Wednesday, April 28, 2010

President of AOC or AOC President


I didn't want to bring this up, but as it is public knowledge - if you read Salient or if you accidentally stumble across his blog, but Rick "My argument is so powerful" Giles is still claiming to be the President of ACT on Campus (AOC).

But is he?

Not according to any of the AOC membership. Not according to the ACT Party. Not according to the past membership of AOC of which I was a part of.

So who recognises Rick Giles as AOC President? Apparently, it's all in his head. He has even dismissed the entire current AOC executive under his orders and intends on staying on as president.

I have some suggestions to Rick - before you destroy AOC because you cannot get a basic grip on reality. Leave.

If you want to be President of AOC I have some other suggestions for you:

AOC - Adelaide Ornithologists Club I'm sure Adelaide needs another bird watcher.

AOC - Albanian Orthodox Church. because I'm sure they'd appreciate somebody with a god complex like you have.

or perhaps the Aliança Operário-Camponesa now known as the Worker-Peasant Alliance which is the front of the Communist Party of Portugal. Their leader Eduíno Gomes, quite like Rick Giles, left the Communist Party of Portugal (Marxist-Leninist) and set up his own Communist Party but called it the Communist Party of Portugal (Marxist–Leninist)(1974) so maybe Rick could call his new organisation ACT on Campus 2010... or better still, get out of student politics altogether.

Disclosure - I am speaking on my own behalf and not on behalf of anybody in ACT or ACT on Campus. This is purely my grumpy and tired rant at somebody who seems hell bent on ruining an organisation I have been a part of since 1995.

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2 Comments:

Anonymous Nick Archer said...

Clint I like the reference to the Communist infighting that usually goes on.

They are usually always Trotskyist sects except for the ones in your example (Maoist sects which are of course complete anathema to all of those Trot sects by the way).

Yes it (Giles' AOC) is looking more bizarre than a Trot sect. But there seems to be no sectarianism involved (arguments on ideology/theory) which makes it even more bizarre and out there as ACT has a brand as an ideological/philosophical party.

It is an old fashioned argument (on Giles' part) based on power as opposed to ideology.

So Giles' AOC is not a usual breakaway sect but is more like a CULT... And the Cult of Personality is Giles' ego...

This is certainly confirmed when the ENTIRE membership wants him out and the Party wants him out too...

His arguments aside (procedural and consitutional) he could only hope for a very hollow and pyrrhic victory as he will have no membership anyway if his delusions of granduer played out as he imagines...

I think he should just cut his losses and run (to somewhere more bizarre for him like Libertarianz)...

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