Zilla has been plagued by swarms of leftist trolls. Each day, they post the same cut-and-paste talking points memes over and over, and then whine when their drivel is deleted. Rather than shutting them down entirely, Zilla has come up with a way to get these freeloaders to pay their own way. Zilla has decided to make them an offer: they can post their garbage and she will not remove it if they pay her!

But Zilla’s patience is very valuable, so she doubts that there will be any takers. Still, the point is that Zilla is under no obligation to humor them if they are of no value to her!

See: If You Want to Troll Me, You Will Have to Pay

PJM: Tips for Not Appearing Crazy on the Internet

…In a recent column, I touched on the topic of conspiracy theories, which of course brought in lots of crazy people to the comments section. As I looked through the responses, I noticed how easy it was to scan them or just read the first sentence and say, “Well, this one is a crazy person.” And lots of people scan like this, because crazy people have this habit of self-identifying on the internet that allows sane people to skip over what they have to say before even getting to the crazy point. Thus crazy people never even get heard.
[…]
Now, I’m not going to try to tell people how not to be crazy anymore. That’s a long, involved process of correctly identifying the internal things making them angry in their own psyches that they instead project onto external things. And it sounds hella boring. Instead, I’m only going to tell you how to conceal your craziness. I’m going to teach you how to take your freak flag and fold it up and put it in your back pocket. If you’re successful, people are going to have to really read your points before understanding that you’re crazy. They might even miss your crazy entirely and really consider what you have to say (e.g., “This guy makes some interesting points; maybe I should find out more about this ‘Ron Paul’ person”). Doesn’t that sound great, you social outcasts and conspiracy nuts?

I see some crazed nodding. Let’s get started.
[…]
i can haz proper grammar?

Here’s another pretty basic one: no lolcats speak. Write actual English sentences using real words and proper grammar. Capitalize the first word of each sentence. Use punctuation. there is no reason ur comment 2 a blog or column shud look lik ur a n00b at texting. You’re not writing these things from a old cellphone with just a number pad that lacks auto-complete; there is a big keyboard in front of you.

You save like 0.1 seconds writing “u” instead of “you” at the cost of making yourself look like an absolute idiot. Is there any reason you’re trying to shave off this time? Are there wild dogs bearing down on you as you write why we need another look at Obama’s birth certificate? If so, run from the wild dogs and write your comment later. Your whole sentence shouldn’t scream, “I’m a useless idiot with nothing important to say.” You should never write like that unless you actually are a cat expressing your desire for a cheeseburger.

No Long Screeds
[And no manifestos, either! - 1389]

On the other end of the spectrum from the lolcats speak is the guy who apparently has hours to spare writing pages of response as the 200th comment to some blog post. There are people who have long things to say, and they do it by writing columns or writing in their own blogs. But if you can’t get your column published and no one reads your blog, maybe you’re thinking you’ll get exposure by putting the long screed in the comments section of something people actually will read.

Don’t.

Sane people know that the only people who have hours to spend writing pages of text in a comments section are crazy people. And that’s why no will read what they write except other crazy people with way too much time on their hands. So keep it short. Pick one point, and write no more than a couple of sentences. Keeping it short also helps you police your crazy. I’ve seen comments where I’ve read the first paragraph and thought maybe the person was just a little over-enthusiastic, and then I started the second paragraph and realized, “Oh, this is a super crazy person.” So keep it pithy, and avoid the crazy.
[…]
Respond to an Actual Point and Not Just Something That’s Been Mentioned

Ever watch a paid partisan shill who, no matter what is said, will go to his couple of talking points? Now that has less to do with being stupid or crazy than just being soulless, but lots of crazy people are the same way, going back to the crazy stuff they really want to talk about no matter what subject people are actually on. And often crazy people will just read until they see a word or phrase that sets them off and then go off on a big, crazy rant before even reading the whole thing they’re reacting to. Often, then, they’re completely missing the point or missing that something is satire and taking it seriously.

