The image of a fife is associated with the American Revolution and a fife is also an American Indian instrument. Naming the organization after a musical instrument emphasizes the process of nonthreatening communication so central to our aim. At the convention there were a lot of buttons with no words but only a picture of a feather. We chose this as a symbol of freedom to propagate libertarianism outward and downward. Suppose the wearing of a feather comes to express a belief that freedom is for everyone, a belief that we all need more freedom and less government, a belief that it's time to lighten up, a belief that government should touch our lives as lightly as a feather.
Feathers are free.
Feathers are all different. Anyone can be a libertarian. FIFE exists to reach the people the Ron Paul for President campaign will miss. It will be an exiting election year. The republican and democratic candidates are so dull that Ron Paul should draw good media attention.