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From: Ammond Shadowcraft Msg Num: 95 of 97
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To: All Date: 26 Feb 92 08:35:00
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Subj: Please consider this Disclaimer
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Attr: Read: N
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Conf: Article Echo Of The MagickNet Trio
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A Request From A Concerned Participant
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Please accept my apologies for this, but at this point I feel it
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necessary to ask for the sysop's consideration on a minor
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matter.
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WHEREAS: About a year and a half ago Tim Maroney wrote an article
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focusing on the Temple of Set's Order of the Trapezoid. In this
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article Tim Maroney attempts to justify his claim that the Temple of
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Set is fascist, and afterward in other forums, is also racist. When
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Tim Maroney wrote this particular article I gave Maroney the benefit
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of doubt and answered his article reasonably by saying that from my
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personal knowledge the ToS was neither fascist nor racist.
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Answering along with me was one Oz Tech, a III'd degree (Priestess),
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a black woman and a Knight of the Order of the Trapezoid. She
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responded along with me that from personal knowledge the Order was
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neither fascist nor racist. Some days later Dr. Michael Aquino, the
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High Priest of the Temple of Set, a minority himself, answered Tim's
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accusations by responding that the Temple of Set is not fascist (in
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fact the ToS is greatly concerned with individual rights and freedom
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of religion) and is relatively indifferent to the state. Further
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Dr. Aquino told the readers that Tim Maroney did not even extend to
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Aquino the common courtesy of letting Aquino read and comment on the
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article before Tim released it to the public.
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After eighteen months of relatively little continuing dispute the
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issue was brought up in THE_BASE_OF_SET echo whereupon I reminded
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the participants of the above facts. In this echo one Balanone, a
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high Initiate and member of the Temple of Set for over a decade,
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replied that from his personal knowledge the Temple is not fascist
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and is relatively less racist than the public at large. In point of
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fact Balanone is of Jewish heritage. I have informed the
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participants (which includes Tim Maroney) that while Tim Maroney is
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baiting the Temple via virtual (or cyberspace) defecation on Dr.
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Michael Aquino, that Dr. Aquino does not run the Temple. The Temple
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of Set is run by a duly elected Board of Directors (including women)
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of which the Head of that board is a person of minority descent--a
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Jew, and by the Priesthood (of which race is not a qualifier) at
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large. Thus Tim Maroney's allegations are proved fully wrong.
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To this date, after more than a year, Tim Maroney has neither
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offered an apology to those whose reputations he has attempted to
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damage, nor has he offered to retract his irresponsible and
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fallacious "Nazi Trapezoid" article. After watching his actions over
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the years I can only conclude that Tim Maroney is, in this
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particular matter, acting irresponsibly and/or
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obsessive/compulsively with respect to the Temple of Set.
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THEREFORE I ask the sysops to consider the idea that to continue
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to propagate an irresponsible attack upon an institution (which has
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survived federal scrutiny and personal deprivations over the years)
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would poorly serve the network and the participants of that network.
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THEREFORE I ask the sysops to consider putting a disclaimer with
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Tim Maroney's Nazi-Trapezoid article indicating something like the
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following...
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"In this article Tim Maroney alleges that the Temple of Set's
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Order of the Trapezoid is Nazi sympathetic and by extension, the
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Temple of Set is fascist. He offers as proof the fact that the
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Temple of Set's Reading List Category 14 is full of Nazi sympathetic
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works. With a few meager points Tim Maroney alleges that the Temple
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of Set is Nazi sympathetic--ie. fascist and racist.
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"Tim Maroney fails to mention that the Reading List contains a
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number of books, some written from a pro-Nazi standpoint, some
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written from anti-Nazi stand and some neutral. Tim Maroney also
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refuses to consider the fact that Dr. Aquino is a Phd. in political
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science and serves his (Aquino's) organization well by assuring the
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readers of the Reading List they have a complete view of this very
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emotional subject. Further more, four persons, Dr. Michael
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Aquino--High Priest of the Temple of Set, one Balanone--a high
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Initiate of the Temple of Set (and of Jewish descent) and member for
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over 10 years, one Oz Tech, a black Priestess (III' degree) and
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Knight of the Order of the Trapezoid, and Ammond Shadowcraft, a
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Setian I', informed Tim Maroney that from their personal experience
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*neither* the Temple of Set nor the Order of the Trapezoid is
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fascist or racist in policy or practice.
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"To this date (February 1992) after almost a year and a half,
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Tim Maroney has offered neither an apology to the Temple membership
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nor has he offered to update or retract his apparently irresponsible
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article. Therefore please be warned that this particular article is
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flawed in that the author is obviously in some adversarial
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relationship with the Temple of Set. There are two sides to this
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article. Tim presents only his side.
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"To further compound this problem Tim Maroney has uploaded the
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article on various machines on the Internet and FidoNet. Tim Maroney
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has lost control of the article and thus the Temple of Set is robbed
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of any possible reasonable response to or from the future readers of
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this article.
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Ammond Shadowcraft, Feb 1992"
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While I doubt that any legal problems could resolve from carrying
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this article it seems unethical to let such an irresponsible article
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stand alone and unanswered. Apparently Tim has uploaded this article
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on many different machines and now no one knows where these copies
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reside. Please look at your text files to see if this article is
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present and please consider disclaiming the article.
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The above disclaimer relates only to Tim Maroney's Nazi-Trapezoid
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article and none other. However should a sysop decided to delete
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the article entirely I suppose that such an action is entirely
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reasonable.
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I apologize for any inconvenience this request might incur.
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For more information please contact the Temple at the following
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address:
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TEMPLE OF SET
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Post Office Box 470307
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San Francisco, CA 94147; U.S.A.
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MCI-Mail: 314-3953
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Telex: 6503143953
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! Origin: CRYSTAL CAVE DAS MAGICKAL TREFFPUNKT 719-391-1092 (93:9510/0)
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