Baloney, Maggie.
Every community meeting is created by an organized body. All meetings
have costs; none are free.
Every resident should have an equal voice at community meetings --
provided they have paid their share of the cost of the meeting. If I
order bagels, doughnuts and coffee for 30, someone must pay that cost.
If I arrange a meeting space for 30, someone must pay. These are
commonsense factors we all understand. In practice, only an organized
body of some sort can perform these essential functions. Tyrannical
forces spread propaganda against basic community democratic
organizations. Some of these organizations are better than others.
But the bottom line is tresidents who create the community meetings
you're talking about, have an inherent right and responsibility to
organize and direct public meetings that facilitate the input of
freeloaders. Period. Community meetings are never really free; and
organized community meetings that deliver results usually require
sophisticated leadership.
-- Tony West
Every resident should have an equal voice at community meetings. Period.
Meaggie
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