[Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2018-03: Censure of Arvin Vohra

[Elizabeth Van Horn]

I vote no.
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I might have voted in favor of the original censure motion by Jeff 
Hewitt. This recent censure motion isn't acceptable to me, as I disagree 
that Arvin was indeed espousing libertarian ideas.
My objections are twofold:

1)  Libertarianism is not simply caring about ones own freedoms. It is 
caring about freedom for EVERYONE. Believing that YOU should be free 
from coercion, and believing that PEOPLE should be free from coercion, 
are two different ideas. One is selfishness, the other is 
libertarianism. Arvin's principle does not include concern for the 
freedom of others, it is primarily concerned with the impact it has on 
him.  If you are more concerned with money being taken from you than 
with the safety of children, then your concern isn't about freedom.  
It's about yourself.

Arvin wasn't espousing libertarian ideas. Instead it was a form of 
ideological brutalism, which is well described by known libertarian 
anarchist, Jeffrey Tucker. I reject the notion that this is an anarchist 
stance versus minarchists. Instead it is a brutalization of 
libertarianism to become an abdication of responsibility.

2)  The censure is too little too late.  It's a band-aid for an gaping 
wound.




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Elizabeth Van Horn
LNC Region 3 (IN, MI, OH, KY)
Secretary Libertarian Party of Madison Co, Indiana
Chair-LP Social Media Process Review Committee
Vice-Chair Libertarian Pragmatist Caucus
http://www.lpcaucus.org/


On 2018-01-20 22:03, Alicia Mattson wrote:
> We have an electronic mail ballot.
>    Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by January 30, 2018 at
>    11:59:59pm Pacific time.
> 
>    Co-Sponsors:  Hayes, Hewitt, Demarest, Hagan
>    Motion:  to censure LNC Vice Chair Arvin Vohra for repeated public
>    comments which have presented libertarian ideas in an inflammatory 
> and
>    sometimes offensive manner not conducive to Libertarian leaders and
>    candidates for public office winning hearts and minds for those 
> ideas.
>    -Alicia
> 
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