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First, let me say, thank you both for volunteering to represent the party. I have one question for Mr. Milnes and a request for Tiffany Briscoe.

Mr. Milnes,

You said in the debate that you were banned from IPR. What were the circumstances surrounding this ban?

Tiffany,

Can you provide a photo of yourself and/or prove that you are in fact above 35 years of age?

Whereas Todd Andrew Barnett and Neil Kiernan Stephenson appear to be unable to respond to each others' comments and/or posts without resorting to some sort of personal invective, I move that commenting and/or posting privileges be limited to only those members who have pledged to not engage in personal invective in any public comment and/or post whatever.

Anyone second?

Attention all members,

Updates to the Drupal software have made it nearly impossible for us to post a poll with approval voting, as our bylaws require. The controversy following our last convention was caused by this issue.

While attempting to fix the problem with the current election for the vacant at-large seat, our chair, Darryl, posted a series of polls which were also no structured in accordance with the bylaws. I got creative, and figured out a temporary fix, which is here: http://bostontea.us/node/889

Y'all,

This forum topic is an appeal under Article 9, Section h of the bylaws:

We were not prepared for 2010. We are not going to have any candidates under the Boston Tea Party banner on the ballot this year. This does not mean we cannot endorse candidates who agree with our platform but in terms of ballot access, we were finished before we even started for 2010.

This should not happen in 2012.

I made a mistake while setting up this year's convention. The party has always had a policy of closing membership during conventions. I forgot to disable new membership on Wednesday night when we opened the convention. I will be checking logs and polls to ensure that no votes by members who joined after 7PM on Wednesday are counted. I apologize to our new members, but this is something we have always done as a security measure, and I simply made a mistake and forgot to disable it among all the other responsibilities I had to do on Wednesday night.

The following resolutions were proposed and passed during the 2010 National Convention.

Darryl's "Independent Investigation" Resolution:

Whereas governments throughout history have used false flag attacks to justify wars of aggression, suppress civil liberties and increase the size, scope and power of government, and

The following are the proposals of the Program Committee:

1. End the Wars of Aggression: The U.S. should withdraw all forces from Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, South Korea, Germany, Japan, and all other occupied nations. Click to vote.

OPENING REMARKS

Douglass Gaking
Chair, Boston Tea Party National Committee