Theos-Talk Archives (February 2004 Message tt00127)

walkinsnotwelcome wrote:
> Whatever happened to them? They made some promises, then vanished 
> like cockroaches. 
With one or two exceptions, they were well-meaning with some good, 
solid suggestions. The problem was that it was not enough for them to be 
right; they worded their more sensible proposals in such a way as to 
force the then-administration to be declared to be wrong. I don't have 
their proposals in front of me, but I recollect one example was a 
suggestion that votes for officers of the TSA be independently 
accounted. Not a bad idea, but the proposal also contained language 
which essentially stated that the TSA Board of Directors were not 
trustworthy, and THAT, the members would not vote for. If it contained 
just the former and not the latter, it may very well have passed. Less 
practical proposals included one in which Quest Magazine would be 
required to publish all submissions and letters without any editorial 
discretion, regardless of the volume of the articles and mail.

Bart Lidofsky