<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>It is not always pleasantries and handshakes and funding. It is not always given freely. Individual rights in governance are perhaps devine, but they are often only acquired through vicious battles of will. </DIV>
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<DIV>Those of us who do not merely pontificate (as I appear to do here) but fight the battles are ill funded and despised. We are shunned socially and treated like pariahs and ill gotten illegitimate step children. We upset the applecart. </DIV>
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<DIV>There is a reason individual rights are mandated by socially conscious regimes. It is because without that mandate we have nothing for it will not be provided at the expense of disturbing the status quo.</DIV>
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<DIV>Please see <A href="http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/ga-200709/">http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/ga-200709/</A> I am very afraid for users of the Internet.</DIV></td></tr></table>