Waynesville NC: This year's most ticked-off cease and desist letter?

Found at Chilling Effects:

April 23, 2008

Sender Information:
[Private]
Sent by: [Private]
[Private]
North Car, 28786, USA

Recipient Information:
[Private]
[Private]
Michigan, 48040

Sent via: internet post-htt
Re: cease& desist
To:
[private]
Marysville, MI 48040

From:
[private]
Waynesville NC 28786

It has come to my attention that you are continuing to attempt to harass and or cause undue and further harm to me personally, financially and emotionally, by continuing to make libelous and / or slanderous statements about me, my business and my family members, via various Internet chat forums, bloggs and websites you have created.

It has also come to my attention that you continue to engage in this libelous and criminal activity by posting my personal and / or business information on various Internet chat forums bloggs and websites you have created, as well as photographs of myself sent to you when we were friends, intended for your personal viewing only.

Your continued libelous statements are no doubt and attempt to inflict financial harm, as well as inflict emotional distress to myself, my family members and my business and to attempt to engage me further and "call me out" to defend myself against your totally FALSE and libelous, malicious, and defamatory statements.
Your continued illegal cyberstalking actions, has left me no choice but to send you this last good faith communication in an last ditch effort to get you to CEASE and Desist in this illegal activity at once.

All fifty U.S. states criminalized stalking in the 1990's, and many have passed cyberstalking statutes as well.
All fifty U.S. states also have laws againts the very same endeavors you are engaged in including THE MICHIGAN PENAL CODE
Your continued endeavor in this harassment campaign appears that you may also indeed be classified as a cyberstalker (Internet stalker) as defined by various criminal statues.

Make NO Mistake About IT, [private].
I WILL PROSECUTE YOU TO THE FULL EXISTENT OF THE LAW
IF THIS ACTIVITY DOES NOT CEASE IMMEDIATELY.
You have simply left me no other choice.

Several months ago, I sent you an informal request via e mail, as well as a formal CEASE and Desist letter to your home address, asking you to not engage in this activity any further,
yet you continue to do so.
I have also made various good faith efforts via post on various Internet chat forms, for you to stop this and allow us all to move forward... to no avail.

Various friends, associates and Internet cyber crime advocates have and continue to record and document the irrefutable events and outburst, as evidence, or your illegal activity and I WILL SEEK CRIMINAL AND CIVIL PROSECUTION IF YOU DO NOT CEASE AND DESIST these activities IMMEDIATELY.

It is my intention to also seek possibly, both civil and criminal actions against the administrators of the host who continue to allow you to post your defamatory and totally false allegations.

You are hereby directed to REMOVE any mention of my family members names, my name, as well as my Internet business names and or URLS (website names) and / or pictures of us and or any family members you have posted on the various Internet chat forums, blogs and websites you have created.

If you are unable to REMOVE this maliciously posted libelous material, than I strongly urge you to have the administrators REMOVE libelous material, as well as any mention of my family members names, my name, my business name, and or pictures of me and or any family
members you have posted on the various Internet chat forums bloggs and websites you have created.

This is my FINAL attempt to rectify this situation in a good faith effort.
I suggest you do not make me take this further.

Submitted for Your Consideration: By [private] and uploaded on this 11th day of June 2007.

Will Japan hunt Southern Ocean whales again this year?

According to The Sydney Morning Herald last Monday:

THE RUDD Government's new special envoy on whaling, the former Sydney Olympics chief Sandy Hollway, will try to persuade Japan to curtail its Antarctic whaling this summer.

Mr Hollway has opened a confidential new diplomatic dialogue, and the summer's whaling is high on his agenda.

The fleet is due to leave Japan next month for waters south-east of Australia, and into Antarctica's Ross Sea.

It plans to kill up to 985 whales. The fleet also faces direct action from Sea Shepherd, and possibly Greenpeace.

Mr Hollway told the Herald last night that Australia should keep working for a whaling suspension, and he would visit Tokyo again before the fleet was due to leave.

Will Japan hunt Southern Ocean whales again this year?

It would be nice to answer that question with a negative, however it is highly unlikely that Japan will willingly forgo its annual hunt in Antarctic waters.

So called scientific whaling has become an issue of stubborn pride for the Government of Japan, who curiously continue to endorse the killing and eating of a range of whale and dolphin species even though there is evidence of high levels of mercury contamination.

