Current unblock request, moral challenge to Arbcom Options

[Peter Damian]

I made a recent unblock request, after a period of cessation in hostilities. They have declined of course. The interesting thing is that they were prepared to grant an unblock in February this year. However, at that time I was asking that they make public certain things regarding my blocks. They declined, as the leaked email from Xeno, shows, because to do so would be difficult without demonstrating there really was a conspiracy. See this leaked email.

From: Xeno <xenowiki_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 15:31
To: English Arbitration Committee mailing list <arbcom-l_AT_lists.wikimedia.org>

Well, he's asking for The Truth and public disclosure of The Truth and denouncement of The Spreader Of Falsehoods. And you're right, there's not really a good way to respond to that in a way that doesn't make us look like part of the conspiracy.
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In the most recent request, I gave absolutely no conditions, except that I could ask questions during the upcoming election. So why are they now declining the unblock? What has changed?

I have emailed back, saying I now am not even asking for that condition. Nothing whatsoever. I will even agree not to ask any questions at the election.

Of course, they will now see that if they grant the conditionless unblock, they will have conceded that the reason for the current decline was wanting to ask the difficult questions.

So my reasoning is that they will decline the current unblock request.

Most people here will say the usual thing, they are weak, corrupt, etc. I continue with my hope in human nature, and that good will prevail at some point.

[thekohser]

Just power cycle your modem and come back as a new character, then ask all the election questions you want!

[Peter Damian]

Just power cycle your modem and come back as a new character, then ask all the election questions you want!

No I come back as myself. As I pointed out just now in an email to Arbcom, the longer they demonstrably evade any public questioning on certain issues, the worse for them.

If I come back as a 'sock', that will play into their hands. The evidence remains forever. Wikipedians, and the individual Arbcom members, come and go.

Actually, I can't believe they are being quite so unintelligent.