Scott Horton Was Right | Resolution Against International Entanglements

“The Libertarian Party must not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.”

That was Scott Horton’s opening salvo. He came to the microphone at the National Libertarian Convention to make one thing clear: the LP’s affiliation with the International Alliance of Libertarian Parties is a mistake, and it must be corrected. It must be Ended. Horton’s message was one of the most pointed and substantive speeches this convention saw. Grounded in history, backed by names and records, his words carried the weight of something that doesn’t get said enough out loud:

We are being used, and we need to stop letting it happen.

He walked us through the architecture of the color-coded revolutions: the bulldozer revolution in Serbia, the rose revolution in Georgia, the orange revolution in Ukraine, the tulip revolution in Kyrgyzstan. He named what they actually are. These are coups in disguise, financed through USAID, the National Endowment for Democracy, and a sprawling NGO infrastructure bankrolled by Soros-aligned institutions.

Horton explained the genius of the modern model is that openness became its cover. When the CIA secretly backed political parties and it inevitably blew up in their faces, they adapted. Now the intervention is visible, open, and laundered through foundations. They finance the groups that they want to win and manufacture the narrative along the way. Around those operations is a sprawling industry of NGOs acting as auxiliaries to American foreign policy. Many of those organizations call themselves libertarian and many of its activists coordinate within our conventions.

Who Is Actually In The Network?

Pierre Crevaux of the IALP was an advisor to Salome Zorabichvili, the “sock puppet president” of former Soviet Georgia. She had never set foot in the country before the Rose Revolution installed her as finance minister, and would later describe the Soros Foundation and its NGOs as having carried the revolution and noted how they were subsequently integrated directly into government power. Horton also identified Tenetin Bolokats, another IALP functionary, who has openly called for EU and NATO membership for Georgia, is funded by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, and participated in a USAID workshop as recently as July 2024.

The 2024 Georgian protests that she and her network supported were basically a jobs protest by the NGO industry. Georgia is a poor country, so working for a Western-funded NGO is an enticing route to the middle class. When the Georgian Dream government passed a law requiring disclosure of foreign funding above 20% (a law modeled directly on our own 1938 FARA statute), they called it a “Russian-style law” because they were all in on the take. 

These are the parties whose claim to libertarianism we are being asked to formally validate through affiliation. Groups that demand American military intervention while waging full ethnic cleansing. Groups that pressured Cato into running off Ted Carpenter, one of the most principled anti-intervention voices in the entire liberty movement, for having the principled consistency to note that NATO expansion contributed to the war in Ukraine.

These are not our people and we should not let them hitch their wagon to ours. These international networks would have us serve as pressure from below to justify their interventions from above. The Libertarian Party, if entangled with these groups, becomes a vehicle for manufacturing domestic cover for State Department and USAID operations abroad. It would make us useful tools, not to liberty, but to the empire.

Horton invoked the Daniel McAdams rule: never criticize a country the CIA is in the middle of criticizing. 

And the Murray Rothbard rule: universal human rights, locally enforced. Any American government large enough to be meaningfully interested in former Soviet Georgia is too large to be anything but a threat to liberty here. 

The IALP Is Moving to the U.S. Stop It.

The IALP is actively relocating from Switzerland to the United States. Horton’s response to this move was three words: “Don’t. Stop. Go back.” Leave the Libertarian Party of the United States out of it. We cannot allow these groups to claim the backing and the legitimacy of the U.S. national party. A resolution to disassociate from the IALP was introduced on the convention floor by Horton and backed by the original founder who no longer recognizes the organization he built. The resolution failed. 

We are the Party of Principle. We do not play auxiliary to any empire’s agenda, simply because it cloaks itself in the word “liberty.” We watched the LNC filings that unbound the committee from the Statement of Principles, the perfect ramp up for their new international framework. The same entities that were leading the charge to take over our last convention from the mainland also have strong ties to and positions within the IALP. The web is large and the pattern unrelentingly consistent. Scott Horton was right about where this leads. The Libertarian Party of Hawaii unanimously passed a similar resolution, and encourages other affiliates to do the same:

Resolution Against International Entanglements

WHEREAS, the International Alliance of Libertarian Parties (IALP) no longer represents the original goals and vision of its founder and has been co-opted by foreign influence operations that are incompatible with the non-interventionist, peaceful foreign policy clearly articulated in the Libertarian Party platform; and

WHEREAS, continued association with the IALP exposes the Libertarian Party to potential conflicting foreign influence and undermines the Party’s commitment to independence from government agencies such as the State Department, USAID, and other entities that may advance agendas contrary to libertarian principles;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that we, the undersigned Libertarian Party state affiliates:

Call upon the Libertarian National Committee (LNC) to immediately disassociate the national Party from the IALP; and

Urge all LNC and Libertarian position holders to publicly resign any affiliation with the IALP and commit to protecting the Party from foreign influence and government-linked operations; and

Affirm its own disassociation from the IALP at the state level and encourages other state affiliates to do the same.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this resolution be transmitted to the LNC, all other state Libertarian Party affiliates, and published publicly as a clear signal of our commitment to the Libertarian Party’s principles of peace, non-intervention, and resistance to foreign and governmental influence.

(This Resolution Against International Entanglements was unanimously passed in the Libertarian Party of Hawaii Executive Committee on May 27, 2026)

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