RE: [DOEWatch] UC Davis' Petulent Otto Raabe: Babbling Nonsense?

[Spikepsych1@aol.com]

As long as you guys are placing Ed Slavin's name in pejoratives nearly a year 
after kicking him off for environmental protected activity, shouldn't you let 
him back on RADSAFE to defend himself against the Philistines?  Are you man 
and woman enough for debate, or just a bunch of whining crybabies?

In yet another shouted anti-intellectual, anti-environmental RADSAFE message 
dated 2/28/01 2:24:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, don.mercado@lmco.com writes:

>   Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
>
> Come on Ed, you know EXACTLY who Otto Raabe is. You've been tossed off the
> Radsafe listserver for your "debates" with him and others who prefer the
> scientific method as opposed to you who gets PAID to have an opinion. A
> lawyer debating a board certified health physicist on radiation risks. Boy!
> That was good for a laugh at your expense!



Dear RADSAFER Mercado of Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space, Sunnyvale, CA:

Thank you for admitting the reason why I was kicked off RADSAFE -- emotional 
problems with environmental protected activity by arrogant Ph.Ds. who know 
not the law or human rights.  But you forgot to mention RISKANAL.  By the 
way, do you have any idea why the Society for Risk Analysis and the Health 
Physics Society share the same offices, staff, contractors and lobbyists? 
 Could it be conscious parallelism or simply coincidence?

The Oak Ridge Oligarchy of Atomic Blunderers can sure dish it out but you 
can't take criticism and questions.  I still really don't know "who" Mr. 
Raabe is, and he is not much of a debater -- he is a whiner.  By the way, 
just who are you -- who is Don Mercado -- just another warped, frustrated old 
man trying to defend his compromises, defending the indefensible?  

I pity you fools.  One of your "certified" RADSAFE HP buddies told me that 
his job was not to prevent cancer deaths, but to document supposed exposures 
to limit liability. So don't pretend to be innocent, or look down your 
distended nostrils at someone you have never deigned to meet.  You get paid 
too, and not by innocent victims but by the world's largest arms merchant. 
 See, e.g., Anthony Sampson, The Arms Bazaar: From Lebanon to Lockheed.  Do 
you approve of Lockheed's immoral conduct, from bribing Prince Bernhard to 
polluting Oak Ridge?  What do you know of it?

Mr. Raabe and you should listen to President Bush about "civility." If you 
had read that far, you would have noted that I mentioned being kicked off 
RADSAFE in my post.  I wear your scorn as a badge of honor.  RADSAFE's 
actions showed it to be intellectually (as well as morally) bankrupt.  

The "laugh" is at Lockheed Martin's "expense" -- they're paying you to commit 
hate mail and hate crimes. Under Lockheed Martin policies, you could get 
fired for it.  As an employee of a very disgruntled employer: sending E-mail 
from work to Ed Slavin could be a career-limiting move, dude.  Good luck 
finding your next job.  The supply of scientific sophists greatly exceeds the 
demand.   Better be careful.  Your tatterdemalion employer thinks you have no 
free speech rights working for Lockheed: they hate opinionated, intelligent 
people -- they want all workers and citizens to be sheep.  

Get with the program, you are a Lockheed Martin manager: you're not paid to 
think.  
IMHO, your opinions are erroneous pompous, narcissistic and hysterical. 
 LOLAOF. 

With kindest regards,
Ed Slavin