<div dir="auto">My Libertarian tolerance does not extend to tolerating intolerance. Paraphrasing Barry Goldwater, "Tolerance in defense of intolerance is a vice." The burning question is how to effectively respond to both supremacist violence and non-violent 'bake the cake' intolerance.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">History provides considerable evidence that even when intolerance degenerates into violence, economic and social ostracism is a more powerful remediation tool in the long run.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Giving top-down authoritarians our blanket permission to exercise the initiation of force to "defend" us from violent intolerance and right the moral wrong of non-violent intolerance clearly has not produced the desired result of freedom, nothing more, nothing less.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It might be instructive to learn from the lesson of Rosa Parks. Perhaps Paul Stanton's "dramatics" should be critiqued in the light of economic and social ostracism.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thoughts?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">~David Pratt Demarest</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 23, 2017 3:00 PM, "Starchild" <<a href="mailto:sfdreamer@earthlink.net">sfdreamer@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><div><span class="m_2851082766976422223Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>As I see it, part of our mission is to make sure that it <i>doesn't</i> come down to a matter of "pure self-discipline", which as Caryn Ann alludes to is unreliable at best, but that instead there are institutions in place – e.g. the Libertarian Party – to provide that discipline, through a culture and structures which ensure that where political power exists, it is (1) held accountable, (2) decentralized as much as possible, and (3) required to operate transparently.</div><div><br></div><div>Love & Liberty,</div><div><br></div><div> ((( starchild )))</div><div>At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee</div><div> <a href="mailto:RealReform@earthlink.net" target="_blank">RealReform@earthlink.net</a></div><div> (415) 625-FREE</div><div> @StarchildSF</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>On Oct 23, 2017, at 11:29 AM, Caryn Ann Harlos wrote:</div><br class="m_2851082766976422223Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>The trap of the ring. Does anyone throw it away? I see less and less commitment to that but rather more "winning at any cost" strategy and once the price of pricinples has been paid, so has the commitment to bring freedom - and a belief that we will use the ring for good. And no one ever does.</div><div><br></div><div>Always be sure we are trying to what n freedom to give it back to its rightful owners.</div><div><br></div><div>To everyone reading, are you?</div><div><br></div><div>-Caryn Ann</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 1:19 PM Steven Nekhaila <<a href="mailto:steven.nekhaila@gmail.com" target="_blank">steven.nekhaila@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:10pt"><div>You
are right Stardchild, that slogan actually comes form Freedom Force
International, the group that originally made me interested in engaging
in politics in order to change the system. We need to wield power to
protect freedom, but we also need to throw that power away once we hold
it so it may not be abused, by anyone. An act of pure self-discipline. </div><div><br></div><div>Since joining the movement I am learning new Latin phrases all the time.</div></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:10pt"><div><br></div><div>In Liberty,<br><br>Steven Nekhaila<br>Region 14 Representative</div><div>Libertarian Party of Florida</div><div> </div><div style="letter-spacing:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;color:rgb(10,10,10)"><span style="font-size:10pt"><em>Impotentes defendere libertatum non possunt</em></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;color:rgb(10,10,10)"> </span></div><div style="letter-spacing:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;color:rgb(10,10,10)"><span style="font-size:10pt"><em>"Those without power cannot defend freedom"</em></span></span></div></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 4:10 PM, Starchild <span><<a href="mailto:sfdreamer@earthlink.net" target="_blank">sfdreamer@earthlink.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><div><font class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><span class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px"><span class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>I'm not familiar with the alleged threats, but resigning from the Florida LP does seem like an extreme step, Paul. If you believe excessive tolerance of white supremacists is a problem in the Florida LP, it sounds like your state party could use your counterbalancing voice in its leadership, as you provided when you ran against one such member in the U.S. Senate primary and handily prevailed. But if you do not have the stomach for it, I hope you find a better fit in one of the other state affiliate parties (you can generally affiliate with a different state party without living in that state).</span></font></div><div><font class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><span class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><span class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px"><span class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Steven makes a good point about the need to stay focused, in the face of distractions like banality and political turbulence, on our goal of minimizing government and maximizing freedom.</span></font></div><div><font class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><span class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><span class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px"><span class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Regarding your signature line Steven, when we're talking about political power let us also remember,</span></font></div><div><span class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:13px"><font class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><i><br></i></font></font></font></span></div><div><div><span class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:13px"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><i><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit" face="Verdana">Libertatem tueri posse infidelium</font></font></i></font></font></span></div></div><div><span class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:13px"><i><font class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">"Power cannot be trusted to defend freedom."</font></i></span></div><div><span class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:13px"><i><font class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></i></span></div><div><font class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><span class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px"><span class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>And more classically,</span></font></div><div><font class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><span class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px"><br></span></font></div><div><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit;font-size:13px" face="Verdana"><i>Non venimus laudare Caesare, sed ad eum.