On Thursday, October 04, 2001 10:35 PM, Lee Bell wrote:

(snip)
> Russ, Strike has chosen to quote something out of context,

I have quoted nothing out of context.

>chosen to leave
> out the entire discussion that lead up to it and has violated netiquette
by
> posting private messages in public,

Neither have I posted private messages in public.  I stated what I had been
told by you.

>clearly for no purpose other than to
> attack someone who was not part of the discussion.

I did it to highlight a possible reason for your goading of me.  With Bob,
your stated purpose in goading him was to create a better list environment,
one in which there would be no personal attacks.  (Over the years, I have
been guilty of making such attacks in response to people who 'threw the
first stone'.  Occassionally I have even initiated the attack - and usually
apologised for it afterwards.)  Is that why I've now become the focus of
your crusading attention?

> He has violated his own
> stated standards of dislike for double standards by doing so.

Have I?

> I chose not to enter into a battle with you or anyone else because of his
> misrepresentations.

What misrepresentations?

>I suggest you review his posts and mine over the last
> few months and determine for yourself who is and who is not the enemy of
> whom.

As (if?) you mature, you'll come to realise that people can't be measured in
terms of black-and-white.  Despite my protestations that I am my own person,
one who is quite capable of making his own judgements on a case-by-case
basis in a discussion, you have cast me as your 'enemy' because I refused to
side with you against Bob.

Just so that it's clearly stated for future reference by you:
I do not regard anyone on this or any other forum or list as my enemy.  On
the other hand, I do regard most of them as either friends or - at the very
least - people who demand respect.  Even when their views differ from my
own.  Unless they lose the right to that respect!

I am not in your 'gang'; Bob's 'gang'; or anyone elses 'gang'!

If you, Lee, find difficulty in accepting that fact then the problem is
yours - not mine!  But don't continue to act as the playground bully
loooking for fresh targets to bolster your fragile ego.

Strike