As you obviously don't know, the message gets through a lot better when
you
speak in terms appropriate to the audience. Any public speaker knows this
or if he doesn't, he learns it quite quickly. If you don't present your
ideas using terms that the audience understands and likes, they will tune
you out. Your message is wasted. and so is your time if you've just got
to
"let it all hang out."

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE



all true, accepted as submitted.
However, if the premise of your argument is that my approach offended
everybody
so it reached no one, you are incorrect. In fact, i'll hazard a guess that
it offended
1, mabye 2 people; the remainder that have jumped onto the bandwagon with
this
person were disingenuously doing so, only doing so since it helped thier
private
little war and pet cause...

I will also hazard the guess, and free of much apprehension in doing so,
that the
vast majority of people that read it (who I WAS likewise posting to, for
reading)
didn't drop to the ground in gut-wrenching revulsion to the point that the
point
was lost. I don't think it was lost on anywhere NEAR the people you would
have me believe. On the contrary, what I DID in fact do was help to remove
some of the window dressing of your (read: PCTA crowd) arguments, strip
away the pretty, "happy fuzzy bunny" covers that are often used to hide
the REAL core of the argument.

And, as you've read in this thread as well as newsgroups, others have
recieved
it wide and clear- albeit, to YOUR chagrin, but so be it, such is the way of
socratic dialogue... and that is this-

"I had to do it, so should you."

Furthermore, there is the DISTINCT possiblity that the following is true,
but
i'm not pushing this point as it is moot and would achieve nothing- the
unspoken
total truth may lie somewhere in,

"I had to do it, those of my peerage and common interests likewise didn't
have
enough spine and nerve to speak our minds on the issue, so we feel that by
doing so yourselves you are QUITE insensitive to the interest of protecting
our feelings and reputations, so we kindly request you to lay down the
banners
of your cause, surrender, and just do what you are told as well. We don't
want
anybody offended."

Quite a thing to be proud of, indeed.

Just let us who are willing to carry the banner and lead the charge do so;
just
sit back and relax; the willing and able bodied among us will take care of
everything.

Clint
KB5ZHT