[governance] The New Class: Civil Society Professionals?

[Willie Currie]

Veni wrote in his Civil Society Professionals blog:

Events like this can change many people*. One of the best ways to “test” 
someone, is to give them some power or authority. People who change, 
while in power, they will be the best candidates to join the IG-CSP group.

* - Let me share some personal perspective - for me being member of the 
Boards of ICANN, ISOC, CPSR, etc. has never made me feel special. For me 
it was just heavy work, lots of duties and responsibilities. Less sleep 
and more travel. I’ve never considered myself a different (special, 
privileged) person from the one I was, and I am, just because I was or I 
am sitting on a Board. I’ve found more value in heading the Bulgarian 
Internet Society, because we were leading the Internet revolution in 
Bulgaria. We’ve done a number of things for the first time in our 
country, and that is what made us think with relief, “OK, we did what we 
could; we achieved something. If someone else could have done better - 
please.”

Veni makes a proposition that people who change when in positions of 
power or authority fail his test and are corrupt and are therefore 
eligible candidates for his IG-CSP group. In his footnote, he carefully 
makes sure to demonstrate that he is not someone who changes, and 
therefore cannot be a member of the IG-CSF group he denigrates. The 
excellence of his work for ISOC in Bulgaria has little to do with the 
rhetorical manoevres he is pulling here in the service of his hostile 
attack on civil society.

willie

Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Willie Currie [27/05/08 20:53 -0400]:
>> Veni is the first to remind us of the excellent work he has done in 
>> Eastern Europe, which is another repetitive refrain of his, that 
>> seems designed to provide anchorage for his offensive attacks on 
>> civil society. Propaganda always mixes a bit of truth in with its 
>> excesses and the conviction that one is absolutely right is one of 
>> its leitmotifs.
>
> Catch a propagandist doing excellent work?
>
> Moveon.org for example? Or the swift boat idiots?
>
> srs
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