[Lnc-business] Libertarians doing great things in Florida

Wes Benedict wes.benedict at lp.org
Fri Oct 27 14:15:34 EDT 2017 

Could you give us an official definition of "gas lighting?"

I might not know what I'm talking about.


Wes Benedict, Executive Director
Libertarian National Committee, Inc.
1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314
(202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict at lp.org
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On 10/27/2017 2:12 PM, Wes Benedict wrote:
>
> 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
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>>     (202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict at lp.org
>>     <mailto:wes.benedict at lp.org>
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>>
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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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>> /We defend your rights/
>> /And oppose the use of force/
>> /Taxation is theft/
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