To quote Gomer Pyle...
"Surprise, surprise, surprise!!"
Of course most of us are not surprised at all that a leader of STRIDE is
connected to raucous caucus. In fact there has been some speculation on the
list a few weeks ago if I remember right...
The whole defending free speech issue is a non-starter, just more martyr
rhetoric that STRIDE/raucouscaucus is famous for.
Russell says:
The non-starter here is the supposed controversy and scandal that Messr. Persons seems to detect. That Avidor's drawings appeared on RC was always apparent. I don't think Ken ever thought he was fooling anybody. . . . You win, Scott, THE OBVIOUS HAS BEEN CONFIRMED! David Brauer called it when the web site first appeared. . . . Next issue please.
More Persons:
Give us a break, if you have a web site you have to have a real name, it's called fraud protection not Big Brother.
Now that we've established the STRIDE/cowardscaucus connection, would any
other STRIDE leaders like to drink from the cup of courage and claim their
work? We're all waiting...
Russell girds his loins and drinks:
The cup of courage. . .bottoms up!
I have worked to further STRIDE's efforts; you can call me a member if that helps. I have read Raucous Caucus. I have laughed at it. No work of mine has ever appeared on it. I DO want a bumper sticker saying "Not approved about the Minnesota Council on Humor (That's not funny!)." I guess that means that I drive a car sometimes.
Years after my old neighborhood in Tulsa, OK was bisected by an expressway and big ugly "accessible" ramps, it languishes when, pre-expressway, it was a destination point, albeit with a lot of young people on the street--in cars even (drag racing back in the sixties, so local legend has it). There were thriving small businesses back then and a local personality, rivalries between highschools, etc. Industry stayed put but retail largely died as folks jumped on those ramps to head to the malls. Property values didn't rise. . . .
I didn't have the sense to make the connections back then, but I do now. After I could drive, I often went straight to the ramp to get the hell out of my uncool part of town, helping to strangle the local economy as I was lured by the ever sprawling new development (and video arcades!) a few minutes away.
In summary--STRIDE member, read but never posted to raucous caucus, own a car, want a bumper sticker, not from here, against the "excess" project because, in part, I have seen what "access" did to my old neighborhood.
Russell Raczkowski
Bancroft
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