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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>LNC,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Please note that I sent out the following note to the website On The Issues.org.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I’d like to thank Wendy Adams, Louisiana state Executive Director, for bringing this bug to my attention.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Guy McLendon<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>LNC At Large Member<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Libertarian Party National Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>www.lp.org<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Cell 832-372-8131<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Guy McLendon [mailto:guy@mclendon.net] <br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, August 23, 2014 4:35 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'submit@OnTheIssues.org'<br><b>Subject:</b> Libertarian Party National Platform<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dear webmaster,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>As a member of the LP National Committee, I thank you very much for including the Libertarian Party in your website content. Particularly since the graph used in your ranking system is based upon the Nolan Chart that was first conceived by our founder David Nolan, I’m sure your organization is eager to provide insight on our positions that’s most accurate for your users. It’s in that spirit that I’d like to bring a significant bug to your attention.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The LP National Platform was significantly overhauled during our conventions of 2006/2008/2010, so that all your references from prior platform planks are generally obsolete. For your reference, I’m including the link to our current 2014 platform.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.lp.org/platform">http://www.lp.org/platform</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>As an initial point of contact, feel free to call me with any questions. Since I was a member of the LP National Platform Committee for the three terms in which most of the transformative changes were made, again 2006/2008 and 2010, I’m a pretty good resource regarding questions and/or comments. In cases where I cannot provide a competent answer, I can contact the necessary resources to duly respond to your questions.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Here’s one example of an OnTheIssues statement that’s really not consistent with our current platform:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Libertarian_Party_Immigration.htm">http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Libertarian_Party_Immigration.htm</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The old plank said that the LP would “call for the elimination of all restrictions”. As you can read from the current platform plank below, our current position is to support control over entry of foreign nationals <span style='color:#1F497D'>to <ed: who></span> pose a credible threat.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><a name=3.4></a>2014 National Platform Plank:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing>3.4 Free Trade and Migration<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>We support the removal of governmental impediments to free trade. Political freedom and escape from tyranny demand that individuals not be unreasonably constrained by government in the crossing of political boundaries. Economic freedom demands the unrestricted movement of human as well as financial capital across national borders. However, we support control over the entry into our country of foreign nationals who pose a credible threat to security, health or property.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Guy McLendon<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>LNC At Large Member<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Libertarian Party National Committee<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.lp.org">www.lp.org</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cell 832-372-8131<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>