[TheForge] ABANA

[Dave Brown]

At 17:59 07/06/02 -0400, you wrote:
>At 01:04 PM 7/6/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>>(I have added the emphasis to Georges text quoted ... comments 
>>follow.  Dave Brown)
>>
>>At 13:16 07/06/02 -0400, you wrote:
>>
>>The single greatest problem I have with this whole exercise is the amount 
>>of conjecture (i.e the if's, apparently's, seem's. etc) that permeate the 
>>whole argument (not just the quoted text).  For example:  "...if there 
>>was a good faith intent..."  The implication is that there wasn't a good 
>>faith intent, but the "if" part says that there is no evidence that there 
>>wasn't a good faith intent and that it's a guess or deliberate 
>>misrepresentation on the part of the writer.  And "...apparently... 
>>misrepresented..." again says that the comments are just speculation and 
>>unsupported.
>
>Correct me if I'm wrong,

I think you're wrong.  George has made flat out accusations and 
condemnations of the Board as a whole.  If you wish to take all that George 
has written at face value, then do so.  I won't.  It is absolutely and 
unequivocally slanted in his favor and he allows for no other conclusions 
to be considered but his.

As a professional auditor, if I ever submitted a report on operations in 
the manner that we have here, I'd be out on the street looking for another 
job.  Try taking what we've been presented with to court, even Judge Judy 
or Judge Joe Brown on television and you'd be laughed out of court.

>I think George has been very careful in what he says to make sure that the 
>board has the room to prove that they aren't evil masterminds bent on 
>taking over the earth. Without any input from the board all we have are 
>questions that beg answers.

Actually all we have is George's say-so.  Which begs the question why is he 
fighting this battle and where is Jim McCarty if he has been so 
wronged?  And if he's so right in his position then the "careful" you 
credit him with shouldn't be necessary.  Now you want to put the Board 
(which isn't the same board from back then, there have been changes) in the 
impossible situation of trying to prove a negative.  I don't think it's the 
Boards' obligation to prove that they didn't do anything wrong.  Just like 
court, prove they did something wrong.

Making them prove the negative would be like me asking, nay, requiring you 
to prove that you and George aren't conspiring to take over ABANA for your 
own nefarious purposes.  As a matter of fact, are you?   Prove you're 
not.  I won't believe you, no matter what you say, and the same would go 
for anything you or George tried to present in your defense.

Then there's the classic question:  "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?"

Get the point?

Dave Brown