psychoceramics: The Evil Empire <long>

[nmcnelly @ acs.bu.edu (N.A.F. McNelly)]

>
>From: "p--@r--.net" <pitzel_m@radiks.net>
>Subject: MORE MICKEYGATE ! What could make messages to usenet disappear ?
>Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.misc
>
>Hello Kids.           (111th in the series of articles in various Disney net
>newsgroups)
>
>MORE MICKEYGATE ! What could make messages to usenet disappear ?
>
>I don't mean get canceled, I mean disappear !
>
>I have been making postings to various newsgroups on a daily basis for
>months.
>
>The MICKEYGATE series of articles is over 100 articles in a row at this
>point.
>
>When I say every day, I mean every single day without exception.
>
>In the past couple of weeks, I've gotten reports, somewhat odd reports, but
>consistent reports nonetheless, that indicate that the MORE MICKEYGATE !
>series of articles is not being received by a variety of newsgroups.
>
>I have tried to do the proper thing in response.
>
>As an example, I have gone out to http:/www.dejanews.com and
>http://www.altavista.digital.com which are the archives for system wide
>cancels, and I have conducted searches for
>MICKEYGATE and p--@r--.net and other indications of my activity.
>
>The results were shocking.  In addition, and as a result of these preliminary
>searches, I have expanded these searches and found even more shocking
>information.
>
>Please read on, for this effects anyone who posts to usenet !
>
>Immediately upon conducting these searches I discovered that enormous amounts
>of information concerning postings of the MORE MICKEYGATE ! series of
>articles from the most recent past weeks was simply not there.
>
>The last news article to any of the Disney newsgroups with my authorship was
>4/9, April 9th, over a month ago !  (I'm writing this on May 15th.)
>
>A single article by me was somehow published on 5/11, and was to
>sci.physics.research.  After all I've been able to research on this subject,
>I have no clue how this one message got through. (Moderated group, so it went
>via the moderator.)
>
>There was no activity listed for all of my efforts between 4/9 and 5/11.
>
>The last article by me with MICKEYGATE in the title was 4/7, a couple of days
>earlier than the apparently complete cutoff from Disney newsgroups.
>
>It was clear that the process of losing contact with the internet newsgroups
>was a gradient one, first the MICKEYGATE articles, second the Disney related
>newsgroups, and then any newsgroups activity whatsoever.
>
>There were no indications of cancels being issued, but since there were also
>no records of recent articles, this left a big confusion.  Unfortunately this
>confusion began to get more clear as I began to discover just what was
>happening.  It turned out to be quite bad !
>
>I attempted to find out if any other author's work were being reported so
>late, so I checked.
>
>Two authors that are seen regularly are John Baez in the physics newsgroups,
>and snopes in the Disney related ones.  Both of these authors have been and
>are still being reported right up to the minute in the dejanews archive.
>
>Obviously the archive was up to date with it's archiving.
>
>What was I to make of this ?
>
>Well, I asked my ISP (radiks.net) to find out if they knew anything about
>this situation.  These are a small number of overworked young people with an
>expanding and demanding business, a mission of fun and the zeal of youth for
>their ideals.  They knew that no one there could have had anything to do with
>this situation.  And I believe them.
>
>In addition no mistakes of installation nor operation had been reported to
>them by any other of their clients.  They had changed nothing in their
>operations during this time. I was, at this time, alone in noticing anything
>wrong.  This has now changed, of course.
>
>This left me with a very puzzling situation.
>
>In response to this new information, I widened my search yet again to
>discover whether or not there was some problem with my ISP's (radiks.net)
>connection to the usenet newsgroups.
>
>What I found amazed and frightened and angered me to an incredible degree.
>
>At the same time that all of my postings were being methodically eliminated
>from ALL of the usenet newsgroups, so too were ALL of the usenet newsgroup
>postings of ALL of the other people posting from my ISP !
>
>Just like my process of elimination had begun in a gradient fashion, so too
>did the elimination of ANY person posting from radiks.net !
>
>Within a couple of days of its inception, all activity from my ISP to the
>usenet newsgroups were stopped.
>
>Sporadically someone would appear for a day or two and then also would be
>eliminated.
>
>>From 4/27 to the present day, there has been no usenet newsgroup activity
>from my ISP !
>
>Where once there was a busy and healthy usenet newsgroup flow, a daily
>torrent of activity, now there was not even a trickle that made it to the
>archive.
>
>Some people might suggest that this vacuum of 17 straight days without a
>single article to the usenet newsgroup being archived from an entire ISP
>(radiks.net) is just a "coincidence."  In association with the similar vacuum
>of about 35 days for me, and after all of what has been discovered so far,
>would you think so ?
>
>Apparently, once entered into some kind of an ongoing and growing blockage
>database, people who were posting regularly from my ISP, over twenty of them
>by my count, were just stopped from gaining access to usenet newsgroups
>outside the ISP's domain.
>
>In other words, while we could still see our postings happening on our home
>domain, this is where these communications stopped.  No one got any farther.
