[Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2016-04: Amend Gun Rights Resolution

Thu Aug 25 17:24:47 EDT 2016

Thank you Joshua, that makes a lot of sense.

-- 
*In Liberty,*
*Caryn Ann Harlos*
Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska, Arizona,
Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann.
Harlos at LP.org
Communications Director, Libertarian Party of Colorado
<http://www.lpcolorado.org/>
Colorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party Radical Caucus
<http://www.lpradicalcaucus.org/>

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 3:16 PM, Joshua Katz <planning4liberty at gmail.com>
wrote:

> RONR states that ASPA takes a majority with notice, 2/3, or q majority of
> the entire membership. However, it also states (don't have the book with me
> so I can't give the exact words ) that the vote required for ASPA is at
> least what was required to adopt originally. Our SRO increasing the vote
> threshold, then, carries with it ASPA.
> On Aug 25, 2016 4:06 PM, "Caryn Ann Harlos" <carynannharlos at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Alicia, I have a request for information.  It does not affect this, but
>> it is for my education.  Does a motion to amend something previously
>> adopted require the same 3/4?  Is there a Robert's reference for that?
>> Again, it doesn't matter here since it failed even by a simple majority,
>> but I would like to know for future reference.
>>
>> --
>> *In Liberty,*
>> *Caryn Ann Harlos*
>> Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska,
>> Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann.
>> Harlos at LP.org
>> Communications Director, Libertarian Party of Colorado
>> <http://www.lpcolorado.org/>
>> Colorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party Radical Caucus
>> <http://www.lpradicalcaucus.org/>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 3:00 PM, Alicia Mattson <agmattson at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Voting has ended for the email ballot shown below.
>>>
>>> *Voting "aye":*  Demarest, Harlos, Hayes, Lark, Starchild, Vohra
>>>
>>> *Voting "nay":*  Bilyeu, Bittner, Goldstein, Hagan, Katz, Marsh,
>>> Mattson, McKnight, Starr
>>>
>>> With a final vote tally of 6-9, the motion did not meet the 3/4 vote
>>> threshold required by Bylaws Article 7.11 to adopt public policy
>>> resolutions, so it FAILS.
>>>
>>> For 10 days there has been no objection to correcting the deny/denies
>>> grammatical error in the original version of email ballot 2016-03, so that
>>> has been approved.
>>>
>>> -Alicia
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 11:12 PM, Alicia Mattson <agmattson at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> We have an electronic mail ballot.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by August 23, 2016 at
>>>> 11:59:59pm Pacific time.*
>>>> *Co-Sponsors:*  Starchild, Vohra, Harlos, Demarest
>>>>
>>>> *Motion:*  amend the resolution adopted in Email Ballot 2016-03 as
>>>> follows:
>>>>
>>>> WHEREAS, Libertarians affirm that self-defense is an inherent human
>>>> right;* and*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> WHEREAS, the Platform of the Libertarian Party opposes all laws at any
>>>> level of government restricting, registering, or monitoring the ownership,
>>>> manufacture, or transfer of firearms or ammunition;* and*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> WHEREAS, the Platform of the Libertarian Party affirms the right of due
>>>> process and deny*denies* the legitimacy of *laws against *“victimless
>>>> *"*crimes”;* and*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> WHEREAS, the government*s in the United States have *has steadily
>>>> encroached upon these rights by illegitimately regulating and restricting
>>>> access for *to *firearms and ammunition and may further seek to deprive
>>>> people who have been convicted of no crime of their inherent right to full *abrogate
>>>> civil rights, and indeed the basic human right, to *self-defense by *prohibiting
>>>> access *denying their civil and inherent rights to obtain firearms and
>>>> ammunition* even in cases where a person has not been convicted of any
>>>> crime*;* and*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *WHEREAS some recent statements by Libertarian candidates appearing in
>>>> the media have the potential to cause confusion among members of the public
>>>> regarding how Libertarians view these issues;*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *THEREFORE *BE IT RESOLVED that the Libertarian National Committee
>>>> opposes any *law or *policy which would deny *or restrict any person's
>>>> *access to any firearms or ammunition to any person simply for being
>>>> placed *as a result of their name appearing *on any *a *government
>>>> watch or no-fly list*, *and reaffirms its call to repeal *both our
>>>> party's opposition to any further *and oppose any existing or proposed *regulations
>>>> on *firearm*s* and ammunition *as described above and our demand that
>>>> all such existing *regulations* be repealed, and calls upon
>>>> Libertarian candidates to uphold our party's pro-freedom stance*.
>>>>
>>>> -Alicia
>>>>
>>>>
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>>
>> --
>> *In Liberty,*
>> *Caryn Ann Harlos*
>> Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska,
>> Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann.
>> Harlos at LP.org <Caryn.Ann.Harlos at LP.org>
>> Communications Director, Libertarian Party of Colorado
>> <http://www.lpcolorado.org>
>> Colorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party Radical Caucus
>> <http://www.lpradicalcaucus.org>
>>
>>
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*In Liberty,*
*Caryn Ann Harlos*
Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska, Arizona,
Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann.
Harlos at LP.org <Caryn.Ann.Harlos at LP.org>
Communications Director, Libertarian Party of Colorado
<http://www.lpcolorado.org>
Colorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party Radical Caucus
<http://www.lpradicalcaucus.org>
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