[Lnc-business] How the principled have fallen

[Caryn Ann Harlos]

You responded beautifully Starchild with a positive encouraging message.

-- 
*In Liberty,*
*Caryn Ann Harlos*
Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska, Arizona,
Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann.
Harlos at LP.org
Communications Director, Libertarian Party of Colorado
<http://www.lpcolorado.org/>
Colorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party Radical Caucus
<http://www.lpradicalcaucus.org/>

On Tuesday, August 16, 2016, Starchild <sfdreamer at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Hi Jim,
>
> Thanks for writing – I get it. It's unfortunately true that William Weld
> and to a lesser extent Gary Johnson have been saying some un-libertarian
> things while serving as our presidential ticket, and many Libertarians are
> understandably not happy about it (myself among them).
>
> How did it happen that the Libertarian Party chose these standard-bearers?
> Quite simply it came down to who showed up and voted. We needed more
> strongly libertarian folks like yourself at our convention in Orlando –
> Weld squeaked in as the VP nominee by the skin of his teeth. With that in
> mind, I hope you will rejoin the party and take part in the process so that
> you can help ensure a more solidly libertarian outcome in 2020.
>
> Meanwhile, short of rescinding our nomination(s) which would probably do
> more harm than good at this point even if it were politically possible, all
> we can really do is commend them when they get it right – which they do on
> some issues – and pressure them to improve when they don't. It's not like
> there's anyone better out there who's on enough state ballots to be elected
> president. Certainly not Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, who make Gary
> Johnson and Bill Weld look like Murray Rothbard and Friedrich Hayek by
> comparison! If we know anything, it's that either Clinton or Trump being
> elected would be a disaster. A vote for Johnson is a vote to #DumpTheCLUMP!
>
> As a member of the Johnson/Weld campaign's Libertarian advisory board,
> I'll do what I can to urge them to present a more libertarian message. You
> can help by sending me specific examples of stuff in print or on the air
> (links and details on where to find the material in the link if it's not
> immediately discoverable) where Johnson or Weld, or materials being put out
> in their name, are going against our party Platform and the libertarian
> idea of non-aggression for which it stands, so we can look at them and try
> to come up with suggested alternative messaging to recommend to the
> campaign.
>
> Your suggestions are always welcome too of course, on this or any other
> topic. Thank you again for taking the time to voice your justified
> concerns, and for all your other efforts as a freedom activist. Hope to see
> you at our next convention.
>
> Love & Liberty,
>                                    ((( starchild )))
> At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee
>                                  (415) 625-FREE
>
>
> *“The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed,
> and this without any qualification as to their condition or degree, as is
> the case in the British government. This may be considered as the true
> palladium of liberty... The right of self-defense is the first law of
> nature; in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine
> this right within the narrowest limits possible. Whenever standing armies
> are kept up, and the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under
> any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already
> annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.”*
> – St. George Tucker, Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of
> England (1803)
>
>
> On Aug 15, 2016, at 10:46 AM, James Funk wrote:
>
> To whom,
>
> A former party member, I can't believe how far off message the LP now is.
> How can Weld possibly be your VP candidate? Besides being either totally
> uninformed or ignorant, it's not really even a conservative Republican
> position he's espousing in the article below (which is amusing):
> http://bearingarms.com/bob-o/2016/08/12/bill-weld-just-compa
> red-ar-15s-weapons-mass-destruction-said-pistols-even-worse/
>
> I would think his comments would automatically exclude him from any
> consideration by the Party. No liberty at all in them. How could he have
> been chosen? Must be the Freedom is Slavery approach to relevancy, I guess.
> Amazing you picked Johnson again, as well. What a waste of time, and
> departure from principle, again.
>
> You've really lost your way. The world doesn't need a Republican Party
> junior varsity or farm team, guys.
>
> Jim Funk
>
>
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