[Vision2020] My Column / Megaloads & Hippies

[Tom Hansen]

Simply put, Mr. Johnston . . .

If you do not like your opinion being evaluated sometimes in terms you may
not like, don't express it in a public venue.

Ya see what I'm sayin'?

Welcome to Vision 2020.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho



On Wed, June 8, 2011 6:16 am, Joe Campbell wrote:
> Hank (if I may),
>
> Truth be told, I didn't "literally" mean you were an offensive idiot. Does
> that help? Why do you get to call me a "hippy" yet somehow I've crossed an
> unseen line by calling you an "offensive idiot"? I just don't get it. If
> you
> can explain the rules to me that might help. When people are offensive to
> liberals and progressives -- in this case calling folks "hippies" in an
> attempt to dismiss their views -- I get offensive right back. That is just
> human nature. Don't like it? Try NOT being offensive in the first place.
> Is
> that too much to ask? People will treat you how you treat them. There is
> no
> big mystery here.
>
> Best, Joe
>
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Henry D. "Hank" Johnston <
> hearseboy85 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  I'm glad to see I've raised the hackles of Moscow's keyboard commandos
>> here on Vision 2020!
>>
>> While I'm no longer with RadioShack in Pullman (I haven't been for over
>> a
>> year now) where I work should be of little concern to anyone on this
>> site.
>> My columns are simply the exercising of my first amendment rights to
>> share
>> my opinion with whatever twist of humor I desire.
>>
>> For what its worth, I do live in Moscow with my partner/husband Alex and
>> am
>> a Moscow/Latah county taxpayer.
>>
>> So whats that to you and your friends on your mailing list Brett?  Gonna
>> send a lynch mob after me?
>>
>> Also, Shirley Ringo was incorrect in assuming that I'm a "republican"
>> with
>> "big business" leanings.  Yes, I was a page in the legislature (nearly
>> 10
>> years ago) and I do have a slightly different outlook about business in
>> Moscow (and in general) than the members of this forum.
>>
>> I do however pride myself on becoming quite moderate with a slightly
>> conservative slant in the past several years (compared to my earlier
>> writings) and, if you've been following my columns, I quite publicly and
>> brutally ripped the Latah County GOP a new one a couple months ago.  It
>> was
>> also in that column that resigned my membership from the Idaho and Latah
>> GOP's in favor of becoming an independent.
>>
>> If the readers of this forum want to take my writings literally then so
>> be
>> it - I presume then there is nothing I could write that wouldn't offend
>> someone.
>>
>> Rather than start firing off phrases like "offensive idiot" I would much
>> rather prefer that you step back and look at what I write with a little
>> bit
>> of humor as Tom Hansen has - yes Tom, it must be a hippie thing and no I
>> don't understand.
>>
>> I'm flattered that you care so much about me and what I write
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Henry Johnston
>> Columnist
>> Moscow Pullman Daily News
>>
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