Well at least Damien can see clearly….. Slan

Haven’t you been paying attention at all? If it’s someone writing in a personal capacity, no way.

b. would everyone condem it.?

Of course not. Because everything is a conspiracy against Dickie, after all.

I generally deal with abusive emails by either responding in kind (very childish, but that’s badman for you) or ignoring it. It would require some sort of plausible threat before I’d consider escalating. If you can’t take it, don’t give it. If I received an email such as Richard did, I’d just bin it straight away – it was nothing more than a throwaway insult which are rather common on d’interweb.

I see nothing wrong with pointing out the flaws in someones arguments and even hypocrisy if they are being hypocrites but the personal crap over the past while all lobbed at one person is petty. Why is everyone afraid of Richard so much? What is his potential to disrupt our world that gets you all into such a frenzy? I have to agree Damian. Much though not all of the critism that richard gets is playing the man not the ball. Even the title of this post is exactly this. It was meant to be a title of sorn on the man. Often his post are a bit out there but he has a right to make his point and while he doesn’t allow comments I have often written posts disagreing with what he says and he has put a link on the post to my post which is fair. He has also done it with many other poster most notable Fiona.

I have to wonder what would have happened if the person who sent the email was in the Israel embassy and sent it to EWI or badman etc would they a. have posted it and b. would everyone condem it.?

I only comment on Richard’s published thoughts and deeds, and what others have written about this as well. His personal life (of which one particular facet he might find publicly embarressing, given certain of his political associations) I treat as off-limits. There *is* a line between the public and private persona: the problem here is that Richard crossed it in a very serious manner.

Anyway, lads, youze are all losing the run of yourselves. I think we should meditate for a minute on the wonderful glory of the Internet and how we will all try to use our powers for good rather than evil. May Ultan and Richard be well and happy and free from suffering. May they progress. (Buddhist incantation thingy). My, my, don’t I have a lot of material for my paper now? I wonder can I get this week’s column out of it too….

Tax payer’s money at work – maybe Ultan was on his lunch break? Ultan was speaking on behalf of himself only, it was stupid of him to use a work email address, but that shouldn’t come into it. With this precedent set, none of us should post comments from work, because our IP address often gives away the workplace and some vindictive rat mightn’t like your tone and ring your boss to complain.

Richard’s actions just prove that anonymity is probably the better way to go. If Ultan had posted with an alias and an anonymous proxy then he would have had no trouble. When you respond to a blog post with your real name, regardless of the content of you response, you are giving the blog owner the courtesy of feedback. Richard abused this trust, and set out to hurt a kid who gave his honest opinion. This, imo, says a lot about his personality.

I spend “hours each day”? Really?

because you disagree with him politically.

I think most Irish people commit the sin of disagreeing with Dickie and his FI chums (yourself included). On behalf of the Irish nation, we’re sorreeee.

As Damien said, you’re just an inverse fanboy.

I think our Mr. Mulley may be suffering jealousy.

I’d hate to see what would happen if Waghorne stopped blogging – you might have to find a hobby to replace Waghorne-baiting. Even worse, you might have to find a job! An actual job! The horror!

Graduated yet?