Dear Daniel

I hope things are going well in all your activities, since the great event in Anaheim June last year. Soke Emilio Bevilacqua experience was really excellent at the MHOF Award Gala, you and your organization are working out a very honorable job, and Emilio with our organizations is actively operating in order to have your work advertised to and appreciated by the martial arts community in Italy.

We are proud of Emilio recognition at your event, and would like to ask you ... (omessa parte non attinente)

Here in Italy Emilio is now working heavily with my organization in Kenpo on a large scale, with the intention of hosting Mr. Jeff Speakman, and he is working as well with largest Italian Ju Jitsu federation (AIJJ) where on last June 4th 2010 he has been appointed national Director for Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, a style that he is striving to deploy inside the national Ju Jitsu community based also on his direct strong background, trying meanwhile to collect the different BJJ communities in Italy around a single strong national organization. A promoter action of great effort and great value, as he already did in the past (since 1991) in Italy with Ed Parker's Kenpo and in years 1997/98 with Prof Jeff Speakman, deploying Kenpo in our country. At the moment Soke Emilio Bevilacqua is reviewing with national council of Italian ju jitsu federation the Rickson Gracie format that Rickson himself sent to him, for Rickson Gracie Seminar, the first large scale Rickson event in Italy foreseen for beginning of next year.

Emilio has done great things and is making great things, we are all working with him to make as well. Unfortunately not everything always runs smooth, sometimes in Italy behavior of the people is not as honorable as it should be expected to be, based on values. Emilio has a great visibility and this at times has its drawbacks. Recently he has been exposed to very unfair play on the web by a still not completely defined group of carefully anonymous people, who are publishing unfair comments on his side, spread out messages with false information and slanders, try to vilify his name that is instead that honorable as you had the possibility to acknowledge yourself. These are plays of clearly coward people, carefully hiding their names, frustrated people who being not able to beat his great skill on the tatami or his results and achievements, are trying to attack him obliquely behind his shoulders. First signs of such unfair play are dated back to 2007, when they were culminating even in some threats to his family delivered directly at his home, and such miserable events have been happening recently again. There's currently an important law suit in progress against these illicit behaviors and these threats, police and relevant authorities are working to identify those people and properly proceed against them. Of course Emilio has the complete support of all of us and of the national organizations he is working with, in order to identify the people responsible for this.

I really hope you will never be faced with any such unfair and dastard play. Since I am writing you, I would like to ask your kind support as well to identify the names of those people in order to include them in the law suit. Please forward to me or Dr Brauner in copy any unusual or suspect message you should get related to Emilio, or any evidence you or your organization should face of unfair play against him, with the names of the people from whom they are coming. We will pass to police and the relevant authorities together with all elements provided so far. Sometimes world tries to behave dishonorably, some vile and coward people try to, and we have to fight, also outside the tatami, to bring it back to the values we believe in and we made the basic of our lives.

I do thank you for your patience and for reading on this all as well, as mentioned I took the chance of this message for this additional important request. I am keeping in copy Lyn and Jeff Anderson so that they are also informed about this.

I will be looking forward for your kind feedback on the copy of the plaque above, as well as your support in identifying the dishonorable people I have been writing about by any evidence you should get.

Respectfully Yours

Stefano