The DPF has suffered a great loss with the 'withdrawal' of David Guyatt - I am greatly saddened.

[Peter Presland]

Sorry, Peter, but it is you who are the 'bull in the china shop', taking up complaints about David, Drago, Peter and Meredith as a personal affront which you are obliged to answer.

What you presume a personal affront, is moderation. In 50 posts you have managed personal attacks on every single forum joint-owner plus at least one other long-standing member. We get some pretty belligerent people on here at times but that has to be something of a record. How much longer do you judge it will be allowed to continue?

Then in the post where Guyatt volunteered my "purposeful muddying of the water", he added after Blix's possible membership in SMOM about me, "On the other hand he might be American SMOM?"

He volunteered 'suspicions' and he went on to explain them in detail; in spite of which you insist on presenting his words as as a concrete accusation

The SMOM reference was totally unconnected to you. He was suggesting Hans Blix might be American rather then Orthodox SMOM - or not SMOM at all. He told you you'd read it wrong in a subsequent post. And STILL you can't see it.

THOSE typify what David means by your standards of evidence. The rest of his post offered reasons why your positions on the other matters might be similarly flawed. That's called discussion but you present it as absolute rejection.

Here's another one:

.... David Guyatt went on to deny that NSA had an assassination outfit which probably killed Colby and Williams

Again NO HE DID NOT.

It's a bit like those 'Chinese Whispers' in which, after passing though about 100 iterations from originator to intended recipient, "Send reinforcements, we're going to advance" became "Send three and fourpence, we're going to a dance." except that there are no intermediate steps. VERY frustrating.

This place is turning out to be worse than The Local - what you urged me to leave to come here to in order to get away from the Sheeple.

You have a strange understanding of what constitutes urging. As for your opinion of this place, nobody is FORCING you to stay Trowbridge.