Double standards and bullying

Why is an organization of 300+ people (including its Facebook "friends" and their relatives) so AFRAID of just one individual--evidently without high-profile connections that it feels it has to stomp out any traces of that person, not just at their physical headquarters but in the virtual world of the Internet as well?

Why is the truth of one person's experience viewed as such a direct threat that they feel they must, figuratively speaking, gag (or censor) that person?

What do they have to lose?

What does this say about how they respect their own "core values"?


The downtown YMCA in the person of Cynthia Klever held me responsible for the expletives I let slip--after being verbally attacked--and terminated my membership of 13 years.

And yet my posting an online review and holding the employee(s) of that organization responsible fro their conduct on July 9, 2015, has apparently raised their hackles to the point where they, or their proxies ("friends of the downtown Seattle Y") wish to deny me the right to write a review that strictly adheres to what happened that morning.

This is what I call hypocrisy--and further evidence of bullying.    An organization this size pits itself against one lone individual--whom it has already harmed--is bent on denying me freedom of expression to tell the truth.

Concealing (or denying) the conduct of a director of a large-profit such as the downtown Seattle YMCA would be irresponsible and a disservice to the community.

She should not be treating any human being, much a YMCA member, in that terrible way.

Are you glad to be part of a society, a country, and/or an organization that far from refusing to renounce Guantanamo-style interrogation actually emulates that model?    

Bring the interrogee to his or knees, Bring on Lyndee England...Break that person's spirit...

Back in 2000, before the remodel, the downtown Seattle YMCA probably had twice the number of members it has today.  (The locker and shower areas were at least twice their current size). Why has it continued to slide, especially within the past several years, downhill?

Maybe someone should look into the decline of this once vibrant health club and its transformation into a social service organization for the poor, as well as what it is like to work there (or be a member there and witness these discouraging changes), a la the recent New York Times inside look at amazon.com.