A political summit and rally planned for Memorial Day weekend in Houston was canceled by the venue due to the involvement of pro-immigration organizations, according to a recent press release from the Liberal Party USA, which organized the event.
Originally announced by the party in January as the “New Frontier Summit” before being rebranded to include “Resist the Regime,” the event was scheduled for four days beginning on Saturday, May 24, at the Houston Airport Marriott. It was intended as a strategy seminar featuring nonpartisan advocacy training and panel discussions on topics such as immigration enforcement, gay and transgender rights, criminal justice reform, and free speech. A public rally focused on immigration policy and deportations was also later added.
The party claims in the release that the hotel canceled the summit this past Friday, on April 4, after it was confirmed that “pro-immigration organization partners and advocates” were invited.
“It’s demoralizing that businesses fearing retaliation from the Trump administration would cancel us because we’re fighting for justice and democracy in America,” Trisha Butler, Chair of the Liberal Party USA stated. “Every person’s free speech matters. The 1st Amendment is under attack by this regime and we hoped that businesses like the Marriott would join We the People in standing against the Constitutional violations and human rights abuses instead of being complicit.”
The summit was also expected to feature a press conference at the hotel, followed by the distribution of “Know Your Rights” pamphlets to travelers at George Bush Intercontinental Airport. The party specifically identified the location as a “processing center before people are deported” before reiterating its opposition to recent federal immigration practices.
The party stated it anticipated more than 500 activists would gather at the hotel before being transported to off-site locations for evening rush hour rallies and protests. Groups reportedly invited to participate included Project Liberal PAC, the Texas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, the League of United Latin American Citizens, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Al Awda Houston, and the Islamic Society of Greater Houston.
As of this article, the Liberal Party USA has not announced a new venue or date for the event.
Thank you for your reply. Presumably, this means that the longer form submission of my currently most recently approved comment (not counting this one if it gets approved) was indeed rejected. I still don’t know whether any additional parts of it would have been ok, but I’m fairly sure no part of it was aimed at any particular individual, so it must have been something else – I don’t and can’t know how little or how much.
I may participate here again in the future after you’ve clarified whether or not my entire viewpoint is too outside the range of whatever is acceptable here to even attempt to word in more acceptable ways, as well as how to find out how much of any given comment you found unacceptable and if or when possible restore the rest with ellipses to indicate which parts need work.
For now, my apologies for inadvertently exceeding civility limits or wording things in ways too prone to being misinterpreted as such when no such intent existed. I’m sure I won’t be missed too much, if at all, by anyone. Indeed, my absence might be far more welcome.
In parting: consider that, even when I may come off as harshly critical of libertarians and liberals, it’s only because I share the rough approximate directional stated end goals of libertarians and classical liberals and wish that they didn’t continuously sabotage themselves in their unwise choice of allies and other details. But, wishes can’t be fishes.
“So long, and thanks for all the fish”
– Douglas Adams
In most general terms, one of the biggest problems libertarians currently face is unwisely kowtowing to the left in a misguided attempt to forge an impossible alliance, and in the process alienating far more numerous allies to their populist/antiglobalist/localist right flank. With this new liberal party, the situation is further worsened by their name, and the historical record from other countries indicates that what starts out as a sincere effort to reincarnate a classical liberal party often turns into yet another modern leftist party.
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My comment that Tricia Butler is married and has children was in response to a now deleted comment which insisted otherwise. I wouldn’t normally have posted that otherwise, and it seems sort of weird/creepy without that context.
To address another point that commenter made, languages evolve over time, and Ms. is now widely recognized as a proper form of address in the English language for the last several decades now. There was a time when women’s roles in social and public life were determined by whether they were married, but the language has evolved with the culture.
Women can now be, among many other things, politicians or political candidates regardless of their personal lives, and it would be an unnecessary waste of time to have to look up or ask all women whether they are married for the purpose of knowing how to address them properly outside of contexts where that would be important (potential romantic interest, discussions directly pertaining to marriage and family life, etc).
Mr. Phillies, I don’t see any way to hit reply to an individual comment on this site. Instead, one has to scroll to the bottom of the discussion and address the discussion as a whole, an individual comment or more than one by verbal reference. If I missed the automatic reply option, where is it? If I didn’t, I’m wondering how it’s possible for the deletion of a comment to automatically delete a response to that comment.
That being said, as I told Jordan previously on another discussion, I have no objection to whatever level of moderation your site chooses, including none, but only ask that you apply your standards equally to all participants in the discussion.
Thus far, it seems to me that your enforcement is more fair in that under Jordan’s application other participants did not have their comments premoderated, but I did, as Jordan explained because I have to use a virtual privacy service which does not make my IP address consistent between comments. As a result, it was a slightly tilted “playing field.” Thus, it’s more fair if now going forward the premoderation standard is applied equally to everyone.
It’s not optional for me to use such VPNs, as my country has experienced regime change in my adult lifetime and might again, and there is no way to predict which public statements might lead to what consequences at some unknown future point.
That may not seem to be the case in your country since you have not had a revolution in nearly 250 years. I’d caution you all that is no guarantee of what may happen going forward or when, but I doubt many people in your country would take such advice very seriously unless and until they experience such things first hand. That isn’t a prediction that the USA will experience military coups of the sort we’ve had, but it is not necessarily as unlikely as it may seem because it’s been so long since you had one.
Premoderation is now supposed to be uniform and applied to all. Software may disagree, but we will try our best.
We may not have gone far enough back in tempering discussion. Yet.
If you delete a comment, the responses to the comment sometimes also disappear. Software feature.
It appears I’m to be premoderated now as well?
I guess some of the comments finally exceeded the management’s tolerance, but why was Jose’s reply to SG among those? Iirc it was not in any way even borderline bad, although I can’t confirm that since it’s not here anymore.
