[Vision2020] Leaflets and Silence

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"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of
others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of
hope."

Robert F. Kennedy
(1925-1968, American Attorney General, Senator)

  -----Original Message-----
  From: vision2020-admin@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-admin@moscow.com]On
Behalf Of Jack Van Deventer
  Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 7:59 PM
  To: vision2020@moscow.com
  Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Leaflets and Silence

  Lions and tigers and bears!  OH MY!!!

  Have a beer, Rose, and enjoy a good book.

  Jack

  __________________________________

  Jack Van Deventer

  jack@moscowUSA.com

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  From: vision2020-admin@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-admin@moscow.com] On
Behalf Of DonaldH675@aol.com
  Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 7:44 PM
  To: vision2020@moscow.com
  Subject: [Vision2020] Leaflets and Silence

  Visionaries:

  Tolerance is a two edged sword.  We all enjoy and expect our first
amendment rights to be protected.  I don't believe that many Vision 2020
readers wish to abridge those rights, even if we are offended (or enraged)
by the content of some viewpoints.  However, free speech is not the same
thing as free speech used to mask a religious agenda that includes the goal
of destroying our Constitution.  Ironically, that is the ploy employed by
theonomists.

  Hiding behind their constitutional right of free speech they promote a
philosophy that would effectively obliterate freedom of religion, freedom of
speech, gut our judicial system, and install a Big Brother in our living
rooms.  Are theonomists entitled to their pipe dreams?  Absolutely --
although under their rule I would not be entitled to mine.  Gagged by the
fear of appearing intolerant some of us are, in effect, doing the
theonomists' work for them.

  Many V2020 contributors have suggested that those of us who speak out
should mind our own business, live and let live, and not push our world
views on others.  Although my worldview may be offensive to some and
celebrated by others, let me assure you that I don't have a far-reaching
plan, much less willing disciples to inflict my worldview on the Palouse or
anywhere else. I hope our politically moderate and, particularly, our
leaning-toward-the-left contributors/sympathizers will reflect on the
following compare and contrast exercise.

  In 1999, Doug Wilson and Doug Jones dreamed up the notion of blanketing
the University of Idaho with their (yes, sigh, once again self-published)
leaflets entitled "Topless and Proud."  Wilson describes this behavior as a
"prank." In actuality this puerile, adolescent attempt at humor was a
deliberate effort to mock and discredit the university and in the process
ridicule Moscow's progressive community.  (See:  Credenda Agenda, Vol. 11,
Issue 3, column headed "Rattle and Hum"

<http://www.credenda.org/issues/11-3meander.php> for Wilson's jocular
planning and execution of this "prank." Incidentally, you won't find any
explanation of the Beavis and Butthead breast-related humor that seems to be
a reoccurring theme in other "skylarking" events and writings.

  Doug Wilson endorsed and helped create a lie, dismissed the lie as
"high-jinks" and chortled over the resulting embarrassment to the
University.  But ah, the wheel turns. More recently, I am told, he is
actively engaged in courting senior university and state officials in a
sniveling bid for their support and sympathy against genuinely trained
academics.

  In contrast, we have yet to have a gain a clear explanation from Doug
Wilson about the purported  slanders, lies, and distortions in the leaflet
that accurately quoted Doug Wilson's and Steve Wilkins' historic
interpretation on slavery and race relations in the ante-bellum south.
Where are the lies?  Where is the slander?  Indeed, where are the
historians?

  If any of you excuse your silence on the local theonomists by indulging in
the misguided notion that Doug Wilson and his comrades are just a little
local church desiring only to be left alone to worship God in their own
covenantal way, its time for you take your mind out of neutral and put it in
gear.  You are engaged in wishful thinking and liberal lethargy.  Christian
Reconstruction (aka) theonomy is a national movement.  It has specific long
range goals.  (Some of which you may have enjoyed reading about it in the
recent theomonic laws thread.)  Doug Wilson's guests at the forthcoming
opinion conference, George Grant and Steve Wilkins, are enmeshed in the
Christian Reconstructionist and the neo-Confederate movements.   Note
please: Doug denies that he is a card carrying Recon .  It is perhaps just a
happy accident that his pronouncements and writings mirror the Recon agenda
and share religious doctrines.  It is also the case that if information
chasms can't be leapt, a slippery little rhetorical device known as "the
covenantal lie" can bridge any awkward gaps.  (For those of us who always
thought a lie was a lie, it's not. It's not really a lie if a "Saint" is
protecting or extending the covenant.)

