Hi,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 1:39 AM, James Turnbull <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james@lovedthanlost.net" target="_blank">james@lovedthanlost.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Donna Benjamin wrote:<br>
> On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 16:59 +1000, Brent Wallis wrote:<br>
>>>> Stop the hijack!<br>
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> I find the veiled accusations against the current council of<br>
> committed volunteers really disheartening. :(<br>
><br>
> Assuming these people are working in bad faith against the<br>
> organisation and the community seems pretty unfair.<br>
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</div>Especially given they how much time and effort they put into making LA<br>
and LCA great. Don't like the council? Well congratulations - you have<br>
recourse. Stand for the LA council yourself!<br>
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If this is an issue that matters to members and not just to some alleged<br>
secret cabal then I am sure you'll be elected in a landslide.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>At which I would fail miserably of course.</div><div><br></div><div>However, I do believe that I have a right to make my opinion public.</div><div>TBH my opinion on this matter is probably a minority one.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Quite honestly people, you are crying crocodile tears at the wrong point.</div><div><br></div><div>My argument all along is about how you have gone about this.</div><div>It is a significant change that you are obviously passionate about.</div>
<div>You are convinced this is the right thing to do.</div><div><br></div><div>So be it.</div><div>But please don't moan and groan about people like myself having a say.</div><div><br></div><div>I have used the hijack label to hammer home a very important fact around freedom based democracy:</div>
<div><br></div><div>Despite what you "think" the majority think and want, in the end, you just could be wrong.</div><div>There are many in LA that do not even bother with this or any other list.</div><div><br></div>
<div><br></div><div>Put this to a properly campaigned full vote of LA.</div><div>Arguments for AND AGAINST the change to be clearly and succinctly detailed.</div><div>A proper ballot held.</div><div><br></div><div>You win, we lose.</div>
<div>End of argument.</div><div>Making this decision via the committee without a vote, even though the constitution seems to allow it, is simply thumbing your nose at the freedoms we are all meant to support. </div><div><br>
</div><div>Rgds</div><div>BW</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>