Re: [WDDM] Charter Proposal for WDDM - Submitted for Adoption Vote

[<WDDM webmaster>]

Doug,
please note that you can vote separately on individual paragraphs of the draft
charter. Thus you could for example vote against the mission statement, and for
  all the rest.

The mission statement is the one formulated by the original WDDM around 2000.
The discrepancy you noticed can be relatively easily rectified. The mission
statement mixes apparently mixes together the actions to be taken after the
full implementation of Direct Democracy (no representatives), and before the
full implementation when representatives are still present but I&R&recalls are
already available. This could be stated explicitly in the Mission Statement.

This kind of comments/reviews/discussion is what is badly needed to remove all
the discrepancies and formulate finally a consistent set of WDDM documents.
Thanks,

Mirek

> Dear Mark,
>
>
> I refrain from voting for the draft charter because it includes at a
> page accessed via
>
> www.world-wide-democracy.net
>
> a mission statement which includes apparently contradictor sections:
>
>
>
> 1.2 The power to
> formulate laws and policies must be vested directly in the People
> without representatives at all levels of
> societal life.
>
>
>
>         and
>
> 1.5 Peoples
> Initiatives, backed by sufficient number of signatures, should mandate
> a binding Referendum and/or recall of unworthy
> representatives (I&R+R) decided by public vote.
>
>
>         and
>
>  1.7 We as
> 'Facilitators' shall endeavor to help citizens to setup Planning
> Cells, Citizen Juries, and Citizens Forums, as local bodies
> to supervise municipal and local administrations and
> public administrations. These 'Forums' will hear and attempt to settle
> issues, and if they cannot, then refer them either to the courts or to
> Citizens Parliaments.
>
>
>
>        --        Doug Everingham
>
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