open meetings and public input

As I read and studied the reply of Mr. Steve Wilson, director of communications for the AG office in Arizona I was puzzled by his reply to several questions posed to him respecting open meeting laws and public input…?

I earnestly solicit your input and replies to the following…?

Assuming I am correctly interpreting Mr. Wilson reply, it appears that “we” – that’s you and me – do NOT have the right to participate in these open public meetings. “We” are merely to listen, ask no questions, demand no answers, seek not the truth, but meekly acquiesce to the pontification of the pubic officials. For whose benefit is any open public meeting being conducted…? It damn sure is not for mine, how about you…?

“We” currently have open meeting laws and provisions as part of rule and law because “we” chose not to exercise and clearly demonstrate that true power to govern resides solely with “us” – that’s you and me – and not with any elected bureaucrat or politician. “We’re” not heard or taken seriously because “we’re” not willing to stand up and demand to be heard in every public event, no exceptions. Yes, it could get messy, but then no one said that operating under the form of a representative democracy was clean, neat, tidy…?

If “we” want to participate “we” need to get the legislature to put that provision into place immediately. Despite of what the legislature might say they could enact provisions in a New York minute, granting us voice in all public meetings providing they knew “we” would exercise our power to enforce our decision.

It’s simply a matter of the true exercise of the “power of the people.”