Facts, Schmacts

Ah, this must be what Rowley was referring to as “making me accountable”:

[T]wo time Vermont legislative candidate in Franklin County, Todd Pritsky Pritsky was a member of what was thought to be a super secret listserv where some Vermont seceshers, including a neo-Nazi, could engage in racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, seditious and abusively misogynistic “chat,” while other invited members, like Pritsky, remained largely silent.

For the record, N. Todd Pritsky ran ONCE for the House. I am now a member of the Fletcher Selectboard.

And, of course, I publicly called out SVR racism on Rob Williams' own website a few weeks before the 2010 election.  Interesting that Rowley also failed to note that I largely remained silent on the list in general (which he would do if he were intellectually honest since he can search the archive) because I was kinda busy trying to campaign in Fletcher, Fairfield and St Albans Town as an independent with a 6-month old child and didn't think it worth my time arguing with Denny M et al on a private list where it would have no impact.

The funny part of all this is between my sparring with Odum here on GMD, Rowley's own writing over the years, and my personal experience being on the periphery of Free Vermont from March to November of 2010 (when I was blackballed for calling out conspiracy theories), I soured on folks associated with a movement I obviously was never a part of in the first place.  But now Rowley would rather attack me personally because I dare to back up a popular idea that Vermont was an independent republic for 14 years with citations from the historical record and elsewhere.

It's disappointing coming from somebody who has done yeoman's work in exposing the racist underbelly of SVR, and not something that bolsters Rowley's credibility. 

ntodd

PS–I triple dog dare Rawley to try suggesting I ever advocated secession.  Perhaps he could start with this post and then work backwards.

7 thoughts on “Facts, Schmacts

  1. Do you really want to do this that badly?

    Perhaps if you could write more clearly, people might not get the impression that you were saying that you ran in 2008 & 2010.

    In 2008, I spoke with many voters who were disenchanted with our political system, even during that very hopeful campaign full of the potential for change. Now in 2010 when we need the promise of hope and change to be fulfilled, more people feel even more disappointed and disenfranchised as they see very little evidence that anything is different in DC.

    Given your Vermont republic rationales, I should have have known better than to take what you said at face value.  We can agree then that your excruciatingly poor last place showing in the low percentile

    was your only electoral bust at the county level.  I’m sure you’re wowing’em, all 600 hundred or so voters or whatever it is since the Fletcher website is one of the lamest in Vermont, no?  I’m sure you’ll be able to rush off to provide examples of lamer ones but let’s agree that Fletcher’s is pretty lame.

    Interesting that Pritsky failed to mention that he only got around to calling Williams out after I’d exposed the secesher listserv that he’d been a member of for more than six months in 2010 when he lost so badly.  The rats deserted the secesher ship in droves when I broke that one.

    I’m surprised that Pritsky hasn’t suffered a bout of cognitive dissonance when he came out with this one about what he claims was a more than half year involvement with the Vermont secesher, super secret, in-crowd:

    I soured on folks associated with a movement I obviously was never a part of in the first place.

    Sheesh!  How much bullshit do you think people can swallow?

    I have to admit that this one’s a sure keeper though:

    I dare to back up a popular idea that Vermont was an independent republic for 14 years with citations from the historical record and elsewhere.

    Ah, yes, “popular ideas” are so very important.  That was the foundation of anti-miscegenation, marriage inequality and pay inequity.  You keep working that.  Also, your ideas of the “historical record and elsewhere” are intellectually corrupt.  I promise you that I won’t take anything that you’ve written at face value again.

    Coming from someone like you who remained silent about the misogyny, the homophobia, the racism, the presence of a neo-Nazi, the virulent anti-Semitism, the sedition and the plotting to seize Vemonter’s resources and personal assets by listserv principles, until after I blew the lid off of it speaks so much more to your credibility and not mine.  I don’t suffer from the credibility crisis that you now so evidently do.

    Have fun documenting how you’re not really a secesher, secesher fellow traveler or acolyte.  I won’t have to, anymore than I’ll ever have to explain why I might have remained silent ever on a listserv populated by bigoted scumbags.  No one will ever accuse me of that sort of ethical lapse or subsequent bullshit tap dance.

    You should be ashamed of what you did and say so.  I “triple dog dare” you (even in quotes that sounds childish).

  2. …I spoke to a lot of voters.  Campaigning for Obama in NH.

    Interesting that Pritsky failed to mention that he only got around to calling Williams out after I’d exposed the secesher listserv that he’d been a member of for more than six months in 2010 when he lost so badly.

    The date is pretty clearly noted on the post, and I did it when Odum challenged me.  So I did publicly.

    Ah, yes, “popular ideas” are so very important.  That was the foundation of anti-miscegenation, marriage inequality and pay inequity.  You keep working that.  Also, your ideas of the “historical record and elsewhere” are intellectually corrupt.  I promise you that I won’t take anything that you’ve written at face value again.

    Wow, now painting a widely-accepted historical fact with the same brush as injustice?  You are spinning wildly out of control, man.  But I see you cannot rebut what I’ve written, so you will just keep calling me delusional, corrupt, etc.  Well played.

    You should be ashamed of what you did and say so.  I “triple dog dare” you (even in quotes that sounds childish).

    I absolutely am not ashamed, nor should I be.  That’s your hobby horse.

    Over and out.

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