: BA Mathematics and BA Computer Science, Benedictine College; Systems Engineering Certification, Cal Tech
Occupation: Senior Systems Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Husband, Dad, DIY, Dog belly-scratcher
Residence: Fountain, CO (1999-2003, 2011-22; Riverside, CA (2003-11); Union Grove, AL (2023-)
Party: Libertarian
Facebook: Facebook
Twitter: Twitter
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Michael Seebeck is currently a member of the National Party Judicial Committee, Chair of the 2024 Platform Committee, member of the 2024 Bylaws and Rules Committee, and member of the Libertarian Party of Alabama Judicial Committee, as well as a Libertarian activist, candidate, and party leader formerly from Colorado and California, currently in Alabama. He is a former Vice-Chair of the Libertarian Party of California, Lights of Liberty Triathlete (3x), and former Media Director of the Libertarian Party of Colorado. He has been a candidate three times, and has chaired various committees for the Libertarian Parties of Alabama, California, and Colorado. He is the co-founder of the Libertarian Transparency Caucus and the founder of the Libertarian Tie-Dye Caucus. He has been in the Libertarian Party since 2000, but canvassed his neighborhood for Ron Paul in 1988 while still a sophomore in high school. He is a member of the National Association of Parliamentarians.

Organizational Positions

Libertarian Party
  • 2008 National Convention - California Delegation
  • 2010 National Convention - California Delegation Whip/Acting Chair
  • 2018 National Convention - Colorado Delegation[1]
  • 2018 National Platform Committee - Colorado Alternate & Representative

- Wrote the current 2.9 Licensing plank, which was passed unanimously without debate or amendment, for the first time in Party history (and hasn't happened since!).

  • 2020 National Convention - Colorado Delegation, Head Teller
  • 2022 National Platform Committee - Colorado Representative

- Wrote the amendment to 1.2 Expression and Communication to define speech in itself as not aggression, a NAP violation, or cause for legal action, and that people are responsible for their own reactions to speech. Passed on an up-down voted that precluded debate.

Libertarian Party of California
  • Executive Committee, 2008-10
  • Southern Vice-Chair, 2010-11
  • Bylaws Committee, 2008 (Chair)
  • Style Committee, 2009 (Chair)
  • Legislative/Ballot Issue Analyst, 2003-11
Libertarian Party of Colorado[2]
  • Constitution & Bylaws Committee, 2002-3 (Chair), 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18 (Chair), 2018-19 (Chair), 2019-20, 2020-21, Member Submissions 2020-21, 2022-23
  • Style Committee, 2015-16 (Chair), 2016-17 (Chair), 2017-18 (Chair), 2018-19 (Chair), 2019-20 (Chair), 2021-23 (Chair)
  • Platform Committee, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19, 2020-21, 2022-23
  • Standing Rules Committee, 2016-17, 2017-18 (Chair), 2018-19 (Chair), 2019-20, Member Submissions 2020-21, 2021-22 (Chair)
  • Legislative Action Committee, 2001-03 (created, now Legislative Director)
  • Media Director, 2002-03 (now Communications Director)
  • Board of Directors Parliamentarian, 2019, 2021-22
  • 2021 Convention acting Parliamentarian
  • 2022 Convention Head Teller
  • 2023 Convention Head Teller
  • 2024 Convention Parliamentarian
Libertarian Party of Alabama
  • 2023 Convention Parliamentarian and Teller
  • Judicial Committee, 2023-25
  • Bylaws Committee, 2023-24, Chair
  • 2024 Convention Parliamentarian and Teller
Libertarian Party of Virginia
  • 2024 Convention Parliamentarian
Libertarian Party of El Paso County (CO)
  • Outreach Director, 2001-02
  • Media Director, 2002-03
  • Vice-Chair, 2012-13
  • Chair, 2013
Libertarian Party of Riverside County (CA)
  • Treasurer, 2003-2007

Other Related Unofficial Party Positions

Other Libertarian Achievements

  • Lights of Liberty Triathlete, 2001 (first in LPCO History) (twice), 2002
  • Festival of Lights parade float, Colorado Springs, 2002 (first and only political party to do it)
  • Defeated LPCA and LPUS Convention Floor Fee impositions, 2005-06 (LPCA), 2010 (LPUS)
  • First to webcast LNC meetings, 2008
  • Successfully defended R. Lee Wrights's improper membership revocation and LNC removal before the LPUS Judicial Committee, 2009
  • Libertarian Party of Colorado Lexington Award winner, 2020
  • Helped to establish the first Libertarian Party of Colorado Judicial Committee, 2021
  • Helped to establish the first Libertarian Party of Alabama Judicial Committee, 2022
  • Indirect co-author of 2023 Free Libertarian Party of New Mexico Bylaws (taken mainly from the 2022 LPCO Bylaws, which he and Caryn Ann Harlos were the primary authors).

2019 Campaign for Libertarian Party of Colorado Vice-Chair

On February 17, 2019, Seebeck declared his candidacy for Libertarian Party of Colorado Vice-Chair. He didn't win.

Endorsements

2022 Campaign for Libertarian Party Judicial Committee

On April 25, 2022, Seebeck declared his candidacy for the National Party Judicial Committee. He was elected with 66% of the vote at the 2022 Libertarian National Convention.

