From XlMeister@home.com Fri Jun 11 20:57:46 1999 Path: spln!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!feed1.news.rcn.net!rcn!nntp.abs.net!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!news.rdc1.wa.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "XlMeister" Newsgroups: rec.skiing.alpine References: <7jpmce$1sa$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <19990610232310.27739.00000492@ng-fy1.aol.com> Subject: Re: Bert's family life Lines: 57 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 04:28:13 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.5.126.128 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news.rdc1.wa.home.com 929075293 24.5.126.128 (Thu, 10 Jun 1999 21:28:13 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 21:28:13 PDT Organization: @Home Network Xref: spln rec.skiing.alpine:109022 Skirecr wrote in message <19990610232310.27739.00000492@ng-fy1.aol.com>... >>From: Son of a Bert > >>But Bert deserves what is coming to him, so does him buttmate Scott. > > >I agree, certain (legal) reprisals should take place, however, involving the >authorities regarding child abuse is taking things to far. I'm afraid there is >an element that would go so far as to report Bert. I have seen the consequences >of this kind of action first hand. The authorities immediately believe the >report due to all the press regarding abuse these days-and to cover there ass. >Believe me, no one should have to go through this. It almost ruined one of my >neighbors. After it was all over with the jerk that reported him admitted it >was a lie, but too late for my friend I doubt whether any state agency would actually investigate me. My adult, college-graduate step-son would be incensed, and maybe even out for blood, if I were to tell him what people have been saying. But you're right about one thing. The damage for this "prank" has been done, in cyber-space, for years to come. It hurts me in my professional as well as personal capacity, and will be something that dogs after me for years to come. The damage to me, personally and professionally, over the years to come will far exceed a computer nerd's temporary loss of a contract. Ted Waldron's adamant refusal to issue a retraction and apology in seattle.general guarantees that I will be held up to opprobrium in the community in which I live and work for years to come. You, yourself, confirm that my "being a child molester" is already a hot topic of conversation in ski shops and the ski community here. All of this damage occurred world-wide across the World Wide Web outside this newsgroup and in real life, in the community in which I work and live, long before Boots lost a contract for making false and defamatory statements, and Boots worked to terminate Scott's connection with K2 IRL. My heart goes out to your falsely-accused neighbor. I have heard similar stories from a lot of the men I have worked with. Men whose lives have been ruined. Fortunately, the damage that has been done and that will be done to me from these false and defamatory accusations will not be ruinous. I only wish that you had had the courage to speak out against these false and defamatory statement while they were occurring, rather than crying crocodile tears after the damage has been done. I hope you will join in with me in convincing Ted Waldron to issue an apology and retraction for the defamatory remarks he has made in seattle.general. XlMeister