dasmi,
It is nice to hear that ### and his family are fine. Yet the manner in which you express yourself in the remainder of your post is, it seems to me, rather less than nice to us when all we have done was express our concerns in this thread. We wrote about our concerns for his welfare and about how much we liked and will miss his site.
Perhaps we ought to repect his wishes and not talk about this here.
Shame on you for even hinting that anyone here might be being disrespectful, or might have to show some respect, when all were posting to express their concern, respect and feelings of loss.
He asked everyone to de-link his blog, and remove his name.
I guess he missed me and some others I know who frequented his site because we never received any such word from him, this despite you saying that he asked everyone to do so. I would have expected (I guess mistakenly) that he would have notified his loyal readers/contributors in some manner that he was about to shut down. Of course, maybe I missed it but, I was a pretty regular reader and would be quite surprised if that was the case. I signed onto his site one day and it was there, then within a day or couple of days at most, next time I signed on, it was gone. There were no words about anything to do with the shut down or about removing links to his site from my computer. While I do not believe he owed anyone anything, it would have certainly been considerate to have given some warning of the shutdown beforehand (or even a message saying site shut down due to employment - when you tried to pull it up - instead of the this site permanently closed sort of thing) just so as to avoid all the concern it created when it seemingly disappeared from the face of the earth.
Now you say we should listen to you and stop making inquiries about his and his family's well being. You imply you are one of the chosen to receive and spread the word that he wants us all to remove links to his old site from our computers. You say we should show him respect by doing this and by not writing about him or his site here, when in fact we were showing the greatest respect through our concern for him.
I will take it for granted that you actually have some knowledge of what is and what has happened. Yet, I think it is extremely strange that someone in the know like you did not mention the fact that there now appears to be a new Nation of Riflemen website under a new assumed nickname (which I expect is the nickname of ###). Just as when it sut down without notice, I and others whom I know did not receive any type of notice that the site was going back online under a new name either yet; it apparently is back as the
http://www.thenationofriflemen.com/nor/index.php/rant/. I guess that is also supposed to part of the big secret but; a big secret like that will never be kept secret if only because people will be posting on this and other websites just to tell their friends that the site is back up under a new name. Furthermore his name will not be removed from sites of those who were opposed to him. It is unavoidable.
As far as I see it you have some set of marbles to say what you said in the manner you expressed it with its obvious implications! I have to wonder whom it is that needs to be somewhat more respectful to others regarding this situation because I know for a fact that I, and the others who have posted in this thread, have only been respectful from day one of this thread!
Sincerely,
Glenn B
