[Herbert Hoover[_3_]]

Dear RAO,

This has gone on long enough. We all need to band together and
protect those whose personal lives, careers and jobs are threatened by
the crazed actions of one individual. This could have happened to any
of us. It happened to happen to Marc Phillips.

Firstly, we need to help defend Marc against the possible loss
of his job. To that end, I ask that all publishing and audio
professionals who post and/or lurk here post a defense of Marc in this
thread for his employer to see.

Even better, an e-mail under your own name and professional
credentials sent to Jeff Dorgay might do a world of good. I haven't
got Jeff's e-mail handy. Perhaps someone might post this under the
thread as a help to all of us. No anonymous e-mails should be sent. We
ought to be able to make ourselves known to assist Marc.

As part of this, it's critical that Mr. Krueger be literally
shunned here by everyone. There are several reasons for this, but the
most important is that legal action will result from Mr. Krueger's
ill-thought-out actions and everything will be part of the public
record. It would be ironic if anyone of good heart here inadvertently
ends up as part of the defense presentation. I beg of you, from here
on in not another exchange with Arnold about anything.

If any of you have recorded examples of illegal, threatening
or provocative behavior of Mr. Krueger, please post here with full
documentation without any editorializing. We must let the facts speak
for themselves. Also, the fulsome nature of the resulting
documentation may discourage Mr. Krueger from further ill-advised
activities.

Lastly, for those who are wliling, we will put together a
defense fund not only to help defend Marc, but to actively use civil
litigation as a tool to control Mr. Krueger and make sure he can never
do this again to anyone else.

I can be reached at the above e-mail address. For those who
clearly are who they say they are, I will fully identify myelf and
make myself accessible. I ask that we all make this thread the most
important in many years here by contributing everything you can to
make this work

Thank you for listening to me. Let's first save Marc's job,
then finally allow RAO t once again be the place for spiritied
discussion about audio or any other damn thing we please without fear
of bullying and intimidation by anyone.

Thanks


Herbert