Saturday, 6 October 2007

Robert A. Callahan, Atty
Northwest Law Center
405 NW 18th Avenue
Portland OR 97209

Mister Callahan:

2008 shall mark ten years since Catherine Lynne Carter’s graduation from Reed College, and over ten years since she has spoken with me. For reasons related to her own mental condition and personal history, Ms. Carter has twice subpoenaed me and accused me of wanting to harm her for some vague reason she cannot articulate, despite a total lack of criminal violence in my past, a complete absence of threats against her or demands from her on my part. Just because I have certain technical skills does not mean I intend to use them, any more than someone with money plans to use it to buy cocaine.

It is moderately humiliating to have one’s personal pain made the subject of a public court proceeding, and in deference to Carter’s agitated mental condition at my last (compelled) appearance, I did not launch any substantive defense or objections. The statute you used against me gives great deference to the plaintiff, and Carter obviously needed some time and space to make sense of whatever was going on inside her head.

Carter has had the time and space she clearly needed, and I have paid the price in personal embarrassment and other ways for her conceited concept of herself as femme fatale and portrait of me as bogeyman. I doubt that she shall ever be well enough to apologize or have a civil conversation with me, but I ask that she mitigate this legal blemish against me by petitioning the court to rescind the protective order she was granted. Please file the papers to accomplish this before February 25, and have the entire affair completed before June 3, 2008.

Carter is a self-centered daughter of privilege and has twice used the law as a weapon against me. I hope never to see Catherine Lynne Carter again, but if I have to pay to see her in court I shall not be so respectful of her condition, dignity and privacy a third time.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Sincerely,
Rory Bowman