[Vision2020] Open debate

[Donovan Arnold]

Mr. Hansen,

Thanks for the clarifications and that you did  go to at least one meeting 
held by Raul, and I do appreciate you going to that one. Needless to say 
that was not the one that the administration had to decide to keep the 
department or not. I know who was at that one. We have no office of Human 
Rights anymore.

A point of clarification for you, there were representatives many of the 
churches defending Christ Church. I think the more and more you continue to 
attack the personality of Wilson and people around him, and not his ideas, 
the smaller your group is getting.

Like I said, I am all for challenging Wilson, and his ideology. But some of 
you are doing it in a way that frightens me and is similar to McCarthyism. 
You don't just attack Wilson, you attack anyone attached to him, and anyone 
that questions your methods.

Take Care,

Donovan J Arnold

>From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
>To: <DonaldH675 at aol.com>, <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Open debate
>Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 05:35:40 -0800
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>Thank you, Rose.
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>Your words are extremely well written and heart-felt.
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>Remember last year just prior to the "History" Conference?  Remember the
>Equality Coalition headed by UI's very own Human Relations, Raul Sanchez?
>Many of us here on this listserve were members of that coalition, including
>an alliance of local churches.
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>One question that should be answered:  Why haven't any local churches come
>to the aid of Christ Church?
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>Tom Hansen
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>Not On The Palouse (or Minnetonka, Minnesota, or Cary, North Carolina, or
>Monroe, Louisiana), Not Ever
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>We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some 
>are
>dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all
>exist very nicely in the same box.
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>From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
>On Behalf Of DonaldH675 at aol.com
>Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 11:39 PM
>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: [Vision2020] Open debate
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>Vision 2020 is a forum for public debate.  No single member is or should be
>in a position to control the conversation, set the ground rules or decide
>what is or is not a matter of interest or a worthy topic. .
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>Silence is assent.  If you doubt that, review the history of the German
>people prior to World War II. Humor is a powerful weapon, even, or perhaps
>especially, when it is pointed. It is one that I prefer to use in the hope
>of deflecting the stones that will be literally thrown by the enthusiastic
>supporters of a theocratic government, if their political dreams come true.
>It is arguably easier to pretend that no threat to our community and its
>citizens exist. I suppose it is less threatening (on a personal level) to
>ignore the civic and social impact of a hate group than to go head to head
>and toes to toes with their leadership . I wouldn't know.
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>For those that choose the path of moral cowardice, apathy, or social
>convenience, based on an incredibly naive lets-all-be-friends-together
>philosophy, know that you do it at the expense of those of us who will not
>be intimidated, silenced, intellectually befuddled by pseudo -religious
>babble.  It is not an unpleasant task to confront bigotry, racism, and
>homophobia.  But it is a heavy burden to tote that load for a bunch of
>self-styled liberals who have the unmitigated gall to flap their 
>ineffective
>wings like ostriches from the moral high ground of their own self-righteous
>indignation when their sensibilities are wounded.
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>There is a never ending laundry lists of projects or concerns that if
>solved, or in some cases, even seriously addressed, would improve the
>quality of life in Moscow and on the Palouse.  All of these issues are
>important.  But I can promise you that if local government and civil 
>leaders
>are guided by a philosophy that doesn't support public schools, equal
>employment opportunity for women and minorities, fair and equitable 
>property
>tax, city ordinances and county statues that are drawn not form Leviticus
>but Idaho and U.S. code, none of you will give a damn about getting
>sidewalks shoveled when it snows.  By then, you will have more pressing
>issues on your minds.
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>Rose Huskey
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>And no, Dale Courtney, you do not have my permission to cut and paste this
>onto your blog site.
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>"One cannot level one's moral lance at every evil in the universe. There 
>are
>just too many of them. But you can do something, and the difference between
>doing something and doing nothing is everything." Daniel Berrigan
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