Here is Ann Bogle’s response to my blog
post of Saturday 11 August 2012:
In that blog post I explain that I didn’t
call Bobbi Lurie “psychotic”, as Ann had previously said I had done in an email
to Ann, but had, rather, referred to Bobbi’s emails to me as becoming "more and
more psychotic and confusing", principally at the point at which Bobbi accused
me in one email of trying to make her cancer worse. I think anyone accused of
this would take such an accusation as not being consistent with
reality, hence my use of the word “psychotic” in relation to this. The word
“psychotic” means, by the way, in case Ann doesn’t know the definition of it,
“being out of touch with reality”, and as Bobbi’s accusation that I was trying
to make her cancer worse falls very much into this area, I felt justified in
using that word. I did not say, I stress, that Bobbi, herself, was psychotic,
but that what she was saying was.
Ann says in her response to my blog post
that Bobbi has told her that Bobbi might seek legal advice regarding my use of
the word “psychotic”. Ann says of Bobbi: "She says the word
"psychotic" is incriminating even in defense against it. She emailed
she could find a lawyer”. If one can’t refer to the word “psychotic” to defend
oneself from the accusation that they had called someone it, then that would be
very strange. I’m only going, though, by what Ann says Bobbi has said regarding
this. I don’t know if Bobbi said it or not.
Ann also says in her response to my blog
post that my blog post accuses Ann of incompetence and malicious gossip. I
don’t think I do accuse her of the former but certainly of the latter, as the
latter was, as is plain from my blog post, motivated by her anger at my
removing her from The Argotist Online Facebook group. The malicious gossip in
question, being her accusation that I called Bobbi “psychotic”, which she first
mentioned in the Otherstream Facebook group and then in a post she made at
Fictionaut, which has now been removed by a Fictionaut administrator as it was
defamatory.
Ann then says in her response to my blog
post:
"Side sent Bobbi quack remedies for cancer,
she told me, and that when she lived in London, she met many Brits who believed
in false hope remedies such as those Side proposed to her."
This is referring to the period when Bobbi
and I were in communication with each other. I sent Bobbi various links to
alternative cancer therapies. I wouldn’t characterise them as “quack” therapies,
though, as most were being delivered by reputable hospitals and clinics.
Ann then says in her response to my blog
post:
“In a message dated 8/12/2012 11:49:19 P.M.
Central Daylight Time, bobbilurie@.com writes:
YES, JEFF SIDE'S BRAIN: DRINKING WATER
WHILE STANDING ON YOUR HEAD AND SPEAKING IN HUNGARIAN IS NOT A CURE FOR CANCER,
JEFF SIDE'S BRAIN...YOU'LL JUST MAKE MY CANCER WORSE...” [Block capitals not
mine]
I have no idea if Bobbi did actually write
this or not. If she did, then I would like to take the opportunity to say that
I have not advised her to drink water while standing on her head and speaking
Hungarian, which, of course, she knows full well is not true.
