Sonja Feintech – LPO Public Policy Board Secretary
Libertarian Party of Oregon Public Policy Board
541-231-4293
sonja.feintech@lporegon.org
Libertarian Party of Oregon Public Policy Board Resolution 23-02 Concerning the Rage Against the War Machine Anti-War Rally
Oregon: The Libertarian Party of Oregon Public Policy Board announced Resolution 23-02 Concerning the Rage Against the War Machine Anti-War Rally, a resolution voted on by the elected Public Policy Board.
This resolution declares:
Further escalation in Ukraine risks the possibility of an all-out war between NATO, Russia, and Russia’s allies. Furthermore, The Libertarian Party of Oregon Public Policy Board gives Will Hobson permission to act as representative of the Libertarian Party of Oregon in attending the Rage Against the War Machine Rally
“The Libertarian Party of Oregon is strongly opposed to this war,” says Sonja Feintech, Public Policy Board Secretary at the Libertarian Party of Oregon. “Our government is engaging in an undeclared war, illegally bypassing our congress and burdening citizens with unrepresented taxation.”
This resolution includes;
Not One More Penny for War in Ukraine
Negotiate Peace
Stop the War Inflation
Disband NATO
Global Nuclear De-Escalation
Slash the Pentagon Budget
Abolish the CIA and Military-Industrial Deep State
Abolish War and Empire
Restore Civil Liberties
Free Julian Assange
Pardon Edward Snowden
IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED The Libertarian Party of Oregon Public Policy Board supports the Rage Against the War Machine Protest being jointly held by the National Libertarian Party and The People’s Party being held on Feb 19 2023, and joins them in their demands.
This Resolution will be available starting 2/20/23, for public dissemination. For more
About the Libertarian Public Policy Board: The Public Policy Board is a newly created body of the Libertarian Party of Oregon and acts as the public outreach and policy creator branch of the Oregon Libertarian Party. Article 6, Section 2 of the Libertarian Party of Oregon’s Bylaws allows the Public Policy Board to, by three quarters vote, adopt positions on specific matters of public policy.
Sonja Feintech – LPO Public Policy Board Secretary
Libertarian Party of Oregon Public Policy Board
541-231-4293
sonja.feintech@lporegon.org
Libertarian Party of Oregon Public Policy Board Resolution 23-01 Concerning Childhood Sex Changes and Transitional Hormone Therapy
The Libertarian Party Platform Planks 1.1, 1.5 and 2.13 encompass Parental Rights, Self-Ownership and Healthcare, adopted in 2016 as reaffirmed in Convention, May 2022.
Oregon: The Libertarian Party of Oregon Public Policy Board announced Resolution 23-01 Concerning Childhood Sex Changes and Transitional Hormone Therapy, a resolution voted on by the elected Public Policy Board.
This resolution declares that whereas children are unable to consent, surgery and hormone therapy causes irreversible harm that is tantamount to child abuse.
“It is already illegal for parents and caretakers to abuse their own children,” says Sonja Feintech, Public Policy Board Secretary at the Libertarian Party of Oregon. “We have very strong laws already in place to criminalize the abuse of children and the level of harm that irreversible gender surgery and hormone therapy qualifies as abuse, one hundred percent.”
This resolution includes:
Whereas, children are not capable of consent; this is why we call them children (and not adults).
Whereas, Libertarians fully support the right of adults to transition or undergo any medical treatment they desire to. We support all members of the LGBT+ community to live their lives as they see fit. All individuals have the same rights.
Whereas,child abuse consists of any act of commission or omission that endangers or impairs a child’s physical or emotional health and development. Child abuse includes any damage done to a child which cannot be reasonably explained and which is often represented by an injury or series of injuries appearing to be non-accidental in nature.
IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, the Libertarian Party of Oregon considers both transitional hormone therapy and surgical gender re-assignment surgery on children to be child abuse.
This Resolution will be available starting 2/20/23, for public dissemination. For more
About the Libertarian Public Policy Board: The Public Policy Board is a newly created body of the Libertarian Party of Oregon and acts as the public outreach and policy creator branch of the Oregon Libertarian Party. Article 6, Section 2 of the Libertarian Party of Oregon’s Bylaws allows the Public Policy Board to, by three quarters vote, adopt positions on specific matters of public policy.
