[Vision2020] Leaflets and Silence

Fri, 9 Jan 2004 07:27:21 -0800

Now *THAT* is funny!  The joys of a president with a sense of humor.

DC

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 "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)
> 
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> Behalf Of Jack Van Deventer
>   Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 7:59 PM
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> 
>   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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