<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#3333FF" vlink="#551A8B" alink="#00CC00"> Alex LoCascio wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>Or the unaccountable, interminable snooze-ocracy of the consensus-based affinity group model.</blockquote> Or direct democracy. -- Joe R. Golowka joegolowka@earthlink.net Anarchist FAQ - <A HREF="http://www.infoshop.org/faq">http://www.infoshop.org/faq</A> "The essential difference between a monarchy and a democratic republic is reduced to the following: In a monarchy, the bureaucratic world oppresses and plunders the people for the greater benefit of the privileged propertied classes as well as for its own benefit, and all that is done in the name of the monarch; in a republic, the same bureaucracy does exactly the same thing, but in the name of the will of the people."  -- Mikhail Bakunin, Statism and Anarchy   </body> </html>