Brief Platform Committee / National Convention Update
In a few hours, the second “sitting” of the 2020 Libertarian National Convention will gavel to order, both in Orlando and online.
The party’s platform committee had its final meeting yesterday. It was a bit of a technical clusterfuck insofar as it was similarly “hybrid” (some participants in a room in Orlando, some online), and fortunately nothing got done.
I say “fortunately” because the last couple of meetings have been all about attempts to get the committee to undo its own previously passed proposals based on “OH MY GOD, NO, WE CAN”T BE QUITE THAT LIBERTARIAN, SOMEONE MIGHT GET THE VAPORS!” responses to the member survey on those proposals.
That undoing actually got accomplished with respect to a proposal on doing away with government law enforcement. As of yesterday, I’ve signed onto a minority report on that proposal, the entire content of which is: