Portland Massacre
The event referred to as the Portland Massacre was the most notable and controversial action at the 2006 Libertarian National Convention in Portland Oregon.
This effort was the result of efforts by the Libertarian Reform Caucus, founded by Carl Milstead, but not all of those voting to delete planks were on board with the LRC's message, as an alternative motive was to clean house on a platform that some considered to be stale and unwieldy [1].
The 2004 National Platform had 61 planks; the 2006 National Platform had only 15. This was not an unmitigated success for the LRC, however, as a great many of the remaining planks were ones that the LRC firmly wanted removed.
Radical Caucus
The current Radical Caucus was one of the caucuses to come into existence in response to the Portland Massacre. In 2015 it began work on its own platform that was based on the 2002 National Platform.
Boston Tea Party
Thomas Knapp founded the Boston Tea Party as a response to the gutting of the national platform. The schism didn't end until the dissolution of the BTP in 2012.
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