Re: [ga] Endorsement of Roberto Gaetano for GA Chair

[Michael Sondow <msondow@iciiu.org>]

Eric Weisberg wrote:
> 
> I was very glad to see Roberto accept nomination as GA chair.   I think
> he is the very best choice and would have supported his candidacy no
> matter who were the other candidates nor what other procedure was
> followed, including a vote of the General Assembly.
> 
> Roberto is known and respected by all factions as a reasonable and fair
> person who is genuinely committed to democratic principles.  His
> selection will go a long way toward healing our divisions and
> facilitating our constructive efforts toward reaching consensus on
> outstanding issues in the general assembly.

You're wrong. Roberto Gaetano is a shrewd person who has known how
to win favor by pretending to be a mediator, while all the time
working for the furtherance of the schemes for capture of ISOC and
of CORE, or which he is a founder, organizer, and director.

Roberto Gaetano was instrumental in the organization of the phoney
Monterrey DNSO meeting, which was coordinated by Kent Crispin,
Amadeu Abril i Abril, and Ken Stubbs, and which was no more than a
meeting of CORE pretending to be the DNSO.

Roberto Gaetano, together with Amadeu Abril i Abril and Javier Sola,
has been the main force in the European activities of CORE, which
have included the creation of a fictitious commercial organization
headed ostensibly by Sola, as a pretext for forming and dominating
the Business Constituency of the DNSO, the planting of CORE members
in all the European countries, and the conscription of ISOC/CORE
partisans in the European Union.

Roberto Gaetano, in every meeting of the DNSO and of ICANN, curries
favor with oppositionists to ICANN's double-dealing, but he
invariably sides and votes with CORE for the worst ICANN abuses. He
is a charlatan with a sweet tongue who knows how to make people like
him, and how to get them to forget who he really is and what he
stands for, which is the disenfranchisement of the Internet
community in ICANN.

Haven't you had enough of CORE? They have taken over most of the
DNSO constitutencies, created an undemocratic Names Council against
every principle of the White Paper, and foisted three unpopular
representatives of special interests within the DNSO onto the Board,
against the will of the General Assembly.

Are you now going to choose one of them as the GA chair?

If you do, you will be relinquishing any right you have to ever
again complain about abuses and unfairness, because you will be
choosing, yourselves, one of the foremost architects and proponents
of the abuses you have already suffered.

Wake up! Stop letting yourselves be made fools of!

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