On Sat, 28 Jan 1995 14:15:00 PST,
rich jones  <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
 
>On Friday, 27 Jan. 95, Eric wrote more than the following:
>
>>          The New York Times reported, in a long special yesterday,
>>          that the dogs are baying for the blood of the Director of
>>          the Air and Space Museum...
>
>Eric:  The full text of your post certainly makes clear your position on the
>"last act" controversy.  I think in time we will be privvy to all or most of
>the facts surrounding the exhibition, its storyline/text construction &
>desconstruction and the issues swirling around the director, the secretary
>and the BOT. . .<stuff deleted>. . . If it is determined, like I believe it
>will be, that the Smithsonian momentarily lost its head about the Enola Gay
>exhibition, then those who advocated vehemently for the minority
>point-of-view should be commended for sticking up for what they believe in,
>complimented on their professional accumen and if they were directly
>involved, REPLACED [emphasis mine]. . .
 
Rich, Pray tell expand on that last thought . . . Are we at the point of
firing people simply because they embrace a minority view? Talk about a
"chilling effect!" A long view of recorded history demonstrates, in time,
many (most?) majority views (in nearly every discipline) are eventually
discredited or at least proven to be only partially valid. On the surface
your remedy sounds awfully wicked. And vaguely political? Jim Czarniecki