[Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2017-03: Cuban Arrests

[Alicia Mattson]

I vote no.

The nature of the Cuban government makes it impossible for us to know
whether or not what we're saying is accurate.  It may well be true, but we
just can't have a lot of confidence.  The problem is not limited to just
these two libertarian activists.  It's a much broader problem of a
communist dictatorship with secret courts, and many, many, many people in
Cuba are victims of it, though there are also people there who do steal,
murder, etc.  We could probably just change the names and issue a whole lot
of similar statements about other Cuban prisoners, and we'd be right about
some and wrong about some.

-Alicia




On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 1:49 AM, Alicia Mattson <agmattson at gmail.com> wrote:

> We have an electronic mail ballot.
>
>
> *Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by February 24, 2017 at 11:59:59pm
> Pacific time.*
> *Co-Sponsors:*  Starchild, Harlos, Demarest, Vohra
>
> *Motion:*  The Libertarian National Committee condemns the unjust
> detention of libertarian activists Ubaldo Herrera Hernandez and Manuel
> Velasquez by agents of the Castro regime in Cuba on February 2, and demands
> the immediate safe release of these political prisoners who were targeted
> for their peaceful activism promoting limited government and free markets.
> We further ask the U.S. government's State Department to place diplomatic
> pressure on the Castro regime for their release, and encourage Libertarian
> Party members and supporters to contact their elected officials toward that
> end.
>
>
> -Alicia
>
>
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