[Vision2020] [Spam 3.91] Re: City Council Stifles Debate

[Betsy Dickow]

Sunil is absolutely right...these are protections in the democratic
system...the right of people to speak on issues of concern to them...much
too easy to abrogate this right.  That's what happens when fascism
begins...do you really want that, Mr. Johnston?

Betsy 


-----Original Message-----
From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Sunil Ramalingam
Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2013 9:02 AM
To: vision 2020
Subject: [Spam 3.91] Re: [Vision2020] City Council Stifles Debate

Henry,

I for one care because the Council could do this for every single issue. I
think they violated the right of people to speak on an issue important to
them. It's the wrong way to proceed. Maybe they didn't realize they were
violating those rights, but it's what they did. Expediency is not the way to
go.

Sunil


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Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 08:50:07 -0700
From: hearseboy85 at gmail.com
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] City Council Stifles Debate


Tom, et. al.


I really hate to beat a dead horse here, but I cannot imagine why, in this
day and age, we even need to have a discussion about discrimination or even
if discrimination is "right" or "wrong"... which would have been the core
discussion on Monday.  The pro-ordinance crowd would decry the plight of the
GLBT community (also gonna take a guess that most of them are
heterosexual... actually kinda insulting to me that our progressives in this
town think they know what I've "gone through"... but thats another topic)
and the anti-ordinance crowd would have preached that God forbids
homosexuality (along with trimming one's beard but Gresham Bouma is always
cleanshaven... hmmmmm).... and you know what?


We would have arrived. At. The. Same. Conclusion.



Discrimination is wrong, we all know that, and what more would have come of
public comment on Monday night?


Nothing. Nada. Zip.


It was a 6-0 vote people... take it as a victory and move on!


HDJ

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