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01115: Response to PVR - Regarding rule by representatives

From: "Mark Antell, editor CitizenPowerMagazine.net" <citizenp(at)citizenpowermagazine.net>
Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 08:56:43 -0400
Subject: 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.

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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


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