| From: | "Vijayaraghavan Padmanabhan" <vijayaraghavan.p(at)rediffmail.com> |
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| Date: | 20 May 2007 15:44:15 -0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [WDDM] Response to PVR - Regarding rule by representatives |
Dear Mark,
Thanks for your reply. You have stated that 'We don't want to be governed. We want to move from representative democracy to direct democracy'. This position is due to utter frustration with the present form of representative democracy. By taking this position we will be aiming at a near impossible goal.
Besides don't we put our trust in our parents and others close to us in day to day life, to take care of our concerns? Without some degree of trust nothing is possible in our life. We need to improve our system so that our trust is not misused by the unscrupulous.
PVR
On Sun, 20 May 2007 Mark Antell,editor CitizenPowerMagazine.net wrote :
>Hi PVR,
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>You've stated a position clearly: "We need to put our trust into somebody to take care of our concerns."
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>I disagree with that position. And I think that most of us in WDDM disagree with that position.
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>We don't want to be governed. We want to move from representative democracy to direct democracy.
>Mark
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>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:
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>>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.
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>>PVR
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