[at-l] RE: Bryson

[saunterer@jimbullard.org (saunterer@jimbullard.org)]

Panzer wrote:
>There was a protest planned. (but not a mass protest)  I know because I
>      was there when the planners (2 or 3 of them, all women, as I remember)
>      announced their intentions to protest in the auditorium.  They said
> this
>      aloud so everyone would know that they would not let Bryson speak.
>      There was maybe 100 other people there when this happened.  It was
>      censorship at its worst.  We should never let this happen again at
>      ALDHA.  (unless its anti-American poetry, that much I am against)

At least Bill Bryson's aborted AT hike was a topic relevant to the ALDHA
Gathering.  I can't fathom how anti-American poetry is germane to such an
assembly.

sAunTerer