[governance] Your support for a petition

[Carlos A. Afonso]

Gosh, is there a vaccine against this suffering? :)

--c.a.

On 02/21/2011 01:27 PM, Milton L Mueller wrote:
>> -----Original Message----- I think the document exaggerates a bit:
>> "The GAC represents all the world's governments, including Iran,
>> the U.S., Russia and China." It does not. It is a representation of
>> a bunch of governments in a non-binding forum aggregated to a
>> private organization. As Louis Pouzin reminds us, a bullet is
>> missing in the petition:
> 
> This choice of words was careful and deliberate. Any government can
> join GAC. Thus, it could in principle usurp the role of an
> intergovernmental organization, and "represent" the views of any and
> all governments, individually and collectively, even though it would
> be an unlawful usurpation because there is no treaty or due process
> requirements underlying the GAC's powers, scope and operations. That
> lack of grounding in agreed, democratically derived law is precisely
> what makes the GAC so dangerous. Parminder's musings notwithstanding,
> anyone who doesn't understand the difference between the powers of a
> state apparatus with the authority to use guns unregulated by
> popularly accountable law, and private businesses which don't unless
> government gives it to them, is suffering from a pretty primitive
> understanding of politics.
> 
> --MM
> 
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