Mick Strider has some explaining to do.

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oupa said:
How dare any of you insignificant little people even think, let alone post, an opinion that is not held by Fuhrer Von Blair.
You will be reported by his Stormtroopers und you vill be banned, ja?
Ze truth she has nothing to do with it - you vill toe ze line, not only in ze dictatorship of USN, but everywhere......everywhere I tell you...ve are ze thought-police, ja!
Bwaaaaahahahhaaaaa
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We're not supposed to be directly talking about EReich.:barf:
 
wolfmann601 said:
But before you condemn Mick to Hell allow me to Thank him for all he has done for Children with Autism. Autistic kids hits close to home and it takes folks like Mick to put up the money to keep research going.
Mick also does some wonderful things for the Special Olympics, Children's cancer research, Children's Arthritis research, Children's Diabetes, and his State's Foster Children system. None of this was done as part of any Plea Agreement, Mick does what he does to help kids with special needs because he wants to, period...............
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All of that weighs heavily in his favour as far as I am concerned. I have come to the conclusion that the good that Mick has done since turning his life around far outweighs the bad. It is my belief that Mick has embellished his service in the military, and quite likely has possessed firearms during the time since his release from prison, and though I consider these things to be quite serious, I just can't bring myself to consider him to be anything worse than an imperfect individual. Probably no better, or worse than myself.

It won't matter to me what more comes out of this, my opinion of Mick won't be changed unless something terrible is discovered about him, and you know what? I just don't see that happening. If I were to meet Mick tomorrow I would shake his hand, if he would shake mine, and wish him the best.
 
That is classic Dirk. You don't post much but its probably one of the most memorable in the entire thread. Thanks I needed a laugh my friend.

STR
 
MitchC said:
won't be back.
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how will this forum ever recover from the loss of mitchC, he who joins for no other purpose then to say he wont post? well, my night is ruined now.

spark, you have done what no one else on either side of this has ever done(rarely) before, actually present an arguement, supported with facts.

im one of many who appreciate the time and effort you have put into this.
 
So Grindhouse, are you taking shots at me about my service? Kinda funny coming from someone who defends a liar. Keep trying.

Michelle, you probably have the hots for me. Sorry, I'm married. Your little retorts are not supporting Mick here at all. Many, especially me, find it entertaining. *edit* I'm too old for you anyway.

So do you guys at the other forum have to have a little powwow to get the guts to come over here to attack people? No balls at all.

Grow a set.

Please.
 
SubaruSTi said:
I dont live in CA but If I did I would probably be such a sheeple that Tad gear would be the last place I would go.

They do sell alot of good stuff but they get tons of buyers from the USN and mainly for Strider Knives and other crap. I for one thought that the guy who owns Tad was a ex-spec ops and would disown mick for being such a well... car thief-lier.

Everyone likes money so I guess the almighty dollar is keeping them from doing that.


Fact is everyone on USN is putting "striderette" in their sig and has "I support Mick" avatars. Isnt saying they support him like saying theirs really a truth behind all this? If they were 100% they wouldnt need to have lifter post some pump up thread about how good mick is and how solid his rep is. Once again hes making tons of money from them!
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What is your real name? What's your beef with us?

I am Evan from TAD Gear and have nothing to do with TAG/Chris Osman whom you are getting confused with.
 
Boats said:
Every other veteran I know, who is proud of his/her service, can readily produce their DD-214 within the 30 days customarily given on a first request for production. Mine is in my gun safe.
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I guess your internet dick is bigger than mine.
 
:rolleyes:


SubaruSTi said:
I dont live in CA but If I did I would probably be such a sheeple that Tad gear would be the last place I would go.

They do sell alot of good stuff but they get tons of buyers from the USN and mainly for Strider Knives and other crap. I for one thought that the guy who owns Tad was a ex-spec ops and would disown mick for being such a well... car thief-lier.

Everyone likes money so I guess the almighty dollar is keeping them from doing that.


Fact is everyone on USN is putting "striderette" in their sig and has "I support Mick" avatars. Isnt saying they support him like saying theirs really a truth behind all this? If they were 100% they wouldnt need to have lifter post some pump up thread about how good mick is and how solid his rep is. Once again hes making tons of money from them!
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Ok, full stop right now.

This is not a BFC versus USN discussion. This is not a discussion on Duane Dwyer. This is not a discussion about TAD Gear. None of these have anything to do with the topic at hand.

If you people do not stop with the cross site shit talking, I will ban everyone taking part in it. I have no urge for forums wars, USN has their people, BFC has ours. TAD Gear has, AFAIK, done nothing to warrant being brought up in this discussion at all. E_Wok, before we fell out, was someone I considered leaving BladeForums.com too if I ever quit this, so as a favor to me, please don't fuck with his business.