>
>The way it looks, whoever wanted to stop me did so, and then, in an effort to
>be, I suppose, thorough, they eliminated from any input to the usenet
>newsgroups at large any potentially confusing address originating at my ISP.
> During the war this was called "overkill".
>
>In an analogy, they knew that I was on the train, so they shot the whole
>train !
>
>How does it happen that a wide form of censorship such as this, that occurs
>to a continuing series of articles published in the same newsgroups over and
>over, does not involve the use of a system wide and therefor easily detected
>cancel command message, the trail for which would be found in these news
>archives ?
>
>How is it that the whole usenet newsgroup output of a person can be cut off ?
>
>How is it that the output of seemingly ALL of the users of an entire ISP can
>be stopped before getting anywhere near the usenet newsgroup archive ?
>
>Since this article was originally published, I have discovered that another
>person attempting to publish Anti-Disney information was "disappeared" based
>upon content alone, and thus another victim of illegal censorship.
>
>I certainly know that there is sufficient reason for such a cowardly act of
>covert censorship.
>
>I have been expressing the view that Disney in general and Michael Eisner in
>particular are criminals, and that the United States Justice Department have
>taken sides to help protect these criminals from investigation and
>prosecution.  This has raised some eyebrows, and quite a bit of controversy,
>that is until recently when all responses to my publication efforts have
>virtually disappeared.
>
>Only by reading the articles of others in these newsgroups have I been able
>to glean the information that my MORE MICKEYGATE ! articles have simply
>disappeared from them.
>
>Numerous Disney people were preening themselves in admiration for having
>"gotten rid" of me !
>
>This successful elimination of my postings began about the same time that
>massive interest in these Disney newsgroups was occasioned by the McDonald's
>Trivia game featuring Disney trivia questions and answers.
>
>During this time, these very Disney newsgroups were inundated by persons who
>wouldn't ordinarily have paid them any attention, people who simply wanted
>answers to their trivia questions to earn fries or milkshakes or perhaps a
>million dollars showed up eager to get their information. Since the trivia
>game required only the correct answer to be scratched BEFORE winning the
>prize, this interest was quite widespread and serious. Nothing is more
>American nor ubiquitous than McDonalds, and combined with the universal
>interest in Disney, and the natural need to win, this caused an enormous
>influx of new readers to these groups.  This abrupt and enormous spike in
>public interest in these groups and the related archive of answers to these
>trivia questions was a ripe condition for the awakening of public interest in
>the MICKEYGATE saga which was, until the elimination process began, on the
>same newsgroups that this huge number of new and eager visitors were
>arriving.
>
>My publication of offending (notice that this is not illegal nor prohibited
>nor in any way legally subject to censorship) articles simply was not allowed
>to happen.  Somehow somebody put the hammer to these publication efforts and
>kept me from knowing about it, because, as far as my local provider was
>concerned, my postings were right where they were supposed to be.
>
>Again, it is important to realize that we could all see that our postings
>were going to our home domain, and nobody realized that there was anything
>wrong !
>
>While I have also recently posted many requests for a simple acknowledgment
>of the existence or non-existence of my work on these groups, and have
>continued to do so for a couple of weeks now, there has not been even one
>response to these requests.  Neither friend nor foe has responded. Duh.
>
>In addition, there may even been some censorship of my email.
>
>Many people have told me that they had sent repeated email messages to me,
>only to not have any of their messages reach me at all or only after some
>time and repeated efforts.  People actually have had to call me on the
>regular phone to get my attention on matters related to my business interests
>on and off the net.
>
>This lack of response in newsgroups and email response is quite unusual, for
>in the past I have at least gotten the snide responses, the spam responses,
>the idiotic foul responses and so forth from those whose agendas I have had
>the temerity to disturb.  I have also gotten the give-'em-hell responses and
>the what's-this-all-about responses, and, of course, these have been a much
>better sort for me.
>
>Instead, nothing.
>
>Why ?
>
>How ?
>
>Is it possible to cancel usenet newsgroup postings without issuing any
>cancels that would generate a trace ?
>
>Would the term for such a response be a blockage or a stoppage ?
>
>Why stop with these kinds of banal words ?
>
>Why not call it censorship, for that's what it is ?
>
>Why not call it a violation of my civil rights and the civil rights of
>everyone else on my ISP ?
>
>Why not call it the crime that it is, as it has been done in association with
>the other AntiTrust and RICO crimes to which I have so long been referring ?
>
>I am at a loss to explain the situation in any other terms than these.
>
>I need your help to confirm or deny that the articles of which I speak are
>either there or not there in the usenet newsgroups to which I have posted
>them.
>
>Please help.
>
>The situation has become quite exasperating, and I need this help quite
>badly.
>
>Again, the series of articles are called MORE MICKEYGATE !
>
>This series of articles deals with criminal acts of the Disney Company and
>the corrupt behavior of the Justice Department.
>
>This article is 111th in the series.
>
>The Disney related groups from which they have been and are disappearing are:
>        alt.disney.
