Something sinister is happening on the internet. It now appears to be accepted practice that, if someone disagrees with your opinion or gets banned from a forum, chat room, or blog, that threats are made that if you do not STFU, and unending campign of cyber bullying, cyber, smearing, prank phones, and other widespread attempts at cyber censorship will take place.
Rather than have a civilized discussion about how I run my broadcasts, and chats. A few out on the internet insist of conducting an investigation almost at a level of law enforcement.
For some odd reason it seems imparitive for some out there to do a thorough background starting from the day I was born up to the present day and then post virtually all of this information on the internet.
Some also feel it imparitive to post the personal information about my fiance and engage in the same kind of cyber terrorism targeted at me.
There has always been the same excuse by those who engage in these tactics which is;"You posted your name address etc. on the internet for all to see."
Yes, that is true, for the simple reason that I DO NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO HIDE. I do not feel the need to hide behind anon usernames or e-mail accounts for I have nothing to be ashamed of.
Have I made mistakes? Yes, and I have admitted to those mistakes many times over.
This brings me to this point. MY FIANCE HAS NEVER POSTED ANY OF HER PERSONAL INFORMATION ANYWHERE. I never told ANYONE on the internet her last name.
Yet SOMEONE SOMEWHERE found out her full name and posted it on the internet. They even gleefully posted any and all information about why they THOUGHT was her.
As it turns out they wound up tormenting some poor woman who had the bad luck of having the same name as my fiance.
The question is why such dramatic efforts?
The answer is quite simple. It is intimidation by those out there who want to silence me and others. It is a propaganda tool by those who do not believe in our constitutional rights to freedom of expression, ie: freedom of speech.
It is a campign from others who felt they were onto a money making machine, and when they were rejected they sought to get even because they felt that "If I cannot make any money off of this, well, neither will you." or "If we shut him down, we can make the money ourselves."
Recent events seem to indicate proof that the latter is true.
WHAT DOES NOT GET POSTED is the fact that in all of their thorough searches they did NOT find ANYTHING that would even come close to being even a minute scandal.
They have NOT posted, is that I have NO criminal history OF ANY KIND.
There are NO records ANYWHERE of any civil actions, no lawsuits, nothing.
There are NO records of complaints against ANY of my businesses with any agency that regulates these businesses.
There are no divorce records anywhere.
What does not get posted are the POSITIVE parts of my background, some of which I am happy does not, for at least some portions of my life can remain private.
There are a lot inconvenient truths out there for those with the skills to find them. Those who have found them have elected to remain quiet for the simple reason that it would undo their efforts.
That brings me to this one point. None of these actions are called for and are a serious breech of ethics both on and off the internet.
There is an old saying out there "If you do not like the show, change the channel."
Not only do these people not change the channel, they keep coming back.
Some have even gone so far as to gain unauthorized access to my e-mail accounts, web sites, myspace, photobucket and other sites to steal information contained within these locations or change the content within the accounts and, in some cases, post pornography.
Some have opened paypal accounts using my name in an attempt to raise funds for their own greedy purposes.
In their terrorism, they intimidate those who are subscribers of my chats, and websites, by investing THEIR backgrounds and then publishing THEIR information on public chat sites, forums, and message sites.
Some start blogs where they steal my content and that of other blogs for the specific purpose of conducting their own [ersonal smear campign. They even do a lot of these things IN PRIVATE most likely due to the fact that they realise that they are liable for their actions, and in some cases, may be breaking the law.
Many of these people will go to the various chat and message sites and log in using fake usernames so nobody will know who they truely are for the sole purpose of sabatoging the site.
Some of these people engage in the serious breech of ethics of publishing PRIVATE, instant messaging, PRIVATE messages and e-mails.
The excuse today is that "it is just the internet" or "nothing is private" on the internet anymore.
The problem with that excuse is that it is true. Honesty no longer exists on the internet. You cannot trust someone that when you tell them something that is meant to be private, will stay private.
You cannot trust someone that when you send them a PRIVATE message, that it will stay PRIVATE.
