[20803] in APO-L
Re: Partisan Political Activity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Quodomine)
Thu Aug 26 13:35:43 1999
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 10:35:40 PDT
Reply-To: Rich Quodomine <satan_scores@HOTMAIL.COM>
From: Rich Quodomine <satan_scores@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
>Shortly after the story came out, another student on campus e-mailed the
>chapter
>and lambasted them for not using their time and effort to do something more
>effective such as lobbying for tighter gun control.
Yuck. Gun Control debate. Sounds like a person with a political axe to grind
and enough whine to do it. If that person wanted other action, perhaps
helping to end the cartoon violence by some sort of campaign or similar,
more deeply rooted problem would be ok. There's debate over whther or not
gun contrl would work. THere's no debate that the root causes of violence
need to be addressed.
>Thence followed a series of
>e-mails between the student and the chapter. We responded to the student
>that
>due to the diverse group of people and groups that we served, we refrained
>from
>lobbying and other partisan political activities. After several attempts
>to
>explain ourselves in such a way as to achieve some level of understanding,
>the
>student decided we were "beyond hope" and ceased contact.
LIke I said, sounds like a person who wants a group to trumpet their cause,
not a person who really cares about helping. The cranes, whichare patterned
after the "Origami Girl" who was stricken with radiation poisoning after
Hiroshima, are a nice, historical touch.
Lobbying for gun control, viewed largely as a "left wing" issue, is not
appropriate. Helping out those impoverished, struggling single-mother homes,
or helping children to engage in meaningful educational activities that
promote a sense of belonging, rahter than the rejection that the shooters at
Columbine felt woul dbe worthwhile projects, IMO. THose are *root* causes
with true humanitarian intereset, not axe-grinding political nerve-wreckers.
-- Rich QUodomine
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