1st email...snippet

If abortion were made illegal, what punishment would you like to see imposed, upon a woman caught voluntarily seeking out an illegal abortion?

Should such a case be treated precisely the same as any other method of first-degree murder?

Two Hypotheticals

Hypothetical A: Steve hates Pauline. One day Steve drugs Pauline, ties her up, puts her in the back of his pick-up truck and drives across town--to Mike's place. Mike tells Steve that the liquid in his syringe will cause speedy death in any human being. Steve then pays Mike $500 to inject Pauline--who dies immediately.

Hypothetical B: Sandra is unexpectedly pregnant and doesn't want to be. She asks some friends--and is provided with contact info for Bob, an illegal abortionist. Sandra then goes to Bob's place, where she pays Bob $500 for an abortion. Bob then performs the abortion on Sandra per her request.

Eden Prairie Blogs

Gavin Sullivan
http://www.gavinsullivan.com/

Two Putt Tommy
http://www.twoputttommy.com/

Tild~
http://tildology.com

A closer look at flyover land
http://knitthink.typepad.com/flyoverland/

Sheila Kihne
The Activist Next Door
http://www.theactivistnextdoor.com/

Crystal Kelley
Friendly Neighborhood Republican
http://friendlyneighborhoodrepublican.blogspot.com/

Taste Life, with Chere Bork
http://cherebork.com/blog/

Brian Lee
Champions in Christ
http://championsinchrist.wordpress.com/

City of Eden Prairie blogs
http://edenprairieweblogs.org/

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Other Links of interest:

SD42 DFL - local blog listing

Minnesota Organization of Bloggers (MOB)

Mar 11-14: Sixth Twin Cities Arab Film Festival

Eden Prairie Book Club

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Crystal Kelley email

Gavin,

Against better advice, I am responding to your e-mail. I'm in a shitty mood today, so why not?

Why would I help you in any way when you continue to say unflattering, untrue things about me on your blog? Sheila isn't interested in having a dialogue with you. Get over it. When I read the archives linked in your latest post, I can see that she originally had the same idea I had: be courteous, maybe we can find some common ground, etc. But I don't want to go down the road she went down, which is where you became a creepy stalker. I don't know why you feel compelled to attack other bloggers, and I don't know why you then don't understand that after you attack people they don't want to talk to you.

You and I have more common ground than you would ever know, but you will never know because I will never be able to have a cordial relationship with you. Why? I don't like people who lie about me. You never called me anal and I never "amusingly" mistook it for a perversion. That is just not true, or at the very least a gross misrepresentation of the facts, which anyone
who read your corresponding link would know. You portray me as a stupid child, and you are free to think of me that way. Others, including Mensa, disagree.

Again with the free speech. Would you expect to pepper the StarTribune with 500 obnoxious letters slamming them and their practices and expect them to be published? I hope not. Would their not publishing you be a violation of free speech? No. You have the right to say whatever you want, but others are not compelled to publish whatever you say. Do you understand the
distinction? Free speech means that with a few exceptions (slander, libel) you won't be punished by law for saying whatever you want in this country. But that doesn't mean that what you say is free from consequence, something that, for example, the Dixie Chicks never seemed to understand. The consequence, in your case, is that people are insulted by the insulting
things you say about them on your blogs, and they don't respond in a friendly way.

So no, I won't help bring my "pro-free speech" viewpoint to Sheila. Because it's her blog and she can handle it however she wants, just as I can handle mine how I want as well.

Regards,

Crystal, aka the weak-voiced admiring sister

you are loved, Michael Kinsley