This blog is dedicated to the memory of David Weintraub, who took on insidious astroturfers and won.

Friday, April 17, 2015

Is This the New Conspiracy Story?



(above taken from JTRIG - Snowden docs)


The Beginning:

Right-wing extremists blamed for posting top law officials' info

CBS News correspondent Jeff Pegues appears to be the source for this story. No proof accompanies the piece. There is this block quote to line up with Pegues' source claiming it's right wing kooks:

"LET THESE EVIL NWO SATANISTS KNOW THAT THERE WILL BE HELL TO PAY FOR THEIR 911 TREASON, AND THEIR FUTURE FEMA CAMP PLANNED PUBLIC CRACKDOWN TREASON ALSO
JESUS IS LORD, AND THE PUBLIC IS IN CHARGE, NOT THESE SATANIC NWO STOOGES"
This apparently was known about on Tuesday, April 14th. The CBS article was out the next morning.

CNN has its own article which came out a few hours later, but it's filled with disclaimers that they can't vouch for any of this. They mentioned the names were disclosed on pastebin. I found the following in google cache. It was posted close to dinner time according to what pops up when hovering the mouse.



The registrar records show that website belongs to Marco Ceppi. He is located in Virginia. He is at Twitter. Maybe he can explain.


I'm not saying Marco's involved.

It's just weird.

Yes, I am mailing this in. The story immediately had me going with conspiracy story. This adds to it. Maybe Alex Jones will invite me on his show and then I can blog about that too. That's the end. The middle preceded it. I'm done.

Sunday, April 5, 2015

Matt Osborne Guilty of Defamation



A person named Matt Osborne wrote that I have schizophrenia. That is what's known in the law business as defamation per se. I saw it published at a website called Crooks and Liars.

Osborne has been in that weird Neal Rauhauser milieu for as long as I can remember.

So what am I supposed to do?

I've never been to a shrink. I've never taken medication. I've never been diagnosed as mentally ill. Defamation per se occurs when words in themselves prove actual defamation. You can't libel people. It's not legal. It's not free speech.

The best defense against a defamation charge is the truth. The corollary of that is the best offense for making a charge of defamation stick is to show that the words add up to a vile and menacing, supertroll smear.