Sonja Feintech – LPO Public Policy Board Secretary
Libertarian Party of Oregon Public Policy Board
541-231-4293
sonja.feintech@lporegon.org
Libertarian Party of Oregon Public Policy Board Resolution 22-06 Concerning Corona Vaccine and Injection Mandates
Libertarian Platform Plank 1.1 on Self Ownership states:
“Individuals own their bodies and have rights over them that other individuals, groups, and governments may not violate. Individuals have the freedom and responsibility to decide what they knowingly and voluntarily consume, and what risks they accept to their own health, finances, safety, or life;”
Oregon: The Libertarian Party of Oregon Public Policy Board announced Resolution 22-06 Concerning Corona Vaccine and Injection Mandates, a resolution voted on by the elected Public Policy Board.
This resolution declares:
The currently available scientific evidence does not support a public health benefit of mandated corona injections for children and adults and raises serious potential such policies will cause net harm to the individual and public health of Oregonians,
The Constitution of Oregon delegates lawmaking authority to elected representatives of the People of Oregon, not unelected technocrats subject to regulatory capture at the Oregon Health Authority rubber-stamping the recommendations of industry insiders at OIPAT,
The Oregon Immunization Policy Advisory Team lacks true diversity, including input from vaccine critics, health freedom/libertarian organizations, organizations for the support of vaccine-injured Oregonians, and alternative medicine/naturopathic practitioners,
Principles of good government include the adoption of sunset clauses with new administrative rules, including new vaccine mandates in order to force their periodic review post-adoption, and
The adoption of a public school mandate policy runs counter to the Oregon Health Authority’s stated equity goals, as only parents capable of affording private school tuition can escape the Oregon Health Authority’s harmful policy;
“The government has a very poor track record of making decisions for the public good when given unrestrained power, ” says Sonja Feintech, Public Policy Board Secretary at the Libertarian Party of Oregon. “The creation and reign of OHA in particular is a great example of unelected officials making health requirements and mandates that have long term repercussions with zero recourse for Oregon citizens. ”
This resolution includes:
Oregon has a long history with harmful health mandates often targeting vulnerable communities, including forced physical and chemical castration of homosexuals, mandated prefrontal lobotomies, mandated sterilization of the “feeble minded,” mandated electroshock therapy, forced psychiatric medicating of schoolchildren with Adderall and Ritalin, forced administration of AZT to babies born from HIV positive mothers, and involuntary fluoridation of water supplies.
Corona injection manufacturers, including Pfizer, have made generous political contributions to Oregon politicians, creating a conflict of interest in the administration of public policy contrary to the benefit of the People of Oregon.
As of November 11, 2022, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System lists 32,200 corona injection associated deaths and 183,165 corona injection associated hospitalizations
IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED the Libertarian Party of Oregon opposes all vaccine and injection mandates – both public and private – including proposals to add corona injections to OAR 333-050-0050;
This Resolution will be available starting 2/20/23, for public dissemination. For more
About the Libertarian Public Policy Board: The Public Policy Board is a newly created body of the Libertarian Party of Oregon and acts as the public outreach and policy creator branch of the Oregon Libertarian Party. Article 6, Section 2 of the Libertarian Party of Oregon’s Bylaws allows the Public Policy Board to, by three quarters vote, adopt positions on specific matters of public policy.
Sonja Feintech – LPO Public Policy Board Secretary
Libertarian Party of Oregon Public Policy Board
541-231-4293
sonja.feintech@lporegon.org
Libertarian Party of Oregon Public Policy Board Resolution 22-05 Concerning Oregon Measure 114
Oregon: The Libertarian Party of Oregon Public Policy Board announced Resolution 22-05 Concerning Oregon Measure 114, a resolution voted on by the elected Public Policy Board.
This resolution declares:
Measure 114 is incompatible with the Constitution of Oregon, Article 1, Section 27 and the Constitution of the United States, Amendment 2; and
Measure 114 is poor public policy and runs contrary to Libertarian Principles; and
Measure 114 is poorly written, unfunded, and was unfairly presented to the voters.
“The Oregon constitution in particular is very clear on gun ownership and our constitutional rights as Americans but also as Oregonians, ” says Sonja Feintech, Public Policy Board Secretary at the Libertarian Party of Oregon. “The Libertarian Party of Oregon supports legal actions against what is clearly a gun grab, antithetical to the cause of liberty.”
