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Posted by crow news editor on July 20, 2007, 2:08 pm We at Crow Athletics applaud this fair and just use of good common sense by the State of Maine. We have always had complete faith in the legal process. We feel confident that as more facts are learned about these allegations (including the questionable behavior and continued misinformation campaigns by the parties who filed the original complaints) that the facts will continue to speak for themselves. We invite readers to come to their own conclusions regarding a recently published newspaper article (including many misleading quotes by the same person who has made these allegations) claiming our club did not have any organizational history prior to 2002, when in fact there are published, dated Mainely Running magazine pieces including photographs with dated captions in existence beginning in 1991 that clearly show otherwise. There is also a claim in the same news article by the same individual that this dispute began with a trademark disagreement. This simply is not the case and is possibliy another twisted effort to distort the truth. The trademark disagreement was undertaken as a last resort many months after the inital breach of trust (again by the same person) in an effort to resolve the dispute surrounding misuse of privledged passwords given to the very same complainant at that time. There are also claims of not wanting to spend money on lawyers which begs the questions, are these good reasons to found a club and who would want to belong to such a group which was founded it seems just to avoid telling the truth? While these matters continue to work toward resolution, we encourage members of the 'spin off' group to ask their leaders why their group even exists? We humbly submit that had the orginal privledged password access granted (in good faith to the very same individual who has made these allegations) to edit our Crow Athletics web site that featured a new shared multiple administrator system, and had these privledges not been taken advantage of then our running community perhaps would not be so divided an in the midst of a wasteful popularity contest. What we find extremely troubling is that the same individual who first reported these hacking allegations is also the same individual who first abused the afore mentioned Crow Athletics editing / password / trust privileges that were issued, and even called for the 'no choice but' formation of the group that he now claims to represent, even quickly supplying a logo (most have no idea where this logo comes from or even why it was created) perhaps in efforts to help speed the process along before anyone could ask many questions. Far more interesting and distrubing to us is that we have recently received very reliable and substantiated claims about this same individual who has allegedly contacted several local athletes who have chosen to run or participate in our club activities and questioned and attempted to persuade them not to support our efforts. We feel this kind of behind the scenes negativity and intimidation simply does not belong in our sport. In our opinion, it's like the burglar who takes the family silver and then lights the house on fire to cover their tracks. In this case perhaps choosing to tell the truth might be an easier path than continuing to build fires to attract attention away from what really took place and which has created this never needed divide, including this same individuals calls for a divided group. The sport of running is and should be about fun, camaraderie and fitness and not politics or legal proceedings. We at Crow Athletics will continue to embrace and build on these points and we welcome runners of every age and ability, no matter where they may live to join us in keeping it fun.
Message modified by board administrator July 21, 2007, 4:00 pm
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Ellsworth - Allegations from an individual representing a local "human powered activities" group that one of our club members had allegedly hacked into their web site resulted in the following statement (excerpt) issued by the state as heard today in Ellsworth Superior Court, "... under the circumstances the charges could be reduced to a misdemeanor." With that said, no actions were taken by the State of Maine concerning the now admitted, 'administrative oversight' (as it is now being described as by the individual who filed the original complaint) Nothing further is scheduled regarding these matters until a status meeting that has been tentatively scheduled for Sept 21.
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