Platform Amendment 2017-11-21

 STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES

We, the members of the Libertarian Party of Orange County, challenge the cult of the omnipotent state and defend the rights of the individual. (No further changes)

I. STATE GOVERNMENT

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  10. Privacy – Just as it is true that the only economic situation consistent with individual rights is the free market, so is it also true that life, liberty and happiness cannot prosper under continuous state surveillance. The LPF LPOC opposes the use by the state of people or technology to monitor, account for, and keep Floridians under surveillance, especially where there is no evidence of criminal behavior, and thereby restrict the normal interaction of peoples. The LPF LPOC opposes passive, yet compulsory, surveillance legislation, such as laws that require individuals and businesses to report legal activities without evidence of criminal acts.  The first, second, fourth, fifth and fourteenth amendments to the Constitution are all threatened by unfettered state surveillance. The LPF LPOC supports an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to protect the right of privacy of all citizens, a right that is implied throughout that document, so as to defend individuals from state intrusion, to limit state intervention in private lives, and allow the free exercise of liberty away from the overbearing power of government.

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XIII. INCLUSION

The Libertarian Party of Orange County ratifies and hereby includes in this document the platform of the national Libertarian Party.

XIV XIII. OMISSIONS

Our silence about any other particular government law, regulation, ordinance, directive, edict, control, restriction, regulatory agency, activity, or objections should not be construed to imply approval.