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Re[2]: [ga] Question to Jeff Williams
Hello Patrick,
It seems to me that if the two of you can't get along, you should both
resign.
Sunday, July 08, 2001, 10:38:18 PM, Patrick Corliss wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 00:07:06 EDT, Danny Younger wrote:
>> You have argued that the rules of this Assembly are "illegitimate". Is
>> it your intention to continue violating the rules of this Assembly?
> Dear Danny
> Thank you for participating in the debate but that's not how it is done.
> Jeff Williams has said the rules are "illegitimate". I'd guess that
> somebody drafted a set of rules based on discussion on this list. Perhaps
> there were even debates about the method of adopting the rules (voting
> procedures, etc.). Clearly you then have a boot-strap paradox.
> Of course, any vote cannot be "legitimate" until the voting procedures have
> been set up first. And anyone can refute the legitimacy of a process. Some
> use this argument against the list monitors, the sublists, anything at all.
> On occasions, people question the legitimacy so hard that they pull down
> the system. It happened with "apartheid" which was seen as legitimate
> but immoral. It nearly happened with the presidential election in Florida.
> Certainly it happened with discrimination in Australia and the US.
> Now we had this before when a person was suspended for excess postings.
> He said the list limit was illegitimate because it had not been sanctioned
> by
> the Chair. Nevertheless, the punishment was still enforced. That sort of
> thing happens everytime there's an execution in the US.
> But none of what Jeff said is against the list rules as they are constituted
> at present. It seems to me that you break the rules of the General Assembly
> by suggesting that about Jeff.
> You should respect the system and submit a complaint to the list monitors?
> Or do you want to make the system look REALLY illegitimate??
> Best regards
> Patrick Corliss
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