[lac-discuss-en] This Tiresome 'Irregularity' Claim Against At-Large Staff

[Carlton Samuels]

I am trying to live a long and useful life. Engagement with LACRALO is
debilitating.

I am not communicant - I gave it up since I was 14 years old - so cannot
depend on a 'good' God for my salvation. So for objective, I do what I must
by avoiding vexations to my spirit.

But the bullshit - I hope the word translates well to Spanish - is just too
much and I must break my silence.

In case the translation gets mangled, here is what I mean by bullshit:

Definitions of bullshit
noun
stupid or untrue talk or writing; nonsense.
verb
talk nonsense to (someone), typically to be misleading or deceptive.


​It is misleading, even dishonest, to allege misconduct by At-Large staff
in this instance and I will tell you why.

Jacqueline has already pithily outlined the classic case but I will repeat
it here for effect.

In parts of the world where rules for [s]elections are established and
where this exercise of democracy is routine, a candidate satisfying all
other criteria and nominated for a position unopposed is duly [s]elected. ​

But this is LACRALO where our collective understanding of the process is,
well, let me be generous and say uneven, at best.

We simply don't understand that you cannot disavow or subvert the
nomination portion of the process without calling the entire [s]election
process into question.

So, we walk extra miles to give those who don't understand time to come
along, slowly.  That is the basis for the consensus poll - notice it is a
poll - and why we in the Caribbean bothered to go along with that in the
first place!

As At-Large staff would have told all of you, this is not the same for
other RALOs. They have matured in both thought and action.

Why does this bother me, you ask? Because it gets old and tiresome after
trying for so long. And since it vexes my spirit, I run the real risk of
reducing my life and its quality the longer I caucus here.

Now, to the hypocrites.  I ask your forgiveness for not being a good
Christian. I simply detest hypocrisy.

In the selection for a NomCom candidate this year, our esteemed colleague
from Brazil and incumbent, Sylvia Leite Herlein, was nominated unopposed.
I enthusiastically supported her candidacy, not just only for the fact she
had performed in the post. But I truly believe that a single 1-year term
does not give the region the benefit of her service and expertise nor allow
the region to build the influence we need in very important ICANN councils.

I personally discouraged - yes, discouraged - other nominations to muddy
the path to her re-selection. We went along with Jacqueline Morris being
de-selected after a single year. Maybe that was the wrong thing to do then.

With Sylvia's unopposed [s]election, no consensus poll took place.  And the
At-Large staff notified the world in the same way as they did for Lance
Hinds.

It was not that we in the Caribbean did not notice. Rather, it is because
we have never felt any such poll was necessary in the first place.

Contrast then to now. There was not a whimper of complaint from our now
erstwhile friends of LACRALO propriety, not one allegation of 'impropriety'
raised!

So now, I ask you, what is the difference here? We can either assume the
guardians of LACRALO propriety were off busily thumb-sucking, even asleep
at the switch.

Or, in this case for Lance Hinds nomination and selection, other operating
conditions are applied.

Go figure.

-Carlton Samuels

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