2023 Diary of Doings

I received a reply within hours of sending the email out:

From: arforet@shaw.ca
To: ‘Glenn Hawley’ ; rolandd@cnrl.com ; ‘Simon Poole’
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2023 6:43 PM
Subject: RE: Calgary Public Library

“Glenn, we offer you the same carefully-worded wishes as well.”

You’re appointed spokescritter for all three, are you?

“To clarify, no one at the RASC Calgary Centre suggested that there was or is a restraining order against you.”

Read the pdf of the FOIP request. They didn’t get that from me. Nor did they themselves invent the ridiculous idea that I was harassing anyone.

https://astropithecus.ca/royal-astronomical-society-of-canada-hijinks/rasc-calgary-harassment/.

“What the Library was told was that the RASC Calgary Centre, by vote of Council, determined it was not in the Centre’s best interests to have you attend our meetings, public or otherwise. They were also advised that the Calgary Police Service confirmed our right to refuse admission to our meetings regardless of the venue we used. Even in a public library, we have the right to refuse entry to our meetings. The CPS also advised that they prefer that we call them to enforce our desire to avoid any confrontation between unwelcome members of the public and our members. This is a service they offer to many organizations across the City and a service we used to evict you in October.”

I spoke to Sgt Pasco. He happened to be there for an entirely different matter, and his assistance was requested by the Library security staff, who feared I might be some sort of violent troublemaker. The CPS was not actually called in separately, nor did the good Sgt know anything about such a request.

The FOIP request response makes the Library’s position clear that the Library holds the right, not you, to make arbitrary decisions like that.

It would be different, of course, if I were to violate the Library’s Code of Conduct in some fashion, but as you are well aware that has never been the case.

But I have never been confrontational, as you well know. Any confrontation would have to be initiated by you or by one of your cronies, and doubtless the Library’s security camera footage would show the aggression not to have arisen from me.

“While the Calgary Public Library has no reason to restrict you from their facilities, the RASC Calgary Centre has every right to restrict you from their meetings and will continue to do so.”

The Centre pays no rent and while it is a partner with the Calgary Publidc Library, it is the Library that has control over their venues, and in particular with respect to public presentations, advertised as such by the Library.

That’s the gist of their apology to me, and the gist of their assertion that they were wrong to have had me removed.

“We will inform the CPS that we expect you to attend and will have them enforce our rights again should you choose to attend. We all hope that you’ll stay clear of our general meetings as you are not welcome at any of our events and that we won’t need to waste the valuable time of the CPS officers again. You can certainly attend on-line and consume the content that we bring to the public.”

At the last two meetings I attended, I chatted with several friends, was quite respectful and quiet during the presentations, caused no disruption. No one was upset at my presence. I have, in the over three decades of attending RASC meetings, never done the slightest thing to cause disruption.

You have no grounds to bar me from public meetings of the Calgary Public Library. If you decide to try to waste police time and taxpayers’ money, that’s on you, not me.

“As you continue to point out perceived erroneous accusations, I must note that despite you being proven wrong in accusing me of posting nasty and baiting remarks on your website, and having your good buddy John Kelly lying about me going to your site through my employer’s network, I’ve yet to get an apology from either of you. I’ve visited your site once when it was created and never again and I certainly wouldn’t post anything there.

Heh heh heh… if you had only once visited the site upon its creation, you’d never have read the amusing conversations to be able to remark upon them here.”

It seems lacking in verisimilitude for this Brian (presumably Lyonnais) to bother making all those comments, especially if he had quit the Society already, and given that he was always a peripheral figure (at most) in your various controversies. He has no reason to bother.

Finally, when it comes to harassment, no one in this organization is bullying or disparaging you. We’ve all just reached our limit with regards to the continued harassment and attacks by you and John Kelly towards members of our organization and want nothing more to do with you or your nefarious colleagues.

Trying to set the police on me, or even just the Library security staff, is certainly bullying and harassment. It’s a childish and petty vindictiveness that I have, unfortunately, come to expect from you as a result of several issues.

Meanwhile, I have attacked no one, and at worst merely exposed some of the more invidious attacks undertaken against me and others.

John Kelly is not me, and despite the claims of the supposed “Brian” (who might still be you after all), he and I are not linked except in the very limited respect of both being appalled at the treatment of Roger and Grace Nelson.

Note that I have always been prepared to sit down and discuss amicably any differences we might have, but you and the Board you led persistently refused to do so, not even to elucidate what the justifications were for the accusations made against me.

My effort to have a Zoom meeting with the Board after the first phase of my expulsion, for example, was met with the assertion that there could be a meeting, but there would be no discussion permitted.

You earlier never even offered an explanation for accounting charitable costs against the membership services budget, either… setting a recalcitrant tone that has persisted throughout.