From: peb@PROCASE.COM (Paul Baclace)
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 93 18:13:06 PDT
To: tcmay@netcom.com
Subject: Re: CA online legislative database access
Message-ID: <9308140110.AA02254@banff.procase.com>
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I agree with sentiments against a direct democracy for all the reasons
given and some extra reasons:  laws should have expiration dates and
a better feedback process is needed to determine whether particular
laws are beneficial (hmm, sounds like PPL.)  

The real problem seems to be a general lack of education and wealth, but
there is always the bell curve--such things will always be unevenly
distributed.

However, tracking proposed laws via the net creates the possibility
of anyone being able to have a cheap lobbyist--the stuff can
be posted and filtered, etc.  This has nothing to do with people
proposing stupid laws whenever they feel like it (this would require
more significant legal changes).


Paul E. Baclace
peb@procase.com