LET'S TALK TERMINOLOGY

     First, let me apologize for the spacing issue. I cannot figure it out and hope it will not recur. Also, Gerry saw Howie O'Brien last nite at the show so there is good news from that quarter.
     Now to terminology. Lots of adjectives have been thrown around in recent days, lots of actions that lead to these adjectives, voiced and unvoiced, so let's examine some of them.
     It seems that one morning I woke up to find myself a despirasido - and please excuse misspellings. What is this? It is a term used to describe those thousands upon thousands who simply disappeared off the face of the earth at a time of great upheaval and repression in Argentina. These mostly young, large percentage of whom were Jewish and many young women were pregnant or had young children, were ripped from their beds, from the streets, tortured, had their babies stolen and were then dumped deep into the ground or the depths of the ocean. It was only in very recent times that the fate of these people and their children has been uncovered to a degree and their names are recalled once more in public.
     So I am decidedly not pregnant nor have I disappeared physically but the efforts are being made to disappear me from the Village. No entry to any media, no entry allowed as a UCO volunteer and now even my face and voice have been termed verboten by our "esteemed" David Israel and his deputy, Ed Black. Wow!!!! Makes me feel important that such efforts are being made to shut me down and shut me up. However, won't work. Sorry, boys. It just makes me ever the more determined to air your dirty linen in public. That is the way it works. It would be so simple, so much easier for you to just do the right thing and release papers for whatever, on request, as you are supposed to do in the first place!
     You rant that we are on a fishing expedition. Well, aside from a short lived purchase and use of a fishing rod for my youngest, to indulge a wish of his, that has been my closest experience with fishing.  The question here is - what are you trying to hide? If there was nothing then why not comply with a simple request. Instead, right now you stand there like a guilty little boy next to the shards of the broken vase and your hands behind your back, refusing to show the baseball in your hands and thinking that no one will ever know or figure it out. Wrong again!
     Let's see....Ahh, I have called David Israel a sheikh. I guess that was incorrect for he is certainly not from Araby, certainly not a Valentino; nor does he have a harem, only a bevy of computers. But he does behave in a single ruler mode so perhaps we need to check other terminology. A fascist regime is an authoritarian and dictatorial regime wherein the rights of the people are denied. So, people, what do we have here.? Where are our rights? Why is one man and his buddy allowed to control all media? Smells like it, looks like it....so what is it? Answer that yourself.
     Now how about hypocrisy and for that we must part the curtains into the past and oh, yes, what do we see? Why, can that be Ed Black threatening a UCO president that unless he releases papers that he requested, he, Ed Black, would then retain an attorney!!! Oh, yes, that indeed did happen so dear Mr. Israel and Mr. Black, shall we go berserk here with the word "sue, sue"?  Goose and gander, my friend, goose and gander.
     Now let's have a little fun.  Allegedly,Ed tells me I am silly - no, not really, only in moments with friends and grandchildren, but certainly not when discussing evil issues. Old? Well, so are you, guys - and older than me so screw that. Slob? No, not a neat freak either but as Dr. Seuss wrote in one of his books, "just right, just right, just right." Finally, moron? That definitely not, else how could I write circles around you, understand your nefarious plans and by the way, how could a non elected resident of CV, the same as all other non elected residents of CV, have the right and power to censor media. How is that, exactly? You got some 'splainin' to do, Mr. Ed.
     Oh, one more recent name - demented. Truly, Gracie? Can you find nothing better? Much better that you finally shut off your drippy faucet of nonsense and try to understand the depths of the issues facing CV and that means issues that will affect you too, dearie, like it or not.
     So, despite the paranoia that drives one to try to censor all, we need to get down to the nitty gritty and find out where and why this place has gone off the tracks and how we get back on. And we need to do it NOW!