I moved the following from my post in Bear Claw’s first thread after I realized that I was posting a non-sequitur:
I simply experienced a moment of frustration when I started to type this fellow’s first name and realized that he’d taken pains to keep his name out of hte post. I’d been corresponding with him for some time on a first name basis. My personal frustration isn’t anyone else’s problem, of course.
Some gifters actually do need to at least keep their last names out of posts. One is a psychiatrist, one is an accountant and an especially busy gifter is a cop. All of them risk problems if someone at work does a search on their names and end up here. Police Chief Billie Phillips isn’t the cop I mentioned. He specifically looked us up for help, some years ago, to get out from under an FBI sting operation after he stood up in a police chief conference in Tennessee and said that his department would not support the Patriot Acts. We beat the felonious feds off his back in the chatroom; he and Lt. Carl did a lot of surgical gifting and instead of going to jail, Chief Billie now enjoys an enhanced reputation as a proponent of the rule of law vs. the law of rules [Image Can Not Be Found] . Lt Carl is now a police chief in another town. The FBI had tried to frame them both for dope dealing and statutory rape, which is usually how they get rid of cops who demonstrate integrity.
We couldn’t have done all that without the psychics, by the way. Chief Billie had a chance to humiliate the FBI in front of a bunch of local, county and state cops, after the fact. Good coup–he tied a bow on it [Image Can Not Be Found] . Imagine police laughing at these fedetral gangsters instead of bending over for them!
Also, I refer to Chuck, our webhost in Virginia, as ‘Capt. Azti’ because he’s an inctredible pilot–a sort of mentor–and a fellow veteran Air Irregular. We had a blast together in August.
I’m posting all this because my sleepless detractors, some of whom have recently gotten the confidence of some of EW’s contributors, crave opportunities to exploit my own character weaknesses. If I call attention to my own flaws, first, they can’t poison my forum as easily. Do email me at [email protected] if you detect even the slightest evidence of a lack of personal integrity in any of my posts, okay? I’ll publicize it and correct it, as always.
So, I’m sorry for being insistent about my personal bias against gratuitous privacy.
~Don