Re: [APD] Free speech

["Robert H" <robertph3 at comcast_net>]

>>It is not rare to see negative comments about vendors on other planted
aquarium web sites.  Positive comments, too.<<

Oh really? Common Bill, what sites are you talking about? Sure, you can 
still read a few comments here and there, and some product reviews, but 
rarely someone totally berrating a company. If you don't think the lawsuit 
had a a huge impact in our little world, then you are kidding yourself. All 
I am saying is the experience was one of lessons learned and not just out of 
fear of being sued but of taking responsibility. And I have talked to more 
than one defendant that feels the same way.  Nobody likes or defends the 
plantiff, but things got way out of hand and kept going and going and going 
like the everready bunny, and I wish I never got involved. It cost me my job 
in California, it prevented me from buying a house to take care of my 
Mother, it prevented me from financing my business, paying certain debts not 
to mention what it cost me in the end. And for what? Not minding my own 
business? What good came out of it for anybody? Was anybodys rights 
protected in the end?  I still support everyone that was involved and I 
still believe we were right, but so much pain could have been avoided if 
people saw the big picture and put an end to it before it went out of 
control.

And there were some people back in 2001 who saw this. I remember Steve 
Pushak said it would be in APDs best interest not to allow such things to 
happen. I ranked on him by private email for not defending the people 
involved. I wish he was still on this list so I could apologize to him.

Robert Hudson
www.aquabotanic.com


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