Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance

Freedom of speech is a wonderful right! Yes, It permits anyone to use this neighborhood link IF the webmaster decides they like your questions or comments. As pointed out in a NOW VANISHED discussion, they do know who you are when you sign on to the discussion area. After all they do need some ability to control what they want projected on THEIR website. So much for those ethics and actual responsibility to confidentiality, webmaster!

There is so much talk of fear of retribution on this discussion area. What a crock! The only thugs in this neighborhood are a FEW neighborhood soap box authors/PATA Players Theatre members.

Did someone strike a nerve? How many times has this happened? Best I can see, someone actually upped your readership by about 450 readers in 2 days! Whoa!!! All from a simple, but kindly stated question! Did you forget those that already clicked in?

Keep up the carefully selected praise webmaster. You preserve our freedom in ways that should make your forefathers proud. German ancestry, you say?
No dissent allowed?

Oh well.....as they wave their fingers over the keyboard....just call me....Gone With A Click, Too!

Discussion Deleted by Request

Jan 26, 2001
The discussion item the author above refers to was an insinuation that an elected offical has a serious health problem. The elected offical whom this discussion item was about, contacted PATA on January 25th and requested that the discussion be removed from our site. Since this individual's privacy and the personal nature of the situation was in question, PATA honored his request and removed the discussion. This was a difficult decision to make and the author could have made an effort to remain anonymous, as the instructions were available to do such, then she would not have such a problem with our actions. instead she signed her original item with her site sign in name. If you do not want a link to your email address or identity on the discussion area, do not sign your posting with your site sign in name! This is clearly stated in several areas of the site giving instructions to remain anonymous. The following was the last posting of the webmaster prior to the deletion of the discussion. The name of the individual in the discussion has been removed from the original posting.

Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance Discussions PATA Founder not a Dictator 1-25-2001 Jan 25, 2001 Since the author of the original message forgot to make the discussion entry completely anonymous and used his/her sign in name on the discussion entry, the PATA webmaster is able to link the message to who this person is. If the webmaster were a dictator, she could have exposed this person's identity since, considering the source, it is in extremely bad taste. But I consider that exposure unethical, even if the person who wrote the discussion item is acting in an unethical manner in my opinion. I choose not to expose this person. I also can delete any discussion that the organization feels inappropriate and I left this one on the site even though there has been considerable debate to do the opposite between concerned PATA members.

Those in the community, who choose to destroy another person's reputation or personal life, by acts such as these, expose themselves to the public ultimately. The author will live with the results of this and other actions, eventually. One can speculate, (from the original author's viewpoint,) that if the author was visiting the Johns Hopkins?’ Brain Tumor site, perhaps this person has a brain problem too. I do admire the accused individual's search for information and alternative opinions and methods. I do believe this behavior on his part was not gained by observations of the actions of the board majority or administration. If he has something to tell his friends or the community?… it is his decision. Causing him additional stress seems to be considered a sport with some members of the public. The above author should really understand the meaning of the word dictator, having been there, and not misuse it.
-By Lisa Ross