I agreenwith the idea you have in this message, a miminal amount of
wording, the platform should address current issues that will or may be
addressed in the coming election cycle. The platform is not the
place to discribe in detail every Libertarian position possible, this is
impossible and quite controvsial and does not serve the
candidates. jal
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Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 11:01
AM
Subject: Platform
Hi Gregg John & Paul if your
there,
The Platform needs to be decided in the committee
not in lpco chat, we want it to be simple, matter of fact & without
bias.
The Health part of the Platform makes statement
to abortion, this apparently has everyone in a turmoil, if it does not have to
be addressed- lets not address it.
The problem's they had in the last election cycle
was that candidates were being bound to very conclusive statements made by the
LP Platform. They had no wiggle room .
We want to be more vague, so the candidates
has a choice to somewhat agree or not. I believe the more options our
candidates have then the more opportunity they will have to put across
libertarian solutions for today's Libertarian.
You know there is a bordering line today that
split's this party, lets try to stay within everyone's bounds. I really
personally in my opinion did not see where the mention of abortion in the
Platform should have caused such a spew of words.
Since the matter is not really determined by
Libertarians shouldn't we leave it out as being a actual word in the
platform???
It doesn't change the Health part of what
we believe it just takes away something that causes controversy. B/c it does
cause such distress it should be left up to the individual candidate.
You can change the Constitution & Bylaws to
read where a issue becomes controversial among the voters (members) that the
independent thought is then left to the candidate.
Thanks Guy's,
Dana
