Once Upon A Time, Last September

Once upon a time, last September, I started this blog. I did it to interest me first and to try and provide information, comment, opinion, and ideas from others about Ponte Vista at San Pedro.

I feel my "trial" with this blog has been so much more successful than even my wife could have imagined.

Just think, someone was so disturbed by this blog, they felt they needed to start a blog, just to counter this blog's facts, opinion, ans comments. Of course the other blogger would disagree with why he/she/they created their blog, but that is their opinion.

The other blogger seems to think the majority of attacks coming on this blog are about "him".
How can somebody be attacked if they are essentially anonymous to begin with.

Somebody who won't reveal their true identity shouldn't feel personally attacked because nobody knows who they really are.

Suppose I hadn't revealed that I also use M Richards, Ned, Gus, and Sven Ludvquist O'Brien as aliases? Do you think I would get offended if those fictitious persons were attacked? Of course not. When someone uses a name that is not their own and/or hides behind anonymity, they should not feel attacked, I believe.

When I started this blog, I wrote that it would be "all things Ponte Vista". In my mind, if Bob is trying to market homes to union members, teachers, seniors within OUR community and elsewhere, or there are significant issues relating, in part, to Ponte Vista, I believe they deserve inclusion within this blog.

What might happen to Bob's plans for Ponte Vista if at some point in the future, many of the operations of the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach were moved south of our nation's border? This is just one example of why I choose to cover things other than just Ponte Vista on this blog.

Now about that other blog. As I read in its beginning, it was created in large part to counter this blog. That flatters me. I do not need to debate with the other blogger about who has more correct facts, because I have plenty of reference materials to back up the facts I use and am quite willing to answer anyone and everyone, if they ask.

I have learned, and it continues to this day that, the other blogger and blog attacks me, using my real name. I cannot possibly "attack" the true identity and personhood of the other blogger because he/she/they continue to hide behind a false name that they even had to do some surreptitious doings to have a letter to the editor in the Daily Breeze. How sneaky and underhanded is that???

I guess I have helped create a monster. Perhaps that is what would have happened anyway, because some folks are scared or alarmed with the success and openness of this blog.

Welcoming ideas, opinions, and comment from others about many issues on this blog have helped it grow. Not using moderation (censorship) probably has allowed visitors to comment without fear that there words will be pre-judged before publication by someone who seems to need to have ultimate control.

What happens when the publication of thoughts, comments, and ideas are controlled by one person? What does it also say that the moderator won't even allow us to know their true identity, for reasons that are foggy at best? What does the other blogger stand to gain or lose by using their true identity?

I do read the other blog. I haven't made comment on it without using my "M Richards" or "MW", and will continue to not make comment on that blog.

If you choose to read that blog, then that is fine. I wish to allow for no more weight to be given to that blog and/or that blogger because of the use of anonymity and moderation on that blog.

You may speculate on the true identity of the other blogger. You can speculate that they are part of the Bisno organization, a paid Blogger, a lobbyist for Bob, a member of one of Bob's Advisory Boards, or anyone else for that matter. If the blogger remains hidden in the shadows, why give him/her/them credence, or attribute anything positive on that blog?

Since I can't tell you who "XXX" really is, why should I imagine that you should believe or follow "XXX"?

It is true that I did try to discuss compromise with the other blogger and for a spell of time, it seemed friendly enough. But since the other blogger finally came up with the proposal first found on this blog, the other blogger has not moved one inch more toward compromise. That seems to me to be more like Bob than a true compromisor, don't you think?

The other blogger posted his/her/their original and current proposal in March. I tried until May 29 to discuss compromising between that original proposal and what I had been proposing. Like Bob, the other blogger was unwilling to try and find some total number between the blogger's proposal and my former plan. If the other blogger still clings to the original proposal, what does that say about the value of that proposal?

From March and it seems today, the other blogger demands no compromise to the proposal first set forth on this blog, back in March, it seems to me. Even Bob attempted to find a compromise.

If you want to attack the other blogger by name, go ahead. It isn't his real identity anyway. Why should the real human hiding behind a false identity feel bad that the fictional character is being attacked, the real person has nothing to lose, perhaps.

Of course, if or when we learn the true identity of "XXX" we may learn more about how bad things really are, concerning Ponte Vista, and why some have to hide their true identity. Isn't that shameful?