Eric 
You're wasting your time with Eric, HillBilly. Eric's got form for this sort of thing - if he gets it into his head you're a wrong'un, no amount of evidence or explanations as to how you've never acted against him, had any crossed words with him, or how you actually even like him, will make any difference to him. Although possibly aggravated by his well renowned poor memory for the names of other editors he interacts with, as you saw when you corrected him about his claim you always start ANI threads, he just ignored you and instead upped the ante, referring to your "obvious campaign of harassment" of him. A clear personal attack if ever there was one. He's done it with this 'reformed' account many times already, he did it when he was socking on his 'roommate' account, and he did it when he was just plain old Malleus the b/tard. It's ironic this behaviour is the same sort of bullying he often accused admins of doing. And with no hint of irony at all from him, he accused you of trying to demean and patronise him, even though that's basically how he treats anyone on Wikipedia he doesn't agree with. Still, as you see, nobody cared, due to the fact he gets special protection from the likes of Drmies.