Re: Expansion of the IAHC

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>]

Eugene Kashpureff writes:
> On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> > If we are playing the quota game (which personally repulses me), two
> > members of the IAHC are based in Geneva (which on my map appears to be
> > within the European continent), Jun Murai is Japanese, Hank is in
> > Israel, and Geoff is in Australia.
> 
> And NONE of them have the recognition of their respective governments.
> 
> Hardly International.

Er, you mean because they aren't recognised by their local governments
they aren't from those countries?

Anyway, I'm sure you'll have plenty more to say on this, but just as a
warning, I'm not replying to the thread any more. So far as I know,
the IAHC isn't changing composition in the near future, and talk about
that, or whether the IAHC should exist, or whether I have three heads,
or anything else like that, isn't productive. The current IAHC is in
place and is not going to dissolve itself or add enough members to
turn into the U.N. general assembly. Thats pretty much a set fact.
Given this, all discussion along those lines is pretty much pointless.

The IAHC going to be deliberating and coming to a decision within a
short time. If you want input into the decision, this is the place for
discussing that. If you spend your time trying to make sure that the
decisions are ones you like and can live with, I suspect you will be
happier with the outcome than if you spend your time trying to
convince the IAHC to commit mass suicide at dawn at or similar
pointless noise.


Perry
Speaking for myself, not for the IAHC in an official capacity, but I
suspect other IAHC members agree with me on this.