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- From: grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>
- To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: Smoke screen
- Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 14:52:38 -0400
Heh. You should see the one *I* just sent them under my name. I bet mine was longer.
xo
Ross
Katherine Carpenter wrote:
Yeah, I think they are. You should see the one I just sent them under Grady's name.
----Original Message Follows----
From: James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com>
Reply-To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: Smoke screen
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 06:10:16 -0700 (PDT)
God dammit. Aren't they supposed to call me to
confirm this? I wanted to rescind the letter because
most of what I learned about the situation came after
I wrote it. Now I get to feel like an asshole.
Great.
Hep
--- brussell AT ibiblio.org wrote:
> Smoke screen
> It warms my heart to see so many people becoming so
> actively involved in
> helping Bob Groves out. There is no shortage of love
> in this community for
> people who go out of their way to provide something
> so rare in our society
> rife with chain stores and multiplexes. No tragedy
> can ruin a person if
> the community has something to do about it.
>
> All the more strange that a handful of people take
> this opportunity to try
> to force their ideals down our throats, seemingly
> trying to hold the
> future of the Starlite over our heads, placing
> caveats on their support.
> Those of us who have been going to the Starlite for
> years have known about
> the gun store, and I have never, until recent weeks,
> seen anyone question
> it or refuse to attend a movie because of it. So why
> all of a sudden are
> we reading these "people should know" letters?
>
> The gun store kept the Starlite open, not the other
> way around. Certainly
> not the video store! So when you talk about urging
> Mr. Groves to close the
> gun store, you're asking him not to bother
> rebuilding his screen. You're
> asking him to give up his living. The fact is that a
> person has the right
> to run whatever lawful business he chooses. No
> amount of statistics change
> that.
>
> Yes, there is a problem in this country with gun
> violence. And this an
> important issue that we're facing right now, what
> with the assault weapons
> ban expiring, ongoing, rampant crime in Durham, and
> an election coming up.
> It just saddens me that we have to be dragging Bob
> Groves into the fight
> when all he wants is a new screen to show movies on.
> James Hepler
> Durham
>
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Re: Smoke screen,
James Hepler, 10/01/2004
- Re: Smoke screen, Chris Calloway, 10/01/2004
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Smoke screen, grady, 10/01/2004
- Re: Smoke screen, Katherine Carpenter, 10/02/2004
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