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For those that feel he is stepping beyond the code of ethics which he himself subscribes to, try taking it from another point of view that I was recently shown myself when I too criticised the level of media exposure which 'true' vampyres are now being subjected to.
Apologies for the cut and paste of this excerpt from a post elsewhere, but, it was said better than I ever could.
"...The cat's already out of the bag. In starting to come together as a community over the past fifteen or so years, in creating a sizable web presence so we can communicate with one another, in throwing events where we can meet and interact face-to-face, we have already "come out." We might not have realized we were doing it at the time, but we have made enough of a presence that others outside our community have taken notice.
In 1996, due to the Susan Walsh case and the Rod Farrell murders, that notice was none too sterling. That was the year of the Rikki Lake show as well. Lady DarkRose was on that one, practically having a screaming match with Konstantinos, who Lake seeded in the audience because he had written a book against vampires (you might know it as "Vampires: the Occult Truth).
From that point, if not before, the media has known we are out there. Knowing we are here and interesting and controversial, the media will not just leave us be. Vampires make good television. We have strange fashions, we listen to weird music, we do things like feed on energy and drink blood. We are everything the voyeuristic culture in the golden age of grotesque wants to stare at and gossip about and hate while it secretly wishes to be us.
Figuratively and literally, we've spilled blood. There's no turning the media hounds off the scent. Our best hope at this point is to present as good face to the world that would stare and mock us. If members of the community who cannot handle the pressure of being on camera in an intense interview try to step up to the task, we'll look like idiots. If it's left to the glory hounds who will feed the media any line of bull just to get attention, we'll look even worse. So there's little choice but for a select few of us to get very good at doing interviews, presenting a respectable face, answering the questions with grace and ease -- even when they attempt to take us down dark roads and bait us, just to see us crack..."
- M. Belanger
This, coming from the person that was the essential driving force behind the veil, for me, retrospectively forgives Mr Henrie of any perceived 'sins' in his 'breaking the code'.
