[Campaigns-l] Enemies of Democracy

[Chad Lupkes]

Again, and again, and again.  The issue is not positions on these
issues.  The issue is not partisanship.  The issue is not scholarship or
anti-scholarship.

The issue is that this mailing list, campaigns-l at wikia.com, is for *the
discussion of the development of the infrastructure* represented by
campaigns.wikia.com to engage, educate and empower everyone on this list and
around the wikisphere to add content, debate the issues, provide quotes and
context from historical figures like Foucault, Burke, Paine, etc.  ON THE
WIKI.  As shown by recent history, if we try and debate who is right and who
is wrong on the issues, it causes fights and make enemies.  Let's leave that
off this list and put it where it belongs.  ON THE WIKI.

Why is that so hard to grasp?

Chad

On 11/10/06, CH Rob J King <kuriosiesuschristos at abidinglifephoenix.com>
wrote:
>
>
> In a previous e-mail posted to this list (a scholarly contribution to the
> dialogue rooted in the thought of post-modern secular philosopher Michel
> Foucault) I, like Foucault, questioned the will to power and abuses of due
> process by those who wield power in Western, Post-Enlightenment
European/N.
> American societies.
>
>
>
> For the most part, this essay went unacknowledged, or attacked with
blanket
> condemnation without actually engaging the argument itself.
>
>
>
> Neo-classical responded favorably and exhorted others to spend more time
> actually reading such scholarship.  Thank you.  With a BA from the #10
> ranked liberal arts college in the USA (Davidson), two master's degrees
from
> the #4 ranked university (Duke) and 3 years of PhD studies in ethics from
> the #18 ranked university (Notre Dame), it is refreshing to know that at
> least someone using the internet has not just sold his/her soul to
marketing
> gurus, but actually tries to engage scholarship at its highest level.
>
>
>
> While noting neo-classical's favorable response, sadly, however, the abuse
> of democratic process that I have noticed in this forum (i.e. trying to
bar
> positions that one disagrees with), could also be seen in the recent
> elections.  On 7 November 2006, I served as the Clerk of Elections for
> Precinct 285 in Pinellas County (Pinellas Park, FL, not too far from the
> Terri Shiavo state-enforced death by starvation of a handi-capped woman
> happened).
>
>
>
> During the day's Electoral proceedings, Democrats and Republicans worked
> together, and were all duly committed to ensuring due process within the
> elections.  All went smoothly, with the exception of one lady, a
> governmental employee who wanted the "rules to be bent" just because she
> worked for the government.  Finally, after arguing publicly in front of
the
> entire electoral staff, she stormed out of the building.
>
>
>
> Therefore, similar to the 2000 Presidential Elections in which lawyers
were
> seeking to overturn the duly appointed democratic results of the Election,
> so also was this a case of some people thinking that they are somehow
"above
> the law" just because they work for the government.
>
>
>
> This is not a liberal issue, nor is it a conservative issue.  For example,
> one fellow Republican poll worker wanted to openly discuss the need for
> Christian Government, a position that I agree with, but one in which I
> remained silent so as to uphold the non-partisan nature of the proceedings
> (assuming of course that Republicans hold a larger demographic base among
> the Christians of America).
>
>
>
> My hope and prayer is that the ones who have been "appointed" to this
> on-line (non-regulated) forum will at least strive to uphold the
principles
> of democracy of the nation and nations that they claim fidelity to.  My
> fear, however, is that this forum is quickly becoming nothing more than a
> pawn of the most liberal wing of the Democratic Party.
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Rob J King, citizen of the Republic of the United States of America
>
>
>
>
>
> CH Rob J. King, M.Div., Th.M., Ph.D. (ABD*)
>
>
> Chaplain, AR-MEDCOM
>
>
> Professor of Bible and Christian Ministry Grand Canyon University-Online
> Abiding Life Christian Ministries--Phoenix & Tampa Bay
> Ministry Home Page:
> http://abidinglifephoenix.com/default.aspx
>
>
> Ministry E-Mail: kuriosiesuschristos at abidinglifephoenix.com
>
>
>
>
> "I will bless those who bless you . . . and in you all the families of the
> earth shall be blessed."  --Genesis 12:3
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