RE: YOUR Chance to Support Equal Rights in Moscow

[Debbie Gray <dgray@uidaho.edu>]

Yes, this is also true. But the "other people" are your elected
representatives. That's how the process works, we elect people we hope
will make the choices that represent their constituents. And that is what
they did in response to the _majority_ of people who contacted them at the
time (according to council statements).

Now if there are people who do not agree with this, they are free to use
the same process to 1) vote them out of office and elect someone else and
2) change the law. And if you have to meet the first action by mass
registering of unregistered voters who support your cause and didn't care
enough to vote our current members in to office--well, that's the
electoral process in action. And if the opposite were true, a mass of
people organizing to support the ordinance would you be as supportive?

Whether you agree with the ordinance is one thing, acting as if this were
some clandestine decision passed down from some remote elected figures
with their own interests in mind and passed through with no input and no
way TO communicate input then I would see a problem with the process. And
to me, I've not heard so much self-victimization by women in a long time.
I think it's easier for people to jump on the victim wagon then approach
this logically and realistically. All this noise about how this is
basically men keeping all women down and making them feel nasty is pure
emotional blackmail. But I guess you need some rallying cry.

Debbie

On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Tom Hansen wrote:

> Greetings Visionaires -
>
> Debbie Gray stated:
>
> >Police ENFORCE the laws that other
> > people MAKE. People often lose sight of that fact.
>
> This is very true, Ms. Gray.  But, in the case of Moscow Ordinance 2002-13,
> City Council (the "other people" in your statement) has created a law
> without a majority consent of the governed.  And we haven't lost sight of
> that fact.
>
> Free to be you and me,
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
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Debbie

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  Debbie Gray      dgray@uidaho.edu      http://www.uidaho.edu/~dgray/
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