The Putnam Pit
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Geoff Davidian, publisher and editor

Heinrich A. Brucker                                                                    March 15, 1998
Ryan & Ryan
Aitkin, MN
 

Via Facsimile
 

Dear Sir:
 

This letter is in response to your March 10 demand that The Putnam Pit stop posting "any and all transcripts" from the Minnesota tobacco case "on the Internet or any other form of electronic media."
 

You further ask that I "disclose the source(s) of the transcripts that [I] have received thus far."
 

In your letter, you threaten immediate legal action on behalf of your clients, Stirewalt & Associates, and that you "will have no other choice."
 

You state that "[i]n the event that [I] disclose the source[s] of the transcripts, Stirewalt & Associates would consider not pursuing legal action."
 

Mr. Brucker, the Indian philosopher and educator Krishnamurti said that an intelligent person never has to make a choice; the correct action is immediately clear. I suppose your letter forces you to take immediate action, because you have stated you have no other choice. Perhaps you are intelligent.
 

It is too bad that your client must pay for your rigid position.
 

I told you March 9 by telephone that if you would show me a contract stating that your client had proprietary interest in the material, that you could prove your client is the author of the material and that no state money is going to pay for your client's work, I would consider those factors as well as any legal citations you chose to submit.
 

You agreed.
 

Instead, you broke your word and furnished nothing but a demand to comply with your wishes, or else.
 

Sir, although you have typewritten in bold face and underlined the word "immediate" in your letter, I am afraid your letterhead lacks sufficient authority to convince me that I should comply with your unreasonable demand.
 

Since you have threatened to bring "immediate" action if I do not comply with your demands based on your unsubstantiated claims, I suppose it is too late for you to provide the material that would have resolved this matter in a professional and dignified way.
 

I might add that your client is not well served by your position.
 

Sincerely,
 

Geoff Davidian, publisher,
The Putnam Pit
 
 

 

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