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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (65634)	11/4/2002 4:05:15 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

If it could be three it could also be 20. There may well be twenty, but the other seventeen are peripheral. The three are key, IMO. The reason I would put three in a class with the first two is because of X. X, IMO, was the X-factor, if you will, in the protracted nature of this incident. Chris did what he did and Poet dealt with it the way she did. Had X not entered the fray, I think CH would have been very lonely and we would have seen the last of it a long time ago. I think y'all recognize that, otherwise X wouldn't be getting as much "attention" as she has been getting. So why did X enter the fray. The "revisionists" and those who have "not been paying attention" may not have noticed due to TEOMOP or some other form of blindness or may not remember. I remember because, before X made her move, she and I had lengthy discussions during which I tried to disabuse her. So I've had the benefit of watching the doings equipped with that insight. X got into this not to defend CH, although she indirectly and later directly gave him aid and comfort, but as a reaction against the strident vigilantism. Had Poet"s "defenders" taken a more measured tack, it's likely that X would have stayed out of it or brought a different position. Instead she jumped in with both feet, and with some excesses of her own. And here we are. That's why I think three belongs with one and two. I also think that a shred of acknowledgement of their role in this by the parties to number three would improve the opportunities for closure.