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To: AugustWest who wrote (706)	6/23/2001 5:37:17 PM
From: John Pendergast	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 717

The difference is this: The words I used without attribution were in a message to you taken from your own bio. page links. I assumed you would recognize them. The biggest difference however is that I did not attempt to use the words I quoted in an effort to promote religious bigotry or other attempt to hit below the belt. Your reference to medication? Another attempted low blow. How about trying to bite off my ear again oh great boxer? Different URLs proves nothing. The fact that you are on a first name basis with the SI complaint guy? You have the power to report me again for something. As far as a legal action goes sometimes the only winners are lawyers. I would be seriously concerned only if I were masquerading under more than one name and I were worried about having my true identity disclosed. Then libelous remarks might prove problematic. Also, it might be a real embarrassment if it were to come out that certain people who are thought to be pluses were really minuses in drag. Do you know what I am getting at? Should a Judas be concerned? Not primarily about his conduct on message boards. Then again most betrayals start with speech in some form. That Churchill Club incident was a real "gotcha". Since objecting to your praise of rats, I see that many people keep them as pets and there are even web sites devoted to them. But don't you think it was a little extreme on your part to react so defensively? Do you think that another bubonic plague could not happen? If so you are wrong. These diseases that society thinks have been vanquished have a strange way of popping up here and there. Like TB on a bus. Not of epidemic proportion unless you are talking about AIDS. That seems in the process of wiping out a whole continent. Did you see that guy who accused me of attempting to speak against God's design because I criticized your ennoblement of the rat? Give me a break! Besides, I backed right off just as soon as you and your friends started using compelling arguments like that. I'm not invested in how you do or do not regard the rat so I am not going to let that be used against me by you and your fraternity brothers again. Those fraternity brothers are too quick witted for me so I probably wont renew my membership even if asked. Too bad. It's really counter-productive to stifle free speech, no matter how unpopular, unless it incites evil conduct like the bombing of a building for instance. Did my diatribe on rats do that? If I disappear, what are you going to do for fun then? My discussion of rats seems to have sparked a whole new discussion topic amongst your enlightened friends. Returning to your investment skills is a distinct possibility. How you been " hitten 'em" recently?