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"Personal Rapid Transit" PRT Extremists
07.25.05 (10:29 am)   [edit]
A person with the pseudonym "PRT_Mafia" has left some very nasty anti-muslim and anti-transit comments on the last post. http://www.tblog.com/template...

Sadly, some PRTers have accused me of being the author or knowing the author of those comments.

For the record, I am not PRT_Mafia, I do not know who PRT_Mafia is and I do not share PRT_Mafia's anti-muslim opinions.

If it is the case that some anti-PRT person is posing as PRT_Mafia to discredit PRT, I ask that person to stop at once. There is plenty of evidence on the web to show how nasty PRTers are without inventing new stuff.

For example, a PRTer named Ryan Kennedy posted this message on the Seattle PRT Yahoo List
http://groups.yahoo.com/group...

"In a just world, Rotkin would be tied to an iceberg and penguins
would peak(sic) at his genitals hours at a time."


The same Ryan Kennedy posted the following comment on another PRT Yahoo site (now closed to non-members):

"... heh... I like "bullets". As Ed Anderson said, it's a disruptive
technology. It's going to upset a lot of apple carts. Bullets are
pretty disruptive too... Not peace but the sword." http://www.roadkillbill.com/P...

Far from putting some distance between this extreme fellow and their organization, the CPRT instead gave Ryan Kennedy a page on their website http://www.cprt.org/Alaska/de...

"PRT supporter Ryan Kennedy has produced some maps of potential systems in Anchorage and Fairbanks, Alaska." http://www.cprt.org/default.h...

What do you expect of folks who ally themselves with extreme right-wingers like Michele Bachmann.

What do you expect from people who are fond of saying "People don't like to ride with strangers."?

Learn more about PRT at the PRT is a Joke web site.






 


posted by: David Gow (reply)
post date: 07.25.05 (11:09 am)

Ken:

One would have thought you would have jumped on the outrageous "PRT_Mafia" comment immediately-- 'Aha! Yet more evidence I can use against the evil PRT empire!'

But when Mildly Amused and I showed up-- 60 hours or so later-- your only comment was along the lines of "Tsk Tsk, Those PRTers Sure Are Nasty"?

A 60 Hour Gap, and suddenly you find your outrage. Forgive me if I have doubts.



posted by: Duluth Don (reply)
post date: 07.25.05 (11:49 am)

Penguin flippancy, concern about transporation fatalaties, and bullet analogies are on the same level as bigotry & religous intolerance? Only in this blog.



posted by: PRTskeptic (reply)
post date: 07.25.05 (12:18 pm)

Reply to: David Gow

If you and I lived in England I could sue you for slander and defamation and I'd win.

It's no wonder that you refused to debate me on a pod-cast when you were offered the chance... your voice most likely carries all the tell-tale inflections of a raving crack-pot.

Mr. Gow, you are welcome to comment all you want on this blog however, I will no longer respond to your ridiculous, insulting and now slanderous comments... and that goes for others who insult or slander me.



posted by: DavidGow (reply)
post date: 07.25.05 (1:34 pm)

Reply to: PRTskeptic

Slanderous? I think you mean "libelous". Slander pertains to spoken words, while libel covers "fixed" media such as print. Oh, there I go correcting you again...

Here's an example of something that could be construed as libel: "your voice most likely carries all the tell-tale inflections of a raving crack-pot." Does that clear things up?

Above all, don't forget the parody exception. For instance, when you put Michele Bachman's head on other people's bodies, that's parody. Tasteless, but not libelous.

As a cartoonist, one would think you would already be familiar with these concepts.

But I am nothing if not helpful. So from now on when writing in this blog I will note all Parody and Other Humorous Communication with a ::P::

Thanks, and good luck in your future endeavors.

PS, ::P:: Are you the first person to place a gag order on oneself? Call the people at the Guinness Book, or Ripley's.



posted by: DavidGow (reply)
post date: 07.25.05 (1:38 pm)

Reply to: PRTskeptic

Slanderous? I think you mean "libelous". Slander pertains to spoken words, while libel covers "fixed" media such as print. Oh, there I go correcting you again...

Here's an example of something that could be construed as libel: "your voice most likely carries all the tell-tale inflections of a raving crack-pot." Does that clear things up?

Above all, don't forget the parody exception. For instance, when you put Michele Bachman's head on other people's bodies, that's parody. Tasteless, but not libelous.

As a cartoonist, one would think you would already be familiar with these concepts.

But I am nothing if not helpful. So from now on when writing in this blog I will note all Parody and Other Humorous Communication with a ::P::

Thanks, and good luck in your future endeavors.

PS, ::P:: Are you the first person to place a gag order on oneself? Call the people at the Guinness Book, or Ripley's.



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