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

[Caryn Ann Harlos]

I have no objection - Joshua and David???

Tim will you co-sponsor with that change?

On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 12:59 PM, Tim Hagan <timhagan-tyr at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Because e-mail ballots have no provision for amendment, I ask the sponsors
> to modify the resolution before it goes to a vote by spelling out instead
> of using the acronym IALP, so readers won't think the LNC is making a
> request to the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics.
>
> Tim Hagan
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Joshua Katz <planning4liberty at gmail.com>
> *To:* lnc-business at hq.lp.org
> *Sent:* Sunday, February 26, 2017 10:34 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Lnc-business] Cuban Prisoner Resolution - Take 2- request
> for co-sponsors
>
> I voted no because it made, in my view, unfounded accusations against a
> foreign government, and because it contained no action other than 'calling
> up' and 'demanding.'  I suspect others may have voted no for the same
> reasons I did.  This alternative, in my mind, addresses the first concern,
> and at least contains some hints about the second.  I can't say I'm
> terribly enthusiastic, but since email ballots have no provision for
> amendment, I don't think it's unreasonable for a second motion to try to
> address concerns of those who voted no on the first.
>
> Joshua A. Katz
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 12:23 PM, Sam Goldstein <
> goldsteinatlarge at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
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> 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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