Now, I know when people have crazy in their brains, it is really impatient to be let out. Still, you need to teach your crazy to wait and make sure you are actually listening to and understanding what you’re responding to. Like if someone mentions when Hanukkah is this year and you respond with a rant about Jews controlling the banks, you’re not actually having a sane person conversation. You’re just reacting to words someone is saying, which, despite the similarity, is leagues different.

Now, this is really advanced hiding-the-crazy. In fact, it’s at the borderline of trying not to look crazy and actually not being crazy. If you can actually read and understand what non-crazy people are saying and still keep your own crazy, that’s a really advanced state of crazy you’ve achieved. Be proud.
[…]
More tips here.

Anyone old enough to remember Krazy Kat?

Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse at the circus (1916)

Click here to view the embedded video.

Rodeo Dough (Krazy Kat) 1931 Columbia Cartoon

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Weenie Roast [1931 Krazy Kat Cartoon [Columbia]

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Jesse Lee’s Twitter icon: Fascism with a smile!

Drudge didn’t seem to have this, so I emailed it to him…

HuffPo says Obama appoints “Director of Progressive Media & Online Response”.

According to HuffPo’s description of a memo that THEY received from the White House, his tasks include “helping coordinate rapid response to unfavorable stories” and “pressing to make the administration more popular on the web”.

Jesse Lee’s twitter is http://twitter.com/#!/jesseclee44.

For what it’s worth, I say that Mr. Lee’s duties constitutes propagandizing and campaigning on the taxpayers’ dime. And I say that now ALL Obama supporters on ALL forums may RIGHTLY be called “government trolls” operating under the marching orders of their new field commander. Whereas until now, that was just an insulting speculation.

I meant it about the Obamaphiles. They are officially trolls. Every Obamaphile, every time, every forum.

Happiness is: watching a leftist strategy backfire.

Like “Crash The Tea Party”, or even… dare I say it… Splattergate!

By the way, I pointed this out on HuffPo and they promptly deleted me.

– Chuck
http://twitter.com/ResistTheJihad
http://www.youtube.com/user/ResistTheJihadists

“OK, turning on the White House Twitter machine that they issued me in 3… 2… 1…”

The derogatory comments garnered by Jesse Lee’s first attempt to post on Twitpic are well worth reading. Evidently, a significant proportion of the online community isn’t buying his propaganda.

Also see:

• The Jawa Report: New WH “Truth” Czar: Jesse Lee The Terminator
• Meet the White House’s New Story Squasher & ‘Director of Progressive Media’

Who is commenter DvDH?

Flame Warriors: Ferrous Cranus – click to see full-size original

Commenter DvDH has been carrying on a heated argument with other commenters and 1389 Blog team members in the comments on several posts, including:

• Geert Wilders: ‘The Lights Are Going Out All Over Europe’
• Exposing the Jew-Haters of the IRGC
• You Can Help Dr. Srdja Trifkovic
• The ‘Tu Quoque’ Fallacy – a rhetorical tool used by the pro-Islam tools

This is in reply to this and other comments by DvDH:

“…in a hive of evil like the kangaroo court at The Hague, and the more time and energy you have invested in it, the more difficult it becomes to shake off the indoctrination and begin to question what you were told, and what actually went …..”

“I do not allow groundless accusations on this blog, simply because it is impossible for the accused to prove a negative. The burden of proof is on YOU, the accuser,…”

Note the contradiction above…

As for your comments on Islam, I have been posted and lived in many Muslims countries and currently work/do so. I have studied Islam and observe the reality of its day to day life. I have seen its worst – 2 years in Iran, its most difficult – 2 years in Pakistan and its best – Turkey and Morocco (the latter I am now permanently based).

From the perspective academically and from the reality on the ground, I think what you say is pure garbage and since you have confessed to an agenda, not suprising.

It does not take one to be a rocket scientist to know the differnt views, interpretations, laws and behaviours from the varient 56 Muslim nations to know that your sad generalization simply falls flat.

