[Vision2020] Escalation of claims (was: Echoes from the Whinery)
debismith at moscow.com
debismith at moscow.com
Sun Jul 30 10:00:40 PDT 2006
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Once again, the smoke and mirrors
of the Doug Wilson Empire have gotten us off track. I don't
give a rat's fanny if Doug had a condom in his mailbox. I don't give a rat's fanny if the other
thirty people with a condom in their mailbox that week (and there were likely that many, given
Moscow is a college town) did or didn't report it. It is beside the point. Doug's postage stamp-
size smelly spot on a window (to which every kid in the area had access),  and the general
run-of-the-mill tire damage Doug has experienced are also beside the point.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"> Doug, in a police report, has groundlessly
implicated folks with whom he has a political beef.
THIS, my fine neighbors, is the point. No evidence, just baseless opportunistic slander.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">If my roof falls in, my children are
unhappy, my tractor breaks down, traffic blocks my instant
access to my driveway,or the last item on sale is gone when I arrive, I do NOT  assume a
conspiracy from my political *enemies*. In fact, I would love to be able to do that.
Unfortunately, I can't. It is my responsibility to maintain my roof, teach my children to find
happiness in their lives, lube my tractor, understand traffic flow patterns, and manage my time
and  money.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"> And--- listen up, Doug---it is also
my responsibility to maintain good relationships with my
community. If I, like you, had spent the past twenty-ish years telling the larger community
what a bunch of evil  losers they are, I might expect the community to retaliate every chance
they had. Whether or not the community did retaliate, my own guilt and paranoia over my own
bad behavior might prompt me towards groundless accusations. </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Doug Wilson has made no FRIENDS in
the larger community. He knows he has offended just
about everyone not associated with his church. He knows his behavior has been reprehensible.
He expects everyone to behave the way he behaves...petty retaliation, character
assassination, vitriole couched in religious garb, evasion, nasty practical jokes, and just plain
vicious slander. In Doug World, a random act of rudeness means all the enemies he self-
manufactured are banding together and out to get him?  Perhaps paranoia, perhaps another
example of the Wilson *Do unto others before they do unto you* tactics. He continues to get
away with bad behavior while shrieking about how he is victimized. Poor whiney Doug...</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>One more time--</b>everyone join
in the chorus<b>--Doug, Honey, get over your old fat self!! </b></span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Nobody who really dislikes you cares
quite enough about you to stop what they are doing in
the middle of the night and drive a condom to your mailbox.  You just are not that Flippin'
Important.  All the people you named in the police report are involved in real lives. Just because
their real lives don't involve you anymore is no reason to slander them. Oh, wait, that's the
Wilson Way...sorry, I forgot my Moscow History for just a moment. </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">There must be a couple of thousand
people on the Palouse who despise you---shall we collect
names for your next police report? </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Debi Robinson-Smith</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">From:               Joan Opyr <joanopyr at moscow.com></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Date sent:                  </span></font><font face="Arial" color="#000080"><span
style="font-size:10pt">Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:25:13 -0700</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">To:                            </span></font><font
face="Arial" color="#000080"><span style="font-size:10pt">Joe Campbell <joekc at adelphia.net>,</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">                                 </span></font><font
face="Arial" color="#000080"><span style="font-size:10pt">Vision2020 Moscow <vision2020 at moscow.com></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b>Subject:                    </b></span></font><font face="Arial" color="#000080"><span
style="font-size:10pt"><b>[Vision2020] Escalation of claims (was: Echoes from the Whinery)</b></span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Joe is quite right.  The escalation
of claims -- from a nail in a tire </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">to tires slashed, to calling this
a campaign of terror -- is </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">outrageous.  When did "There's
a condom in my mailbox" become "Play </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Misty for Me?"  A smelly
smudge on a picture window is not the work of </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">the Nightstalker.  No one I know
approves of actual vandalism, but </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">let's not pretend that that's what
this is.  Doug Wilson has </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">suspicions.  He's had a couple
of flat tires.  He's had a condom in his </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">mailbox.  He's been obliged to
break out the Windex with Ammonia D.  </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">And, lest we forget, Doug includes
as "harassment" legitimate legal </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">zoning complaints.  He writes
this specifically in his statement.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">There is no relationship between dirty
condoms and zoning complaints.  </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">None.  Moscow Zoning Code forbade
educational institutions in the </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Central Business District.  That
was a fact.  The previous City Council </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">had to rewrite zoning code to permit
New St. Andrews to operate in the </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">CBD.  City Council first legitimized
the complaint and then rendered it </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">moot.  Is this in any way related
to a screw in a tire?  Prove it.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Prove all of it.  Show me the
money.  Photograph the screws.  </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Photograph the stinky window. 
Document these complaints and then ask </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Moscow Police to investigate. 
In fact, I think the five (not four) </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">people Doug Wilson names should insist
that this be investigated.  </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">They've been named and shamed without
evidence, without proof, without </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">recourse.  How fair is that? 
I'd rank it right up there with asking </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">"When did you stop beating your
wife?"</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">www.joanopyr.com</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">On Jul 28, 2006, at 7:40 PM, Joe Campbell
wrote:</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">> Donovan,</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">> It is hard for me to determine
what has actually happened to Wilson. I </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">> am interested in knowing the
basis of your claims below, for instance? </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">> Did you see nails in Wilson's
drive way? Did you help him change some </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">> of his tires?</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">> I don't know of anyone who would
cheer violent acts toward another </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">> individual, whether or not they
agreed with the individuals religious </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">> and political views. Vandalism
is always wrong, as far as I can see.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">> But what proof do we have that
violence or vandalism has actually been </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">> done to Wilson? Furthermore,
what proof do we have that Wilson's </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">> political critics have had anything
to do with it, even if it did </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">> happen?</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">> I know of at least two persons,
both critics of Wilson, who have had </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">> dog feces speared on the inside
(in one case) and outside (in another </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">> case) of their cars. If I think
that Wilson had something to do with </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">> this -- perhaps only indirectly,
since he suggests that violent </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">> behavior toward gays and lesbians
is justified -- does that give me </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">> the right to say in public that
he is responsible for it? I don't </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">> think so.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">> We need to get a better grip
about what's going on here. You can start </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">> by telling me exactly how Wilson
has been harmed and what EVIDENCE </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">> there is to believe that such
harm has occurred.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">> Best, Joe</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">></span></font></div>
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