From: McKenny Michael <bn872@FreeNet.Carleton.CA>
Subject: Re: rmgroup: soc.religion.bahai (Re: Annotated NO voters - 3rd interest poll)
Date: Friday, January 29, 1999 2:49 PM
Greetings, Donald.
Many thanks for this.
Actually, during the second round of voting a number of people who
had supported it in the first round did not vote YES. My asessment was
that it failed for lack of support.
Surely, relatively speaking, with hundreds of people who had voted
NO the first time not voting the second time, the attempt to suppress
talk.religion.bahai may be said to have been concentrated in the first
round.
The important thing is that the third round was successful, and here
we have a visible indication that absolute control over freedom of
thought and expression is no longer taking place.
It will be fascinating to see the extent to which Baha'i leaders
resist the temptation to go after people for views stated here. I don't
think they will interfere. I really believe that they learned their lesson
from what happened before. It may have been easy to live as if buried in
snow up on Mount Carmel, but I think reality has intruded now. Also, now
there is international observance of what is going on here.
On the one hand, there is a remarkable opportunity for people to see
the real impact of the spirit of the Baha'i Faith in action, unfolding
before their eyes, and who can tell what the beneficial results of that
could be?
However, if I'm wrong and any action whatsoever is taken against any
person because of views expressed here, let the world observe in complete
detail what is the present practise of the authorities.
May this find you very well, and may each of the days to come be
better than the one it succeeds.
To the Future,
Michael
"Donald Z Osborn" (osborndo@pilot.msu.edu) writes:
> THere are, as I understand it 2 conditions for est. of a new ng:
> 1) Receive 100 more yes than no votes
> 2) the yes total must be at least 2/3 of the total vote cast
>
> So... technically Frederick is correct, however, a mere 10 votes would have
> defeated the 2nd proposal and, as news.groups regulars tell us, one can
> expect a number of no votes probably greater than that for the average
> proposal. So in terms of actual experience, one can legitimately say that
> the proposal failed for lack of support.
>
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