[Normally a Lurker]

I suggest that you cease stalking me with such insults apparently trying (along with a few of your co-horts) to goad me into further inappropriate exchanges.

Or, keep digging, if you prefer.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

How am I staking you if you keep posting a new vanity thread every hour. I have a right to respond to any thread here. Show me how I have stalked you. You call me names, post idiotic statemnts about me , and then run away. Only in this case you have reported me to Jim Robinson and now are calling me a stalker.

Why do you keep posting new threads ,on every thought that comes into your mind ,if you don't want people to discuss your thoughts. You put them out here for everyone to see. I am merely exercising my rights. Stalking is something else. But again you are a liar. I am not now, nor have I ever stalked you.

[Avoiding_Sulla]

Or, keep digging, if you prefer.

Seeing as how you introduced yourself to the save-the-life-of-Terri stalwarts on October 25 (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1007877/posts?page=63#63) with the following judgmental characterization:
"It seems that many here take great delight in trying to sustain Terri Schiavo's misery.
I applaud you wishing to stop your own digging.

It would also be nice if you answered those outstanding questions (3 days and counting) so that those you've apologized to (as well as your new friends here) can see your answers. I realize they are not softball questions. But someone's life is at stake. Your speaking for the death-for-Terri crowd has demonstrated their position well, and has helped us a great deal to anticipate their next moves.

That you now want to plead the fifth amendment is understandable too. You really can't know whether or not Michael Schiavo is guilty of the various things the mounting evidence suggests.

Your continued evasion to answering those outstanding questions suggests they are unanswerable. So, thanks for that insight too. You have done so very well that I think we all owe you a debt of gratitude for your performance.

And thank you for your apology. If I've seemed unduly harsh in the past, it was primarily because I had to play my part every bit as much as you played yours. I was offended (as were many) by your innuendoes and direct slurs (like that quoted above). As to your evasions of difficult questions, you answered somewhat after not too much pressure, but didn't answer follow up questions nor the remaining outstanding questions.

You took on a very unpopular advocacy. I tried to get others to recognize (you know this to be factual, starting with http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1007877/posts?page=200 and at 206) that someone had to do it or there would have been no discussion, no real learning of the thinking and tactics of the side you represented.

Honestly, I think you did a pretty good job under the pressure and under the circumstances. I pray that you are as good a person as was your performance of (IMHO) the dark side of this matter.

So, please fellow FReepers, accept Normally a Lurker's apology -- he really hasn't been as bad as some have been and will continue to be -- and forgive him for arguing in the manner of the side we disagree with and even immensely dislike with prejudice.

Avoiding Sulla