<HTML><BODY STYLE="font:10pt verdana; border:none;"><DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size=3>Wayne writes:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size=3>"First, I would like to state unequivocally and as strongly as possible that I believe that <STRONG>NSA has right to exist and to operate</STRONG>. Like all of us living under the great constitution in this great country, the persons behind and in support of NSA and its parent cult have a <STRONG><FONT color=#ff0000>legal </FONT></STRONG>right to express their points of view and to construct institutions to promulgate those points of view . . . But like many of the others on this list who think the cult is excrementitious blot on humankind, I cherish the freedom of expression we all enjoy and <STRONG>would absolutely disagree with anyone who would seek to abridge the cult's</STRONG> <STRONG><FONT color=#ff0000>legal</FONT></STRONG> <STRONG>rights to express their points of view</STRONG>.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size=3>The legal issue being debated is not whether NSA has a right to exist/operate <STRONG>but whether they have <FONT color=#ff0000>legal</FONT> right to operate in Moscow's downtown commercial district</STRONG>."</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size=3>I'd like to add a hearty "Amen" to all of the above and to append a letter to the editor that I sent to The Lewiston Morning Tribune on Monday night, objecting to Jim Fisher's egregious January 25th opinion column, which not only missed the legal at stake but went on to tar the citizens of Moscow with Doug's ridiculous and misleading coinage, "Intolerista," a word he uses to describe anyone who stands up to him and/or refuses to act as his yes man, bobble-head doll, or doormat.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size=3>Recognizing NSA's right to exist does not extend to recognizing their right to operate in Moscow's Central Business District. Similarly, recognizing Doug's right to believe and say whatever he likes does not mean that we must let him write, speak, and act without objection or criticism. What, in this argument, is so difficult to follow? Yes, the NSA-renovated Verizon building is lovely; unfortunately, the business operating inside is not allowed by ordinance. Doug might have saved us all a lot of bother if he'd checked on allowed usages before he put in the windows and repointed the bricks.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size=3>Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size=3>PS: I'd like to add that I much prefer Wayne's new word, "excrementitious," to Doug's word, "Intolerista." No doubt I will soon be trying to find ways to work it into a sentence or two, along with my other new favorite, "ignoranus," meaning "stupid sphincter." But first, my letter to Jim Fisher . . .</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size=3><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:date Year="2005" Day="25" Month="1"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"></SPAN></st1:date></FONT> </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><st1:date Year="2005" Day="25" Month="1"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">January 25, 2005</SPAN></st1:date><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">The </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Lewiston</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> Morning Tribune<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Letters to the Editor<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Dear Editor:<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">It doesn’t surprise me to find Jim Fisher once again acting as apologist for Doug Wilson.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In past columns, Fisher has frequently adopted </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Wilson</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">’s skewed and misleading vocabulary, referring to </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Wilson</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">’s many critics as “Intoleristas.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Intoleristas is a very silly word—one that </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Wilson</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> concocted to avoid any serious discussion about his plans for a “take over” of downtown </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Moscow</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He has written openly and extensively in his magazine, <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Credenda Agenda</I>, about his various plans and schemes, which include an end to public education; the systematic disenfranchisement of women and non-Christians; and the slow but certain imposition of his theocratic vision on the democratic residents of this city, this county, this state and this nation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">But all of this is beside the point.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It doesn’t really matter if Doug is a crackpot or if his ideas are offensive, bizarre, and often troglodytic.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In adopting </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Wilson</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">’s language, Jim Fisher deafens himself to the real issue at stake in the legal challenge to New St. Andrews’ location in downtown </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Moscow</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">: Doug Wilson believes that he is above the law.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As with the unwarranted property tax exemptions </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Wilson</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> filed for and received from </SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Latah</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN><st1:PlaceType><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">County</SPAN></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">, it is clear that he did not bother to check with the appropriate city authorities before opening his private college in the middle of </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Moscow</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">’s Central Business District.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">The Central Business District, or CBD, was expressly created to encourage the operation of retail businesses in the heart of </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Moscow</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The reason for this is that the core of the city has traditionally been reserved for retail operations.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is a matter of common sense as well as of sound city planning that the bulk of the downtown area should be reserved for retail businesses.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Having a centralized business zone makes sense for shoppers, diners, and other consumers of goods and services in </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Moscow</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The </SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceType><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">University</SPAN></st1:PlaceType><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> of </SPAN><st1:PlaceName><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Idaho</SPAN></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> is not allowed educational space in the CBD; neither are there any public schools on </SPAN><st1:address><st1:Street><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Main Street</SPAN></st1:Street><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">, </SPAN><st1:City><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Washington</SPAN></st1:City></st1:address><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">, or </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Jackson</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It makes no sense whatsoever to have a private college in the CBD, sandwiched between the Garden Lounge bar and a bicycle shop, nor yet sitting across the street from a gem store.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s not city planning; that’s city plopping.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif">No one, Mr. Fisher, is persecuting Doug Wilson, and I for one have grown sick and tired of hearing him cry “poor little me” every time someone calls him on his bad behavior.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you run a stop sign, the cop who gives you the ticket is not intolerant; he’s calling you on your failure to observe the law.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you open a college in the Central Business District without first checking that that’s a permitted use for your building, then whose fault is it when the city planners come knocking?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">It’s all about personal responsibility, Mr. Fisher—something both you and Doug Wilson, in your rush to tar the good citizens of </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Moscow</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> as “Intoleristas,” seem to have forgotten.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif">Joan Opyr<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P> </DIV></BODY></HTML><br clear=all><hr>Get more from the Web. 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