Reply #183: Yeeeeesh! What a nuisance for you. And now we see...

[TygrBright]

...why a few RULES are necessary here, and why we should all appreciate the MODS who do their best to enforce them even-handedly.

To be honest, it's rather surprising this hasn't happened before, given the nature of this website and how high feelings run here, on occasion. It is a tribute to how conscientiously and professionally DU is operated that such "enquiries" have not been an ongoing nuisance.

Since I know that the Fibbies, at least, have a dossier on me going back many decades, I always assume that anything I say on The Tubes gets routed there sooner or later. However, just to be explicit, Skinner, if any law enforcement agencies appear at your door having demonstrated probable cause to a judge who has issued a subpoena, you hereby have my permission, dispensation, understanding, and forgiveness for any information you provide them about my humble self. If anyone ELSE comes a-knockin', I expect you'll continue to maintain the high standards of respect for user privacy that DU has always upheld.

I do spare a moment's ironical sympathy for the poor schlub in whatever Fibbie office is charged with maintaining my file. Boredom is a terrible curse. In light of that, it's hardly surprising, is it, that concoctions like the Florida "plot" get inflated out of nothing. Being a Fed in charge of monitoring the hundreds of thousands of potential "terrorists" swarming The Tubes has got to be the most tedious job on earth.

amusedly,
Bright