[governance] today's Wash Post editorial

[Riaz K Tayob]

'tis a pity that the reposte to a claim for legitimacy in the governance 
of what is now a global resource is the same or similar to the Global 
War on Terror - 'they hate our freedoms'.

It is nothing like that at all, the claim to legitimacy is a value in 
and of itself. Some may feel this is not important, and others not. We 
can agree to disagree. And the blithe anti-Americanism is not quite 
that, it is kinda like a Boston Tea party saying no taxation without 
representation... if that is anti-British, then so be it... but the 
point is far more subtle than it is made out to be... And some of us 
third worldists do reserve the right to determine the terms of the terms 
of the debate... and if aint broke dont fix it nor impossibility does 
not cut it... despite US support for Apartheid in my country, black 
people won their freedom, and so did Rosa Parks....

There are numerous instances of problems with current arrangements, but 
the Cavebear (Karl Auerbach)  speaks to that more eloquently than I ever 
could, but for instance the conflation of web addys with intellectual 
property rights for instance - kind of like a lex mercatoria, making law 
in the absence of law.


On 2013/01/25 06:17 PM, Koven Ronald wrote:
> Yet the kind of generalized dislike of America and the Americans so 
> blithely expressed in the discussions on this list doesn't, however, 
> "speak to my condition" (as my Quaker teachers would put it).

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