In a message dated 11/4/2009 7:47:50 AM Pacific Standard Time, brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org writes:

Yes I did. It still violates all the WMF principles and policies I've
left above. If the Serbian mission statement allows it - the WMF will
withdraw approval for that mission statement and demand it be revised.>>

Then we will elect new Foundation members, which is our right.
We'll take the old ones out behind the barn and beat them.

The community drives the rules. The rules do not drive the community.
Do you have any other examples of the Foundation actually "demanding" something that the community was against? Or demanding it stop something that the community was for? I can't. This line of attack undermines the community as the ultimate force behind all results. We do not work for the foundation. The foundation works for us.

Will