[Vision2020] A Plea to Visionaires

[lfalen]

Tom apparently only wants left wing views to be aired. Anything else is racist and profane. I would like Ton to demonstrate where No Wheathermans posts have been any more objectionable than  some of his. I submit that they are objectionable and profane because he disagrees with  the veiws expressed. No Wheatherman seems to me to do a petty good job of documentation when listing facts. Everyone have the right to an opinion(within reason) without documentation as long as it not presented as fact.
Roger
-----Original message-----
From: "No Weatherman" no.weatherman at gmail.com
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:33:31 -0700
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] A Plea to Visionaires

> Mr. Hansen:
> 
> This sounds like a conspiracy theory.
> 
> Writing as one who has deleted several megabytes of your senseless
> emails, I would argue that I'm leveling the playing field.
> 
> It's called free speech.
> 
> You're entitled to it and so am I.
> 
> You don't like what I have to say and I don't like what you have to say.
> 
> It's called free speech.
> 
> 
> On 10/17/08, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
> > Greetings Visionaires -
> >
> >  Let me preface my request with a short Vision 2020 history lesson.
> >
> >  Over the years that I have subscribed to the Vision 2020 listserve, there
> >  have been several attempts to shut it down.
> >
> >  First there was an attempt to establish a Vision 2020 "monitor" whose
> >  apparent duties would have been to determine acceptable topics to discuss
> >  and to remove any subscribers failing to stay in lockstep with guidelines
> >  established by The Monitor.
> >
> >  Then there was the infamous letter/email, sent to First Step Internet (the
> >  techies that maintain the Vision 2020 listserve), demanding that the
> >  Vision 2020 listserve be terminated as the anonymous authors of the
> >  letter/email felt beleaguered and harassed by its continuance.
> >
> >  There have been other attempts to shut down this listserve.  However, like
> >  those two attempts outlined above, they failed.
> >
> >  And now the listserve is forced to endure "No Weatherman" and its attempt
> >  to eliminate the Vision 2020 listserve.
> >
> >  It is my strong impression that No Weatherman's purpose is to post racist,
> >  ignorant, marginally-threatening, rude, and extremely profane comments to
> >  the listserve in attempt to degenerate the quality of the listserve's
> >  purpose, as more and more subscribers disappear into Moscow's anonymity,
> >  their thoughts not to be shared again.
> >
> >  I strongly believe in the Vision.  Its purpose is to provide a venue for
> >  sharing thoughts of "community" and how that community may be improved,
> >  not only for us, but four our children.
> >
> >  If the Vision were to shut down, a very, most vital source of community
> >  interaction disappears with it.
> >
> >  My suggestion is to merely ignore "No Weatherman", regardless of its
> >  rantings.  Eventually it will catch on and disappear along with its
> >  predecessor, The Monitor.
> >
> >  Let's keep this virtual town hall meeting alive.
> >
> >  In the interim . . .
> >
> >  Seey at Farmers' Market, Moscow.
> >
> >  Tom Hansen
> >  Moscow, Idaho
> >
> >
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