Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:44:56 -0500 (EST)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Gilliland Christmas card
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net> wrote:

> You have to understand what the "revenge" is all about.  Alexis is
> trying to gain revenge against WSFA -- for moving the meeting place
> away from his house.  I mean, the *nerve*!  Alexis knows WSFA
> meetings were his God-given right.

I thought it was hyperbole when you first said that, but since he's
calling an action of the club's president, vice president, treasurer,
Capclave chair, and the majority of the club's membership a "coup,"
that does seem to be the only possible interpretation.  Who else could
it be a coup *against*?  Who is the established leadership whom the
club's officers and members overthrew?

To answer Candy's question about why anyone cares, it's not obvious to
me whether non-WSFAns who read the five page screed will inevitably
recognize it as entirely bogus.  If they don't, it can damage the
reputation of numerous WSFAns in fandom at large.  And the phrasing of
the Christmas card implies that it's going to non-WSFAn fans, people
who know what WSFA is but don't know anything about what's happened
in it in the past year.  These are the people being offered copies of
the libelous letter.