[Vision2020] Used Condom Found In Doug Wilson's Mailbox

[Joan Opyr]

On Jun 27, 2006, at 10:35 AM, Michael wrote:

>
> Friends,
>  
> Below is Wilson’s latest public attack on his local critics; he is 
> blaming them (or perhaps I should say “us” given his recent attacks on 
> me) for the used condom recently placed in his mailbox.  I want to 
> keep this brief:  Wilson is a very good politician and magical in his 
> rhetorical ability.  And he will stop at nothing to malign anyone that 
> gets in his path.  I want to therefore encourage everyone interested 
> in bringing more publicity to Wilson and criticizing him to play fair 
> and play good.  Unfortunately, this is because we need to play safe.  
> I should also note that when I arrived here over 10 years ago, it was 
> understood that Doug Wilson already had a bad reputation with many 
> locals and that emotions ran high because of his more cock-sure and 
> sarcastic rhetorical style over offensive political issues.  If you 
> want to publicly criticize Wilson, you need to keep reminding folks of 
> these kinds of things.  Wilson’s primary strategy is to isolate his 
> critic, even if it is only rhetorically and illusionary, and then 
> attack. Don’t let him do this. 
>  
> Michael Metzler
>

Oh, for heavens' sake!  Someone put a used or fake-used condom in Doug 
Wilson's mailbox?  Who would be so silly?  Wilson's most vocal critics 
are, like me, either rapidly approaching 40 or waving it goodbye in the 
rear view mirror.  My condoms-filled-cream-rinse days are long over.  
Just for the record, I also gave up cow-tipping at the NCSU Vet School 
farms at about the same time -- 1985, I think it was.

It's good that you've warned the ridiculous, Michael, but I honestly 
don't think that the ridiculous reside among us so-called intoleristas. 
  When was the last time any of Doug Wilson's middle-aged critics played 
a practical joke?  And, really, when have any of us have "created an 
atmosphere" in which condom-bombing would be encouraged?  The Wilson 
critics I know are intellectual nerds; we're the kind of people who 
read theological, philosophical, political and economic tracts for fun. 
  We don't alter the Welcome to Moscow signs to read Welcome to 
Hooterville.  We don't send out fake faxes purporting to be from the UI 
English Department offering a symposium on naked boobies.  We also 
don't mail seven-page anonymous threats to First Step Internet.  Those 
are all Wilson tricks.

Don't get me wrong: no one should find anything in his or her mailbox 
but mail.  I am genuinely sorry that Doug found a condom full of Breck 
or mayonnaise or Hidden Valley Ranch.  But is this really of interest 
to the police?  Is this of interest to the blogging world?  Is this a 
sign and wonder of a vast intolerista conspiracy?  Or is finding that 
you are the butt of a practical joke the likely consequence of playing 
far too many such jokes yourself?

Several months ago, someone smeared dog crap in the air intake slits on 
my car, just beneath the windshield wipers.  What did I do?  I washed 
it out.  And then washed it out some more.  What I did not do was climb 
onto a blog and denounce my intolerant critics at New St. Andrews and 
Anselm House.  I didn't and don't blame them because I don't know that 
they did it.  Why suspect where there is no evidence?  I also didn't 
call the cops.  You speak your mind, and you take your chances.  The 
doggie doo was a shame -- and it stank like seven hells -- but I didn't 
call the rozzers.

Perhaps I should have.  But I have real things to worry about.  The 
Army of God is still on my ass for daring to write unflattering things 
about their very own serial bomber, Eric Rudolph.  I'm getting bizarre 
hate mail from someone pretending to be the late Joey Ramone.  And you 
want to talk about weird?  Free speech cadvocates, Dale Courtney and 
Princess Annie Fanny, have accused me of resorting to "brute force 
tactics" for removing a comment on the New West website posted by 
someone who claimed to an "out pederast" by the name of Camille Saint 
Saens.  (You may recognize the name.  Saint Saens composed Carnival of 
the Animals and then died.  In 1921.)  The comment was removed because 
it turns out that "Camille" was posting from a faked-up email address 
-- one that caused a real website and a real website owner actual harm. 
  Bill London wrote a few days ago about spoofed emails using his name.  
Is this worse than the old condom in the mailbox trick?  I think so.  
Considerably worse.

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
www.joanopyr.com

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