I decided to let Smith make the first move
After the phone calls on September 8, 2007 in which Smith told me I must defend him and attack Bollyn, I decided to say virtually nothing about the phone calls and let him make the first move. I was wondering if he was going to quit and shut down his website, so the first thing I did was to change my website so that I could put some of the files on my site.
However, he didn't shut down his site. So then I waited to see if he would provide an explanation of why he was attacking Bollyn, and why he wanted me to attack Bollyn. Did he actually have some evidence that Bollyn cannot be trusted?
However, Smith didn't seem to have any interest in explaining himself or justifying his attack on Bollyn. Meanwhile, I was getting e-mail messages once in a while asking what happened between us, and if we would work together again. I decided that I'd better explain the situation, so I wrote this article on 21 October 2007: