The Platform Committee's Directional Principles subcommittee yesterday approved its report to the PlatCom for consideration at PlatCom's Las Vegas meeting on Friday. If you want to give us feedback, I recommend reviewing this annotated <http://libertarianmajority.net/pure-principles-platform-tour> version of our subcommittee's draft platform, which also shows what sort of amendments some of us are proposing to tighten up a few areas where the recycled language seems inadequate. You might also (or instead) want to review:
* A copy <http://libertarianmajority.net/pure-principles-platform-pending-amendments> of the Platform as our unamended report would leave it. * The raw text of our subcommittee <http://libertarianmajority.net/directional-principles-subcommittee-report> report, which is just our planks in reverse order, followed by pro-forma recommendations to delete the current Platform. * A compendium of potential <http://libertarianmajority.net/pure-principles-platform-pending-amendments> amendments that might get considered in Vegas. The PlatCom is aware that the Restoration Caucus has proposed using the 2004 Platform as a baseline. Some of us on PlatCom have looked at not only the 2004 Platform, but also <http://libertarianmajority.net/#PlatformResources> * 10 other earlier LP platforms, * 8 state LP platforms, * the Democratic Freedom Caucus platform, * the Third Parties '96 Common Ground Declaration, * 20 more declarations on human rights throughout history, and * 6 other novel platforms proposed by libertarians inside the PlatCom and out. Our Directional Principles subcommittee favored using <http://libertarianmajority.net/directional-principles-subcommittee> these 10 criteria for evaluating Platform proposals, and decided to draft a platform of pure LP principles structured around the concepts of the Nolan Chart. Evidence from the PlatCom Chair's recent survey suggests <http://knowinghumans.net/2008/02/platform-survey-rebukes-silence-and.html> to me that this approach would be preferred by NatCon delegates over both the lengthy detailed style advocated by the Restoration Caucus and the brief contract-with-America style that had been advocated by many in the Reform Caucus. As always, feedback may be sent privately to PlatCom via [EMAIL PROTECTED], and/or may be posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or our public blog <http://lpplatform.blogspot.com/> . If you will be in Vegas this weekend for the LSLA conference, our meeting will be open to the public. The schedule info I have is here <http://libertarianmajority.net/2008-platform-committee-schedule> . Brian Holtz (speaking only for himself) Chair, Directional Principles subcommittee 2008 LP Platform Committee
