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This article is excerpted from the Rocky Mountain Pagan Journal.
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Each issue of the Rocky Mountain Pagan Journal is published by
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High Plains Arts and Sciences; P.O. Box 620604, Littleton Co.,
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80123, a Colorado Non-Profit Corporation, under a Public Domain
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Copyright, which entitles any person or group of persons to
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reproduce, in any form whatsoever, any material contained therein
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without restriction, so long as articles are not condensed or
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abbreviated in any fashion, and credit is given the original
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author.!
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The Way it Looks From Here
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Copyright 1987, R.M.P.J.
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Junk Mail
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As many of you are aware, someone has been having fun lately
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with their spiffy little Xerox(tm) machine and a handful of
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stamps.
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Some party or parties unknown, probably from around the
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Denver area has been mailing copies of a typewritten letter to
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Craft groups public and private, Organizations, Newsletter
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Publishers, what have you. The letters have been (so far) mailed
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from Denver, and have been mailed to quite a cross-section of the
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country, allegedly from people in the Denver Area Craft
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Community.
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The rationale of the author(s?) will probably never be
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known; at this point it's not terribly important anyhow. The
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content of the letter seemed to be aimed at maligning and
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denigrating one of the country's more well-known Craft groups,
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Circle Network.
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As far as the content itself, it seemed to be reasonably
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well put together grammatically; the syntax was a bit strange,
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though I've penned worse myself many a time. In general, I was
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not impressed with the quality of the copy at all.
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At any rate, the content is not the issue (at least with
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me). What makes this particular piece of correspondence
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objectionable is the attempt to avoid (evade?, dodge?, elude?,
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escape?) the responsibility. If he/she/they feel that Circle
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Network is in the wrong, why not send the letter to them and have
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done?
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Just a note: How many people are there in the Craft in this
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country? How many of us have had at least basic grounding in
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developing our psychic abilities? Do these people think they can
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hide from the whole Craft community? Ye Gods!
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At any rate, this infamous missal started to appear in its
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various guises early on in January, and battle (apparently) has
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been joined. R.M.P.J. received a letter from Circle Network,
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making us aware of the problem (having received one of the
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letters we already were, but hey, ) and offering some "sugges-
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tions" on how to proceed.
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Now I have some quibbles regarding "inalienable" rights,
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constitutionally defined or whatever. I find that I am in
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agreement with some things that were said at last year's "Craft
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Ethics" panel discussion at Dragon Fest. We do have rights. We
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have the right to feel and we have the right to choose, and
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that's all!
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I am hereby exercising my right to feel. I don't like
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either the letter `about' Circle, nor the letter from Circle --
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both leave me feeling angry and disgusted, and sad that they
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(both Circle and the unknown jackasses who wrote that piece of
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junk-mail) could so under-estimate the intelligence of their
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readers....
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I am also exercising my right to choose. As an editor of
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the Rocky Mountain Pagan Journal, I deeply resent anyone telling
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me, recommending or suggesting to me and my co-editor what is fit
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to print and what "may/should/better" not be printed. Before we
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(the editors) yield to that sort of influence, we will scuttle
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the whole damn thing...('nuff said?)
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If you have received one of the letters, hang on to it.
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Read it. Study it. Research the allegations if you're concerned
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about them. Dig out the facts, if you wish. But do it for you,
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ok? If you'd rather, do what most intelligent folks will do --
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throw the damn thing away with the other junk mail. One less
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hassle to get involved in.
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.....And that's the way it looks from here. ___Gary
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.......... FROM RMPJ, 2/3/1987
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