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From: Ed Stewart <ufoindex@JPS.NET>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 10:27:28 -0700
Fwd Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 14:32:30 -0400
Subject: P-1947: Re: Walt's Woes - The Decline of MUFON

Hello list members,

MUFON is a grass roots organization.  It has always been such. It was
and is only as strong or weak as whoever is in charge of the local
group.  Blaming Walt for the woes of MUFON probably shows a lack of
understanding for what can and cannot be done at his level.  He is no
more to blame as he his for giving him credit at the peak of MUFON's
time.

Local groups looking for direction from headquarters are looking in the
wrong place.  It's like a lieutenant with his platoon stuck on the
beaches on D-Day.  Headquarters might have gotten you there, but the
only one getting you out is that lieutenant and his own platoon
resources.  You either sink or swim at the local level with what you
got.

It appears to me that most local groups (at least the ones I was
familiar with) do not know out to swim and are sinking.

Ex-MUFON member,

Ed
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Ed Stewart ufoindex@jps.net|So Man, who here seems principal alone,
There Is Something         |Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown.
   Going On!       ,>'?'<, |Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal,
Salvador Freixedo  ( O O ) |'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
---------------ooOO-(_)-OOoo------- Alexander Pope, Essay on Man -------