--- Herman Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Do not engage in personal attacks. In other words, no name-calling.
I suspect Hermans post of Goanets guidelines is in response to Joe Vaz personal attacks on me (Rip Van Winkle) and his pejorative and derogatory use of the term ethics enforcer. I have never met Joe Vaz and I am not sure why he continues to misrepresent and falsifies my views or makes personal attacks against me. In a post in April, I wrote Pope Benedict XVI Ratzinger was an exact clone of JPII (theologically speaking). I added a smiley at the end to show humor. See http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2005-April/027435.html Even if one did not like the humor, he intentionally and maliciously falsified my post by quoting it without the smiley, a deliberate attempt and personal attack. See http://www.goanet.org/post.php?name=News&list=goanet&info=2005-May/author&post_id=028780 It seems he will stop at nothing to malign people who disagree with him. This is why I do not respond to his insinuations, invective, and scurrilous comments. However, please do not interpret my silence as agreeing with his posts. Far from it. I have even written nice things about the Vatican which people like him choose to ignore. In 2000, I wrote the Vatican is overall fine. I am not going to stop speaking out against issues to appease the right-wing fundamentalists. They ignore or overlook real problems like the lack of saints and Popes from outside Europe. Rather than specifically addressing those issues, they post personal attacks. Regards, George P.S. For the record, I did not send Joe Vaz any private email. Although he did not mention my name in his post regarding receiving private emails, I want to clarify I have had no private correspondence with him and do not intend to.