Bob Klahn has decided that he will no longer participate in this echo. 
Given the number of times that his shallow thinking, dishonesty, and
childishness have been exposed here, perhaps he made the right decision.

But instead of preserving some sense of honor and integrity by simply
leaving, he has chosen the cowardly approach of intentionally and
repeatedly violating the rules and getting himself banned.  This will allow
him to pretend that he was a martyr who was persecuted.  Wilson may even
buy that line, but no one else will.

Regulars will notice that this is an old Klahn standard strategy.  He
doesn't accept responsibility for his own actions.  He likes to pretend
that his actions are "forced" upon him.  You may remember his old line that
he NEVER WANTS to flame anyone, but sometimes they FORCE him to flame them.
 In his mind, Bob sees himself as easily pushed around, easily bullied, and
easily forced to do things that he doesn't want to do.  There are clear
childhood issues there.

Klahn wants to be banned.  Klahn is now banned from this echo.  Everyone
else here is free to discuss him and to respond in this echo to posts he
makes in the DEBATE echo or any other echo, as long as your comments follow
the rules of the echo: no threats and no actionable defamation.  He has
several available avenues of response to what you say here, including his
own echo.

On 1/24/2009 10:58 AM, bob klahn wrote to EARL CROASMUN:

~>  EC> Take a two week vacation from the echo.  Over the last
~>  EC> several months you have violated the rules of your echo
~>  EC> repeatedly.  And now you have hypocritically acted against
~>  EC> Otto for using the word "lie" in a post, even though you
~>  EC> have done the same here.  It is sad that you cannot follow
~>  EC> your own rules, but you had ample warnings.  Feel free to
~>  EC> use CROSSFIRE, MATZDOBRE, or DEBATE to continue your end of
~>  EC> threads, but do not post in this echo prior to Feb. 7.
 
~>  Because of your absurd insistance on trying to enforce my echo
~>  rules in your echo against me I had to write a rule in my echo
~>  against echo sabatoge.
 
~>  This is going to be difficult, because you have just committed
~>  echo sabatoge.

He "had to."  It is "difficult."  Classic victimology. 
Poor Bob!  He
thinks that FOLLOWING the rules of his echo somehow SABOTAGES his echo! 
All he had to do was follow his own rules, and he just COULD NOT DO IT!
 
~>  You are banned from the Debate echo until you abandon this
~>  blatant attempt to sabatoge my echo.

Oh no!  Not that!  Will he also ban me from MENSA, where he sits and talks
to himself?
 
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