Re: A Call For Open Governance Of X Development

On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, [iso-8859-15] José Fonseca wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 05:35:10PM -0500, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> >    I think Daniel's example would be better if Americans were
> > demanding the right to chose the Prime Minister of France.
> > While the Americans have a "vested interest" in who the
> > French prime minister is, they shouldn't have a say in it.
> > I think this is the difference, as David Wexelblat put it,
> > between a democracy and a republic.  Not every body gets
> > to vote.  This isn't a free-for-all.  The prime minister 
> > of France isn't elected for the good of the world community.
> > He is elected by eligible French citizens for the good of France.
> 
> The problem is that Americans who want to immigrate to France _really_
> have difficulty in establishing there. 
  
   You've read something into the analogy that I did not intend.
I am not speaking of American immigrants living in France.
I am speaking of Americans sitting in their homes in Texas wanting
to vote in French elections.  Americans certainly do have a vested
interest in who is running France.  But that vested interest alone
does not give them the right to participate in another country's
elections.


			Mark.