ZGram - 6/19/2004 - "A little cyber mystery"
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ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny: Now more than ever!
June 19, 2004
Good Morning from the Zundelsite:
Once again, the enemy managed to sow discord in our ranks by setting
one against another - individual or group. The enemy is doing that
in ways that never cease to astound me!
For instance, I get lots of glowing "compliments" on my email subject
lines, enticing me to open them, only to find the worst of filth,
abuse and vilification imaginable. Now would it ever occur to any
one of us to introduce a nasty email by claiming that "Your friend
said so-and-so"?
It is only human nature to wonder to yourself, "WHICH friend said
WHAT?" - and there you are, all smiles and good will and
anticipation, and what do you get? Another treacherous broadside!
Yesterday, I was introduced to a new wrinkle on the old theme. I
told you that I had contacted a website, called the Center for
Cooperative Research - CCR in short - that I believed might be useful
to me because it had some information on "renditions", better
described as political kidnappings. I tried to send them an email
about my kidnapped husband, to see if there was information I could
use, but the link wouldn't work. Therefore, I contacted the
webmaster, asking him to forward my message. I also made a summary
of some rendition information I found on that website and sent it as
yesterday's ZGram.
Within minutes if not seconds, as I told you in a follow-up, I got a
spitting phone call.
Naturally, some of my cyber buddies sprang into action, contacting
the website in question, blasting away. Sometimes, it gets hot in
the battle.
Next thing I knew I got a letter from a trusted ZGram reader, asking
wisely, "are you sure that call came from that website?"
Good question! I hadn't thought of THAT!
I take most things at face value and happily believe most people when
they tell me this or that, because I try not to lie and habitually
assume that most people dealing with me try to be honest also.
[Exceptions do exist and are noted ...]
Then Mark Weber from the Institute for Historical Review forwarded me
a letter from the CCR, where someone named Derek, presumably the
owner of that website, claimed he had not called anyone and could not
imagine who might have.
Now why was that letter directed to Mark Weber - not to me?
I took care of the matter by writing back to both, explaining about
the odd call, and voicing my suspicion that there might be a
webmaster at CCR with [charitably!] funny business on his brain
against yours truly who might be causing mischief.
Back came the following response:
[START]
"Dear Mrs. Zundel,
"This is very interesting.
"I run the website. Only two other people are involved - [name
deleted], the programmer and [name deleted], an independent
researcher. Neither one of them are even remotely Zionists. In fact,
all of us are very critical of the Israeli government, its influence
on US policy, and its represssion of the Palestinians. We have been
called Anti-Semetics (sp) ourselves on more than one occasion.
"I receive all emails (except when a visitor selects the 911
project on the contact form) and do not remember receiving an email
from you. I searched my inbox and could find no messages. There is no
person that serves exclusively as a webmaster. Can you check your
send box and check the address to sent your email to?"
There's more, but I am not in the mood to trace and dissect tidbits.
Let me just say that the mystery deepens, but I don't believe that
Derek was the culprit - he comes across as a very nice, friendly guy.
A good guess on my part is that there's a certain Rumpelstilskin on
my list who likes to go bump in the night and is responsible. But if
the intent was to scare me away from checking up on this particular
dissident website, the opposite has happened. I kind of like Derek a
lot and am responsive to his claim that he knows nothing about nasty
phone calls. There is something straightforward about him that I
appreciate.
To my readers, please consider this a retraction of what I said
yesterday about the CCR website. I don't think that the phone call
came from Derek or from his associates. Why Mark Weber was
involved is, to me, another mystery, but for those of you who like to
pick on Mark in cyber space where all the world can see it and help
you snicker nastily about a comrade, let me vouch for my friend.
Disagreements need to be settled in private. They don't belong on
multiple name lists on the Net. I know Mark isn't perfect, but
neither am I, and neither are you. In fact, I feel so strongly about
that, I feel a book coming on! I think it is very bad form and
testimony to a low-brow nature to try to weaken warriors in the
trenches by spreading nasty rumors. We don't need friendly fire. We
have much too much about that, to Rumpelstilskin's joy and our
detriment.
Ingrid
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