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From: Walter.Siren@p18.f5.n396.z1.fidonet.org (Walter Siren)
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Subject: Resignation statement, part 3
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Date: 4 Dec 90 16:20:00 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 JM>      Even if you disagree with some of these or other positions
 JM> I have taken, are they enough to warrant removing me as an
 JM> officer or expelling me as a member?  I hardly think so.  

You are so right.  That is how I have always found the NFB,
however, and people like yourself are gradually finding it out.

Frankly I don't see any problems with those ideas you expounded in
your messages.

 JM> Maurer said to me last April that he uses me as an example of the
 JM> democratic character of the National Federation of the Blind. 

That sure blew up in his face didn't it?

 JM> Unfortunately, it appears that this democratic expression has
 JM> proved too threatening to the desire of some for strict order and
 JM> central control.  Are these the kind of organizational processes
 JM> that promote collective, considered action?  No!  I am convinced
 JM> that our movement would be stronger and more effective if there
 JM> were more open decision making and respect for differing views in
 JM> our united cause of first class citizenship for the blind.

You are right.  If those problems were not existing, we probably would
have only organization in the movement today.

               Walter 

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