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Well - apparently, you are! <img src="http://gfx2.hotmail.com/mail/w2/ltr/../emoticons/smile_teeth.gif"><br><br>J :]<br><br><br>> To: vision2020@mail-gw.fsr.net<br>> From: pkraut@moscow.com<br>> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 05:41:38 +0000<br>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Last Response to Atwood<br>> <br>> is anyone really reading all this stuff??<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> > Below is my last response to Atwood. Atwood's original letter to the <br>> editor of the Daily<br>> News and our subsequent exchange are found here:<br>> > <br>> > http://www.dnews.com/story/opinion/25619/#comments<br>> > <br>> > Unfortunately, you need to have a subscription to the Daily News in <br>> order to access this<br>> page.<br>> > <br>> > --<br>> > Joe Campbell<br>> > <br>> > ---------------------------<br>> > <br>> > Roy,<br>> > <br>> > I have a hard time reading this and believing that your call for <br>> civility was genuine. You<br>> seem to want people to stop criticizing Christ Church while remaining <br>> able to play the<br>> ‘bigot’ card, suggesting that this criticism is entirely based on <br>> religious<br>> persecution. Your standard for civility seems to be: We can continue to <br>> insult you but you<br>> can say nothing about us in response.<br>> > <br>> > Previous to this recent reply you wrote: "Your responses here have been <br>> to repeat familiar<br>> charges, and even raise new accusations. But that's going to get us <br>> nowhere, I believe."<br>> Yet you do the same in this post -- repeat familiar charges against the <br>> critics of Christ<br>> Church and raise new allegations. How is this going to get us anywhere? <br>> Why should others<br>> stop if you don’t?<br>> > <br>> > One of the familiar charges is that Nick had something to do with the <br>> comment 'Hitler<br>> Youth' which was written in CHALK on a public SIDEWALK near NSA. Above <br>> you claim that no<br>> one has the right to say that offensive anonymous comments directed <br>> toward me in this post<br>> are the work of Christ Church members. Yet you continue to blame Nick for <br>> the actions of<br>> an anonymous fool. There is a double standard here.<br>> > <br>> > Also, if you allow that some column from an editor in Lewiston is <br>> evidence that Christ<br>> Church is the victim of religious persecution, then I can use comments by <br>> the Southern<br>> Poverty Law Center, and their famous "Taliban on the Palouse" article in <br>> support of the<br>> claim that Wilson and others in Christ Church are bigots; I can use <br>> comments by Wilson’s<br>> own father made in the New York Times to the effect that Christ Church <br>> and NSA are taking<br>> over the town; I can use sanctions levied against Christ Church by <br>> governing church bodies<br>> to show that Pastor Wilson is acting in a way that is un-Christian. All <br>> of this would be<br>> reason for the kind of boycott that you consider baseless. <br>> > <br>> > The fact is there is a lot of anger directed toward Christ Church and <br>> plenty of reason<br>> behind the anger. This is why there is a wide-scale boycott of Christ <br>> Church owned<br>> businesses. Anyone who seeks for themselves the answers to the questions <br>> raised above that<br>> you did not answer will realize this. Until you, Wilson, Iverson, <br>> Courtney and others<br>> admit your own role in creating our current situation, the problem will <br>> not go away.<br>> > <br>> > I have no plan to talk to you in private. What I want is for you to <br>> stop making<br>> unsupported claims that harm my reputation and the reputations of my <br>> friends. What I want<br>> is for you and others to publicly admit that Christ Church is not an <br>> innocent victim.<br>> Unless you do so, your call for civility is a joke.<br>> > <br>> > Thanks for the ‘response,’ limited as it was, and I hope that you <br>> enjoy the Advent<br>> season, too!<br>> > <br>> > Best, Joe<br>> > <br>> > =======================================================<br>> > List services made available by First Step Internet, <br>> > serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br>> > http://www.fsr.net <br>> > mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<br>> > =======================================================<br>> > <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> ---------------------------------------------<br>> This message was sent by First Step Internet.<br>> http://www.fsr.com/<br>> <br>> <br><br /><hr />Get the power of Windows + Web with the new Windows Live. <a href='http://www.windowslive.com?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_Wave2_powerofwindows_112007' target='_new'>Power up!</a></body>
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