(Thanks, el. :)

(Yes,of course I read it before posting. What I saw, however, is opinion, not libel. Same for your message, here. Your remark about "long-respected authors experience their decline" might have led me to decline to post your message - I consider it tacky and wrong-headed, but not libelous, just your opinion.)

Reader el writes:

Hobie, this is the second time this year that I have witnessed Anna's libelous rhetoric go unchallenged on this forum, and I am baffled as to why this is allowed to be published on RMN. At what point is the publisher held accountable for allowing this ever-increasing unhinged and unchecked by anyone who has verified or even reviewed her libelous claims ...and she's only getting worse.

Did you even READ this one before you posted it? For pity sake, why is she allowed to continue publishing on this platform? It's completely irresponsible for her to be putting that kind of nonsense out there.

Earlier this year she blew off Robert David Steele (RIP) in much the same irrational tirade that she's just published for the unfortunate former member of the California group. There's something not quite right about Anna's reaction to people who color outside her prescribed lines in these endeavors. In some circles that behavior would be termed a disorder.

Robert never really recovered from the shock of her completely unhinged reaction to his invitation to have the states' Assemblies join him as he came through with his Arise tour. It was shattering and demoralizing, and completely unwarranted. I unsubscribed from her the moment I read it and disconnected from my formerly-expressed interest in what she was researching and writing about.

There's nothing sustainable about any of it, any more than those groups you hear about that spend their lives re-creating old Civil War battlefields with passion and ferver, and one just has to ask - yeah, but why?

Anna Von Reitz does not have a corner on whatever was intended in 1776 when our Founders started this great nation, nor does she have the capacity to form alliances with others of similar but perhaps varying ideas about how things could work today. The implosion of her movement starting with Texas and California, only the two largest states, was and is inevitable. There's nothing sustainable about it.

Just because Anna discovered some historical anomalies and is working to correct the historical record, does NOT mean that she is in any way qualified or even has the capacity to lead a nation of volunteer Assembly members looking for donations from among themselves to buy guns for their volunteer militia. One has to ask - yeah, but why?

Yes, it is sad when long-respected authors experience their decline and no one is around to rein them in when they wander off into irrelevancy, and they have to do it all so publicly because they've been public for a long, long time.

That does not change the responsibility of the publisher to be more discerning when libelous commentary like this one today is expected to pass muster just because no one is paying attention when she's going off the rails.

Now is the time, this New Moon, to let go of all that no longer serves. Let us allow the recriminators still attached to the past to carry on without giving them our attention. You can do what you want, but I am resolved to never look at any more of Anna's unfiltered flights of ...whatever anymore ever again.though I've never been one to just go away quietly and wanted you to know. This one was just too over the top for me to stay quiet anymore.

el

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