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Kate Morgan Reade's avatar

I applaud your efforts to remove this account from Substack posthumously. Clearly, this person was exceptionally mentally ill, and the whole situation is beyond sad.

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Armand Beede's avatar

Kate Morgan Reade: Thank you so much for your kind remarks.

I love your Verbihund column, with your gift for words, and your humor. I follow your writings with great interest, and I appreciate your remarks here.

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Kate Morgan Reade's avatar

Thank you, Armand.

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Liz Gauffreau's avatar

That was my thought as well,Kate. The poor man must have had a serious mental illness.

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Armand Beede's avatar

Liz Gaufreau: TOTALLY!

But another ("Ponzi" something) HOSTED the suicide note!

I want Substack to remove THIS HOST.

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Liz Gauffreau's avatar

I wasn't sure if the "manifesto" was real or somebody's idea of a sck parody.

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Armand Beede's avatar

Liz Gauffreau: You raise a good point. A really good point.

In my law school youth, it became axiomatic: The Law cannot read the subjective intent of an individual, but can only judge the objective intent as shown by the actions of the parties.

Your theory is possible.

In either case, my attack is against the "Ponzi" host. The same argument prevails for taking down the conspiracy site. (I looked at "Ponzi's" other postings. A lot of weird, conspiracy theories.)

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Liz Gauffreau's avatar

I agree. Conspiracy sites have done too much damage already.

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