BlueCarp: My last speech as State Chair to the LPCO

LIBERTARIAN Party OF COLORADO

2011 ANNUAL CONVENTION

May 21, 2011

DoubleTree Hotel Denver - North

Westminster, CO

State Chair Final Address

Chair, David K. Williams, Jr.

The Libertarian Party of Colorado faces unprecedented opportunity to hand out to new members and scatter the content of liberty.

More and more Americans understand the bankruptcy of the two-party duopoly and are looking for an alternative. Unfortunately, given the nature of the two-party organization and plurality voting, we face many of the same barriers to growth we have faced since the inception of the Libertarian Party.

Most Americans, including Coloradans, are hard-wired to suppose that the sole possible electoral process includes two-major parties and plurality voting. It does not. Our voting system is neither in the Constitution nor was it handed down from God to Moses on the top of Mount Sinai. It can be changed by simple legislation. Thanks to the untiring efforts of Frank Atwood, I have been converted to the Church of Approval Voting. Likewise, the LPCO adopted support of Approval Voting at last year`s convention.

I firmly believe that no peaceful substantive political change is possible under our current electoral process. The Democrats and Republicans have traded power at the national level since the Civil War. Since that time, the union government has done aught but grow - while individual liberty has shrunk. Neither wing of the duopoly has any inducement to convert the process.

I think a bit of Americans are starting to see that a shift in action is essential before any alteration in substance can occur. It is our job to get that number grow. To that end, I have done my best to open the substance of limited government and individual liberty throughout the state - in gain to introducing the mind of alternative voting methods to those that did not make such a matter even existed.

My doctrine is that if there is an invitation to speak, I will make it. I`ll talk before a group Republicans, Democrats, Communists, Hare Krishnas or the American Society of Optometrists. I refuse to go down an opportunity to open the message. During my condition as State Chair, I have been a backup radio host on multiple occasions in Greeley and in Denver. I have spoken at numerous Tea Party events - always emphasizing that real liberty means that the government stays out of all voluntary activities between consenting adults, including drugs and sex. I have been quoted in various publications. I have written hundreds of blog posts. I have been alive at the commonwealth legislature and in state politics.

I always try to reason in favour of liberty, and not against the state. I always try to get a positive content of freedom, and not an angry message of destruction. We spend too much time arguing with each other or patting ourselves on the stake in a little grouping of the converted when we should be spending our time and energy proselytizing to those that do not yet see that, indeed, freedom is the answer - regardless of the question.

I can but trust that I have been a decent messenger for autonomy and the Libertarian Party of Colorado.

Thank you for the chance to serve.