The Japan Times last Friday:

People who frequently eat pilot whale meat tend to have abnormally high levels of mercury in their hair, according to a study of residents of the whaling town of Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture.
The study was conducted by a team that included researchers from the Health Sciences University of Hokkaido and the College of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Daiichi University in Fukuoka Prefecture.
The team said there were three people whose hair mercury exceeded 50 parts per million, a level that can cause neurological symptoms.
Whales and dolphins tend to have high concentrations of mercury accumulated through the food chain.
Tetsuya Endo, an associate professor at the Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, said it is unlikely the residents will immediately experience mercury-induced health problems, but those with high mercury levels should consider cutting down on the amount of whale they eat.
The group collected hair samples from 30 men and 20 women between last December and July and asked them how often they eat pilot whale meat.
Mercury levels averaged 21.6 ppm among the men and 11.9 ppm among the women, both of which are about 10 times the national average, it said.
The three people whose hair mercury levels exceeded 50 ppm were all men, the team said. The three men ate whale meat more than once a month.
The study found that mercury levels were halved in about two months if the test subjects stopped eating whale meat.

This contamination is not restricted to species within Japanese territorial waters and whales migrating up and down the Australian east coast are currently being monitored for mercury contamination and its effect on species viability and sustainability.

So to remind us all of what is at stake here.

Whales of the Southern Ocean - Australian East Coast to Antarctica

Photographs from Google Images.

But I never was a real investment banker, M'lud

I hear that Leader of the Opposition Malcolm Turnbull has been whirling like a dervish down the corridors of power and out into the faces of various media coves in an attempt to establish a global crisis position with traction, and (as a sub text) convince them that he just happened to have previously 'worked' for an investment bank and hadn't really been an true investment banker.
Or if he accidentally was, he was one of the 'good' investment bankers (in itself something of an oxymoron these days).
And it didn't really matter anyway, because he only spent a few years with the firm as Chairman and Managing Director

Too bad, Mad Mel didn't stop to consider whether this would crack most people up, when both Goldman Sachs Australia and Turnbull's own Parliament of Australia biography still list him as having been a partner between 1997-8 to 2001 and that partnership package was understood to come with an additional parcel of shares.
Turnbull and Co having merged with Goldman Sachs Australia in July 1997.

If it looks like a duck, waddles like a duck, quacks like a duck - then it's a bl**dy duck!
Turnbull does himself no favours in trying to pretend otherwise.

Barack is my Mr. Right! The NRA told me so

With Barack Obama and the National Rifle Association of America facing off in a battle of political wills in the countdown to the November presidential election day, I took a quick peek at the NRA website and found this silly quiz.

2008 Jacaranda Queen candidates, Grafton Oct 24-Nov 3

Janet Blair of Grafton is the Jacarandah Festival Matron of Honour who will be shepherding these bright young things during the many events at Australia's longest running floral festival which first commenced in 1935.

I'm sure that (clockwise from the top left) Gemma Buckley, Eliz Strydom, Alisha Beaman, Mel Roberts, Verginia Nairn and Alanna Goodwin will have a great time during festival week.

Festival events guide here.

SBS TV will be showing the Jacaranda Festival documentary Once a Queen on Friday 24 October at 7.30pm.

ASIO tales continued...

Robert Merkel over at Larvatus Prodeo last week took umbrage at Victoria's Security Intelligence Group and its domestic spying, after reading Baker and McKenzie's article on the same subject in The Age.

Richard Baker and Nick McKenzie nicknamed the undercover police intelligence operative "Andrew", as they went on to describe his dive into a pit of chicken excrement in pursuit of his spying goals.

Now I find that ASIO may also utilise the services of an "Andrew" and is so proud of him that he features in one of their digital recruitment adverts.

"Those who have made it through our recruitment process have a variety of life and work experience. From teachers, managers and lawyers through to psychologists, engineers and social workers, there's no set mould or magic formula – it's about you as a person.
Hear first hand from our IOs:

Andrew - 'Everyone finds working here rewarding'------

After I'd graduated I applied for a job with ASIO because I liked the diversity that the Intelligence Officer position offered.

The job seemed to demand both analytical and interpersonal skills, so I could get a good balance in my day-to-day work."

No mention of battery hens, but this "Andrew" did say that he's required to undertake a new posting every three years so (remembering his Victorian doppelganger) let's hope that the poor boy stays as far away from livestock as he can get.

Perhaps an assignment shadowing the Quilters Guild of NSW would be just the shot.

ASIO obligingly supplies an advertising agency audio of "Andrew" which hints that he may have hailed from the Indian sub-continent.

Oh goodness gracious me!! Boom Boody-Boom Boody-Boom Boody-Boom Boody-Boom Boody-Boom Boody-Boom-Boom-Boom.

Recruitment pic from ASIO