There is a certain individual out there in cyberspace who is nothing more than a coward. She knows who she is. I was just served with what her state calls “an injunction against harassment.”
I beg to differ with this person that I have no choice other than to call a paranoid fool. I have done none of the things she accuses me of in her little order. This is nothing more than a stunt by “a woman scorned” who was taken off of admin status of my chat due to her inept and incompetent actions. To this day I do not understand this person or the group she has joined.
What I do understand is this. Her and her fellow harassers have accomplished their mission. I am done, I have had it, I am through. My actions since Nov 2008 was to defend myself against the lies, and emotional distress the liars and pranksters have put me through. And for what?
All I was doing is what tens of thousands of people do internationally. I operated a blog, a forum and a Multimedia stream.
What I, a 60 year old MAN, widowed, did was make the mistake of discussing the plight of missing and exploited children. I took on the role of a citizen journalist and wrote, photographed and broadcast the everyday impressions of an ordinary individual rather than from the viewpoint of a reporter for a mass media outlet who’s only interest in covering these incidents are for more ratings to garner higher advertising revenue.
I broke a rule. I was born a MAN. It seems that the area of posting about missing and exploited children is restricted to the FEMALE gender. Now some are going to think I am being sarcastic here. I am not, I am dead serious. I am one of several who are being harassed in a similar manner. The proof is out there on the internet. Google Marinade Dave, Levi Page and so on. It is men more than women who are being pestered simply because they have the audacity to care about the ever growing violence against children from their own family members.
In this injunction this person has included virtually all outlets on the internet. Facebook, twitter you name it, it is there. My freedom of speech is gone. My ability to defend myself is gone.
Her little group of haters are now free to stalk and harass to their hearts content. The truth does not matter. It never has. It is their egos that matter. Their power to destroy is all they care about. These people do not care what they do or the consequences of their actions. They only care about their power and influence that they can wield against those with whom they disagree.
What is interesting about all of this is that I had already stopped defending my self. I was fed up. I have had enough. I went to work, I played my facebook games, I watched tv. My blogs came to a grinding halt. The forum was never set up and there is no large chat, just a small informal chat with a few friends.
What they have also accomplished was to end a project that, if successful, had the potential to prevent harm to a large number of children and to create a network of on line eyes that just might have led to the reduction of these kinds of incidents that have resulted in thousands and thousands of cases of children that have been murdered or missing throughout the United States and Canada. In addition, thousands more of these cases that go UNSOLVED and the missing UNRECOVERED due to the elapsed time between the time the incident occurs and the public at large is made aware of it.
What was this project? A rather simple one, really. Telecommunications over the internet is evolving at a rapid pace. There are devices created everyday that are more powerful and “smarter” than one can imagine. The pace is so rapid that it is hard to keep up with all the innovations in technology.
What is important is that these devices now make it possible to spread the word about a missing child, or person, for that matter in a matter of seconds after the incident is known. These devices make it possible for someone who sees a child at a mall, for instance, being approached by a stranger, of recording that incident while AT THE SAME TIME calling law enforcement and thus preventing the abduction of the child to begin with.
In 2008 I had envisioned all of the bloggers, forum owners, chat owners, and new media stream owners forming an international network where, when an incident of a missing child or person occurs, the word would be spread instantly over this network. Their subscribers would become “observers” keeping a close eye out while living their daily lives, armed with the new powerful technology of the smart phone.
All of these millions of pairs of eyes would be out there, ready to photograph and to report to law enforcement the sighting of a missing child or person in an instant. Right now, if someone sees a missing child or person, there are few outlets for doing this. Law enforcement does not have the kind of resources that we on the internet have. Right now a person who suspects they have spotted a missing child has to go through a process typical of any government run operation where a great deal of time is lost from the time the person reports the incident to the point where it is acted upon by the agency in charge.
There have been a number of studies that demonstrate that the average elapsed time between the sighting of a missing person and the report is acted upon is 4 hours. That is far too long. The sightings are rarely recorded (photographed) so that all the law enforcement agency has to go on is the visual recollection of a witness. Studies have shown that in a majority of cases, witnesses get it wrong. They misidentify the abductor or other participant with the missing person.
The power and effectiveness of a joint effort of those of us on Twitter, Facebook, the forums, chats, and other internet social media sites is being demonstrated right now in the middle east. “The Twitter Revolt” as some have called it has resulted in the downfall of a dictator who held Egypt in his iron grasp for the better part of 30 years.
No prolonged battle was necessary to end this dictatorship and start Egypt down the road of democracy. All that was needed was a tweet, followed by millions upon millions of tweets, and texts, posts to Facebook walls and so on. What has happened in Egypt has now spread throughout the middle east. A revolution has started and we have no idea where it will go. The power is literally in the hands of the people and not the governments.
It is this power I had hoped to harness with the help of the thousands and thousands of social media site users out there to “be on the lookout” for missing children and other persons. to “be on the lookout” for a stranger approaching a child. To be there with the new and powerful smart phone with the zoom lens, the 5 mega pixel plus resolution, to record the evidence.
How many pedophiles could have been stopped by them knowing that a housewife with a g4 smartphone was keeping a close eye on his every move. How many missing children would be found by someone uploading a photo of a spotted child to a website connected to law enforcement or the family of that child?
Perhaps someday somewhere someone will take the idea I had and perhaps SHE can make happen what I could not.
I cannot.
The truth has NOT set me free.
The lies and smears of others have imprisoned me.
MURT
She had better make sure her claims are factual or she could be in a deep pile of doo doo.
I have read the transcript of her complaint and it is clear that she lied to the court several times.
