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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:02:54 -0500
Subject: It can be concluded that Alcor has no members

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I read Charles Platt's message #29972 "Lack of voting privileges of Alcor
members" from yesterday with considerable interest.

Although Wikipedia, which Charles used as a tool, is not a legitimate
"source" per se, being rather an encyclopaedic medium each article for
which is written by "somebody" and the better ones cite their sources, it
is useful as a starting point to find things to go after.  The following
entry is of interest:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonprofit

... in which we find the following paragraph:

"Nonprofits can have members but many do not. The nonprofit may also be a
trust or association of members. The organization may be controlled by
its members who elect the Board of Directors, Board of Governors or Board
of Trustees. Nonprofits may have a delegate structure to allow for the
representation of groups or corporations as members. Alternately, it may
be a non-membership organization and the board of directors may elect its
own successors."

Whoever wrote this, who probably never even heard of Alcor,  thinks that
nonprofits where the board of directors elects its own successors, is not
a membership organization!

Perhaps Alcor should, then, either allow its alleged members their
commonly-understood rights to vote for the board, or should stop
promoting the falsehood that it has members at all, and instead call them
what they really are -- clients or customers.  Or maybe patients.  At
least it calls them "patients" after they deanimate.  Why not before? 

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