[TheForge] Blacksmithing and ABANA

[Andy Vida]

> Connsmith722 at aol.com wrote:
> 
> 
>    [George] sometimes has come off a bit angry.

	This is definitely so, but if the board did to you what
	he claims they did to him, you might be angry too.  I
	think I would be, and given the intolerance I've developed
	in my old age for taking injury from anyone, I might be
	motivated to see my antagonists taken to woodshed for
	a well deserved ass-whooping, whether by exposure of
	the truth to the light of day, or by legal avenues.

> This is however different, George has passed on plenty of real
> quotes and proof here through Mindy. If this is all a lie then he is
> set up for a huge lawsuit so I doubt that this is fabricated.

	This is precisely what stands out to me.  Either George
	is telling the truth, or he needs to placed in a seriously
	rubberized room.  The exposure he would face, were his
	accusations proven to have been fabricated, would be prima
	fascia evidence that he's crazier than a shithouse rat.
	If I were on the board and some nutter started up with me
	like this, my aim would be to bury him in short order and
	put the matter to rest.  This has not happened to my knowledge,
	which gives me more than a little reason to think that
	George ain't making it all up.  I've talked to him about
	this in email and face to face on more than one occasion
	and he doesn't strike me as a grand confabulator, though
	perhaps he has fooled me (wouldn't be the first time someone 
	has).  Until I see evidence of it I have to give his accusations 
	a certain respect, especially given the way in which the Board 
	handled this in terms of PR, which was not very well, given the
	content and timbre of the exchanges on the topic in this
	very forum.