Fair enough….this is helpful

On Jul 27, 2014, at 6:22 AM, Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear Gordon,
> 
> there has been no capitulation ; the decision is simply not to broadcast the 
> conflict further at this stage ;
> 
> the evaluation is and has been  publicly available on the wiki for all who 
> want to read it, via 
> http://p2pfoundation.net/FLOK_Society_Project#Evaluation_by_Michel_Bauwens

I look at your blog everyday and i believe that it was not announced there.  I 
did see it in a private note that you sent which which i thought  also said it 
was cancelled due to the decision of the core group.  I also recall that i have 
not seen any p2p blog posts in about 10 days.  I recall james Burke said there 
were technical issues in amsterdam that he was working on?  I would like to 
remain subscribed to the blog. But I am no longer receiving anything from the 
p2p blog. I hope this will change I will read and report according on the 
material that you have pointed me too

> 
> 
>  I will communicate you the names of the people in that meeting privately, as 
> they have been subjected to a hate campaign (associated with attempts at 
> bribery) themselves and now is not the time to have a red cloth
>  in front of a bull ..
> 

appreciate your willingness to do this

I would prefer not to ask

but something that is not  clear  are you referring to the ecuadoran p2p team?  
or to key p2p people in europe?  Or both?
> They have not threatened me into silence but have rendered the work and life 
> of many of our associates unnecessarily difficult and they all feel 
> furthering the conflict is worth this derailment of their work ; I just 
> respect that decision, that's all
> 
> Have you ever thought that by giving so much negative energy to a small group 
> you may in fact be feeding them ?

they don't seem to need to be fed
> 
> They have been outed and the information is available in different sources 
> for those who want it,

yes and i am doing my part to make sure that as much information as possible is 
out there on "the net"
> 
> There is much work to do, positive work, in which we are engaged in every 
> day, conflicts are sometimes unavoidable but we have said our piece on it
> 
> Michel
> 
> <,Yes I know michel you have said that?. note the words negative?. positive  
> reaction to the way you were treated are just fine
> 
> you say there has been
> 
> 'collective decision by the core members of the p2p foundation asking you to 
> refrain
> 
> OK who are they please?  You will disclose surely
> 
> > However, our position is available on the wiki for those who search and 
> > ask, we are just not spreading it actively.
> 
> I am asking for it.  It is generally regarded that something like this might 
> well should be announced? if it was i did not see it al though I have a seen 
> a draft of a assessment scheduled for publication on july 17 that never came 
> out and another scheduled for the 19th that was withdrawn as a result of 
> threats made against you.  That i believe is the meeting you are referring to
> 
> > My associates estimated that anyone who needs to know, is already aware of 
> > the logic of the flok mgt team.
> 
> who needs to know?. well michel please who does need to know.  Have the 
> flokista spaNIARDS DIVIVided the p2p movement in two?  Into those who need to 
> know and those who don't.  That is something you'd expect to hear from the 
> pentagon not from p2p
> >
> > I regret that Gordon is focusing on me as a person in this whole affair
> 
> no I am focusing on you as the leader and founder of p2p who has pledged to 
> the community he founded that after taking ill considered actions and getting 
> himself in one hell of a mess has now back downed
> >
> > Why an open letter to the person who challenged the abuse, and not to those 
> > that conducted the abuse. It seems to me Gordon is focusing on the wrong 
> > person(s).
> 
> those who  conducted the abuse have show they are not capable of rational 
> trustworthy action.
> 
> It is YOU michel who need to act with utmost integrity at this point and not 
> let these "bolsheviks"  threaten you into silence.
> 
> You promised a detailed evaluation and the hyenas started to bray at your 
> heels
> 
> My complaint with you at this point is that you apparently won't defend 
> yourself any further and you try to cloak your decision behind the shadow of 
> a collective request of the "core p2p group"  and sorry i don't know what 
> such a group is.
> 
> This collective request will likely turn out to be the most important action 
> ever undertaken in the entire history of the organization that you have 
> dedicated your life to building.  Surely you will be more transparent about 
> who the member are and the nature of the request?apparently it was thought 
> knot capitulating would stand in the way of other more important p2p work.  
> Hope that is not the first step down the slippery slope of the end justifying 
> the means.
> 
> You need to publish the evaluation because you announced it, as a matter of 
> selfdefense, while under heavy attack, and claiming at the time that you 
> would not be intimidated.  Not only that, but after the mess, everybody is 
> waiting for closure.  If you don't provide close and you are not doing so 
> then the rumor mills will be in full control.  Not only of flok but also of 
> your reputation.
> 
> If you don't take that final step, the psychopaths will stand straight in 
> their shoes and feel their power, and keep bullying everybody until someone 
> else will confront them at some point in the future, take the heat, and 
> eventually shut their big mouths, or capitulate as you area now very 
> conveniently try to do - it was not my decision it was that of the core group 
> enter another loop.  Abandoning now will give them the impression that "they 
> won". Abandoning your solemn word will also raise the question of whether 
> people should trust you in the future.
> 
> On the contrary, if you comply with your word, you will have closure for 
> yourself, and for everybody else.  Other people can then make their own minds 
> about what happened, and you can safely disconnect from the conversation, as 
> you will have said everything you needed to say.  But for the opponents, 
> things will become a tad harder to play with: they will be caught red-handed, 
> with their own image and only their own reflection to fight against.  At this 
> point, they'd better just shut up and move on, for they stand on moving 
> sands, and third parties will have the whole history to judge anything they 
> would say.
> 
> I am sick and tired of ecuador?. but I now have a portion of the history and 
> i shall put it out in the open.  let the florists come rabidly after me as 
> you pointed out I am now getting to be an old man and i care about my own 
> legacy than their threats.  I stand on my record.
> 
> You got into one god awful mess michel.  Stand up in public and speak the 
> truth.  I am continuing to get new reports from ecuador.  They aren't pretty 
> and raise a lot of suspicions.  Only you know exactly what Daniel promised 
> you.  bernardo may be threatening to destroy you if you don't shut up, but 
> for gods sake please  do not capitulate.  Even if the truth is not pretty.  
> Please tell it.
> 
> What i am drafting is for YOU because i am working under the assumption that 
> you can still be communicates with.  Your Opponents have way over played 
> their hand.  We are hearing now that the presidents office didn't know about 
> the folk project until the weekend before the summit.  With 26 signature 
> required to pay the bills that assumption seems rather absurd.  There rate to 
> many people with first hand knowledge to paste together something that safely 
> buries this>>
> 
> -- 
> Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record 
> of previous communication, proposals, etc ..
> 
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