DECLARATION OF THE BETTER LIBERTARIAN PLATFORM
2009
PREAMBLE
- The Libertarian Party’s platform essentially would sustain and rebuild the freedom the Constitution gave us, but it would then do nothing to defend that Constitution or freedom from aggresors.
- The Libertarian Party doesn’t care when idividual freedom is infringed somewhere else in the world. Yet they complain of the U.S. infringing freedom across the world when we intervene, we are at a loss with this stance. Do they care about the freedom of hummanity or don’t they?
- The Libertarian Party does not represent what libertarianism was intended for, nor does it represent the broad libertarian movement at all, this needs to change.
- The Libertarian Party does not represent the Constitution, the Founders, the Republic, freedom, liberty, John Locke, Thomas Paine nor any other undeniable virtue or patriot. We draft this declaration in order to bring them back to true freedom, liberty, and justice.
THE DECLARATION
We, the Libertarian Defense Caucus, on this day of independence, in order to attain a more perfect liberty loving political party, make ourselves declarants of,
- LAISSEZ-FAIRE FREE MARKETS – The government has no right to infringe or constrain the economic freedom of law-abiding individuals nor the free market in this country.
- RUGGED INDIVIDUALISM – ‘Group rights’, or so they are called, do not exist because groups do not really exist, there are only individuals. Any legislation that is made to advance the ‘rights’ of a group only infringes the rights of individuals.
- LIBERVENTION – The central right of humanity is the right to resist an aggressor, even if you aren’t the victim.
- STATES RIGHTS – Each state can generally determine its course of action based on local values and unique needs.
- THE ARMED REPUBLIC - We advocate a constitutional federal republic that has very large, innovative, capable and robust military, homeland security, and intelligence forces at its disposal for defense, reactive and pro-active actions against threats to said republic’s citizens, its interests, or foreign allies and civilians. It also encourages its citizens to help in their overall individual defense. As the armed republic, she should be bound by the same moral rules as individuals, and the Constitution.
- VETERANS AFFAIRS – Vigilant advocacy relating to the medical, financial, legacy, and overall well-being of our military families and veterans.
We, the Libertarian Defense Caucus, hold these tenets to be true, factual, and self-evident towards freedom, the Constitution, and libertarianism/classical liberalism.
We, the Libertarian Defense Caucus, are made up libertarians and Libertarians, and we declare these tenets to be the Better Libertarian Platform for the Libertarian Party of the United States of America. It shall be the only platform we rcognize as Libertarian. All other platforms are recognized as “un-Libertarian”.