You cannot trust someone that when you send them a PRIVATE e-mail, that it will be private.
When someone contacts you, you cannot trust that they are who they are, believe in what they say they believe in, or keep any promise they make.
In short, you cannot trust anyone to keep their word.
In order to accomplish their goals these people will lie, cheat, break the law, violate the fundamental rules of ethics of society no matter the harm it does to the target of their actions.
Out of all of this comes a fundamental truth. What goes around comes around. In order to carry out some of these activities, a certain level of trust is needed between those involved.
If one of them becomes dissatasfied, feels wronged, has power taken away or is otherwise disenfranchised or disallusioned, that one can start the process against the others.
I made the statement once that I do not trust ANYONE on the internet.
That, sadly,should be true for EVERYONE.
Your closest friend on the internet could be your worst enemy.
THAT closest friend could lie cheat and steal in order to "get you" or "get even."
Rather than the internet being a place to meet new friends and engage in good social interactions, it will become a place for hermits who only log onto the internet to read comic books, watch viral videos, or download music.
I close with this. There will be those who will mock and complain about this entry. They will come here and call me names, and attempt to post their lies about me.
I am here to give this warning. It is not that you may be next, it is that you WILL be next. As others see the power that is to be had by engaging in these tactics, someone somewhere who has an issue with YOU will come after YOU.
Enjoy that which you do on to others as others will enjoy what they do onto you.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Friday, April 17, 2009
SAY WHAT?
I have recieved word that the owner of BH asked for funds (conations etc) and "wants a retraction or face the consequences. Well,read on:
According to the following sources, the owner has sought funds for anything for finding a place to live, to purchase items thus making money by her smearing of ME.
SOURCE: #1: http://www.cafepress.com/beaconhell
This store actually goes along with source #3: as it was set up when that post was made. The product line has changed since the time of that post.
SOURCE #2:http://www.zazzle.com/suedehead
The t-shirt on this store site may be a copyright violation since MURTARD is used by my room and also uses a portion of a copyrighted name of a business registered in the State of Florida.
Source #3: A DIRECT appeal for members to buy items from her store in order "get an apartment"
I would suggest that if the owner of Beaconhell.com disputes this claim she contact the source.
Stay Tuned
According to the following sources, the owner has sought funds for anything for finding a place to live, to purchase items thus making money by her smearing of ME.
SOURCE: #1: http://www.cafepress.com/beaconhell
This store actually goes along with source #3: as it was set up when that post was made. The product line has changed since the time of that post.
SOURCE #2:http://www.zazzle.com/suedehead
The t-shirt on this store site may be a copyright violation since MURTARD is used by my room and also uses a portion of a copyrighted name of a business registered in the State of Florida.
Source #3: A DIRECT appeal for members to buy items from her store in order "get an apartment"
Brand Spankin New Store!!
That’s right! Now you, too can support the beaconhell.com cause by sporting our swag. Not only will you be helping me raise money to get a place to live since that horrible Darwin is throwing his poor brother out into the cold streets, but you’ll also look pretty darn cool sporting a beaconhell tshirt or our “go green” eco shopping tote. Check it out. I’m ordering my tote and caps for all the guys!!! woot!
Sources: Beaconhell.com
The specific claim of donations came from this site:
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1295143366200660739&postID=7762811506984370591
I would suggest that if the owner of Beaconhell.com disputes this claim she contact the source.
Stay Tuned
CAR WARS
The owner of the brain dead blog is threatening to post another lie, this one about the dealership I own and operate. The dealership is not a charity, it is a retail sales operation that sells vehicles to the public, wholesale to other dealers directly or through dealer auctions as well as leases built to order communication vehicles, primarily news vans.
Their goal as one regular poster over stated is to "make certain that Murt does not make ANY money at all." which means that it is their intent to drive me into poverty and not be able to make a living by any means.
They want me unemployed, pure and simple.
Their efforts has already cost me money in lost sales as well as the expenses I have already had from countering the vast number of lies coming out of her blog by her and her members.
