http://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?t=5209
This deserves comment in reference to everything thats been said on both sides which are putting out information, some fact and some clearly propaganda.
DB, If you read this my best wishes of good heath to your wife. I cant imagine what you must be going through with this but myself and others also have families which we love and protect. Family is a non issue concerning any of this and if anyone ever attacked your family on any forum you can count on me to respond to that, it is completely unacceptable, yet remains common practice on the internet.
Open Letter, This situation is the result of Mick Strider and Duane Dwyer. All responsibility is on their shoulders no matter how one counts the cards, shuffles the deck, cheats, bluffs, wins or looses as a direct result of holding MS and DD accountable when they themselves invoked their military background as an advertisement campaign to direct sell to the military. Nobody twisted their arms or water boarded them to get them to talk, they did it, them alone at first then others became involved in the untruths that were forwarded with no DOD Documentation as a fact check. Now many have come forward to challenge these military claims publicly and to date everything that was called a lie is still listed as a lie concerning both DD and MS.
Law Enforcement Officers are Public Officials, all their power is granted by the public and they are accountable to the public and subject to the whims of the public. When someone is a law enforcement officer they are to be held to a much higher standard than any civilian and any civilian is by law allowed to comment to any officers superiors if any questions about them not holding to the highest of standards should arise. Whether anyone likes Kevin McClung, Lance Harris, or Lynn Thompson is of no concern, if they as private citizens have any concerns about any LEO they have the right to contact their superior officers and comment or file formal complaints.
In the situation of DB he has presented himself as some innocent bystander who came under personal attack while he was minding his own business and that is very far off the mark. He has used the Ontario Police Department as his hallmark credential to profit financially in the private sector by promoting products and personalities and to attack others with criticism. If he wanted to write all the things he has written on the internet/magazines/news and remain anonymous he should have never brought up the fact he was indeed a LEO and which specific department he worked at. That was his choice, so when he has gone on the record with comments some view as unbecoming or just untrue it is only logical his department would be contacted.
In the case of this specific post made by DB he has chosen again to bring his personal life into public view but this time asking for sympathy, A sympathy that DB, DD, nor MS has ever afforded to anyone else whether they know them or not. They all have a very long track record of being abusive to others and in general being disrespectful. I see the entire post as some kind of suggestion that KM, LH, and LT are the cause of all the problems when in fact it is not that way at all. Then it goes on to open the door to all kinds of personal attacks against them and many suggestions that their businesses be boycotted and some really horrible things that have been spread all over the internet to attack their businesses.
There is one huge separation between the two groups that remains, that is the simple fact the second group has never made any military claims. Whether anyone likes the second group or not is of no concern of mine and you will never see them listed as Phonies or Frauds on POW Network unless they do make military claims and when asked politely to respond with documentation they cannot do so, such is the case of Duane Dwyer and his business partner Mick Strider who are currently listed as Phonies on POW Network and will remain there indefinably.
I have already stated this but will do so again,
I do not know Kevin McClung and have never been a member of Tactical Forums. I had never heard of the man or his knives until I started looking into the Strider situation.
I do not know Lynn Thompson but am familiar with his products, In my life I have owned two of his knives, one for an hour which I doubled my money on in 1997 at a gun show and another that cost 50 bucks retail.
I do not know Lance Harris. I had never heard of him before his name was brought into this situation on this forum.
Having stated, I do not know any of these people and have no relationship to any of them I hope that clears up a couple things. What if any relationship I will have with them in the future I have no idea but having dug pretty deep into their backgrounds concerning all the bullshit thats been said about them I don't mind saying I have no problem them or how they conduct business.
