[Vision2020] Fishing with Doug Wilson

[Saundra Lund]

What pops into my mind about Wilson's latest shenanigans is that people who
live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.


JMHO,
Saundra Lund
Moscow, ID

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
nothing.
Edmund Burke

-----Original Message-----
From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of joanopyr at earthlink.net
Sent: Monday, 23 May 2005 3:26 PM
To: Vision2020 Moscow
Subject: [Vision2020] Fishing with Doug Wilson

Okay, it's not as much fun as "Fishing with Orlando Wilson," who uses a
boat, and a fish finder, and a rod and a reel, but I suppose fishing with
Doug is a kind of sport.  It's bad sport, but sport nonetheless.
 
This past weekend, Doug promised a "surprise" for the residents of Moscow to
be delivered today.  And, voila!  Here it is.  From his blog
(http://dougwils.com) today:
 
 
"A Little Seven On Five
Topic: Moscow Diversity Cleansing


This morning I filed a public records request with the City of Moscow. In
that request I asked for "all notes or records of communication between city
council members and any other person, regarding a 'neo-confederate'
resolution and Black History Month proclamation entered at the Moscow City
Council meeting of February 3, 2004." I also requested relevant minutes from
the human rights commission.

The reason? If you are one of five basketball players in blue uniforms, and
you are playing a team of seven -- five red uniforms, and two black and
white stripes -- the resultant game can be no fun at all. "Yes, we know the
ball went through the hoop. It did not count as a score because only you
fundamentalists think in black and white terms like this. Continue to push
the point, and we will have ourselves a technical."

We have gotten to the place in our proceedings where we need to know exactly
where our elected city officials stand on the harassment that our church and
related ministries have undergone over the course of the last several years.
Prospective candidates for city council need to be prepared to say whether
they think the rash of harassment filings against us are a coincidence or
not. And existing council members need to tell us whether they have
participated in any way in arranging for these "coincidences."

I am not making the request because of creeping paranoia. We already have in
our possession documented evidence of certain elected city officials
actively working in this campaign of harassment against us. So this is not a
"fishing expedition" to see if anything like this happened. We already know
that it did, and the only question concerns how extensive the problem was.

And, at the very least, such implicated officials ought to recuse themselves
from any future tournament play. That is because referees don't get to
dribble or shoot.

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Doug claims that he is not making this request because of "creeping
paranoia," but that's arguable.  He is certainly revealing a good deal about
the way he thinks about and operates in the world.  First, he reckons
there's some giant, organized, Liberal cabal against him.  There's not.
Speaking as a lifelong Liberal, and one of Moscow's loudest, I can assure
you that the best we can organize is the occasional march, rally, or rousing
chorus of "We Shall Overcome."  The rest of the time, we're too busy looking
for universal consensus with one another to get anything big done.  Big
takes top-down organization on a more, shall we say, fascist level.  Second,
it's clear that Doug directly conflates himself with Christ Church.  In his
own mind, he *is* Christ Church.  Without him, there is no church, there is
no congregation, and there is no convenant with the Almighty.  Fascinating.
A rag! ing case of megalomania with a side order of sociopathy and
narcissism right here on our doorstep.
 
It's not anywhere near my birthday, but I nevertheless thank Doug for this
springtime "surprise."  Should I ever return to university to do that PhD in
Abnormal Psychology, I've already got my dissertation half-written.  I'm
going to call it "Fear and Loathing in Las Kirkas."
 
I'd rather be (deep-sea) fishing,
 
Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
www.auntie-establishment.com