Let Us Treat Jim Fetzer with Kindness

[Seamus Coogan]

Seamus,

I continue to be amazed that those of you who don't post at the EF are so concerned with what's going on there, to the extent that you critique the performance of moderators like me. I don't claim to be a "great" moderator, however one would define "great" for such a position. I do the best I can, and my policy is usually to be hands-off, regardless of how I feel about the individual poster.

It is quite sad to see Jim Fetzer's performance on the Cinque thread. I share most of your feelings about this. However, I don't think it's proper for anyone to publicly speculate about his mental state, or to quote the alleged feelings of his brother, as was done in an earlier post. The mods at EF catch flack from all sides, but we do the best we can. There are a lot of posts that offend somebody.

You include Glenn Viklund as a "good researcher." Are you aware that he is a lone nutter? I assure you that I wouldn't want to ban you, or Albert, or Charles, or any other poster here you can think of. I do object when nasty personal attacks that go over the line are posted, but it's difficult to distinguish that from the general unpleasant tone of too many regular posters.

At this point, there isn't very much to like about the research community. Difficult personalities, bombastic egos, intolerance and arrogance seem to be everywhere. I've given up on ever getting any decent number of people to coalesce together behind the general premise that Oswald didn't do it. But despite it all, I remain utterly engrossed in this subject.

My bad with Mr V. lol I hardly think it takes away from EF entertaining a horde of the most inane cretins in JFK history.