Thanks Andy. The last thing I want is for Sara to be dragged into my shenanigans, or for certain people to imply that anything I have said here comes from anyone but myself. I speak for me, and only me, and I sure as hell have a grudge over all of those annoying subpoenas interrupting my father's time at work coming from camp Alan, subpoenas requesting emails and cell phone records between private, personal accounts that were conversations between two friends, just because my father dared to be friends with Sara and Alan wanted to screw with her by dragging her friends into the legal proceedings for a case he could never actually prove. Then some of those same emails only obtained by subpoena for discovery end up in the hands of Suzanne Harris for her to read at a county commission meeting, MYSTERIOUSLY. But oh no, I'm sure they didn't give them to her. It's easy to see why I have so little concern for Alan's "privacy," and I have no issue laying my bias out on the table here.
True invasion of privacy is leveraging the courts to demand access to a random citizen's cell phone and personal email records, information not publicly available online, information you can't get without a subpoena. The way I see it, what's good for the goose is good for the gander. All of those subpoenas and nothing 'juicy' was ever even found in the off the record conversations between friends, because there was nothing TO find. In my opinion, the only purpose of it was to try to imply that there was some sort of shady conspiracy going on behind the scenes. On the other hand, all I had to do was some Googling and database searches to find something intriguing that was already public record.
Where was Linda when all of these "private citizens" holding no public office were receiving subpoenas left and right for their private data? She certainly wasn't piping up for my father's privacy then, and of course she wouldn't be, because she doesn't like my father. Yeah, I don't have warm and fuzzy feelings about Alan Osborne. What of it? All you need to know is that I have my own, glaringly obvious reasons to be a jerk to Alan, and those reasons have everything to do with those frivolous subpoenas directed at my father, and absolutely nothing to do with me white knighting for Sara. Sara can handle her own problems, and from what I've seen, Sara is a pretty damn efficient problem solver all by herself. I highly doubt she needs help from a 26 year old with far less life experience than herself.
True invasion of privacy is leveraging the courts to demand access to a random citizen's cell phone and personal email records, information not publicly available online, information you can't get without a subpoena. The way I see it, what's good for the goose is good for the gander. All of those subpoenas and nothing 'juicy' was ever even found in the off the record conversations between friends, because there was nothing TO find. In my opinion, the only purpose of it was to try to imply that there was some sort of shady conspiracy going on behind the scenes. On the other hand, all I had to do was some Googling and database searches to find something intriguing that was already public record.
Where was Linda when all of these "private citizens" holding no public office were receiving subpoenas left and right for their private data? She certainly wasn't piping up for my father's privacy then, and of course she wouldn't be, because she doesn't like my father. Yeah, I don't have warm and fuzzy feelings about Alan Osborne. What of it? All you need to know is that I have my own, glaringly obvious reasons to be a jerk to Alan, and those reasons have everything to do with those frivolous subpoenas directed at my father, and absolutely nothing to do with me white knighting for Sara. Sara can handle her own problems, and from what I've seen, Sara is a pretty damn efficient problem solver all by herself. I highly doubt she needs help from a 26 year old with far less life experience than herself.
