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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Mr. Wilson,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>You need to repent of this aggressive and unnecessary response
immediately, before you hurt the victims any more. I have asked that the
victims stop being discussed on this forum; apparently, you do not find this
important. I have already confronted J Ford privately on publicly here on
Vision 2020 (although I appreciate the fact she gets things right about as many
times as speculative James Jordan); but to continue your smear campaign against
me, you wish to merely lump me with anything that results publicly from any
exposure on this—and it is a big wide world out here on the web. Unlike
your cozy, subservient group within your Kirk walls, out here in the open air
you have to put up with certain things: like folks who wish to challenge Doug Wilson
and good doses of rationality. And as Wayne Fox has pointed out many times,
you also have to put up with things a little less pleasant. Call it
“camping” if you like; you don’t have the silk sheets and the
glowing gas fireplace; you have some bugs and perhaps some rain that soaks
through the tent fabric. But at least it is a real world. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The fact that you would pick out what you consider the most outrageous
claim and mark it as the typical current foe is not surprising to us here; this
is perhaps the only trick you have left in your book of Rhetoric. You just
love bouncing up and down on J Ford; this has become a hobby or yours. But I
never knew she was up to debating with you in public. I’ve been
requesting such debate for months. But who do you specifically go after? Who
really is the coward here <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Wilson</st1:City></st1:place>?
Unlike how your servants in the Kirk treat what falls from your lips each day,
folks here realize that they should not believe everything uttered to Vision
2020. We are all adults here. This has been evidenced by other posts about
this on Vision 2020 just today, such as some of Sandra Lund’s comments,
in which she was very judicious with respect to your claims of having informed
your congregation of these things.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Do you really wish to go after free speech here? You have gone after
it in countless ways in the past. Why don’t you make your position on
free speech clear and explicit for us on Vision 2020. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The mechanism for dealing with this? Common sense, intuition, charity,
argument, rationality, and gaining respect in the public sphere are not bad
places to start. You should try it; perhaps if you started, other kirkers
would follow and we could actually have fruitful exchanges between Christian
kirkers and the local community on the local community discussion forum. There
is also what folks have been calling the “bozo filter” mechanism.
This is just where you filter out those folks who really should not be seen
speaking in public—yet this is up to each individual’s discretion.
Unfortunate for your attempt at an argument here, most those best fitted for
the Bozo Filter have actually been conservative of late, not
“Moscow’s progressives and liberals.” <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Your continued talk about the “victims” here is ludicrous.
I just posted something more about this very point: <a
href="http://poohsthink.com/?p=546">http://poohsthink.com/?p=546</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Hope to see you around Mr. Wilson, if you dare this much sunlight—where
the speech is public and free.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Yours<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Michael Metzler <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Visionaries,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Let's take just one thing at a time. J. Ford claims that I knew about
Steven Sitler's activities for two years without doing anything about it. In
the real world, where all this actually happened, the civil authorities were
contacted immediately, and no children were endangered by him from that moment
to this. Steven left <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City></st1:place>
immediately, and was allowed by the civil authorities to wait for his trial in
his home town, which is why the people there were informed right away. When
people here needed to be informed, they were -- by responsible people who put
the interests of the victims and their families first, <span style='background:
yellow'>unlike Ford, Metzler, and the cohort of anonymous cowards who post to
Metzler's blog</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>So I want to put this question to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City></st1:place>'s
progressives and liberals who have watched a mania about me on the part of some
become an unhealthy public obsession. This mania is about to chew up some
innocent people. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Do you approve of this behavior? What is your mechanism for dealing
with this kind of manufactured libel, all wool and a yard wide? <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">Bill London</st1:PersonName>, you are the quasi-moderator here. Does
your commitment to free speech on this forum have any way of protecting the
victims in this tragedy? What are you going to do to keep one of the crazies
here from posting their names, all for the sake of making some obscure and
telling point against me? What responsibility does FirstStep have to protect
the victims' <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>names? What responsibility does this forum have when one member of it
accuses someone of complicity in perverse and criminal activity for two years,
when what was actually done was to involve the police immediately? Does J.
Ford's libelous post get to just remain there? Is anybody going to do anything
about this? Are you people totally without shame?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>To all those who have been discussing this enthusiastically, with about
a third of the facts, and /those /creatively arranged, I would make this
request. Michael Metzler, J. Ford, all you visionaries, this is a request I am
making on behalf of the victims' families. Please stop this discussion right
now. Drop it. All you are doing is gearing up for the second round of abuse.
Sitler provided the first round, and godless chatter here and elsewhere is
providing the second. When I talked to the victims' parents about what Michael
Metzler had done on his blog, and what was being done here, do you think the
response from them was more like, "Oh, good," or "Oh, no"?
Which response do you think it was? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Honestly, which? If you guessed the latter, you would be right, and
that should dictate what those with any sense of decency remaining will not
write about from here on out. Once again, the victims families feel quite
helpless, and Metzler's blog and this forum are the reason for it. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Do the right thing.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Douglas Wilson<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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