Online Apologetics and "Collateral Damage"

[_silentkid]

HI?

[_KimberlyAnn]

HI?

He'll take your Huggies and whatever cash you got.

Brilliant, SK!

KA

[_Daniel Peterson]

My attorney advised me to simply keep track of your threats.

Thus far, there've been none. And, given my Type B personality, there aren't likely to be any.

So your task looks to be pretty simple.

You have been told to cease the behavior, so that's that.

No I haven't. Could you please have him send me a letter to that effect on his firm's stationery? I'll want to keep it on file for my defense, in case you attempt to silence me and to wipe me out financially.

Have him send the letter either to my BYU office or my home. Both addresses are easily located.

None of my posts could reasonably be construed as "character assassination."

LOL. Very few of them haven't involved character assassination.

You would also have to apologize for such things as your "whisper campaigns" against Robert Ritner and Mike Quinn.

I apologize for conducting "whisper campaigns" against Robert Ritner and Mike Quinn, for destroying the Great Wall of China, for sinking the island of Maui, for making Winston Churchill the prime minister of Swaziland, for moving Los Angeles up to Alaska, for revealing that Hamlet was really written by Spike Lee, for defeating General Grant at the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse, and for all manner of other purely imaginary offenses.

[_LifeOnaPlate]

Then prove it, LoaP.

Here you go:

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[_Daniel Peterson]

I hesitate to confirm it, but I suspect I am lumped with you, Rollo.

No. Not really. Don't flatter yourself. I don't take you very seriously, to be candid, but you've certainly not in the league of the Scartchii when it comes to cold, focused, never-ceasing personal hostility.

And Dartagnen. He has absolutely no use for Dartagnen either.

I simply have no interest in interacting with him. But that's a different matter.

Nope. You're wrong on both counts.

Actually, I despise the entire world. Heh heh heh. As Scartch has so perceptively noted, I'm a "seething cauldron of hate." I wish he didn't have the uncanny abiility that he has, to look deeply and with perfect accuracy into the cankered depravity of my evil soul.

[_Mister Scratch]

You have been told to cease the behavior, so that's that.

No I haven't. Could you please have him send me a letter to that effect on his firm's stationery? I'll want to keep it on file for my defense, in case you attempt to silence me and to wipe me out financially.

Sure, I'd be glad to arrange that. As soon as you do the same, following the legal threats you made against Rollo Tomasi and myself (over your Quinn gossiping), and later against myself, Gadianton, and Dr. Shades (over FARMS finances).

Come to think of it, Dr. Peterson, it seems that you have quite a penchant for issuing legal threats.

None of my posts could reasonably be construed as "character assassination."

LOL. Very few of them haven't involved character assassination.

Again: I issue to you the same challenge I issued to LifeOnaPlate. Feel free to back up your accusation with actual evidence. Mere labels tend to be pretty meaningless.

You would also have to apologize for such things as your "whisper campaigns" against Robert Ritner and Mike Quinn.

I apologize for conducting "whisper campaigns" against Robert Ritner and Mike Quinn

Good for you. This is a "watershed" moment. Into the sig-line it goes. Also: would you like me to let these men know that, at last, you have admitted that you feel badly about what you did to them?

[_Dr. Shades]

Sure, I'd be glad to arrange that. As soon as you do the same, following the legal threats you made against Rollo Tomasi and myself (over your Quinn gossiping), and later against myself, Gadianton, and Dr. Shades (over FARMS finances).

With all due respect to all parties, I do not perceive any communication I have received from Daniel Peterson as having contained a legal threat.

[_cksalmon]

Sure, I'd be glad to arrange that. As soon as you do the same, following the legal threats you made against Rollo Tomasi and myself (over your Quinn gossiping), and later against myself, Gadianton, and Dr. Shades (over FARMS finances).

With all due respect to all parties, I do not perceive any communication I have received from Daniel Peterson as having contained a legal threat.

Then, I suppose, you perceived the manifest threat to have been illegal, eh?

The porridge thickens.

[_Daniel Peterson]

Sure, I'd be glad to arrange that. As soon as you do the same, following the legal threats you made against Rollo Tomasi and myself (over your [mythical] Quinn gossiping), and later against myself, Gadianton, and Dr. Shades (over FARMS finances).

I've never consulted with "my lawyer" about these matters, and have never claimed to have done so. Thus, I have no lawyer who would send you a lawyer's letter.

You, by contrast, claim to have spoken with your lawyer about my supposed homocidal threats, and you claim that I've now been warned. But your warning me on a message board doesn't seem to constitute a warning from your lawyer. Indeed, I have no actual reason to believe that you've spoken with a lawyer at all. (Candidly, I strongly doubt it.)

If you really want me to believe that a lawyer is monitoring my "behavior" here and that I've been "warned," evidence would be helpful.

I apologize for conducting "whisper campaigns" against Robert Ritner and Mike Quinn

Good for you. This is a "watershed" moment. Into the sig-line it goes.

I certainly hope so.

So long as it remains there, that truncated and de-contextualized quote will serve as a clear illustration of your malignant crusade's reliance upon spin and misrepresentation.

Also: would you like me to let these men know that, at last, you have admitted that you feel badly about what you did to them?

Certainly. I insist, though, that you include in the same notification my apologies and my sorrow for having bullied them on the schoolyard when we were small and were pupils in the same Indonesian madrasa, for dispatching the black helicopters that hover above their homes, for infecting them via tainted rutabaga with their most recent colds, for causing occasional turbulence on their television screens, and for raiding their refrigerators in search of Grey Poupon mustard.

They need to have some idea, when and if they hear from you, what kind of a person they're hearing from.

[_Some Schmo]

And Dartagnen. He has absolutely no use for Dartagnen either.

I simply have no interest in interacting with him. But that's a different matter.

Well, what do you know...? We have something in common.