This resolution includes:
The Libertarian Party of Oregon supports the legal action of the Oregon Firearm Federation and the Sherman County Sheriff against Measure 114 and the Libertarian Party of Oregon is authorized to submit an amicus brief in support of the lawsuit.
IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED the chair of the Public Policy Board may designate individuals to speak for the Libertarian Party of Oregon to the contents of this resolution in the administrative rulemaking process for Measure 114 and before legislative committees considering revision, modification, or repeal of all or parts of Measure 114.
This Resolution will be available starting 2/20/23, for public dissemination. For more
About the Libertarian Public Policy Board: The Public Policy Board is a newly created body of the Libertarian Party of Oregon and acts as the public outreach and policy creator branch of the Oregon Libertarian Party. Article 6, Section 2 of the Libertarian Party of Oregon’s Bylaws allows the Public Policy Board to, by three quarters vote, adopt positions on specific matters of public policy.
If you are interested in being considered for the vacant voting member position on the LPO Public Policy Board, you are welcome to attend the next meeting, which is being held via Zoom on Wednesday, February 22, 2023, at 7pm. You will be allotted at least three minutes to speak to the rest of the PPB before a vote occurs. We will likely begin this process towards the beginning of the meeting.
The PPB currently meets monthly and all the PPB positions will be filled again at the LPO Convention in April 2023. Please contact Public Policy Board Chair Travis West at travis.west@lporegon.org to get the meeting details.
Read the by-laws about the LPO Public Policy Board here:
Article 6 – Public Policy Board
Sec 1: Composition
A. Eligibility
To stand for election to or remain a member of the Public Policy Board, a person must meet the same qualifications as those set for the Board of Directors, and must pledge in writing “I hereby certify that I do not believe in or advocate the initiation of force as a means of achieving political or social goals.”
No person may simultaneously be a voting member of the Board of Directors and a voting member of the Public Policy Board. One position must be resigned before that person may exercise their vote in the other. A person elected simultaneously to both boards may resign from one before the start of their term, allowing election runners-up to earn the position as if the resigning person had not been a candidate.
A person who no longer meets the eligibility requirements to serve is automatically and immediately removed from the Public Policy Board.
A member of the Public Policy Board who fails to attend two regularly scheduled consecutive meetings may be removed by a two-thirds vote at the next meeting. If then present, the member facing removal may not vote on this question.
B. Maintenance
The Public Policy Board shall be elected by the LPO membership at large, using the same schedule, voting method, electors, and balloting as for the election of the Board of Directors.
The Public Policy Board shall have 11 members, whose terms start and end concurrently with the those of the Board of Directors.
Vacancies may be filled by appointment by the remainder of the Public Policy Board.
Vacancies persisting for more than 90 days may be filled by appointment by the Board of Directors.
C. Non-voting Members
The Public Policy Board may appoint or remove non-voting members to serve as advisers, writers, subcommittee chairs, or any other role they deem useful to the business of the Public Policy Board. Non-voting members enjoy every privilege of membership on the Public Policy Board except voting.
Sec 2: Authority
A. Duties
The Public Policy Board shall:
in their first meeting of a new term, select from among the regular members a Chair and Secretary.
submit written meeting minutes to the Board of Directors within one week of adoption.
advise the Board of Directors on the exercise of its power in Article 8, Sec. 1 (A) to choose a nominee for election to public office.
maintain records of public policy positions adopted in convention.
maintain the public policy platform.
oversee public communications related to LPO public policy positions and platform.
B. Powers
The Public Policy Board is empowered, with a two-thirds quorum requirement, to:
upon a three-fourths vote, adopt positions on specific matters of public policy.
upon a three-fourths vote, create and amend the public policy platform of the LPO.
upon a three-fourths vote, issue candidate and ballot measure endorsements.
upon a three-fourths vote, approve statements for the Voters’ Pamphlet in support of or in opposition to ballot measures.
approve a political party statement for the Voters’ Pamphlet.
upon a two-thirds vote, provide feedback and public testimony on legislative bills and administrative rules, or authorize LPO members to do so.
recommend LPO members to serve in government organizations.
recommend LPO members to fill vacancies in public office.
veto the nomination of any non-member of the LPO to election for public office.
veto the nomination of any LPO member to election for public office, but only with the concurrence of the Board of Directors, and requiring a two-thirds vote of each board.
delegate any of these powers to subcommittees, the motion to do so being subject to the same vote margin requirement as the power(s) thus delegated, and to set the policies by which the subcommittee members and leadership are seated.
C. Exclusions
The Public Policy Board has no authority to:
conflict with the Libertarian Party Statement of Principles.
conflict with public policy positions adopted in convention.
D. Funding
The Public Policy Board may request funding from the Board of Directors to:
pay for approved Voters’ Pamphlet statements.
transfer to an LPO nominee or their candidate committee.
transfer to a political action committee that is not a candidate committee.
fund other political advocacy of the LPO.
Sec 3: Transition
The officers of the outgoing Public Policy Board shall convey to the incoming members pending business items, unapproved minutes, recent drafts, and any other materials they deem to be of importance or urgency. These items shall be conveyed no later than the date of the incoming Public Policy Board’s first meeting, which in turn shall be no earlier than the corresponding transitional meeting of the Board of Directors that marks the beginning and end of the term of office.
Sec 4: Meetings
The Public Policy Board must adopt a policy establishing regular meetings. In the absence of such a policy, the Public Policy Board meets at the call of its Chair.
Whereas, the LP National platform states: 1.1 Self-Ownership
Individuals own their bodies and have rights over them that other individuals, groups, and governments may not violate. Individuals have the freedom and responsibility to decide what they knowingly and voluntarily consume, and what risks they accept to their own health, finances, safety, or life.
1.5 Parental Rights
Parents, or other guardians, have the right to raise their children according to their own standards and beliefs, provided that the rights of children to be free from abuse and neglect are also protected.
2.13 Health Care
We favor a free market health care system. Medical facilities, medical providers, and medical products (including drugs) must be freely available in the marketplace without government restrictions or licenses. We recognize the freedom of individuals to determine the level of health insurance they want (if any), the level of health care they want, the care providers they want, the medicines and treatments they will use and all other aspects of their medical care, including end-of-life decisions. People should be free to purchase health insurance across state lines. We oppose governments either mandating, or restricting voluntary access to, medical treatments or procedures including vaccines.
Whereas, children are not capable of consent; this is why we call them children (and not adults).
Whereas, Libertarians fully support the right of adults to transition or undergo any medical treatment they desire to. We support all members of the LGBT+ community to live their lives as they see fit. All individuals have the same rights.
Whereas,child abuse consists of any act of commission or omission that endangers or impairs a child’s physical or emotional health and development. Child abuse includes any damage done to a child which cannot be reasonably explained and which is often represented by an injury or series of injuries appearing to be non-accidental in nature.
Whereas,according a study published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, and Evolutionary Biologist Heather Heying PHD Univ of Michigan, adolescents with gender dysphoria (GD) treated with gonadotropin-releasing hormone analog (GnRHa) therapy are temporarily sex-steroid deprived until the addition of cross-sex hormones (CSH) and they have a measurable decrease in their bone mass density. It also has negative effects on several physiological parameters, including blood volume, cholesterol and several other hormones. Furthermore, giving GnRH at onset of puberty affects cognitive function in an animal model (sheep), impairing spatial memory. Less concerning, but also permanent, testosterone therapy for trans male children post puberty will have already caused facial hair growth and lowered the voice. There is a lot that is not known about the long term effects of transitioning children. A lot of this is due to the fact it has only started becoming prevalent in recent years. Some though is already clear:
Whereas, intervening at an early age with experimental and disruptive medical practices for all the children who declare themselves trans, risks harm to a large number of non-trans people for life.
If the risks have to be weighed:
Failing to intervene at an early age, such that a tiny number of actual trans people begin physical transition later and come to be a less good fit for their internally perceived sex; or
Permanently disrupt normal development for children who were merely exploring their identity.
The treatments for people who are trans—puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgery—have permanent costs. For the vast majority of children and youth who are merely exploring identity and belief, doing what children do—those costs are unacceptable. We now live in a culture where public schools are teaching students in elementary schools that they may not be the correct sex. It is entirely possible for children to say they are not the correct gender now, and realize they were wrong later. It is also very possible for parents to convince or coerce their children into transitioning to the opposite sex. This could be because they are ashamed to have a gay or lesbian child, or because they think it is politically fashionable. In either case, this is child abuse.
