Your words:
> if our Constitution is still working, legality is correlated
> with democracy.
>
I find ironic, considering the current electoral storm in Florida. Are the
Constitution and legality and democracy really so inarguably connected? When
voters are discouraged from voting or correcting their votes, and the
legislature swears to override any recount with a resolution and legal
avenues are used, apparently legitimately and by both parties, to prevent
votes from being counted, then can we really rely on the correlation you
cite?
I've been convinced for some years now that we need a constitutional
convention for many reasons, one of them being for the institution of
proportional representation, which virtually every other democracy in the
world already has (since US was the first, we are stuck with the oldest,
most creaky version).
-Tc
Anthony R. S. Chiaviello, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Professional Writing
Department of English
University of Houston-Downtown
One Main Street
Houston, TX 77009
713.221.8520/713.868.3979
"Question Reality"
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> From: Brian Czech[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 12:33 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: ECOTERRORISTS AND STEADY STATE REVOLUTION
>
> Having promoted a steady state revolution in Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway
> Train, a revolution in which the liquidating class is proactively
> castigated by the steady state class, I can empathize with the ELF. I
> suspect that posterity will appreciate ELF's actions much more than they
> appreciate the liquidators'. On the other hand, the ELF actions were
> illegal and, if our Constitution is still working, legality is correlated
> with democracy. These ELFers are the rogue and vandalous steady staters
> I mentioned in Shoveling Fuel.
>
> To me, one of the biggest questions is: Are vandalous and other illegal
> acts required to precipitate the steady state revolution? If not, ELF
> was "wrong" (with "right" being equated with sustainability). The
> ethical dilemma is that we don't know the answer, so that risk (i.e., of
> an ecological and economic trainwreck) aversion tends to let ELF off the
> hook.
>
>
> Brian Czech
> www.steadystate.org
>
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