[Hallicrafters] Admin Request - Please Read

[Ray V.]

Touched a raw nerve, eh?

Duane, over the years you have applied this double standard many times. 
I'm just pointing one case out. Not as a flame, but as a point of 
observation. Be it Frogs or Squirrels, or disabilities, yours or others, 
  you, probably unknowingly, apply a double standard. If it revolves 
around you, you don't see a problem. If someone else brings up a similar 
topic, you are right there to stifle it.

Case in point: You very often bring up your handicaps and solicit 
special help. That is fine and acceptable, I believe we should help each 
other out and lend support as needed. But you also continually use the 
various reflectors to tell us all about your health and legal problems. 
These are far off topic but compassion decrees that we read through your 
comments and lend support as appropriate. But some time ago, a fellow 
ham posted a note that he was handicapped and was looking for an S-38. 
All he did was say he was handicapped and couldn't afford to spend too 
much, so hoped someone would help him out with a reasonably priced S-38. 
You immediately jumped all over him for playing on his handicap to get 
cheap gear and even surmised that he wasn't handicapped at all but just 
a rip-off artist. Yet you yourself had asked for special treatment in 
the past, specifically because of your handicaps. That is a "double 
standard". I had overlooked your indiscretions in the past but this 
particular incident was the final straw. I now feel it appropriate to 
point out your "double standards" where they appear.

Before you chastise someone else, stop, look, and see if you haven't 
done something similar. If you are honest with yourself, you will find 
many similarities and maybe it will prevent many hard feelings.

When you stop applying "double standards" I will no longer have anything 
to point out. Isn't that simple?

Ray, W2EC



Duane Fischer, W8DBF wrote:

> Thanks Ray. This topic has gone on for several days, we all had a good laugh and
> it is time to get back to things Hallicrafters. There is no double standard here
> Ray, nobody objected to the thread, but they all must end sometime. What I do
> object to is somebody like you who delights in taking cheap shots at people
> because he is not happy unless he has an ass to ride. In the future I will
> exclude you when I mention 'gentlemen', which you do not qualify for.	
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