About

What it is

Boycott The Scouting News is a blog started to get the truth out about cyber-terrorist, Ron Holmes. He works for The Scouting News.com which is ostensibly a service to identify and report on youth hockey talent throughout North America. While the service does indeed cast a wide net for information from knowledgeable sources, it also pulls in some real stinkers with the rest of the catch. The problem and reason for the boycott is the tactics used by Holmes to squelch criticism, dissent, and freedom of speech. It has nothing to do with the content of The Scouting News and everything to do with one of it’s primary representatives . There is no foul tactic which is beneath him. He stoops to the lowest depths to create an illusion of utter superiority and subject matter expertise. Soon, this blog will open to those who Holmes has silenced. Their voices and truth will be heard, and the totalitarian censorship perpetrated by one narcissistic, pompous individual will eventually come to its inevitable conclusion as subscriptions trail off and renewals dry up. The Scouting News has been given ample opportunity to change its ways, but Holmes remains the face of the company to its public leaving us no other choice but to call for this boycott effective immediately.

Objective

The Scouting News has considerable value. Children love to read about themselves and their parents don’t mind paying the money to read the same. The breadth and reach of The Scouting News makes it a potential goldmine, however, the destructive propensity of its principal, Ron Holmes, prevents it from achieving its potential. As a business model it could attract sponsorship as well as subscription income, however, the reputation of Holmes dilutes such possibilities. It is the objective of this blog to have Ron Holmes removed from all association with The Scouting News. If he is the sole owner/operator, this can only occur with the demise of the business entity itself. If, on the other hand, there are other decision-making stakeholders, they can and should relieve Holmes of his position to save an otherwise innovative and interesting business. Furthermore, it is the objective of this blog to support The Scouting News in the establishment of a community relations forum to protect it from actions and statements detrimental to its own well-being. A call to end this boycott will occur when the following actions have been taken and verified:

1. The Scouting News publishes on it’s front page an apology for the behavior of Ron Holmes and a promise to ensure such activity is permanently discontinued along with an explanation of how it will ensure this promise is kept. This may or may not include the removal of Ron Holmes from association with The Scouting News.
2. The Scouting News sends an apology to every email address it has censored or banned.

No apology for prior content published in TheScoutingNews.com is deemed necessary as the content is a matter of personal or expert opinion. As such, it is considered free speech and it would be hypocritcal of this boycott to promote any form of censorship which is the chief complaint and raison d’être of this blog.

What it is not

The call for boycott has nothing to do with any individual youth athlete, rather it has to do with customer courtesy and service. It has everything to do with one man’s attempt to obliterate dissenting public opinions and to damage the reputation of those with whom he disagrees. In these days we have all become used to self-serve or minimal customer support, however, persecution of paying customers is something akin to totalitarianism- a la Mussolini or the former communist states from which Ron Holmes “evolved”. This blog is not:

• A response to any single article ever published in The Scouting News
• A commentary on any associate of The Scouting News other than Ron Holmes
• A condemnation of The Scouting News as a whole.

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