Joint statement from the Chair and vice-Chair of the Vermont Libertarian party: The calls for violence by the now disaffiliated and fraudulent political club known as LPNH are antithetical to the core of libertarian beliefs. This republic was founded upon the idea and ideals of equal rights for all people and a government by the consent of the governed. The founders placed numerous checks and balances in the new Constitution to ensure continued peaceful transitions of power because they had just fought and sacrificed so greatly. Domestic tranquility and the blessings of liberty were what they desired for us - their posterity - and it would be deeply unwise to ignore this and throw it away for factional interests. As libertarianism is premised upon the foundations of non-aggression and equal natural rights for all, we stand for peaceable political change and against violence. The bottom line is that the Libertarian National Committee officially kicked LPNH out of the party back in May, and this was unanimously confirmed by the Judicial committee during the appeal. The Granite State Libertarian party is the correct and proper affiliate of the national Libertarian party, and we welcome our new neighbors with glad hearts and goodwill.