Libel and Defamation Against SOTT, Cass, LKJ, QFG, etc

LQB said:
Here is an appropriate snip describing Patrick Byrne's exasperation (from the document I mentioned above):

Keep him awake at night!? Well, it did of course. Especially when more reporters called with lists of questions supplied to them by Rocker and Gradient. And these reporters-they were different from the others. They were exceedingly smug. They sneered. They snarled. They were altogether exasperating, like Soviet interrogators, weirdly oblivious to all expurgatory evidence, completely unmoving, always waving those gosh-darn-friggin’-half-witted-imperious-little denunciations — Do you deny that you are an American spy? What, he dares to deny it? Ah-ha! Proof that the American spy is hiding something! –over and over until, finally, Patrick came to that brittle point of utter torment when it was, God forgive, time to stand up and pimp-slap these people.

Boy, does that ever describe those loonies and their methods. If there are any useful countering methods, DO post them!
 
Even if their lies had some appeal, the most sleeping soul would amaze at the thinking that its a good idea to post 13 fake blogs to spread the same lies.
They really believe that there's power in sheer numbers it seems.

Is there anything that we can do Laura, to help?
 
Iron said:
Is there anything that we can do Laura, to help?

Yes, if we can help putting something together, or whatever else, just let us know.


I think it's a good idea to create this thread for new readers.

New readers, think about it: no liar would put up all the negative stuff other people write about them on their own site.
Only those who've got nothing to hide do so - in order to expose the mechanisms of the sheer insanity of ponerization. Something the owners of this website have been doing for many years.
But find out for yourself.
 
Perceval said:
It's really amazing to see how persistent these few individuals are in their drive to attack everything we do. It is also very frustrating and hurtful for Laura to have to read the same old lies repeated over and over again. On the bright side, these people are so petty, so small, and really, so insignificant, that we need not worry about them or the lies they publish. Of course, we will do whatever we have to to combat them, but again, there is not much we have to do when they are forced to resort to creating multiple blogs with the same content in the ass-end of cyber-space that only the bottom-dwellers frequent.

Not only that, but the blogs themselves are basic WordPress installs. They use default themes. It's pretty clear that it was a "post it and run" kind of thing. That's pretty funny, because unless they maintain the sites, Google won't pay any attention to them for long (barring any backroom shenanigans) and if they don't update WP, the sites will be hacked.

Even if none of the above was true, and they were beautiful, well-maintained, artificially-inflated blogs, let's compare that to some of what we've accomplished in the past year or so:

1. Cassiopaea.org forum is more popular than ever
2. Revamped Cassiopaea.org site
3. Paleochristianity.org site and FCM organization
4. Eiriu Eolas program spreading like wildfire, classes all over the world, Eiriu-Eolas.org site (currently in 9 different languages)
5. New Sott.net, now in 3 languages, complete with new podcast, and now SOTT Reports video reports
6. PiluleRouge.com site in 4 languages and selling lots of books
7. Launched the new-and-improved Dot Connector Magazine

And the list goes on and on and on.

So, let's see here... Who's winning this battle? That would be us.

Who's losing so horribly that the only thing they can think of is posting a bunch of crap blogs with the same old, tired, baseless accusations in the hopes that if they repeat it all for the 3,126,789th time, maybe it will finally make a dent? Oh, that would be the Other Guys.

Ladies and Gentleman of the jury, I rest my case.

:cool2:
 
Mr. Scott said:
Not only that, but the blogs themselves are basic WordPress installs. They use default themes. It's pretty clear that it was a "post it and run" kind of thing. That's pretty funny, because unless they maintain the sites, Google won't pay any attention to them for long (barring any backroom shenanigans) and if they don't update WP, the sites will be hacked.

