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    <p>Could you give us an official definition of "gas lighting?"</p>
    <p>I might not know what I'm talking about. <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 2:12 PM, Wes Benedict
      wrote:<br>
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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.
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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" moz-do-not-send="true">wes.benedict@lp.org</a>
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      <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>
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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>
        <div><br>
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        <div>-Caryn Ann </div>
        <div><br>
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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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            <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>
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                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>
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              @LPNational<br>
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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"
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                                  Harlos@LP.org</a></span></div>
                            <div><span style="font-size:x-small">Communications
                                Director, <a
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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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