[candidate-development] [adcom] Report of CDLC to State Committee

[Yarden]

Wrong again.

When I am prepared to name people, I name them.  It is much closer to  
the truth to say that I have no clear idea of the origin of the "A  
'Minority Report'" other than names of its signers.  I also have no  
idea of how those names got there.  I have attempted discussion with  
people whose names are on that list, and have discovered little more.   
I am in no position to even attempt to 'indict' anyone, insist on  
rational -- not judgmental -- discourse, and am always prepared to  
discuss my moral character with anyone who wishes to
do so.  I am not prepared to compete in the pathetic rhetoric of  
imprecations, condemnation from any pulpit of virtue.  " .   .   .  
constitutes a clear, transparent indictment of one of our sisters in  
struggle and is calumnious."
sounds good, apodictic, and appealing to true believers.  It does not  
even begin to approach the demands of a pragmatic search for truth and  
knowledge.  If you learned to read something that someone else is  
saying, you would notice that every thing that I am saying refer to  
agenda of the "A 'Minority Report'", thus might refer to you as one of  
its signers, and you and i might engage in a discussion of the damage  
it has done to the work of our party.  It is much easier to drag up  
the tired recriminatory rhetoric that goes nowhere.  If you want civil  
dialog, you are free to engage in it.  I will be happy to assist and  
participate.  You might start out with a  reading of Charles Pierce's  
essay, "How to Make Our Ideas Clear."  Emulating puritan divines goes  
no place except to the self-glorification of the one who wishes to go  
no place.
With compassion
Elie Yarden
MRGRA


On Jun 16, 2008, at 11:43 AM, Owen Broadhurst wrote:

> "The continuing attempts to nullify the results of our primary, on the
> part of anyone, for whatever motives, is severely damaging to our  
> standing
> as an electoral party.  Even more damaging is the attempt to run  
> parallel
> campaigns for delegates without regard to the election."
>
> This statement above constitutes a clear, transparent indictment of  
> one of
> our sisters in struggle and is calumnious. When I consistently have,  
> on
> ample occasions, urged brothers and sisters to please address one  
> another
> with respect and civility, campaigns to smear the names of our  
> brothers and
> sisters and indict their moral character to large degree would be  
> precisely
> what I happen to be referencing. This is uncalled for nonsense, and
> abominable.
>
> Stop it.
>
> OB
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