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To: Joe NYC who wrote (125310)	10/4/2000 5:23:56 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570438

Does it mean that you will be content with our vibrant democracy failing, as long we become a failure via public schools? BTW, your view is consistent with Gore's opinion about what's good for other people's kids: public. When it came to choosing for his own, he chose good. Joe, He chose very good because he can afford it. All that I am saying is that every child should have access to a good education. That tenet is so basic to this democacy that I am surprised it is being questioned. When we only care about a few people and not the majority, then we no longer are a healthy, vibrant democracy. And all the conservative....maintain the status quo and my pocketbook.....rhetoric will not convince me otherwise. Sorry... ted

To: Joe NYC who wrote (125310)	10/4/2000 6:38:30 PM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570438

Dear Joe: Privitizing government (executive branch). Privitizing government can be over done. Those purely administrative tasks (such as testing, registering, licensing, printing, etc.) could be done by private companies. What I do not want, is that any task related to regulation and / or policy making be privatized because, that allows for the unsurpation of my or anyones rights by an entity. Any rule, policy, or regulatory activity should have a clear chain of accountability (command) back to the people (all of us). Any privatization that obscures this or temporarily removes it, should be terminated or scrapped, at once, unless, we, the people, decide that it should be done (and that process should be long, difficult, and easy to reverse (like making an admendment to the constitution)). You do not want some people in a smoke filled room deciding what rights you can keep, whether you must pay twice as much for fuel, etc. Yes, I know that is how stuff used to be done, but, why in this day of cheap and quick communications, should we make it any easier to accomplish? Take the ICANN case for example. It, a supposedly private non-profit corporation, decided that a person, who had registered a domain say, pgi.com, composed of the first letters of his first and last names and i for industries (say a self owned software consulting firm), and has maintained that domain for five years, could have that domain taken away from him by anyone who shows that pgi is close enough to their trademark (say Proctor and Gamble Incorporated) by paying a fee of less than $1,000, sending some notice 20 days ago (without any requirement of due diligence to make sure that the owner of that domain was notified) by any means (say Bill's Fly By Night Express) with less than ten days to file a complaint in the plantiff's home state (or countries) court system or forever lose the domain (note: This is a fictional case but similar cases have happend). ICANN proposed that system, wrote those rules, forced every domain owner to agree to those terms, without any legal recourse to those policies, rules, and judgements. And ICANN is a closed group where the domain owners have no representation, no rights, and no view to the inner workings of ICANN (the meetings are secret and published only what and when ICANN wants them to). Just think of a SUVBAD non-profit corporation making it a crime for any one to own a vehicle getting less than 18 on a test no one ever heard of, with results no one can verify, should be jailed no less than 5 years and forced to pay a fine of $1 million dollars, then making you the test case. There was a item in Slashdot about this yesterday. Pretty scary huh! The best definition, that I have heard, of "Public Good" is the sum of all the goods of every member of the "Public". Note, this is not what some one or a small group of someones consider is the "Public Good". Pete