The LNC then considered a motion: "The LNC shall suspend the membership on the LNC of Angela Keaton for breaching confidentiality in executive session as denoted in Article 8 Section 5 of Bylaws, in the event she does not apologize with 10 days and commit to never repeating the offense again".  The motion was then withdrawn, pending a report by Mary Ruwart on a conversation to be staged between her and Angela Keaton.

We are now well more than ten days beyond the end of the last LNC meeting.  If the LNC were a serious body whose members were competent to sit upon it, then, having spent a considerable part of its face to face meeting on this topic, a reasonable man would expected that the LNC would now be proceeding to vote on the "suspension" (a term of art effectively meaning 'expulsion') of Angela Keaton.

Angela is busy with a serious anti-war group, namely Anti-War.com. Given her many services to our Libertarian movement, it is only just that her fellow libertarians rise and speak to her defense.

I shall now do so.

The summary of my case is simple.

In judging whether it would be just to expel Keaton, it is fair to compare Keaton's peccadilos with acts of other members of the LNC.  None of those other members suffered political retribution from the LNC, even though in the case I will discuss those acts were known to the LNC while the person was still a LNC member.  When the more serious deed is judged to merit no retribution, the less serious deed should also not be subject to retribution. It is unjust for Keaton to suffer retribution for her acts.

Mindful that this statement is being circulated via the internet, and mindful that that tolerance for long posts is let us say limited, I shall limit my discussion to a single former member of the LNC.  The LNC Member in question failed to disclose a conflict of interest, namely that he had established a 'duty to others' to frustrate a core objective of our party, namely to build "a political party that elects Libertarians to political office;".

The LNC Conflict of Interest policy is seen below the fold: