Theos-Talk Archives (December 2006 Message tt00146)

Mr. Carlos Aveline states:

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The ETS made a SMALL reproduction of the Coulomb fake attacks seeing 
it as A HISTORICAL document.  Then Mr. Caldwell bought it from the 
Edmonton Theosophical Society and started to give it as much 
publicity as he could,as if those slanders "mikght be true". Mr. 
Daniel slanders the founder of the movement as a voluntter work,  in 
his leisure time.
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Let me clarify some of Mr. Aveline's statements which can be and are 
misleading.

I had the Coulomb pamphlet long before the ETS reproduced it.  So the 
sequence he describes is inaccurate.

Furthermore, I have never stated that those slanders in the Coulomb 
pamphlet "mikght be true" or even "might be true"!  Therefore Mr. 
Aveline's statement is misleading readers on Theos-Talk.

Furthermore, I do not slander "the founder of the movement as a 
voluntter work,  in his leisure time."

Again this is a statement by Mr. Aveline which misleads readers on 
Theos-Talk.

But I do view the Coulomb pamphlet and material as "historical 
documents" (just as apparently the ETS did and does) and this 
material should be made available to interested readers.

Now Mr. Aveline at one point said that the Coulomb pamphlet is 
poisonous and counterfeit.  And he compared the circulation of such 
material to the passing around of poisons and counterfeit bills.

He accused me of passing around such poisons and counterfeit bills 
when I quoted a few pages from the Coulomb pamphlet in my book.

Yet apparently he justifies the ETS publishing the whole pamphlet!  
Mr. Aveline seems to be saying that the ETS reproduction of the whole 
pamphlet is different because they only made a SMALL number of 
reproductions for maybe 20 libraries (how many individuals received 
copies also??) and it was for historical purposes.

Therefore it would appear that Mr. Aveline is saying that it is okay 
to circulate what he himself has called "poisons" and "counterfeit 
bills" IF ..... IF you only circulate some copies rather than 
circulating "many" or a greater number of copies.

This type of thinking simply doesn't make sense.  If Mr. Aveline's 
characterization of the Coulomb material/pamphlet is really true and 
accurate ("poisons" and "counterfeit bills") then whether you 
circulate a few or 20 or more, the "crime" would be the same.

Would such a silly defense work in a court of law???

"But your honor, I only circulated a limited number of the 
counterfeit bills."

"Your honor, I only circulated maybe 20 vials of poison."

Daniel