Nobody wants you in their party, yet we all want you to know Rachel was the smart one.* Ron single supporter

Not true, over 1/2 of the Democrat progressive party chairpersons supported not counting a couple of Democrat Congressman " Madame Justice" in the 06 election along with the majority of the Black community movement. Of course she is smart and a constitutional civil rights fighter who never backs away from the evil dark side of Republican politics and is big time vote getter in her campaigns......Libertarians could have learn something from her instead of trying to make her a poster child of hate and self-interest ego mickey mouse politics........ Below is your lesson assignment for today

CHAPTER XII – LIBERTARIAN DIRTY TRICKS

My husband used to be a member of the Libertarian party and received their newspaper for awhile. I always read it. I read some of the ideas and agree with some and disagree with others. But as I read, it struck me that since the party was founded during the 1970s, it has never grown. Ever wondered why?

The thought had occurred to me that the party was not designed to grow. It was not designed to be a success. It was put in place and left to be controlled by the major political parties. Oh, one candidate succeeds to office once in a while and there are true believers in the party. It is not these types of whom I speak.

In reviewing the Libertarian paper, it is filled with comments made by what I term “neutralizers.” They purport to spend endless time fighting over who is and is not a Libertarian or whether this or that idea is really Libertarian enough. The purpose of this party is to provide a haven for the “crazies,” that is those people who may have ideas that do not fit within the structure of the two major political parties. By having the Libertarian Party around, it provides a place for these people to go. And it keeps them tied up in one place so they cannot interfere with the real doings of the major parties. The task of the neutralizers is to keep these people fighting amongst themselves so that they will never be able to join forces and mount a really successful effort. And that is why the national Libertarian Party will never succeed.

Unfortunately, we have our very own set of neutralizers here in North Carolina. My first involvement with the NC Libertarians was again during the junior partner’s campaign. During my own campaign, I came in contact with the then Executive Director, Sean Haugh. At one point, he let the cat out of the bag and remarked that he and Art Pope had founded the Libertarian Party and that he and Art and Justice Martin had all gone to school together.

Suddenly, it all made sense. Art Pope had created the NC Libertarian Party. They were never to pose a threat to the real political parties. They were there only to do enough damage to the Democrats so that the NC GOP could win. They were allied with the NC GOP.

During my 2006 campaign, members of the NC Libertarian Party began sending me hate mail. One individual, Fisher Caudle, accused me of being in the KKK. Another who threatened to sue me for sending SPAM was Eric Smith, who sits on the Libertarian Party Executive Council. As I have explained, political email is not SPAM. Another individual who likewise sits on their board did things as well.

My campaign advisor complained to Sean Haugh about this treatment and suggested that he have talk with such individuals. In response, Sean Haugh went on about how unqualified I was, and how he knew Art Pope and Justice Martin and what fine individuals they were. He further supported Fisher Caudle and Eric Smith.

At the time, I supported the efforts of the NC Libertarian Party to regain ballot access. Our ballot access law was too draconian. All parties should be allowed on the ballot, regardless of their views. In fact, I don’t like party labels and believe that if candidates had to run non-partisan races, it would force candidates to do a better job of getting their message out and it would force the voters to actually learn about a candidate and vote for him or her rather than voting only for a party label.

After the attacks started coming in from the Libertarians, I decided to pull my support. And who can blame me? As my husband told this story: a man walks down the street and is robbed. The following day, he walks down the same street and sees a homeless man who asks for a donation. While talking to the homeless man, the robbery victim sees the man who had robbed him the previous day. The homeless man says “he is my partner.” Would you donate to the homeless man knowing that his partner had robbed you the previous day?

I don’t think you would, if you are like most people. And neither would I. The neutralizers had never met me and I doubt that they had ever visited my website or read what I had wrote. Had they done so, they may have had a very different view. However, their aim was not to enlighten themselves about me. It was to impede my progress and hence their attacks. Given the attitude of the neutralizers to attack me, I decided to have no more to do with the NC Libertarians.

As a side note, the Libertarians had an individual who became state chairman. He must have received similar treatment by the neutralizers as very soon after that, he resigned. Sean Haugh left his position and went to work for Mike Munger, a Libertarian candidate for governor who went to Art Pope to get his blessing to run. Why would he do that if the NC Libertarian Party is independent of the NC GOP?

As I stated, the Libertarian Party has some good ideas, some of which are espoused on truly Libertarian websites like www.lewrockwell.com. I have found some of the commentators there to be insightful, like Congressman Ron Paul of Texas, law Professor Butler Shaffer, or Professor William Anderson, who has tirelessly written on the Duke non-rape case. That is where the true idea of liberty lies, not with the NC Libertarian Party.

RACHEL HUNTER

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