<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Don't forget that platform plank 3.4 includes the sentence:<br><br>"<span>However, we support control over the entry into
our country of foreign nationals who pose a credible threat to security, health
or property."<br><br></span></span></font></div><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>That is more relevant to the Thomas Duncans of the world than to the nurse from Maine.<br><br></span></span></font></div><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>But I agree with Scott that a key element here is at what point people with Ebola become contagious, and we don't really know the answer to that, so I don't think we should attempt to stake out a position on something we don't understand.<br><br></span></span></font></div><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>When we did a press release blaming the Ferguson incident situation on racial profiling as a part of the drug war, we didn't yet know that the kid had just strong-arm robbed a convenience store. When the rest of the story became known, we looked silly for having spoken in ignorance.<br><br></span></span></font></div><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">-Alicia</span></font><br></span><div><div><div><div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><br></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 6:31 AM, Scott L. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scott73@earthlink.net" target="_blank">scott73@earthlink.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana">Considering that the United States Centers for
Disease Control doesn't know what the hell they are doing:<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana"> <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/10/30/cdc-pulls-poster-saying-ebola-can-spread-through-a-sneeze/" target="_blank">http://nypost.com/2014/10/30/cdc-pulls-poster-saying-ebola-can-spread-through-a-sneeze/</a><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana">I don't think the National Libertarian Party should take
any position on how to deal with Ebola until the mode of transmission and the incubation
period are, as best as possible, definitively decided by medical scientists.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana">I especially do not want the National Party to straightjacket
our candidates into a single position on an issue on which there is nowhere
near a consensus within the libertarian movement.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana"> Scott Lieberman<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">“Philosopher and historian William Durant once said "Nothing
is often a<u></u><u></u></span></font></p><span class="">
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say."<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">When there is something on the horizon, many people very early cry
"We<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">have to do something!" as if doing something that makes the
situation<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">worse is preferable to waiting for more information to make a wise<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">decision.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Rahm Emanuel said "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.
And<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you'd think you<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">could not do before."<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">I suppose I would like a statement like:<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">"We do not have enough information yet to determine the best
policy<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">decisions. Everything we know so far is that although there is a<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">great deal of fear, the actual risk is vanishingly small. The<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">important thing to do in this situation is to take reasonable<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">precautions while gathering information, and resist efforts of those<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">who would use a crisis to take advantage of the fear to grab power and<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">infringe on our freedoms in ways they could not do before."<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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</span><p><font face="Courier New" color="black"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> Marc Feldman”</span></font><u></u><u></u></p>
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