The Libertarian Party of New Hampshire issued a formal statement on Monday addressing a since-deleted comment made over the weekend, which suggested that the “murder” of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris would be considered heroic.
On Sunday morning, the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire reportedly posted on X, “Anyone who murders Kamala Harris would be an American hero.”
The post quickly gained attention both within and beyond New Hampshire and has since been covered by state, national, and international media. It also drew immediate criticism from Chris Ager, chair of the New Hampshire Republican Party, as well as from the Libertarian Party’s presidential ticket of Chase Oliver and Mike ter Maat, both of whom condemned the statement and denounced political violence in general.
“I 100% condemn the statement from LPNH regarding Kamala Harris. It is abhorrent and should never have been posted,” Oliver said on social media. “As Libertarians, we condemn the use of force, whether committed by governments, individuals, or other political entities. We are dedicated to the principle of non-aggression and to peaceful solutions to conflict. This is also something we pledge as part of attaining party membership. LPNH’s statement should rightfully be condemned by all people.”
The Libertarian Party of New Hampshire ultimately decided to delete the post, stating that it did so to comply with X’s terms of service. “We deleted a tweet because we don’t want to break the terms of this website we agreed to. It’s a shame that even on a ‘free speech’ website that libertarians cannot speak freely. Libertarians are truly the most oppressed minority,” the party remarked.
In its Monday statement, the party clarified that its members do not advocate for the assassination of a “tyrannical President,” acknowledging that such actions are illegal. Instead, it explained that the original post was intended to reflect how some libertarians might react to perceived authoritarian leadership. The party drew a parallel to reactions in left-leaning circles following assassination attempts on former President Donald Trump.
The party further argued that the concept of “political violence” is incoherent from a libertarian perspective, asserting that politicians do not possess special rights. Citing examples such as the Pine Tree Riot, the American Revolution, and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the party contended that celebrating historical acts of violence while rejecting contemporary self-defense is “logically inconsistent.”
Describing itself as “the vanguard of the Free State movement, willing to do what must be done,” the party also expressed a desire for progressives, socialists, and Democrats to feel uncomfortable living in New Hampshire. “While we won’t be initiating violence against them, it’s good when authoritarians feel unsafe or uncomfortable. Our posts are frequently explicitly intended to advance this cause.” the party added.
The statement concluded with a call for more supporters to relocate to New Hampshire, emphasizing that the party’s actions reflect the state’s culture and principles.
“Oh, I do love conspiracy theories that claim FBI agents are paid hourly, not salary, and raking in expense account money in the process. (“Twatwaffle” as Perry called it.)”
“Twatwaffle” would be dismissing that as mere conspiracy theory, when it has been repeatedly confirmed that the FBI hires hourly contractors, and gives out bonuses for the number of victims they manage harass; or claiming that the best way to respond to abuse and persecution by federal agents is anything other than putting a bullet between the God-damned sons of whores’ eyes; or pretending that there are any libertarians who support the ethno-fascist BLM movement and Fauci’s medical fascism; or lying about Cuomo “eviscerating” anyone but himself…
Let me tell you from experience exactly what happens when you try the “I will not answer questions without my lawyer present”. Surprise: they don’t let you call your lawyer. Instead they laugh at you, and as soon as your take your phone out, they drop-kick you in the stomach, smash your face into the pavement and begin jumping on your head, before tazing you. If someone films them doing it, they put them in handcuffs and if they’re extra lucky they’ll taze them as well.
Then they throw you in a cell for 24 to 72 hours without allowing you to contact your lawyer or anyone else, frequently without any food and only the bare minimum of water needed to survive. And when you try to sue them afterwards, they will first offer you a settlement in which they admit to no wrongdoing because their “actions were justified in the pursuit of their duty”; and if you don’t accept this settlement, then they will falsify and suppress evidence, produce false witnesses and lie under oath. You also don’t get your phone and/or camera which they confiscated back in one piece. So yeah, “twatwaffle” perfectly describes your comments.
“Also shock me that Crickets Guy would like someone who’s widely perceived to be racist.”
