[ga] Re: 'stakeholders'

["Richard Henderson" <richardhenderson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And here in England, we had the Witan over 1200 years ago as a communal
balance against the king; the sovereignty of the nation was last surrendered
here at Berkhamsted Castle in 1066 - never again surrendered; we had the
emergence of borough elections and medieval parliament in the reign of
Edward I (1280's); and the English Civil War against autocracy in the
1640's; the subordination of monarch to the will of the people; the
parliamentary system based on one person-one vote; and in 1940, Churchill
and Britain at bay but not bowed, fighting back against the
"post-democratic" vision of Hitler.

Sadly, and pathetically, ICANN is a symptom of a "post-democratic" corporate
malaise that infects the whole world, mouthing words like consensus, but
really about power bestowed by the few.

The At Large is fundamentally democratic. The right of people to determine
for themselves the kind of future they want. The principle of respect for
each individual, enshrined in one-person-one-vote. That is why we cannot be
"post-democratic". To give way on that principle is to get carried off into
the tunnels and corridors and layers and committees and mazes and haze that
is ICANN - where consensus is a hoax and where the autocratic few decide, in
partnership with privileged parties, what is right for everyone else.

See how they expelled the representatives of the At Large from their
Boardroom!

"One person one vote" is the language of democracy and it should be the
authority of the At Large. People all over the world may come to understand
this struggle. It's their Internet.

...

Yrs,

Richard Henderson
Join the At Large at Icann At Large!
http://www.atlarge.org
http://www.icannatlarge.org

----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Dierker <eric@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jefsey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <jandl@xxxxxxxxx>; <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 11:07 PM
Subject: Re: 'stakeholders' was: Re: [ga] Re: ICANN before the US


> Who decided the democratic approach was over?
> who decides who is concerned?
> Who decides who is competent?
> Who decides who is representative?
>
> Bloodshed and four years were spent just to draft our declarations of
> independence, France spilt far more blood and took about 14 years to
declare
> their republic.
> eric
>
>
> > Dear Leah,
> snips>
>  If we consider the governance of their consensus we are in a
> > post-democratic approach where the concerned and competent have a
> > natural  duty to defend, represent, support the interests of the whole
> > community: we  started naming them the @large members of the internet
> > governance.
> >
> and snips
> >
>
>