David Nolan Launches New Political Organization


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By phillies
Posted on Thu Mar 19, 2009 at 9:42 PM EST

In a speech to the 2009 Liberty Forum in Nashua, New Hampshire, Libertarian Party founder David Nolan announced the formation of a new activist organization, the December 11 Group. It walks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, but it officially is not a new political party.

Quite.

According to Nolan, the December 11 Group is being formed to support activism and activists. It is not being founded to function as a debate club, a place for people to argue about libertarian philosophy, so-called. Those people are urged to relocate elsewhere. According to Nolan, the December 11 Group will proclaim liberty, will work with groups and individuals having common values, and may endorse political candidates who are consistently devoted to political liberty. Nalon has an article on his group up at the Nolan Chart http://www.nolanchart.com/article6098.html

Activists who heard Nolan's speech tell me that unlike many of his past appearances Nolan was pointedly critical of  [Continued below fold]

the Libertarian National Committee and its staff. On one hand, the December 11 Group web site says that the Libertarian National Party has adopted compromise laden rhetoric; it promises that the December 11 Group will seek to reverse this trend and restore the Libertarian Party. On the other hand, Libertarians who heard Nolan's speech seemed more inclined to believe that the December 11 Group would primarily be doing its own activist type work. That is, the December 11 Group is perhaps, except in name, going to be the new libertarian political party founded by David Nolan.

Your Editor spoke at length with David Nolan. The December 11 Group will apparently seek to occupy a political position someplace between the libertarian centrism of Liberty for America and the libertarian radicalism of the Libertarian Radical Caucus. Nolan emphasized to me the importance of concentrating our numbers in a few states, notably New Hampshire and some of the western mountain states such as Wyoming and Arizona, "where the spirit of liberty is still alive." Nolan is quoted as saying "We should focus our efforts over the next few years on protecting the lives and liberties of those people who do want it."

The December 11 Group is named in honor of the birthdates of George Mason, "the father of the Bill of Rights,", and the Libertarian Party. Organizers of the December 11 Group are said by the December 11 Group to be David Nolan, Jack Dean, and Less Antman.

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