In message <c262a3c0-c4ed-4bdc-a287-433eeaad4...@a2b-internet.com>, Erik Bais <eb...@a2b-internet.com> wrote:
>So if we want the Executive board to do something like this, this needs to >go to the GM. I have no reason to doubt that. It is still, I believe,. within the prerogative of this WG to pass a non- binding resolution -recommending- that the GM take up the matter, and that it accept the proposal. Would you agree? I ask the Chair for clarification. >I would also like it if you would refrain from making ANY comments about >the WWII and apologize to the people on the list. My apologies. I confess that I utterly negelected to consider the possibility that some in Europe might be extremely sensitive about a reference to a well-documented historical event which, I hoped, everyone might at least be familiar with, even if it only occurred in a time before even most of your parents were born. I will attempt to remedy that mistake by making my point while using a rather different European historical reference... Facts are facts, and a hijack is a hijack. That cannot be denied, any more than can the fact that there was a revolution in France in 1789. My hope is that this may be a more palatable restatement of my original point, but I am certainly willing and able to give it another try, as may be either appropriate or necessary, and to remove my historical references back even a few more centuries in order to insure that I do not unduly oppress the sensitivities of anyone here who may be a distant descendent of a French royalist. (My only concern is that some here might not be adequately acquainted with the Battle of Thermopylae and/or other and even more distant references which I might summon to the task at hand.) Regards, rfg
