From: John Smith I on Thurs, Jan 4 2007 4:54 pm

wrote:
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Len:

To me, in my personal opinion, my personal "take on things", what I
believe, what I "feel":

N2EY is a legend in his own mind. To me, he is a petty individual who
is totally self-serving, controlling and disgusting--if he has a wife--I
pity her ... time and time again, here, all I have ever seen him do is
attempt to push his ideas and wants upon others--even to the point of
being belligerently self-serving!

But, this is only my personal opinion ...

My take is that the morsemen in here have some of the
thinest skin of all humankind. Not just Miccolis, but
Heil, Kelly, Wince Ficus (aka "Slow Code"), and a host
of other old-style morsemen, some of whom have gone
beyond to that great code room "up above."

Add to that a large measure of smug arrogance in
older days...days when they felt that morse code
testing would "never" go away...and morse code skill
is the epitome, the most important skill any amateur
could have...and the morsemen RULE hamdom.

I have to agree with you on the extreme pettiness
Miccolis has exhibited. In trying to salve his
personal word wounds (received in opinion "battle")
he goes to extremes in petty-pointing EXACT WORDS
on quotes with DEMANDS that all his challengers
bring back old, old areguments to "prove" he never
said what he said. The rationales are over the top.

The pettiness gets over the top when he INSISTS on
arguing subjects that are almost 8 years old (such
as my Reply to Comments on NPRM 98-143 which the
FCC marked as received in January 1999). It is over
the top when he implies my moral-ethical 'wrongness'
on not "carrying out my 'promise' to go for extra-
out-of-the-box in 2000." His world doesn't allow
anyone to change their mind...EVER! :-(

However, to even remotely disagree with these
Mighty Macho Morsemen is to invoke much wasted
bandwidth of beligerant, accusatory "charges" of
impropriety and "wrongness" of a personal nature,
all of which are designed and manufactured to
belittle, demean, and generally say nasty to all
NCTAs. Who needs that? Is that what US amateur
radio is "all about?" Fuggem I say.

LA