True, they ca not tell someone they can not call themselves a libertarian anf if people outside of the LP wanted to endorse this person for office or invite him to be an offical with their group, the LP should have no say so in the matter but the LP members do have a say so in who they endorse and who they invite to be a party offical, its called freddom of association, there is no feet stamping about it. If the reformers win there is not a dang thing the purity testers can do about it but if they leave the Lp and start a new party there is not a dang thing the reformers can do about it. If the reformers leave and start a new party there is not a dang thing the purity testers can do about. What I am saying is so many people don't need to be unhappy and unproductive and certainally no one needs to stamp their feet in a free association. Just get a divorce and be more productive.Why in the world hang on to each other like some misreable old couple, that knows no other life, most people in the LP are to bright for that, surely it can't be community property, Going by the finacial statments in the new issue of the LP News there aint that much money in the bank.--- In [email protected], "Eric Rathbone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Those who issue calls to bar "nonconforming" members from office or even > to expell them from the party fail to understand that no one has the > power to define Libertarianism to the exclusion of other definitions. > > Any political party is defined by its members at any one given time and > place and that definition can be altered anytime the membership chooses > to do so. > > There is no "core belief" that is immutable, not subject to > interpretation, or which must taken as received truth from on high lest > one be struck by thunderbolts. > > You can stamp your little feet and hold your breath until you turn > purple but no display of pique, no amount of huffing and puffing about > how you say that "Libertarians must believe that..." can change that > reality. > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
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