Re: Proposed Process for Charter Amendment


<moshes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:2005Nov30.092943@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Well, so far only the_idea_ of how to make changes is being discussed.
> And I welcome this discussion wholeheartedly. Once it's approved,
> hopefully, there will be time to discuss _specific_ changes. Whether
> the change that prompted this discussion will be accepted or not, it
> had the affect of allowing _discussion_ for which I am grateful.
>

<sigh> And if the moderators, in the benevolence, decide such discussion is
no longer appropriate, this *privilege* will be taken away from us.

As Benjamin Franklin noted, those who would give up their freedom in
exchange for security usually end up with neither.


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