[Vision2020] attacking our neighbors

[keely emerinemix]

I'm sorry you're leaving, Kathy, because it sounds like you have some 
insight to offer.  I would say, though, that many of us have been provoked 
and taunted on Vision, and most of us try to not fly off the handle and spew 
verbal vomit toward others.  I wish that I had responded better than I have 
in some cases; other times I wonder if I've been too mild.  We all struggle 
with that balance.

And I think most of us would agree that "douchebag" doesn't demonstrate a 
whole lot of that.

keely


From: "Katherine Sprague" <kathys at moscow.com>
Reply-To: kathys at moscow.com
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] attacking our neighbors
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:16:19 -0800

I have lurked on Vision 2020 for months now and I cringe on a daily basis 
while reading
the bile people spew forth. The recent attacks on Gary Crabtree have 
appalled me to
the point where I can no longer remain even as a lurker.
Certainly Joan is a very clever writer but she is also the person who 
provoked Gary's
outburst. Remember the bully who would smile at the teacher and then kick 
you under
the lunchroom table until you finally snapped and dumped that carton of 
nearly rotten
milk over their head?
  I am no fan of Doug's nor his congregation, hell I remember his group 
picketing a gay
dance with placards reading "AIDS Inoculation Center". This only 3 weeks 
after my
friend David died in my arms from complications of AIDS. Of course noone 
will question
whether or not this incident occurred because I am relating an anti-Doug 
story. It is as
real as the vandalism to the Lock Shop.
  Reading the tirades on vision 2020 I am almost on the side of the Kirkers. 
Please
people, use arguments of substance, boycott their businesses, and move on. 
Both of
my businesses have been Vandalized over the past 17 years, sometimes by the 
Right
and sometimes by the Left. Sometimes it has been worth reporting to the 
police and
sometimes I just wash the bible quotes and death threats off of the sidewalk 
and go on
with my day.
The hypocrisy of who has a right to name call and who doesn't has finally 
worn so thin I
feel I must depart.

Kathy Sprague

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