[Spam] RE: [Vision2020] Leaflets and Silence

[matt]

 "My fellow Americans. I'm pleased to announce that I've signed legislation outlawing the Soviet Union. We begin bombing in five minutes."

Ronald Reagan 
President, United States of America.


> "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
> 
>