[Rhodes22-list] ... failure of leadership or leading ...

Just bent j.bulfer at jbtek.com
Tue Oct 21 18:19:04 EDT 2008


Herb.
do I look like an extreamist?
Jb


hparsons wrote:
> 
> Ahhh, good to know I'm not the only extremist that saw it that way.
> 
> Maybe you should look a little closer at how you worded things Ben.... 
> I'm not the only one ....
> 
> JbTek wrote:
>> Ben C.
>> I meant were you threatening to sue. That's what it read like to me.
>> I think name calling is allowed on this list, or at least tolerated but
>> threats are not.
>> Jb
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Ben Cittadino" <bcittadino at dcs-law.com>
>> To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 2:16 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] ... failure of leadership or leading ...
>>
>>
>>   
>>> Do you mean, was Ed threatening to charge me as a co-conspirator?  It
>>> sure
>>> sounded like that to me. Or did you mean was Ed threatening to label me
>>> as
>>>     
>> a
>>   
>>> marxist? Sure sounded that way to me. Was I threatening to sue Ed? No,
>>> but
>>>     
>> I
>>   
>>> was gently suggesting that if I did not have such a wonderfully
>>> developed
>>> sense of humor a person in my position (libeled by him) might have such
>>> options and he ought not call people defamatory names.
>>>
>>> Ben C.
>>>
>>> Just bent wrote:
>>>     
>>>> I got a question or you....was that a threat?
>>>> Jb
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> From: "Ben Cittadino" <bcittadino at dcs-law.com>
>>>> To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 8:39 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] ... failure of leadership or leading ...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       
>>>>> Ed;
>>>>>
>>>>> Will you answer some questions for me? What is a marxist as you see
>>>>> it?
>>>>>         
>>>> What
>>>>       
>>>>> makes me a marxist in your view?  Does the 1st Amendment to our
>>>>>         
>>>> Constitution
>>>>       
>>>>> immunize folks who libel other folks? Does calling someone a marxist
>>>>>         
>> who
>>   
>>>> is
>>>>       
>>>>> not in fact a marxist constitute defamation of character? Do you have
>>>>>         
>> any
>>   
>>>>> life savings?  Inquiring minds want to know?
>>>>>
>>>>> Have a nice day.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Ben C.
>>>>>
>>>>> Brad Haslett-2 wrote:
>>>>>         
>>>>>> Ed,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Obama intentionally and cynically has misled the public about his
>>>>>> relationship with Ayers.  This issue isn't going away and it
>>>>>>           
>> shouldn't
>>   
>>>>>> go away.  Speculation is strong and the evidence is growing that the
>>>>>> Obama and Ayers relationship goes all the way back to Obama's days in
>>>>>> NYC at Columbia (Ayers was there at the same time and they were both
>>>>>> friends of Dr. Saed) and that Ayers actually ghost authored Obama's
>>>>>> first book (the word count and sentence structure mirrors Ayer's
>>>>>> writing and was written at a 12th grade level, Obama's second book
>>>>>>           
>> was
>>   
>>>>>> written at a 9th grade level).  But let's forget speculation for a
>>>>>> moment and stick with what is known.  I'm posting a link instead of
>>>>>> the article so you can see the photo.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>           
>> http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/20/obama-praised-searing-timely-book-ayers/
>>   
>>>>>> We know from tax returns from the Annenberg Challenge that Obama,
>>>>>> Ayers, and Klonsky all had offices on the same floor of the same
>>>>>> building. Michelle and Ayers' wife both worked at the same law firm.
>>>>>> Obama and Ayers appeared at joint speaking engagements (which by the
>>>>>> way, Illinois ethics law prohibits receiving fees for speaking but
>>>>>> Obama's tax returns show "speaker fees" during the period he was in
>>>>>> the Illinois Senate, another MSM oversight).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Just a guy in my neighborhood with a degree in English"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That was willful intent to decieve and the MSM has for the most part
>>>>>> let him get away with it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The man is a liar, if he were on trial he would certainly be guilty
>>>>>>           
>> of
>>   
>>>>>> perjury - and he may well be, soon.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Brad
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:34 AM, Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net>
>>>>>>           
>> wrote:
>>   
>>>>>>> Ben said, "... Since I socialize mostly with folks in my own
>>>>>>> socioeconomic
>>>>>>> class, while most support Obama, ..."  The term leadership comprises
>>>>>>>             
>>>> many
>>>>       
>>>>>>> atributes.  And part of what are call traditional values is simple
>>>>>>> honesty.
>>>>>>> Sometimes honesty requires analysis of what is going on and saying
>>>>>>>             
>>>>> hey,
>>>>>         
>>>> "
>>>>       
>>>>>>> America, we have a problem..."
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ben discounted the Bill Ayers thing.  Even if he is a Marxist as is
>>>>>>>             
>>>> Bill
>>>>       
>>>>>>> Ayers, he as an American has an obligation to speak the truth.  In
>>>>>>> America a
>>>>>>> Marxist is obligated to tell the truth and not lie about it.  So it
>>>>>>>             
>>>> goes
>>>>       
>>>>>>> with his candidate Obama.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So what are the elements of Conspiracy?  If you know or should have
>>>>>>> reasonable known something?  Are you obligated to say something?  If
>>>>>>>             
>>>> you
>>>>       
>>>>>>> do
>>>>>>> not say anything are you a coconspirator?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In Ben's case I have to ask, if a fraud is being commited is he
>>>>>>>             
>>>> obligated
>>>>       
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> speak out?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The above is why I routinely for years have quoted:
>>>>>>> In Germany they first came for the Communists
>>>>>>>    and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
>>>>>>>  Then they came for the Jews,
>>>>>>>    and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
>>>>>>> Then they came for the trade unionists
>>>>>>>     and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
>>>>>>> Then they came for the Catholics
>>>>>>>     and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
>>>>>>>  Then they came for me
>>>>>>>    and by that time no one was left to speak up.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  --The Reverend Martin Niemöller, a pastor in the German Confessing
>>>>>>> Church
>>>>>>> who spent seven years in a concentration camp.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ben said, "... I, on the other hand, wish there were no connection
>>>>>>>             
>> at
>>   
>>>> all
>>>>       
>>>>>>> because then we could argue about policy instead of who knew who,
>>>>>>>             
>>>>> where
>>>>>         
>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>> when, and what possible difference it makes."
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is this an admission of an issue?  Saying that because most others
>>>>>>>             
>>>>> deny
>>>>>         
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> connection is using Richard Nixon's arguement that everybody else in
>>>>>>> politics did it, therefore it was o.k.  Saying his friends deny the
>>>>>>>             
>>>> issue
>>>>       
>>>>>>> does not make it go away.  It is Richard Nixon's arguement all over
>>>>>>> again.
>>>>>>> Wasn't Nixon a lawyer?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Does law school teach ask the hard questions in court, but do not
>>>>>>>             
>> ask
>>   
>>>>>>> them
>>>>>>> of yourself?  Are lawyers above the law?  Inquiring minds want to
>>>>>>>             
>>>>> know?
>>>>>         
>>>>>>> Ed K
>>>>>>> Greenville, SC, USA
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