Aloha!
It is right to engage with and denounce some of the offensive messaging from LPNH. I want to start by clarifying that I support proactively dealing with and distancing ourselves from irresponsible messaging.
However, the way in which it is being done is wrong; it undermines our credibility as libertarians — as the defenders of free speech.
This motion is aimed at widening the cracks of division, not healing them. It’s aimed at appeasing the radical, morally bankrupt, antifa-adjacent left wing, and not at improving the situation for the LP, nor finding common ground.
The timing and structure of this motion are atrocious.
We should be defending free speech and setting an example on how we engage with speech related issues, rather than capitulating to the compromised establishment plants. There are many better, more credible ways we could have addressed this issue. Instead it
was fodder for the partisans.
NH has some serious problems, and this censure does nothing to help them or address the issues. It’s just more gas on the fire.
I would have happily supported a more responsible censure motion, and the drama could have been avoided.
For these reasons, I abstain.
Austin Martin
R1