Comments on: PROPOSITION 8: Are ballot initiatives wise?

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Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:25:48 +0000

[...] leave a comment » In order to “provide closure and clarity on the ballot measure” Prop 8, California Attorney General Jerry Brown is asking the California Supreme Court “to review the constitutionality of Proposition 8.” Personally, I don’t believe ballot initiatives are wise, and I’ve argued so here and here. [...]

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BALLOT PROPOSALS, are they wise? « The Conservation Report — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:04:21 +0000

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By: Buck Denton

Buck Denton — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:09:36 +0000

I don’t believe we should put discrimination into any constitution. Changing any constitution is a big deal, and it should not be a lightly, shallow, and thoughtlessly asserted right.

I’m not advocating to blindly follow our leaders, since we can still elect them, petition them, and protest against them.

By: Evan Ravitz

Evan Ravitz — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:45:25 +0000

PS: “The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.” –George Washington

“We want saints and gurus and leaders and heroes because we are lazy. We think they have done all the work, and all that we have to do is just to follow them. You know, when you follow somebody, you’re not only destroying yourself, but the other whom you follow.”
-Krishnamurti

“The age of the leaders has come and gone. Every person must be their own leader now. You must remove your projection, and contain the spirit of our time in your own life and your own nature because to go the old way and follow your leader is a form of psychological imprisonment.” and “There is a very profound reason why there are no great leaders any more. It is because they are no longer needed.”
-Sir Laurens van der Post, statesman, military leader, author and close friend of Carl Jung