Their biggest gripe seems to be the so called donations they accuse me of raking in off the members of my chat/broadcast site. Up to today those have been lies.
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AN UPDATE:
One of my biggest critics regarding donations is a moderator of a chat site where, guess what, THEY SEEK DONATONS! They do have the disclaimer that it is to maintain the site (pay expenses) and NOT having to do with the cases they discuss.
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Their goal as one regular poster over stated is to "make certain that Murt does not make ANY money at all." which means that it is their intent to drive me into poverty and not be able to make a living by any means.
They want me unemployed, pure and simple.
Their efforts has already cost me money in lost sales as well as the expenses I have already had from countering the vast number of lies coming out of her blog by her and her members.
Their biggest gripe seems to be the so called donations they accuse me of raking in off the members of my chat/broadcast site. Up to today those have been lies.
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AN UPDATE:
One of my biggest critics regarding donations is a moderator of a chat site where, guess what, THEY SEEK DONATONS! They do have the disclaimer that it is to maintain the site (pay expenses) and NOT having to do with the cases they discuss.
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
TRUST
One last post on the current path before reaching that turning point.
The one thing I have been repeatadly reminded of is that I trust people too much. I suppose it comes from a generation where someone's word meant something. It meant that a handshake or simple "you have my word" was enough for all parties to keep their agreements.
Trust also meant that when someone sent a Personal Message, it was just that. The cardinal rule of the internet since the on line experience began was that ALL personal messages and e-mails were kept private.
That is no longer the case and has not been for quite some time. This is a generational thing apparently. The standard of behavior often referred to as nettiquite apparently has not taken hold with the new subscribers of the internet.
I experienced this breech of trust, first with the many volunteers who came forward with the standard "I want to be a mod" "can I help?" to which requests I had first turned down.
When I started the broadcast streams on the road, I had not intended to have my own chat. I had arranged to use existing chats on Topix and a number of message sites rather than to run and maintain my own chat site.
When I opened the Ustream chat at the urging of the members back then, I did so with me as the sole moderator. This worked out well until the trolls arrived. One thing led to another and I finally gave in to the flood of offers and brought aboard my first group of moderators.
This was the start of a series of problems of one kind or another with these volunteers as it turns out they either came aboard with the single minded purpose of sabatoging the chat or, not having the kind of leadership skills necessary to operate a chat room properly, made policy and ran the chat according to their personal agendas and personality conflicts with other members.
Trust also proved to be my weakness when it involved the transfer from one server to another when the owners and staff , again, volunteered to be the hosts of the chat and administer both the stream and broadcast sites.
This again proved to be a serious error for it turns out there were a group of individuals who liked nothing to do but ruin someone's hard work for the sake of LULZ.
That trust cost me a lot. It has also taught me that the internet is no longer a gathering place for the enlightened and friendly groups who gather in our virtual rooms and persue our interests.
Instead the internet is nothing more than a toy.A place to read comics, listen to music and watch viral videos.
The internet is a place where someone logs into a chat room as someone they are not.
The internet is a place for pranks and threats and "getting even" for being banned or denial of entry into a room.
The internet is a place where a no to a request or the turning down of an idea leads to cyber stalking and personal smears, again, to get even.
The internet is now a place of virtual vandalism, cyber terrorism and cyber bullying.
Before I go on I must take this time to thank all the GOOD Administrators, and moderators that have assisted me in the operation of the broadcast sites, message sites, and chat sites during the 5 months I have operated them. They volunteer their time and effort for nothing but my thanks and I will always appreciate them.
This then brings me to the close of the post with the one incident that has taught me the final lesson regarding Trust.
The administrators and I had a group private chat session where we discussed certain problems that had been ocuring on the board for about 2 weeks or so during the absense of a key admin.
In that session I made the remark to all that "When push comes to shove, in the end I do not trust completely ANYONE but myself." All the participants of the chat understood full well the meaning behind this statement except one.
As it turns out, that one individual proved to be the one person I could not trust as I learned later on what this individual's true motives and actions were.