  Those of you who mistakenly believe that by choosing silence you have
staked a claim on the moral high ground, lets be clear, you haven't.  For
those delicate brothers and sisters among us who won't censure the local
theonomists because they wish to retain an unblemished reputations as
broadminded liberals, please reconsider your motives. Consider who and what
you are really defending.

  Rose Huskey

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<P><FONT size=3D2>"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to =
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hope."<BR><BR>Robert F. Kennedy<BR>(1925-1968, American Attorney =
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  <DIV class=3DOutlookMessageHeader dir=3Dltr align=3Dleft><FONT =
face=3DTahoma=20
  size=3D2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> =
vision2020-admin@moscow.com=20
  [mailto:vision2020-admin@moscow.com]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Jack Van=20
  Deventer<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, January 08, 2004 7:59 =
PM<BR><B>To:</B>=20
  vision2020@moscow.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Vision2020] Leaflets and =

  Silence<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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  <P class=3DMsoNormal><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman" color=3Dblue =
size=3D3><SPAN=20
  style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue">Lions and tigers and =
bears!&nbsp; OH=20
  MY!!!</SPAN></FONT></P>
  <P class=3DMsoNormal><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman" color=3Dblue =
size=3D3><SPAN=20
  style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue">Have a beer, Rose, and enjoy a =
good=20
  book.</SPAN></FONT></P>
  <P class=3DMsoNormal><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman" color=3Dblue =
size=3D3><SPAN=20
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  <P class=3DMsoNormal><FONT face=3DArial color=3Dnavy size=3D2><SPAN=20
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Tahoma">=20
  vision2020-admin@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-admin@moscow.com] =
<B><SPAN=20
  style=3D"FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of=20
  </SPAN></B>DonaldH675@aol.com<BR><B><SPAN=20
  style=3D"FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thursday, January 08, =
2004 7:44=20
  PM<BR><B><SPAN style=3D"FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B>=20
  vision2020@moscow.com<BR><B><SPAN=20
  style=3D"FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [Vision2020] Leaflets =
and=20
  Silence</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
  <P class=3DMsoNormal><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D3><SPAN=20
  style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT>&nbsp;</P>
  <P class=3DMsoNormal><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D3><SPAN=20
  style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Visionaries: </SPAN></FONT></P>
  <P class=3DMsoNormal><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D3><SPAN=20
  style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT>&nbsp;</P>
  <P class=3DMsoNormal><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D3><SPAN=20
  style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Tolerance is a two edged sword.&nbsp; We all =
enjoy and=20
  expect our first amendment rights to be protected.&nbsp; I don't =
believe that=20
  many Vision 2020 readers wish to abridge those rights, even if we are =
offended=20
  (or enraged) by the content of some viewpoints.&nbsp; However, free =
speech is=20
  not the same thing as free speech used to mask a religious agenda that =

