That sounds like a good idea and I might join but I have a few
comments.
1. Didn't you attempt to start this group a couple years ago?
2. Why does a political party and especially the LP have a political
responsibility to the American people?
3. Isn't forecefully advocating libertarian solutions anti-
libertarian given that libertarians oppose the innitiation of force?
4. Wasn't the Boston Tea Party anti-libertarian given that the men
who threw the tea into the harbor were not the owners of the tea.
That teas was private property owned by the merchants who ordered it
from the East India Company. A boycott is fine but isn't it anti-
libertarian to destroy property that doesn't belong to you?
5. Again I think this is a good idea despite my questions and
comments that are criticisms. I was considering the possibility of
establishing a party called the Bill of Rights Party that emphasizes
supporting the Bill of Rights with the BOR as the platform.
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--- In [email protected], "Thomas L. Knapp"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> 07/05/06
> P.O.C. Thomas L. Knapp
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 314-705-3042
>
> LIKE IT'S 1773: NEW PARTY IN WAKE OF LIBERTARIAN CONVENTION DEBACLE
>
> "Cyberia" (PRWEB) July 5, 2006 - Citing the Libertarian Party's
> "abdication of its political responsibilities to the American
> people," activists have founded the Boston Tea Party
> (www.bostontea.us) as an alternative, Internet-based vehicle for
> libertarian political action.
>
> "For various reasons, the ball got dropped in Portland," says
Boston
> Tea Party founder Thomas L. Knapp, referring to the Libertarian
> national convention, held over the July 4th weekend in Oregon.
> "Factional disputes led to a wholesale gutting of the party's
> platform -- a muddle in which the party was left without a
mechanism
> for expressing its positions on several of the foremost public
policy
> issues facing America's voters."
>
> Rather than setting up the new party as a splinter group, Knapp
says
> that he thinks of it as a "hopefully a pinch hitter, going to bat
for
> America while the LP nurses its wounds and prepares to get back in
> the game. Until and unless that happens, the Boston Tea Party will
> fill in. Americans deserve -- and desperately need -- a pro-freedom
> party which forcefully advocates libertarian solutions to the
issues
> of the day."
>
> Those solutions will be set forth in a program to be put together
by
> the new party's organizational convention, to be held online, Knapp
> says, in the next 30 to 60 days.
>
> -30-
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