Here are the complete comments that I could not post, in its entirety, to Calhoun's Cannon:

Okay, Ann. I can play hardball.

You're absolutely right. I could have made my points without posting a screenshot of Richard Margetson's contact information. You're right. However, The Tribune subsequently removed that comment only ten minutes after I took the screenshot. Without context of my point, you'll see someone like alabamasue saying, "I don't see what he's talking about." I could link to the article, sure, but how does that help when the comment I'm referring to is removed?

EXAMPLE: http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2011/01/06/1433809/call-for-civility-met-with-warning.html

Here's the article with the comment I cited. Now the comment is removed. There's no context now. I provided the screenshot to preserve context.

You talk about me "ankle-chewing," and then you compare me to a politician who posts child porn. That's a rather wicked, false analogy. You said it yourself: Richard Margetson's information is public, thus legally obtainable.

After all, "Violence_of_Action" went to the State of California Department of Real Estate database to retrieve it. It's not even remotely in the form of illegality as child porn. The problem was the manner and timing of this person's post, given what happened in Tuscon on the same day and the person urging others to go after his business.

<i>"I am not now and never have been a town historian.'"</i>

That's not what the "Chumash" (gas station) mural organizers said. I believe you're credited on the mural -- unless there's another Ann Calhoun that lives in Los Osos.

<i>"Babbling on about defending your honor and family's honor and claiming you're being 'attacked!' and threatened is hysterical horse pucky."</i>

What's so hysterical about proving hypocrisy? You're off again, Ann.

<i>"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."</i>

If I couldn't stand the heat, I would have been out of the kitchen a long time ago. If I couldn't stand the heat, I would have never created a blog. Sounds like you spend a lot of time on other planets than Earth.

<i>"But you DID "snapshot" (and did not redact) and hot-linked contact information on Margetson, didn't you?"</i>

Wait a second. You just said, "[Mike]'s an idiot and if you take his comments seriously, you're the bigger fool," and then you try to justify his paranoia by saying I made a snapshot.

I posted a snapshot of somebody else making those comments. It's not that difficult to do. Next to the F12 key on your keyboard, there's a "Print Screen" key. Press it, and voila! You made a screenshot. Look down at your keyboard. Everyone who has a keyboard has this feature.

This has nothing to do with "tracking" someone's e-mail address and retrieving their home address and employer information. I just pressed one key.

Ann, right now, you're swinging and missing. I specifically explained to you my reasoning, but you choose to not understand it or even accept it. I've been trying (calmly) to educate you on these matters, but every time I exert any effort, you embrace the "ankle-chewing" that you constantly threaten to dump.

Not only do you embrace it, you use your own articles to "ankle-chew" me, calling me "irrelevant" -- a rather ambiguous, dismissive label (didn't you chide people for using false branding at one time?) -- without showing any critical faculty to explain why.

Get a grip, Ann. Don't be so flamboyantly ignorant.

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