Ms Alice @ Mudcat thinks that all major Mudcatters are controlled by a group of "insiders"....that find her posting fun. Unfortunately for her, she's wrong. I realize that some of you may not know the particular background details of the events I'm referring to. I'm not going to go into those details here, but you can read up on them elsewhere. Although it requires risk, commitment, and follow-through to improve the living conditions of the most vulnerable in our society -- the sick, the old, the disabled, the unemployed, and our youth -- all of whose lives are made miserable by Alice @ Mudcat, a number of serious questions need to be asked -- and answered -- before we give her carte blanche to dig a grave in which to bury liberty and freedom. Is that such a difficult concept? What does this mean for our future? For one thing, it means that facts and their accuracy make a story, not the overdramatization of whatever she dreams up.

Alice is obviously trying to make our blood curdle, and unless we act now, she'll honestly succeed. Perhaps if she thought about it, she'd realize that her views are a load of claptrap. To represent heaven as hell and, conversely, the most wretched life as paradise is an injustice. Alice is secretly saying that we, not being one of the many sex-crazed clods of this world, should just lose heart.

If she has spurred us to deal summarily with distasteful hopeless quacks, then Alice may have accomplished a useful thing. She thinks we want her to incite pogroms, purges, and other mayhem. Excuse me, but maybe what was morally wrong five years ago is just as wrong today. Still, we shouldn't jump to conclusions, even though it is a known fact that Alice's intimations reek of so much oligarchism that the smell makes us nauseous. Alice's announcements don't accomplish anything useful, because they don't deal with the real issue. The real issue is that people who agree with Alice's manuscripts are either stupid, drunk, on drugs, paid off by Alice, or are snotty grease smeared non-musical neophites.

Need I point out that she labels everything that conflicts with her established way of thinking as "others ARE interested in this stuff? I find it sickening to watch her gain a respectable foothold for her paltry contributions. Of course, it's not quite that simple. Ostensibly, Alice does not intend to dismantle musical organizations by driving a wedge between the leaders and the contributing members, but in fact, there is an inherent contradiction between her disorganized form of B. S. alarmism and basic human rights.