Richard, you got caught using someone else's words without attribution, pretending they were your own. Maybe you do it frequently; I don't know. I don't read most of your posts, and I have no interest in Bassett's book. Share called attention to this paragraph as well written, and I noticed that some of it was more elegant than your usual style; apparently Emily did as well. I did a search on one of the phrases and turned up this reader review on Amazon. Plagiarism is dishonest, and you should know better. There are no excuses for it.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <punditster@...> wrote : On 6/1/2014 8:44 PM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Hate to say it, but a lot of what he wrote was cribbed from an Amazon reader review of a book on karate: > Just for the record, I've probably posted reviews of Bassett's book at least six times since 2000 and Judy failed to post a single comment until today. Finally, after fourteen years she looked it up on Amazon. She is getting to be quite the researcher and informant these days - a little slow on the uptake, but still mean as a Junk Yard Dog. BARK! Very impressive. http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Karate-Randall-Bassett/dp/0446781649 http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Karate-Randall-Bassett/dp/0446781649 Check out the review by H. Asbury. > It kind of looks like H. Asbury and Richard both have cribbed a lot from Bassett's book. When are you going to read it? Go figure. According to Sensei Randall Bassett, self defense, in its purest form, largely consists of obtaining an insight into the limitations of force as a way of resolving human conflict. Outside the classic mugging situation, people fight because they feel, at least momentarily, small inside, helpless, and impotent. In fact, aggression cannot be understood without understanding just how far men will go to prove that they are not nobodies. "It is a lack of inner confidence that fuels most violence." - Sensei Randal Bassett This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus http://www.avast.com/ protection is active.
