SATCO's whipping boy, I defer to your experience, but I would add,
I would refer to post 47, civilian ATC were issued with letters to hand out to crews, indeed they were encouraged and had or used to have a partial PPL included in their course to allow them to experience the other side of the fence and to better understand the implications of their instructions, knowledge can be a life saver.
Nowhere in this thread has anyone thought that he may have actually asked permission, had been granted it, or encouraged to present such a note to the crew, he has simply has been shamefully hung drawn and quartered by the blinkered baying mob.
A quick search of the web will give his experience, working up through the ranks etc, and good for him, he does not deserve this garbage.