<div dir="ltr"><p>To Bernardo and Group from One of the P2P Foundation "Yes Men,"</p>
<p>Dear group, I am one of the “Yes Men” which has been referred to in
this slanderous, and disgusting, tirade against Michel. Michel has
defended himself effectively, and I need not add. He is perfectly
capable of taking care of himself. For myself, I work with people from
villages to governments to boardrooms; on simple technologies to
technologies related to national systems and energy security. In fact, I
live in a village, part of the year. At other times, I am with people
that you would easily recognize in the media. I need not go into that as
most of you know me. However, apparently Bernardo doesn’t do his
homework and feels perfectly competent at making blanket statements
about Michel, the P2P Foundation, and Michel’s sycophants. In other
topics in the email thread, he clearly has no idea of which he speaks.
My warning to Bernardo is that if you do not stop this, your reputation,
whatever one you have, will be in jeopardy from peer review. </p>
<p>I know that in all groups of talented people there will be tensions,
perhaps struggles, but never, ever, serious battles and no wars. In such
groups, there will be, at time, catharsis. Michel’s words are not
rhetoric, the tirade is heavy with Stalinism. We at
P2P Foundation do not adhere to that, and we can defend ourselves
without resorting to such filth. As for the threats of exposing the
emails or internal documents, this is something Bernardo believes to be a
serious issue, but frankly, since I work in public, I see such releases
as healthy. Such release is not going to neutralize Michel or P2PF. We
at P2P Foundation will go on with our work and be the better for any
critique.</p>
<p>Speaking to Bernardo, however, if you do that, it will be the end of
your work for a long while, simply due to the open nature of peer review
and your slander.</p>
<p>Clearly you care and are talented or you wouldn’t be here, and I want
to urge you to reconsider your posts in the email thread, which we in
the thread were under the impression to be discussing work on Chile and
Greece. Please do tell us this is a cathartic moment in FLOK and words
have gotten out of control.</p>
<p>I hope that some resolution can be found,</p>
<p>Layne</p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><b>Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..</b></div><div><br></div>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a> - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br>
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