From: nick@emailme.at.address.below (Nick Humphries)
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 1997 15:40:10 GMT
Fwd Date: Sun, 07 Sep 1997 12:25:38 -0400
Subject: Re: The Question of UFO Witness Anonymity


>From: HONEYBE100@aol.com
>Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 21:50:59 -0400 (EDT)
>To: updates@globalserve.net
>Subject: Re: The Question of UFO Witness Anonymity

>That evening,  Hopkins made my case public.  He called me on
>stage to say hello to everyone.  I felt silly because I didn't know
>anyone and I thought that no one knew me.  Much to my surprise,
>there were 1000 people in attendance!  So, I went up on stage and
>said, "Hello, I know you don't know me, but my name is Linda!"
>Roger... everyone started to laugh!  Then, they started to snap
>photo's of me.  If you're old enough to remember, baby "King Kong,"
>who was named, "Mighty Joe Young," well, that's who I felt like
>during my first public appearance.  Then, the questions started.
>The people were very nice.

No offence, Linda, but it seems to me that it was Budd Hopkins that first
"outed" you in public, and without your permission as well. Yet you still
claim that it was the dastardly debunkers who did it.

Which would you consider more serious: a photograph of you published and
declared as being an abductee (so _anyone_, who knows you or otherwise, will
now instantly recoginise who you are and what your claims are), or someone
revealing your real surname (in which case only those that know you will make
the connection)?

I would say that the photograph would be more damaging, and Hopkins is to
blame for that. The photographs came before the revelation of the surname,
therefore I can only conclude that Hopkins was ultimately responsible for
throwing you into the limelight.

It appears that you'd rather blame it all on debunkers instead of the
primary proponent - I wonder why?

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