So, that last lesson that I have learned is this. "I will never, ever, trust anyone on the internet again."
Now for the turning point that is approaching.
Stay tuned
MURT
The one thing I have been repeatadly reminded of is that I trust people too much. I suppose it comes from a generation where someone's word meant something. It meant that a handshake or simple "you have my word" was enough for all parties to keep their agreements.
Trust also meant that when someone sent a Personal Message, it was just that. The cardinal rule of the internet since the on line experience began was that ALL personal messages and e-mails were kept private.
That is no longer the case and has not been for quite some time. This is a generational thing apparently. The standard of behavior often referred to as nettiquite apparently has not taken hold with the new subscribers of the internet.
I experienced this breech of trust, first with the many volunteers who came forward with the standard "I want to be a mod" "can I help?" to which requests I had first turned down.
When I started the broadcast streams on the road, I had not intended to have my own chat. I had arranged to use existing chats on Topix and a number of message sites rather than to run and maintain my own chat site.
When I opened the Ustream chat at the urging of the members back then, I did so with me as the sole moderator. This worked out well until the trolls arrived. One thing led to another and I finally gave in to the flood of offers and brought aboard my first group of moderators.
This was the start of a series of problems of one kind or another with these volunteers as it turns out they either came aboard with the single minded purpose of sabatoging the chat or, not having the kind of leadership skills necessary to operate a chat room properly, made policy and ran the chat according to their personal agendas and personality conflicts with other members.
Trust also proved to be my weakness when it involved the transfer from one server to another when the owners and staff , again, volunteered to be the hosts of the chat and administer both the stream and broadcast sites.
This again proved to be a serious error for it turns out there were a group of individuals who liked nothing to do but ruin someone's hard work for the sake of LULZ.
That trust cost me a lot. It has also taught me that the internet is no longer a gathering place for the enlightened and friendly groups who gather in our virtual rooms and persue our interests.
Instead the internet is nothing more than a toy.A place to read comics, listen to music and watch viral videos.
The internet is a place where someone logs into a chat room as someone they are not.
The internet is a place for pranks and threats and "getting even" for being banned or denial of entry into a room.
The internet is a place where a no to a request or the turning down of an idea leads to cyber stalking and personal smears, again, to get even.
The internet is now a place of virtual vandalism, cyber terrorism and cyber bullying.
Before I go on I must take this time to thank all the GOOD Administrators, and moderators that have assisted me in the operation of the broadcast sites, message sites, and chat sites during the 5 months I have operated them. They volunteer their time and effort for nothing but my thanks and I will always appreciate them.
This then brings me to the close of the post with the one incident that has taught me the final lesson regarding Trust.
The administrators and I had a group private chat session where we discussed certain problems that had been ocuring on the board for about 2 weeks or so during the absense of a key admin.
In that session I made the remark to all that "When push comes to shove, in the end I do not trust completely ANYONE but myself." All the participants of the chat understood full well the meaning behind this statement except one.
As it turns out, that one individual proved to be the one person I could not trust as I learned later on what this individual's true motives and actions were.
So, that last lesson that I have learned is this. "I will never, ever, trust anyone on the internet again."
Now for the turning point that is approaching.
Stay tuned
MURT
A TURNING POINT
In the last few hours have led to some interesting developments have caused me to decide to take a different direction with the blog. I have decided that some efforts from this time forward that need to be done are going do be done without the need for discussion here.
The blog will move in an entirely different direction that is more in line of the way I wanted it to go back when I started broadcasting.
From now on, all comments have to be in line with the topic of my posts. Any off topic comment will not be published.
Stay tuned
MURT
The blog will move in an entirely different direction that is more in line of the way I wanted it to go back when I started broadcasting.
From now on, all comments have to be in line with the topic of my posts. Any off topic comment will not be published.
Stay tuned
MURT
Benched:
One of the old accusations out there stems from the Memorial Bench project. In a repeat of the same lobbying effort that prevented my billboard project from going through a couple of years ago in regards to the Trenton Ducket case, the same thing happened again.
