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Thomas Scott <tscott@northpole.com> in Message-ID: 
<35C6908C.3161@northpole.com> wrote (comment is enclosed between  
the extended arrows):
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Having followed Lavigne's thread about his anti-tax campaign 
and his attack on <arion@greek.poets> I offer the following comments:
          - Lavigne has accused <arion@greek.poets> of being a
forger/plagarist/coward without even the tiniest fraction of circumstantial
evidence, as though his accusation sprang to 
light through divine revelation. How would you like it if your 
employer/government accused you of theft/murder/rape/fraud etc 
and stated this as sublime fact in a public medium without any substantiating
evidence? This suggests a strong case of libel/slander (and hints at the likes
of the Spanish Inquisition).
          - Lavigne has used the foulest language I have ever witnessed in any
medium in reference to <arion@greek.poets>. 
I am not surprised that <arion@greek.poets> would not 
lower himself to answer a person with such an uncouth and uncontrolled tongue.
          - Lavigne is so filled with self importance that 
he suggests that his foul-mouthed accusations and slanderous 
attacks have made <arion@greek.poets> magically disappear. I 
am not filled with Lavigne's self importance and can add a 
few other plausible reasons:
                  - he overstayed his welcome in rec.arts.poems (which is the
newsgroup to which he posted almost exclusively).
                  - nobody liked him or his writing.
                  - he found interests besides the internet.
                  - he is poor and cannot afford his internet bill.
                  these are just a few, from the top of my head.

Your's sincerely

Thomas Scott

** If you accuse those who seek anonymity of cowardice, 
you accuse all those who vote by means of secret ballot 
of the same brand of cowardice **
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To: <arion@greek.poets>

I have offered, in the past, to enter an exchange of posts with 
regard to my strongly held beliefs that you were responsible for 
a series of malicious attacks upon myself. 

I shall reserve the why and how that 
strongly held suspicion arose.

However, the above poster <tscott@northpole.com> has 
caused me to look at the matter in  a new light. 

It is only because of his offer of a defense on your 
part and a strong admonishment directed to me for what 
he believes, properly or improperly, was a misdirected 
attack upon yourself, that I now inform you that, due to 
his comments, I have, at length, reviewed the series of 
posts, many of which bore an astounding number of congruent 
points, that led to my painful conclusion that you were, 
indeed, responsible for the attacks. (The colloborating 
action that drove me to make my accusation will be known 
(should be known) only to the party using the anonymous 
<arion@greek.poets> identity and one other.)

Specifically, I reviewed one post wherein you addressed 
another's attack upon me, and realized that I did, for 
whatever mistaken reason, misread that which you offered 
to that poster. 

In view of such and the sad fact that the language I did 
resort to was less than complimentary and rather odious, 
I do offer my most profound apologies and urge you to once 
again offer your significant contributions to poetry.

In this regard I also thank the above <tscott@northpole.com> 
for his comments and strong remonstration.

With respect to my recent post "Little Dingo", all should 
be aware that I am most prepared to do exactly as I state 
that I shall, and come to an agreement with the IRS with 
respect to whoever continues to perpetrate a crime of 
"identity fraud" against myself and my name.

Should that person be yourself; in view that I did seem 
to overwhelm you when first accusing you, you are absolved 
for such conduct up to and including today, August 3, 1998.

As of August 4, 1998 I will make a deal as described in 
the post "Little Dingo", regardless that it should slow 
my promotion of the Tax Refusal by 20 years. I will not 
suffer attacks by fools, or any other, on the sole means 
that offers humanity any chance of addressing that which 
we must face if our continuity through the early years of 
the nuclear era is to be assured.

To another point. <tscott@northpole.com> closes 
his comments thusly:

** If you accuse those who seek anonymity of cowardice, 
you accuse all those who vote by means of secret ballot 
of the same brand of cowardice **

I do accuse all who would participate in the practice 
of "secret ballots" of being afflicted by, and subject to, 
an overwhelming and, indeed, stenchful degree of cowardice.

It is due to that very cowardice by which the bastards of 
this world have led fools to permit AND PAY FOR(!) weapons 
that mock the very meaning of all life.

ie. All should learn that they MUST stand for what they 
believe and do so openly. We can no longer afford the luxury 
of lying to each other and believing our own lies. The very 
worthand meaning of "life" should dictate that bit of reality 
and deny us any other standard.

And I continue to maintain that all who post anonymously 
do so because of their lack of backbone and will to address 
and truly consider the "meaning of life" as it applies to them 
and their feelings of inadequacy when it comes to presenting 
their own viewpoint.

If I, a person of limited formal education, can learn to 
form and focus my thoughts in order to arrive at that which 
I firmly believe is to the constructive well being of all, 
no other dare whine to me that they "must" remain anonymous.

Indeed, when they understand the limitations and burdens 
that cowardice and the desire to speak from the shadows 
places upon them, they shall change their views and grow 
into adulthood.

Meanwhile, all others suffer their empty and meaningless 
rhetoric to no good individual or societal purpose. 

I should need but to point out the openess of my campaign 
against societal insanity and the bastards and bureaucrats 
who would do, and have done, their best to mock all effort 
that is directed towards the waking of society. 

If I, one who quite willingly stands alone and publicly 
confronts any and all with regard to my views, wherever 
the exchange of such views must take place, the argument 
for anonymity goes flying out the nearest window with the 
piss pot in which it first floated. I thank you.

As always,

taxfree
-- 
"Sheep never heed, their heads are too hollow 
 as meat for the markets, they simply follow."
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