ON TECHNIQUE IN CHESS
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BILL BROCK'S BIG LIE

The fact that some co-author of a book was convicted of molesting a
minor some years after writing a book does not mean that Sloan
advocates molesting
children. -- Joker

We have that old Bill Brock lie again. He
claims that Sam Sloan has given an account of how the
latter molested children.

Could use some back-up material; a "doctored" comment
wherein BB says something /like/ this, taken out of context
might work.


Once again, not true. There remains no proof
that Sam has ever molested a child -- let alone any
admission on Sam's part.

Mr. Brock himself, in a moment of excitement,
did suggest that he Brock had played with young boys
at one time, but we have stipulated that he did not
mean to say what actually emerged from his keyboard.

Just a brief comment he I think it would be more interesting
for the plot if Mr. Parr said that BB had an affair with a young Tai
girl, instead of this homosexual stuff. The point is to connect
the ad hom charge to the poster via something he *actually
wrote*.

I neither know nor care whether Mr. Brock is, as
charged by one Joker, a repressed or a raging
homosexual.

Good stuff, this!

In fact, one wishes that the man would
give his obsessions, which apparently includes a wide
reading in pornography, a rest.

Excellent; readers will know that BB has discussed his
reading of Sam Sloan's Web site, which is known to contain
pornography, so it all fits together nicely.


The latest Brockian joust at the windmill he
evident imagines Sam to be is that the latter ought to
be kicked off the Executive Board, legally or
illegally, because he sells a book written by bogeyman
Jefferson Poland.

Sentence makes little sense; but I like the insertion of
"bogeyman" -- very nice.


By that logic virtually every book
seller in America would be ineligible for membership
on the USCF Executive Board.

Your Slippery Slope technique is good.

The contents of many
psychology books that are widely sold contain
hair-raising accounts of human depravity, beginning
with Freud.

Nice diversion. Readers will of course be confounded by
thinking on Freud and depravity, instead of Sam Sloan and
advocacy of child molestation. Clever.


As for the thousands of novels in which
fiction really has outstripped reality, those who sell
them would also be unfit to serve on the board. If you
own a Border's or a Barnes &Noble outlet, you had
better forget about working within the chess movement,
if poor Mr. Brock ever has his way.

FYI: Very few readers here are likely to own such a store.
But the intent was nice. Also, readers may not easily
identify with and feel sympathy for so wealthy a person.
In sum, the "victim" needs to be someone we can all feel
for, and wish to protect from harm -- a child, perhaps?


Until the Brock man can provide us proof --
which he repeatedly stated he had -- that Sam has ever
molested a child, I believe that his obsessively
sexualized postings are saying more about him in the
minds of many readers than they are about Mr. Sloan.

Better to leave out mention of SS altogether; the idea was to trick
readers into forgetting about him and his past transgressions,
and instead focus on the many diversions. Keep trying; my
comments are meant well, not as mean nitpicking.

-- help bot