What will be interesting to see is whether those who have piled on to Ravi's delusions and encouraged them to further their own petty vendettas will support him, or you.
If they walked their talk, there would be no question what they would do, would there? But to do so would involve actual integrity, so on this forum there's just no tellin' what's going to happen. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@...> wrote: > > Scanning over the posts this morning was a little wake-up call. Imagine my > surprise (second time use I know, so lamo but I'm just getting started here > and I'm not warmed up creatively) to see this in the headers: > > "but Steve not being a pervert like Curtis who used his power in a cult to > prey on innocent women" > > I gotta say for the first time in all the years posting here, I considered > unlisting. Not because someone said something inflammatory and untrue about > me, but this is a special case of Internet tolling. I have become a > repetitive negative focus for someone and I really can't win here. The > amount of energy such an individual can expend on such a malicious project is > endless (within the 50 posts mercifully) So first thanks and props to Steve > who gets that this could have an impact on me professionally, due to the > amount of material being generated here. It makes me look like someone with > a controversial past which is untrue. No matter how many times I post a > rebuttal this will just stoke the enthusiasm for more posting. Flooding a > forum like this will a lie repetitively is a power tactic for slander > rewarded by search engines for anyone checking me out here. Being associated > with a term like "pervert" is malicious. > > There is no way to reconcile my view in support of Internet freedom and > particularly the freedom we enjoy here with limiting Ravi's right to make > such repetitive posts. It could hurt me although to chances of that seem > small at this point. He attempted to get on my Facebook page, which would > have escalated the malicious stalking, but I can control that so it seems > that if he wants to continue this campaign here, I am relatively safe. And I > believe that at this point unsubscribing would not be an answer because of > the repetitive nature of his tourettes like assaults, there is no guarantee > that they would cease, I would just be cutting myself off from being able to > defend myself. So in the manor used for credit report where someone > malicious has decided to assume your identity and F up your credit, I will be > adding a statement regularly for anyone who is checking up on me here so that > my position is clear concerning these charges. It will also serve as a > record of my own clear denials and counter-charges of malicious intent. Due > to the way these posts get viewed online I will give it its own heading in > the following post. > > This challenge was an interesting one. It really made me think. What is the > cost of freedom? Freedom is not free. I will happily pay the price and will > not "go gentle into that good night". I'm fighting back for my own rights > and searchable reputation. >
