[Vision2020] No I Won't! ...call me a Fool

Tue, 3 Feb 2004 05:48:48 EST

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Mark and All:

Thanks for your thoughtful reply! 

One person's struggle against what they find of critical importance to oppose 
will be to someone else of a different mindset an effort with a "negative 
pallor."  No doubt there are many tax paying patriotic citizens in Moscow who 
think the anti-war protests in Friendship Square also are an effort with a 
"negative pallor" that undermines our country's war efforts that has little to do 
with improving or helping the local community.  I don't agree with this 
assessment, but no doubt I am accurately describing what many think.

I surmise that you would like V2020 to be more focused on local issues 
defined in a certain way, and many agree with you, I know.  However, it has become a 
truism of modern life that the world is more and more interconnected in ways 
that dictate that what happens at the national and international level will 
impact local issues and vice versa, so the division of issues into local, 
regional, national, or international is becoming blurred or downright irrelevant.

I think the possibility that for whatever reason, Moscow could be perceived 
as a center for religious extremism associated with denying women leadership 
roles, or neo-confederate Christian sympathizing, or Gay persecution based on a 
"God" endorsed moral code requiring draconian sanctions against Gays, or for 
those who wish to dismantle the public schools, is an issue of importance that 
is both local and regional or national at once.  Furthermore, though there may 
be an exaggeration of the extent to which these just mentioned views of 
certain religious groups in our area (and in saying this I am deliberately 
including more than one religious group) can or will impact the community, the 
potential for greater impact on Moscow and the area is a possibility that I do not 
think indicates the issues should be ignored or downplayed.

I do agree that there are other issues very worthy of discussion on V2020 
that do get ignored, like the proposed rock crushing site north of Moscow, and 
all the other issues you raised.

Ted

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