Rob Mach: My statement upon allegations and consent

Upon January 23rd, 2018, We learned for the first time of a assortment of accusations against me. In one day, allegations that I was obviously a predator who took benefit of people through my company dealings were posted within a coordinated pattern across several social media platforms. I have remained silent for over 10 a few months. Some of that was because of legal counsel but mostly because I needed the people who felt I had formed hurt them to have their state. After much introspection, We are now ready to make the subsequent statement.

First and foremost: I have the sincere desire to make points right by anyone who else honestly feels I have harm them. I continue to desire you to contact me or a common friend (as nearly all of people who spoke up are individuals with whom I have had long-held relationships)so we can enter into any dialogue in the hopes that it may cause healing. Wherever the path in order to healing begins, I am existing and ready to begin. Discussing and defending one’s self within this type of situation is extremely hard. I do not want to minimize anyone’s feelings but I must arranged the record straight in order to move on with my life. To put it simply, the narrative of the assault was:

Jeff Mach is actually allegedly a predator
For that reason he should not be allowed to keep on being part of our community
Consequently , he should give up their businesses, and preferably provide them with to us, his accusers.

Yet:

I have not dedicated nor even been charged of sexual assault
There were no legal complaints introduced against me
There have been absolutely no lawsuits brought against me personally
Just a continuous pounding strike professing how terrible Me, with the insistence that anybody who questions it must be assisting a monster, and is, for that reason a monster themselves.

We have spent the last 25 years helping my community and showing my deep commitment to be able to consent and empowerment. Actually thousands of people who have attended the events and interacted beside me over the years can attest to this particular. I have, and always will try to produce a better environment for everyone.

Which explains why these tactics have been really successful. Nothing could be much more upsetting to me than to become accused of the very thing I actually tried to fight against for more than 20 years. I am especially disgusted that individuals whom I have actually damage in some way have been used to additional an obviously calculated coat campaign that was created to eliminate my business and allow other people to profit from that scenario. So disgusted and so annoyed that, against legal along with other advice, I willingly paid my life’s work for you to my accusers. I lawfully gave all control and also ownership of my companies over to others, which included the actual Steampunk World’s Fair. With regard to reasons of their own, they made a decision to cancel The Steampunk Planets Fair, even though they were which there was no money to problem refunds.

Although I have no culpability to do so, I am taking lawful action that will hopefully freedom, lastly, permit those wronged through the people who destroyed SPWF to achieve back at least some of the actual lost. It is my goal to discover some way to see that those individuals are helped, that their own pain and difficulties tend to be met with attempts in compensation.

I am not ideal, like everyone I have created mistakes. I will continue to make errors, but I will also still learn from my mistakes as well as grow as a person. Once again, I will always be sorry for anybody I have hurt, knowingly or even unknowingly. But I also realize that the angry factions that worked to take me straight down will not accept apologies; these people never wanted to listen or perhaps talk, just to isolate myself, leaving me in the dark, after that emerging all at once in a matched attack.