Merry Christmas!

Happy New Year!

CRACKING THE OLD BOY NETWORK

I have read your articles in 'chess canada' and have enjoyed them. If
my post was
taken as an insult towards yourself, I do apologize. Yes this was an
attack on Mr. Sloans Character. I believe that character is very
important when chosing a leader no matter what position the person is
running for. -- J. Lohner

Dear Mr.Lohner,

Sorry, if I misunderstood the animus of your
attack. Merry Xmas and a clear thinking New Year.

First, I have also attacked Sam in the past over
issues of propriety. I agree that he can be a loose
cannon in a china shop. Social considerations mean
nearly nothing to him.

Secondly, we disagree over the man's performance
as a Board member. Sam and I, virtually alone, spent
a year telling the Federation not to move to the
Trojan Horse that is Crossville, Tennessee. Sam was
accused of offering baseless charges when noting that
the cost of moving to Cross-to-Bear would be three
quarters of a mil.

And you know what: he was wrong. It was MORE
than that. When I reported some two months before the
Executive Board 'fessed up that the new, small
building would cost at least $650,000, I was called a
liar. Later, the board released the exact same figure,
and it has since gone still higher.

Sam is a troublemaker and that is, alas,
precisely what the USCF needs. The old boy network
and the sweetheart deals and rigged bidding -- these
things need to become part of the past if the USCF is
to survive as something more than a small office
offering certifications and the like.

Yours, Larry Parr



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BILL BROCK'S VOYEURISM

These stories may not be a 'sexual crime' but I would seriously question any man who has a daughter and could get any enjoyment out of these stories. -- J. Lohner

We have another poster attacking Sam Sloan,
first and foremost, and this writer secondarily.

I have no interest in reviewing sexually related
materials on Sam Sloan's site or other outlets. My
popcult entertainment involves listening to MP3 disks
with old-time radio programs such as The Great
Gildersleeve, Fibber McGee and Molly, Paul Temple (the
all-time great radio detective program, produced by the
BBC) and to be sure, Suspense, the ultimate OTR program.

I find it fascinating that the censorious types
such as our Bill Brock, first and foremost, apparently
are very well read indeed in sexual materials, whereas
many of us find such voyeurism not so much immoral,
though certainly hypocritical, as downright boring. Give
me instead an old program of Information Please with
with Alexander Woollcott, Dorothy Parker, Franklin P.
Adams and, say, Robert Benchley any day.

Voyeurism, which is explicit in so much current
entertainment, bores.

Secondly, I don't consider what people post on
the Internet to be in itself determinative, though
suggestive and occasionally predictive. So far as I
have been able to determine, Sam Sloan went to jail
on one occasion over an affair of the heart involving his
daughter. Many fathers, especially in these pc times,
would have acted as he did. I might have, if I were in
the same predicament. Any father here who says
otherwise is knowingly lying.

Thirdly, since the discussion is about chess,
the truly relevant subject matter is whether Sam has
been a positive influence in USCF affairs. The
evident answer is a clear and resounding YES!

Several of the attackers here are in de facto
league with the USCF Executive Board. You all have
witnessed the dishonest spinmeister Randy Bauer doing
a song-and-dance recently on this forum. He came, he
bellowed, he slunk away -- until given his next spin
assignment here. I find such behavior more
reprehensible than anything proven or, in several
instances, even alleged against Sam Sloan.

Yours, Larry Parr

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wrote:
DAY 5

Need Parr's celebration of incest in defense of Sloan. 2000 words, chop chop.
Day 5. -- Bill Brock, who lost a match to Sam Sloan in Chicago

With all due respect to those a bit potty and,
indeed, who are outright crackpots, one has to say
that Bill Brock is a psychoceramic himself. Once
again, we note that Mr. Brock has presented no proof
that Sam Sloan has committed any sexual crimes.

Just more smears aimed at misdirecting the focus
away from board member Randy Bauer.

Yours, Larry Parr




wrote:
On Dec 13, 9:34 am, wrote:
http://www.samsloan.com/forbiddendreams.htm

http://www.samsloan.com/ininlaw.htm

Need Parr's celebration of incest in defense of Sloan.

2000 words, chop chop.

Day 5.