HARRY WAS A BRAVE MAN

I dug this post from my archives. It made me regret my low level of contact with Harry before he abruptly left our world. Yes, he was a brave man indeed, unlike some handpicked feeble characters serving under the depicted incompetent character. Will the incompetent voluntarily step down? Nah, business as usual until a face-to-face encounter with Harry.
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Thursday, October 23, 2014

A NOT-SO-PRIVATE EMAIL

As a member of ASPA(Vic), I am in receipt of the email below. I usually comment on similar occasions. However, on this one, I would rather leave it to the reader, without any subjective comments from me.

Reference is made to certain occurrences that might be unknown to the reader. If so, please email me confidentially and I would be able to explain.

Mohammed Hegazi

mohammedhegazi@gmail.com

from:	carol johnsen <caroljscrabble@gmail.com>
to:	carol johnsen
bcc:	mohammedhegazi@gmail.com
date:	22 October 2014 21:46
subject:	Email to Carol Johnsen from Harry Malcolm

Dear ASPA (Vic) Members,

I am greatly disturbed by an email I received from Harry Malcolm on October 1 (below) after I had sought for the Moderator of Ozscrabble to ask Harry Malcolm to stop denigrating ASPA (Vic) and committee members on the Ozscrabble site.

I showed this to some members recently and they all asked that I should send it out to our membership as it was certainly not in the interests of the Association.

Carol Johnsen

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From:  Harry  Malcolm                                                  Oct 1

to:        Carol Johnsen

Wakey wakey, its over

We have bit our tongues for best part of a decade

while you obfuscated and paid lip service to professional expectations,

unrolled the nightmare to us of realising an incompetent was in power,

and led the raining of abuse on us.

Wagged your misleading tongues in your favour and against us;

even while telling members not to discuss this sordid case..

but

We have endured, and been proven right all along.

Do us all a favor and step down,

leave quietly.

You and Marj have led Vic scrabble to a train wreck

It's not the fault of online,

or of members passing on..

The longer you maintain the facade over your utter incompetence,

now confirmed to me from unexpected others,

You have nothing left but to try and gag and control to the death,

and continue to besmirch Mo as you desperately do

trying to make the bizarre cheating claims stick,

in fear for your due and pending humiliation

which you can only postpone,

not stop...

trying to make some dirt stick,

hoping to keep some of the fooled membership remnants still sobbing for you,

the more is going to come out about your appalling performance and baseless supreme arrogance.

In time it's what you will be remebered for

despite your claques still half beating heart for you..

i will not stand by and tolerate any of what you did to still stand

unless as a monument to what future Committees will never do,

and memberships will be vigilantly watching out

and auditing contrived cases based on revenge motives

and using manipulation

and hearsay..

fabricating a house of cards..

a beat up

childish making of porky pies...

From the first chance at mature reconciliation of the matter offered by me confidentially

(when from first impressions I briefly trusted you were competent)

to which you responded with the haughty and inappropriate bullying response to me

I realised you were a bod straight from the antibully textbook warnings

and that you lived in blissful ignorance of your own unlawful ways.

Even if you survive November elections.....

or organise spot fillers like Arjun Haria

eventually the membership will put together what you did to Mo

how the race card was used to beat up on a perfect gentleman of integrity and generosity

well known and liked in other states he found decent leadership in

how you, Marj, Norma and Trever had the gall to misrepresent conciliation matters to the rest of committee

and your shocker "no agenda' meeting where mob mentailty was unleashed by you in your incpompetence

how a member hollered in my face

claiming outrage that I'd expressed concern for my kids welfare if this committee ruled scrabble

I'll say it again,

if any of the terrible 4 are out of control in this organisation, my children will not be members

and then altered minutes took 5 weeks to be released losing reliability and gaining more re-lie-ability.

....... a no confidence motion in the following months

in full glare of members reflection on what youse did

will make you do what you ought do yourself,

step down

or get thrown down

Think how you were alerted that Marj initially bullied by dumping on him secretly

when he was the one with integrity, refusing to name people...

she dumped on him to me

and then like you

playing the "poor me" card to set Mo on fire in a public pyre.

and leading so many who did not audit you or her

to mob mentality and severe injury and distress on an innocent person.

And now you have the hide to tell the scrabble world my disclosures are not right

and you want them smothered

(while you exact forced acceptance of cheating claims, which you will get over my dead body)

(and while you fake it long enough to fool the committee huggers that Psychologist tell us will never realise)

(even when you parasite my initiatives which is what your ilk does, being bereft of competent leadership)

Its over Carol, you have had 10 years, scrabble Vic is ruined, it’s just a club now, not an associatuion.

you have been an embarrassment.

Only a new broom can sweep clean

I am that new broom, and you won't find me ever seeking false sympathy

to excuse incompetence and arrogance I have never shown,

and which you will never recognise in yourself.

If you now persist with any of your manipulative, obfuscating and bullying ways

expect a personal legal challenge from me

and the emergence of documents from your decade of hell

for public scrutiny,

if that’s what it takes.

As Benjamin Disraeli quoted re bullying

"where there is smoke there is fire, the smoke is the bullies smoke screen, the fire is endurance until justice by the victim."

No one has made your position untenable except you.

No one has shown bullying conduct but the committee, in particular the lead 4,

the others now waking up to realise slowly the 4 fooled them.

