[forum] A Call For Open Governance Of X Development

[Sven Luther]

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 12:47:25AM +0000, José Fonseca wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 05:35:10PM -0500, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> >    I think Daniel's example would be better if Americans were
> > demanding the right to chose the Prime Minister of France.
> > While the Americans have a "vested interest" in who the
> > French prime minister is, they shouldn't have a say in it.
> > I think this is the difference, as David Wexelblat put it,
> > between a democracy and a republic.  Not every body gets
> > to vote.  This isn't a free-for-all.  The prime minister 
> > of France isn't elected for the good of the world community.
> > He is elected by eligible French citizens for the good of France.
> 
> The problem is that Americans who want to immigrate to France _really_
> have difficulty in establishing there. Of course that when somebody

Please stop spreading FUD, will you, i know many americans who live in
france, and have no problems with it. I don't really care much about
where this analogy is leading, maybe we could stop it and go back on
track. After alll, we are all educated enough that we can speak about
this without needing to fall in easy (and maybe unaccurate) examples.

Friendly,

Sven Luther