Dear Antonio, dear George, dear list,
I am not so certain about Antonio's
comments.
As our dear friend Pepino pointed out, Democracy
is a matter of rules, and constitutions ARE rules. I think, "Mehr
Demokratie" in Germany are quite successful, and they believe in acquiring
better conditions for the people to participate in politics.
In other words: I support George Kokkas, and I find
it a fine move, to work on a Constitution for Direct Democracy. Both ways are long term strategies, the
"grassroots bottom-up" theorem being too much utopic for my
taste.
To be "elitarian", means leadership, and nobody
will deny, that leadership is needed.
Best of success.
Yours
Franz Isemann
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Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 9:08
AM
Subject: Re: [cicdd] CO-CREATING A BETTER
WORLD Dear George, and DD friends
how strange. Ten years
have passed since 2000, at Athens-Delphi, when we started speaking about a
Constitution of Direct Democracy, and nothing has changed.
Open your
eyes. That of a DD Constitution is a time-wasting blind alley.
Direct Democracy is not a matter of dropping constitutions and such DD
charters top-down. It is a matter of implementing political practices
from grassroots bottom-up, according with the local territory needs and
policies: all of which cannot be mummified into the rigidity of an elitarian,
necessarily un-democratic, constitutional Act.
Take
care,
antonio
Il 08/08/2010
02:32, ΔΙΚΗΓΟΡΙΚΟ ΓΡΑΦΕΙΟ Γ. Λ. ΚΟΚΚΑ & ΣΥΝΕΡΓΑΤΩΝ ha scritto:
Dear DD
supporters participating in CICDD and
WDDM,
I am in San Fransisco attending the
Global Forum on Direct Democracy that has great
sucess and participation, although it mainly limits
Direct Democracy to Initiative and Referendum
issues, ignoring the rest of alternative
Institutions that may occur in a direct
democratic society , that we can analyze
continuing this process in Athens, Greece (
September 15 – International Day of Democracy- until
September 19, 2010-deadline for participations August
31).
I wish
TO INFORM YOU THAT I am speaking next
Tuesday at 12:30, participating in a panel discussing about
the creation of Constitutions of Direct
DEMOCRACY.
I WOULD APPRECIATE MUCH IF YOU COULD WRITE ME
any comments that you would like
to be announced about contemporary worldwide Direct
Democracy and the chances that you think
existing for its implementation and for
a new hope for the
world!.
Best
regards
George
L. Kokkas
N.G.O
Forum for Citizensʼ Democracy
Ippokratous
str. 42 – GR-10680 Athens
Greece
Tel.:
+30 2103648300 - Fax: +30
2103610882
geoko(at)otenet.gr
www.dimopolis.gr
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