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>>>So we are in agreement. Helping Naomi is worthwhile, but persuing a vendetta against AK/MA is no more right than what they did.
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>>Now that actually read title <vbg> and thread, I understand where are you comming from :)
>>At surface reading your answer sounded somewhat like that American saying 'mind your business' and offered prospect off drifting into confronting Peter, whereas we should perhaps all just try to help
>>her the best way we can.
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>>Peter,
>>Whole thread is actually drift from prety firm and (surprisingly)
>>united community response/stand on this issue/case :)
>>I know you want to help as any other felow here, but if your proposal
>>was to be folowed it would actually lead to huge storms at meny levels
>>and beyond UT boundaries, withoud yielding any positive result.
>>Meny people will get into various confrontations while helping NN would be completely sidelined. You certainly don't want this to happen.
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>>Vendeta will not feed her chilldren, nor help put herself together.
>>It would be actually counterproductive in whole context. She would be eventually pooled into this endless rounds of (stresfull) events instead of using all her mental strenght stabilyse herself, find new job and secure herself and chilldren.
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>>Why don't we simply close this thread, and open another one called
>>'Job for Naomi - Private Messages Only' instead :)
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>There is indeed a mainstream culture here that's based on the saying "Mind your own business". Opinion Yes, Action No. Naomi may well be a victim of this culture. If more people here and elsewhere would have put more real pressure on AK and MA half a year ago, AK would likely not have dared to send that letter.

Half a year ago, all parties seemed to agree that what was done was past, and the matter was closed. Speaking only for myself, I had no inside information that would have made me think things were other than as the parties stated. What pressure should have been exerted in that light?

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>It's not about a vendetta. It's about a preparedness to take action now and then. Sometimes words are not enough. Having said that, action might of course also take the form of a lobby as you propose: MVPs and others who do their utter best to find a job for Naomi. Or they might show preparedness to write a reference letter.