[saymaListserv] Re: Violation -- Oh Really?

[Janet Minshall]

Dear Ellen, Nice try.  It seems appropriate here to mention that I 
felt severely violated by you some years ago when you stood in 
Meeting for Business in Atlanta and knowingly told a big fib in order 
to get your way in a discussion of budget and the Meetinghouse 
Resident's wages and Social Security payments.  That fib cost the 
Resident much of the Social Security benefits she was due from her 
work in the Meetinghouse.( I believe that the problem has since been 
rectified due, at least in part, to my efforts.)

The difference between these two "violations" is that I am using the 
list appropriately for discussion of Quaker spiritual and social 
concerns and you are not.  You have used the list to "dis" me as a 
person you don't like.  You can't  get away with that when there are 
hundreds listening.  You sent your "eldering" message to Atlanta 
Meeting, SAYMA and Earthcare.  I responded to the same groups. We, as 
Friends, are required by our Testimonies to live by "one standard of 
Truth", and by that measure it should not matter who is listening.

Others from Atlanta Meeting may remember these events twelve years 
ago when there was an effort by a small group of the Meeting's 
"leadership" to shun and then get rid of me and Free. I was then 
Administrative Assistant to the Meeting and to SAYMA, and Free had 
just completed five years as meeting Treasurer.  We knew where the 
bodies were buried -- thus the effort to discredit us and get rid of 
us. Free and I have been dealing with the whisper campaign in Atlanta 
Meeting, SAYMA and wider Quaker organizations ever since.

It seems that what goes around comes around Ellen.  Can we, finally, 
make peace on these matters? (I offer the same peace to the other 
Friends who have been party to the violation of me and Free. I 
believe that Free will support that offer).   
Janet Minshall





>Friends, In yet another breach of netiquette, Janet has taken my 
>private email and posted it to multiple email lists, including those 
>of which I am not a part.
>
>This is a severe violation.
>
>I hereby resign from administering this list. Please let me know who 
>will take on that role and I will change over all settings on the 
>list.
>
>Ellen Cooney