[governance] Rules decide Membership not existing Members

[Eric Dierker]

What an example this list is setting for governance everywhere.
 
"we will decide who is a member based on our discretion" "only those we deem members may vote"
 
Perhaps a little Latin should flow in all knowledge.  Post Facto  From Websters; Late Latin, literally, from a thing done afterward.  The legal aspect is well summed up by Lexus;  An ex post facto law is a law passed after the occurrence of an event or action which retrospectively changes the legal consequences of the event or action. 
 
The UN Article 11 (2) addresses such behavior thusly:    (2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed. 
(all modern law has treated this the same in the civil rights arena)
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