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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Deacon Writes:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Don't hold out, dude.
Please elaborate. I am sure everybody would love to know the nature and
(perhaps more importantly) the tone of these conversations you've had. Just how
congenial was it?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Seriously.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Deacon,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thank you for the
inquiry. I have been lied about and slandered in countless ways,
particularly over the last week and a half, so I’ll just assume this has
something to do with your curiosity. I won’t speak about anyone but
myself: I was very calm, gracious, and congenial. My wife stood by me
writing down notes of advice how to handle the conversation, which helped.
I was encouraged to recontact them and I encouraged them to contact me with any
further concerns. The conversation was mildly productive. But again, <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wilson</st1:place></st1:City>’s use of the
victims since then has been horrifying, and I don’t want to give the
wrong impression while trying to mitigate any discussion of victims that I
believe the victims should have a say in whether or not a community is
sufficiently notified of the presence of a serial pedophile. And again, to the
victim’s credit, they did not have a problem with the public
announcement. Their greatest concern was the fact that I publicly stated that
my wife found out via “a relative of the victim” in the course of
posting <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wilson</st1:place></st1:City>’s
aggressive emails to me and my replies. I did not believe this was a
reasonable concern, and so I have offered no apology; although I have offered
my warm sympathy in general. The overarching concern was really over the
general nature of Pooh’s Think, which is obviously not something I was
inclined to discuss very much. The bottom line is this: I posted the
public announcement; in doing this, folks at CC have deceived in such a way as
to make me out to be as immoral as a pedophile for doing so, even though the
victims did not even have a complaint and agreed that the community could have
been better informed (to their credit). The only reason I was drug into any
further discussion about this issue was because of my encouragement for someone
to stop referencing the victims on Vision 2020 and because of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Wilson</st1:place></st1:City>’s immediate, vicious attack on
me, which did not relent for a number of days. The story line is pretty
clear and simple. As for any possible false information on my web site: after
posting the announcement, I immediately requested that <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Wilson</st1:place></st1:City> provide any corrections and that I
would edit my post and offer public apologies for any wrong information. <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wilson</st1:place></st1:City> refused to provide
these corrections, but rather lied about claimed “public and assessable”
documents that I could have found in five minutes if I had merely tried. As
for releasing private information about the victims: I never did this on my web
site; but <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Wilson</st1:City></st1:place>
did right here on Vision 2020 two times. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hope that helps
Deacon. Let me know if you have any further questions. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Yours,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Michael<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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