>        alt.disney.collecting
>        alt.disney.criticism
>        alt.disney.disneyland
>        alt.disney.secrets
>        alt.disney.afternoon
>        rec.arts.disney.animation
>        rec.arts.disney.merchandise
>        rec.arts.disney.misc
>        rec.arts.disney.parks
>
>Please send me email to confirm that they either are there or are not there
>at your ISP.  Whatever answer you give will be helpful to my case.
>
>Even if you are a Disney junkie, this article should upset you and arouse
>your anger.  What if it were you and your ISP that had been choked off ?
>
>Do your part in addressing the illegal censorship of newsgroups.
>
>Remember, this kind of censorship did not stop at my gate !
>
>It went on to infect the lives of others innocent of any deed other than
>simply being from the same ISP !
>
>If they get away with this, you and your ISP could be next !
>
>Thank you very much in advance for your help.
>
>(Readers of this series of articles on the net know that a lawsuit had been
>filed by the inventor dealing with the fraudulent breach of contract for the
>manufacture of a patented structure that turns inside-out six different times
>and that can be made to appear like the hat that Mickey Mouse wears in the
>Sorcerer's Apprentice.  An iron-clad contract to manufacture this hat and
>other patented products was deliberately interfered with by The Evil Empire,
>destroying the inventor's multi-million dollar effort but assisting The Evil
>Empire to monopolize their use of this magical hat image without competition.
>This violation of Antitrust laws was later covered up by using a Fraudulent
>Bankruptcy of the intervening corporation and other criminal Obstructions of
>Justice.  The Justice Department refused to allow the FBI to investigate this
>matter, even though the Trustee for the Fraudulent Bankruptcy requested this
>investigation. Protests concerning these deliberate acts of cover-up have
>been routinely ignored.)
>
>Now that you know this, you should get really *ANGRY*.
>
>Tell your neighbor, tell your Congressional Representative, tell your
>Senators, tell the President of the United States !
>
>Tell the Legislators to start Legislative hearings on this matter !
>
>Tell the President and the Justice Department to open a real investigation,
>not a whitewash, of this situation !
>
>Tell the media, tell everyone you know !
>
>Make it clear that such Antitrust activities conducted by Disney make them a
>bad risk for America !
>
>(Due to the fact that it has come up, if you need any help with these
>addresses you can ask me for them, or you can just send me the letter to me,
>and I will see to it getting to them.  As you wish.  I will provide you with
>the means to send your vote on to these officials and the media listed below
>if you wish.  Just let me know.)
>
>THANK YOU.
>
>~<$;-)
>Michael A. Pitzel
>p--@r--.net
>@ ORIGINALLY AIRED 5/16/1996
>MORE MICKEYGATE ! What could make messages to usenet disappear ?
>copies to
>Various usenet usegroups that also receive a FAQ on this subject,
>and blind copies to
>The (New) Walt Disney Company (p--@d--.com),
>The President of the United States (p--@w--.gov) and The United
>States Justice Department, Antitrust Division (a--@u--.gov),
>Various U.S. Congressmen and Senators,
>and as many of the following media as are able to be reached by email:
>ABC News (Disney), Arizona Republic & Phoenix Gazette, Atlanta Journal
>Constitution, Atlantic Monthly, Badenton (FL) Herald, BBC, British Press
>Association, Bill Nye The Science Guy (Disney), Boston Globe, Buzz Electronic
>Magazine, CBS News-UpToTheMinute, CNN, Chicago Sun Times, Chicago Tribune,
>Christian Science Monitor, Corporation For Public Broadcasting, Dallas
>Morning News, Detroit Free Press, Detroit News, Denver Post, Discover
>Magazine (Disney), Discovery Channel, Edge Entreprenuerial Magazine,
>Entertainment Weekly, Feed Electronic Magazine, Fortune Business Report, Fort
>Worth Star Telegram (Disney), George Magazine, G. Gordon Liddy, Houston
>Chronicle, Investor's Business Daily, Life Magazine, Los Angeles Time &
>Washington Post News Service, Minneapolis-St. Paul Pioneer Press,
>Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune, Money Magazine, NBC News, the Net,
>Newsday, Newsweek, New York Times, Oakland (Pontiac, MI) Press (Disney),
>Omaha World Herald, Orange County Register, PBS Charlie Rose, PBS Frontline,
>PBS NewsHour With Jim Lehrer, PBS Scientific American, PBS Washington Week In
>Review, People Magazine, Penthouse, Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia
>Inquirer & Daily News, Pittsburg Tribune-Review, Politics USA Magazine,
>Reuters News Service, Rush Limbaugh, San Diego Union-Tribune, San Francisco
>Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, Science Fiction Channel, Seattle Daily
>Journal of Commerce, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Time Magazine, T--@P--
>Magazine(online), UPI (United Press International), USA Today, US News and
>World Report, Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, Wired Magazine/Hotwired

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http://www.he.net/~nmcnelly/                 Gaspar Antonio Chi
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