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Commiting Suicide the Libertarian Way
by Justin Raimondo Monday, Dec. 29, 2003 at 7:33 PM
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Leave it to the politically clueless "leadership" of the LP to consign the party's opposition to the war -- the one platform plank with potentially broad appeal this election year -- to the junk heap. Oh well, don't get mad -- get even!

NOTES IN THE MARGIN - December 29, 2003

My continuing[1] campaign[2] to get loudmouth warmonger Neal Boortz[3] booted from the podium of the Libertarian Party's upcoming national convention has suffered a setback.[4] The Libertarian National Committee recently voted to affirm their invitation to the noted Bush shill: the vote was 9 to 6. Here is the text of the resolution they passed:

The LNC supports our Convention Committee's
invitation to Neal Boortz to speak at our national
convention in Atlanta in May 2004. We do not
condition participation at our convention on
membership in the LP or on 100% compliance
with the national party platform. We welcome
the continued efforts of Mr. Boortz and many
others to further the freedom movement in
whatever way they choose."

What hypocrites! If Boortz opposed the legalization of, say, marijuana, cloning, or any of the other favored left-libertarian hobby-horses, we all know he wouldn't be able to get within a country mile of the speakers' platform in Atlanta. Leave it to the politically clueless "leadership" of the LP to consign the party's opposition to the war -- the one platform plank[5] with potentially broad appeal this election year -- to the junk heap. No wonder they've begun to limit their pathetic electoral efforts to getting elected to local county water board[6] and community college[7] and sewer districts.[8] The LP doesn't care about the bad public relations this decision is already generating[9] -- they stupidly believe that any publicity is good publicity. What a way to commit suicide.

Oh well, don't get mad -- get even! There's just one way to register your disapproval of the LP NatCom's decision: if you're planning to contribute to the Libertarian Party, to renew your membership, or vote for their generally dumb-ass candidates, don't do it.

And let them know why.

Send email to the convention coordinator, Nancy Neale (who just happens to be the wife of the current National Chairman), at torchess@austin.rr.com

Or call the National Libertarian Party, at: (202) 333-0008, or contact members of the Libertarian Party National Committee.[10]

-- Justin Raimondo

JUSTIN RAIMONDO is the editorial director of http://www.Antiwar.com. He is also the author of Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement (with an Introduction by Patrick J. Buchanan), (1993), and Into the Bosnian Quagmire: The Case Against U.S. Intervention in the Balkans (1996). He is an Adjunct Scholar with the Ludwig von Mises Institute, in Auburn, Alabama, a Senior Fellow at the Center for Libertarian Studies, and writes frequently for Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. He is the author of An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard.


[1] Boot Boortz!
--- http://www.antiwar.com/justin/jspecial112603.html
[2] Boot Boortz!
--- http://radicalbuttons.com/bootboortz.html
[3] Democrats Abandon America
--- http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35182
[4] Report from the LNC Meeting
--- http://www.freedom2008.com/bootboortz/archives/002558.html
[5] National Platform of the Libertarian Party
--- http://www.lp.org/issues/platform/iv.html
[6] Google Search ( libertarian "water board" )
--- http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=libertarian+%22water+board%22
[7] John Scott Ballard, Victor Valley Community College District; Paul Ireland, Victor Valley Community College District; Kathy Kelley, Rock Valley Community College Trustee; Larry D. Manes, Allen County Community College Trustee
--- http://www.lp.org/campaigns/candidates.php?year=2003
[8] Larry Clever, Meadville Area Sewer Authority
--- http://www.lp.org/organization/PA/
[9] Neal Boortz is no John Galt
--- http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/2003-12-18/fishwrapper.html
[10] Libertarian National Committee Directory
--- http://www.lp.org/organization/lnc/directory.php

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