Gxeremio Dimsum wrote:
[quote:33v9tile]I found you kind, accomodating, reasonable, and even humorous during the hours we chatted. During the conversation, and at the end of it, your main point was the importance of avoiding ad hominem attacks.[/quote:33v9tile]
Thank you for the kind words. Did you give any thought as to what, according to you, might have made me change my attitude so drastically?
It is not the fact that others disagree with me that I have a problem with. In fact, based on your testimony, I am quite comfortable with open debate and disagreement.
But when private discussions are used against me for public purposes;
When ex post facto requirements are invented whole-sale in order to prevent by any means possible for our democratically-legitimated system to come into force;
When my name is explicitly mentioned to justify such procedural coups-de-main;
When I am specifically told that our legal system will never be given a chance to be put into practice;
When I am personally attacked exactly because I find it utterly beyond the pale to use procedural means in order to prevent our legal system from ever having the opportunity to prove itself;
When others join in and raise the level of personal attacks against me by putting in question my integrity and motivation in applying for a judgeship position;
When I am asked rhetorical questions designed to (en)frame me as a self-serving seeker of personal gratifications;
And when my forum status is demoted by the very same person proffering such insinuations because I have the temerity to stand up to him and expose him for what he truly is;
Do you then expect me to lie down and be meek and quiet and let others walk all over the very values, principles and ideals our community is based on?
Not me. Not now. Not ever.