Now I’m Dave Walker, Sam Norton, and Phil Groom
I’m not referring to the, er, Texas cowboys by name. I don’t feel like giving them the satisfaction. I’ll simply call them the Brothers Grim for now. “Grim” is pretty accurate.
Since I first posted a week ago about our friend Dave Walker at the Cartoon Blog, a lot has happened. More than fifty bloggers have taken the time to archive at least a few of Dave’s posts as recovered from the Google cache. A Facebook group has formed that now boasts 337 members. Many of these people are in the UK. It would be nice to have a few more Americans.
The more-or-less political aspects of the whole thing are being covered very nicely at Unity’s “Ministry of Truth” blog, where he’s pondering the intricacies of declaring bankruptcy in Houston Texas for an organization started up in England and where the overwhelming majority of creditors are English. Go back several pages for the full effect. Matt Wardman’s Wardman Wire continues to chronicle the various actions taken by assorted bloggers and others. Both of these gentlemen ask a very interesting and pointed question: Why is it that the fast-and-furious “Cease and Desist” letters seem to be directed only at bloggers with a religious agenda, while these two more secular blogs have so far escaped.
That leads me to the “Cease and Desist” correspondence. It’s landed on the (virtual) doorsteps of Phil Groom, a former SPCK customer, and Sam Norton, an Anglican clergyman. Sam, who blogs about a diversity of items, has posted the entire body of the correspondence. He’s now gone back to his more normal postings, admirably refusing to let this get in his way. Phil points out that one of the pages he’s supposed to remove is a page where one may go to contribute to a fund for displaced former employees. He’s–well, he’s a bit incensed about that. We all should be.
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