The Freeman Chronicles

BTP National Committee At-Large Member Neil Kiernan Stephenson, in a response to former BTP National Chairman Jim Davidson’s comments about him, decides to take a number of potshots aimed at him.

Here’s the entire message in great detail:

I already apologized to everyone else in the party Jim. I have no
interest in apologizing to you as I don’t regret anything I said to
you. And I stand by my decision. Please don’t insult everyone’s
intelligience by trying to claim that you are somehow now the “good
guy”. It’s a little late in the game for you to suddenly be the
“angel”. You started all of this. And you continued to keep it going.
Your apology was crap. Your behavior afterward clearly showed your
true character.

Let me fix something for you:

Jim Davidson is a tyrannical little jerk. He goes on and on about the
same things without every stopping. He has no courtesy where it comes
to his own misconduct. No doubt he cannot even see his continuing
rudeness as any sort of misconduct.

Fixed.

You went on for WEEKS telling everyone who asked you to stop being a
troll to fuck off, and that they were not the boss of you and all
kinds of other garbage. Have you seriously deluded yourself into
suddenly forgetting that the reason that things are the way they are
right now is because you refused my initial offer of you simply not
talking to me anymore?

Are you forgetting suddenly that you are the one who brought our
personal feud to this list? And to the various blogs?

Have you ever thought of how different things would of been if you had
just left me alone the first time I told you to stop emailing me?
Rather then insisting to make this suddenly a huge party affair, and
attaching all kinds of rampant lies and conspiracy theories to it?

Jim, I am no coward. It’s funny that you whine about me supposedly
“threatening you” on one hand and talk about how wrong of me it was to
threaten you with violence, then on the other try to act like I am not
“man enough” to be violent with you. As if now there is something
wrong with me because I won’t punch you in the nose? So which is it?
Do I punch you in the nose or not?

And lets not forget, I am going to have my mother beat you up
remember? That “ugly threat of violence.”

Also, me refusing to apologize to you has ZERO to do with courage. It
has everything to do with integrity. I will not give you a false
apology. I still fully feel you want this party to revolve around you.
And that you are a total troll who takes out his rage at the
establishment on anyone who happens to disagree with him. As you put
in your mock apology, you are widely disliked in the party and in the
Libertarian movement. This is why.

You haven’t tried to build any bridges. You made it clear to people in
the party that you would not rest until I was out of the party. All
the while insisting that it was me who was trying to drive you out of
the party. Your constant lies and bullshit allegations make it
impossible for me to “build a bridge” with you. Because I find people
who engage in that to be despicable. And now your hoping that if you
try to pretend to be the better man that suddenly everyone is just
going to forget who instigated all of this? I remind you I didn’t even
use this forum until someone on the national level asked me to address
your “concerns” which was a laundry lists of contrived allegations and
outright lies. Made by you and Todd.

In addition, I would also point out that when I would go for a couple
weeks without posting anything, then finally did you just HAD to make
a negative comment. This is what brought about another one of your
“WWAAAAHHH!!!! YOUR NOT THE BOSS OF ME!” speeches when someone pointed
our that you were being a troll.

I refuse to apologize to you for reacting to YOUR extremely rude
behavior by telling you exactly what many people and myself feel about
you. Period. Stop asking. Your never going to get it. I am not a
coward as there is nothing to be “afraid” of. I would say the cowardly
thing would be for me to give a false apology to appease people. It is
ludicrous to imply that I should apologize to you for firing BACK at
you for the lame things you said. You absolutely deserved it.

I also refuse to be “ordered” or “pressured” into making peace with
you. If people think I am a bad member of this party for choosing who
I will and will not communicate with based on their treatment of me, I
think we are going to have a serious contradiction in our principles.
I don’t need to be Jim Davidson’s friend to do my duties as a member
of this party or the position I was elected to.

Here is what I will offer you. Which is what I asked you to do in the
first place. Stop talking to me. Stop talking about me. Stop emailing
me. Stop posting about me. And I will be happy to do the same. I would
like you to cease to exist to me and I will do the same for you. I
realized this was the best solution months ago. But when I blocked
your email and asked you to stop contacting me you decided to goad me
out to fight with you on the blogs and here.

You want this to end? For real? Don’t respond to this post. And don’t
communicate with me or about me any further. Period. And I will never
post another peep about Jim Davidson. And please for the sake of the
party PLEASE stop jumping to conclusions, contriving lies and
conspiracy theories about every party member who dares to stand up to
you. The way you lash out with these insane accusations forces the
person to either spar with you, or allow people who don’t know better
to believe your invented bullshit is true.