-> MG> As mellow as Earl is it's a wonder that anyone ever gets
-> vacations from MG> here. :)  Although when someone does get one they
-> are surely deserving it.

-> He booted Klahn for... well being Klahn.

"Being Klahn" encompasses a number of faults.  Most of those faults
weren't against the rules.  The fault of hypocrisy was.

For years he has been insisting that he doesn't want to ever flame
anyone.  He only flames when he is forced to, he said.  That
demonstrated his faults of not telling the truth, and of not taking
responsibility for his own actions.

Last fall, though, he went on a binge of criticizing people for flames.
At the SAME TIME he went on a binge of flaming.  Ross C. pointed out his
hypocrisy, but he didn't grasp the point Ross made.  So I created the
rule that moderators have to follow THEIR OWN RULES as well as mine when
in this echo.  Ross followed the rule.  Roger followed the rule,
possibly without knowing about it, just because he is a nice guy.  I was
going to leave it in place for a few months to see if Klahn could bring
himself to follow his own rules.  But I didn't fully appreciate how
unstable Klahn really is.  He gave Sauer two weeks for saying "lie,"
even though he violated that same rule here repeatedly.  When he got the
same two weeks, he became totally unhinged.  He banned me from his echo,
he violated his own suspension three times, he went ranting to sysops in
an effort to get them to drop the echo, and he made one of the most
pathetically stupid threats of a lawsuit that I have ever heard.  It is
so sad to see an over-grown man cry.  And he hasn't come to his senses
yet.

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