siglite:
December 30, 2007
At this point, Mr. Hairless, I stopped reading your post. I will no longer read ANY post you craft on this forum.
http://www.thehighroad.org/showpost.php?p=4036431&postcount=96
siglite:
January 1, 2008
I didn't compromise anything. I complied with the laws of my state to avoid incarceration. If someone sticks a gun to your head and says "kick that puppy" it is not a "compromise" to kick the puppy. It is called compliance. It is force. But not according to Mr. Hairless.
My choices were "comply with the State/NRA" or "Prison." That is not compromise. That is compliance.
You've very bad at rhetoric and spin Robert. It's too easy to pick apart your dishonesties.
http://www.thehighroad.org/showpost.php?p=4043260&postcount=120
Siglite, please teach me that special trick of yours?
Two days ago you swore "I will no longer read ANY post you craft on this forum." Of course I believed you because I know you're a highly principled man who stands up for his ideals, never compromises, and doesn't believe in compromise. I know that because you say so a lot and because you argue against all who would compromise.
You don't
compromise, unless of course you're forced to by a corrupt Sheriff acting on behalf of a corrupt legislature that has been corrupted by the corrupt NRA.
Even if it looks like compromise, smells like compromise, walks like compromise, and even quacks like compromise it is
not compromise when you do it. When
you do it it's "compliance." These guys all got together to force you to get a Concealed Weapons Permit and
comply with their demands. I got that, and I really like watching you do that. Do it again for me? I always liked the Rubber Man in carnival sideshows and the acrobats in the circus, and I enjoy seeing those performances on the Internet too.
At any rate, I don't agree with your characterization of all those people and organizations as corrupt and I don't for a moment think they are as you describe them, but I thought that at least
you believed what you were saying.
But today you responded to messages I posted
after you made your solemn oath not to read what I posted ever again. So you might have the Secret of How to Respond to People Without Ever Reading Their Posts, and that's a trick I'd like to learn.
I
know you aren't reading my posts now because you said "I will no longer read ANY post you craft on this forum" and you are a principled, highly moral, uncompromising man who can pick apart my dishonesties easily, so of course you would not deceive or mislead anyone or exaggerate to make a point.
Or is it the corrupt NRA that's making you betray yourself? You explained your situation as the victim of NRA coercion: it was the NRA in league with the West Virginia legislature and the Sheriff that forced you to get a Concealed Weapons Permit so the NRA could make money from you.
Or maybe the NRA--or the Sheriff or the West Virginia legislature--took over your computer, reads my messages you swore not to read, and replies to those messages? Could be, I suppose, because everyone is out to get
you. Really they are. Everyone.
But I trust you and I think that you probably do have the power to know what is in messages you don't read and that's the trick I would like to learn from you if you would teach it to me.
I also believe you when you say "You've very bad at rhetoric and spin Robert. It's too easy to pick apart your dishonesties." I'm sure you can do that trick too, because you've figured out how the NRA can make money from the required CWP course you took even though the NRA didn't charge or get a penny for it.
Let me say that again a few different ways? I'm sure it won't penetrate now because it hasn't penetrated yet. You read--or exercised your supernatural powers and didn't read--a previous message in which I responded to your charge that the NRA corrupted the West Virginia legislature, and yet you continue to make the same irresponsible and dense assertion. So I want to give it another try, not really for your sake but for the sake of anyone else who reads this thread and hasn't yet figured you out. Take a deep breath and let's see how many different ways I can say the same thing:
- The NRA does not get anything for Concealed Weapons Permit courses offered by any NRA-certified Instructor.
- The NRA does not get a fee for Concealed Weapons Permit courses offered by any NRA-certified Instructor.
- The NRA does not get money from Concealed Weapons Permit courses offered by any NRA-certified Instructor.
- The NRA does not get a penny, centavo, pence, pfennig, or a jot or a whit or tittle or a bushel or a peck or a hug around the neck from any Concealed Weapons Permit courses offered by any NRA-certified Instructor.
I think I can say it in even more ways but it's New Years Day and I'm kind of busy right now. Let me do it more generally.
The NRA gets
nothing--or nada, rien, betsuni, niente, or the equivalent in any language that might pierce the confines of your rigidly enclosed mind--from
anyone who takes a Concealed Weapons Permit course offered by any NRA-certified Instructor.
Not in West Virginia. Not anywhere else.
Nothing. No charge. Free. Gratis. You no pay NRA for CWP. NRA not take dough for CWP. None. Not any.
Not from anyone. Not from you. Not from me. Not from no one. Doesn't do it. Not directly or indirectly or eight ball in the side pocket.
The NRA
does not even require NRA membership from anyone taking a Concealed Weapons Permit course offered by any NRA-certified Instructor.
Not from anyone. Not from you. Not from me. Not from no one. Doesn't do it.
You surely are not an NRA member, but
you took the NRA course, and
you got
your West Virginia CWP.
As I said at the beginning of this message that you're
not reading because you said you wouldn't, I don't have even the slightest illusion that you will change your mind. About anything.
Of course I am sure that you will come up with new and even more fanciful explanations--I think you used the word "spin"--for whatever it is you believe, and I'm equally sure that nobody here thinks I take you seriously any longer. I doubt that anyone but other GOA members take you seriously either.
A good GOA member never changes his mind, and so far as I can tell never even uses it, but relies entirely on belief. You are a
believer. And since that's good enough for you, it's certainly good enough for me. But of course you no longer read ANY post I craft on this forum. (I like the word "craft," by the way, but I blush to see it applied to my writings. Yours are much craftier.)