Re: [cobalt-users] RACKSHACK.NET

["Robert Dayton" <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We all have a right to our opinions. A person should not be threatened with
lawsuits just because they vented on a list. Nice reply by head surfer, he
has a right to his opinions, too. Who's right here? I really don't care.
Carrie, please stick to your guns and don't let anyone silence you. Even if
you're wrong, no-one should stand in the way of your right to express your
opinion and tell it like you see it. The truth always reveals itself in the
end.

It's not a crime to be opinionated and outspoken. That's a good quality that
rarely blossoms itself these days because many people are afraid to tell it
like they see it. Maybe they don't want to be the bad guy or have people
think of them as being nuts. Maybe they're afraid to lead.

Keep telling it like you see it,

Rob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carrie Bartkowiak" <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Cobalt List" <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 9:09 AM
Subject: [cobalt-users] RACKSHACK.NET


> Before I get contacted by lawyers and am told that my freedom of speech is
> being squelched by lawsuits and gag orders, I'd like to let everyone know
> the experience I just had.
> I was just called on the phone by John Baine, "Head Surfer" of EV1.Net -
the
> parent company of Rackshack.Net.
> He was demanding an apology for "slandering" his company in the post that
I
> sent here to the list last night.
> I refused. The things I said are my opinion, my experience - and my
FREEDOM
> OF SPEECH.
> I told him if he is such a big company (he was throwing around profit
> figures that EV1.Net makes and trying to threaten me by saying they have
> three separate law firms on retainer), then why is he so worried about
what
> a little person like me is saying about them? I told him to make his own
> post to the list refuting what I had said. He refused. I told him this was
> because the people on the list could go to the site and see for themselves
> what the TRUTH was.
>
> This man proceeded to use terms like "I am gonna SLAM you SO hard", he
vowed
> that I would spend at least $100,000 defending myself in court over this,
> and he was going to "take me to the cleaners".
> I happily informed him to go right ahead, I didn't have $100,000 and I
would
> take it all the way to the Supreme Court if I had to... because my opinion
> is called FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
>
> He said all kinds of things, finally telling me "You are the biggest BITCH
> on the face of this earth."
>
> To which I replied "Thank you. At least I'm HONEST."
>
> So you guys make what you want of this man and his company, and make your
> own decisions about whether or not you want to solicit his business. Those
> are YOUR opinions, and YOUR decisions... just like what I have seen and
> experienced are MY opinions and MY decisions... and I am free to relate
that
> opinion anytime I want to, to whomever I so please.
>
> He's going to sue me with 3 different law firms for giving my opinion
about
> his company on a mailing list, rather than come onto the mailing list
> himself and refute my letter or even explain his company's actions.
>
> But yet I'm the bitch.
>
>
> Carrie Bartkowiak
> Administrator, All @bout Choice
> admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.allaboutchoice.com
>
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