Press Release
The ruling faction of the Missouri Libertarian Party
(MoLP) has called for a State Party convention to be held in
the Branson area this weekend.
I myself will not be attending. The last time I went to
a MoLP state meeting it was for the purpose of being
expelled from the MoLP by majority vote upon an illegal
bylaw aimed with myself as a target. The proceedings were
both immoral and illegal according to the supposed
principles of the Libertarian Party and the election laws of
the State of Missouri. A political party recognized by the
state is not a private organization allowed to deny or vote
away through majority rule the political voice of one region
of the state.
As unforgivable was the MoLP holding the illegal
expulsion proceedings in a restaurant managed at the time
(he was subsequently fired) by one of their creatures so
that the police could arrest me under guise of trespassing
because I insisted on videotaping the public meeting under
the Missouri Sunshine Law. While police power is loudly
decried in enforcing laws to uphold majority public morality
and sensibilities on the one hand, the MoLP has discovered
the uses of police power under color of law in stifling
political dissent while at the same time pretending to be
against a police state not under MoLP control.
As a result of monitoring the internal party traffic, it
is apparent that the same 10-15 people running things still
regard the MoLP as their personal "private property"
political party and have every intention of allowing nothing
more than a token dissent of not over 10 minutes time from
myself. Therefore, because I really cannot stand these
awful people in any case, and see no reason to risk another
false arrest at the hands of a patently morally bankrupt
MoLP establishment, I shall not attend the "official" MoLP
convention.
On behalf of the 32d Senatorial District and its
Libertarian party, and whatever statewide Real Libertarians
remain who are disgusted by the criminal and hypocritical
pretensions of the MoLP and National LP establishment, I
assert that whatever policies or pretensions arise from this
MoLP faction meeting have no hold, sway, or power over us.
We boycott this false convention. The only value in this
false convention is to ascertain how widespread is the moral
decay of the MoLP by counting, then remembering, the number
and names of phonies, liars, hypocrites, weaklings, and
criminals who attend.
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Martin Lindstedt, Newton County Libertarian Chairman 32d Senatorial District Chairman & State Committeeman Libertarian Candidate for U.S. Senate.
