[Lnc-business] Libertarians doing great things in Florida

Fri Oct 27 14:12:01 EDT 2017

Caryn Ann, I had someone complain to me today that you are a bully.

For the record, I don't feel that you have been a bully to me.

I will not name the current or former board members that I feel have gas 
lighted and bullied me over the years, not to mention the hundreds of 
libertarians that bully other libertarians daily on facebook.

And of course I'm not going to list the people I have personally bullied 
and gas lighted.

Wes Benedict, Executive Director
Libertarian National Committee, Inc.
1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314
(202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict at lp.org
facebook.com/libertarians @LPNational
Join the Libertarian Party at: http://lp.org/membership

On 10/27/2017 2:01 PM, Caryn Ann Harlos wrote:
> Wes.  There are fantastic people in
> Florida.
>
> But this seems to give all the power to a few bullies and no succor to 
> their victims who feel alone.  And bullies love that.
>
> Are they not our brethren?
>
> ive been gaslighted.  And I know more harm comes from the silence of 
> people who know what is happening.  We must not treat the bullieD as 
> expendable in order to not give attention to the bullies.  We would 
> not want that if it were us.
>
> -Caryn Ann
>
> -Caryn Ann
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 11:56 AM Wes Benedict <wes.benedict at lp.org 
> <mailto:wes.benedict at lp.org>> wrote:
>
>     The amount of great things happening with Libertarians is too long to
>     list here.
>
>     Just this afternoon the Vice Chair from Florida dropped by after
>     having
>     attended the OAI event yesterday.
>
>     I was also very pleased to see former national chair, and one of our
>     newest elected Libertarians, Jim T. attend the OAI event and visit the
>     office.
>
>     One of our newest staff members has been doing a fantastic job--Jess
>     from Florida.
>
>     I could sit here all day and write about 50 different exciting things
>     happening in Florida, but obviously I don't want to take the time
>     to do
>     that right now.
>
>     Spending lots of time focusing on a few bad things just gives
>     oxygen to
>     the bad elements. It's better not to even mention them.
>
>     I'm also sometimes concerned that attacking some people teetering
>     between libertarianism and other ideologies, may have the effect of
>     alienating them and pushing them further away from embracing that
>     which
>     is good, and rejecting that which is bad.
>
>     I was once a pro-war, pro-surveillance, pro-police state,
>     anti-immigration, bad guy. Early in my transition to becoming a
>     libertarian, had I interacted with more mean nitpicking purist
>     libertarian activists (not all purists are mean nitpickers by the
>     way),
>     or had I interacted with more mean nitpicking moderate libertarian
>     activists (not all moderates are mean nitpickers by the way) I might
>     have backed away from the Libertarian Party and re-embraced the
>     Republican Party along with all of its bad policies--I'm often a team
>     player.
>
>     Let's be nice to each other. When one of our activists falls short,
>     let's not rush to pile on. Let our first instinct be to rally around
>     them and support them. Let our second instinct be to rally around them
>     and support them again. Let our third instinct be to rally around them
>     and support them again. And let our fourth instinct be to ignore them.
>
>     There was once a guy seeking the Libertarian nomination for a high
>     office in Texas. He would have been incredibly embarrassing and
>     damaging
>     to our brand if he had gotten a lot of publicity. I never
>     publicized the
>     person. Almost nobody ever found out about him. I treated his
>     application for nomination equally to others--it was accepted as was
>     supposed to be and processed. He didn't show up to the convention. He
>     didn't get nominated. His name never reached the news or the email
>     groups. I did not go on a bunch of email groups and start writing
>     about
>     how this guy was going to embarrass us if others found out about
>     him.  I
>     shall not say his name here either.
>
>     Be advised I'm not always the best example of what I'd like to see
>     more of.
>
>     --
>     Wes Benedict, Executive Director
>     Libertarian National Committee, Inc.
>     1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314
>     <https://maps.google.com/?q=1444+Duke+St.,+Alexandria,+VA+22314&entry=gmail&source=g>
>     (202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict at lp.org
>     <mailto:wes.benedict at lp.org>
>     facebook.com/libertarians <http://facebook.com/libertarians>
>     @LPNational
>     Join the Libertarian Party at: http://lp.org/membership
>
>
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> -- 
> *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 <mailto:Caryn.Ann.Harlos at LP.org>
> Communications Director, Libertarian Party of Colorado 
> <http://www.lpcolorado.org>
> Chair, LP Historical Preservation Committee
>
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> /And oppose the use of force/
> /Taxation is theft/
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