Of sophists and Shit bags.
LB. - “If you instead write down what you have to say about the CASA officers you've named and submit that to the Committee and the Committee publishes your submission before any proposed webcast, the content will attract privilege and be 'out there'. But beware: You're starting a verbal street-fight with some of the best sophists in the game”.
Sage advice Glen; we all understand your stance and have every sympathy for it – but LB is bang on the money. Perhaps you could 'do' the webcast; send a recording through before AOPA broadcast it – couple of days more– makes no odds at this stage; BUT you do need all the protection you can gather. The Secretariat are remarkably helpful and efficient - make the call - please........ FWIW, let me try to explain.
IMO - You come from the Marquis of Queensbury school of hard knocks – with rules; and have only had a brief encounter with 'the beast'. You have not as yet seen the fangs and claws of whole thing – many of us have. There is no depth to which they will not stoop to protect themselves; the rules are simply ignored or, worse yet, the rules built in to protect – under law – are so flexible that they can be cut and shaped to suit any argument you can mount. In what “K” refers to as the 'Bankstown Chronicles' there are a dozen tales which are truly (I mean really) scary. We keep hoping for an inquiry with some hope of achieving 'something' (a cat in Hell's chance would do) where the stories can be heard and justice will be done. Been a long wait. I digress.
If you've never been a 'street-fighter' or been in a brawl or two then you have no idea of the violence and savagery involved; not the gentile pushing and shoving of the schoolyard days, but the real deal. Bottles, bricks, baseball bats, knives, boots and at least two to one; bare knuckles and blood; stitches and hospital waiting rooms are the least of it. A good hiding leaves deep scars in the mind – unless you are the one dishing it out. When push comes to shove – you will be standing alone, at the end of a dark blind alley facing a crew of hardened thugs. Take every opportunity to protect yourself from harm – 'privilege' of the parliamentary kind will remove some of the iron bars and knuckle dusters and you will not be standing alone.
Get Ben to do the 'show' – send it off to the Senate – then put it to air. That will do more 'behind the scenes' damage than you stood alone facing the beast with a dustbin lid for protection and a wet noodle to beat off the inevitable attack.
Sophist - a paid teacher of philosophy and rhetoric in Greece in the Classical and Hellenistic periods, associated in popular thought with moral scepticism and specious reasoning.
a person who reasons with clever but false arguments.
Ring any bells? It should. That is my two bob, spent as pleased me best.
LB. - “If you instead write down what you have to say about the CASA officers you've named and submit that to the Committee and the Committee publishes your submission before any proposed webcast, the content will attract privilege and be 'out there'. But beware: You're starting a verbal street-fight with some of the best sophists in the game”.
Sage advice Glen; we all understand your stance and have every sympathy for it – but LB is bang on the money. Perhaps you could 'do' the webcast; send a recording through before AOPA broadcast it – couple of days more– makes no odds at this stage; BUT you do need all the protection you can gather. The Secretariat are remarkably helpful and efficient - make the call - please........ FWIW, let me try to explain.
IMO - You come from the Marquis of Queensbury school of hard knocks – with rules; and have only had a brief encounter with 'the beast'. You have not as yet seen the fangs and claws of whole thing – many of us have. There is no depth to which they will not stoop to protect themselves; the rules are simply ignored or, worse yet, the rules built in to protect – under law – are so flexible that they can be cut and shaped to suit any argument you can mount. In what “K” refers to as the 'Bankstown Chronicles' there are a dozen tales which are truly (I mean really) scary. We keep hoping for an inquiry with some hope of achieving 'something' (a cat in Hell's chance would do) where the stories can be heard and justice will be done. Been a long wait. I digress.
If you've never been a 'street-fighter' or been in a brawl or two then you have no idea of the violence and savagery involved; not the gentile pushing and shoving of the schoolyard days, but the real deal. Bottles, bricks, baseball bats, knives, boots and at least two to one; bare knuckles and blood; stitches and hospital waiting rooms are the least of it. A good hiding leaves deep scars in the mind – unless you are the one dishing it out. When push comes to shove – you will be standing alone, at the end of a dark blind alley facing a crew of hardened thugs. Take every opportunity to protect yourself from harm – 'privilege' of the parliamentary kind will remove some of the iron bars and knuckle dusters and you will not be standing alone.
Get Ben to do the 'show' – send it off to the Senate – then put it to air. That will do more 'behind the scenes' damage than you stood alone facing the beast with a dustbin lid for protection and a wet noodle to beat off the inevitable attack.
Sophist - a paid teacher of philosophy and rhetoric in Greece in the Classical and Hellenistic periods, associated in popular thought with moral scepticism and specious reasoning.
a person who reasons with clever but false arguments.
Ring any bells? It should. That is my two bob, spent as pleased me best.