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

[William Redpath]

I vote "Yes" on the Vohra censure.  Bill Redpath

On 2018-01-22 22:29, Elizabeth Van Horn wrote:
> I vote no.
> ----------------
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ---
> 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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