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<p>Caryn Ann, I had someone complain to me today that you are a
bully. <br>
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<p>For the record, I don't feel that you have been a bully to me. <br>
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<p>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.<br>
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<p>And of course I'm not going to list the people I have personally
bullied and gas lighted. <br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Wes Benedict, Executive Director
Libertarian National Committee, Inc.
1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314
(202) 333-0008 ext. 232, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:wes.benedict@lp.org">wes.benedict@lp.org</a>
facebook.com/libertarians @LPNational
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/27/2017 2:01 PM, Caryn Ann Harlos
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<div>Wes. There are fantastic people in</div>
<div>Florida.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Are they not our brethren?</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>-Caryn Ann</div>
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<div>-Caryn Ann </div>
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<div>On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 11:56 AM Wes Benedict <<a
href="mailto:wes.benedict@lp.org" moz-do-not-send="true">wes.benedict@lp.org</a>>
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.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The amount
of great things happening with Libertarians is too long to<br>
list here.<br>
<br>
Just this afternoon the Vice Chair from Florida dropped by
after having<br>
attended the OAI event yesterday.<br>
<br>
I was also very pleased to see former national chair, and
one of our<br>
newest elected Libertarians, Jim T. attend the OAI event and
visit the<br>
office.<br>
<br>
One of our newest staff members has been doing a fantastic
job--Jess<br>
from Florida.<br>
<br>
I could sit here all day and write about 50 different
exciting things<br>
happening in Florida, but obviously I don't want to take the
time to do<br>
that right now.<br>
<br>
Spending lots of time focusing on a few bad things just
gives oxygen to<br>
the bad elements. It's better not to even mention them.<br>
<br>
I'm also sometimes concerned that attacking some people
teetering<br>
between libertarianism and other ideologies, may have the
effect of<br>
alienating them and pushing them further away from embracing
that which<br>
is good, and rejecting that which is bad.<br>
<br>
I was once a pro-war, pro-surveillance, pro-police state,<br>
anti-immigration, bad guy. Early in my transition to
becoming a<br>
libertarian, had I interacted with more mean nitpicking
purist<br>
libertarian activists (not all purists are mean nitpickers
by the way),<br>
or had I interacted with more mean nitpicking moderate
libertarian<br>
activists (not all moderates are mean nitpickers by the way)
I might<br>
have backed away from the Libertarian Party and re-embraced
the<br>
Republican Party along with all of its bad policies--I'm
often a team<br>
player.<br>
<br>
Let's be nice to each other. When one of our activists falls
short,<br>
let's not rush to pile on. Let our first instinct be to
rally around<br>
them and support them. Let our second instinct be to rally
around them<br>
and support them again. Let our third instinct be to rally
around them<br>
and support them again. And let our fourth instinct be to
ignore them.<br>
<br>
There was once a guy seeking the Libertarian nomination for
a high<br>
office in Texas. He would have been incredibly embarrassing
and damaging<br>
to our brand if he had gotten a lot of publicity. I never
publicized the<br>
person. Almost nobody ever found out about him. I treated
his<br>
application for nomination equally to others--it was
accepted as was<br>
supposed to be and processed. He didn't show up to the
convention. He<br>
didn't get nominated. His name never reached the news or the
email<br>
groups. I did not go on a bunch of email groups and start
writing about<br>
how this guy was going to embarrass us if others found out
about him. I<br>
shall not say his name here either.<br>
<br>
Be advised I'm not always the best example of what I'd like
to see more of.<br>
<br>
--<br>
Wes Benedict, Executive Director<br>
Libertarian National Committee, Inc.<br>
<a
href="https://maps.google.com/?q=1444+Duke+St.,+Alexandria,+VA+22314&entry=gmail&source=g"
moz-do-not-send="true">1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314</a><br>
(202) 333-0008 ext. 232, <a
href="mailto:wes.benedict@lp.org" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">wes.benedict@lp.org</a><br>
<a href="http://facebook.com/libertarians" rel="noreferrer"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">facebook.com/libertarians</a>
@LPNational<br>
Join the Libertarian Party at: <a
href="http://lp.org/membership" rel="noreferrer"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://lp.org/membership</a><br>
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<div><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica,
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<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" moz-do-not-send="true">Caryn.Ann.
Harlos@LP.org</a></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:x-small">Communications
Director, <a
href="http://www.lpcolorado.org"
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Party of Colorado</a></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:x-small">Chair, LP
Historical Preservation Committee</span><br>
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<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>
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