Show some class people. If you don't have anything productive to add, don't type anything in.
 
Michelle said:
Wow. She doesnt post often, but when she does, she makes it count.

m1
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"Count"? M-1, she says nothing about the issues raised by Spark.

She adds her increment to the overwelming weight of evidence that Mr. Strider has loyal supporters and is perceived to have done good works. Some have compared their loyalty to their love of God. Some have said they simply do not care about the accuracy of his claims and hints about combat and special operations experience. That's pretty firm loyalty indeed.

So if this debate was about the accuracy of: 1) has firm friends; 2) has done good works, Mr. Strider, and his supporters like yourself, "win." Is that what this is about? I think these are not the issues, any more than whether SKI has good customer service or makes "good" knives. Bringing up such things explains loyalty but also looks like trying to change the subject.

I am just a knifeknut still trying to figure out if he ever saw combat, as he has stated, or was involved in black/special ops, as he has very clearly implied but never expressly said (that I can find). If I ever feel I completely decided on those issues, then I would have to figure out what that means to me.

To argue that Mr. Strider cannot/should not be held to the truth of his implications that he was in combat involving use of non-issue weapons AND that Mr. Strider "possibly" was into some "heavy action" as a contractor/black ops type in 1986-1992 is not helpful. Mr. Strider cannot, in my view, have the benefit of the hints as explanatinos for his claim of combat experiecne and the argument that he cannot be held to them at the same time.

Nor does it help Mr. Strider to argue, as many have sincerely done here, that it's not anyone's "business" whether he misrepresented or not. For better or worse, no public figure controls what the public discusses about them. His supporters have no more chance of controlling that discussion than there is of dictating either 1) that one should not be angry over false statements of combat experience or 2) be angry over atacking the accuracy of such statements made by a friend, Mr. Strider.

Few, if any, of those who started out hating Mr. Strider OR those who started out loving him like a brother will be impacted by this process. Hate, like love, is not an exercise in the rational faculties. Those ranged in the middle will decide what is probable and decide how they feel about those perceived facts. Their view of Mr. Strider held before this started may change in the process -- for better or for worse, or not change at all. That decision is for each individual, as observed above.
 
john gage said:
UM WOW dude makes sweet knives. WTF How much time do you people waste on this? Ok Umm gotta go now.

CYA..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................
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Welcome. Goodby. Johnny, we hardly knew ya'.
 
Boats said:
I got banned from badlands just for reading there. Never posted. Politely answered all my PMs except my last one from Michelle, which I was ruminating upon when I found I was banned.

I have been warned off from laying out precisely what I think of the internet tough guys in a certain gayted communety, as they might aptly spell it over there, so I'll just leave it short like this so that their leaders only have to take about two hours each sounding it out.

I'll have a different IP number when this dies down a little. Fair warning.
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You're killin me.

You are not banned. The last activity I show for you in there was 10:52 pm, last night... well after I was in bed. My PM to you was at 5:21 pm. That's a hell of a lot of "ruminating" to respond to someone who, according to you, has nothing to offer other than the ability to execute proper paragraphs.

Please send me a screen shot of whatever error you were getting.

Why would I ban you and not Spark?

This is almost amusing.

m1
 
Michelle, please note that I'm making a strong effort to stop any cross forum wars. I appreciate you helping with that and not adding to it.
 
I read the whole thing. I feel dumber.

Somebody made up stuff to sound good to somebody else.

The people that actually did the stuff that somebody made up are feeling a little pissed.

Th original somebody is successful at maintaining a loyal client base and a high margin product line at volumes that exceed his manufacturing capacity. Bullshitting may have something to do with that.

Some feel he should come clean. Nobody is saying that his products are bad - just the bullshitting.

MAT
 
Grindhouse said:
Are you a coastie?...Yeah, I was put in charge of a coastie once, we called him "Sledge Hammer"....god all of the poop I had to bail him out of, I actually saved his life once...His wife even called me to say thanks...I liked him, great guy.
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You must be very proud of yourself.
 
I was only ruminating on it because I read it and then whoops, it was Valentine's Day again. Despite appearances in this thread, I did have a life to attend to. I haven't decided yet how I will respond to you.

I had some "technical difficulties" accessing at the last time you logged my activity. I took it for a banning because I suddenly didn't have sufficient access. I'll delete my cookies, re-login and see if I can't get back to you. Maybe I fired off Firefox accidentally. I don't know what you folks have against that browser.

Truth be told, I'm torn about continuing the "witch hunt." I'll elaborate for you later if you care to read it.

Sorry for saying that I have been banned if I have in fact not been.
 
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