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From: "Elissa Scalise Powell, CG" <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Ethical Membership
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 20:41:27 -0500
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Barbara,
You have hit the nail on the head with your request. How can anyone weigh
the evidence on anything without seeing it? Hence Melinde's scenarios about
things that were pulled before being made public.

In the cases of formal complaints or defamatory emails, of course we would
not expect to see them. But in cases where we are talking about
well-respected colleagues who have been contracted to write an article or
give a lecture, can the EC on its own authority pull the plug in the 11th
hour? Don't the potential audiences have the right to see or hear what the
author or lecturer intended and make up their own minds whether they agree
or not? Isn't that as fundamental as the First Amendment (Freedom of
Speech)?

-- Elissa

Elissa Scalise Powell, CG
www.PowellGenealogy.com
CG and Certified Genealogist are Service Marks of the Board for
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barbara R. Carroll
> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 10:51 AM
>
> I would gladly express my opinion on the issues that
> you have posed if I knew exactly what was going on
> here, and if I knew both sides of the story so that I
> could expressed an informed position.

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