Could be
and perhaps in the town with michel's favorite mayor, it could make a difference. But judging by the people i spoke with there the cynicism towards correa is complete as well it should be.
I would have appreciated knowing that originators of FLOK were all spaniards - and yet qe were supposed to assume that the ecuadoran government right up to the president himself stood four square behind spaniards rather than its own citizens?
I appreciate Michel's candor and am certain that he is a man of his beliefs. BUT it turns out that he did virtually no due diligence on the background of his ecuadoran employers or on Correa's presidential policies. Ha he done so he would have found out that the rector of IAEN had called the brother of Rennee ramirez a liar in a radio broadcast on sept 9 and that this fact was reported in the quito press on sept 11. Carlos had budgetary authority - at lest Daniel Vasquez said he did but Senescyt, Ramizez's ministry was also a funder or sponsor of Michel's work. When they arrived in quito on about november 10, it probably should not have been surprising that no paperwork financial or other wise was in order.
While michel is preparing his report, anyone wishing to read mine may hit this URL
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I have said it before and will say so again. I figured Michel had done due diligence and if he said this stuff was real, well then it was real. I understand how when D vasquez emailed him last august 8 with the invitation to come to quito it was like manna from heaven or the kid in the candy store. I likely would have reacted in the same way. I do regret that during the 6 weeks in which he was delaying looking at my policy paper because Vasquez was telling him i was a cia agent he never cited this as the reason for his delay. He did not have a look until the last week in april. And twice in utter frustration i emailed him that i wanted to quit. He urged me not to. So i stuck with it until vasquez lied about my promised ticket and tried to threaten me,
I remain fully supportive of what p2p foundation is all about but i simply don't see what there is to be gained by trying to salvage anything from the truly bizarre and disgraceful effort of the flok. Lessons learned? yes. but if NSA and its ILK had wanted a huge psyops operation to make our ideas look foolish, they could not have hoped for better than what the spaniards served up to them
Keep in mind that the research papers of the flok project can become part of a political movement of the commons in Equador.
Even revolutionaries engage in movements that request from the government to pass some laws.
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