[Vision2020] Does Ed Cooper = Ed Swan?

[keely emerinemix]

Joan, you've managed to demonstrate integrity, dignity, intelligence, humor 
and a damned fine piece of writing into this single post, and I'm grateful 
for the info from Chas, your admonishment to Ed, and to imagine the 
blathering and snorting from the all-boys clubhouse. It's better than the 
French Roast from my new coffeemaker.

Not to mention waiting to hear how ToeKnee spells my name this time.    
(Hint:  beginning with "ck" hasn't been tried.  I'll give you credit for 
it).

Anyway, Joan, this is why I'm proud to call you one of my closest friends, 
and why I'm not even quite as embarrassed as I have been that for a brief 
time in the 80s, my contribution to the Decade of Big Hair was a big, 
fluffy, permed . . . mullet.

Ouch.

keely


From: Joan Opyr <joanopyr at moscow.com>
To: Vision2020 Moscow <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Does Ed Cooper = Ed Swan?
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 14:32:30 -0700

On Apr 28, 2006, at 10:07 PM, Ed wrote:

>Very good detective work--I'm sure with the assistance of the Huskey's... 
>want my myspace URL as well?
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>http://blog.myspace.com/antidhimmism
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>be sure to read the blog...
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>I never used a pseudonym....just left out the last name for reasons to be 
>explained later..something to do with overzealous and vindictive 
>pontificates...
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>Ed

As a Huskey by marriage -- whether or not you, Ed, recognize my religious 
ceremony as valid -- I can assure you that no one in our collective 
household found you of sufficient interest to investigate.  I was told more 
than a week ago by one of Vision 2020's resident computer wizards that Ed 
Cooper and Ed Swan were the same person, and it amused me that you would 
blow onto this list pretending to the be the straightforward, honest, 
wrath-of-the-right, and yet hide your real name.  Why?  You may not be a 
paranoid doofus, but you sure seem to be playing one in cyberspace.

As for your cryptic reference to "overzealous and vindictive pontificates," 
who's after you, Ed?  The men in black?  Or are you just hoping to get your 
name back into the local newspapers and on Dale Courtney's blog?  Fame is 
fleeting, and FIRE has other, bigger fish to fry.  Still, lucky old you, Ed. 
  As a student, you can bandy about accusations of bias, bigotry and 
anti-Christian, anti-conservative maltreatment at the hands of a liberal and 
unGodly university, and no one who is in a position to know the full and 
complete story can answer you -- not legally, anyway.  In that horribly 
unreasonable and biased university, your right to privacy is absolute.  I 
remember when your one-sided story of foul abuse by a close-minded, liberal, 
dictatorial education department came to the attention of this list.  
Saundra Lund posted a piece reminding us all that your WSU professors and 
WSU administrators -- the people you accused of bigoted, heinous, anti-Ed 
behavior -- were prohibited by law from either defending themselves or 
answering you.  What a deal!  If Martha Stewart had enjoyed this kind of 
privileged protection, she wouldn't have spent six months in the clink.

BTW, as a writer for New West, I was interested in your case and your 
accusations, but no one at the university could confirm, deny, or in any way 
comment on your story.  Because I was unable to verify or counter any of 
your claims through legitimate channels, I didn't write about you -- unlike 
Dale Courtney, who was more than happy to promote your single-source sob 
story, I aspire to some modicum of integrity.  (Stop hissing and 
spluttering; we gays and lesbians do occasionally possess the blessings of 
the spirit.  My God is generous with all of her children.)

Under the circumstances, I suppose it's no wonder you've chosen to use a 
pseudonym.  It's no wonder you're so full of yourself.  You're used to 
having it all your own unchallenged way.  No one who might counter your 
cushy accusations with real hard facts is allowed to speak.  All are 
hamstrung by the law and by your right to privacy.  I'm tired of that; that 
wears me out.  I'm challenging you here and now Ed: if you have some 
genuine, verifiable piece of evidence that you were mistreated by 
"overzealous and vindictive pontificates," then produce it.  Name a "lesbian 
atheist" with whom you met.  How did you know she was an atheist?  Was it on 
her nameplate?  And how did you know she was a lesbian?  Did she play golf?  
Was she sporting a mullet?  Did she make you listen to k. d. lang singing 
"Skylark?"

Finally, is there a written record supporting any of your claims?  Do you 
have a tape or a transcript of some education professor telling you to sit 
down and shut up because you know "we" despise white Christian 
conservatives?  Will any of your fellow education students vouch for you?  
If you have anything, anything at all other than your own unsubstantiated 
blathering, then, as Chasuk says, the ACLU should take on your case.  I 
won't complain about them spending my annual membership dues to defend you, 
Ed.  Hell, I'll even send them an extra few bucks.  I believe in your First 
Amendment rights.  I believe in everyone's First Amendment rights.  But if 
you haven't got proof . . . well, I'm afraid you're just another "War 
Against Christmas" right-wing blowhard with bucket full of Kentucky Fried 
Victim-itis and two side orders of "Look at me, look at me!"

If you've got proof, then make it public.  Publish it.  Flaunt it.  Rent a 
billboard.  Otherwise, stuff a biscuit in it.

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
www.joanopyr.com




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