This news is very disheartening and screwed up. I'm also very disappointed to hear that Dan resigned from the LAB. I'm thinking an iPNB intervention mediation-consultation happens post haste. ~Heidi At 02:39 AM 1/30/02, Edwin Johnston wrote: >Tuesday, January 29, 2002 was a fateful day for KPFT. On that day the Reign >of Terror began. >The whole thing started off when former KPFT general manager (GM) candidate, >Hep Ingham, returned to his KPFT LAB duties to look over the applications >for the remaining GM candidates. But Hep wasn't interested in actually >looking them over. He immediately forwarded one of these highly confidential >documents to his pal at the Pacifica Cramp-pain, Denis Moynihan, who >promptly put it up on the net, from what I hear. Then Lyn Gerry got a hold >of it and spread it around some more. Hep and Denis did their jobs well. Now >it was up to Lyn to lend her reputation to the theft of these documents from >the KPFT LAB, and claim some sort of sovereignty over all things Pacifica. >It was as if Lyn told everyone that she was now queen of KPFT and will >decide what is right for us. >But that was just the beginning. I went on the Radio4Houston.org webcast >Tuesday night and Jeff Blankfort brought up what Lyn had done. I said that >Lyn was preventing us here in Houston from exercising our right to >self-determination. Then the s*** began to fly at a hurricane rate. The war >against those who saved KPFT was on. It came from various people on the air >wanting to criticize the content of the documents, which they had no right >to see at all. And Lyn had heavily loaded her comments about the content in >such a propagandistic fashion, that the other on air people were screaming >bloody murder about the content, or alleged content of the material. >When I began to lay out the reasons we in Houston had elected for a certain >amount of confidentiality in the GM selection process, the very legitimacy >of the KPFT was called into question. I tried and tried to point out to >these people the errors they were making in what they were doing and what >they were standing for, but knew I'd never get anywhere with that crowd, so >I hung up. >It just got worse from there. Scooter was ranting and raving on how he will >continue to spy and undermine what the LAB is doing. GM candidates, Otis >Hardy Maclay and former KPFT engineer, Bob Chamm, abused the KPFT LAB chair >and another LAB member in an attempt to alter the GM selection process in >their favor. Now, this Bob Chamm was the KPFT engineer when I was arrested >and he was the one responsible for the security camera videotapes, which >never showed up in my case. And Otis, as many of you know, had long called >Garland Ganter his friend. >As if that wasn't enough, Bob Buzzanco, who is the ringleader of this bunch, >all told, got on the air to call for Dan Jones' removal from the LAB and his >position as secretary there. And Buzzanco went to great lengths to create an >impression that Dan Jones and myself had hijacked the local movement. This >relates to the coming purges by the Buzzanco cabal. >These people are trying to take power at KPFT, by hook or by crook. They've >got their little followers like Sheila Harris and Shannon Smith and a few >supporters, but they ain't got much at all in the way of numbers, which >should bother them tremendously, but for some strange reason, doesn't. >They can't purge me because I already quit before the year ended. Dan Jones >resigned very early on Wednesday from the KPFT LAB due to Buzzanco's insane >quest for power and control. What the other Houston activists do will likely >decide things. If they let themselves be snowballed by the Buzzanco Axis >Powers, then anyone who stands in their way will become a target for abuse. >But if they see through it, if they recognize how little that tiny group did >to help the movement to regain Pacifica and how they've been waiting in the >wings all the while for the right time to strike to seize power, then maybe >they can put a stop to it. >But if they don't stop Buzzanco, it spells doom for KPFT, to be sure. This >group will be equivalent to the French Committee for Public Safety, with >Buzzanco as their Robespierre. And just as in the French example, it won't >be long before Buzzanco's head is in the chopper as well and the >Thermidorian Reaction sets in, a period of intense instabilty and >corruption, followed by the rise of some sort of Napolean and the eventual >return to Ganterism. I give it less than five years before we are back to >where we started if Buzzanco succeeds. >I haven't been keeping this stuff from the Houston locals. All the while >I've been telling them about the threat that Buzzanco, Ingham and the rest >of the anti-democratic bunch posed to the reclamation of KPFT. Well, now the >critical point is upon us. I hope that the hardworking KPFT activists are up >to the challenge. And in regards to the national movement, just watch who >aligns where. We already know where Lyn Gerry stands -- knee deep in the >cesspool of Buzzancoism. > >- >This message comes via the freepacifica list. 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