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From: Tim Matthews <matthews@zetnet.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 22:37:53 -0000
Fwd Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 20:54:47 -0500
Subject: Re: Charges against Max Burns Dropped


Dear All,

I think that Roy is making a mistake here but then Max writes
for his magazine and so perhaps this is the reason for his
support.

BUFORA is now a pathetic joke and in light of their new policy
on free speech I submit a list of speakers for future events -
they're bound to draw the crowds in;

John Tyndall - BNP leader.
Louis Farrakhan - Nation of Islam
Friends Of Ted Bundy.
Don Worley
Roger the footdoctor Leir
Linda MJ-12 Howe
Cartman from South Park..

See, guaranteed to enlighten the thirty or so diehards who
attend the BUFORA London lectures.

BTW, I checked out the cost of hiring the hall in London and it
emerged that even with discount it was =A3150 a go. No wonder
BUFORA has less money than in the past. My Society gets more
people than this for regular monthly meetings!

I know for sure that Max has sent hate mail to myself and others
under the pathetic email pseudonym "Terminator2001@hotmail.com"
and that he has made threats against other researchers. I
remember well the time I met him in Sheffield - ironically
during a BUFORA Conference in August 1997 - where he stated in
front of several people that he had bribed the witnesses to the
supposed "Sheffield Incident" with drugs, that he knew members
of 'the local Mafia' (a claim that I am tempted to re-examine in
light of recent events), that 'Intelligence Officers visit me
for tea' and other such pathetic drivel.

What's more he was rude, offensive and made sexist comments to
my wife Lynda - which she hasn't forgotten - and this kind of
thing makes a mockery of a situation where supposed 'free
speech' is being offered to a "man" who would almost certainly
destroy it for others - at least in terms of the Ufological
debate.

Only this week he has accused me of working for the Office of
Naval Intelligence (!) and last month was claiming that I was
using various aliases and leading a secret triple life and
working for UK Intelligence!

I wish!

What is more shocking about this whole affair is the way in
which certain people in BUFORA have been completely taken in by
Burns' bleating. I think this is a terrible shame and not a
particularly good advert for their ability to weigh people up.

Even more ironic is the fact that he might not ever get to
London to give the lecture because he might be behind bars.....!
We do not need these kind of people in Ufology - it already
attracts more than it's fair share of disturbed individuals and
now we appear to be encouraging them.

I'm sure I'm not the only one secretly hoping that BUFORA would
get its' act together over time. Unfortunately it was the
biggest grouping and had the furthest to fall and I suspect that
the need for such a bureaucratic organisation is long gone.
Effective local and National networking between and amongst the
few objective researchers is all that is required for progress
to be made.

I don't think I'm being unreasonable here and this just seems to
be yet another cock-up in a several-year history of cock-ups as
far as BUFORA is concerned.......

The bottom line is that Burn's research is so poor as to be
utterly worthless. He can provide no evidence to support his
claims and I agree with PB that (and coming from an RAF family)
I cannot think of any ethnic minority pilots....more's the pity.
Max has almost managed to ruin John Dagenhart's RAF career and
thinks nothing of continuing to misrepresent this man's
statement.

Burns' nonsense would indeed go down well at a MUFON symposium
and perhaps the malaise that has affected MUFON has, like all
the worst things, been transported over here by some means.

If BUFORA is about encouraging the highest standards of research
- and not just acting as a self-appointed platform for allcomers
- then Burns has no place within a thousand miles of the stage
in West London.....

Tim X