The town I live near had a program where someone could buy a park bench for $500.00 and have a small brass plaque with three or four lines inscribed on it.
Right after Caylee was found, everyone wanted to have some kind of monument in her memory. Remembering the memorial bench program, I brought it to the attention to the room. Everyone decided that, rather than have me fund the bench on my own, that they wanted to participate.
I first went to the city and talked to the manager of the department that ran the program and discussed the project. He was confident that we could get the bench and even took me down to the park and discussed several areas as to where to place it.
All seemed fine until after the bench was paid for and the time was fast approaching for it to be placed.
There had been a meeting of the committee who oversees the approval of the benches after some people made a number of phone calls to the city protesting the placing of the bench and my sponsership of it.
The committee decided that, in light of this and the fact that there was a lot of negative publicity about the case in general, they were going to deny the placement of the bench with Caylee's name in any variation.
Needless to say the offical I met with was stunned. I was then told that it would take a week or so to get refunded and that the funds would come into a single check to me rather than in the individual payments made by each member who contributed.
After telling the contributers what had transpired, all but one agreed that the funds should go for the search for Haleigh Cummings. After calling the Putnam county Sheriff's office, it was determined that the funds should go to TES as this was the family's wish at that time.
I then went to the vigil tent in Satsuma and personaly made the donation on behalf of the group to a representative of TES.
I was then sent an e-mail followed up by two letters from TES:
The TES representative also went on the blog and posted the following:
The town I live near had a program where someone could buy a park bench for $500.00 and have a small brass plaque with three or four lines inscribed on it.
Right after Caylee was found, everyone wanted to have some kind of monument in her memory. Remembering the memorial bench program, I brought it to the attention to the room. Everyone decided that, rather than have me fund the bench on my own, that they wanted to participate.
I first went to the city and talked to the manager of the department that ran the program and discussed the project. He was confident that we could get the bench and even took me down to the park and discussed several areas as to where to place it.
All seemed fine until after the bench was paid for and the time was fast approaching for it to be placed.
There had been a meeting of the committee who oversees the approval of the benches after some people made a number of phone calls to the city protesting the placing of the bench and my sponsership of it.
The committee decided that, in light of this and the fact that there was a lot of negative publicity about the case in general, they were going to deny the placement of the bench with Caylee's name in any variation.
Needless to say the offical I met with was stunned. I was then told that it would take a week or so to get refunded and that the funds would come into a single check to me rather than in the individual payments made by each member who contributed.
After telling the contributers what had transpired, all but one agreed that the funds should go for the search for Haleigh Cummings. After calling the Putnam county Sheriff's office, it was determined that the funds should go to TES as this was the family's wish at that time.
I then went to the vigil tent in Satsuma and personaly made the donation on behalf of the group to a representative of TES.
I was then sent an e-mail followed up by two letters from TES:
I am the one who personally received a donation check made out to
Texas EquuSearch from Murt on Saturday, Feb. 14th while TES was in
Satsuma, FL searching for Haleigh Cummings. The check was for $500.
Murt made it very clear that the donation was from his group and not
just from himself. Murt has received a letter of thanks from TES on
letterhead regarding the donation. I am sure he would be happy to
share that letter which even includes the check number with any that
request he do so. I believe he could even offer his cancelled check as proof,if need be. I have received his permission to release any/all
information regarding the donation.
Tim Miller has asked me to convey that TES has been putting in 20 hour
days on searches for the past several days and continues to receive
calls for help from around the country. Taking time to resolve issues
such as the one above takes time away from helping families in need.
TES is grateful for all types of support and we ask that all pray for
those missing and their families.
Sincerely,
CT
Texas EquuSearch
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Rather than accept this explenation, the blog members went on not only to accuse me of forging the letter but incurred their wrath on the representative of TES questioning her judgment.
This is by far, a clear demonstration of the TRUE direction of that blog. They are less about the plight of lost children and the violence against them as they are in cyber bullying and cyber terrorism when it comes to those that they either disagree with or dislike.