includes the goal of destroying our Constitution.&nbsp; Ironically, =
that is=20
 the ploy employed by theonomists.
 <SPAN=20
 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 12pt">&nbsp;
 <SPAN=20
 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Hiding behind their =
constitutional&nbsp;right=20
 of&nbsp;free speech they promote a philosophy that would effectively=20
 obliterate freedom of religion, freedom of speech, gut our judicial =
system,=20
 and install a Big Brother in our living rooms.&nbsp; Are theonomists =
entitled=20
 to their pipe dreams?&nbsp; Absolutely -- although under their rule I =
would=20
 not be entitled to mine.&nbsp; Gagged by the fear of appearing =
intolerant some=20
 of us are, in effect, doing the theonomists&#8217; work for=20
 them.&nbsp;
 <SPAN=20
 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 12pt">&nbsp;
 <SPAN=20
 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Many V2020 contributors have suggested that =
those of=20
 us who speak out should mind our own business, live and let live, and =
not push=20
 our world views on others.&nbsp; Although my worldview may be =
offensive to=20
 some and celebrated by others, let me assure you that I don't have a=20
 far-reaching plan, much less willing disciples to inflict my worldview =
on the=20
 Palouse or anywhere else. I hope our politically moderate and, =
particularly,=20
 our leaning-toward-the-left contributors/sympathizers will reflect on =
the=20
 following compare and contrast exercise.
 <SPAN=20
 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 12pt">&nbsp;
 <SPAN=20
 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 12pt">In 1999, Doug Wilson and Doug Jones dreamed =
up the=20
 notion of blanketing the University of Idaho with their (yes, sigh, =
once again=20
 self-published) leaflets entitled &#8220;Topless and =
Proud.&#8221;&nbsp; Wilson describes=20
 this behavior as a &#8220;prank.&#8221; In actuality this puerile, =
adolescent attempt at=20
 humor was a deliberate effort to mock and discredit the university and =
in the=20
 process ridicule Moscow's progressive community.&nbsp; (See:&nbsp;=20
 Credenda Agenda, =
Vol. 11,=20
 Issue 3, column headed &#8220;Rattle and Hum&#8221; 
 <SPAN=20
 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 12pt">&lt;<A=20
 =
href=3D"http://www.credenda.org/issues/11-3meander.php">http://www.creden=
da.org/issues/11-3meander.php</A>&gt;=20
 for Wilson's jocular planning and execution of this =
&#8220;prank.&#8221;&nbsp;=20
 Incidentally, you won't find any explanation of the Beavis and =
Butthead=20
 breast-related humor that seems to be a reoccurring theme in other=20
 &#8220;skylarking&#8221; events and writings.&nbsp; 
 <SPAN=20
 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 12pt">&nbsp;
 <SPAN=20
 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Doug Wilson endorsed and helped create a =
lie,=20
 dismissed the lie as &#8220;high-jinks&#8221; and chortled over the =
resulting=20
 embarrassment to the University.&nbsp; But ah, the wheel turns. More =
recently,=20
 I am told, he is actively engaged in courting senior university and =
state=20
 officials in a sniveling bid for their support and sympathy against =
genuinely=20
 trained academics.
 <SPAN=20
 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 12pt">&nbsp;
 <SPAN=20
 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 12pt">In contrast, we have yet to have a gain a =
clear=20
 explanation from Doug Wilson about the purported&nbsp; slanders, lies, =
and=20
 distortions in the leaflet that accurately quoted Doug Wilson's and =
Steve=20
 Wilkins&#8217; historic interpretation on slavery and race relations =
in the=20
 ante-bellum south.&nbsp; Where are the lies?&nbsp; Where is the =
slander?&nbsp;=20
 Indeed, where are the historians?&nbsp; 
 <SPAN=20
 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 12pt">&nbsp;
 <SPAN=20
 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 12pt">If any of you excuse your silence&nbsp;on =
the local=20
 theonomists&nbsp;by indulging in the misguided notion that Doug Wilson =
and his=20
 comrades are just a little local church desiring only to be left alone =
to=20
 worship God in their own covenantal way, its time for you take your =
mind out=20
 of neutral and put it in gear.&nbsp; You are engaged in wishful =
thinking and=20
 liberal lethargy.&nbsp; Christian Reconstruction (aka) theonomy is a =
national=20
 movement.&nbsp; It has specific long range goals.&nbsp; (Some of which =
you may=20
 have enjoyed reading about it in the recent theomonic laws =
thread.)&nbsp; Doug=20
 Wilson&#8217;s guests at the forthcoming opinion conference, George =
Grant and Steve=20
 Wilkins, are enmeshed in the Christian Reconstructionist and the=20
 neo-Confederate movements.&nbsp;&nbsp; Note please: Doug denies that =
he is a=20
 card carrying Recon .&nbsp; It is perhaps just a happy accident that =
his=20
 pronouncements and writings mirror&nbsp;the Recon agenda and=20
 share&nbsp;religious doctrines.&nbsp; It is also the case that if =
information=20
 chasms can't be leapt, a slippery little rhetorical device known as =
&#8220;the=20
 covenantal lie&#8221; can bridge any awkward gaps.&nbsp; (For those of =
us who always=20
 thought a lie was a lie, it's not. It's not really a lie if a =
&#8220;Saint&#8221; is&nbsp;=20
 protecting or extending the covenant.)
 <SPAN=20
 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 12pt">&nbsp;
 <SPAN=20
 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Those of you who mistakenly believe that by =
choosing=20
 silence you have staked a claim on the moral high ground, lets be =
clear, you=20
 haven't.&nbsp; For those delicate brothers and sisters among us who =
won't=20
 censure the local theonomists because they wish to retain an =
unblemished=20
 reputations as broadminded liberals, please reconsider your motives. =
Consider=20
 who and what you are really defending. 
 <SPAN=20
 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 12pt">&nbsp;
 <SPAN=20
 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Rose=20
Huskey</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>

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