Re: [ga] Particular People

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Danny and all assembly members,

  I support you contentions here as an american citizen and also because
I swore an other many years ago to uphold the constitution of the
Untied States or America.  Discrimination in any of it's forms
is categorically wrong and thankfully our Constitution forbid's
it.  As ICANN and thereby the DNSO GA is a non-profit company
under contract to the DOC/NTIA, they are by law bound to
those principals thereunto pertaining.  This would of course
include Discrimination or SELECTIVE CENSORSHIP in
any of it's malignant forms.

DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:

> Alexander Svensson, in citing the approach advocated by Jonathan Weinberg,
> argues that this option gives a  majority of the GA the ability to say that
> it doesn't want "particular people" representing it.
>
> For more than the last six months the Names Council has made it clear that
> they do not want "particular people" (the GA) to participate in open working
> groups.  They believe that they have the right to decide as a majority that
> they can discriminate against the membership of this Assembly and to take
> procedural steps to limit the participation of those undesirables that would
> otherwise be free to openly participate in the work of the DNSO.   I have
> steadfastly argued that such an approach disenfranchises our membership and
> contravenes the spirit of our Bylaws.
>
> Our Bylaws require that we shall operate consistent with procedures designed
> to ensure fairness.  Denying "particular people" their right to fully
> participate in the ICANN process is contrary to our founding principles.
>
> Accordingly, I will not support the approach advocated by Alex Svensson.
>
> In the history of our planet we have noted many attempts to deny a voice to
> "particular people":  women, blacks, homosexuals (most of whom, as activists,
> were viewed by the majority as kooks, trouble-makers or ranting lunatics).
> Within democratic institutions, the majority has long believed that it has a
> right to discriminate against the minority -- but ICANN, as we know, is not a
> democratic institution, it is a consensus-based organization in which every
> voice, no matter how shrill or annoying, is guaranteed the opportunity to
> fair participate.
>
> Three members of our Assembly have come forward expressing an interest in
> doing a job that nobody else was willing to do.  I do not wish to deny them
> that opportunity just because a majority that was unwilling to do that job
> thinks that it has a right to discriminate against them.
>
> I extend to the Assembly the opportunity to discuss and debate this matter
> further.  I will notify the Secretariat of a final decision on Monday.
>
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Regards,

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