Even if none of the above was true, and they were beautiful, well-maintained, artificially-inflated blogs, let's compare that to some of what we've accomplished in the past year or so:

1. Cassiopaea.org forum is more popular than ever
2. Revamped Cassiopaea.org site
3. Paleochristianity.org site and FCM organization
4. Eiriu Eolas program spreading like wildfire, classes all over the world, Eiriu-Eolas.org site (currently in 9 different languages)
5. New Sott.net, now in 3 languages, complete with new podcast, and now SOTT Reports video reports
6. PiluleRouge.com site in 4 languages and selling lots of books
7. Launched the new-and-improved Dot Connector Magazine

And the list goes on and on and on.

So, let's see here... Who's winning this battle? That would be us.

Who's losing so horribly that the only thing they can think of is posting a bunch of crap blogs with the same old, tired, baseless accusations in the hopes that if they repeat it all for the 3,126,789th time, maybe it will finally make a dent? Oh, that would be the Other Guys.

Ladies and Gentleman of the jury, I rest my case.

:cool2:

Too true. In summation, here's our final message to those creeps:

:dance: :bye: :bye: :bye:
 
Q: (L) ... Why are we so afraid of hurting
someone's feelings if they are hurting us?

A: Not correct concept. You do not need to "act against
them," you need to act in favor of your destiny
.

And this is what has transpired. This is why Mr Scott can list the incredible accomplishments of this group. Some of these projects would have been unimaginable a few years ago. Had Laura et al been sucked into the tar baby of rolling in the gutter with these golem, none of the real work would have been accomplished... and that was their intent. Didn't work though.

Edit addition :

From December 29, 2009 session:

Q: (L) So the more positive things we do, and the more creative we become, the more it drives them to try to suppress and repress things in indirect ways to try to suppress and repress us without suppressing and repressing us directly - because that would be too obvious - and by so doing, they show their hand so to speak?

A: Yes
 
Laura said:
LQB said:
Here is an appropriate snip describing Patrick Byrne's exasperation (from the document I mentioned above):

Keep him awake at night!? Well, it did of course. Especially when more reporters called with lists of questions supplied to them by Rocker and Gradient. And these reporters-they were different from the others. They were exceedingly smug. They sneered. They snarled. They were altogether exasperating, like Soviet interrogators, weirdly oblivious to all expurgatory evidence, completely unmoving, always waving those gosh-darn-friggin’-half-witted-imperious-little denunciations — Do you deny that you are an American spy? What, he dares to deny it? Ah-ha! Proof that the American spy is hiding something! –over and over until, finally, Patrick came to that brittle point of utter torment when it was, God forgive, time to stand up and pimp-slap these people.

Boy, does that ever describe those loonies and their methods. If there are any useful countering methods, DO post them!

Will do! I'm going through it right now. Here's some more:

The day after the Miscreants’ Ball presentation, there is a photo in The New York Post showing Patrick with a flying saucer over his head. A clique of journalists with ties to short-sellers write multiple stories that are no less flattering. They all say that phantom stock is not a real problem. Only bad CEOs of bad companies complain about short-sellers. Only crazy people believe that hedge funds sell phantom stock.

While officials are closing in on Badian, the people who control the financial media (i.e., the friends-of-Cramer) are hunting down the Easter Bunny.Yes, one of America’s biggest brokerages is about to collapse after being implicated in massive phantom stock selling scheme, and if you believe a former deputy secretary of commerce, naked short sellers have annihilated perhaps as many as 1,000 companies - but rather than write about this scandal, our leading financial journalists are engaged in an increasingly hysterical - and illegal — effort to unmask and discredit an obscure blogger who calls himself the Easter Bunny.

First, there are stories by Herb Greenberg, Carol Remond and The Wall Street Journal “Money & Investing” section — all of which suggest that the Bunny is somehow suspicious. Perhaps it is no coincidence that Carol’s story appears right after a Congressional hearing at which Senator Bob Bennett described the case of a small company called Global Links. As an experiment, the owner of that company bought up 100% of its shares. This should have made it impossible for anyone to trade the stock, but the next day 37 million shares of Global Links were sold into the market. Of course, none of that phantom stock was ever delivered - because it didn’t exist.

