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Alan the Cowardly Lafon
02 May 2005
To: Mike Blessing <gunssavelives@comcast.net>
From: Richard Obergfell
Subject: IRAQ LETTER HOOPLA
Date: Sun May 01 19:58:47 2005
Richard Obergfell wrote:
MIKE:
I got the following email from our regional rep George Squyres:
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Joe Seehusen has forwarded to me a feedback form that was included with a recent house letter from Alan Lafon. Included with Mr. Lafon's correspondance was a copy of a Letter to the Editor written by Mike Blessing. Mr. Blessing identified himself as Chair of the Bernallilo County LP, and his position was rather strident.
Mr. Lafon has refused to renew his LP membership saying he will not support a party which has people such as Mike Blessing in a leadership position.
I am unsure as to what to do with this, as if there is action to be taken it is a New Mexico matter and not an LNC matter. There is reasoned disagreement in the party as to the position on the Iraq war. If Mr. Blessing wishes to publish his opinion he is certainly entitled to do so. The only question in my mind is whether or not it is appropriate for Mr. Blessing to put out a position as strident as he has and represent it as the position of the LP.
But this is a matter for the NMLP to address. Your comments would be appreciated.
Thanks,
George Squyres---------------------------------------------------------------
What letter to what editor do you think this is about, and could I get a copy. I don't know who this Alan Lafon is, he is not an LPNM caucus member and he is not in my old list of LP NM registered voters.
As you know, my position on the war, and all non-defensive wars, is also fairly strident, but before I respond to George I would like to at least see what this is all about.
Thanks,
RAO
When I first saw this message from Mr. Obergfell, I was somewhat in the dark.I had no idea who Alan Lafon is, where he lives, which letter it was that honked him off so, to which publication, when it was printed, and so on. So I did a little digging.I ran some Google searches for "Alan Lafon" --"Alan Lafon""Alan Lafon" + "Libertarian""Alan Lafon" + "New Mexico"In all of these searches, the "Alan Lafon" that pops up the most is some Green Party type in Tennessee associated with the "U.S. Green Building Council." So I looked in the Albuquerque-area White Pages as a last resort, and struck paydirt with a phone call.The "Alan Lafon" in question (Alan L. Lafon) can be contacted at 438 Richmond Pl NEAlbuquerque, NM 87106505-268-8652I have no problem publishing his personal information here, since I routinely post several of my points-of-contact in my sig-file (below).I called Master Lafon and we talked for about two to three minutes. I asked him which letter I had written it was that got him so steamed up, and he said it was one comparing George Bush to Hitler and Saddam Hussein. While I never wrote a letter comparing Bush to Hitler, I did write one back in March / April 2004 comparing Bush to Hussein. And YES, it was printed in the Albuquerque Journal. What I said there was that Bush should pick Hussein as a running mate, as Cheney's possible refusal of a second term for health reasons was one of the big questions in the news at the time.Why did Master Lafon wait a year before making a stink over my letter?(He was also pissed that I didn't call him earlier in the day - it was 9:30PM when I called tonight - 10 minutes after opening the message for the first time. If he's going to make this kind of stink over a letter written a year ago, then I make no apologies for keeping him up for a few minutes.)The point I made with that letter is that the true difference between Bush and Hussein isn't one of principle but of severity -- both see force and fraud through government power as a legitimate means to get what they want from other people.If this is too "strident" for Messrs. Squyres and Seehusen, then we'll just have to agree to disagree on this. After all, as Mr. Squyres said above:There is reasoned disagreement in the party as to the position on the Iraq war.The point I made in that letter was fully consistent with the Zero Aggression Principle. In fact, the ZAP was the very point of the letter. So I was "strident." So I have a sense of humor. Sue me.Apparently Master Lafon doesn't have what it takes to confront me directly about this. Also apparent is that Master Lafon doesn't have what it takes to understand the basic idea of libertarianism.Richard - I'm assuming that both Joe Seehusen and George Squyres are at least a little net-savvy. So why did they bug you with this instead of taking it directly to me? It's not like I'm in any kind of hiding here.
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Since Myspace isn't letting me repost this from my personal page to the political / public-consumption page at the old date, I'm reposting it with an update:
Squyres never responded to me, directly or indirectly, after I sent the above to him back on 2 May 2005. I suspect that this was part of the reason that he didn't show at the LPNM convention for the two years that he was the LPNM's regional representative on the Libertarian Party's National Committee (LNC) -- in 2005, he was supposed to be there in Los Lunas, but backed out last-minute because there was an event in his area that he needed to attend. At least that's what the story was. Tim Hagan, the alternate representative, attended in Squyres' stead, and did a good job. Then in 2006, Squyres was supposed to attend -- it was supposedly confirmed that he would be there -- but again, backed out at the last minute, saying that he had some kind of building deal that he couldn't leave town for come up at the last minute.
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