</i></font></font></div><div><font class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><span class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px"><i>"We come not to praise Caeser, but to bury him."</i></span></font></div><div><font class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><span class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><span class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px">Love & Liberty,</span></font></div><div><font class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><span class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><span class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px"> ((( starchild )))</span></font></div><div><font class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><span class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px">At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee</span></font></div><div><font class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><span class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px"> <a href="mailto:RealReform@earthlink.net" target="_blank">RealReform@earthlink.net</a></span></font></div><div><font class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><span class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px"> (415) 625-FREE</span></font></div><div><font class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><span class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px"> @StarchildSF</span></font></div><div><div class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709h5"><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Oct 23, 2017, at 6:19 AM, <<a href="mailto:region14@lpf.org" target="_blank">region14@lpf.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;font-size:10pt"><div>Paul,<br><br>I think that you have seriously squandered your potential during your stint as regional representative. To the EC this ought to be a lesson that the more time we spend fighting each other the less time we spend fighting our common enemy, the State and its tyranny. To be effective we have to stick to our objective as a centrifugal force that keeps the collective momentum together. Nothing good comes fast nor easy in politics, to succeed in fighting for liberty requires absolute dedication to our goals during the banal and turbulent times that wish to distract us. I say that with a great sense of urgency. Results are the metric for success, and you don't get that by winning personal squabbles and being carried away with dramaticism.<br></div><div><br></div><div>In Liberty,<br><br>Steven Nekhaila<br>Region 14 Representative</div><div>Libertarian Party of Florida</div><div><br></div><div></div><div style="letter-spacing:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;color:#0a0a0a"><span style="font-size:10pt"><i>Impotentes defendere libertatum non possunt</i></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;color:#0a0a0a"> </span></div><div style="letter-spacing:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;color:#0a0a0a"><span style="font-size:10pt"><i>"Those without power cannot defend freedom"</i></span></span></div><div><br><br></div>
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Subject: Resignation From LPF<br>
From: "Paul Stanton" <<a href="mailto:region7@lpf.org" target="_blank">region7@lpf.org</a>><br>
Date: Sun, October 22, 2017 6:54 pm<br>
To: <a href="mailto:ec@lpf.org" target="_blank">ec@lpf.org</a><br>
Cc: <a href="mailto:chair@lp.org" target="_blank">chair@lp.org</a>, <a href="mailto:vicechar@lp.org" target="_blank">vicechar@lp.org</a>, <a href="mailto:secretary@lp.org" target="_blank">secretary@lp.org</a>, <a href="mailto:treasurer@lp.org" target="_blank">treasurer@lp.org</a>, <br>
<a href="mailto:william.redpath@lp.org" target="_blank">william.redpath@lp.org</a>, <a href="mailto:daniel.hayes@lp.org" target="_blank">daniel.hayes@lp.org</a>, <a href="mailto:starchild@lp.org" target="_blank">starchild@lp.org</a>, <br>
<a href="mailto:sam.goldstein@lp.org" target="_blank">sam.goldstein@lp.org</a>, <a href="mailto:joshua.katz@lp.org" target="_blank">joshua.katz@lp.org</a>, <a href="mailto:caryn.ann.harlos@lp.org" target="_blank">caryn.ann.harlos@lp.org</a>, <br>
<a href="mailto:steven.nielson@lp.org" target="_blank">steven.nielson@lp.org</a>, <a href="mailto:ed.marsh@lp.org" target="_blank">ed.marsh@lp.org</a>, <a href="mailto:steven.nekhaila@lp.org" target="_blank">steven.nekhaila@lp.org</a>, <br>
<a href="mailto:brett.bittner@lp.org" target="_blank">brett.bittner@lp.org</a>, <a href="mailto:ken.moellman@lp.org" target="_blank">ken.moellman@lp.org</a>, <a href="mailto:jeffrey.hewitt@lp.org" target="_blank">jeffrey.hewitt@lp.org</a>, <br>
<a href="mailto:aaron.starr@lp.org" target="_blank">aaron.starr@lp.org</a>, <a href="mailto:james.lark@lp.org" target="_blank">james.lark@lp.org</a>, <a href="mailto:trent.some@lp.org" target="_blank">trent.some@lp.org</a>, <br>
<a href="mailto:david.demarest@lp.org" target="_blank">david.demarest@lp.org</a>, <a href="mailto:sean.otoole@lp.org" target="_blank">sean.otoole@lp.org</a>, <a href="mailto:whitney.bilyeu@lp.org" target="_blank">whitney.bilyeu@lp.org</a>, <br>
<a href="mailto:erin.adams@lp.org" target="_blank">erin.adams@lp.org</a>, <a href="mailto:patrick.mcknight@lp.org" target="_blank">patrick.mcknight@lp.org</a>, <a href="mailto:larry.sharpe@lp.org" target="_blank">larry.sharpe@lp.org</a>, <br>
<a href="mailto:wes.benedict@lp.org" target="_blank">wes.benedict@lp.org</a><br>
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<span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#000;font-size:12pt"><div>Marcos,</div><div><br></div><div>Due to the LPF Executive Committee's recent refusal to respond to threats targeting myself and others from <span>Ryan Ramsey,</span><span> a white supremacist leader, LPF county chair, LPF EC member, and candidate for Florida House, I hereby resign from all positions and membership within the Libertarian Party of Florida, a</span><span>s I can no longer in good faith continue to ask other Libertarians to support a party which allows its leaders to threaten and intimidate members while repeating violent white supremacist and anti-semitic rhetoric.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt">Libertarians deserve better than the Libertarian Party of Florida.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt">Please remove me from any mailing or membership lists and add me to the LPF's do not call list. I will not be responding to any email sent to this address.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">In liberty,</span><span style="font-weight:bold" class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br></span></span><span style="font-weight:bold" class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:14pt">Paul Stanton</span></span><span style="font-weight:bold" class="m_2851082766976422223m_2802223324872234709m_-2925314135421123115Apple-style-span"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br>Follow me on Facebook: <a title="fb.com/Stanton4Liberty/" href="https://fb.com/Stanton4Liberty/" target="_blank">fb.com/Stanton4Liberty</a></span></span></div></span>
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