Re: [Fwd: Re: [lpanarchists] Re: The old ZAP fallacy

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Jul 19, 2009, 10:25:57 PM7/19/09
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Shelley Thomson wrote:
> Hi, Mike:
>
> When did Jon say this? Was he on the platform committee?

Jon currently serves on the National LP's Paltform Committee.

> Well, Jon is a political organizer. Maybe he doesn't think ZAP is an
> organizing principle. I am surprised that he derided it however. How
> did people react?

Needless to say, Jon's catching some flak over this, and deservedly so.

The comment below the single line in quotes is an example of the flak
he's getting from certain quarters of the LP.
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> Mike wrote:
>> Quoth Jon Roland:
>>
>> "forget simplistic nonsense like ZAP or NIF or their relatives."
>>
>> That's pretty to do in the context of the Libertarian Party, seeing
>> they're the declared basis for the party's existence. No non-initiation
>> of force principle, no Libertarian Party. No Libertarian Party, no
>> platform committee from which to pontificate about how the principle is
>> "simplistic nonsense."

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