To Date More than 1000 Postings by the Perpetrators of the Smear Campaign Against Monica Pignotti
Predictably, those other WordPress bloggers are at it again, in an all too obvious attempt to reverse things, are attempting to reframe the smear campaign against me as some kind of internet obsession on my part. That is akin to calling the victim of rape, a sex addict. Here is an example of their propaganda tactics. Let’s see if we can identify what they leave out. They write:
She seems to post more less the same thing, a rather obsessive account of a lawsuit, to a fantastically diverse of discussion groups. Her topic is largely irrelevant to most of them, for example, she posts to groups about Scientology (she is a former Scientologist, but this court case has nothing to do with Scientology), children, cooking, skepticism, astronomy, revisionism, shortwave radio, law (here her posting may be relevant), the United States, and Pakistan.
This is not an attempt to justify what I do. I have no need to do so. Rather, my intent here is to set the record straight. What they neglect to mention is that these are all groups on which the internet smear campaigners have originated postings about me. Someone recently did an informal analysis of these postings and found more than 1000 smear postings about me. The smear bloggers attempted to misportray this as a citation that requires some sort of statistical expertise. No, it does not require a PhD, a peer reviewed submission or any kind of complicated statistical knowledge. It is simply a Google Groups search that anyone can verify this by performing the same searches in Google Groups on the pseudonyms listed below. That’s what is really going on that the anonymous WordPress smear bloggers failed to mention. Those postings attacking me were, indeed on the “upswing”. Here is what was found. Remember, these are postings made by the perpetrators of the smear campaign:
The extent of the Usenet/google groups campaign against Monica Pignotti, is clearly extensive.
I have identified 1002 posts which may be attributed to the following posters/e-mail addresses. There are undoubtedly more addresses from which postings take place, additional user names employed and further
postings by the user names identified in the following data which I have not detected.
The postings are predominantly, single thread headers, with no replies. My very rough calculations put this at above 90% of the posts I have encountered. The majority of posts which are replied to, are those made to the alt.religion.scientology group. Any person wishing to subject the following information to statistical analysis is free to do so.
Although there are a large number of groups to which postings are made, and some variations between different posters, there is a clear pattern of groups to which these posts are made. Those variations that do exist, give the impression of the ‘elaborations of a bad liar’ to quote Clarice Starling.
The close co-relation between the groups, different user names have targeted, suggests strongly that there is a single agenda in the postings made.
The significance of this is that either the postings are made by one individual, or a relatively static group working within a single policy agenda.
Monica can not be said to be being targeted as a result of a widespread popular agenda. But ONLY, (I’d like to emphasise only more) as a part of a single focused attack.
Candidates include a ‘nut Job’ and, given her critical opinion of certain child treatment, and education styles favoured by the church of scientology, that church sits very definitely in the frame as a potential culprit.
Please note that in the following data each individual post will frequently have been posted in multiple groups.
POSTER SANDAU CHIROPRACTIC SERVICES
e-mail smilax_san…@yahoo.com
Known Posts re Monica Pignotti 3
Known Groups posted in re Monica Pignotti
alt.religion.scientology
re.radio.shortwave
alt.revisionism
POSTER DIDACTICDERIVAT…@YAHOO.COM
e-mail didacticderivat…@yahoo.com
Known Posts re Monica Pignotti 46
Known Groups posted in Monica Pignotti
alt.religion.scientology
alt.slack
misc.health.diabetes
rec.puzzles
sci.lang
sci.med
sci.med.diseases.hepatitis
sci.skeptic
soc.culture.indian
soc.culture.singapore
soc.culture.singapore
soc.culture.usa
soc.culture.usa
soc.men
talk.politics.misc
POSTER NOAUTH
e-mail a…@remailer.gabrix.ath.cx
Known Posts re Monica Pignotti 39
Known Groups posted in Monica Pignotti
alt.religion.scientology
soc.culture.usa
POSTER ANNE ONNIME
e-mail anonym…@rip.ax.lt
Known Posts re Monica Pignotti 271
Known Groups posted in re Monica Pignotti
alt.adoption.issues
alt.conspiracy
alt.fraud
alt.politics
alt.politics.republicans
alt.religion.islam
alt.religion.scientology
alt.revisionism
alt.slack
comp.lang.java.security
misc.invest.futures
misc.invest.stocks
misc.legal
rec.crafts.marketplace
rec.food.cooking
rec.music.misc
rec.radio.shortwave
sci.astro
sci.electronics.components
sci.electronics.repair
sci.lang
sci.math
sci.psychology.misc
sci.skeptic
soc.culture.british
soc.culture.china
soc.culture.europe
soc.culture.french
soc.culture.german
soc.culture.greek
soc.culture.italian
soc.culture.japan
soc.culture.jewish
soc.culture.lebanon
soc.culture.nordic
soc.culture.pakistan
soc.culture.russian
soc.culture.taiwan
soc.culture.thai
sci.med
soc.culture.usa
POSTER GEORGE ORWELL
e-mail nob…@mixmaster.it
Known Posts re Monica Pignotti 189
Known Groups posted in re Monica Pignotti
alt.conspiracy
alt.education
