Our commonwealth has long been admired by the rest of the world for her great example of liberty and prosperity. Virginians inherit from their ancestors a glorious tradition of freedom and resistance to oppression.  From Nathanial Bacon to Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington to Robert E Lee and Stonewall Jackson, Virginia has always been the vanguard of rebellion.
 

But many Virginians today are frustrated.  There currently exist very few political figures in Virginia that treat the Constitution with anything but contempt. For all their talk of change, there is little change to be seen. Neither political party offers an alternative to the United States empire and perpetual war. Neither do they offer any kind of change in the current monetary policies that transfer wealth from the middle and lower class to the politically well-connected. For these reasons the Virginian Rebel was established: to highlight the neglected but common-sense principles we champion and to take political action in Virginia to regain our lost liberties.
 

We are proud to follow in the lineage of Thomas Jefferson who spoke of binding our rulers down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. We also seek to promote the advice of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington who told us to follow a foreign policy of "peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none." We are convinced that unless we begin to follow this advice and demand a reduced military footprint around the globe, then Virginians cannot remain free and prosperous. With over 700 military bases around the world and troops in over 130 countries, our military is overstretched and is undermining our national defense and bankrupting our future.

We believe in the unencumbered free market economy, which champions the classical liberal ideals of voluntary exchange. We are subscribers to the Austrian School of Economics in the traditions of Ludwig von Mises, Henry Hazlitt, and F.A. Hayek. We recognize that the central bank’s ability to create money out of thin air transfers wealth from autonomous Virginian citizens to those with the most political pull.  For economic and moral reasons, therefore, we join Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, who disbanded the first two central banks, along with the great twentieth-century economists in opposing the Federal Reserve System.

       Recognizing that it was the states that created the union, we strongly oppose the current de facto abolition of states rights. We oppose the transfer of Virginian sovereignty from Virginians to Washington DC and then from Washington DC to unelected representatives in supranational organizations. The people of Virginia are capable of governing themselves in the absence of bureaucratic intermediaries that undermine our sovereignty.

We believe that we have a duty to preserve freedom as an indivisible whole, which includes not only economic liberty but civil liberties and privacy rights as well. Our stances on other issues can be deduced from the general principles derived in classical liberalism.

Virginians are ailing but the solution is simple. Through peaceful political and education means, we believe we must rebel against big-government tyranny and return autonomy to the commonwealth of Virginia. Let us begin a Virginian rebellion against statism. Let us rebel in the spirit of Thomas Jefferson when he said, "And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? [...] The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."