From: Henry P Towsner (htowsner_at_stanford.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 27 2002 - 10:34:39 PDT
Kindly ignore this. I accidentally sent it before finishing.
> From: H. Towsner, Associate Counsel for Stuff
> To: All FRC Legal Counsel
> Re: What is truth?
>
> I was recently speaking with our janitor (who, you will all
> recall, was determined to be a member of the FRC legal counsel during that
> attorney-client privilage unpleasantness), and he made an intriguing point.
> The ROs ("ten commandments," as he put it) state that "The Judge
> may determine the location and nature of the official committee forum."
> Now, as Storm has noted (192:6), if the Judge were the only person to vote
> on a proposal to retain him as Judge, he would be guaranteed victory. It
> follows that the Judge may *already* have done that, on a secret official
> forum of which we are unaware, voted for it, and is merely waiting the
> requisite three days before announcing his plan. Indeed, perhaps this
> explains his mysterious three day disappearance.
> There is a small difficulty, namely the first clause of RO10: "All
> actions under these rules must be accomplished by a public posting in the
> official committee forum." It could be argued that "determining" is an
> action, and so an announcement would be required, giving us the
> opportunity to also send messages to the forum. This problem is easily
> solved: the Judge could move the forum to something inaccessible to us
> (for instance by mandating that all communication be in the form of
> secrets whispered to him at midnight under a full moon), and then make the
> proposal, vote for it, and wait.
>
> --
> Rule Date: 2002-08-27 17:32:31 GMT
>
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Rule Date: 2002-08-27 17:35:01 GMT
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