If you mislead the members that I did anything unreasonable, I have all the documents to show how youse did not act reasonably and then conspired to bring disrepute on anyone assisting the fight towrads justice and integrity.

Have I made my opinions clear ?

Others have just left scrabble, citing your coven as 'the bitches'

or that scrabble is plunging towards just being your committee.

Wake up, time’s up.

You, Marj and Norma will remain welcome to run Box Hill events if you wish,

gratitude will be shown...

you can even be on the committee,

and learn what it should have been like all along,

restorative not punitive,

expanding not contracting

You can enjoy pub scrabble again

and not be pulling the plug on everyone's fun..

The Country Champs will boom again

and no unethical entries will sneak in...

I will happily refer you to multiple texts by psychologists of world class pre eminence

that will be used if you are unable to abate the bullying ways..

and to convince you that your behaviour has been of a classic bullying nature.

It”s over, better for all youse step aside and let new keen younger people revive scrabble rather than you being forced to do so, and maybe one day you will apologise to the other committee members for your utter incompetence and self preservation driven actions.

It would be far beyond you to ever apologise to Mo or myself,

despite the flagrant bullying you subjected us to while telling members who could not audit you that you were being so good.

You'll just trot out your accumulated smoke screen excuses and denial of responsibility..

I remind you of some classics..

"we are not legal people (Oh yes you are) , we did our best (for immature officers) , we followed the rules (lie)"

Tell everyone you need a break, blame us and expect consequences..., whatever...

I'm sure you can spin a hard luck story

and get the unknowing to applaud you wildly

while the knowing stay away and feel nauseated

Any way you look at it it's time to let others have a chance to resuscitate our great game.

don't bother putting together a puppet committee,

or a token president

you will only hurt more people when they realise

and it will collapse like the one you have just led to ruin.

I've written to you in confidence before

and you reacted immaturely

and I was proven 100% right.

I'm right again now.

Only a fool repeats mistakes.

The only two things you can do immediately to save any face is

1) retract all the cheating claims in every place where he was besmirched, world internet included.

2) Publish an unconditional letter to WA advising them that their actions against him cannot stand as they are based on Vic ASPA outcomes that are now considered utterly unfair, unreliable, invalid and of no substance.

These two issues will achieve that end, whatever it takes, and you will be known for not having the decency to know when you have been exposed and stop further costs, divisiveness and trauma.

I'm astonished Mo is not seeking his costs from your personal hides, have you no shame for your assault on him ?

Are we going to get an appropriate falling on your sward,

or is there going to be continued horrors until the same conclusion is reached anyhow,

and possibly much more costly for youse.

All that said,

I'm sure you can (all) continue to be nice people

It”s just the behaviour that has to stop

and your hold and abuse of power has to be ended.

It”s hurting too many people.

FREQUENT VOCAB ADDITIONS AND DELETIONS

In order to come up with the new CSW19, the total number of words added to CSW15 was 2862, while deletions made were 29.

Had WESPA or ASPA ever asked their collective members, not their representatives only, about accepting or rejecting the frequent periodic changes to scrabble vocabulary? Collins can make any changes they like, but do we as scrabble players have to accept applying them?

A change every ten or twenty years could be more acceptable. I believe that the community of Scrabble players have put up for too long with commercial exploitation, under the pretext of modernisation or moving with the times. Some cynics might think that kickbacks are involved in the chain of command.

I feel it is about time some splinter group would form and decide that Collins  2015 would be their last accepted change. They would continue to use it for word checking until the end of time! An end to scrabble vocabulary mutilation should be found before more players quit the game.

HARRY MALCOLM

Rest in peace away from them all

MALCOLM. Harry Neville Late of East Warburton. Aged 63. Passed away peacefully 7th May 2019. Private family service.

Obituaries

Published in Herald Sun on 11/05/2019

DAVID MORE IN THE NEWS

Scrabble veteran banned from playing board game in Queensland

Yahoo News Australia12 April 2019

A die-hard Scrabble player has been banned from playing the board game in Queensland.

Gold Coast man David More, 65, has played Scrabble competitively for nearly two decades with 5000 tournament matches but cannot play the game in Queensland, A Current Affair reported.

Mr More, who has Asperger’s, recently received a letter from Scrabble Queensland banning him from any entry in state tournaments due to “unacceptable” behaviour.

But the 65-year-old claims he has not done anything wrong, or been violent or aggressive and is not aware of anyone else in Australia receiving a similar punishment.

More:

“I’ve just got upset and it may have been misinterpreted by some people that don’t know me,” he told ACA.

He added he mainly plays with elderly women in their “70s and 80s” who might be scared of his Asperger’s.

He also says he has been antagonised with people “pressing his buttons”.

“They’d say something really nasty that they’d knew I would respond to,” Mr More told ACA.

Queensland Scrabble President Jane Brown did not give further details about Mr More’s ‘unacceptable behaviour’ to the Bulletin, but she said they did not have any personal problems with the 65-year-old.

However, a long-term Scrabble player, from the Queensland Association, told the Gold Coast Bulletin Mr More “can be a very difficult person at times”.

Scrabble’s Queensland Association handed the ban down due to what it said was “unacceptable” behaviour from Mr More. Mr More denies he has behaved badly.
(Source: A Current Affair)

More:

“(It got) to a point where his behaviour to other members was unacceptable,” the player told the Bulletin. But a Scrabble NSW player took no issue with the Gold Coast man and said while he was “a bit different” Mr More is “friendly”.