In response to my post regarding Jay Heppner's preliminary plans to seek release form mediation, I received what can only be described as hate mail. It's tone said more about the people who were saying it than what was actually said. Opinions were not validated by fact or logic. Emotions ruled, epithets abounded, and the whole rank and file sounded suspiciously like a precursor to a schoolyard brawl. I should have expected it I guess, I have come to see sensible objectivity in short supply here.
But to all you ALPA protagonists I say this: If you cannot articulate why you are ready to join Heppner's kamikaze warriors jump into the abyss, you probably don't really believe it's the right thing to do. You will do it to conform, under penalty of ostracization (it's not so bad by the way), but this will wear thin very quickly, and without GOOD reasons, a strike line will not be held.
"It is an order, and we're doing it" is not a good reason.
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