Okay. Because the board seems to be holding Ken responsible for the boycott and asking him to end it for the good of...whatever, the negotiations, their feeble subscription drive, their battered egos, here is how it actually got started. Michael Healey contacted me and asked if there was anything he could do to help. I responded that I wanted to get a boycott going and would he mind drafting a letter. Or maybe he volunteered to write it at that point, I'm not sure. It was afterall a half century ago in total fuck up time. Anyway, he wrote a perfect little something, we circulated it to a number of people. Some responded, some didn't. We circulated it more widely and the numbers started to grow. Truth is, I had wanted to do it some time before this but I sensed that Ken was uneasy with the idea. However, eventually, because I believed deeply that it would be the only thing that would make an impact on the board, I pushed through his unease (uneasily) and here we are. So if people need someone to blame for this, they can blame me. I do not care one little bit. There is only one thing I care about in this whole miserable sickening mess and that is Ken's reinstatement. So that's it then: not Ken's idea, not Ken's responsibility to terminate. Also, it is now clearly something wholly owned by the people who signed on to it. And as it clearly states, it will not end until Ken gets his job back. That is, until the board itself puts an end to it.
Just wanted to clear that up.
