The Peril of Another Person Telling Your Story.
There is a particular danger when someone else decides to tell your story for you: they may know enough of the facts to make their version sound convincing, while getting enough of the important details wrong to fundamentally distort the story. That is precisely the issue I have with comments recently made by Tony Quigley, who uses the name Harry Munker on YouTube, in response to Shaun Cassidy threatening to serve me with legal papers over an article I published reporting on an exchange between Cassidy and Kaley Einav on YouTube. Tony wrote: “Do it Brother, He deserves no Mercy whatsoever.” He then proceeded to give his account of my history, making a series of claims about my criminal and military history, my mother, my movements around Europe and the circumstances surrounding my mother's death. The problem is that several of the supposedly “pertinent facts” in his account are simply wrong. And when you are telling someone else's story, facts matter. For the record, I have not...