But some influential journalists insist that there’s no such thing as phantom stock, they say the Bunny and Patrick are crazy, and just a few days before Patrick’s “Miscreants Ball” presentation, while the authorities are closing in on a fugitive phantom-stock seller who helped bring about the collapse of a giant brokerage, Jesse Eisinger, formerly of Cramer’s website, TheStreet.com, and now star columnist for The Wall Street Journal, is in Las Vegas, notebook in hand, sniffing after the Easter Bunny. He’s going to stop at nothing to prove that the Bunny is untrustworthy. Only a villain would say that phantom stock is a problem.

The Easter Bunny is, of course, loving this. He mocks Eisinger at every step. “Jesse…Stay away from the girls at the Cheetah,” the Bunny writes on his blog, TheSanityCheck.com. “I know you will be expensing a fact finding trip there, if you have any sense.” The Bunny has registered his blog using the address of the Cheetah, a Las Vegas strip club. (Topless servers, internet servers - get it? Bunny humor.)

So far from what I've read, Patrick formed a small team of top investigators/analysts. One of them was the Easter Bunny (unofficially - the Bunny found them). The Easter Bunny was actually an insider but the criminals could not figure out who it was. His team did great investigative work, and they posted evidence, e-mails, trade traffic, and told the entire story (much like Adventures) in a web format (apparently award-winning) including blogs at deepcapture.com. I think a big part of their success is/was web presence. They took things straight into the face of the opposition. All of this could translate into an approach for us.

More to come I'm sure.
 
These defam guys are nuts! Thirteen blogs, what drives them, if not insanity...

Perceval said:
Mr. Scott said:
Not only that, but the blogs themselves are basic WordPress installs. They use default themes. It's pretty clear that it was a "post it and run" kind of thing. That's pretty funny, because unless they maintain the sites, Google won't pay any attention to them for long (barring any backroom shenanigans) and if they don't update WP, the sites will be hacked.

Even if none of the above was true, and they were beautiful, well-maintained, artificially-inflated blogs, let's compare that to some of what we've accomplished in the past year or so:

1. Cassiopaea.org forum is more popular than ever
2. Revamped Cassiopaea.org site
3. Paleochristianity.org site and FCM organization
4. Eiriu Eolas program spreading like wildfire, classes all over the world, Eiriu-Eolas.org site (currently in 9 different languages)
5. New Sott.net, now in 3 languages, complete with new podcast, and now SOTT Reports video reports
6. PiluleRouge.com site in 4 languages and selling lots of books
7. Launched the new-and-improved Dot Connector Magazine

And the list goes on and on and on.

So, let's see here... Who's winning this battle? That would be us.

Who's losing so horribly that the only thing they can think of is posting a bunch of crap blogs with the same old, tired, baseless accusations in the hopes that if they repeat it all for the 3,126,789th time, maybe it will finally make a dent? Oh, that would be the Other Guys.

Ladies and Gentleman of the jury, I rest my case.

:cool2:

Too true. In summation, here's our final message to those creeps:

:dance: :bye: :bye: :bye:


Fantastatic!! :cool2:
 
Iron said:
Even if their lies had some appeal, the most sleeping soul would amaze at the thinking that its a good idea to post 13 fake blogs to spread the same lies.
They really believe that there's power in sheer numbers it seems.

Is there anything that we can do Laura, to help?

Maybe this is of any concern of you:

All Bloggers, How You Can Support Laura and This Group!

Spread the word about EE, Sott, Lauras work... make connections via FB, again to Sott articles. These would be my points, give them truth. :D
 
It's not that hard to shut some people up. Others may take a bit more correspondence of a certain type and/or directed to specific individuals or groups, but basically, there are intermediate possibilities between the 'take it' and actual legal action that might be explored. Lawyers make a living at this, but with the database of information and the experience of senior people here, this shouldn't be much of a problem, OSIT.

Here's a sample of what I mean. Any such written material can be gathered from the database as needed and shaped as appropriate for the recipient and the context.

Open letter to Victronix:

Are we hurting others or society or are we delivering something people are actually wanting, needing and willingly transact for - even when we don't benefit financially? How exactly are we a threat to you or someone you care for?

