I'm not sure where Vicky Heller is coming from in her talk about rights. If you have a true understanding of American law, whenever individual rights came into conflict with the property rights of elite insiders, the property rights prevailed. And that includes the property rights of corporations. As you know, corporations are not "individuals", thus the preference given to their property rights is not the protection of the "rights of individuals".
I wish that our governments did care about individual rights as much as the collective rights of shareholders and managers. It would be quite a different world. I want a transparent local government as much as anyone, and government meetings are supposed to be public business. However, a lot of times when communication is mishandled, you then have an enlarged crisis, inflamed by the poor quality of communication. How can you solve any problem without accurate communication? Take a listening class sometime, and you will find out communicating is not NEARLY as easy as you may suppose. It could be that most trouble in human communities are due to bad communication. If the mayor can actually improve it so we're looking at only the problem, not the distortion of it due to poor communication, he will have moved local government a step in the right direction. -------------- Jim Mork--Cooper "War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our Country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out." Gen. William T. Sherman (1864) Letter to the Mayor of Atlanta. Get your free Web-based E-mail at http://www.startribune.com/stribmail TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
