Re: [WDDM] Antonio's last

[Antonio Rossin <rossin(at)tin.it>]

Hi ROY DAINE,

everybody knows that there is no shortage of raining water there in the U.K.
The addressed problem was, obviously, the increasing shortage of
*drinkable*
water all over the world, your country included.

Sorry for having upset your sleep, be well

antonio




ROY DAINE ha scritto:
> Dear All,
> I was about to go to bed when I happened upon the unmitigated rubbish
> that is Antonio's missive.
>
> I refer, in particular to the following nonsense -
>
> ***My point was, a couple of days ago I read in the newspaper that many
> English people took place against the big Water Supplying Corporate
> Companies, set up a Water Consumers' Company and got the control
> of the Water market.  They did so because of the incoming shortage of
> whater supplies all over the world.   Of course, they did not read this
> suggestion in any DD charter, but by doing so they performed DD.***
>
> Apart from the fact that it seems to have been raining here in England
> all summer, I feel moved to point out that there is no incoming
> shortage of water here.
>
> Water is not imported. Water, in the form of rain, falls over land and
> is carried outward, by rivers, to the sea. I know of no country that
> imports water.
>
> Furthermore, although I read the newspapers every day, I've not heard
> of any people setting up in opposition to the 'Water Supplying
> Corporate Companies' and nobody has 'control' of the 'water market'.
>
> Now, Bruce is indeed intent on persuading people to the view that the
> Swiss Model is a worthy ideal.
>
> Isn't the whole point of DD, that the will of the majority of a
> people, has power of decision.
> How else to arrive at a majority, if not to try and persuade others to
> your point of view, until it constitutes a majority opinion.
>
> I could point out that you're equally obsessed with educating children
> in a specific way.
>
> Other models of DD have been noted as examples, notably those in South
> America.
>
> If WDDM is to be a focal point for DD, I can see absolutely nothing
> wrong with providing examples of DD in action, that communities might
> wish to follow or adapt.
>
> ***Well now, to stick to te point:  Direct Democracy, in everybody's
> experience, is unlikely to succeed if we were unable to make these
> two intervention levels match together.  Don't you think so?  Any
> contrary proof?***
>
> How do you make two diametrically opposites match.
>
> Proof? What of?
>
> How does a supposedly educated man come out with such rubbish?
>
> Regards as always
>
> Roy