There was also another reply to SG along the lines of – it’s become fashionable for Jew-haters to hide behind Antizionism. Is that not a fact? How is that possibly outside the limits of civility to point out? Again iirc the comment in question didn’t say that SG or anyone else here is a Jew-hater, but was only a general statement.
What is Socratic gadfly’s definition of Zionism and Antizionism?
Shock me that “crickets” here is name-calling.
Oh, for both that person and Jose Can You Not See? Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism. Repeated lies on your part doesn’t change that. And yes, you’re lying.
That link (under pictures) indicates that Mrs. Butler was a Mises Caucus candidate for something – I’m guessing libertarian national committee – at some point. I’m curious as to how that happened or what caused her to change her views.
https://lpedia.mywikis.net/wiki/Trisha_Butler
She is married and has four children
Nothing personal against Ms. Butler, but being friends with terrorists, Marxists, fascists, Tesla burning thugs, etc is not classical liberalism, and has nothing to do with classical liberalism. We are not interested in being their new frontier…
Well geez… can this board get any less friendly?
“Immigration is not inherently good or bad. ”
Illegal immigration is inherently criminal and thus bad. Unvetted immigration is inherently bad. Importing criminals, terrorists, human traffickers, the mentally ill, welfare parasites, doomsday cults, gangs, cartels, spies and agents of hostile regimes, etc – all inherently very bad.
I’m looking forward to them announcing representatives from the DPRK, Taliban, Hamas, and other such wonderful “anyone but Trump” folks being added to the schedule.
https://handsoff2025.com/about
That’s malignant progressive Fabian Marxism, not classical liberalism, for anyone who had the two confused.
“ @ Andrew Giusto so concerned with totalitarianism abroad, what about the authoritarian regime in power in your own country?”
Trisha I do not really know what you are talking about when Trump does badly we don’t like Trump and we put out press releases about it. We have a plan ready called the Austin Brigade if things ever get extra bad with Trump. Also I think with the first part you are talking about our Russia policy? And if so I would say that having another Napoleon actively invading a sovereign nation is at least a little more important then a below average president.
“Orange man bad! We are happy to team up with Antifa, the Islamic State, the Chinese Communist Party, Iran, Tren De Aragua, MS 13, NAMBLA, Mexican drug cartels, and anyone and everyone else, just so long as they agree he is bad!”
This is classical liberalism? I think not.
“I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords”
– Trisha Butler (I think)
Is that Ms. Butler 12 seconds into that first video?
In a shocking twist, the new frontier turned out to be the USA, and “they came in peace.”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g3vPyhX1Pps
Curious,
More like Mars Attacks!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XYj-jqJLRQg
Anyone who naively bought the notion that these are “classical” liberals should really read Trisha Butler’s comment and think about what she said and its rather obvious implications.
A new political party might be well advised to offer concrete reforms, rather than reactionary activism.
I’m not entirely sure why but I feel obliged to respond to a few things here, namely the propagandized far right regurgitation.
@ Nuña Our Comms Director is a beautiful human and exceptionally eloquent, so your criticism is lazy and not well taken.
@ José C We did know exactly what we were doing, coalescing with anyone bold enough to not kneel to the Mad King and his fascist regime.
@ Andrew Giusto so concerned with totalitarianism abroad, what about the authoritarian regime in power in your own country?
Now, to address the propaganda.
The US influx of immigrants is by NO means an invasion and/or occupation. It’s just not, that is far right vomit with no basis in reality. None.
We loudly reject the baseless accusation that the Liberal Party is antisemitic or supports “Jewish hate.” That could not be further from the truth.
Supporting the rights of all humans, to include Palestinians, does not intrinsically mean to hate anyone. It is also the epitome of liberal fundaments.
The Liberal Party condemns Americans’ proclivity to take short cuts and believe false media rhetoric, which is what most of these comments embody.
We encourage free thinking and independent research rather than wholesale, feckless, partisan cultism.
The nomination of Laura Ebke was no fluke, she is a saint and a voice of reason within the LPUSA. I personally consider her a mentor and sincere friend.
The Liberal Party USA is no monolith, we have leaders and mentors, but autonomy is encouraged and cultivated. There are plenty of states to affiliate, if you are a liberal and want a say in our vision and trajectory feel free to join, build, and incorporate with us.
Finally, @Curious the New Frontier theme was amazing and our staff worked tirelessly on the branding and planning. Unfortunately, when we chose that theme things were very different. The event was reformatted to respond to the moment. While the right wingers in these comments are propagating regime false narratives, there is a huge and imperative resistance rising up, as the Hands-Off rallies this past weekend evidence.
As JWE mentioned, we do not have a date for a future event. One thing we are considering and I am supporting, are state centric grassroots events to drive membership, fundraising, and most importantly resistance to the authoritarian Trump regime. Stay tuned!
Trisha
Immigration is not inherently good or bad. Some immigration is good and some is bad, and some falls somewhere in between. It strikes me as very naive to believe that all immigration is always good, and I see no evidence that the classical liberals of the past believed this to be the case.
I’m going with the “couldn’t afford the venue” theory. Of course they would never admit this.
Perhaps they went to the wrong film lot. They were shooting for Star Trek and ended up at Star Wars. Or something like that.
How and when did the proposed event shift away from its original focus on colonizing new frontiers in outer space?
This is hilarious. Even Houston doesn’t want these losers. That, or it’s cover for not being able to afford the venue and/or lack of interest.
Liberal Party, be careful which organizations participate in your events. Stop Jewish hate.
They are really a rather reactionary party the Liberals will do whatever the Libertarians aren’t doing. If you want a visionary alternative look at the Unity Party of America.