[quote author=Mr Scott]
Let's look at some of what we've accomplished in the past year or so:

1. Cassiopaea.org forum is more popular than ever
2. Revamped Cassiopaea.org site
3. Paleochristianity.org site and FCM organization
4. Eiriu Eolas program spreading like wildfire, classes all over the world, Eiriu-Eolas.org site (currently in 9 different languages)
5. New Sott.net, now in 3 languages, complete with new podcast, and now SOTT Reports video reports
6. PiluleRouge.com site in 4 languages and selling lots of books
7. Launched the new-and-improved Dot Connector Magazine

And the list goes on and on and on.[/quote]

Perhaps you want to see us out of business because you don't like the way we got started years ago? Perhaps you would like to harass and harm us to justify your livelihood in some way that is currently unknown to us? You wouldn't be the only one. Many have tried, none have permanently succeeded. You have only to visit our forum, other websites and check the public records for any relevant court case to see the proof.

Perhaps you simply enjoy the use of the poison pen to poison the minds of people who read your accusative missives without so much as one iota of proof to substantiate your bogus claims of imaginary wrongdoing. If so, you should know that such harmful activities only serve to diminish human rights and human values that are being upheld, supported and defended against by hard-working, honest producers. Such attacks, where illegal, will be met with the proper response. Without your initiation, however, nothing can be done.

Are you ready?

What You Did...

Now, the post that bears your name...Victronix on Wed, 10/20/2010, contains innuendo and accusations harmful to the public image and work of LKJ as well as outright libel and defamation - all actionable in a court of law.

What was the purpose for that?

[quote author=Perceval]
Paul has no website of his own, and sends out his articles to a number of different sites, all of whom publish it as originating at their site. I first contacted Paul in June this year asking if he would be interesting in writing for The Dot Connector Magazine, he agreed, and since then we have corresponded and he also regularly sends his latest articles directly to me. It is entirely normal therefore that we publish them on Sott as Sott Focus pieces because very often when he sends them to me they have not been published anywhere on the web yet! Very often, they appear FIRST on Sott.net.[/quote]

Why would you want Paul's article to appear as if there is no relationship - no connection at all to us?

Throughout history, it has only ever taken one pathological individual, out to make a name for himself, to bring down any number of honest people working hard to expose the exact individuals and dynamics that destroy the valuable work and lives of everyone. Throughout history, it has only ever taken one evil individual to stop immense global values, hundreds of millions, perhaps billions of dollars and tens of thousands of jobs being pumped into society...just to gain popularity for his political ambitions. All for some personal glory.

But unlike others, we HAVE learned from history. We have integrated and understood all the groundbreaking, uncountably valuable work in Narcissism and psychopathology by the numerous experts. For years we have been interacting with normal and pathological people, learning the modes of attack and how to counter them. We have identified the exact dynamics - the exact thinking defaults that lead to the kinds of distorted, biased attacks such as what you make and imply, and we know what to do about it.

Indeed, from now on, all pathological, harmful people must be unveiled for who they are: people with Ceausescu-like souls who hurt individuals and society to any destructive degree they can get away with to increase their false power and sagging egos.

The bogus, harmful activities and livelihoods of individuals such as this, on net, produce little or nothing objectively beneficial to others; and, absolutely nothing that anyone would willing buy in a free market. Individuals such as this are the greatest detriment to society. They not only reduce the values, rights and happiness of everyone but eventually strip everyone's rights through the abusive use of lies, half-truths and out-of-context assertions - all intending to lead toward the destruction of human rights, property and lives -- all for the selfish greed of an ego-pumping lie promoter, too dishonest and lazy to fully investigate anything for him/herself or to produce something of genuine value for anyone or society.

Nevertheless, continue with your destructive hidden agenda to violate our first-amendment rights if you can. Continue with your destructive hidden agenda to libel and defame us. In fact, come and "get" us now! Use all those non-sequiters and hoax-based illusions you've learned from others that injure and cripple the precious minds and beings of valuable writers and producers daily, year after year.

