Richard de Boer on Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:41:40 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: <nettime> Internet for Democracy. Shut down the Euro Parliament. Now! |
NotWorking Youth declaimed: > With this petition, we are demanding the European Parliament: > > * Desists, with immediate effect, from all its activities. > We don't want to continue paying the bill of an expensive and > bureaucratic machine for something we can do better ourselves from > the comfort of our armchairs. > So, instead of demanding immediate termination of intransparant institutions like the European Council of Ministers, the European Commission or one of its Directorates-Generale, some shady backdoor lobby or working group, the armchair anarcho-activists focus their anger on one of the very few democratic control mechanisms we have on a European level. Interesting contrast #1. Representational democracy is declared dead for the umpteenth time while the European Parliament today demonstrated what it can mean for the internet by massively voting against the secretive anti-piracy treaty known as ACTA: http://bit.ly/9M1ABK Interesting contrast #2: Some 2,500 people support the demand to shut down the EP, while some 1,266,000 people support the demand to shut down only the Strasbourg location of the EP: http://www.europafederalisterna.se/oneseat/ But then again, as oligarchs would say, who cares for majorities when representational democracy is dead anyway. Cheers Richard # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org