I'm glad we are able to resume dialogue at last. That's a step forward in mending our relationship. I welcome it.
I seem to recall a huge hue and cry among a number of your supporters when I once posted about the possibililty of posting some of your PMs to me here. There was outrage that I would considerposting PMs without the permission of the person they were sent by. Interesting that you feel when it's to your apparent benefit to post PM you have no hesitancy doing so. Are you saying to me that you think it is appropriate for me to post past PMs of yours here?
What you have bolded are not threats. They are simply statements of a relationship between events.
I have strictly adhered for months to a voluntary commitment not to post to or about you. I proved, if it needed proving, which it didn't in my mind but apparently did in some others', that I had no need, complusion, etc. to post to you. It is clear now, anyhow, that that is not true.
I made an assumption, which seems now to have been mistaken, that doing so would be recognized not only as laying to rest all the absurd assumptions people were making, but as establishing a basis of good will and intent.
But when the time came when I made a simple request, there was no recognition of value in what I had voluntarily done. There was no recognition that expressions of good will on one side of a dispute should be recognized and credited.
It's obvious from his sending you all my PMs to him, and stating that he was consulting you, that you had the decision making authority in this case. You apparently chose not to respect the voluntary decision I had made. That being the case, there seemed to be no purpose or benefit in continuing my voluntary restraint.
You and I can agree to get along together, or we can agree not to. I have made my case. I have left you strictly alone for a lengthy period. Apparently you were willing to enjoy the benefits of that, but not willing to confer any reciprocal benefits on me. That is your choice -- one I think is inappropriate, but your right. But if you want peace, you have to be a peacemaker yourself. |
