[gha] Re: GHA - Do We Stand for Peace?
- From: "Julia Budnikova" <budnikova@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gha@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "'Leo Semashko'" <leo.semashko@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 03:00:39 +0400
I believe that Bruce and Leo have some rest. Let's put this issue on the month
to all calmed down. In this conflict, there is too much personal. But the world
is not a private matter! Let Leo and Bruce and Glen, all think about it.
American peacekeepers just want peace, as well as Russian. We must love each
other! Why do we need a war in GHA? Enough war in Ukraine. It is the enemy of
mankind wants to now all we quarreled. GHA need all: both the Americans and
Russian. Only in unity can we win!
With Love
Julia Budnikova,
President GHA-Russia
From: gha-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gha-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Bruce Cook, AuthorMe.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 12:52 AM
To: gha@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Leo Semashko
Subject: [gha] GHA - Do We Stand for Peace?
Dear GHA members,
I greet you with a subject of concern to all of us: Do we agree to continue
with the existing current level of rage and bias in GHA communications, or
would we prefer to take a more balanced approach worthy of academic rigor?
To asses this problem, I invite you to review 2013-2014 digests of GHA
communications at the following address:
<//www.freelists.org/archive/gha> //www.freelists.org/archive/GHA
As you might have already noted, no credible academic organization would
tolerate this level of rage and bias. Frankly, its presence is (or, I believe,
should be) an embarrassment to all members.
Instead, as I have recently indicated, I strongly feel that GHA e-mails, etc.,
need to be more conducive to peaceful discourse. I even appealed to Leo to
consider this possibility, for almost all of the embarrassing emails issue from
his address.
In reviewing the GHA digests, one cannot fail to note our fearless leader’s
regularity in making mean personal attacks against members. The immature
progression follows a regular, predictable modus operandi.
1. A member disagrees with or criticizes the leader.
2. The leader remains silent for a couple of days.
3. The leader conducts what political groups call "opposition research" in
which he does one of two things:
3a. Gathers facts to discredit whoever has had the gall to criticize him.
3b. "Sets up" the opposition to obtain facts by asking deliberate questions
with copies to all GHA members
4. Prepares and mails out a tirade with drunken sailor qualities for the
purpose of discrediting the critic and intimidating other members so future
criticism will be discouraged.
Against this background, I was pleased this morning to receive a seemingly
friendly email from Leo.
In this email, he finally relented by accepting my request to write me directly
on administrative matters, without copying the message to all members. For this
I truly commend him.
Second, in this email, he asked that I send him a copy of the GHA list. After
all, I had claimed we had 800+ people on the list. Well, upon researching this,
I realized that Leo was correct and we have a much lower number of members. I
must have been thinking of another of the lists I maintain. Or perhaps I was
thinking of GHA before its split in 2005. In any case, it was my error and I
freely apologize to everyone.
I should note that I recently criticized Leo on another matter and asked to be
spared from his traditional personal attack.
Alas, Leo had another request for me. He was asking me, with copies to
everyone, to edit a document I had already told him I would not edit. Sadly,
this revealed that has purpose was to "set me up" for a personal attack. (This
comes under item 3b in the modus operandi above.)
What was really happening? If you have been following the GHA messages (and I
suspect that few have been reading GHA messages) you will clearly realize that
he wanted me to legitimize a personal attack diatribe against Glen Martin he
wrote a few weeks ago.
Why did Leo ask me to do this again? After all, I had refused to edit it.
Naturally, he expected me to refuse again, and this would constitute another
personal failing for him to lament in his personal attack – in which he could
slam me for being an American, like Glen. (Perhaps you have noted a definite
bias against Americans in Leo's diatribes.)
As part of this, I would expect Leo to claim that I had already agreed to edit
the diatribe against Glen. But that is incorrect, for I only agreed to edit
Leo's book, and it is not at all clear that a diatribe of this quality should
be included in a book which so far is claiming to advocate harmony and peace.
Now, I could avoid his attack. I would just have to relent and edit his
personal attack on Glen Martin. How easy that would be. But it’s clearly time
to draw the line on this continuing disturbance in GHA’s notion of peace. I ask
everyone. What do we stand for if not peace? That's peace in the world, but
also peace in our communications with each other. Don't we need to "walk the
talk" of peace?
Thus, today, I am turning to the group. This time, unlike Leo's biased
tradition of taking a "vote" by assuming everyone agrees with him if they don't
write in and disagree (with the obvious risk of being attacked themselves), I
will take another approach.
1. If you, as a GHA member would like Leo to continue with his acerbic attacks,
please write an email to the group in which you say" "I agree that Leo should
continue with his personal attacks."
2. If you, as a GHA member, feel that Leo's criticism of Glen is warranted and
worthy of placement on the GHA website, please write an email to the group in
which you say "I agree that Leo's personal attack on Glen Martin is worthy of
publication.”
3. If you are (or plan to be) an author of an article in Leo's new book, please
write an email to the group in which you say "I have no objection if Leo's
personal attack on Glen Martin is published in the same book as my article."
I leave the question there. If everyone is truly pleased with the direction GHA
emails have taken, I will be glad to reconsider.
Yours in pursuit of harmony and peace,
Bruce
Bruce L. Cook, Ph.D.
President, GHA-USA
Vice-President, GHA
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