Convienient Lies
Before we get to specifics it might be in order to discuss the Nature of Truth, Untruth and Lies
While it is True that ALL Lies are Untrue
It is Not True that all Untruths are Lies
We have to include Mistakes and Human Error.
What mistakes could lead one to uttering something Untrue?
Possibly Ignorance, that is lack of knowledge
Or
Someone could be told something that is Untrue by a person they trust and repeat it.
Our Executive Board and our Chair in particular have in the recent past kept repeating something that is patently Untrue
That All motions and decisions of the Body are voided by an Executive Election.
How do we KNOW this is untrue?
Well for one thing someone with the username jknox65 asked that very same question on the Official Robert's Rules or Order Discussion Forum and was given an emphatic
NO
It turns out that username is also the Facebook Username of our Webmaster James Knox. Still the forum does not have photos so the possiblity does remain that there might be another jknox65 out there in the world wide web.
However if you google jknox65 you get a LOT of hits with his photo
So I would expect that the probability that the Robert's Rules Discusion Forum jknox65 is our jknox65 to be so close to 100% that one might die of old age before they finished listing all the required 9s.
If you wish to see the forum qestion and answers just go HERE and put jknox65 in the search field
You will see the question and the answers and you will see a quote from Robert's Rules or Order Newly Revised 11th Edition
"Unless an adopted main motion specifies a time for
the termination of its effect, it continues in force until
it is rescinded." (RONR 11th ed., p. 111, ** footnote)
So what does this tell us?
First that the claim that motiions made before the Officers Elections are voided is Untrue
AND
That Mr Knox, a person close to the
Executive Committee, was aware of this FACT back on
the 28th of January
It does not tell us whether Mr Knox shared this with the other members of the Exective Committee
We have no way of knowing WHERE they got the False information from in the first place
We do know that I have repeatedly refuted their claim and presented evidence and that they have repeatedly made the same claim
Perhaps they never read my articles
However
During the May Meeting a member of the Committee rose and READ from Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised 11th edition page 111
the above quote
"Unless an adopted main motion specifies a time for
the termination of its effect, it continues in force until
it is rescinded." (RONR 11th ed., p. 111, ** footnote)
The responce was that the Executive Committee would take it under advisement?
That they would investigate it?
LOOK AT IT.
It is in PLAIN ENGLISH the BOOK was right there.
The only germane quesiton would have been were those words actually IN that copy of Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised 11th Edition,
Anyone who has a Problem understanding that sentence and needs to "take it under advisement" and have the Executive Committee "investigate it"???
Should probably never try to walk and chew gum at the same time
One other thing we do know now, is that anyone capable of understanding that sentence, who was at the May Meeting of the LCRCC no longer has any excuses
If they continue to make that same claim they will have passed out of the area of Mistakes and Human Error and entered the Land of Lies
Or they might just be mentally deficient rather than morally deficient
