Why don't you try re-reading your recent posts, Todd? I'm not the only one that feels that you turned your back on us. I have special reason for feeling betrayed, as you were the very reason for my quick joining and jumping into the fray here. Do take another look at the tone and measure of your "I'm leaving" post and look at it from a realistic point of view, won't you? You insulted our community as a whole, and the pro-contact people especially. If you go from advocate to anti, how are you not to be viewed as turning your back on us, Todd?

As for sacrificing our friendship, I have done no such thing. What I don't trust you with is being able to represent the interests of half of our community, and I am among that half. Your recent flipping and immaturity also forces me to question your ability to be impartial - it is you who decided that your being a moderator here and there both was a conflict of interests, which says novels with regards to your interests these days. Do I think that you will hand over my personal information to people? Of course not. I simply can't find you capable of representing me, which is exactly what I said.

Or perhaps you need me to force you to take a step back and look at your own actions and words? You asked people for suggestions on your email to StC, and threw a tantrum when you didn't like the suggestions. You got especially pissy when a single individual rubbed you the wrong way, and when you were called on your lack of reasonability and maturity in the situation, you denounced the community as a whole. Since then, you have continually given the same, tired, "You're the reason we're not accepted! You should all be kept far away from children!" Aside from projecting your own tantrum-esque attitude and immaturity in this situation onto everyone but yourself, you go to great lengths to try and set a "You either go along with what I say or you're a bad person and can't handle being near children" law.

Yes, your statements lately have been very anti in nature. Yes, you have been sounding increasingly like Brian Kastel. Yes, I worded my post specifically to shock and piss you off, in hopes that you would actually take a look at what you have done. Unfortunately, I misjudged you and didn't realize that you were incapable of the maturity required to look at your own actions rationally, and instead get instantly defensive and throw out more of the increasingly common "Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, I think I'll eat some worms. Waaaaaaaaah!" bit.

I am still your friend, and will continue to be so, but I won't sit quietly and say nothing while everyone else sits around coddling you and not saying what needs to be said. If nothing else, you should know me well enough to know that I will be the first out of the gates on calling you on bullshit and forcing you to look at your own actions.

But let's return for a moment to the betrayal that you feel from me. You brought me into this community, you are the reason that I ended up here and became such a part of it. As the old saying goes, you are responsible for the life that you save. You may not have saved my life, but as all people feel when becoming a part of this community, it is a life gained. Your recent words and actions have caused many of us feel betrayed and hurt, and if you now feel that it is mutual, I am sorry, but a reality check is in order.

Or perhaps you simply missed the fact that people looked up to you for standing behind your convictions, and feel let down when you pull shit like this. Though, now that I know that you have a habit of turning against us when someone rubs you the wrong way, I realize that my feeling let down was due to ignorance on my part. Although, it is interesting to note that you didn't answer a single point that I made rather than throw out some "I know you are but what am I" response that had no real point other than, "You hurt my feelings!" Well, you hurt mine first, so I suppose that we're even.

To avoid rambling, I'll stop this post here, but what is a good closing statement? Oh yes - Antis to the left of me, breeders to the right.