The Simkin Spectacle

[Peter Lemkin]

So, it wasn't the bandwidth.
Sad that he sees Gary's very reasonable comments as abusive. I also thought Tom Scully was a decent person and a good researcher over there.
I hope people remember to download the good threads unless they all go the way of Peter's deleted posts... there is some good stuff there...

Disagreement in John's eyes is betrayal. That was always the whole problem with his style of moderation.

Despite our past disagreements, this is a real pity. I hope he preserves - or allows others to preserve - the JFK folder online.

On a brighter note Len and Evan are out of a job. :peace:

I haven't followed more than the little that was posted here on this and one other thread the 'goings on' lately at the EF. Yes, there is much good information there and a few outstanding researchers and followers of the JFK Assassination who post [or have posted there in the past] -along with some flotsam and jetsam - and a hefty dash of disinfo types.

I hope John Simkin is not so anti-historical to delete it, even if he is throwing in the towel. Again, I don't know what the issues at hand were in any detail, but it seems he can't take criticism - nor would he allow the moderators to moderate [or come to some solution with him in private and get a consensus on the Forum publicly]. Someone pointed out how John seemed to change with the death of his wife - and having lost many dear ones, on that I can sympathize and, in part, understand how it can make one 'brittle'. Not an excuse, but perhaps part of the explanation. I should be angry at John, as he pushed the button making all of my 8,500 posts disappear, after Walker had made the ones against him disappear while John was attending his wife's funeral. I am, and that he refused to discuss re-instating me and my posts. [once decided upon in the affirmative, but for reasons unknown never made to happen]. I just hope that more damage to history is not attempted or carried out. It would be antithetical to the stated purposes of the Forum. There is nothing 'educational' about making people's thoughts, musings, research, sweat and tears on history vanish. If John can't 'hack it' why doesn't he let someone else take that part over and spin it off onto another website....likely one word would answer that: ego.

Well, a lot of people are going to want and need a new Forum or forums.....perhaps some better ones will drift this-a-way.....

Is he closing down the all but defunct other parts of 'Controversial issues in History'?

To everything there is a season....turn, turn, turn.......