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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Gary</span></font></st1:place></st1:City>,<o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Thanks for the note. I’ve decided not to take your curious
responses to me with a significant level of seriousness, which is perhaps how you
intend them to be taken in the first place (you seem to be having a fun time
here on V2020). If you would like to edit my posts, I would be happy to run
them by you; but given the substantive issues currently debated, I doubt the
general public is all that interested in your public commentary about my
grammar. If you ever chose to clearly demonstrate how my argumentative writing
is “inchoate” I would be happy to take a look at your work.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I do not recollect ever failing to address a serious question to me
from you; in fact, I recall asking at one point that folks resend any questions
posed to me that I failed to address in case they slipped through the cracks. So
if I have done this even once I offer you my sincere apology. But I
seriously doubt I have failed to answer a question from you “repeatedly.”
This provides a helpful illustration of why I find dialog with you unhealthy to
my reputation on the internet and to how I spend my time generally. Last time I
attempted dialoging with you, I was ridiculed by you for incessantly demanding
what religion you are of; you did this even though you knew that I had asked
this question one time (followed up with one reminder) and that it was clearly
directed to an argument of yours. I am hoping not to have to undergo this kind
of treatment, and therefore hope that there will be no further reason for us to
discuss anything in a public context. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>But there is more in this reply from you that further evidences this
kind of malicious dishonesty. You here yank a very old statement of mine
out of context (in multiple ways) and claim that I was speaking about the
FBI’s “interest in the trials and travails of poor Michael and his
never ending dramas.” Yet, you would know full well that my comment about
the FBI had nothing to do with me or my life story. This seems to be
intentional libel, and I really don’t know of anyone else on Vision 2020
that practices such a thing. There are many disagreements and many wrong
and hateful things said here on Vision 2020; but they almost always appear to
be said with a level of sincerity; i.e., they are not the sorts of statements
that would provide material for a successful libel law suit. Given the post you
are here critiquing, this is certainly ironic; I even wonder if this suggests
that your level of seriousness in posting here on V2020 is far less than many
of us have ever suspected.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>From here, I will likely refuse to publicly dialog with you –
partly for the reasons listed above. If you continue to intentionally misquote
me I will likely just respond by posting my quote in full. I doubt I will ever
make comment to your statements on my blog. Since most folks reading Vision
2020 are familiar with my writing over the last year, and given my general
reputation in the community (outside of certain circles within Christ Church) I
am not worried about your continued claims about my mental health. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>You strike me as a very unhappy man Gary, and your antagonism against
me and your unbalanced support of Doug Wilson is simply a mystery to me –
outside of my hypothesis that it is really a game for your own amusement. I
would be happy to meet with you privately any time; I enjoyed meeting you the
first time. Feel free to send me a private note if you ever get the inclination
to meet me for a beer at Bucers—the first two beers are on me. But I do
not see anything productive coming from anymore dialog with you on Vision 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Yours<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Michael Metzler <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a href="http://www.poohsthink.com/">www.poohsthink.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:address w:st="on"><st1:Street w:st="on"><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>PO Box</span></font></st1:Street>
8282</st1:address><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Moscow</span></font></st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">Idaho</st1:State></st1:place><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Cell: 509-330-1503<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Mike, After reading your "essay" and following all of the
links, I've come to the following conclusions. You seem to be a major fan of
the run on, disjointed sentence and have but a fleeting and casual acquaintance
with the comma. (I know, black pots and kettles club, here I come.) I also note
that you have yet to back away from, or explain in any manner, a remark I have
questioned you about repeatedly. This would have to do with you assertion that
federal law enforcement and intelligence gathering organizations would have
even a glimmering of interest in the trials and travails of poor Michael and
his never ending dramas. You said at one of the afore mentions links...<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>
"I'd imagine that some interested parties will soon be the FBI and the
CIA."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> ...with regard to your former associates. Your silence in
explaining this far fetched assertion has been notable. When someone
hyperventilates to the point of imagining so much greater a public involvement
then their private molehill warrants, it's easy to see where the mental
disorder remarks might start to filter in. Incohesive essays in which you
simultaneously argue the propriety of a law suit being brought against the
Right Mind sites owner and threaten to defend it in the same breath doesn't
help much either. I assume that since you post this nonsense to the Vision, you
are looking for some kind of positive feedback. I'm sorry if, once again, I do
not adequately meet your expectations.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> gc<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>" I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a
rest." A. Dumas <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> ----- Original Message ----- <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> From: Michael <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> To: <a href="http://mailman.fsr.com/mailman/listinfo/vision2020">vision2020
at moscow.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 9:20 PM<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> Subject: [Vision2020] Jury awards $11.3M over defamatory
Internet posts.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> Should Someone Sue <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Dale Courtney</st1:PersonName>
For Libel?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> I wrote a short essay motivated by this thread. I think some of
you will find it of interest:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <a href="http://poohsthink.com/?p=869">http://poohsthink.com/?p=869</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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