[ale] OT: Well it is going to hit the list sooner or later.

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net]

On 1 Aug 2004, James P. Kinney III wrote:

> Excellent riposte, Courtney. When a person is punished for doing the
> right thing, that is when the news media is supposed to jump and and do
> the big expose on the entire process.
> 
> No one is ever exempt from critical analysis of their actions or
> inactions. From the President of the US, the heads of multi-national
> corporations all the way down the socio-economic ladder to the homeless
> alcoholic under the bridge, everyone should be held accountable.
> 
> Mr. Blake needs to take his copy of the evidence and deliver it to every
> newspaper and TV station in the state. Then he needs to deliver a copy
> to his Alabama congress critters office. It likely won't get his job
> back. In fact, he should probably be happy he is no longer working with
> such an organization and should look at moving to another state.
> 
> Once again, southern states get shown in a disparaging light by their
> own misdeeds. 

Sadly, the problem isn't confined to southern states. The situation is bad 
enough (IMHO) that Mr. Blake has pretty much ended his employement 
options.

> 
> On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 09:57, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> > Assuming your rendition of the case to be true and complete, Mr. Blake 
> > should be made administrative head of ALDOT for rendering the people of 
> > Alabama such brave and needed service in revealing the rot in ALDOT, 
> > which is further evidenced by it's handling of this case.
> > 
> > Anyone who had the responsibility of evaluating/judging/acting on his 
> > original submissions and supported his termination, should themselves be 
> > dismissed, not as vindictiveness, rather as.... confirmation that they 
> > were also part of the rot.
> > 
> > His boss should be fined on some basis commensurate with his 
> > transgressions, and then fired without benefits.
> > 
> > Logic & literacy should be made legal in Alabama, in the hope that this 
> > would incite a movement to introduce them throughout the South   :-)
> > 
> > With a banjo on his knee,
> > A Southerner
> > 
> > 
> 
> Another southerner
> 
> 

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