From: Brian Holtz [brian@holtz.org]
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 8:36 AM
To: 'ptireland'
Cc: 'marketliberal@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: RE: Allow me represent you in the Ex-Com
One can not support an unprovoked war against a non-threatening nation who never attacked us and still honestly claim to be a libertarian in any sense of the word. 

Tyranny anwhere is a threat to liberty everywhere. When a murderous tyrant is pulled from his hole by a liberating army from the freest nation in human history, advocates of human liberty should rejoice.

Saddam's regime killed over a million people, invaded one neighbor, annexed another, fired ballistic missiles at two more,
and defied disarmament mandates. Unlike some Libertarians, I believe that the state's duty to oppose aggression shouldn't completely end at its borders, and that tyranny is too dangerous to only oppose with virgin white-gloved hands.

Some people who "honestly claim to be a libertarian" are in my opinion more aptly described as anarchists or propertarians or non-coerce-itarians.  My number one political value is human liberty, so I can very easily support a war of liberation and "still honestly claim to be a libertarian".

Is questioning the honesty of people's self-proclaimed commitment to human liberty going to be a significant part of your plan for growing the LP?

WHAT WILL YOU DO TO HELP GROW THE PARTY? Bring real libertarians back to the party and make things uncomfortable within the LP for “Republitarians” or others who want to change the direction and goals of the party until they become twisted like the Republican Liberty Caucus and to prevent these people from alienating anymore decent libertarians.

It's interesting that in answering a question about growing the LP, you talk about driving people out of it.  What specifically in the RLC's principles (http://www.rlc.org/?p=FAQ#4252) do you oppose?  Aside from term limits, I like pretty much everything on their list.

Brian Holtz
2004 Libertarian candidate for Congress, CA14 (Silicon Valley)
http://marketliberal.org