-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Nomen wrote:

Rather than make accusations about other people, why not eliminate the middleman and make accusations about yourself? End your hypocrisy. Say, "I may be sucking up to law enforcement agencies. I may be recording people's browsing habits and supplying them to interested parties, with appropriate compensation. I am not deserving of trust, in fact I may be concealing betrayal.

I don't have a problem with this at all: a symmetric lack of trust the most honest basis for a relationship there is. Wouldn't you rather associate with sharp-witted people who are on the ball than gullible quibblers fretting over at what point they get to suspend their critical faculties and give you a free pass in the name of comraderie? Trust is overrated. Anyone who asks for it without earning it is either a fool or a huckster. Either way, asking for it is a sure sign it shouldn't be given. Where do you imagine the term "confidence artist" came from, anyway.

Nothing I have done in the past should be interpreted in any way to assume that I will not change in the future and begin selling out my friends and those who rely on me." You believe that this is the attitude we should take towards you, don't you? Why not come forward and say it. If you don't think we should trust you, say so. If you don't think you deserve our trust, admit it.

So be it: Whatever I have to say about it is quite irrelevant--it shouldn't be my place to do your thinking for you. What you do trumps what you say every time, so it's really a non-issue. If you don't know enough about what I do to decide for yourself, what possible difference could my reassuring you what a good little girl I really am make. So no, I don't want your blind trust at all.

You don't need to search out other people's flaws when your own are so much closer at hand.

Where's the flaw in saying trust should be more than an empty word. ~Faustine. *** The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms. - --William O. Douglas, Associate Justice, US Supreme Court -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 (C) 1997-1999 Network Associates, Inc. and its affiliated companies. (Diffie-Helman/DSS-only version) iQA/AwUBPAP/lvg5Tuca7bfvEQKmpACgsd/w68mGGcmQbxSt0R5tlCV9IZEAn2xT VC68ga3/VMWQFpTQ6v1RUcnZ =KJYg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----