Endorsements

Public Office Campaigns

  • Hanover D-28 School Board (2001): 33.32% (4th of 5 for 3 seats); defeated $23M bond/property tax increase; spent $0
  • State House District 21 (2016): 31.29% (2nd); spent $0
  • State House District 21 (2020): 5.3% (3rd); spent $0

Other Positions

Villa Casitas HOA Administrative Assistant 2014-2019 (elected to 4 terms):

  • Assisted Treasurer and Secretary
  • Tracked legislation affecting HOA
  • Rewrote HOA Bylaws and Covenants
  • Parliamentarian
  • Kept HOA as libertarian as possible

Radio Host, KVOR, 2001-3

  • Fill-in Host on PM drive-time talk show

Political Positions

Michael scores a 90/90 on the classic Nolan chart. He holds the following positions, in no particular order, take it or leave it:

  • Individual rights are absolute and superior to all granted privileges or delegated powers, and only individuals can waive their rights, and then only temporarily.
  • There is no such thing as a positive right or a group right.
  • With rights come responsibilities, including the responsibility to not violate the rights of other individuals. Only you are responsible and accountable for your actions and reactions, nobody else is.
  • Property rights of the individual start with self-ownership and should be respected by everyone.
  • Self-ownership means self-responsibility.
  • Good fences make good neighbors because they respect property rights and individual sovereignty and privacy, and that applies to individuals, organizations, and nations.
  • Managed borders, not open borders.
  • The peaceful acquisition, possession, use, and disposal of private property is none of anyone's damned business, especially government's.
  • What an adult consensually with foreknowledge inhales, ingests, injects, or otherwise intakes into their own body is none of anyone's damned business, either, also especially government's.
  • Government exists to secure its own existence, and anything it does that benefits the people is a side effect, not a design.
  • Government puts the "hell" in health care.
  • Respect for others means fair treatment of them.
  • Exchanging your labor for goods and services, including money, is an equal-value, zero-gain property exchange.
  • Thoreau had it right: I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe- "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. (On Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau, 1849)
  • Jefferson also had it right: Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none. (First Inaugural Address, 1801)
  • Self-defense based neutrality, which means America will be neutral in world affairs, but will defend itself if attacked. America should strive for peace but be prepared for war, such that if it enters it, it wins it clearly and decisively.
  • Ideally, we should have free markets unencumbered by regulations, but realistically, we should first strive for fair markets where buyers have full disclosure about the products they may purchase.
  • A national ID is a bad idea, but if we have to have one, make it our phone number.
  • Currency should have a storable value and physical presence, not unbacked fiat and not unbacked electronic. Cash is still king.
  • Taxation is theft, extortion, and slavery.
  • Conscription is being enslaved to death.
  • Crimes have victims.
  • The state is never a victim.
  • The difference between the state and the Mafia is the Mafia has a code of honor and dresses better.
  • Government is a protection racket: they come around and steal your money to "protect" you from them, requiring their permission to make a living, and offering the illusion of a say in it all by a "vote" periodically.
  • Voting is a privilege, not a right; ask a felon, a non-citizen, a black person prior to the 15th Amendment, a woman prior to the 19th Amendment, or an under-21 adult prior to the 26th Amendment.
  • There is no excuse for going against your best interests in life, especially when it comes to government.
  • If you break it, you buy it, or you fix it.
  • Speech is not harmful to anyone--unless a bookcase falls on you or a Bookmobile runs over you.
  • Drugs should be legal but avoided. If a person harms another while they are under the influence, then that is an aggravating factor in legal proceedings.
  • The right to keep and bear arms is a special property right. The only gun control the people should have is to hit what they're aiming at. If the government can have tanks and missiles, then so should I.
  • Abortion is prenatal homicide, aka the aggressive killing of a human being before they are born. It is not homicide if done in defense of the life or health of the mother, but mothers should not be killing their children.
  • Parents have all right and responsibility to raise their children as they see fit and are capable of doing, but that does not allow for physical, sexual, mental, or emotional abuse of the children, either.
  • Education is best done outside the state.
  • "Gender surgery is basically a sexual lobotomy." - Michael Egnor, M.D., American Thinker, 12/11/24
  • If what's in your head conflicts with what's in your pants, fix what's in your head, not what's in your pants.
  • Decentralization of government is a key to rolling it back. One size does not fit all, and centralized government causes tyranny far worse than decentralized government.
  • The 16th and 17th Amendments and the Federal Reserve Act should be repealed. 1913 was a very bad year for America.
  • Credit and debt are economic sinkholes to be avoided long-term but can be okay for selected short-term use. Pay it off ASAP.
  • Everyone has the right to practice whatever mythology they wish, or none at all, but that practice does not include preventing others from doing the same, nor does it require government to be its crutch or cheerleader.
  • Consenting adults is one thing, but children cannot consent. Leave them alone and let them be kids, not political or parental pawns.
  • There should a universal age of adulthood set at age 18 or 21.
  • Love who you want, marry who you want, sleep with who you want. Just make sure it's consenting adults and no trust is broken.
  • What's wrong with adult prostitution? What don't you like--the sex or the money?
  • Climate Change/Anthropogenic Global Warming is complete nonsense and a control scam. So is most of government.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.qsdmbb.com/lpdNet/publicViewByState.php#CO
  2. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/groups/187934748061850/permalink/987792148076102/
  3. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/groups/2404440073156690
  4. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/groups/187934748061850/permalink/987792148076102/
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