RE: [ALSC-Forum] Re: Direct vs. Indirect elections

[Bruce Young]

Yes.  Kent seems to think that the At-Large has no room to allow for
anonymous speech.

Bruce Young
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Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-forum@www.atlargestudy.org
[mailto:owner-forum@www.atlargestudy.org]On Behalf Of Joanna Lane
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 11:14 PM
To: DannyYounger@cs.com; forum@atlargestudy.org
Subject: Re: [ALSC-Forum] Re: Direct vs. Indirect elections



on 10/7/01 4:33 PM, DannyYounger@cs.com at DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:

>
> Dear Kent,
>
> In an earlier message to the forum you wrote:  "We don't need an at-large
> membership, we don't need elections, we don't need ANY of this stuff.  It
is
> all superflous."  http://www.atlargestudy.org/forum_archive/msg00459.shtml
>
> If this is truly your view, why then have you now prepared a draft on
Direct
> vs Indirect Elections?  The inconsistency is somewhat troubling.

And only recently, on 10/4/01 2:49 PM, Kent Crispin also wrote to the
General Assembly:

> Despite the appearances, IN FACT the GA is an unaccountable fluid group
> of email identities, not a body of people.  The NC, on the other hand,
> is composed of real people that we know.

> Consequently, IN FACT votes in the NC are open and transparent in a way
> that votes in the GA simply cannot match, and I would really much rather
> have there be people doing votes, people we can accost at meetings and
> yell at, instead of email addresses.

In the light of the above, I suggest that any report coming from the desk of
Kent Crispin should be viewed as that of an Extremist who dismisses the
value of every member of the human race that he does not know personally.

Regards,
Joanna