Here's what we know so far about the working relationship between Josh Smith and the American Guard.
1/ Libertarian Party of Florida state party Secretary Brandi Hicks, who is also in charge of credentialing delegates from Florida and whose husband is a founding organizer of the American Guard, is a participating member of the Mises Caucus as recently as March: https://www.facebook.com/LibertarianAntiFascistCommittee/posts/525900174470880?comment_id=525904501137114
2/ Josh Smith has a mutually beneficial and personal relationship with high level white nationalist organizers in the American Guard, as demonstrated by the familiarity they displayed when he tagged them in to vouch for his character in March here: https://www.facebook.com/LibertarianAntiFascistCommittee/posts/527679514292946
3/ Despite months of denialism, blame shifting and gaslighting, it is now proven beyond doubt that whistleblowers were right and the American Guard is functioning as a platform for white nationalism and profiting off right populist desires for ethnostatist policies which place human lives at risk: https://www.facebook.com/LibertarianAntiFascistCommittee/photos/a.360535721007327.1073741828.359972687730297/569072496820314/?type=3&permPage=1
4/ Josh Smith and the American Guard, using the working relationship that was revealed by the item in #2, are collaborating in ways intended to cover up these associations and conceal them from the membership and continue gaslighting and portraying long time established and trusted party member whistleblowers as fringe elements with an agenda: https://www.facebook.com/LibertarianAntiFascistCommittee/photos/a.360535721007327.1073741828.359972687730297/569179990142898/?type=3&permPage=1
With less than three weeks left in this campaign for Chair, it's imperative that ordinary members speak out. Thanks to Josh's cowardly #OptOut narrative, he has persuaded the people who need to see this the most to tune out of the dialogue and they have blocked or unfollowed front line voices like mine. That means only people like YOU can get this information back in front of them.
There's a slogan from the days of the AIDS epidemic that is relevant to antifascist work: "Pray for the dead, fight like hell for the living!!" This is a call to action.
The delegates to NOLA do not represent outsiders. They represent YOU, the membership. We have no way of knowing which ones are entryists, which ones are well-meaning libertarians who've been deceived, and which ones view modern right-wing populism as a "success" for paleolibertarianism - some of them can be persuaded, and others can't. The only way to persuade the ones who can be, is to cast as wide a net as possible.
PLEASE take a moment now to circulate this post. Speak out in topic threads where the topic comes up. Copy the links above and share them individually. Contact Susan Hogarth on the Credentials committee at [email protected] to request a list of your state's delegates and contact them directly. Stand up to bullies who want to silence this information!! If you become outnumbered on a thread, tag me or any member of the Audacious Caucus and we can bring additional evidence to back you up.
Totalitarian right populist governments of the past have frequently utilized minority voices as human shields in the beginning to deflect attention from their true policy intentions. If you are an ally of ethnic, gender, sexual, racial, and health minorities, don't let vocal minority supporters of right populist candidates dissuade you from unpacking what's going on. When these regimes gain power, they do not reward loyalty with their lives. They have historically murdered them once they were done using them.
The life you save may be your own!!
#antifash
#OptInToWin
#prayforthedead
#fightlikehellfortheliving
