You have taken on Bob as a political general because I am very good at it. I am good at it because I have been in it for decades.

One of you nice folks said that at my age I shouldn’t have to mention that I am pensioned on mental disability, just “retired.”

I have a reason for being frank about my heart attacks, drug use, and nervous breakdowns.

And it is critical for you to remember these facts when we have internal friction.

Because my approach to BUGS internal friction is very similar to my general strategy: I do not want SUGGESTIONS about how you SHOULD get out there and FIGHT.

I want REPORTS about what you learned when YOU went out there and fought.

The same rule applies with whatever is going on BETWEEN you fighters.

In political organizations The Leader is interested in hearing who is on his “correct” side.

When I hear someone talk about what is going on in Bugdom, once again, my interest is in what YOU are doing about it. If someone is upset, WHAT DID YOU AND HE SAY WHEN YOU CONTACTED HIM ABOUT IT?

I also note whether people treat me as a totally dedicated old man warrior with SHELLSHOCK who insults people when he gets a beer or two in him.

What you do is either 1) tell him he needs to stop getting on with a drink for fun, which no Real Leader would ever do, but you seem to enjoy it when I do, or 2) not go to pieces like the usual political outfit does.

Which is why those outfits did no good and are GONE.

I am NOT going to keep up with personal conflicts among BUGSERS, even the ones that involve ME.

I began the real BUGS by announcing that what happened with Dr. Pierce on his deathbed. Pierce was asked if he knew anybody who might take over the National Alliance.

His reply was: “I knew some, but they are all dead.”

It struck others as a witty piece of deathbed bravado.

It scared the weewee out of me.

The powerful National Alliance simply died with Pierce. So did most of his life’s work.

Allow me to repeat for the hundredth time that I determined, no matter how small or unfunded, I wanted a group to keep up my life’s work.

This is the opposite of what a Leader might desire. He might want his disappearance to throw his organization into limbo, like the National Alliance.

My ideal is exactly the opposite: I have provided in my will for the little money BUGS needs and named a person to provide it whom I trust, but they will CONTINUE BUGS.

They will not RUN it.

YOU will run it. 

As far as our purposes are concerned, my ideal is that my passing away will not cause a bump in our road.

My life has been dedicated to the survival of my race far beyond my lifetime.

The biggest problem I find now is writers to follow me. I am happy to have them now.

The reason I don’t have writers is because opinions are easy, but writing is WORK.

We have SysOps, we have Laura, we even have Linux deciding to worry about the cause rather than whatever he thought I did to him.

As I have said before, people who are dedicated as we are to something besides getting ahead by going along are going to be a bunch of loose cannons.

But, unlike Dr. Pierce, I think YOU can make this work.

This means YOU must handle disputes, even the ones your Head Loose Cannon causes.