Randy, nothing I say will change your mind so I'm not sure it will be productive to continue along these lines. You are seeing things from only one perspective in a vaccuum.

Having said that, you should understand that in an open community service such as Tribe's we get people trying all sorts of scams. We don't sit there attempting to be suspicious, but I was a participant where the member's behavior seemed odd. Hence, I tried to do the minimal investigation to ascertain some basic level of trust in that member, and since you were the only member (they were only connected to you) who might be able to assist in this matter I reached out to you. You jumped to the conclusion that this was a "witch hunt" which was presumptuous on your part.

While my comment on Canada was ill-advised, it was not w/o provocation and was in frustration that a simple request to you met w/that sort of strong rebuke, and that indeed was unprovoked. You of all people (you were at BloggerCon weren't you?...as was I) should know that online reputation is established by our words, and our friends and connections. This person claimed to be a friend of yours so I asked you about it. How much more simple could that be?

If you need to know more about my character, feel free to contact any one of the people I've listed as friends.

Are you claiming my comments were provoking?

Meka, use the ignore feature.