Andre Jute wrote:
Remember Mike Vandeman, the environmetalist who campaigns against
mountainbikers wrecking the habitat, who was railroaded in California
by a venal district attorney and a bunch of scofflaw mountain bikers
perjuring themselves?

Now Vandeman the Martyr (1) lashes back. See the Comments to the
article "A miscarriage of justice. A nasty piece of work. A failure of
journalism." http://coolmainpress.com/ajwriting/archives/993

Now it will really hit the fan. Maybe I was too mild in calling the
journalist who betrayed the profession to help railroad Mike Vandeman
"scum".

(1) Predicted by several of the smarter parties on RBT.

Points to consider
[1] Jutiefool does not give a rats arse about Mike Vandeman or mountain biking
in NorCal. What he does care about is finding a contrarian position to espouse
in the hope of stirring up a ****fight and getting the attention he craves.
[2] Vandeman's "return" is a real red-letter event, consisting as it does of a
few comments on some blog of Jutes that's read by simply threes of people. He's
been mercifully absent from Usenet for over a year now.
[3] Vandeman could be ignored when he was, for some reason, gentlemanly enough
to confine himself to the fringe lunatic groups like rec.bicycle.soc, .misc,
..racing. I don't appreciate Jute spamming his current post across all the
rec.bicycles groups. He's encouraging his fellow lunatic to post his crap on
RBT as well. RBT does have value as a source of advice and information which
will be lost if the interesting stuff is submerged beneath a torrent of
cross -posted Vandeman idiocy gloating about injured or dead mountain bikers.
PH