Colleen Johnston and Vincent Bridges Trash Laura and cassiopaea
Mareiki said:
Well you know Ark I read Vincent bridges website (s)yesterday and I can only tell you: it is your word against his. In spite of your analysis and data he did the same.
This is one of the saddest parts about the people that get taken in by old Vinnie and gang. They THINK that it is just "your word against his," but that is not the case.
For one thing, it should be pointed out that Vincent Bridges met me exactly TWICE. Indeed, we had a long email correspondence which consisted mostly of Bridges pumping me for information and then manipulating me in an attempt to control me. Those emails are published
HERE. (You can read about the background of the beginning of this correspondence
HERE.)
You might also want to read some email exchanges between Vinnie's pal, Jay Weidner and our webmaster
HERE. In these emails, you will read Jay claiming that Vinnie wrote articles and signed his name to them. (keep in mind that these emails are archived with full headers intact in several places and anybody who wants to see them and has a legitimate reason to ask for them, can certainly receive copies.)
In any event, as I said, Vinnie has met me exactly twice, at my home and both times he had a major agenda as can be discovered by reading the
text of the "Mirror Session" and listening to a few of the sound clips of ole Vinnie in action. You can also read EsoQuest's comments on it
HERE where he says, among other things:
I stayed up last night reading the mirror session transcript, and did not even bother with the audio. I guess I'm a bit sensitive to these things, but reading Vincent's responses and the who deal made my chest and abdomen tense greatly. And a also felt a lot of "filth" related to this person, not just baggage, but like a bag of poisonous waste.
I really wondered how anyone could even put up with someone like that, especially in the context of a session and trance induction, until I realized he probably hadn't revealed himself to this extent before.
So, we have a guy with an agenda, a background of lying confirmed by documentary evidence, versus a well funded Journalist, Tom French, who spent FIVE YEARS following me around and investigating everything about me and wrote a 20 page article that is still on the net
HERE.
We have published documents, emails, testimony on our website. Vinnie, on the other hand, publishes lies and uses emotional language that is of such a nature that most readers don't bother to check out his "evidence."
Let me give a couple of examples. Somewhere on his website or on GLP (I'm not even sure where), he has made a career out of calling me a violent person who tried to murder a poor innocent guy. He then says things that give the impression that he has read many newspaper clippings and the court transcript and so on, claiming that this supports his claims and suggests that anybody can read these things if they want. What he does NOT do is produce them. Why? Because they don't exist AS he says they do.
So, first of all, go here and read about the situation he is describing as an "attempted murder" at this link:
http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/tallahassee.htm
Now, among the things written on this page of the account of my defense against murder being attempted on ME there are the following remarks:
When he began to investigate the matter, Tom French told me that the public records on the event are so OLD that they don't even tell the disposition of the case. Tom French had to search out the attorney based on my information, to interview him and the private investigator in order to get all the details.
In order to provide the "bona fides" behind the story, I searched for an email from Tom that I thought existed, but only later remembered that, after he had talked to Joe Aloi, the investigator, and Brian Hayes, the attorney, that he had called me to tell me how glad he was that everything was exactly as I had said it was, even adding that these two gentlemen who were truly STO angels in my life, had sent their best wishes to me and were very happy to know that I was okay.
The important thing to know about this is the fact that since no one ever even wanted the trial testimony transcribed, it NEVER WAS DONE. When Tom French was doing his due diligence on it (as he was required to do because I told him about it), he discovered that there was nothing on file either with the court or in the local library or newspaper office. The only thing available was the record of the case number, the names of the participants and attorneys. That was why Tom contacted attorney Brian Hayes to inquire.
Again let me say it:
the record of the trial was NEVER transcribed. Yet Vinnie repeatedly refers to it as though he has read it. He then tells people that, for $65 or so, they can get a copy. That isn't true. In order to get a copy of it an individual would have to pay thousands of dollars to have it transcribed. How do I know this? Because Tom French of the St. Pete Times told me that the Times didn't consider it worth paying the high dollar amount to have it transcribed after Tom interviewed Brian Hayes, the attorney who represented me who, as Tom told me, confirmed every single thing about the case that I had told him.
I later spoke with Brian and explained to him what Vincent Bridges was doing, how he was defaming me over this. As he pointed out, what Bridges is doing IS a crime and I could certainly prosecute him but I don't have the money to do that. (Sorry, there's no George Soros backing us. You can bet that if there WAS, I WOULD haul Vinnie and his whole gang into court even though I know none of them own the pot or the window and it would be a waste of time.) Anyway, Briand kindly wrote a letter for me and here it is:
Now, notice that in this letter Brian mentions a SINGLE newspaper clipping about the case that appeared in the Tallahassee Democrat. Yes, that was it. A single notice. But, to hear Vinnie tell it, it was a "cause celebre" and a big scandal and so on and so forth, and that there are scads of articles and court testimony to be had.
It ain't so.
Now, think about this: Tom French, a journalist who spent FIVE YEARS and a LOT of the St. Pete Times money following me and investigating me confirms what I have said after interviewing the attorney who handled the case. The attorney confirms what I have said. The letter from the attorney is a document that confirms what I have said, and still, people like Mareiki say "it's just your word against his" when referring to the lies of Vinnie Bridges.
