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

[Phil Nisbet]

Keely

Molly Ivins is not Satan?  When did that happen?  LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL


>From: "keely emerinemix" <kjajmix1 at msn.com>
>To: joanopyr at moscow.com, vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] I can't do it . . .
>Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:39:45 -0800
>
>
>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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