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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>
    </p>
    <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>
    </p>
    <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
Join the Libertarian Party at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lp.org/membership">http://lp.org/membership</a></pre>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/27/2017 2:01 PM, Caryn Ann Harlos
      wrote:<br>
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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>
      <div><br>
      </div>
      <div>Are they not our brethren?</div>
      <div><br>
      </div>
      <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>>
            wrote:<br>
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          <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0
            .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"
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                              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" 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"
                                target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Libertarian
                                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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