Whereas, even if the child stops short of surgical transition, they run a great risk of becoming infertile, especially biological females. One is generally able to conceive and carry children about 18 months after stopping testosterone therapy, although there is no guarantee that the reproductive system will still function correctly. Trans men on testosterone treatments often have an elevated risk of developing polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), which usually causes infertility. There are also increased risks of birth defects after lengthy testosterone therapy. For trans female children, stopping estrogen therapy for a period of time may allow sperm production to resume, although it may not be at a sufficient level to produce a pregnancy without assisted reproduction, if at all.
If done pre-puberty, without having gone through natal puberty, anatomical males will not produce sperm and anatomical females will not have eggs capable of maturing for fertilization.
IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, the Libertarian Party of Oregon considers both transitional hormone therapy and surgical gender re-assigment surgery on children to be child abuse.
Whereas, foreign aid is stealing money from poor people in rich countries and giving it to rich people in poor countries.
Whereas, Libertarians realize that nearly always every actor on both sides of every war is a state. States are evil organizations that seek to enrich their own wealth and power with no regard for the cannon fodder that fights their wars.
Whereas, further escalation in Ukraine risks the possibility of an all out war between NATO, Russia, and Russia’s allies.
It is therefore resolved: The LPO PPB supports the Rage Against The War Machine Protest being jointly held by the National Libertarian Party and The People’s Party being held on Feb 19 2023, and joins them in their demands:
Not One More Penny for War in Ukraine
Negotiate Peace
Stop the War Inflation
Disband NATO
Global Nuclear De-Escalation
Slash the Pentagon Budget
Abolish the CIA and Military-Industrial Deep State
The Legislature hid this upcoming hearing about the Oregon State Police's administrative rules process on M114 by holding it under the "Senate Interim Committee on Judiciary and M110 Implementation" - so nobody is observing this is where the actual M114 work is taking place.
We are being informed this will be taking place in Hearing room B.
We are also just now hearing that OFF's motion to get an injunction has been denied.
The Authoritarians have come for your right to bear arms. We must work together to stop them.
Judge Raschio GRANTED the 10 day Temporary Restraining Order on BOTH the magazine ban and the Permit to Purchase requirement. The Temporary Restraining Order will last from Dec. 8th to Dec. 18th.
A hearing had been set for next Tuesday (12/13) at 9:00am for Plantiffs' motion for a Preliminary Injunction on the magazine ban and Permit to Purchase
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The Libertarian Party is the only party that protects your absolute right to bear arms:
Measure 114 is incompatible with the Constitution of Oregon, Article 1, Section 27 and the Constitution of the United States, Amendment 2; and
Measure 114 is poor public policy and runs contrary to Libertarian Principles; and
Measure 114 is poorly written, unfunded, and was unfairly presented to the voters.
It is thereby resolved the chair of the Public Policy Board may designate individuals to speak for the Libertarian Party of Oregon to the contents of this resolution in the administrative rulemaking process for Measure 114 and before legislative committees considering revision, modification, or repeal of all or parts of Measure 114.
It is further resolved the Libertarian Party of Oregon supports the legal action of the Oregon Firearms Federation and the Sherman County Sheriff against Measure 114 and the Libertarian Party of Oregon is authorized to submit an amicus brief in support of the lawsuit.
IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, the Libertarian Party of Oregon has NO CONFIDENCE in the Oregon Medical Board and its authorizing statute;
IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED, it is the Public Policy of the Libertarian Party of Oregon to support reform of the state's occupational licensing practices inclusive of the establishment of true due process and judicial relief and sunset clauses for all occupational and professional Licensing boards;
IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED, the Libertarian Party of Oregon supports Dr. Thomas's $35 Million Federal defamation lawsuit against the members of the Oregon Medical Board and authorizes the Libertarian Party of Oregon to coordinate with Dr. Thomas's legal team in filing an amicus brief if requested; and
IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED, the Secretary/Clerk of the Public Policy Board shall cause a copy of this resolution to be forwarded to the Oregon Medical Board for entry into Public Comment at its next regular meeting and that the Chair of the Public Policy Board may designate Members of the Board to speak to the content of this resolution at Public Comment or to the Media as Official Representatives of the Libertarian Party of Oregon; and
IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED, the Secretary/Clerk of the Public Policy Board shall cause a copy of this resolution to be forwarded to Dr. Thomas, the Office of the Governor, the Speakers of the Oregon House and Senate, The Children's Health Defense, the HighWire, and media outlets and shall cause a copy of this resolution be posted to the Libertarian Party of Oregon website with accompanying public relations materials.
