On Apr 23, 11:14 am, "jeremy.p.spin...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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<jeremy.p.spin...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Sam,
>
> You have real issues to deal with involving impersonation. The issue
> of what kind of a parent anyone is has absolutely no relevance to the
> case. Look at it this way.
>
> If the fake Sam Sloan posts were by Truong, everyone seems to be in
> agreement that he must resign, no matter what goes on within the
> family.
>
> If the fake Sam Sloan posts were not by Truong, nobody would sup****t
> an investigation into the family to determine what happens within the
> family.
>
> Why do you fritter away the op****tunity to take the high moral ground,
> and bring in something which will only be a distraction taking
> attention from the real issue?
>
> I think that it is absurd to justify this on the basis of posing a
> danger as a chess coach. I believe lots of children have been coached
> by Polgar, and there have been no incidents. I would have no problem
> sending my own children for such coaching, even though I believe that
> Truong made the fake Sam Sloan posts.
>
> Try to stay focused on the real issue; it will be good for the case,
> for your image, and is the morally correct thing to do.
>
> Jerry Spinrad
I am sorry but you have not addressed Oldtimer's basic point, which is
censor****p.
If you, with full knowledge of the facts, decide that you want to have
your children trained in chess by Paul Truong and you have no problem
with this, then you have every right to chose him as your chess coach.
However, suppose that you did not know about this court order
prohibiting him from being left alone with Susan Polgar's children and
suppose that the reason that you did not about it because the board
has imposed censor****p by appointing known Polgaristas Truong and
Sawmiller as moderators.
Now, let us say that something unfortunate happens. Would you not
expect for the USCF to be sued for keeping this information secret
through the moderators?
Let us take a real case: Last year one of the most prominent chess
coaches and a famous author and teacher of chess was convicted of
child molestation and sentenced to long years in prison.
About three years ago a USCF delegate and state chess association
president was convicted of rape and kidnapping and sentenced to 20
years in prison.
Then there was another chess teacher who last year was convicted of
***** with all his daughters.
The USCF has 86,000 members. Naturally, with such a large member****p,
a certain percentage will get in trouble with the law. Nobody is
blaming the USCF for these incidents.
However, in the first case above, the chess coach in question had been
arrested for doing exactly the same thing in another state years
earlier. The jury had found him not guilty. That is why he was free to
do it again. This time he did not get away.
Now, suppose that in that case the reason the chess playing public had
not known was solely because the USCF Executive Board had imposed
censor****p, saying that nothing bad could be said about that person.
Do not you think that the children molested by that chess coach would
have sued the USCF?
That is the reason why the censor****p being imposed on the USCF Issues
Forum under which nobody is allowed to say anything of a negative
nature about Polgar, Truong or any other board member is a recipe for
disaster.
Sam Sloan
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