Threat to BitTorrent

**NA_Magus** · 08-02-2008, 12:38 AM

Originally Posted by Guest24

Winston Churchill said the only difference between war and politics, is that when politics is involved, you may die many deaths.
This is the nature of those who choose to take the path of leadership. Your only duty is to protect those who follow you.
Sometimes that protection means utterly giving yourself to cause.

In recent days you have seen a small but very vocal and very irate group of folks attempt to bring this site down.
I have allowed them their say. I believe in the rights of those in the minority to be able to speak, even if I would disagree
with every point of contention made. The right is superior to the content.

But, alas, when a mob reaches a certain crescendo the lines are crossed and there is no turning back. The same is true when a
leader becomes more the element of the mob than do the issues themselves.
This is the risk, and the duty of a leader. To protect the vision, even at the ultimate cost. And that is my commitment and my action.
When a mob cannot by reason assail the substance, they assail the messenger. The messenger is always the expendable one, without regard to title or privilege.

Effective yesterday, Mactus became Caesar. So long as the issue is “Rachel, Rachel, Rachel”, the voice of reason is unheard and invisible.
So I have resigned to take that issue away from the mob, and return the topic to reason and reason alone, detached from the cult of personality.

I leave this community in good and trusted hands. I will always be available for personal contact, it is not like I am hard to find.

Rachel Faith

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Wow when the hell did the internet get so f-cking serious?

**Squizzle** · 08-02-2008, 01:06 AM

Originally Posted by Guest24

Winston Churchill said the only difference between war and politics, is that when politics is involved, you may die many deaths.
This is the nature of those who choose to take the path of leadership. Your only duty is to protect those who follow you.
Sometimes that protection means utterly giving yourself to cause.

In recent days you have seen a small but very vocal and very irate group of folks attempt to bring this site down.
I have allowed them their say. I believe in the rights of those in the minority to be able to speak, even if I would disagree
with every point of contention made. The right is superior to the content.

But, alas, when a mob reaches a certain crescendo the lines are crossed and there is no turning back. The same is true when a
leader becomes more the element of the mob than do the issues themselves.
This is the risk, and the duty of a leader. To protect the vision, even at the ultimate cost. And that is my commitment and my action.
When a mob cannot by reason assail the substance, they assail the messenger. The messenger is always the expendable one, without regard to title or privilege.

Effective yesterday, Mactus became Caesar. So long as the issue is “Rachel, Rachel, Rachel”, the voice of reason is unheard and invisible.
So I have resigned to take that issue away from the mob, and return the topic to reason and reason alone, detached from the cult of personality.

I leave this community in good and trusted hands. I will always be available for personal contact, it is not like I am hard to find.

Rachel Faith

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I loved reading that

What a dickhead

Can't imagine what the hell's going on in that poor woman's head, even after being pwnd from every angle and muscled out in a humiliating stepdown she's making full-blown speeches and likening herself to Winston Churchill

Love it

**kooftspc11** · 08-02-2008, 01:51 AM

she looks like winston churchill too

**Artemis** · 08-02-2008, 02:12 AM

Maybe she should have likened herself to winnie earlier and brought a rallying cry squizzle ?

" We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France and on the seas and oceans; we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall never surrender and even if, which I do not for the moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the struggle until in God's good time the New World with all its power and might, sets forth to the liberation and rescue of the Old. ."

or is that just too fucking OTT