Talk:Paul Gunter

Commentary by anonymous party
What was he charged with for the arrests herein euphemised as "non-violent civil disobedience?"

Was he convicted?

This article is horribly POV, glorifying a common criminal. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.112.22.239 (talk) 17:26, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Response to anonymous editor
I know Paul Gunter personally. I am not anti-nuke. I loathe anonymous editors who do not have the guts to stand behind what they are saying. Paul is one of the most gentle, sincere dudes you can find, whether you agree or disagree with him and I don't agree with him or disagree with him on everything. To call him a common criminal is far removed from fact. I think you would even have a hard time finding rank and file staffers in OWFN who routinely tangle with him, agreeing with such character dafamation, especially in the absence of any credible information. You ask whether or not he was convicted, meaning you have no clue whatsoever, and then attempt to transparently convict him in the public eye with an unsubstantiated comment, that you do not have the intestinal fortitude to sign. A bot has to do it for you... There is a German saying that characterises this, which is cannot be adequately translated into English: "Große Schnauze, nichts dahinter!", roughly translating to big snout, nothing to back it up. I suggest that if you find anything to back up the character defamation, so it is actual and indisputable fact, backed up by credible and public sources, then add it as a reference as per Wiki protocol. Meanwhile you might try to look at all the trouble the various lobbyists get into and get politicians into, to push their agendas, Paul's opposition, because he isn't fighting his battles with big money to hand to politicians. Paul genuinely believes that nuclear power is not worth the risk. He's certainly not getting rich off that fight. He can back his beliefs up with facts that are more compelling to him than those of the powers that be, namely the power companies that got into nuclear power on the heels of and with people from the Manhattan Project. You can agree or disagree, but it is not right or just and it cannot be tolerated in this forum to just cut someone down without anything to back it up and then "cut and run", as George W. Bush puts it, by not signing the statement. That is the sort of thing that gets you searched for sock puppeteering and then blocked. If you have a point, there are classier ways to make it than to work people over anonymously. --Achim (talk) 04:11, 11 June 2008 (UTC)