Each wrote:When your drowning in the river - and sombody thows you a rope, you dont stop to question its quality, you grab on for dear life.
Gie's a break.
Asking for openness isn't a moan in itself -- openness is the means by which we prevent and disarm moans. One representative of the government doesn't mean it's not a quango (not that there's anything inherently wrong with quangos -- in a certain respect, every department of the civil service is a quango, right down to your local library... there's no council resolution on which books to buy, after all) but if things aren't open and honest, anyone with a grievance has free rein to use the quango's own secrecy as a stick to beat it with.
This is starting to happen over mygaelic.com, from both inside and outside the Gaelic community. It is within the Board's power to prove that there's nothing sinister going on, and in doing so protect themselves from attacks that may lead to future funding cuts.
Attempting to stand shoulder to shoulder while we stick our heads in the sand won't achieve anything except chronic backache.
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And more to the point, Each, your standpoint is dangerously close to the be-grateful-for-what-you've-already-got stonewall response that Gaelic campaigners (including the Bòrd and its individual members) have been faced with for years.
