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<DIV><FONT size=4>Sean,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Apparently you have not followed the entire thread which began
under a different name yesterday.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>If you choose to patronize and thus <STRONG><FONT
size=5>subsidize</FONT></STRONG> entities which promulgate/finance racist,
sexist, homophobic, anti-democratic, anti-secular, anti-public education,
pro-theocratic, tax cheating, "covenantally" dishonest, etc., that is your
privilege. In choosing to subsidize such entities, you are subsiding their
beliefs and actions. I do not choose to do so. If you think that
downtown Moscow would benefit from the presence of the Aryan Nations and/or is
cognitive relative, the CCC, that is your privilege also. Again we
disagree.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Aside from its repugnant beliefs, NSA is currently using space
that retail goods/and service entities might better use to make the downtown
area more economically vital. NSAers also buy monthly parking permits in
the city lot whose main purpose according to the City of Moscow
Comprehensive Plan is to provide convenient, free parking for the customers of
downtown commercial entities. The NSA related vehicles stay in the lot for
many hours at a time and take parking opportunities away from customers needed
by downtown retail and service organizations to stay viable.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>At the beginning of the thread it was asserted clearly that no
one questions, but in fact, <STRONG><FONT size=5>defends the legal right of such
entities as the Aryan Nations and the CCC to exist and to promulgate their
views.</FONT></STRONG> It is the foulness of those views that many of us
object to. I seek to discourage those views by where I spend my
dollars and by expressing my opinion under the same constitution that allows the
Aryan Nations and the CCC to do the same. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>I also believe that no entity, cult, etc., secular or
religious, should be allowed without sanction to violate laws, be they zoning,
tax, or criminal. If you do, that again is your privilege.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>As has been said on this forum many times: <STRONG><FONT
size=5>Tolerance begins with allowing all to express and to argue, to
persuade, etc. for their opinions. </FONT></STRONG> It does not mean that
we are to accept all views as equally wonderful or true, particularly when
certain views have adverse behavioral/social consequences such as racist,
sexist, homophobic, anti-democratic, anti-secular, anti-public education,
pro-theocratic, tax cheating, "covenantally" dishonest, etc.
behaviors.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>I do not agree with such philosophies and see them as
demeaning of and an egregiously real threat to individual liberty,
aspiration, and freedom to think. In the big picture, I see these threats
to individual freedom and aspiration as harmful to, castrating, and
eviscerating of society in general and of our country in particular. If
you choose to label this intolerance, that also is your privilege. If this
really is intolerance, then I wear that label proudly.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>We now know we be both stand.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><BR>Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)<BR><A
href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">deco@moscow.com</A><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=o2design@wsu.edu href="mailto:o2design@wsu.edu">sean</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=deco@moscow.com
href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">Art Deco</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, January 28, 2005 8:23
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Revitalizing
Downtown: Alternate Suggestions</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=+1>Art, this reminds me of the phrase, "tolerance is a one-way
street that we name and set regulations for". I wonder if this manner of
exclusion really encourages urban renewal. The diversity of offerings
and mixed-use advocated by New Urbanism and so much of American planning
philosophy would seem to say we all benefit from not having a culturally,
visually or physically homogeneous urban core. Electing to not patronize
an organization is different from advocating its failure (e.g., the slashing
of political van tires this past Nov. was seen as not just illegal but 'not
right'). I wonder if tolerance really does mean anything, as commonly
used, but to accept just those views that lie within our personal
parameters?</FONT></DIV><X-SIGSEP><PRE>--
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<DIV>Thanks,<BR>s<BR><BR><BR> * * *
* * * * *<BR> Sean
Michael<BR> .dwg<BR><BR><BR>"the
climbs are life"</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>