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Kathy Seifert wrote:
If one chooses to view David's words as an personal attack, one obviously may. I'm not certain a vote would accomplish anything.My stance is that we must strive to be able to express a diversity of opinion without attacking those with whom we disagree.
David's use of the phrase: "Big Brother is your friend. Big Brother has the answers. 1984" seems to be reference to my actions as some sort of thought control. I experience it as a personal attack. I can hardly be objective in this matter, though. I'm entertaining the idea of putting it to a vote. What do others think?
Kathy Seifert
I choose to see David's allegory for what I think he intended: The situation here parallels the world of 1984 in that our rules may seem unclear and arbitrary, in both expression and enforcement, and we are encouraged to accept that the leadership knows best based on little more than leadership's repeated assurances of the same.
Given that his frustration with the alternate side of the street parking signs echoed these sentiments, I'm fairly confident this doesn't have anything to do with Kathy as a person, no matter how many of us vote to take a vote on it.
-Spencer Madsen
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