--- In [email protected], "Thomas L. Knapp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Chuck, > > > It would have been very helpful if you two had been at the > > convention. > > Helpful to whom? ;-) > > > 55% of the delegates voted to eliminate the pledge. That bylaws > > change failed because 67% (2/3) was required to pass. I spoke to many > > people who voted to keep the pledge because they thought it referred > > only to a prohibition of a violent overthrow of the government and not > > to requiring that the entire platform reject incremental solutions. > > > > I'm confident that if you two had been there to explain the "true" > > meaning of the pledge to the delegates, the pledge would have been ___________________________________________________________________
I think that what Chuck was saying, Thomas, is that if some "members" who voted for the pledge had realized that the pledge also rejected government violence against individuals (not just violence of individuals against the government), they would have voted to eliminate it along with many of the platform planks against government violence. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/2pRQfA/bOaOAA/yQLSAA/KlSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
