Rob Power wrote: Rob) This is not accurate. The Restoration Caucus proposal is to restore only those 2004 planks that were not retained or amended in 2006. (Rob
The Restore04 web site says: "we strongly believe that the 2004 Platform offers a better starting point for 2008 than does the truncated 2006 version". The Restore04 petition says "I urge the members of the Platform Committee to vote to revert to the 2004 Platform as the basis for any changes to be submitted to the delegates in Denver. Some changes and additions are no doubt necessary, but there simply will not be time to construct, refine and adopt a comprehensive platform starting with the shriveled 2006 version." David Nolan (or whoever wrote the Restore04 language above) has indeed since learned (as you and I and the rest of PlatCom have known all along) that there is some good language to preserve in the 2006 Platform. He has even become somewhat aware of the existence of the Pure Principles Platform draft, although he still seems somewhat <http://libertarianintelligence.com/2008/02/platform-committee-meets-friday. html> unaware of its contents. If the Restoration Caucus has changed its mind about what it's asking PlatCom to do, is it going to redraft its petition text and restart its petition list? Rob) there were just too many Reform Caucus members on the committee who voted against us (Rob On the question of seating alternates for temporary absences, one Reform Caucus member abstained, one non-Reform Caucus member voted against, and two supporters of the reformers' Pure Principles draft voted for seating the alternates (who oppose that draft). Thus the vote was not strictly on caucus or 3P lines. In order to keep your membership informed and maximize their opportunity for feedback, please post the above to the Outright list, along with the following HTML that Starchild's message garbled into ASCII. If you wish to respond to my other postings of this information, the Y! Groups were: LPplatform-discuss, LibertarianReformCaucus, ca-liberty, and Libertarian. -----Original Message----- From: Brian Holtz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 3:45 PM Subject: input for Platform Committee meeting Friday? The Platform Committee's Directional Principles subcommittee yesterday approved its report to the PlatCom for consideration at PlatCom's Las Vegas meeting on Friday. To help you decide what feedback to give us, I recommend reviewing this annotated <http://libertarianmajority.net/pure-principles-platform-tour> version of our subcommittee's draft platform, which also shows what sort of amendments some of us are proposing to tighten up a few areas where the recycled language seems inadequate. You might also (or instead) want to review: * A copy <http://libertarianmajority.net/pure-principles-platform-pending-amendments> of the Platform as our unamended report would leave it. * The raw text of our subcommittee <http://libertarianmajority.net/directional-principles-subcommittee-report> report, which is just our planks in reverse order, followed by pro-forma recommendations to delete the current Platform. * A compendium of potential <http://libertarianmajority.net/pure-principles-platform-pending-amendments> amendments that might get considered in Vegas. The PlatCom is aware that the Restoration Caucus has proposed using the 2004 Platform as a baseline. Some of us on PlatCom have looked at not only the 2004 Platform, but also <http://libertarianmajority.net/#PlatformResources> * 10 other earlier LP platforms, * 8 state LP platforms, * the Democratic Freedom Caucus platform, * the Third Parties '96 Common Ground Declaration, * 20 more declarations on human rights throughout history, and * 6 other novel platforms proposed by libertarians inside the PlatCom and out. Our Directional Principles subcommittee adopted 10 <http://libertarianmajority.net/directional-principles-subcommittee> criteria for evaluating Platform proposals, and decided to draft a platform of pure LP principles structured around the concepts of the Nolan Chart. Evidence from the PlatCom Chair's recent survey suggests <http://knowinghumans.net/2008/02/platform-survey-rebukes-silence-and.html> to me that this approach would be preferred by NatCon delegates over both the lengthy detailed style advocated by the Restoration Caucus and the brief contract-with-America style that had been advocated by many in the Reform Caucus. Brian Holtz (speaking only for himself) Chair, Directional Principles subcommittee 2008 LP Platform Committee P.S. Here is the part of the annotated draft that Outright would probably find most interesting: 1.3. Personal Relationships [This plank is about your freedom to use your body in non-aggressive consensual acts or relationships with other people. Our baseline is just all three sentences from the Principles section of the 2006 Sexuality and Gender plank. Outright Libertarians Chair Rob Power recommends calling out the four topics below, the coverage of which elsewhere in the 2006 Sexuality and Gender plank was not succinct enough to recycle. He points out that military service is not a "right". The word "discriminatory" is to avoid quibbles about e.g. unisex bathrooms.] Sexuality or gender should have no discriminatory impact on the rights treatment of individuals by government, such as in marriage, adoption, immigration, or military service. Consenting adults should be free to choose their own sexual practices and personal relationships. Government does not have legitimate authority to define or license personal relationships.
