The Libertarian Defense Caucus

Do you intend to cleanse the LP of all but a tiny clique
centered around spurious sources like IBC and anti-war.com?

Fact-checking your statistics is an Alice-in-Wonderland
journey through America’s anti-war fringe, where far-left
meets far-right.

For example: your claims for US-caused civilian casualties
are sourced to this website:
http://www.iraqbodycount.org/

However, when I click unto their source, I get this:
http://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/

Clearly, this source is self-referential. They do claim a few sources,
in general terms (like “media reports ” or “Iraqi government sources”–with no links as to where specifically all these numbers
were published, or proof linking the statistics to reality.

In fact, the statistics of alleged US victims mostly include:
“suicide bombers” “roadside bombs” and “shot” by insurgents.
So attributing the cause of their misfortune to the US is disingenuous–akin to blaming US attacks on Hitler
as the cause of the holocaust.

In fact, this page reaches a dead-end, wherein they assert as
proof of their statistics, that they are from irregular and
non-transparent sources:
1 We join UNAMI’s call for the Iraqi Government to provide this information of important public interest regularly and in a transparent manner. UNAMI HR Report, 1 Jan – 31 Mar 2007. Page 3 Para 2. (PDF)

Yet another “source” is self-referential:
http://www.iraqbodycount.org/about/

Worse, this “source” admits they record all violent deaths,
simply assuming they are all the fault of the US.
And further assuming, our only alternative to present policies
is withdrawal to US soil, in the vain hope that oceans and a
pious attitude will protect our homeland while saving foreign
victims.

These series of self-referential websites read as if written by
grad students doing a parody of a superficially academic style.
Pompous enough to persuade the gullible, but without credibility
or substance.

I must protest at this sophomoric display.
This clearly diverges from your job description–
which is executive and not policy-devising.
You are not recruiting libertarians, but trying to re-make
the LP in your image. You are making dovish foreign policy
dovishness, and not the pledge or NAP, the litmus test for
libertarianism.

You pontifications are causing grave harm to the LP.
Thank goodness the LP has near-zero credibility,
or your editorials would cause grave harm to the country.

Civilization is engaged in a war with barbarism and religious zealotry.
This conflict will continue until we are vanquished or victorious,
and cannot be ended unilaterally by the partial surrender you advocate.

If you cannot restrain your actions to those within your legitimate
purview, you have sat too long in your position for any good you
have been doing. In that case, your best course is to depart,
and let us have done with you. In the name of Ayn Rand, go!

Kevin Bjornson
National Co – Chairman of The Libertarian Defense Caucus

Editor’s Note: The Libertarian Defense Caucus calls on LP News to allow this Caucus to publish a response to the Executive Director’s communique. His position is not representative of  those in the broader libertarian movement, nor even within The Libertarian Party, itself.