As the one hearing crickets living rent-free inside your head all day and night, doesn’t that make you “Crickets Guy”? That’s a rhetorical question, of course, it does.
Let’s be perfectly clear about this: I don’t “like” Jeremy Kaufman. I find him narrow-minded, tribalistic and sometimes downright rude, not to mention frequently a bit too much of a leftist. Take his – what I will charitably call – performance art on Tim Poole’s commie cast, for example.
But his handling of these jackboots was commendable. Sure, it was nowhere near as exemplary as that by Randall Weaver, David Ware, LaVoy Finicum or the Bundy family – God bless them – or by David Koresh or Vincent Leapheart – may their martyrdom weigh towards God’s forgiveness of their sinful lives – etc. But for someone who had just the other day so injudicious tweeted out the inconvenient truth regarding Harris and her hypothetical executioner, Kaufman did very well.
Also, a raging antisemite and russophobe like yourself is in no position to call anyone else racist. Let alone a “widely perceived”TM one.
“The alleged anti-statists should know that Twitter is a private actor not a government and therefore its terms of service are legit. Go to Gab or Truth Social if you don’t like that, jackwipe hypocrites”
Clearly they do, since they indicated that is the only reason they deleted the tweet: in order to comply with X’s Terms of Service, which they had voluntarily agreed to abide by. Otherwise they would not have deleted it.
Also, spoken like someone who has never bothered to read Truth Social’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. If you had, you would know that they are much worse even than communist platforms like say, MeWe or Mastodon. Truth Social is for all intents and purposes an three letter agency honey pot, jackwipe ignoramus.
Per both Jordan as author and Crickets Guy, let’s not forget that Elmo himself got his “ever-loving” in a crack with the Secret Service over HIS Tweet about Harris and assassination.
Oh, I do love conspiracy theories that claim FBI agents are paid hourly, not salary, and raking in expense account money in the process. (“Twatwaffle” as Perry called it.)
Also shock me that Crickets Guy would like someone who’s widely perceived to be racist.
As for the NH Libertarian Party? The alleged anti-statists should know that Twitter is a private actor not a government and therefore its terms of service are legit. Go to Gab or Truth Social if you don’t like that, jackwipe hypocrites.
There are several ways to act if the FBI shows up to your house because of things you posted on Twitter. The best way to respond is “I will not answer questions without my lawyer present.”
Some people decide to film the interaction and be an annoying twatwaffle.
https://x.com/jeremykauffman/status/1835782658091102608
Nice.
Well done, Kauffman.
You statists pretending to be libertarians but then turning around and commenting such anti-libertarian drivel under this article, in a pathetic attempt at virtue signalling your love of totalitarianism, could learn a thing or two from him, rash and untactful though he oftentimes is.
If this were about making authoritarians uncomfortable, the list of enemies of a libertarian community would include Republicans, MAGAs, and others. These people are all right-wing grifters.
I do not recall Michael Cloud saying that he supported Libertarians making Macho Flash statements. He was just describing it and I think he is the one who coined the term Libertarian Macho Flash.
Macho-Flash type activity can sometimes work if the topic in question is presented as a binary choice in the public’s mind, with some group of people being harmed by one of the outcomes. Things like burning draft cards and other visually shocking forms of draft resistance can work if the range of possibilities is presented as a binary between either continuing a military draft in which tens of thousands of people are killed or seriously injured, or ending the draft. It doesn’t work as well with things like the war on drugs, when the outcome is presented as either continuing the war on drugs and locking up offenders or making heroin legally available for sale to toddlers. There is too much middle ground in the public’s mind for macho flashing to work there, and it makes anyone who tries it appear to be a lunatic.
No matter how much lipstick anyone tries to put on this pig, it is still a pig.
I fail to see why anyone wants to try to defend or explain this action. The only way this “party” could’ve done this that would’ve been an improvement would’ve been to not post it.
Advocating voting against someone because of their positions is one thing. So is pointing out a candidate’s inability to speak clearly in public, or the increasingly visible effect of age on the other, or in this case others. But there is no place in any political party, public forum, or even a dinner table for this.