Or...you can turn around before it's too late. You can learn to identify the thinking errors and memes propagated through the generations and transferred to everyone alive who was raised in a less-than-perfect environment. You can use the EE breathing/Meditation program to unlock and release emotions you may have had to suppress in order to live a 'normal' life in an un-sane society. You can join with people all over the world, working to expose the real criminals in society in order to create a new world for decent, honest and productive human beings. The choice is yours. Either way...

What We Will Do...

We track all public references to LKJ, her work and those individuals under protection by the work. Why? Because basic justice grants everyone the right to know his accuser and the accusations so he can defend himself against harm, libel, and even assault.

This time the outcome of your contemptuous libeling and defamation will be different from anything you have experienced before. For, uprooting professional and non-professional destructive people is our business now. Step-by-step, leading to public-forum courtrooms, as well as actual courtrooms in your jurisdiction, as warranted, we will hold libelers, defamers and slanderers fully responsible for their crimes, out in full view for all the world to see. We will collect the damages due, as we did with HBI, and then see those individuals socially and professionally ostracized out of existence.

Are you ready?
 
Perceval said:
In a strange way, you're probably not far off there Guardian! :lol:

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Wow Bud, what a letter!

Laura said:
LQB said:
Here is an appropriate snip describing Patrick Byrne's exasperation (from the document I mentioned above):

Keep him awake at night!? Well, it did of course. Especially when more reporters called with lists of questions supplied to them by Rocker and Gradient. And these reporters-they were different from the others. They were exceedingly smug. They sneered. They snarled. They were altogether exasperating, like Soviet interrogators, weirdly oblivious to all expurgatory evidence, completely unmoving, always waving those gosh-darn-friggin’-half-witted-imperious-little denunciations — Do you deny that you are an American spy? What, he dares to deny it? Ah-ha! Proof that the American spy is hiding something! –over and over until, finally, Patrick came to that brittle point of utter torment when it was, God forgive, time to stand up and pimp-slap these people.

Boy, does that ever describe those loonies and their methods. If there are any useful countering methods, DO post them!

Well I thought about this last night.....the only thing I can come up with (in my limited knowledge of 'stalking the petty tyrant') is if 'Horse Hockey' can become part of a legal document (re HBI lawsuit) then perhaps penerology, and more specifically the exact description of the attackers pathology can become part of any future legal documents??

That is, free public advertising/education regarding penerology, using the actual case as a massive learning tool for the public at large. Part of the settlement could go as far as insisting this sites put up the legal notice, which includes the detailed dissection of the person(s) pathology/attack.
Their own sites become educators of penerology to the masses....perhaps it could go further and the site taken over by this group so as not to 'disappear' and the opportunity be wasted? Enshrine the attacks against you as lessons for all to see.

I guess their is a risk penerology could be 'lost' to this battle (I'm not a lawyer so don't know).....but that was my idea fwiw.
Transmute the bad into good with practical application of knowledge for all to see.

It'd take a lot of time and resources for sure......but if your going to go for it....why not flip it on its head while your at it? :cool2:
 
What's interesting is that "Victronix" and her partner claim to be "9-11 Truth" advocates BUT she insists that a plane hit the Pentagon?

This is absolutely ridiculous, as there was NO wreckage. I lived 2-3 hours from the Pentagon at the time, and when they activated ALL the military in Tidewater, they came right out and said "Two planes have hit the WTC and a MISSILE has hit the Pentagon" we all heard it, on the TV, radio, etc.

Of course the Enlisted Military grape-vine went wonkers with rumors of WHOSE missile it was "Terrorist with a SAM on the bridge" "US trying to shoot down a terrorist and their missile hit the pentagon" etc. but there was NO question it was a missile of some kind as we could all see the hole and damage on the live TV coverage. It wasn't until days later that they announced it was a plane.

So why do these people claim to be 9-11 Truthers when they are in fact spreading government propaganda...when they're not busy libeling Laura and SOTT?


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