running for Chair of the LPNH

[Jim Johnson]

Good luck lady liberty, I hope you get a lot of people elected

Remember this?  

Do I remember Sandy in a lady liberty outfit?  I could close my eyes right now, see her like that, and smile.

Was it her left eye or her right eye that had been blackened by a political injustice?

[Becky Thatcher]

 

[Friday]

I have withdrawn myself from consideration for Chair of the LPNH.  Please forgive me for my temporary insanity.   

[Kat Kanning]

No chair for you.  Guess you'll have to stand.

[Caleb]

I still think that the 3rd parties are good places to network. After all, most of us belonged to one of them at one point or another. 

[Russell Kanning]

I have withdrawn myself from consideration for Chair of the LPNH.  Please forgive me for my temporary insanity.  

so you got that going for you

[TackleTheWorld]

I have withdrawn myself from consideration for Chair of the LPNH.  Please forgive me for my temporary insanity.   

Yay!  Friday isn't punishing herself by keeping promises other people make anymore!
and not biting her tongue when people say mean things anymore!
and not traveling untold miles for non-existent events anymore!
and....

[David]

I was surprised when you announced your initial decision, but decided not to comment. 
Its hard to let go of things that matter to you.  I think fear is what drives most into politics.  Not really scared type fear, but fear of not doing enough, maybe fear of losing a heritage or legacy that is important to you.  You see this a lot in partisan politics.  The blind 'my guy is good but your guy is a facist/socialist'.  The idea that politics is the only way to get things done is an idea that many hold.  I think people forget that there is more than one kind of power, than political or guns.  Influence, moral authority, shaming others, those are other forms of power.  Moral authority is my favorite, because it, not guns, rule the world.  http://freedomain.blogspot.com/2005/11/freedoms-failure-theory-of-cause-and.html

[Friday]

You are right; it is hard to let go.   

But let go I shall.   

[Fluff and Stuff]

You are right; it is hard to let go.   

But let go I shall.   

That's kind of how I feel when I hug you

[jaqeboy]

I have withdrawn myself from consideration for Chair of the LPNH.  Please forgive me for my temporary insanity.   

Yay!  Friday isn't punishing herself by keeping promises other people make anymore!
and not biting her tongue when people say mean things anymore!
and not traveling untold miles for non-existent events anymore!
and....

Maybe she just read "Our Enemy, The Party", from 1980, by Samuel Edward Konkin III, currently posted on Wally Conger's blog, "out of step". Wally says he's going to re-layout the pamphlet and make it available as a .pdf.

...
Our Enemy, The Party

Any "Libertarian" Party is immoral, inconsistent, unhistorical (see revisionist accounts of similar parties in the past: the Philosophic Radicals, the Liberty Party, the Free Soilers, and many others), psychologically frustrating and thoroughly counter-productive. Worst of all, such an LP may be the savior of the State.

Assume, as is the case in 1980, that a majority of vote-eligible citizens (in the U.S. as it happens) are poised not to vote. And as the counter-economy grows and the State's sanction recedes, the tax-starved monster teeters on desertion of its unpaid enforcers and thus final collapse. The Higher Circle of the State stand to lose their power, privilege and centuries of ill-gotten gain. When suddenly the "L"P springs to the rescue.

Those who would send the taxman away now pay to keep their voting privilege and their record clean to run for office. Those who would violate laws and evade regulations now maintain the system to do away with it at a later, more expedient time. And those who would dodge or defend against the State's enforcers "accept the result of a democratic election."
...

[jaqeboy]

Wow, sorry - didn't mean to kill the thread, but...

The re-laid out version of the pamphlet "Our Enemy, The Party" is available from a link at: http://wconger.blogspot.com/2008/10/our-enemy-party-redux.html

The ideas are fresh, the distribution of the pamphlet to party members isn't. Hopefully this new old flyer will help get through to well-intentioned, though theory-deprived, folks thinking a "party" will work FOR libertarians.