As far as I can tell from having gone through my notes twice, <http://libertarianmajority.net/pure-principles-platform> this is how the LP Platform would look if all and only the changes currently recommended by the Platform Committee were applied to it. Those recommendations were adopted by PlatCom in its Feb 15-16 meeting in Las Vegas. I was elected Secretary, but it probably will be next week at the earliest before we have officially-approved minutes and a resulting Report. However, my notes show that no PlatCom member voted against recommending that the Denver delegates delete all 15 planks from the 2006 Platform. With a quorum varying between 13 and 15 members, only 6 of 30 recommendations attracted more than one nay for adoption, and only 3 of them more than two. The PlatCom adjourned at the call of the Chair, and is likely to next meet Thursday May 22 in Denver. Comments to <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] or at <http://lpplatform.blogspot.com/> http://lpplatform.blogspot.com/ are encouraged. The PlatCom expects to consider a forthcoming draft from the Restoration Caucus, as well as proposals to amend at least planks 2.2 and 2.3. Here are my unofficial counts of nays for the Committee's current recommendations to adopt or amend planks. N,N means we have a separate recommendation to amend the plank being proposed for adoption. My impression was that Labor Markets got 5 nays because there was lingering disagreement after a substitution amendment replaced 1972 language with slightly different 2004 language. I suspect that Money and Financial Markets got 3 nays (both on the plank and the amendment) in protest of not including language to abolish the Fed. Statement of Principles 1
1.0. Personal Liberty 1 1.1. Expression and Communication 1 1.2. Personal Privacy 1 1.3. Personal Relationships 0,0 1.4. Abortion 2 1.5. Crime and Justice 0 1.6. Self-Defense 0 2.0. Economic Liberty 0 2.1. Property and Contract 0 2.2. The Environment 0 2.3. Energy and Resources 0 2.4. Government Finance and Spending 1 2.5. Money and Financial Markets 3,3 2.6. Monopolies and Corporations 1 2.7. Labor Markets 5 2.8. Education 2 2.9. Health Care 0 2.10. Retirement and Income Security 0 3.0. Securing Liberty 0 3.1. National Defense 0 3.2. Internal Security and Individual Rights 1 3.3. International Affairs 0 3.4. Free Trade and Migration 1? 3.5. Rights and Discrimination 0 3.6. Representative Government 0 3.7. Self-Determination 2 4.0. Omissions 0 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
