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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mike, a rather cursory glance at my sent items file
reveals that I inquired (or mentioned in such a way as to beg a response) as to
your assertions regarding the FBI and CIA in two separate E-mails on 060219
and, again in two different posts on 060415. Last time I checked,
this met the requirements for repeatedly. Seems hardly worth mentioning
your failure to cover the topic in my most recent post. Regarding your
"out of context" remark, one only has to follow the link that you, yourself
provided to see what it is that I'm referring to and the original context in
which it was presented. It would seem to me a rather simple, straight forward
question that I'm putting squarely in front of you. I readily admit that in
my phrasing, I was a tad fanciful and perhaps, churlish. In my desire
for a straight answer, I was serious as a stroke. It seems clear that
despite your supposed willingness to provide answers, ones health would be
jeopardized by holding their breath waiting for them. I can only surmise
from your inability or unwillingness to respond that your claims are
lacking in merit. This being the case, you'll have to forgive me if I take
your accusations and allegations regarding your former church and its
leadership with a shaker full of salt. If this comes across as "unhappiness",
"antagonism" and "unbalanced support" for your sworn enemy, I hope that the
"mystery" is now revealed. Does this mean that I'm on my own now for those first
two beers?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>gc</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=metzler@moscow.com href="mailto:metzler@moscow.com">Michael</A>
</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, October 12, 2006 12:35
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Jury awards $11.3M
over defamatory Internet posts --reply to Gary Crabtree</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Gary</SPAN></FONT></st1:place></st1:City>,<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">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 face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">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 face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">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 face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">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 face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">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 face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Yours<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Michael Metzler <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><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
face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">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
face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Moscow</SPAN></FONT></st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">Idaho</st1:State></st1:place><o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Cell: 509-330-1503<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">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>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
"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 face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> ...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 face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
gc<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">" I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes
take a rest." A. Dumas <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> ----- Original Message -----
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> From: Michael <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> 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 face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 9:20
PM<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> Subject: [Vision2020] Jury awards $11.3M over
defamatory Internet posts.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> 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 face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> 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>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <A
href="http://poohsthink.com/?p=869">http://poohsthink.com/?p=869</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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