Re: Fwd: Why are you posting to RADSAFE?????

[Norman & Karen Cohen <norco@bellatlantic.net>]

Hey,
If I can build and hold together a coalition of 82 organizations of all
kinds around the UNPLUG Salem Campaign, I can deal with a few radsafers.
More than anything, it takes a lot of time and energy to answer all the
emails.  But I have gotten much out of this dialogue and will continue.

peace
norm

Paul Lavely wrote:

> Norm,
>
> I am sending this to you in case you have now become so disheartened
> or disgusted that you no longer read radsafe.
>
> Paul Lavely <lavelyp@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
>
> >Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 17:18:14 -0700
> >To: radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
> >From: Paul Lavely <lavelyp@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
> >Subject: Why are you posting to RADSAFE?????
> >Cc:
> >Bcc:
> >X-Attachments:
> >
> >The following is NOT a Flame. It is a commentary on how I feel about
> >Norm, his daring to ask us for information, and how he has been
> >treated.
> >
> >How dare anyone ask this gentleman "WHY are YOU posting to radsafe?"
> >
> >The Health Physics Society bemoans the fact that some in the public
> >don't get "our" message, the HPS has a public information section,
> >we all state that education is part of our goal. Yet - when the
> >first person who does not share our information or views pops their
> >head up on radsafe we tell him to "declare yourself" and demand to
> >know "what you aim to [do with the information]?" We go on to accuse
> >him of getting "statements for your anti-nuclear business by
> >distorting them?"
> >
> >Is anyone other than Norm expected to tell us the WHY of a posting.
> >
> >Well here is our opportunity to make Norm so uncomfortable that he
> >leaves and he leaves with the opinion that we are not only uncaring
> >we are just a club to which he is not welcome. After he leaves we
> >can get back to wishing for a dialog with those who we believe are
> >in need of the information we have to give.
> >
> >Was I required to tell the radsafe audience "why I wanted to know of
> >others experiences with digging for "lost" rad materials?" How did
> >you know that this was not just my secret way to get information
> >that was harmful to other licensees so that I could release it
> >(after distorting it of course) to make them look bad or
> >incompetent? Is it that my signature line (Paul Lavely
> ><lavelyp@uclink4.berkeley.edu> RSO and Director Office of Radiation
> >Safety at the University of California - Berkeley) has axiomatically
> >included me in some secret handshake club.
> >
> >Has anyone here seen the movie Starman. One person demands that they
> >stop trying to hunt this "visitor" down and reminds them that "we
> >invited him." Isn't that what we did here? Didn't we invite those
> >like Norm?
> >
> >I am more than disappointed in our hospitality.
> >
> >Finally, if you do not wish to be a part of these discussions with
> >the Norms of the world then just do not read them.
> >
> >Paul Lavely <lavelyp@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
> >RSO and Director Office of Radiation Safety

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