I feel I must assert my freedom to comment on an important public issue that Mr. Rick A. Maven has thrust into the vortex of public comment. Let's review the errors in Mr. Maven's statements in order. First, Mr. Maven is off his rocker. How can he live with himself, knowing that he can't discuss anything without talking about faddism? While I don't know the answer to that particular question, I do know that he claims that without his superior guidance, we will go nowhere. Predictably, he cites no hard data for that claim. This is because no such data exist. Tell him that he has been a bad apple for as long as I can remember, and you'll hear a loud "clang!" as his mind slams shut. He doesn't want to hear that. He doesn't want to believe that his hypocrisy is transparent. Even the least discerning among us can see right through it.
Unlike Mr. Maven's offhand remarks, my own manuscripts are not vague and undefined. How does Mr. Maven deal with this fascinating piece of information? He entirely ignores it. One doesn't need a finely developed sense of irony to note that he wants me to stop trying to break the neck of his policy of obstructionism once and for all. Instead, he'd rather I drop to my knees and beg for mercy. Sorry, but I don't accept defeat that easily.
Given that there's indubitably no point in arguing with him, isn't it fairly obvious that by an odd twist of fate, his dream is to rule the world, or failing that, annihilate it? It's uncivilized for Mr. Maven to manipulate public understanding of plagiarism. Or perhaps I should say, it's macabre. He claims to have turned over a new leaf shortly after getting caught trying to produce precisely the alienation and conflict needed to make nearby communities victims of environmental degradation and toxic waste dumping. This claim is an outright lie that is still being circulated by Mr. Maven's assistants. The truth is that if we are to sound the bugle of liberty, then we must be guided by a healthy and progressive ideology, not by the unruly and meddlesome ideologies that Mr. Maven promotes. And that's what writing this sort of letter is all about. It's a way to discuss the advantages of two-parent families, the essential role of individual and family responsibility, the need for uniform standards of civil behavior, and the primacy of the work ethic.
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