Hi Steve,
I visited this site, and it took me quite a long while to find any
part that related to USGW. When I found it only then did I recognize his
name as the fellow who has undertaken a rabid personal crusade against
state vital records appearing online. Some people can lose all reason, but
it is of course part of what we and all other genealogists do to make
available to the genealogical community public records of previously
published birth and death data provided to the public by state governments.
Most of us would like more privacy than we sometimes get from modern
life these days, but government birth and death information has always been
public, and every genealogist thanks God for that. For some strange
reason, this fellow has chosen to wage a crusade against USGW and RootsWeb,
rather that the state of Texas that actually made the information public.
Perhaps he was astute enough to realize that the state of Texas would tell
him to get lost. Of course every state does the same thing that Texas
does, we live in an open democracy and not a secret and heavily censored
police state.
Even more ironic is that this same fellow devotes webpage after
webpage of space to proclaiming his own rights, some of which he has
stretched almost beyond all recognition, yet here he loudly demands that
the same rights be denied everyone else. I suppose the censors and
bookburners will always be with us, but it is always unfortunate when they
attempt to deny everyone but themselves access to information that belongs
to every one of us.
Thank you,
Kevin Fraley
At 01:52 PM 1/2/01 -0800, Steve Jacobson wrote:
Folks,
It seems some people on the Internet think we at GenWeb controls the
release of
information as shown on the internet. take some time and visit
this site and come back and post your feelings or let it ride to the next
level what ever that maybe.
http://welcome.to/cherished_memories
Steve CC
Columbia, Garfield and Asotin CO
Wa GenWeb Project