@Missy-Q, I'm not gonna answer for Ledz on this one, firstly it would be inappropriate of me and secondly, I don't wanna cause him any problems - he's made a choice and I'm sure he has his reasons for that.
I think there's a lot of testimonial evidence in this thread, and after reading it, people have to make their own minds up - I spoke to someone today at length and he chooses to believe that we're all being manipulated by the industry, me especially, I get described as an attack dog deliberately wound up and directed by industry figures ... who these industry guys are, I got no idea.
The truth is, all of the industry together couldn't make me do a damned thing I didn't want to do.
If I want to do something, then regardless of who might agree, I do it ... and I've done this on many, many occasions when a lot of the industry people would rather I didn't, it's aggravation they really don't need.
I will repeat a previous inappropriate validation of what I've said by stating 100%, on my kids' lives, there is no conspiracy here, there never has been and I doubt ever will, barnett isn't as important he likes to think he is.
I have kicked-started each and every attack on him, I have already stated that on the first time I went for him 4 or 5 years back, several people told me about their suspicions surrounding the charity appeal but not one of them asked me to post a damned thing.
It suits barnett to describe everything as a conspiracy because it then diverts attention away from himself and also provides a back door so's he doesn't have to confront what he's done to people.
barnett has this pathologically inflated notion of self-importance and as such, he really believes our industry fear his presence and are actively conspiring to cause him problems and I assume ultimately, get him out of paintball.
It's a fantasy, a concoction designed to avert responsibility.
I'm not suggesting they would be sorry to see him go but that's more because he's an as$hole than a threat of any kind.
My point here is, if you have an association with barnett, whatever that may be, people do not like to be proven wrong about their choice to do business with them ..especially when it's done so publicly as it has been here, it's an unwanted embarrassment.
And so there's an inertia here, such that some people prefer to stick with their choice, and such that they require a video of the alleged wrongdoing, an accompanying statement which is to be ratified by 3 people, 2 of whom have to be heads of state and the remainder, the Pope's grandfather before they will admit they are wrong about someone ... they think it's loyalty, it's not, it's blind and wilful ignorance.
Personally, I think these type people insult the guys who have decided to come on here and testified their tales of woe .... but it's amazing what one's ego allows you to do in the sense of not wanting to look a bit silly when the evidence begins to migrate into the world of a common-sense judgement.
One thing of note, Missy, we've been to the US many, many times, how long would this thread have stayed up in the US before litigation became involved?
A week, a day, an hour?
And yet, barnett denies all but seeks no legal redress - I'm afraid t-b won't go legal on this because if the statements were put before a judge in a civil action, there would be an assessment done on the basis of probability.
And if there's one thing I've learned about barnett, the guy really doesn't want legal people involved in anything he's doing, either the police, the courts or whoever ... we realised this first time around when he didn't try to sue me over that charity appeal thingy posts ... he knows he can't because he knows he's in sh!t when it comes to proving he
did have the correct accounting going on, he didn't as we now know.
He's just gotta sit there and take this sh!t because he did these things ... but according to some, all the people who posted here, they're all liars and conspirers .... surely this must be the case, isn't it?
:/
