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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kerry, thank you for your honesty. I applaud your
courage. Those who attempt to leave the Kirk suffer many repercussions, and you
need to be prepared. Contact others who have opted out, take solice in your own
intelligence, and keep your head high. As for your comments on V2020, I
always thought you had an open mind, a sense that things were not right, and
mostly you were far more polite and inquisitive than you were nasty and
close-minded. Good On You, Mate! If you need support, you have it!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Debi R-S</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=donaldrose@cpcinternet.com
href="mailto:donaldrose@cpcinternet.com">donald huskey</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=col.kerry.becker.ret@gmail.com
href="mailto:col.kerry.becker.ret@gmail.com">'Kerry Becker'</A> ; <A
title=Vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, September 27, 2007 11:30
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Change of
Perspective, Limited Apology</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Georgia color=teal size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: teal; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia">Dear Kerry Becker
and Visionaries:</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: teal; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Georgia color=teal size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: teal; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia">Of the thousands of
messages I have read over the years on V2020, none has touched me as much as
Kerry’s. The grace, sincerity, and dignity he exhibited in his email is
an inspiration to me. Clearly, courage in the face of the enemy doesn’t
stop when one retires from the military. Take care of yourself, Kerry,
and watch your back. After years of experience, I can pretty accurately
predict what will follow. A former military officer from the Kirk will
be assigned to you. You’ll be invited to dinner, for a beer, what
ever. Then your minder will tell you how you have misunderstood what you
read, or how the “enemies” of the Kirk have tainted and deliberately lied
about Doug. Your minder will stay in touch for several months, always
being friendly, generous, and apparently “open-minded” until he finally thinks
you are beyond salvation, and then the personal attacks will start. I
have no doubt that you are more than capable of handling them. Thank you again
for your courage and integrity.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Georgia color=teal size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: teal; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia">Rose
Huskey</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: teal; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">-----Original
Message-----<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B>
vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </SPAN></B>Kerry Becker<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thursday, September 27, 2007 11:37
AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B>
Vision2020@moscow.com<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [Vision2020] Change of
Perspective, Limited Apology</SPAN></FONT></P>
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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Faithful Readers,<BR><BR>I am now about
to do something that is hard for anyone, but especially hard for an old
soldier like myself. I admit that I have been wrong in some of the
opinions that I have previously expressed on this forum. <BR><BR>Over the past
several weeks I have been on an extended vacation during which I have visited
many fellow officers with whom I have served during my career of thirty plus
years in the military. Those with whom I visited are all, like myself,
conservatives, and think of ourselves as libertarians. The defense of
the freedoms guaranteed by our unequaled U.S. Constitution was a main reason
for many of us to chose careers in the military.<BR><BR>Make no mistake.
Do not be tempted to make any misinterpretation. In what I am about to
say I having no intention of lessening my belief in freedom of speech,
religion, press, etc. These freedoms make our great country truly
unique. One need only look at the countries of our enemies to see how
different they are from us in this regard. <BR><BR>Freedom of speech and the
press are our main means to seek the truth in the complex world we live
in. Anyone who expresses a belief of any kind does not enjoy any
immunity from comment on the truthfulness or inanity of such expression.
To allow immunity in any way would be to emasculate the pursuit of truth.
<BR><BR>To make my point tersely. I have previously been a staunch
supporter on this forum of Christ Church and its various personages and their
actions. While I still strongly support their right to their beliefs and
to the expression of their beliefs, I no longer am able support those beliefs
themselves or the actions which are begot by such beliefs. <BR><BR>I have
previously believed that Christ Church was a Godly institution which was
trying to honestly bring goodness and Godliness into the world. I do not
believe this anymore. <BR><BR>I confess to two things that helped bring
about this change of perspective. <BR><BR>First, every fellow retired officer
with whom I visited on my vacation believed as libertarians in the separation
of church and state. The history of the world as we know it tells us of
the disastrous inhumanity, cruelty, intolerance, suppression of personal
liberty, and injustice that occurs when one or another set of religious
beliefs are advocated and enforced by a government. But we need not
depend on history for this lesson: newsreaders today can see the
horrible results on personal liberty by the religious tyranny enforced by many
mid-eastern and eastern nations regardless of the name or nature of their
particular religion. <BR><BR>My officer friends put it this way. "There
greatest threat to personal liberty today are those organized religious
movements who seek to impose their particular strictures on our freedom of
thought, expression, and actions via political and governmental intervention
in our lives." Those kind of actions by the government in England were
the motivation for the founding of our country. Let us not forget that,
ever. <BR><BR>This is hard for me to say. I have been wrong about
homosexual practices and homosexual marriages or civil unions. While I
personally find homosexual relations distasteful to contemplate, I see now the
the choice of partners and pleasures is a matter of personal liberty
guaranteed by the right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" as
stated in our Declaration of Independence. I see now that I have no more
right to dictate another's gender preference and the concomitant unions that
might follow than I have to dictate what nail polish color someone might
chose, whether such choice of color offends me or not. <BR><BR><BR>Second, my
officer friends, who know naught of Christ Church, urged me to re-evaluate the
statements of those opposed -- to try to find out for myself if those running
Christ Church are honest and well-intentioned, and to see if they seek to
impose strictures based on their particular religious interpretations on the
rest of us that would lessen our personal liberty. <BR><BR>I have done
so.<BR><BR>I have found the statements of Christ Church as found in various of
their writings show them to be dangerous theocrats who, among other greatly
limiting things, seek to impose eventually the most harsh measures on all of
us who do not share their beliefs. <BR><BR>Especially disturbing to a
libertarian is their intention to impose the death penalty on those they
consider heretical -- anyone who would criticize their particular religious
tenets. This is America. Not Saudi Arabia or Iran. The
denial of the right to question any belief is the most dangerous and arbitrary
stricture a government can impose on its citizens. It is the denial to
continue to seek the truth, wherever it might lead. <BR><BR>(God, this old
soldier hates to say this since he has been so critical of some of Christ
Christ's critics, and hates to admit that he has been hoodwinked due largely
to his own ignorance and lack of diligence...) I have found that Christ
Christ is neither a Godly nor a benevolent institution. Their leader and
many of their upper echelon are now in my informed opinion, liars, hypocrites,
manipulators, blood-suckers from their congregation, and exceedingly
unchristian, intentionally veering quite far from the basic, plain moral
teachings of Christ found in the most historically accurate parts of the
<I><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">New Testament</SPAN></I>. <BR><BR>To the
extent that my previous posts have defended Christ Church's right to hold and
to defend their beliefs, I offer no apology. They, and all of us have
that right. It is called freedom.<BR><BR>To the extent that any of my
previous posts have defended any particular tenet or theological aberration of
Christ Church, or any of the many despicable actions that such have begotten,
I humbly apologize for my previous ignorance, lack of critical thought and
investigation, and for my unjustifiably overbearing attitude. <BR><BR>Kerry
Becker</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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