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Wrolf, You are still whining about free speech, like it justifies the misdirections, obsfucation, and confusion your posts generate. I'll make another analogy for you, to make it easier for you to understand why many of us really don't want you posting here anymore. Let's say you are a senior in highschool, or a freshman in college. You are in a small school, and you your class is about 100 students---you know all of them. Ten students you know have been taking LSD, and coke, and are trying to convince other students it gives them a huge advantage in creativity---very useful in writing, art and even understanding of science. And they say the cocaine will allow you to study for 8 hours per day, during exam weeks, with no effort. And you retain, as long as you use the coke to take the test. And another benefit they claim is more enjoyable athletic workouts. They claim the right to free speech. They claim its their right to tell the other students about "their way". You know from the last school you were in, several students--friends, that died from exactly what these ten are now doing. You know, with ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY, that the course of action these students are suggesting to the remaining 90 of your friends, will "kill" some of them in the next few months. You know that "the ten" are very persuasive, and that other friends are listening to them. You have told your other friends how dangerous this course of action is, but the ten have convinced everyone that no "proof" exists for your position----and it has become their word against your word. But you "know" the real truth. This is absolute certainty. And it has been proven, again and again. You now have decided "the ten" need to either be kicked out of the school before they kill someone with their ideas, or they need to shut their mouths and stop trying to lead others down their path. You have effectively decided AGAINST free speech. If you decided that they should be allowed to continue their attempts to convince many of your friends to take drugs you know will kill some of them, because of your belief in free speech---you are no friend to anyone. You are as bad if not worse than the drug peddlers--because you actually KNOW who dangerous the practice is, but refuse to act on your knowledge. This is why many of us have opposed Wrolf Courtney participation on this tech list----we know your ideas will confuse and misdirect new tech divers, at a critical time in their lives when they may have precious little time left to find the right "path" too safe technical diving. Each day you misdirect and confuse them, you come closer to killing these novice tech divers, by preventing them from adopting the DIR procedures and configurations of gear that would have protected them. This is why I see you like the drug peddler, and why I want you OUT OF HERE. This is why I can't be "Nice" or polite to you anymore. If I ran into a crack dealer at a Seven Eleven convenience store, and saw him trying to sell crack to a friend of mine's son, you can believe he would be beaten to a pulp, on the spot. This is an absolute responsibility--one which we all share. Wrolf, at this time, each of us has a responsibility to give you a "virtual beating", in response to behavior by you ---which we know is potentially going to contribute to a technical diving death, by the mechanisms already discussed. Keep it up, and I can foresee some of us feeling the need to go beyond a your "virtual beating", in our attempts to save lives which you are now jeopardizing. Whether this becomes legal/financial, or physical, only time and your future postings will determine. Wrolf, you are placing us in a position where we are morally compelled to make an action---one which you will not enjoy. Wake up, see what you have been doing from our perspective, and change immediately. You are NOT a champion of free speech----you are a source of dangerous misdirection in technical diving, one which may kill a diver very soon. How can you expect us to treat any way other than the way you've been treated so far, or much worse in the future. Dan Volker > -----Original Message----- > From: Wrolf Courtney [mailto:wrolf@co*.ne*] > Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 1998 10:03 AM > To: bdi > Cc: JSGomes117@ao*.co*; dlv@ga*.ne*; techdiver@aquanaut.com > Subject: Re: The noise level and misdirection > > > bdi wrote: > > > At 11:12 AM 25/08/1998 -0400, Wrolf Courtney wrote: > > > > Wrolf, in your last little diatribe, you wrote > > > > I am interested in your suggestion that I ripped > > you once. > > I am taking this off-line with billyw. > > -- > Wrolf > > Wrolf's Wreck: http://www.concentric.net/~Wrolf > Wrolf's Net.Wreck: http://www.concentric.net/~Wrolf/netmgmt.shtml > > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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