Next item: Vinnie likes to claim that there are just scads of people who complained about the so-called Raffle Scam. He reproduces on his website an alleged email from one of them saying:
"In December of 2002, I sent the Jadczyk's a check, #6548, for three raffle tickets. The check was cashed by a New Port Richey bank on January 3rd, 2003. The check is endorsed to an account in the name of the Perseus Foundation, and signed by Dr. A. Jadczyk. In February of 2003, I began to try to get in touch with them to see if I had won. No response. I have yet to hear anything from them at all. They simply cashed my check and disappeared."
Now, how can we prove this is a lie? Quite simple: there is no possibility, under the banking laws of the State of FL, IRS rules, and so on, that "Dr. A. Jadczyk" EVER endorsed a check payable to Perseus Foundation. Period. All checks made out to Perseus Foundation were STAMPED with a business stamp that we were required to get when the account was opened.
I'd like to see a scan of this famous check, front and back... But we know they won't even try to dummy one up because they don't know the name of the bank or the account number nor do they have a sample of Ark's signature to forge (don't doubt for a minute that they would try all these things if they had the information to do it!)
These are just samples of the kinds of lies versus truth backed by documentation that are definitely NOT "your word against his."
Another interesting item I would like to address is the nonsense from the ex-member, Linda DeCloedt, who goes by the internet handle "Opie." Now, Opie likes to claim that I "alter" the transcripts to suit me. She says she knows this for a fact because she transcribed a couple of sessions and when they were published, they were not what she had transcribed. She writes wherever she can get an audience:
From: OPie: I was also one of those who transcribed the original sessions. And, yes, when they were published on the website they had been changed. One was changed considerably. She had been charged with this by others before, and until I saw it happen first-hand, I didn't believe it was true. I figured she changed punctuation or corrected things, but that's not what happened with the sessions I transcribed. [...]
Now the problem with this is that if she changed the two that I transcribed, how many more of the sessions were tampered with? If you find one piece of work that's bogus, how can you trust the rest? [...]
Seems that Opie conveniently forgot a few facts. At the time she offered to do some transcribing to help me catch up, she wasn't able to do it and wrote to me as follows:
From: "Linda DeCloedt
Subject: Re: Mailing tapes
Date sent: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 12:38:37 -0800
[...]
A couple of things.
First, the background noise on the tapes was REALLY loud, and seemed to get louder when something important was being discussed (interesting, isn't it?). There are a couple of places where I couldn't understand Ark. It wasn't his accent; it was a combination of him talking very quietly and the background noise being so loud. On the second tape (August 10), I got smart and put ** where I couldn't hear what was being said.
The first tape (August 7) had a spot in it where there was nothing recorded for a while. Then it picked back up right about the time I'd decided it was finished. Then when it ended, it simply ended. No goodbye or anything (actually, so did the 2nd tape). But the first one had a very strange ending. You were basically concluding the session and asking if there was anything you needed to know, should have asked, and so forth. The answer was "Hold on to me", then there was a sound like a heart beating, which became very loud, and the tape ended. On the answer, I've put the spaces in. It chould have been "Hold on, tom. M..." or "Hold on to m...". I don't know since it ended. [...]
The second tape was a little better quality than the first, though there were still a couple of areas where I couldn't decipher what was being said -- one in particular where Ark apparently asked a question, but I couldn't hear it (I say "apparently", because all of a sudden there was an answer).
Before I send the tapes back, I'll try to listen to them straight-through (as opposed to stopping and starting) with the transcripts in front of me and make sure I didn't miss anything. In the meantime, I thought I'd get them back to you right away; maybe between the two of you (or your notes from the sessions, if you have any), you can fill in any missing spots. If I find anything I've missed after listening to the tapes, I'll correct the transcripts and E-mail the corrected copies to you.
Those facts are dealt with
HERE in some detail, but I will include here a couple of remarks:
When I went over the transcripts she had sent, there were many problems that made her effort almost useless. Naturally, I had the original tape and not a copy to work from, but that is exactly the point. With all the problems noted by the individual herself, how can she even say, with such libelous certainty:
From: OPie: I was also one of those who transcribed the original sessions. And, yes, when they were published on the website they had been changed. One was changed considerably. She had been charged with this by others before, and until I saw it happen first-hand, I didn't believe it was true. I figured she changed punctuation or corrected things, but that's not what happened with the sessions I transcribed. [...]
Now the problem with this is that if she changed the two that I transcribed, how many more of the sessions were tampered with? If you find one piece of work that's bogus, how can you trust the rest? [...]
Notice how the first sentence above even implies that she has done more than two sessions... and how she does not even acknowledge the many problems she had with the tapes and with hearing, and so on.
Again, the original email is archived with full headers in several locations.
Those are just some highlights that I thought I would comment on. I think that anybody reading the documentation that we publish, opposed to the unfounded and undocumented claims of Vinnie Bridges will agree that it is NOT just "our word against his."
Sorry, Mareiki, you've been had.