alt.magick
alt.recovery
alt.religion.mormon
alt.religion.scientology
alt.slack
misc.invest.futures
misc.legal
rec.arts.sf.written
rec.crafts.marketplace
rec.food.cooking
sci.electronics.repair
sci.skeptic
soc.culture.german
soc.culture.japan
soc.culture.pakistan
POSTER ANONYMOUS
e-mail cri…@ecn.org
Known Posts re Monica Pignotti 124
Known Groups posted in Monica Pignotti
alt.clearing.avatar
alt.religion.scientology
alt.slack
misc.invest.futures
misc.invest.options
misc.legal
rec.bicycles.misc
rec.crafts.marketplace
rec.food.cooking
sci.electronics.repair
sci.math
sci.skeptic
soc.culture.greek
soc.culture.pakistan
soc.culture.palestine
soc.culture.usa
POSTER NOMEN NESCIO
e-mail nob…@dizum.com
Known Posts re Monica Pignotti 261
Known Groups posted in re Monica Pignotti
Nomen Nescio
nob…@dizum.com
alt.baldspot
alt.clearing.avatar
alt.conspiracy
alt.fraud
alt.religion.islam
alt.religion.scientology
alt.revisionism
alt.slack
alt.support.depression.manic
alt.true-crime
ec.radio.shortwave
misc.invest.futures
misc.invest.stocks
rec.crafts.marketplace
rec.food.cooking
rec.music.misc
rec.radio.shortwave
sci.electronics.repair
sci.lang.japan
sci.math
sci.med
sci.skeptic
soc.culture.china
soc.culture.europe
soc.culture.french
soc.culture.german
soc.culture.greek
soc.culture.iranian
soc.culture.italian
soc.culture.japan
soc.culture.lebanon
soc.culture.pakistan
soc.culture.polish
soc.culture.turkish
uk.misc
POSTER KULIN REMAILER
e-mail remai…@reece.net.au
Known Posts re Monica Pignotti 69
Known Groups posted in Monica Pignotti
alt.conspiracy
alt.religion.scientology
alt.revisionism
alt.slack
comp.lang.java.security
misc.invest.stocks
misc.kids
misc.legal
rec.food.cooking
rec.music.misc
rec.radio.shortwave
sci.astro
sci.electronics.components
sci.skeptic
soc.culture.british
soc.culture.french
soc.culture.german
soc.culture.greek
soc.culture.indonesia
soc.culture.israel
soc.culture.lebanon
soc.culture.malaysia
soc.culture.pakistan
soc.culture.usa
Now come again, who is obsessed?
I had the choice of sitting passively by and allowing this to happen or fighting back. Just as rape victims of the past were told to be passive and submit or that the rape is their fault (still true in some countries even today), victims of cyber smear campaigns are also told this even sometimes by people who should know better. I tried silence and not responding for several months and it did not work. The smear campaign continued, so I decided to fight back. The smear campaign has been constant against others such as Larry Sarner and he has remained silent, showing that his silence failed to stop the abuse of his name. My responses were my way to point people to information that refutes this disinformation campaign, so when some unsuspecting person comes upon them on an internet search, they can at least be referred to information on why this smear campaign is occurring. It is the smear campaigners that “seem to post on the same thing” about me so of course, my responses are repetitive. There is nothing wrong with repetition to refute a smear campaign.
Perhaps the most ludicrous statement is the claim I am “obsessed” with lawsuits and “legal trivia”. I am not the one who has sued multiple parties repeatedly. I have never sued anyone in my life. Just check into Ronald Federici’s history of suing people and decide for yourselves who is obsessed. Interesting that they would characterize this lawsuit as “legal trivia” when before it was dismissed, for months before the lawsuit was ever filed, the Anonymous WordPress bloggers were calling it a History Making Lawsuit, had a WordPress blog by that title and have failed to update that blog to show that it was dismissed and upon what grounds (jurisdiction and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted for Pignotti & Mercer). Instead, interrogatories and subpoenas that were never served for depositions that never occurred because the case was dismissed prior to that phase, remain posted last I checked, which was today. How dishonest is that? Obviously the bloggers did not consider it a trivial matter — until the case was dismissed, it would seem. Then, all of a sudden “history” was rewritten and it became a trivial matter. Talk about revisionism. I can assure you that it is not considered “trivial” for those who see it as an injustice that people have to pay thousands to defend themselves from such lawsuits and in states without anti-SLAPP legislation, have very little, if any, chance of being reimbursed for thousands in legal expenses just to get it dismissed at an early stage.
While I am not a fan of adding yet more categories of pathology to the DSM and I am not intending this as a diagnosis for anyone in particular (they have more than enough already) if I were, I might suggest as new category, Litigation Addiction, for people who seem to be compelled to repeatedly sue others. Now that would make an interesting reality show Dr. Drew Pinsky might want to consider doing: Celebrity Rehab: Litigation Addiction. Just as the drug-addicted celebrities were ordered to delete all drug contacts from their cell phones and stay away from bars, litigation-addicted participants could be ordered to delete the names of all lawyers from their cell phones and stay away from courtrooms. How about it, Dr. Drew? [I’m being facetious, of course, but some people do seem to be using the legal system as a hoped-for solution to many of their interpersonal conflicts or a way to shut up anyone who criticizes them.]