John,
C'mon, really, what do these guys expect from me?...I'm a surly dog and I know it. How am I supposed to react?
Remember, in the early days of the first BBS system, these same members created the BBS research Frankenstien that I've become. From my very first post they vicimized me for asking if anyone knew the whereabouts of the Emil Flues made Haile Selassie gun, (argueably the most important gun in African American history), they told me the gun was housed in a CIA history museum in Langley Va., and automatically they assumed that I was black...how do I know what they assumed? Because they started telephoning my house calling me N*****...I'm ashamed to say that my wife and friends laughed when these calls came in...I hadn't yet realized how ugly it was. I didn't post much after that but when I did, I usually got the same treatment that Lowell loves to serve up. But, no matter...I chose not to correct anyone about my ethnic background, first, because it felt right, and second, because I thought it might be a good way to see who the rat bastages are.
So I continued to post...and as you may remember I was tarred and feathered when I stated the obvious, that my LC Smith had factory original Belgian barrels...it turned into "whatta you mean my Parkers Smiths and Ithacas got furrin' parts?" "those is fightin' words 'round here"
Tarred & feathered again for telling some kid, that if it's European hammerguns your looking for, you can generally spot them from across the room at a gunshow by noting the hammers...generally, C type hammers are American, and S type hammers are usually European, but I didn't know to say NOT ALWAYS...I'm still picking out those feathers...
Then out of skyblue (I had forgotten about the pretense by that time), word apparently got out that I wasn't black, because the phone calls started again only this time it c*****lover and the like. This was before the days of caller ID and one time at 2 am.... and this time they REALLY hated me as I was now a traitor..
and this is just the beginning...the more I got victimized here, the more time I spent researching...my digital files began growing almost exponantially...while these guys were talking about Lowell's wardrobe, I was ransacking the US Patent Office and digitizing the Swinney files...After awhile, it felt like the more they vandalized my posts, the stronger and bolder I would get.
Should Dave Weber decide to banish me, it would probably be most benificial to my research work...unfortunately it cuts off the vital function of sharing the re-organized data with the right and deserving researchers.
