[Lnc-business] AMENDMENT - Re: Motion for the July 15th 2012 LNC meeting - moment of reflection (Seconded / Amendment to motion)

[Starchild]

	Second. If we're going to have an opening ceremony, it seems to me that it ought to be something specifically liberty-affirming, but having such a ceremony makes more sense for a large gathering like an LP convention than for a Libertarian National Committee meeting. 

	I also question the need for the chair to be bound to a particular template when it comes to setting meeting agendas, so long as there is fair opportunity for everyone's items to be included. This template is the kind of thing that has stretched the LNC Policy Manual to 72 pages.

	I further move to amend the motion as follows: That the entire template be labeled as a suggested way of ordering the agenda, and not a binding rule.

	In my view, Policy Manual provisions which we believe should be permanent binding rules ought to be added to the Bylaws, where party delegates can vote on them, and the manual itself should consist of the rules which each LNC passes to make binding on itself, for that LNC term only. If we allow these rules to be binding on all future committees, I believe we will continue to see the Policy Manual mushroom in size, and that it will increasingly pose the danger of constituting an end-run around the Bylaws and the proper power of the delegates to oversee the party. After a given term of the LNC, all its rules could remain in the Policy Manual, but simply be downgraded to recommendations.

Love & Liberty,
                                ((( starchild )))
At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee


On Jun 24, 2012, at 8:06 AM, Geoffrey Neale wrote:

> I move that the following section of the Policy Manual (1.02.2) under “Opening Ceremony”:
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> “Moment of Reflection”
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> Be deleted.
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> My reasons – I find no business value to the LP for this being placed on the “template” agenda.  Every member of the LNC and the gallery have ample opportunity to reflect as long as they want, for whatever reason they want, whenever they want, outside the confines of the agenda.
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> Geoffrey Neale
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