[Vision2020] A Plea to Visionaires

[No Weatherman]

Mr. Hansen:

This sounds like a conspiracy theory.

Writing as one who has deleted several megabytes of your senseless
emails, I would argue that I'm leveling the playing field.

It's called free speech.

You're entitled to it and so am I.

You don't like what I have to say and I don't like what you have to say.

It's called free speech.


On 10/17/08, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
> Greetings Visionaires -
>
>  Let me preface my request with a short Vision 2020 history lesson.
>
>  Over the years that I have subscribed to the Vision 2020 listserve, there
>  have been several attempts to shut it down.
>
>  First there was an attempt to establish a Vision 2020 "monitor" whose
>  apparent duties would have been to determine acceptable topics to discuss
>  and to remove any subscribers failing to stay in lockstep with guidelines
>  established by The Monitor.
>
>  Then there was the infamous letter/email, sent to First Step Internet (the
>  techies that maintain the Vision 2020 listserve), demanding that the
>  Vision 2020 listserve be terminated as the anonymous authors of the
>  letter/email felt beleaguered and harassed by its continuance.
>
>  There have been other attempts to shut down this listserve.  However, like
>  those two attempts outlined above, they failed.
>
>  And now the listserve is forced to endure "No Weatherman" and its attempt
>  to eliminate the Vision 2020 listserve.
>
>  It is my strong impression that No Weatherman's purpose is to post racist,
>  ignorant, marginally-threatening, rude, and extremely profane comments to
>  the listserve in attempt to degenerate the quality of the listserve's
>  purpose, as more and more subscribers disappear into Moscow's anonymity,
>  their thoughts not to be shared again.
>
>  I strongly believe in the Vision.  Its purpose is to provide a venue for
>  sharing thoughts of "community" and how that community may be improved,
>  not only for us, but four our children.
>
>  If the Vision were to shut down, a very, most vital source of community
>  interaction disappears with it.
>
>  My suggestion is to merely ignore "No Weatherman", regardless of its
>  rantings.  Eventually it will catch on and disappear along with its
>  predecessor, The Monitor.
>
>  Let's keep this virtual town hall meeting alive.
>
>  In the interim . . .
>
>  Seey at Farmers' Market, Moscow.
>
>  Tom Hansen
>  Moscow, Idaho
>
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