"you have been heard making unpatriotic remarks"

[Frances Morey]

Nah, Jon,
I think it was because DL was pontificating before master pontificators, who
do it with style and wit and he just didn't measure up to those highest
standards we like to maintain.
Love and peace,
Frances


On Mon, 05 Nov 2001 19:42:27 -0800, Jon Ford wrote:

>  Stephanie, I am no longer going to fight to get Don back on the list,
even 
>  though 14 or so people have voted that way. It's not worth the struggle,
and 
>  I don't want to split the group up by starting a new list sans Mike and
his 
>  fans. However,you wrote me a little note a few minutes ago about how it 
>  wasn't the case that Don had just "been heard making unpatriotic
remarks"(a 
>  little metaphor of mine in which I compared Don to a refugee trapped in a

>  detention center--maybe a bit too flamboyant!). You said that the real 
>  reason he was being tossed off the list was because he wasn't known to 
>  enough of us as a creative, humorous, eccentric individual from the old 
>  days. However, we have let others onto the list, including a young man
who 
>  was making a video at Tary's on our first reunion--don't you remember
him? 
>  He wasn't even born in the days of the "ghetto"! I think we are getting
more 
>  rigid as we go along,and I enjoy hearing new voices, particularly those
from 
>  the "left". I'm not paranoid enough to think these would-be members are
FBI 
>  agents-- give me a break! The Bureau has better things to do with its 
>  agents.
>  
>  THe fact is, and this is the last time I'll say it, is that Don was cast
off 
>  because he disagreed with the "dominant paradigm" of some of our
self-styled 
>  leaders--which is pretty much  a pro war, revenge-over justice position.
Bob 
>  Simmons' recent post about how he is a born-again patriot pretty much
spells 
>  out that way of thinking, and we see it it the posts of Mike, of Wayne,
of 
>  Connie,of James Holland, and in a few other vociferous posters. So
please, 
>  Stephanie, let's not whip up some sentimental stuff about the "good old 
>  days"! We both know what's happening here.
>  
>  Jon
>  
>  
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