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I'm not taking aim at you or anyone in particular. You are not the only one that apparently found fault with Red's posting about the incident that happened at the JR Challenge event. I'm seriously interested in the answer, and will be grateful to anyone that provides an answer. Diversion of the discussion to Red's part in bringing it to our attention has me baffled. This was a very public event, put on by people whose primary motive was publicity, as was the motive of the individual that is getting publicity, a public figure seeking to increase his stature among the public. Accounts of witnesses spread like wildfire to a lot of public places. His bad judgment resulted in adverse publicity, one-eight-zero out from what the key players wanted, so restrospectively it seems a lot of people want it hushed up; the publicity they set up themselves is no longer welcome. Well, try as they might, this genie isn't going back into the bottle. It's argued that he's a nice young man and we shouldn't embarass him and that demands that he be judged in 'closed executive session' per due process by the AMA EC, and it isn't any concern of other modelers. Hell No! It demands the kind of outrage that Horrace expressed. IMO, and I'm not going to be H about this, anybody that loves our hobby/sport and is not moved to being judgmental and outraged by this incident needs to back off on his dosing of Vallium.
Anybody else tells me to shut up about it is going get a strongly worded reply.
Heads up Green Beret, I might break from PC restraints here when/if this topic arises again.

Abel