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3:39pm
Scott,
you’ve got so much on your blog that is incendiary to some people I'm not
comfortable having my name or picture on there. That was the crux of my
message.
Be
careful what you say and who you talk about. I know your heart’s in a good
place, but I'm asking you to remove my name and pictures of me. You can refer
to any insight you've gained but do so as "a friend". I've been
putting myself out there a lot of late and I'm trying to step back and assess
how to proceed. Thanks for understand and let me know when you've removed the
info.
My Response (composed on Word):
Timothy:
You sound like you are not aware that blogs – in the United States, at least –
have the same journalistic Legal Standing as CNN, the New York Times, or even
the local Town Tattler. Are you in the habit of confidently telling any
of THESE how to report the news? Whether your name should be mentioned or you pictured
in an item about you?
Let
me rest your “racing heart” over all of this. You seem to confuse my words with
physical incendiary devices – and don’t even accept that YOU seem to feel my
words that way. They are just words arranged into concepts. Non-physical.
NO
ONE I have written about – including publishing our correspondence – has had a
BIT of a problem, excepting in their own minds, fearing some kind of
retribution – but from WHOM?
“Testosteroni”
is the perfect extreme example, since he is a longtime recluse without friends
as we know them (he’s familiar with some shopkeepers, etc,), and why would he
write me ANYTHING that his anonymous self (even when I use his real name),
would not be PROUD to have published.
He would only do this
if he were up to NO GOOD, or at least something his own values cause him to be
ashamed of.
At
least YOU don’t ask/say anything “shameful” from my or anyone’s viewpoint (best
I can surmise). You just fear some possible retribution. If you identify who
might harm you and show some proof that they have made an attempt, I will
reconsider.
And
Testosteroni is granted a BLANKET “PARDON” by me. As my old high school
girlfriend “Christine Busch”, former Pennsylvania Prosecutor, now Physician,
Lawyer, and Consultant on Privacy of Medical Records and I discussed just
yesterday, as long as he keeps up payments for what he offered and agreed to,
he can say/write ANYTHING HE WANTS TO!!!
And
that reminds me – I doubt you’ve read enough of my blog to know that Dean
Hansell who co-founded GLAAD and was recently named a Superior Court Justice in
Los Angeles in their central courtroom, was a friend of mine at Denison
University – and we reconnected a few years ago. He and I not only shared a bed
chastely for a month in an anti-poverty program in the second poorest county in
the USA, then, in western Tennessee, but we together formed the FIRST gay group
at Denison – although Dean wasn’t out until the NEXT year – after I graduated
-- so he set it up, but did not attend – LOL!!!
Some
other people whose dialogue with me I have featured on my blog with NO
COMPLAINT from them: Writers John Lahr, Del Shores, and Randal Kenan, for
instance – and many more luminaries to “regular folks”, like my landlady – known
for blowing pot smoke in the face of Police when they knock on her door, and getting
away with it – LOL!!!
Really,
you need not be concerned.
Scott
“This feels like we’re trying to squash free speech,” he told the paper. “Everything I talk about is factually based. They can go and check it out. It’s not propaganda or bias if it’s based on hard facts.”
Navarro, who has taught at the school for the last 40 years, told The Mercury News that he was not allowed to read the parent’s email and that school officials declined his offer to review his lesson plan with him.
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