[Vision2020] I can't do it . . .

[keely emerinemix]

Yes, the orchestrated "take BJ Swanson down" campaign was repugnant in its 
own way, and I was proud to stand with her and would defend anyone whose 
well-demonstrated integrity was attacked  and whose livelihood threatened 
because s/he dared to disagree with the bullies.

And I defend Donovan's right to express himself freely on Vision 2020 
without people deciding that his occasionally strident tone renders him 
unsuitable to care for those who depend on him -- and perhaps even 
dangerous.  That's a stretch, and a dangerous one.

I don't see the situations as all that similar, but I think they're both 
wrong.  I would assume that there are people who don't like much of what I 
say at all; actually, I'm pretty sure of it.  But I would be crushed if they 
somehow thought that I would scream at them and shove their family members 
into the thornbushes if, for example, they got a flat tire in front of my 
house.  We're all more than the sum of even our most vocal and passionate 
opinions, and in the long run what matters here isn't whether or not we 
agree with the bond, defend Doug Wilson, or think Molly Ivins is Satan 
personified.

To quote from Soylent Green, regrettably, here's what really matters  -- 
"IT'S PEOPLE!!!!!!"  And how I treat them matters a hell of a lot more than 
what I think about the issues that surround them, critical though they may 
be.

keely


From: Joan Opyr <joanopyr at moscow.com>
To: Vision2020 Moscow <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Subject: [Vision2020] I can't do it . . .
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:12:35 -0800

Dear Visionaries:

Keely is a better woman than I am, and Phil a better man.  (You'll have to 
work out the logistics of that on your own time.)  I have tried and failed 
to compose a defense of Donovan re: Wayne's suggestion that he be 
investigated.  I agree with Keely and Phil, I really do, but each sentence I 
wrote in defense of Donovan set off my hypocrisy alarm.  I'm nearly deaf 
from it's squealing.

Here's the best that I can do: I am always and everywhere opposed to 
tortious interference with employment.  Yes, it was wrong when it happened 
to B. J. Swanson, but to compare one remark posted by Wayne Fox to Vision 
2020 with the concerted and coordinated campaign launched against Ms. 
Swanson seems to me . . . ridiculous.  And offensive.  If anyone else had 
chimed in to agree with Wayne, or had gone so far as to contact Donovan's 
employer, or write letters to the editor attacking him, or launched a 
full-scale personal assault of the kind Ms. Swanson just faced down, then 
the analogy might make sense.  At present, it doesn't.  Perhaps Wayne will 
simply apologize for the lapse in his judgment; then, we can restore our 
collective sense of proportion and move on?

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
www.newwest.net
www.joanopyr.com


Joan Opyr
Northern Idaho Editor
New West Magazine
www.newwest.net
www.joanopyr.com

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