Libertarian Party hypocrisy and more

Independent Political Report has the general story, about the troublemaking antisemitism of the New Hampshire Libertarian Party on 9/11, which follows on other problems LP National had perceived with both the New Hampshire and Colorado state affiliates this spring, and the national executive board's failure to deal with them then on a defeated censure motion.

As IPR notes, that May censure effort was over New Hampshire endorsing Trump last year (hold on to that thought), as well as racism by both. Weirdly, it ignored  Colorado went well beyond NH. It didn't endorse Trump. It actually nominated Brainworm Bobby. (Or tried to, until LP Secretary Caryn Ann Harlos filed the correct Chase Oliver paperwork with the Colorado SoS. Harlos would go on to sue then-LP chair Angela McAwful.)

That leads us to where we are now, and the hypocrisy issue. 

The Libertarian Party's executive board pursued a motion of censure against the LP of New Hampshire, which appears even more overrun with Mises Mice than the party nationally. 

I'm going to do a long quote block:

Libertarian National Committee At-large Representative Sam Bohler introduced a motion Friday to censure the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire, citing what he described as antisemitic and homophobic content shared by the affiliate on social media. The motion also invited the party to self-disaffiliate. 

The motion, posted to the LNC’s public Business List on September 12, references a 9/11-themed image depicting a Hasidic Jewish man piloting a plane toward the Twin Towers with the caption “We did it,” as well as the use of slurs in other posts. Bohler argued that the affiliate’s messaging undermines the Libertarian Party’s commitment to individual dignity and damages its national reputation. 

“LPNH’s posts have devolved into low-effort rage bait,” Bohler wrote. “The audience those posts attract is toxic, and as some of them join the affiliate, it will only push it further into deplorable rhetoric.” 

Bohler’s resolution calls on the New Hampshire state party to disaffiliate and cease using the Libertarian Party name, allowing another group to petition for affiliation in its place. The full language of the motion reads: 

Whereas, the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire has published posts on social media depicting a Jewish person piloting a plane in connection to the September 11 attacks, and the use of homophobic slurs, which reasonable people would consider antisemitic and bigoted; 

Whereas, this behavior diminishes the Libertarian Party’s image on the national stage, damaging not only our reputation but also our ability to grow; 

Whereas, a previous attempt to censure was dismissed, yet the pattern of behavior has only escalated; 

Be it therefore resolved, that the Libertarian National Committee censures the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire for its despicable conduct, and invites them to disaffiliate and cease its use of the Libertarian Party name so as to allow another group more in line with the values of this Party to petition for affiliation. 

This marks the second censure attempt targeting the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire in 2025. The first, introduced in May by LNC Treasurer Bill Redpath, cited racist and antisemitic imagery as well as the affiliate’s endorsement of Republican Donald Trump during the 2024 election cycle. That motion was later combined with a separate proposal by Redpath to censure the Libertarian Party of Colorado and failed in a 5–10 vote, with LNC Chair Steven Nekhaila abstaining.

So, there you go. 

The hypocrisy? And irony and other things? 

On Sept. 19, LP National's Shitter account said:

Democrats, the party of censorship & speech police. pic.twitter.com/KhB4Km5gYr

— Libertarian Party (@LPNational) September 19, 2025

As I posted on IPR:

Speaking of censure and Twitter, I believe that, at least in the view of the New Hampshire LP, and of those of us who like to snark, LP National committed an own goal yesterday.

And followed with:

Beyond what I said above, why is LP National singling out Democrats among the two duopoly parties? Especially given the party’s semi-official Trump flirtation last year, and events of the past week, this is hugely hypocritical. 

To snark away, I’ll respectfully suggest Nekhaila and others read Matthew 7:3-5, then look at who all gets to run LP National’s Twitter.

There you go. 

Beyond that? The arrest of journalist Mario Guevara further refutes the LP National lies. 

I also said the first paragraph of my second self-quote to the LP National Tweet.

Will the LP board do anything about this? Doubtful.

Will anybody on the LP board, or allies, who are semi-regular habituants of IPR respond to me? 

An additional issue is that, while LPNH does not have ballot access (so much for that vaunted "Free State" push, even if NH has tough ballot access laws, eh?) Colorado DOES, as far as I can tell.

So, are they going to be able to get away with that, the Brainworm Bobby attempted nomination, even if it was cut off at the pass last year? If so, the LP national is even weaker than I thought, and the non-Mice should just jump ship to that new Liberal Party. (And, that should have been added to the censure motion of earlier this year in my opinion.)

McAwful wound up resigning, but still chairs (shock me) the Mises Caucus within the LNC. The "shock me" is both ways; I'm surprised the Mises Mice find her trustworthy enough to be its leader. Among reasons not to trust her? She claimed Oliver would be a Trump spoiler stealing votes from Democrats. Instead, the shitshow stole votes from the LP.

That said, I also told the LP National Shitter account that its current "bio" is inaccurate, given that, in the 2024 presidential election, it finished well behind the Green Party and is now the fourth-largest, not third-largest, US political party. 

And, people like Libertarian grandee Richard Winger of Ballot Access News, a commenter on that IPR post, as of earlier this year, still couldn't or wouldn't deal with this. 

Beyond all of the above, it remains kind of fun to back on the LP in general.