<div>Oh yes because the LNC interfering in the autonomy of an affiliate worked out SO WELL in the past.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not eager to repeat Oregon.</div><div><br></div><div>And Florida has a representative. He was elected to deal with the concerns of that region and responded.</div><div><br></div><div>-Caryn Ann</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 6:45 PM Erin Adams <<a href="mailto:erinadams@thefeldmanfoundation.org">erinadams@thefeldmanfoundation.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>I tend to agree with Mr. Katz on this. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 23, 2017 7:40 PM, "Joshua Katz" <<a href="mailto:joshua.katz@lp.org" target="_blank">joshua.katz@lp.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>The original email in this thread was from Mr. Stanton (whom I've never met). He accused a member of the LPF leadership, who is also a Libertarian candidate (and whom I have also never met) of being a white supremacist leader, and of making threats towards himself and others. I have no way of knowing if these accusations are true, but they most certainly are disturbing if true - and the sorts of things I would expect the affiliate to react to. If they are true and the affiliate does not react, I would expect this board to take action.<div><br></div><div>Instead, the responses I've seen seem to combine shrugs with exhortations that Mr. Stanton should deal with it himself, and some variation on "hey, we're all on the same team, work together." Again, I do not know if the accusations are true, but if they are, then we are not, in fact, all on the same team. I am not on the same team as any white supremacist, or anyone who thinks the use of threats and intimidation, together with violent white supremacist and anti-semitic rhetoric, are acceptable ways of conducting business. </div><div><br></div><div>Such a pre-modern retreat to tribalism, to prejudice, to anti-individualism, is the single largest threat to human freedom. It is the condition in which humans lived for quite some time, before civilization made real freedom possible. No party that stands for freedom against all threats can tolerate those in its midst who would hold those positions, let alone allowing those who advocate such positions to hold leadership positions. This cannot be a party that tolerates such things. At the moment, I have no actual facts. Furthermore, there is little we can do - but little is not the same as nothing. Let's get the facts. The response to such a statement cannot be "well, you figure it out." That is not leadership. Nor should the response be immediate panic, or a rush to judgment. I would think the accusations are of such a nature, though, that we'd want to know what is going on.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_5234064885297533231m_-121783147663168624gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div><div><div>Joshua A. Katz<div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">At-Large Representative,</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Libertarian National Committee</span><br></div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 8:54 PM, Paul Stanton <span><<a href="mailto:region7@lpf.org" target="_blank">region7@lpf.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><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:#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_5234064885297533231m_-121783147663168624m_581103334843591490Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br></span><span style="font-size:14pt">Paul Stanton</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></div>
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</blockquote></div></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#666666"><b>In Liberty,</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#666666"><b>Caryn Ann Harlos</b></font></div><div><font size="1">Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee </font><span style="font-size:x-small">(Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - <a href="mailto:Caryn.Ann.Harlos@LP.org" target="_blank">Caryn.Ann. Harlos@LP.org</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size:x-small">Communications Director, <a href="http://www.lpcolorado.org" target="_blank">Libertarian Party of Colorado</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size:x-small">Chair, LP Historical Preservation Committee</span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:x-small"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:x-small">A haiku to the Statement of Principles:</span></div><div><span style="font-size:x-small"><i>We defend your rights</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size:x-small"><i>And oppose the use of force</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size:x-small"><i>Taxation is theft</i></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:x-small"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>