Okay, I didn't want to even discuss this, but apparently you guys won't let it rest.Richard Thompson stole confidential files from me by manipulating people closer to me than I ever intended to allow him to be, no matter how hard he tried. He lied to me and to these people to get what he wanted, which was my approval or friendship or something. I never could figure it out. After being told repeatedly to leave me alone, he continued to frequent this forum, posting personal attacks on me (again, using information about me that I never intended him to have). I erased most of these on sight, so many of you might only have seen his carefully crafted posts designed to make me look like a jerk and him like a victim.
Please, people, trust my judgement. I went to great lengths to get this guy out of my life. He severely hurt the amount of trust I am able to place in the people I work with and consider friends because he manipulated them to get to me. After I decided to cut off as many modes of communication he had with me as possible, he would badmouth me to others, because he knew that it would eventually come back to me. He's assembled a little entourage of people who want to expose me as some sort of asshole. All of his actions were designed to get a response. The full story would be pages long, and I just don't feel obligated to explain myself to anyone.
I consider Richard to be mentally disturbed. He will probably laugh when he reads this and feel a sense of satisfaction. No one should worry about being forcibly expelled the way Richard was. You will see it coming. I will tell you to stop contacting me, as I told Richard. I will filter you from my email account, my ICQ list, and my AIM list, as I was forced to do with Richard. I will tell everyone else I communicate with not to relay messages to me from you, as I had to do with Richard. I will not communicate with you in any medium. I will ignore the inflammatory things you say on the sly in order to bait me into replying. I will shrug off posters you make of me using pictures of me as a child that you got somehow. I will attempt to smile at your insinuations that I am a drug addict with a small penis, and an inflated sense of self-esteem. I will pay no notice of your accusations that I steal your website graphics. You'll periodically try to make up with me--like I'm some sort of idiot. Then you'll go back to the personal attacks, as if I'm suddenly going to let loose with a big laugh and declare you, a lone nut of a fan, my friend. As a last resort, I will prune all of your posts from the forums, and ban your IP address, including the five new ones you get specifically to harass me with.
