Bruce,
"The board can do whatever they want"...........
You are happily involved with the Open Research Institute, correct?
Which is an "AMSAT Member Society". And, ORI according to its bylaws,
basically only has members that are on its BOARD.
(Here's a reference for the uninformed: ref:
https://www.openresearch.institute/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/BYLAWS.doc)
AKA.... The Board can do whatever it wants....... sound familiar? (ref
my initial line, or your short answer :-)
So, you are OK with organizations whose organizational fundamentals
are ANTI-DEMOCRATIC in terms of having an open membership.... but
burnt up over Rocking the Boat at AMSAT?!?
(ref: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/unbelievable)
Joseph Armbruster
KJ4JIO
On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 10:37 PM Bruce Perens via AMSAT-BB
<amsat-bb@amsat.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 6:45 PM Bob Liddy (K8BL) <k8bl@ameritech.net> wrote:
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>> I was just trying to understand if there was some line not to step
>> over and what might happen if one did and if one could ever back
>> up over that line and become OK again and why and when.
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> The short answer is "the board can do whatever they want". You don't even get a vote, this time, since getting 10% of the membership to mail in paper objection in time, using the post office, was never possible.
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> The longer answer:
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> ar·bi·trary | \ ˈär-bə-ˌtrer-ē , -ˌtre-rē \
> Definition of arbitrary
> 1a: existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of willan arbitrary choiceWhen a task is not seen in a meaningful context it is experienced as being arbitrary.— Nehemiah Jordanb: based on or determined by individual preference or convenience rather than by necessity or the intrinsic nature of somethingan arbitrary standardtake any arbitrary positive number
> 2a: not restrained or limited in the exercise of power : ruling by absolute authorityan arbitrary governmentb: marked by or resulting from the unrestrained and often tyrannical exercise of powerprotection from arbitrary arrest and detention
> 3law : depending on individual discretion (as of a judge) and not fixed by lawThe manner of punishment is arbitrary.
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