[Vision2020] City Council's selective compassion

[g. crabtree]

Ms. Joan, Thank you for your concern for my temper and constitution. It will be unnecessary for you to procure remedies on my behalf as I have just polished off a brace of orphans and washed then down with a pint of widows tears.

 In my life I have been a boarder, a tenant, a freeloader, and a property owner ( as much as is possible in a world of property taxes and nanny government ) among other things and have found each of them to have varying degrees of trials and tribulation. The point I was trying to make, ( poorly, apparently ) is that there is no similarity between the plight of Mr. Macks former tenants and N.S.A. If any comparison were to be made it would be between Mr. Mack & N.S.A. Both being property owners unfairly castigated for having the effrontery to want to put their property to productive use.
 
But why do we continue the charade of caring about property rights, parking, and downtown business people when the actual goal is so plain to see. It seems clear to me that 'fairness" has nothing to do with this discussion. It is just another tool to prod at a local man, school, and faith community that has some how offended you and your peanut gallery. Lets be clear, this is just fine by me, everyone needs a hobby but lets leave the overblown rhetoric ( cruelty, injustice, etc.) out of this and just say it plain I HATES EM, I HATES EM, I HATES EM. You'll feel better and no one will have need for a purgative.

faithfully, G. Crabtree
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Joan Opyr 
  To: g. crabtree 
  Cc: Vision2020 Moscow 
  Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 6:16 PM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] City Council's selective compassion



  On 13 Dec 2005, at 07:08, g. crabtree wrote:


    Miss Opyr, You and Mr. Hansen seem to have overlooked the line in my communiqué that read "What he did with it subsequently..." however it seems clear to me that further discussion would be an intrusion on the little mutual admiration society that you and your chums have going here, and far be it from me to try and disrupt your quaint little notions of "fairness."
    Gee Crabtree
     
    P.S. With regard to the business proposal you mentioned, wouldn't this simply be a change in scope as opposed to function?


  My goodness, how prim. Please, call me Joan. My copy of Emily Post's Book of Etiquette (circa 1934) tells me that as a "divorcee," I am no longer a "Miss." My copy of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique tells me that what I'm a "Ms.," and that, in fact, is the title I prefer. Technically, I suppose you could address me as "The Reverend Joan Opyr," as I am an ordained minister of the Universal Life Church (www.ulc.org), but I've never been one to stand on ceremony -- not when I can tap dance.

  So, in your opinion, my objection to Dan Mack's kicking 14 families out of their homes represents a "quaint little notion of fairness?" Then I can only surmise that you own rather than rent on Planet Scrooge. Quaint isn't the term I would use to describe Mack's actions -- or City Council's and the County's complicity -- I prefer the words cruelty, injustice, and dirty dealing. I have compared the Mack Renaissance Trailer Park case to the Wilson NSA case, and what I have found is that the City doesn't give a rat's ass about citizens unless they're rich, powerful, or part of the Old Boys' Network. I don't know if you're part of the Old Boys' Network or not; I don't especially care. If you believe that landlords should be free to run amok over the rights of tenants, then I think you need a chain-rattling visit from Jacob Marley's ghost. There's libertarianism, and then there's just plain meanness.

  Gee Whiz. 

  Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
  www.joanopyr.com

  PS: You sound kind of peevish. Is this something that Fletcher's Castoria might handle or should Tom and I pretend to stop agreeing with one another? The latter, I fear, is not very likely, but the former will only cost you a mere $6 a bottle at Rite-Aid. I'm willing to kick in half if you think it will improve your temper. How about it, Tom -- want to donate the other $3?

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