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Libertarian Party: Platform Committee Agenda- UPDATED WITH MINUTES

By Caryn Ann Harlos on March 23, 2016 5:43 PM

This IPR editor has obtained a couple of the Agenda for this weekend’s meeting of the Libertarian Party Platform Committee.

SCHEDULE
Libertarian Party Platform Committee
March 26-27th, 2016
Embassy Suites St Louis Airport, Bridgeton, MO
Saturday, March 26 – 9:00 am
Call to Order 9:00 am
Credentials check 5 minutes
Paperwork check 5 minutes
Review motions already adopted by email ballots 5 minutes
Adopt agenda 10 minutes
DRAFT AGENDA: (10 minutes per proposal)
1.0 Personal Liberty (Mattson) – clarify accepting consequences is an
obligation
1.0 Personal Liberty (Minet) – address adult/children distinctions
1.4 Abortion (Starr) – offer failed EB08 but with “across” instead of
“along”
1.4 Abortion (Minet) – alternative new language
New 1.6 Parental Rights plank (Starr) – move language from plank 3.5
Amend new 1.6 Parental Rights (Starr) – amend language moved from 3.5
1.6 Crime and Justice (Mattson) – general editorial cleanup
2.2 Environment (Minet) – delete 3rd sentence
2.2 Environment (Minet) – move second-to-last sentence
2.2 Environment (Minet) – delete final sentence
2.2 Environment (Minet) – add sentence regarding damages proven in court
2.2 Environment (Mattson) – new first sentence drafted by Shipley
2.2 Environment (Carling) – rewrite
2.3 Energy and Resources (Mattson) – delete
2.4 Government Finance & Spending (Starr) – split into multiple planks
2.4 Government Finance & Spending (Minet) – split into two separate
planks
2.5 Money & Financial Markets (Minet) – amend final sentence, return to
sound money
2.5 Money & Financial Markets (Minet/Carling) – rephrase “neither
profits nor losses are socialized”
New 2.7 Intellectual Monopoly and File Sharing (Fulner) – new plank
New 2.8 Public Employees (Starr) – new plank
2.10 Retirement & Income Security (Minet) – insert “even”
3.0 Securing Liberty (Fulner) – rewrite
3.4 Free Trade and Migration (Cholko) – remove first sentence & change
title
3.4 Free Trade and Migration (Cholko) – remove “unreasonably” from
second sentence
3.4 Free Trade and Migration (Cholko) – remove final sentence
3.6 Representative Government (overnight homework) – alternative for
first sentence
3.6 Representative Government (Starr) – add form of government language
4.0 Omissions – (multiple) – options for new plank: add “or even the
existence of government itself”,
Minet/Fockler alternative language
New 1.7 Death Penalty (Ahmad) – new plank
Statement of Principles (Minet)
Sunday, March 27
Call to Order 9:00 am
(Continuation of remaining agenda from Saturday)

3/29/16- The Minutes have been published.…

World’s Smallest Political Quiz Taken by More Than 23 Million People

By Caryn Ann Harlos on March 23, 2016 5:14 PM

512NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release March 23, 2016
For More Information, Please Contact:
Brett Bittner, 770-386-8372

WORLD’S SMALLEST POLITICAL QUIZ TAKEN BY MORE THAN 23 MILLION PEOPLE

INDIANAPOLIS – More than 23 million people have taken the World’s Smallest Political Quiz online as of mid-March 2016, according to Brett Bittner, Executive Director of The Advocates for Self-Government.…

Socialist Candidate Gets Hearing at Trump Event

By Jed Ziggler on March 23, 2016 1:48 AM

From Dan Fein at The Militant:

The organized disruption that forced the cancellation of Republican candidate Donald Trump’s campaign rally here March 11 “was a blow to free speech,” Socialist Workers Party candidate for president Alyson Kennedy said.…