Susan wrote: <<" Not that we'd necessarily agree with it, even in person, but we might tend to respond more appropriately.">> The only "appropiate" response to unfounded, unwarranted character asassination is the immediate and uneqviocal denouncment of it in person, via telephone, or via e.mail. It is quite one thing to demand freedom of speech and an entirely different affair to use said freedom responsibly. For general information Board policy, vis a vis pianotech, states: "Listserve messages should not be posted if they include libelous statements about another person or entity. A statement can be libelous even though a person or entity is not specifically named if that person or entity can be identified by others. A Libelous statement is one that contains:a) false information; b) malicious information; or c) statements that are injurious to the reputation of another."..........................."Although the Association has no duty to monitor this site, the Association reserves the right to remove any materials that the Association considers to be objectionable..............". It is all well and good to say 'can't we just play nice'...and I would generally agree....It is all well and good to say 'can't we just ignore so and so' and I would generally agree....It is all well and good to say 'don't attack him he has the right to say what he does because he does post some good things'......I do 'not' agree. Nothing in his past, or present behavior, is indicative of any remorse for anything he has said, and we know that his word is absolutely worthless as he continues to break his "pledge" and for some of the silliest pretenses, real or imagined and occasionaly just plain fabricated as in the latest instance. In his willingness to twist and turn the truth and or statements made by others he continually displays an amazing propensity to resort to outright untruths in order to "prove" his point...whatever the heck that is. This behavior to me is unacceptable and I am sorry that so many of my esteemed colleagues seem willing to let it slide on by................. James A. Bryant, RPT "we are what we do for the doing makes us what we are"
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