After many years of being a grown-up, I can't help but note how nuch bullying goes on in the world at large--the strategy is to humiliate and intimidate, the goal is to keep you from excercising your own rights--

I see a lot of bullying, particularly on the internet--not flaming, but corporate threats, like the ASCAP?Harry Fox stuff--and people caving in, because, although they are right, they are afraid of litigation--

And I see people afraid to express their opinions because they are afraid of retaliation--

When someone tries to intimidate you, it is because they want something that it yours--maybe your place in line, maybe your desk, maybe your job responsibilities(the ones that they were not competent enought to be entrusted with) or maybe they want you to do your work without paying you what the ought to pay--

The only good response to a bully it to hit hack harder than they expect--whether it is simply sticking your face in their face instead of backing off, bringing in lawyers and making complaints to regulatory agencies, or simple surprising someone in the washroom with a two by four--

Nobody likes trouble, and those that give it tend to be just as easily intimidated as they think you are--

I tend to be very polite, and as a disabled person, people often perceive that I am vulnerable--when somebody tries to take advantage, I know my options, and I give them my best shot--