The incident has left and indealable mark with TES and the staff there who know realize the kind of problems I had while assisting them in Orlando. I received several apologies by senior staff members of TES over the misunderstandings that ocured when they were in Orlando.
They made it clear that I would be welcome with open arms to any TES search in the future.
Monday, April 13, 2009
TO HELL AND BACK
An old pattern is repeating again that I do not quite understand. First I am banned from hell, then let back into hell (even though I did not go there) and then banned again.
I think the gates of hell should be replaced with revolving doors.
The fact the blog owner would go through all of this for an extremely tiney chat site among the tens of thousands of similar sites on the internet speaks for how wierd some people are on the net anymore.
Her members do not fare much better. Her blog numbers are consistantly low ( as measured by the comments section) when she writes articles of a "non-Murt" nature or where her members do not manage to insert a "Murt related" comment in an article that has nothing at all do do with me.
The LP memorial article is a prime example. That entire article and the comments that were added to it were a complete farce and a first rate example of yellow journalism.
This is not the first time that the, "you are banned" trick has been used. She has done this before. The last time this was done was preceded by a rather pecular "This site has been suspended by the host" webpage that went up. As the word spread about this revelation, a good number of pro-Murt posters went over there to see for thenselves.
They soon found out the true purpose of what I call the "suspended by host" webpage.
In a rather odd concidence, within a couple of days, virtualy everyone who viewed that link found themselves getting a "you have been banned" message from the blog owner by means of the same sort of webpage.
Anyone who did not visit the "Suspended by host" page, once it was taken down, was not banned as long as they did not post, or made any favorable posts regarding me.
There seems to be a repeat of this pattern, dispensing with the "suspended by host" webpage or something similar since the blog now seems to be able to read the ip address of anyone even looking around on the site or more likely, another way is being found for the blog owner to obtain ip information of those not welcome to the site for pre-emptive banning.
I can find no other explination how an ip address can be banned if it has never been to the website and the owner of the ip has never been to said website or otherwise been in contact with the blog owner.
Perhaps some hackers have provided the necessary information? It would be nice to know.
I think the gates of hell should be replaced with revolving doors.
The fact the blog owner would go through all of this for an extremely tiney chat site among the tens of thousands of similar sites on the internet speaks for how wierd some people are on the net anymore.
Her members do not fare much better. Her blog numbers are consistantly low ( as measured by the comments section) when she writes articles of a "non-Murt" nature or where her members do not manage to insert a "Murt related" comment in an article that has nothing at all do do with me.
The LP memorial article is a prime example. That entire article and the comments that were added to it were a complete farce and a first rate example of yellow journalism.
This is not the first time that the, "you are banned" trick has been used. She has done this before. The last time this was done was preceded by a rather pecular "This site has been suspended by the host" webpage that went up. As the word spread about this revelation, a good number of pro-Murt posters went over there to see for thenselves.
They soon found out the true purpose of what I call the "suspended by host" webpage.
In a rather odd concidence, within a couple of days, virtualy everyone who viewed that link found themselves getting a "you have been banned" message from the blog owner by means of the same sort of webpage.
Anyone who did not visit the "Suspended by host" page, once it was taken down, was not banned as long as they did not post, or made any favorable posts regarding me.
There seems to be a repeat of this pattern, dispensing with the "suspended by host" webpage or something similar since the blog now seems to be able to read the ip address of anyone even looking around on the site or more likely, another way is being found for the blog owner to obtain ip information of those not welcome to the site for pre-emptive banning.
I can find no other explination how an ip address can be banned if it has never been to the website and the owner of the ip has never been to said website or otherwise been in contact with the blog owner.
Perhaps some hackers have provided the necessary information? It would be nice to know.
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So, let's recap.
Mono laughed at WS and BH for taking donations.
Then the tool begs like a baby for money from his members, and "forgets" to pay his HostGator bill.
WTF did he spend the donations on, hookers and blow, LMFAO?
17/4/09 1:39 PM