Cancellation – How The Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and The Threat To Democracy – July 13

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From: ReadingLiberally-SaltLake@johnkarls.com
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Subject: July 13th Meeting Cancelled – Attila Relenyi’s Topic Proposal Is Our Focus For August 10th
Date: Sat, June 25, 2016
Time: 2:14 am MDT – 3:19 am MDT (due to 100/hour limit)
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Dear Friends,

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Cancellation Of Our July 13th Meeting

As stated in last Saturday’s weekly e-mail (and, indeed, in the first e-mail of every monthly cycle), our July 13th meeting would be cancelled unless a minimum quorum of 6 RSVP’s had been received by 11:59 pm last evening.

Unfortunately, only 5 RSVP’s were received -- from Ted Gurney, Elizabeth (“Tucker”) Gurney, George Kunath, June Taylor (aka Utah Owl) and Yours Truly.

Accordingly, our July 13th meeting is cancelled.


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Maintaining Standards

We should be proud (in a perverse sense) that this is only the third time in our 10.5-year history that we have failed to achieve a quorum.

Each of the previous two times we had received only 5 RSVP’s, the Q arose whether an exception couldn’t be made.

However, we have always adhered to the principle that making exceptions to standards really means having no standards.


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August 10 Topic

The August 10 topic is Attila Relenyi’s Proposal = Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance by Julia Angwin ($14.38 paperback + shipping or $9.99 Kindle from Amazon.com - 320 pages).

Explanation =

Ordinarily, each month’s participants vote on the topic for the following month.

However, that is not possible when a meeting is cancelled.

On both occasions that it was necessary to select a month’s topic following the cancellation of the previous month’s meeting, we followed the principle that rather than become stuck on a topic that might never be capable of mustering a quorum, we would select the Proposed Topic that had received the greatest number of views on our bulletin board, http://www.ReadingLiberally-SaltLake.org.

Ironically, of the three topics currently posted, the greatest number of views (currently 314) has been received by Thomas Sowell’s The Vision of the Anointed which was proposed by Lewis Williams, a Delta Airlines pilot.

The reason why this is ironic is that the proposal of The Vision of the Anointed expired on June 15 when it failed to receive a vote for the 6th meeting in a row.

Accordingly Julia Angwin’s Dragnet Nation (currently with 136 views) is the focus for our August 10 meeting.


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We hope to see all of you on August 10th.

Your friend,

John K.

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