Re[2]: [ga] Question to Jeff Williams

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

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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