Originally Posted by
Hydro Junkie
NO, NO, NO, YOU HAVE IT ALL WRONG!!!!!!!!
The spineless, dirt eating wanna be Canadian isn't the face of anything. His only reason for coming into the forum is to try and raise hate, tension and aggression between the rest of us. The problem is this piece of "fishbait" isn't a Canadian at all. I have friends that are Canadians and, unlike this wanna be, they have class and integrity, two things he will never have. The only question I have at this point is how long will it take before the AMA "Yay-Sayers" figure out he's not worth the time or they stop paying the AMA for the big nothing the AMA gives them for their hard earned money?
Hydro my Friend, I know I've said this before but I'm gonna say it again, Dennis can only continue antagonizing the board when people react to his provocations. Which you have just done. Now just so you know I'm not scolding you here, I fully well realize how easy it can be to get baited into just the kind of exchange you and he are presently engaged in, but at some point wouldn't it be best to simply ignore him and let his posts wither and die for lack of attention? A couple of days ago I practiced this very thing, totally ignoring an earlier post because I felt it had a trolling component that I simply wasn't gonna allow myself to react to and get all spun up over. The greatest majority of "rhklenke" 's post was respectful and I'd have replied to it (he did quote one of my posts and asked me a question) except for the "With it's plethora of expert naysayers" nonsense taunt he felt the need to include, when I saw that I automatically knew that there was not going to be any kinds of common middle ground found between he and I and so I simply ignored him and happily went about my day unperturbed by this forum's ongoing animosity.
And my last statement here will be to rhklenke;
Bob, the place I occupy here, to some I'm an "AMA Hater", and to others I'm "5 digit AMA nobility", Is the place of one whose been an AMA member for better than 50 years and would like to see the AMA continue for at least 50 more (even though I'll be lucky to see even 10 more years myself). When someone like Franklin comes in here with what appears to be very well researched & presented data showing a precarious decline in our organization's finances you can bet your ass I'm gonna want to see either that data itself proven wrong, or if it can't be proven wrong I want major lifesaving changes to our organization to at least attempt to remain fiscally sound. Instead, what I get is to see Franklin himself get attacked and each and
EVERY thread here devolve into a petty "us VS them" that in all reality paints all of us AMA members in the worst possible light to anybody from the public new to the hobby who happens to find this forum in their on line searches.
And so, my challenge to the board stands, can ANYONE provide ANY factual counter to Franklin's DATA, If so I'd sure as Hell like to see it !!!!!!!!