Oregon LP battle: It ain’t over until it’s over

A year ago today IPR reported that the Galactic tribunal had finally resolved the quarter-century-plus struggle over the control of the Libertarian Party of Oregon, in the latest phases of which each of the two warring factions has spent hundreds of thousands of Federal Reserve Note “dollars” in legal costs, among other things. As we reported last year:

Former Galactic Emperor and former national LP judicial committee member (as well as CA LP judicial committee member and campaign manager of Badnarik for Congress 2006), Allen Hacker, current Chief Justice of the Galactic Tribunal, today issued an opinion upholding the ruling of the World Court of Planet Earth on the long standing controversy between factions of Oregon Libertarians.

In a truly Solomonic ruling, the court has decreed that all Oregon Libertarians should be sawed in half, with each half assigned to one of the two factions claiming to represent the party leadership. This ruling represents the penultimate step in the appeals process. No higher court remains for this case, which has dragged on for decades, to be appealed to. The court’s decision, which can not be appealed, will be carried out next April 1st.

However, in an unexpected twist, the court’s sentence may not be carried out today after all. In a late breaking and completely unexpected move, a tribunal which claims to be the highest court in a parallel universe has intervened, claiming that it actually has jurisdiction over Oregon. Coincidentally, the Supreme Justice of the parallel universe’s alleged highest court is none other than LNC Judicial Committee Chair M Carling. That guy sure does get around, and speaks foreign languages with no accent whatsoever.

Since there is absolutely zero precedent for this sort of thing with anyone claiming to challenge the universally accepted decisions of our Galactic Tribunal, we don’t yet know how this will be resolved, much less when. We tried to get some kind of time frame from the representative and Supreme Justice of the parallel universe court, but he said their universe doesn’t really have anything exactly like what we call “time” in our universe, so the question is very hard to answer.

IPR will keep everyone informed of any further developments in this developing situation. We are departing from our usual non-editorial policy to say that hopefully it won’t involve our two universes destroying each other.

In the meantime, back on planet Earth, third rock from the Sun, the LP of Oregon group which is recognized by the Oregon Secretary of State and LPHQ will be meeting the weekend of April 25th in convention. Disaffiliation from the national LP is on the agenda, and rumored to have overwhelming support. Representatives of the parallel universe are also reported to have a petition to the LNC Judicial Comittee regarding something to do with Oregon circulating on Facebook; we are still trying to nail down the exact details and will keep everyone updated if and when we figure anything out.