Well, I recieved your PM and now I have been directed to this thread of yours. What struck me at the moment was "Who is this?", with utmost candor. I do remember my last entry before I called it a night. I intended for it to have a haplessly derailed thread closed. Initially I urged people to not walk into the grounds of discussing the historical Greek-Iranian relationship during antiquity. Instead jestful comments on fascism, nationalism, and Hitler, clearly with a precedent in a thread started to emerge. What I wrote was for a preventive reason. Not to pick and choose some victim at random. Even though I quoted your entry, you shall find that upon closer inspection of the concerned entry, that only very little is relevant to the discussion of communalistic ideologies (Or dedicated to, so to speak). It is never in my intention to harass individuals. Neither is it my style, nor do indulge in such praxis to gain enemies on the Internet. Not only would it be beneath my character, but it would also be too petty. Equally, I do not get offended on the Internet. I do not expect everyone to follow this axiom, but it tells nonetheless a good deal about my character.

What you may come to realize that much of what I wrote pertains to an attitude that I have seen for a long time on the Internet, and not necessarily only at Total War forums. Not necessarily to what you wrote, even if it in retrospect was of a jestful nature. I have seen much less been called "Hitler" or "fascist" due to non-conformity to popular perception. I live in Sweden, a remarkable country. A hospitable, generous but naïve country; It embraces multi-culturalism to the extreme level, and all things that may even hint at patriotism or the need to retain the unique Scandinavian culture is not only shunned, but discouraged. A man who may have a Swedish flag hanging outside of his balcony may be called a "racist", as equally as schools have been forced to abolish the national anthem in assemblies. Now that you do mention a certain familiarity with Iranians, you must also have notified the very binary nature of an Iranian man; You'll either find a passionate man who proudly exclaims to have visited grand places of hegemony, or a complete nutcase who only thinks of how much the chains need fettering before the next day of ritual self-scourging. Now I ask to you, sincerely, if you heckled the prelude to a baseball game, or show resentment to the banners of your own homeland. Chances are high, if not indiscriminately high, that you do not. If that is the case, then you may take relief in the fact that you are not some target or a scapegoat.

It is possible for any man to commit an error; I have no problem making admissions, indeed, for I may have erred in assessing the situation at that stage. What I will not excuse myself from is the candor in combination with tact. If anyone wishes to meet an Iranian nazist, he'll be best off dragging someone from the high clergy or the presidential puppet. If anyone wishes to meet a Greek nazist, Golden Dawn should fit the bill. In retrospect to what had previously been uttered, and then the sudden jest in not taking the situation very seriously will sooner or later lead to people who speak of possible developments. It is only a shame that text only allows me so much flexibility in lieu of being more personal in communication. You'll see that out of principle, I'll never side against fellow EB members, lest they make gross miscalculations, and even then I do not bring it to the public.

I'm not a stranger to controversy. Like Sarcasm, you will find it highly unlikely that my character will budge. I believe candor is best served like a Jack Daniels on the rocks and with a twist. There's the content, and then the delivery. Everyone enjoys a hardball drink now and then, but it's better to have it served chilled and not having the bartender releasing a Lincoln Log breeze into the glass. True, we are not only better than animals, but on the Internet, I personally set for myself an even higher standard on personal conduct.

I do not make enemies on the Internet on purpose. I am sorry if you got offended or hurt, and I do hope that you will take relief in the fact that when I usually write long rants, it usually carries minimal personal designation to it; What may initially start out as a brief response may branch out into becoming a statement for everyone to see and appreciate. Think of it as the Roman Senate in those old sandals and swords movies, they'll usually protest or argue at first, only to later bring their own case