Raczkowski wrote:
Recently I posted the text of a flyer distributed at the
Schiff/Bicking campaign forum on October 26 and speculated that it
was authored by David Tilsen and possibly distributed by Barb Tilsen. ...
I accept this statement and apologize to David and Barb Tilsen. I
found some similarity between the logic I heard David use on his
Northern Sun Radio appearance on behalf of Zimmerman for Justice
recently, went too far based on innuendo, and jumped to conclusions.
No, that's only part of what you did. You smeared four people more
thoroughly than some anonymous flyer left on a chair. According to our
fearless leader, there are over 1000 people on this list. You smeared
four people with, I posit from the tone of the post, malice
aforethought. Now you say you based your outrageous behavior on "some
similarity" between what one of the smeared persons said on a radio show
and a scurrilous half sheet you found on a chair.
No. Never. There is a "similarity" between George Bush and George
Washington--both white males named George. (The wrong one is dead, but
that's a different post.) There's a similarity between Ralph Nader and a
guy who passes by my window who also wears a cheap, wrinkled suit.
I posit that a screed like the one you posted was designed to smear four
people, two of whom are legitimate candidates currently running for
office in an election less than two weeks from today. It wasn't an
accident, it was a deliberate. The candidates need not eschew the flyer,
they are not at fault. You owe the candidates an apology as well,
because you assumed they had something to do with it.
The candidates are extremely approachable, they're running for office.
You might have walked up to them and said, for example, "Have you seen
this?" You might have gathered people's attention at the event and
asked, "What idiot put this thing on the chairs?" You could have
crumpled it into a ball and tossed or recycled it which I'm fairly sure
most of the other people attending did--if they even noticed it..
It was a deliberate choice on your part to make a mountain out of a
moronic mole hill to disadvantage specific people on the internet. Your
screed was a political statement of no class whatsoever. A lister could
jump to the conclusion that the writer of the post and the writer of the
flyer had a lot of similarities between them, therefore....
WizardMarks, Central
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