[Lnc-business] Cuban Prisoner Resolution - Take 2- request for co-sponsors

Sam Goldstein goldsteinatlarge at gmail.com
Sun Feb 26 13:23:57 EST 2017


Did the first motion fail?  Why are we wasting more time on this.

On Feb 26, 2017 1:19 PM, "Joshua Katz" <planning4liberty at gmail.com> wrote:

> I will cosponsor.  I fail, however, to understand the following clause:
>
> *We further ask for an inquiry and response from** the Castro regime for
> information related to their detention,*
>
> Are we asking the Cuban government, which is holding the people, to look
> into it?  Wouldn't they, presumably, already know the answer?  It's fully
> possible that I'm missing something, though.
>
> Joshua A. Katz
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 11:27 AM, Caryn Ann Harlos <
> carynannharlos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I took Joshua's new resolution to the author of the Nevada resolution for
>> input.  He suggested some changes and agreed that the last paragraph should
>> not be a part (in his non-LNC opinion).  IF this passes, specific direction
>> we can give to the staff can be part of a separate motion (and one that
>> does not require 3/4 btw).
>>
>> I would like to offer this as a new resolution and ask for co-sponsors:
>>
>> *The Libertarian National Committee expresses shock and concern for the
>> detention of libertarian activists Ubaldo Herrera Hernandez and Manuel
>> Velasquez by agents of the Castro regime in Cuba on February 2, whose
>> unexplained detention raises suspicions that these political prisoners were
>> targeted for their peaceful activism promoting limited government and free
>> markets. **The two men are believed to be political prisoners imprisoned
>> in the infamous Melena II facility, known for appalling living and working
>> conditions. * *We further ask for an inquiry and response from** the
>> Castro regime for information related to their detention, an accurate and
>> complete register of charges, and and for assurances that they will receive
>> fair and open trials on any legitimate charges.  We further ask that the
>> Cuban government for their immediate release should such information and
>> assurances not be forthcoming. We encourage Libertarian Party members and
>> supporters to contact their elected officials toward that end, and further
>> ask that the IALP join us in applying diplomatic pressure for the Castro
>> regime to release information related to their detention and call upon the
>> national and international media to join us in these efforts.*
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> *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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