AggieDiver once bubbled...
Am I the only one who finds northeastwrecks to be just a bit pompous and overbearing on this thread?
WTH is that all about? Just because somebody has fewer posts than you do their opinion is not valid? I detect a lot of defensiveness in your posts about Genesis. I am not going to say I agree with everything on all of those pages of his, but I don't see anything on the dive manufacturer's petition that makes his points on the practices of dive equipment manufacturers or dive shops to be incorrect or somehow less relevant because of his other causes.
You missed out last night, when the member to whom I was responding submitted a series of posts questioning my ethics, making generally insulting remarks about Americans and insinuating that I was an ambulance chaser (I'm a patent litigator).
What you see is the aftermath of Rick Murchison's and Spectre's cleanup of the thread, when many of his posts were pulled.
That explains the apology from the diver in question that appeared a few pages earlier.
As to the rest, Cat is mostly on point. I'm not going to pretend that a position taken on a legal matter has merit when it does not. In fact, what I wrote was substantially nicer than what I would have said if it happened at work.
I actually don't care if anyone a practicing member of the bar. I deal with enough of those people. However, I do wish that people would not shoot off their mouths by expressing fanciful opinions that are not based in reality as if they were facts.
I see this in the students at the law school where I teach. They need to be reminded constantly that no one cares about your opinion. What counts is the law and the application of law to a particular set of facts.
I do disagree with your statement that the LDS is a monopoly. In my area, there are at least three shops within a 40 minute drive. There are at least four more within a 1 hour drive. That's seven shops with whom I can deal. Others have said as much.
As for Diversunion, I made no comments. I merely provided information. If you're comfortable casting your lot with the organizer, then that's your business. Personally, however, I prefer that howling madmen don't have access to my address.
Finally, let me emphasize that, if this had been my LDS, I would have left and taken as much of the business with me as I possibly could. However, I would also recognize that this is the only thing that I could do.
