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

[David Demarest]

I will co-sponsor.

 

Thanks to Caryn Ann, Joshua and the Nevada resolution author for this wordsmithing effort.

 

To those who might say that this motion will do little to help Messrs. Hernandez and Velasquez, you may be correct given the dysfunctional nature of the Cuban and U.S. governments. However, the other critical purpose of this motion is letting our audience know that the LNC stands in solidarity not only with Nevada and other affiliates who have courageously voiced their moral support but more importantly with the two Cuban Libertarian activist detainees.

 

Put yourselves in the shoes of the two detainees. Imagine how you would feel if the LNC refused to at least show moral support for your plight simply due to thinly-disguised, timid bureaucratic excuses.

 

Thoughts?

 

~David

  

Dec 10-13 2017 Omaha Libertarian Strategy Un-Convention

 

Celebrate Life, Set the Bar High and LIVE FREE

 

~David Pratt Demarest

LNC Region 6 Representative (IA, IL, MN, MO, ND, NE, WI)

Secretary, LPNE State Central Committee

Cell:      402-981-6469

Home: 402-493-0873

 

From: Lnc-business [mailto:lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org] On Behalf Of Caryn Ann Harlos
Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2017 11:28 AM
To: lnc-business <lnc-business at lp.org>
Subject: [Lnc-business] Cuban Prisoner Resolution - Take 2- request for co-sponsors

 

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.

 

 




 

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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 <mailto: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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