[CQ-Contest] CQ Asks Contesters to E-mail All Logs

[Guy Olinger, K2AV]

Personally, I think we have lost track of proportion. But there is
something else at work here that I propose we need to consider.

Each of us can speak for ourselves alone. But when another bends in the
wind while we stand straight up, before we condemn....

There once was a time when those who stood firm and fought would
prevail, and likely if they did not, they would lose all, probably their
life. It was a time when bullies won, and sometimes only bullies would
live long enough to have children. It was a time when people joined into
tribes for safety, and someone not in your tribe was less than an animal
and should be killed. Life was short, violent, and odds of living to
adulthood were very slim. No one knew why disease, why hardly anything,
and progress in understanding took a back seat to finding food and
keeping the neighboring tribe from killing yours. The weak and the
fearful died early.

All of civilization and the history of our nation is wrapped around a
struggle to reverse that paradigm and make a place where inquiry, art,
progress are possible, and the weak and fearful can also live a life and
be valued.

I lived through a period of abuse as a child, and understand what it is
like to live in terror and not be able to control it. I'm one of the
lucky ones, I have crawled out of it with a lot of help.  The events of
the last month have brought those old memories back as if they were
yesterday.

There are a lot of people who will need a lot of help to get over the
brutal smack that these events have handed them. There is no simple
answer for a manager who has a long-time valued employee who is having
trouble sleeping for the fear of everything and can barely muster enough
will-power to come to work.

I think one poster's offer to process the logs remotely is the kind of
answer needed.

The land of the free and the home of the brave? The brave? Oh, yes, and
many there are. Land of the free? Not if our answer to the fears of the
gentle ones is a smack-down.

Land of the free if our answer to the terrorized is "hold onto me until
you get your bearings", if our answer is "stand behind me in the wind".

Having been there, and understanding, I know the terrorists have already
won against the timid souls among us, and I remember that they are
spouses, parents, children, artists, both men and women who still suffer
with echoes of past terrors, BUT people of much worth in their appointed
places, even if they are fearful. I owe my own resistance to these
events to those who have helped me in the past.

But we really will have lost to the terrorists if their actions cause us
to fight among ourselves.

73, Guy.

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Guy Olinger
Apex, NC, USA

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Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ Asks Contesters to E-mail All Logs


>
>     CQ's paranoid decision to not accept paper logs is totally out of
> proportion to the reality of the situation. That reflects directly on
Dick
> Ross who is the owner of CQ (and the CQWW) and made the decision.
>
>     Very little if any thought was given to the consequences of this
decison
> not only in the short term but also the long term. If they don't want
to
> touch the mail, there are other alternatives; others have already
volunteered
> to handle the paper logs.
>
>     If CQ maintains this ludicrous position, I will terminate my
longtime
> subscription.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve    K7LXC
>
>
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