Where will the libertarian party be if a week or two weeks from now someone actually tries to do it? There are a lot of crazy people out there. Supporting even the hypothetical possibility of such an event is extremely bad and extremely dangerous.
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The idea, which was very poorly presented (as LPNH/Kaufman tends to do as they edgelord badly), was to mirror back a liberal talking point.
Because it was very poorly presented, it caused a brouhaha.
What they should have done to illustrate the point clearly:
Instead of:
“Anyone who murders Kamala Harris would be an American hero.”
State:
” ‘Anyone who murders
Donald TrumpKamala Harris would be an American hero.’ This will cause liberals to lose their minds, yet they do the exact same thing. What’s good for the goose… #hypocrisy”Presenting it that way, making it about the message and its presentation rather than the object of the action within the message, would have been far better, but it wouldn’t be as edgelord-y, so they didn’t do it that way–assuming they even thought of it in the first place.
Wrong, foolish and embarrassing.
I can imagine Cloud giving something like that a name. That type of tactic does not work, did not work and will not work. All it does is make people think you are crazy. That and sell lots of Cloud’s old books to the next generation of zombies being taught to shout freedom into the wind.
The people in New Hampshire pulling this garbage are crazy.
But it’s their party, and if they want to look like fools, then they can. They can stand there on their little soapbox and spout out how they were oppressed and mistreated. Will they still be shouting or will they be crying for their mothers when the feds perp walk them into jail. How many decades has the free state project been going on? How many states has it won?
A very telling sign in their statement is that they want to get rid of Democrats but there is no mention of Republicans. Did their masters from the mises wing of the party of trump write it? That whole game with Trump and Kennedy at their convention and overthrowing their own selected candidate to put Kennedy on the ballot says it all.
I can certainly commend Oliver for denouncing this. He should sue to have his name taken off the New Hampshire ballot. That state party does not represent good and ethical values. Cuomo eviscerated them this evening. He had it correct.
There’s a term for this which was coined back in the early 1990’s, or 1980’s or maybe even 1970’s called the Libertarian Macho Flash. I think that the term was coined by Michael Cloud. This is where a libertarian makes a provocative and radical statement in order to draw attention to themselves.
I first heard the term Libertarian Macho Flash in the 1990’s, which is when I got involved. So Libertarians making Macho Flash statements is nothing new. There have been libertarians who have made Macho Flash statements for as long as libertarians have been around.
I am not saying that I think it was a good idea to post what is mentioned in the article above, because I do not, I am just saying that Libertarian Macho Flash is not new and I heard just as bad and worse many years ago.
One should find it rather interesting that they only want “progressives, socialists, and Democrats to feel uncomfortable living in New Hampshire” while openly applauding Republican candidates for public office.
They say “You can be your uninhibited libertarian self”, yet they criticize and condemn any libertarians who say “Black Lives Matter!” or make medical choices they don’t like.
i love those wacky fellas at the LPNH. there the only libertarians i can stand
There is a legitimate case to be made for such a statement regarding every uniparty presidential nominee going back decades, if not centuries. That does not make it a judicious thing to say during the run-up to an election that has already seen multiple assassination attempts made against the uniparty’s other presidential nominee. Sometimes it is prudent to keep “inconvenient truths” – to use Gore’s own words – to oneself, especially in the current (national) socialist climate – no pun intended – of “words are violence” and “thoughts are crimes”. But then, it would not be fair to expect such insight from the “Libertarian” Party of a state which passed over the classic “(Give me) Liberty or (give me) Death!” in favor of the far less mellifluous “Live Free or Die!”…
Thank you for investigating. Please note that it was not taken down until right about the time of the incident at Trump’s golf course. That would indicate to me that they might not have taken it down to avoid a violation, but rather the more likely reason is that they heard about the attempt on Trump’s life that the Secret Service prevented, shit their collective pants, and took it down before immediately calling their attorneys and looking for their passports…
Fools. Complete fools!