I wanted to quit posting publicly, but I have learned from Wolff that I will be banned for at least a week if not longer by SI. That said, I will address a couple topics. I like that "leaking boil on the ass of humanity" part. I am sure all the Haitian peoples lives I saved with medical relief supplies agree with you.
Briefly addressing some of your points:
The medical student refugee spoke perfect English when I met her in the camp, and the first thing I said was it was strange to hear a refugee speak English. Then I said would she like to be interviewed by TV-ERA and introduced her to the head of TV-ERA who was 20 feet away. We then snuck her out of camp dressed as a TV camera women with Anthony's camera and Ana's denim jacket. When she got back to the TV station in the early afternoon, everyone was talking and I said is there anything I could get her to eat. I then pointed out where the bathroom with shower was, and said I knew that she had not had a shower in over three weeks and to help herself. It was that simple. Just courtesy. The refugees do not have showers! Tony never said anything, the only things he chewed me out for was wearing my shoes in Moslem homes and not crossing my legs knee over knee. I was crossing them like an American, which I was brought up as. I did not know it was against Moslem rules to point out where the shower was to a medical student refugee who had been sleeping in the dirt for three plus weeks. By the way, when she left that day she thanked me and everyone else, and the next day came back and thanked us again. So if I did something wrong, why did she thank me twice?
It was an oversight in my lengthy post earlier today not to address that reprehensible comment by Anthony, and his reprehensible comment about the TV anchorwoman. The TV anchorwoman and I became friends, and I taught her how to surf the web and discussed the U.S. media with her. We became friends, and what is wrong with that. When I left, she expressed her thanks of having met me. I told her I would probably see her again someday.
Yes, you and I did communicate by PM back and forth, and I wanted to talk to you so that I would not have to spend an hour or more writing a response to your message. You said you only had one line and were using it to trade, and then you said you could not spare a few minutes on you cell phone. I wanted to talk to you because I was burned out from this exhausting trip, and talking would have been easier than typing.
I am not confident that the Kosovo references quoted by Anthony existed prior to my post this morning. If they did, I absolutely apologize to Anthony for that comment of my initial post this morning. Than I should have stated that more precisely, he did not put up a specific post to go to Macedonia and deal with orphans, which I did. Something is out of wack here, because in our daily conversations he never mentioned going to Kosavo, and was really impressed when I came up with the idea for Macedonia and the orphans.
In the anger of the moment it was a mistake to post the passport number, but I did not realize it until right this minute. It never occurred to me at all that a passport number was against SI rules. I posted the passport number because it showed that there is not a real Anthony Elgindy, but this other named individual. Again, it never even occurred to me that would be breaking SI rules. I would like to repost that message, minus the passport number.
Also, the ERA-TV Anchor women and I are friends. She speaks great English and if I could help her with any of my media contacts in the future, she was grateful for that. Plus I spent some time and taught her how to surf the web. I will not tolerate these personal attacks from Anthony regarding just casual conversations and friendships with women.
Richard Miller lives in California, and the comments about how he has friends in the Chicago Police Dept. were a veiled threat based on my past history with the Chicago Police that I have on my personal profile. He is a strange guy to say the least.
I explained why in prior posts the reason I posted when I got back. The good would be that the Anthony groupies would say, why not work out your differences with Fane to benefit orphans. Believe it or not, if Anthony and his ego could come down a notch, maybe we could have worked things out and a lot more orphans could have benefited. It is extremely important that I pushed the orphan aspect of Anthony and myself with the politicians. In Congressman Wexler's letter he states to Ambassador Hill, "Mr. Elgindy has provided extensive humanitarian aid to orphan children in war torn area." Understand, that orphans was the whole reason for this trip in the first place. The only reason Ana went was to get her sister and niece, which I helped her do. I was unhappy that the media only focused on just the first two refugees into the U.S., with another 20+ to follow; if I was not cut out of the process we could have covered that plus we could have pushed the orphan issue. It bothers me right now that we failed to get across the most important point that Anthony and I had discussed for hours before we left. That was the orphans. I thought there was an outside chance that if I told my story, maybe there would be a reconciliation? Who knows. Fighting you guys is a waste of time. The balance of your questions I again answered in posts the other day.
Wolff, I do not know what you have done for your country or for humanitarian causes. But taking this holier than though attitude is weak, and if we had a chance to talk, maybe you could have learned more clearer your questions without taking cheap shots at me. Thanks for getting me suspended from SI. |
