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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: L&J: Indianapolis Star on Fed Defamation Campaign (fwd)
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>Public servants are forbidden by law to use public resources for
>private, political, or illegal purposes, but we find more and more that
>entire agencies are engaged in political manipulation, putting out
>disinformation on critics, dissenters, reformers, witnesses, and
>investigators. Such defamation campaigns find their way into the major
>news media, where they are too often passed on without any editorial
>supervision by recipients. The Associated Press in particular has
>developed a reputation as a disinformation channel, as are most
>reporters who depend on unnamed government sources.
>
>It is time for editors everywhere to learn to recognize such
>disinformation and reject it, as their readers are learning to do.
>
>--Jon Roland
>916/568-1022
>
>The following article from the Indianapolis Star is a fresh breeze.
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>
>Indianapolis Star
>Page A-12
>Saturday, March 22, 1997
>Bureaucrat Sponsored Defamation
>by James Patterson
>
>Allen Taylor of Indianapolis is employed as a communications technician
>with the U.S. Customs Office of Information and Technology Services.
>
>He and his supervisors at the U.S. Customs are charged in an $8 million
>civil lawsuit with terrorizing an Indianapolis attorney, her family and
>six other adults who were her acquaintances.
>
>The suit alleges Taylor as a government agent used his computer bulletin
>board service, called "Computer virus Resource Center," and the Internet
>to harass, intimidate, emotionally distress, libel, slander and destroy
>the reputations of attorney Linda Thompson, her husband Al, their
>political organization, The American Justice Federation, and its news
>service, Associated Electronic Network (AEN).
>
>Linda Thompson is well known for her interpretation of the Constitution
>as it relates to her advocacy of the "Patriot" movement, citizen
>militias and the like.
>
>She has been arrested at least twice in Indianapolis, once at a bus stop
>rally where touring Democrats were touting President Clinton's ill-fated
>national health care plan, and another time by an intake clerk at the
>Indianapolis City-County Building who demanded to know if she had a gun.
>
>All charges were thrown out.
>
>Court documents allege that beginning in November '94, "Taylor wrote
>hundreds of messages, denouncing the Plaintiffs for the 'racist
>Anti-American, Anti-Constitutional, Anti-Family, Anti-Government,
>Anti-Christian, Anti-Semitic neo-Nazi militia views. "The sheer volume,
>intensity, and ferocity of Taylor's postings themselves, indicated that
>Taylor was obsessed and spent a majority of his time doing nothing but
>writing denouncements, particularly of Linda Thompson."
>
>SPECIAL FORCES.
>
>Taylor's resume and other messages were also posted under his log
>indicating that he was formerly in "special forces" with "combat
>experience."
>
>In February '95, the Thompsons filed a tort claim notice with the
>federal government citing Taylor's alleged activities. Included were
>copies of 150 derogatory computer messages about them which Taylor had
>broadcast worldwide on various computer networks in the preceding
>December and January.
>
>COMPUTER COPIES.
>
>After a year, Customs Assistant Commissioner William F. Riley wrote the
>Thompsons: "the alleged activity is clearly outside the scope of
>Taylor's employment" and was done during off-duty hours.
>
>But the plaintiffs submitted to the court scores of computer messages
>from Taylor indicating the documents were posted during his normal
>working hours, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
>
>TAYLOR AGREES.
>
>The feds deny it. But Taylor sides with the plaintiffs on this point.
>
>In a Feb. 27, 1997, memorandum to Edward F. Kwas, assistant commissioner
>at Customs' Office of Information and Technology, Taylor pleads: "You
>have in your possession information, including but not limited to,
>signed statements from workers that the U.S. Customs Service was aware
>of and encouraged my activities related directly or indirectly to the
>charges as described and contained in the aforementioned causes.
>
>"The Customs Service has initiated and received reports from Internal
>Affairs investigations wherein they allege that the incidents referenced
>in the above causes appear to have originated on government-owned
>computers.
>
>"I respectfully request that the scope of employment determination take
>these facts into consideration and require the U.S. Customs Service and
>U.S. Attorney's Office to represent me in all matters and jurisdictions
>. . . "
>
>The government apparently wants Taylor to take the fall, but he is
>having none of it.
>
>How quickly bureaucrats forget that their power comes from the people,
>not vice versa.
>
>
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