[Vision2020] Boarding Houses Complaint

[Donovan Arnold]

Joan Opyr writes:


PPS: Do something with your life, Donovan.  You're not too young to 
enlist.  Or join the Peace Corps.  Or go build houses for Habitat for 
Humanity.  There are people out there who are the genuine victims of 
persecution -- learn to speak Spanish, or Chinese, or Vietnamese, or 
the language of the working class, and get yourself out there and help 
them.  Waving your short sword around in defense of a load of fat, 
bearded, privileged white guys is just plain sad.
  
  Yes Joan, I want to enlist. Especially since I know the US, especially  Bush, has only used its troops for good actions in the last 50 years.  As for learning a new language, I am having enough trouble with  English, especially in written form. In terms of helping the poor, the  disadvantaged, the down trodden, and the ignored, I have not needed to  leave Moscow for that. Why don't you try to do something with your life  Joan? You are still living with your parents at nearly 40 years old,  and your job is about making people feel bad and dividing the  community. Why not put your writing skills to good use, building  communities, building people up, instead of ripping them down all the  time? When was the last time Joan Opyr helped a member of her community  through action, not just rhetoric? Spending your life sitting in your  parents basement with cats and personally attacking a group of people  because they are white fat bearded Christians that disagree with your 
 viewpoint in life is truly sad and a waste of your literary talents. 
  
  _DJA

Joan Opyr <joanopyr at moscow.com> wrote:  On Apr 11, 2006, at 7:59 PM, J Ford wrote:

> Of course, his "blogmiester"Courtney has to have his say:
>
> "I wonder how this complaint would be handled if it had the names of 
> 20 black families on the list? Or 20 Jewish families on the list. 
> What's next: mandatory arm bands? "

First, I would challenge Dale to name 20 black families, or 20 Jewish 
families, or 20 families period outside of his immediate social group 
who believe that being called to answer for blatant and repeated 
violations of the law is "persecution."  Second, if I were Dale, I 
would be damned careful not to go down the armband route; that leads to 
a pretty offensive analogy, and one that does not hold up under 
scrutiny.

Instead, I suggest that Dale and his illegal boarding house cronies 
pony up for matching T-shirts that read "Serial Offender.  What are you 
looking at?"

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
www.joanopyr.com

PS: My father-in-law, Don Huskey, is a decorated Marine Corps veteran.  
He's a man I love and admire for his kindness, his rationality, his 
unfailing courage and his strength of character.  Don Huskey signed his 
boarding house complaint (which, I would note, was only one of three).  
Putting your name to a civic action that is bound to win you as many 
enemies as it does friends is not the mark of a coward.  A coward is a 
snotty little git who sits on his fat fanny in a dimly-lit room and 
types empty insults on a public chat group.

PPS: Do something with your life, Donovan.  You're not too young to 
enlist.  Or join the Peace Corps.  Or go build houses for Habitat for 
Humanity.  There are people out there who are the genuine victims of 
persecution -- learn to speak Spanish, or Chinese, or Vietnamese, or 
the language of the working class, and get yourself out there and help 
them.  Waving your short sword around in defense of a load of fat, 
bearded, privileged white guys is just plain sad.

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