[Lnc-business] Motion with previous notice

[steven.nekhaila at lp.org]

That is a great idea on the space exploration plank David, I have never 
thought about that before, perhaps something similar with sea-steading 
as well. In the future, we can expect the government to attempt to 
govern colonization and territorial rights. Sound familiar?

As far as the cryptocurrency committee, I believe this is a fantastic 
idea. The Libertarian Party is the only political party that syncs up 
ideologically so well with the cryptocurrency movement. The technology 
is an industry, but the spirit and implications behind it is highly 
libertarian, the privatization, subversive nature, and decentralizing of 
information, currency, contracts, and much more outside of government 
control is the epitome of libertarian culture. I believe the committee 
should focus on the prospects of the Party harnessing the power of these 
technologies and using them in a way which advances the Party, such as 
blockchain based voting systems which we are potentially exploring in 
the Libertarian Party of Florida, blockchain based e-mail encryption and 
data storage, etc. This would not only be a strong political statement 
to say that the Party of liberty is willing to adopt these technologies, 
but also thriving because of them. We could potential see declines in 
cost when using decentralized technology as well as maintained or even 
increased efficiency. The original motion ought to be re-worded to 
include the mission, scope and purpose of the committee as well as make 
it clear that the renewal of the committee will need to be voted on to 
to re-commence at the next LNC meeting post officer elections at 
convention.

In Liberty,

Steven Nekhaila

On 2018-03-01 11:22 PM, david.demarest at lp.org wrote:
> I forgot to include the inspiration initiatives surrounding the space
> industry. I guarantee that the stunning achievement by Elon Musk of
> landing two reusable rocket engines simultaneously on TV produced a
> spike of interest in those voting Libertarian. Inspirational bottom-up
> technology and privatization achievements will do more to expose
> Libertarian principles and drive the election of Libertarians. During
> an LNC sponsored Jess Meers interview of Jim Cantrell, another private
> space entrepreneur, Cantrell encouraged the LP to adopt a stronger
> privatized space program platform plank as something the LP could do
> to accelerate the privatization movement.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lnc-business [mailto:lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org] On Behalf
> Of david.demarest at lp.org
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2018 10:08 PM
> To: lnc-business at hq.lp.org
> Subject: Re: [Lnc-business] Motion with previous notice
> 
> I don't care when we create the committee, other than the sooner the
> better without stepping on established time constraints.
> 
> I take a big picture view of the need to promote block-chain
> technology, specifically crypto currencies, for the valid reasons
> already expressed. Block-chain is part of the bigger picture of
> peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies that has produced huge successes that
> I believe are the primary inspiration behind the increasing percentage
> of those who vote for Libertarian candidates. Further, P2P technology
> firms are part of a larger group of critical privatized industries
> that include cash-basis healthcare, cash-basis education (including
> homeschooling), cash-basis security firms, and cash-basis arbitration
> organizations, just to name a few.
> 
> That being said, block-chain and P2P industries are the clear the
> leaders in the privatization movement and the obvious place to start
> to create such a committee, regardless of when the committee is
> created.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lnc-business [mailto:lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org] On Behalf
> Of Caryn Ann Harlos
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2018 8:18 PM
> To: Libertarian National Committee list <lnc-business at hq.lp.org>
> Subject: Re: [Lnc-business] Motion with previous notice
> 
> One reason though I asked these questions David is the following
> Policy Manual provision (page 16,
> http://www.lp.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/20180115_LNC_Policy_Manual.pdf
> ):
> 
> 2) Committee Terms of Office With the exception of the Convention
> Oversight Committee, the terms of office of all project managers,
> committee chairs, and committee members shall expire with the
> administration that appoints them, or when their successors are
> chosen, whichever occurs first. The term of office for the Convention
> Oversight Committee shall expire 90 days following the close of the
> convention.
> 
> So I actually think that we *can't* really consider this next meeting
> unless it is just a 2-month committee.
> 
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 6:57 PM, Caryn Ann Harlos 
> <caryn.ann.harlos at lp.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> It is indeed David.  The state controls the medium of exchange, it
>> controls us.
>> 
>> On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 6:52 PM, <david.demarest at lp.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> I will support the Block-chain Committee motion. Building the
>>> voluntary sector is the key to inspire the broader audience to elect
>>> Libertarians to all levels and obtain regulatory relief.
>>> 
>>> ~David Pratt Demarest
>>> Region 6 Representtive
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Lnc-business [mailto:lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org] On Behalf
>>> Of Arvin Vohra
>>> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2018 6:51 PM
>>> To: lnc-business at hq.lp.org
>>> Subject: [Lnc-business] Motion with previous notice
>>> 
>>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>> On behalf of Michael Heise, I will be making a motion to create a
>>> Blockchain Committee at the next LNC meeting.
>>> 
>>> -- Statement of Purpose This committee is being founded to serve 3
>>> purposes:
>>> 
>>> 1. To research blockchain technology and explore it’s potential use
>>> and implementation to solve problems or inefficiency within the
>>> Libertarian Party and how it conducts business and other party 
>>> functions.
>>> 
>>> 2. To consult/advise with Bloggers, Podcasters, Crypto-currency
>>> project teams members, miners, whales and other related parties to
>>> explore how the Libertarian Party can become more attractive to the
>>> cryptocurrency/blockchain community.
>>> 
>>> 3. To create and promote cross platform promotion and education of
>>> the libertarian party, libertarianism, cryptocurrencies and
>>> blockchain technologies. Potential examples include having
>>> crypto-related speakers at libertarian/ party events, have
>>> libertarian party members, including candidates, at crypto-related
>>> events, creating a streamlined crypto-training procedure for
>>> interested candidates, and more
>>> 
>>> I will also support this motion. To defeat the state and it's two
>>> puppet parties, we have to outthink and outstrategize them. We cannot
>>> limit ourselves to playing by their rules. Using a combination of
>>> political, technological, cultural, and individual choice
>>> libertarianism is, in my view, the strategically superior approach.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Arvin Vohra
>>> 
>>> www.VoteVohra.com
>>> VoteVohra at gmail.com
>>> (301) 320-3634
>>> 
>>> 
>>