Tim, my head is in a total fog at the moment and I'm having a
hard time reading the screen so please forgive me if this post
isn't as coherent or well structured as I would like it to be.
First let me say I'm not Don's keeper. The fact that I chose to
call him a friend doesn't mean that I'm going to agree with everything
he does or says. It doesn't mean that if I suggest he shouldn't do or
say something that he is going to listen to me.
Friendship can be based on many criteria and I decide who I will
be friends with or not. Nobody tells me what I can or can't do. If I ask
for their opinion I will listen to it. I try to reciprocate in kind.
Most of my friends are unique and/or interesting characters. I don't
have very many that are boring or not controversial.
These kind of people can be difficult but they are stimulating mentally
and sometimes physically. I have got in trouble for associating with
different classes of people and many of my friends don't approve of
some of my other friends. They range from Phd's to a Billionaire to a
pennyless
intellectual that lives on the streets to the odd individual who has run
afoul of
the law. I try not to judge them too harshly and hopefully they do me as
well.
Most people in this NG don't know the real me and if they judge me
by the company I keep I can live with it.
I will try and answer some of the points.
I'm not going argue whether their choice was the right one or the wrong
one.
I wasn't involved in the decision.
As far as helping other people I do know that he has helped many others
both financially,
finding jobs for them, making introductions and providing hardware when they
couldn't
afford to keep racing for a number of different reasons.
Its not my place to name the particulars I'm familiar with because Don
chose to not
make them public and I will honour that. Most of what I know has been told
to me by
the individuals themselves and not Don.
There are two sides to Don. Most of you have just seen the one side and
thats a
shame. If Don wants to project the image that he does publically thats his
choice.
When Don told me he was trying to join VRW I asked him why he would
want to. He then asked me if I wanted to and I declined. Don is a competitor
and wants to race. He goes where people are the fastest and where biggest
challenge is.
As I have said to Doyle from what I witnessed he didn't race. I don't
care
if people don't accept my word or his but until they can prove otherwise
they
don't know anymore that what I have stated. They can make up all the stories
they want.
ridiculed?
Most of these racers know nothing of any of that. They don't frequent
these
NG's and they run in their own circles. They know Don they have no idea who
you or I or Nim etc are.
As I have said Tim you make your own choices I make mine and they make
theirs.
I have said this before and will probably say it again.
If a person learns from their mistakes I should be the smartest person
alive.
But I'm not and don't pretend to be. On the other hand I know what the
choices
were and made them of my own freewill and will live with consequences.
Forgive me if there are mistakes as I don't have the energy to proof
this.
Pete
