"If we be sonnes of Trueth, we must consider what it speaketh and trample upon our own credit, yea, and upon other mens too, if either be in any way an hindrance to it." - Part 9 of 10, Preface to the King James Version, 1611.

Responses to this Website

The ticker at the bottom of the page shows some (by no means all) of the organisations and individuals I have had cause to contact. The page regarding prevention of misinformation explains why I contacted these people. Sometime were required to carry out certain services, due to commercial relationships I had with them (e.g.: Dell Computers). I was surprised at their response. Of course, it is relevant to the matters in issue: I should not mention it otherwise. Some were approached because it was their métier (think tanks, human rights organisations, etc., etc.). In each case, inexplicably, they did not act as the situation demanded: they erected a wall of silence and indifference, they offered responses that were not cogent or their response was otherwise bewildering.

1. This page is intended to support the page Preventing Misinformation in helping to prevent misinformation: to keep me honest. The main purpose of this website is to allow people and organisations mentioned here and not mentioned here but to be mentioned in the website proper, the opportunity to offer a response in time (see answer to Question1, on the Questions Answered page). If the opportunity to respond to this website is taken, that should prevent misinformation: errors of any sort would be brought to my attention and I should, of course, correct them.

2. If I receive such responses to this website, I should promptly post them on this page. Because people must have a meaningful opportunity to defend themselves and to correct misunderstandings; I intend to provide people and organisations mentioned every opportunity it is in my gift to extend.
(i) This page, which has a prominent link at the head of each page on this website, provides a prominent place for responses to be heard.
(ii) If those responses require a response, in turn, from me, I should provide one.

3. I do not act in haste; when you communicate you owe your interlocutor the respect of considered statements. My statements on this website are all considered; future statements will be carefully considered.
(i) Often, I will post a response I receive and post my response to it a few days later. My silence, in the interim, is not to be interpreted one way or another:
(a) I have to think carefully about what has been communicated to me and its merits, before I can develop an opinion on it.
(b) Then I have to reflect on that opinion before I offer it.
(c) This is important: I am not trying to prove that what I have said is right, and I shall not try to prove that what anyone else says is wrong (whatever it might be). I am trying to arrive at the truth, even if the truth is that I am wrong. Better the right answer than a quick answer.

4. I shall try to post each response within two days of receiving it. When I do so, I shall state whether a response will be offered and, if so, when it may be expected: two days, three days, etc.

5. I have written to several people and organisations mentioned on this website and encouraged them to visit it. On 02 September, I wrote to the local MP. I invited her to visit the website, especially the pages: Local MP's Assistance and Parliamentary Convention and to provide a response thereto.
(i) Her response, if it comes, will be posted here.

6. If you contact a person or organisation mentioned here, as I have suggested at No.1, under the heading "Actions You might Take", on the page: Preventing Misinformation, and you receive a response, please send that response to me. I should post it here and offer a response to it, if one is required.

7. If you find anything out there regarding this matter or this website, and it requires a response or is of a serious nature, please send an email to contact@togetherwithourfriends.org, directing me to it. I will offer a response to it here, if one is required, and invite the source to discuss the matter openly.
(i) I think that's the best way to arrive at the truth, which is what we are about.