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Addendum

by Terry Ashley



Addendum:
Since first publishing the review of this DVD back in 2007 I have been subjected to the worst example you could find of "shoot the messenger" where a producer not liking what is said about their product going to extraordinary lengths to try and discredit the reviewer (me). It is also the worst example of what I referred to in my blog entry of August 28 where a person with nothing of substance to add just resorts to insults, name calling and twists anything said to fit in with their agenda.

More disturbing is this is also an example of blatant cyber bullying which has been on the increase with mobile (cell) phones and SMS. If we are not careful this type of outright bullying could become the normal when person can't accept plain simple facts (aka the truth) and resort to this behaviour. Do we really want a situation where people are simply too scared to say anything for fear of being subjected to this nasty and vindictive bullying?

No amount of insults and name calling has the slightest bearing on the contents of the review as it doesn't address any of the issuers raised with the DVD, something the producers steadfastly refuse to do.

I have added this addendum to the review so people can see for themselves what lengths some will go too while at the same time refusing outright to actually point out any errors of fact in the review itself.

First off I would encourage everyone to go and read that blog to see what can happen when a feeding frenzy gets going unchecked.

Just look at the language, the nastiness of it all, the name calling and presentation of warped “facts”. The way the simplest action is twisted into something sinister.

This is classic bully behaviour from two individuals with a history of abusing anyone who doesn't do their bidding, be it site owners or individuals and I am not the first to have all my sponsors spammed by these charming people. Added to this is a history of dishonesty in the form of posting on forums using false IDs and alias, something that has bought some prominent hobby people down in recent history, be happy to elaborate if need be.

So please go and read it, all of it if you can, especially take note of the number of anonymous “comments” added to the blog entries which have even more insults and name calling. If you read these carefully you can see most of these anonymous “comments” are actually written by the authors of the blog, not visitors, hence the anonymous tag.

A few points to consider.

  1. First and most important is no one has yet to point out any factual errors in my review.
  1. I will state categorically once again:
    I wrote the review myself, no one else.

    I had no knowledge to the existence of the private forum referred too in that blog before all this blew up with the posting of the review.
    As a consequence I had no knowledge of any discussion that took place between the members of that forum until after the posting of my review. I was briefed not only on the forums existence but also some previous history on the two individuals from the Panther Project once the review was posted and the consequence reactions from the Panther Project duo.

    I have already conveyed to Mr.Balkwell by e-mail two years ago that I didn't know of this private forum and that if I had of known of these issues previously I would not have lent the DVD to Jon, but Mr.Balkwell seems to have conveniently overlooked these facts as they don't fit in with his accusation theories.

    There are reviews on PMMS by other people including Jon Bailey and these are credited to the authors of those reviews, being the appropriate thing to do.
  1. If I am guilty of anything it’s after the DVD was returned to me by Jon of going through this with a finer tooth comb than I may have if not been threatened by these people. But having said that I go back to what is almost to the point of nausea.

    Just show me any factual errors in my review, something I have said that is not correct, anything, please and stop this raving and ranting, why won’t the producers of the DVD just do that?
  1. It is claimed Jon Bailey has some pathological hatred of Alasdair Johnston and because of that he influenced me in my review?
  1. Mr Balkwill and Jon Bailey have never met nor ever communicated in any way, so how does Mr Balkwill come to this conclusion of this supposed hatred as well as using some of the most insulting and inflammatory language towards Jon. Surely it’s not due to the influence of his friend Alasdair Johnston?

    This is actually confirmed in the postings on their own blog where they admit to preconceived prejudice about Jon and others, here is the quote from their blog;

    All the way up to publishing the DVD, Alasdair told me to leave his name off of it because there were a group of people out there who would make every attempt to cause trouble for it, due their history with himself. And you know what Terry? - he named them.”

    And again with this;

    After the massive public row on M-L, after he and his friends formed a private forum with the express intent of keeping Alasdair out, after at least 3 attempts since 2002 to slander Alasdair via private email to forum moderators (yes Terry they all immediately informed me), after their own written statements about their feelings about Alasdair

    This is the reason for this tirade and the reason they have twisted comments made in various e-mails to arrive at the most sinister outcome possible to fit in with these preconceived prejudices. Please check this on their blog to ensure I have not quoted out of context, providing they haven’t changed it already?

    For those interested in this ‘massive public row on M-L’, here is a link to a posting on ML from 2002 by Jon Bailey to Alasdair Johnston who not for the first time was caught out posting under an alias.
  1. They also now claim the Jon authored the review, not me. Well this is new and not in the original tirade. The story keeps changing, but after claiming this we see this entry in their blog.

    “Posted by Brian Balkwill on Friday, 16 October 2009
    Me banned from forums? Nope - thats a lie - Never have been banned from a forum”

    This relates to comment I made on Armorama on 16 October about Alasdair Johnston, not Brian Balkwill being banned from various forums.

    Surely this blog entry wasn’t written by Alasdair and posted by Brian, hence the first person phrasing especially after accusing me of doing the exact same thing with the review, surely not?
I don’t think there is any further explanation needed really to the behaviour of these people and their over the top reactions to my review, the twisting of events and dates to suit their own preconceived prejudices and the attempts to blackmail me into not publishing the review, while at the same time absolutely refusing to address the issues raised in the review.
But I will address some of the other issues raised in the various Panther Project blogs to hopefully put peoples minds at rest regarding these.

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