Never seen anything like it.
MURT
She is clearly a loon.
Will you include all her coach purses in your lawsuit?
Lara: A number of points:
IF the individual who “revealed” the material you refer to, TRULY believed that the contents were GENUINE, that individual would have provided more COMPLETE information regarding the AUTHENTICITY of the content and proof the material was not ALTERED nor TAMPERED with. In fact the OPPOSITE is true. Those who claim to believe in the authenticity of the material have REFUSED to cooperate in any way shape or form with the Florida State Atty nor the Lake County Florida Sheriff’s department, regarding who participated in the so called conversations and prove to law enforcement that they are GENUINE.
I have also have been waiting for the publisher of that material to demonstrate how she made certain that the material was genuine and not a hoax, scam or forgery. It has been almost 3 years and no effort has been made on her part.
The “suspect” who is purported to have been on the other side of these conversations is under investigation by the Kentucky State Atty’s office for the possession of and distribution of child pornography. There are sources who claim that his mother is also under investigation for possible sex abuse of her own son alleged to have begun as early as age 12.
Lara, One thing that needs to be made perfectly clearTHE ALLEGED COMMENTS WERE NOT MADE IN A CHAT ROOM. THEY ARE PURPORTED TO BE A PRIVATE INSTANT MESSAGE SESSION BETWEEN ME AND A SINGLE INDIVIDUAL
The point here is that even if these conversations were genuine THEY WERE NON CRIMINAL CONVERSATIONS DONE IN PRIVATE. Whoever turned the conversations over to the private detective BROKE FLORIDA WIRETAPPING LAWS. Because of that they are inadmissible as evidence in any us court.
I suggest, that before you jump to any conclusions, you do your homework.
MURT
I appreciate your putting me in line, are you saying that you have not made any of those comments??
Due to the fact that the material is discovery in a capitol murder where the state is seeking the death penalty, I am unable to comment on the specifics of what was said in the alleged conversations. All I can say is that I am stating that the material is a hoax and does not represent the true content of the original conversations. If the conversations were genuine, the participant(s) and those who published and provided “copies” to the PRIVATE detective would have taken steps to prove their authenticity.
In fact the opposite is true. Everyone who claims to be directly involved with the creation of and distribution of this material are going out of their way to AVOID any steps toward authentication.
MURT
Another thing to consider. It is my contention that the incident was brought about in order to create a scandal. The person purported to be on the other side of the conversation is known for pulling stunts for “the Lulz” He claimed to be a member of Anonymous. Being from the UK, you should be familiar with this group as they are highly active and well known in Europe.
There were 0ver 50 attempts at trying to contact me and engage me in private conversations and each time I rejected the request and blocked the individual(s). FINALLY I decided to engage the person in what I was led to be a debate about hypothetical reasons for a child to become missing. Remember I was running a chat that had to do with a missing child who had NOT been found at that time.
The group who is making up the “bad press” are made up of individuals highly proficient in the media arts and are expert in techniques to alter original content or even create hoax content from scratch. The soundboard calls are evidence of some of these abilities and skills.
MURT
Thank you for that information.
No I have no knowledge of them. I am not very “pc savvy”
Honestly though I purely found all that information when I was about to sign up to a forum. I googled it to make sure it would be worth my time and then I just got hooked on the madness I suppose. (I have been bed ridden for a while and have some time to fill up as I hate doing nothing.) What you were all doing helping with finding missing people etc I thought was great… Then it went wild and I could not understand the craziness.
I appreciate you putting me straight and explaining all of the above. So for my rude words I am going to do something rarely seen on these blogs etc…stand by…..
Murt I am very sorry for assuming what I was reading was correct. Please accept my apologies.
What concerns me is the length of time all of this has been going on and interfering in cases of missing children.
Good luck.
Lara:
What needs to be understood when determining if what you read on the internet is authentic or not is to research who it is that is publishing the information, their motive, and their credentials.
All of the parties in the dispute over the material, me included, are ordinary, non-professional individuals who take advantage of the powerful social media websites available on the internet today.
It is possible and common for an ordinary housewife, or in my case a truck driver to publish material or broadcast over the internet in a manner to mirror a mainstream newspaper such as the London Times or television such as the BBC.
The majority of people who follow these blogs and stream sites are not “pc savvy” and do not understand when an article or “webcast” is being presented to them, it may be from a single individual and not a professional media reporter or other commercial broadcast outlet.
The old expression “let the buyer beware” applies to the internet, now more than ever.
MURT
It makes me feel that the WWW is more dangerous than I first realized, it makes me worry more about the safety of my children. If people can just post what they want and to make it look “Official” as such, then how do you know if what you read online is honest or not.
Very Worrying. Thank you for explaining. Think I am going to have to read up on internet safety again ..but NOT online
Murt, will you publish all the usernames that she uses on the internet? I get so many requests to follow me on twitter and I know a lot of the requests come from the haters. I do not want to associate with any of that group.
anonymous: In my request for a hearing in this matter I have advised the judge that the respondent is known to have multiple internet aliases and that without knowing all of these names, it would be hard to avoid unintended contact with her.
I have asked the judge to compel her to state any and all aliases she uses on the internet so that I am able to comply with the order and to instruct her not to engage in any practice which would cause me to have unintended contact with her.
Due to the sensitive nature of the order, I would not be able to publish this information, but since other individuals were named as third party agents of mine, I would request the court to allow me to provide this information to these named individuals so they could also avoid unintended contact with this individual.
I have also contacted a representative of the local Civil Liberties Union to determine if my first amendment rights may have been infringed under this order.
MURT