Re: [WDDM] Response to PVR - Regarding rule by representatives

["Annette Jackson" <aja95799(at)bigpond.net.au>]

To cover every item of Government, by having people vote on all of it is
just not real, you would have the average citizen saying that we were crazy.

In Australia we Government departments that handle some items, we have local
government that handle some items, we have state government that handle some
items, we have federal government that handle some items and we the Governor
General that handle some items and this is their fulltime jobs, average
person will have their own jobs and then will be expected to vote on all
issues of government.

I personally think that the selection process of our candidates is the most
important, ask yourself who is behind the scene's ensuring that they get the
right candidate they want, l believe it would be a good thing if we could
move away from political parties.

From my ongoing studies, politicians a just serves to higher powers, the
higher powers ensure they get their person, some a groomed from school to
the office of being a politician, and the media is the weapon that keeps
them on track.

From what l have been looking into, it is about 2% of the population, that
control the world, they believe they are something special, and the rest of
us are nothing more then cattle, and their servants, to challenge them you
risk your life.

Personally l believe more and more if we could broke the control of these
people, we may start getting the sort of governments we want, and the
government processes we want.

Regards

Martin Jackson

http://realitypoliticsgoodgovernment.blogspot.com/


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Antell, editor CitizenPowerMagazine.net"
<citizenp(at)citizenpowermagazine.net>
To: <wddm@world-wide-democracy.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2007 10:56 PM
Subject: [WDDM] Response to PVR - Regarding rule by representatives


> Hi PVR,
>
> You've stated a position clearly: "We need to put our trust into somebody
> to take care of our concerns."
>
> I disagree with that position.  And I think that most of us in WDDM
> disagree with that position.
>
> We don't want to be governed.  We want to move from representative
> democracy to direct democracy.
> Mark
>
> PS. Yours is a legitimate, honest, and widely held position.  Though I
> disagree with what you say, I'll defend your right to say it.
>
> -----------------------
>
> Vijayaraghavan Padmanabhan wrote:
>
> > Dear All,
> > Continuing from my previous letter, an important matter to be decided
> > before we formulate a mission statement is to decide whether by aiming at
> > Direct Democracy, we are doing away with the concept of 'rule by
> > representatives'. This particular view is held by some advocates of DD.
> > While this may be the ideal theoretical goal, it may be nearly impossible
> > in practice. We need to put our trust into somebody to take care of our
> > concerns. This is the natural order of things in life. What we need is to
> > have a mechanism where our representatives are directly accountable to
> > the people and can be recalled at any time if sufficient people feel so.
> > I request that members express their views regarding this since this is
> > important to formulate a workable mission statement.
> >
> > PVR