An interesting point from you, when you talk about Greater Serbia you did not support it with anything but simply attacked Islam and rather badly from a historical and academic point as well. The Serbian lands that were conquered and controlled by the Ottomans (not Islam itself) were often well supported by the population and if one simply goes to a source that shows the pashas, military leaders and academics of the time within the area and in the Empire as a whole, many were Serbs and not converts.

Then again, you have committed yourself to an agenda and hey, just like the jihadists you constantly refer to, screw accuracy and basic tenants of logic.

A question, why did you name your blog as you did and ten refer to it as Counterjihad? The date refers to the battle which was a draw (though it wasted out the capacity of the Serbs to continue) but what suprises me is that the battle had nothing to do with a jihad as the last (and still is) jihad was in the 11th century in response to the claim of a crusade by Pope Urban II?

Flame Warriors: Filibuster – click to see full-size original

The stale ranting rhetoric of mega-racist DvDH is beginning to wear thin. Let ‘s review a few facts here:

1. He admits working for the Serb-hating ICTY kangaroo court at the Hague, which was specially created to railroad the Serbs and NEVER had the slightest purpose of providing any justice. He is proud of his work for this racist organization, and consequently is a self-admitted racist.
2. 1389 Blog has constantly provided careful documentation of all facts presented. This is nothing new; we have done it for all the years that we have been in existence. Why should anyone pay attention to a loud-mouth Dutch racist like DvDH?
3. DvDH is either the hypocrite of all hypocrites or lacks the brainpower to understand that Geert Wilders is about as far from being a Nazi as the east is from the west, and that the false prophet Mohammad was the epitome of a terrorist.
4. DvDH may well be insane. He has been shown over and over again that he is a ranting and raving Serb-hating racist, yet he posts stuff like this, “Show me a hate filled rant. I have not said that I hate, nor promote hate against Serbs.” How many time do we need to show him?
5. DvDH has gone so far as to deny George Soros’ involvement with the ICTY kangaroo court. No one is so dumb or naïve as to believe that one. Soros provided funding and faked evidence for the ICTY. Is someone paying DvDH to write comments attacking the Serbs, attacking 1389 Blog for defending the Serbs, and whitewashing the ICTY? Courts such as the ICTY, and the Benelux countries that host them, are acting as whores — taking money from any person, organization, or government who will pay to prosecute their enemies.
6. DvDH admits to assisting the enemies of the Serbian people in fabricating the hoax of the Srebrenica “massacre.” The paleo-Nazis (1933-1945) did such things, blaming Czechs, Jews and . . . yes . . . even Serbs for doing evil things, so as to provide an excuse to do evil to those peoples being blamed. This, by his own admission, makes him the modern equivalent of Nazi propagandists from that era.
7. DvDH admits to having lived in multiple Muslim countries. Perhaps he may fear that the Muslims will cut his head off if he doesn’t continue to post this kind of nonsense in cyberspace. For all we know, there may even be a possibility that Muslims are holding members of his family hostage. The likeliest scenario is that DvDH has been so brainwashed that he can no longer think straight. Of course, he may be actually be a Muslim. If he is a Muslim, he will feel the need to lie to promote Islam. This is called taqiyya. He will even know where in the Koran it tells him to do so.
8. DvDH claims that his French is better than his English. That is good because he English really sucks. I was tempted to tell him to stick to French-language blogs where he might not sound so stupid. But, I would not wish that on the poor French, as I am not a racist like DvDH.
9. DvDH uses the word “logic.” Please, DvDH, don’t use words that you are incapable of understanding. I have read a lot of what you have posted and you do not understand the English word “logic.” If fact, I don’t think you are capable of understand the word “logic.” You simply seem to lack the equipment to ever understand the meaning of that big English-language word.

Flame Warriors: Garble – click to see full-size original

On a more pleasant note, I recently saw a film about how Mossad had captured and brought Adolf Eichmann to justice some 15 years after the fall of the Nazis. Eichmann was tried and convicted in Israel. He was hanged and his body cremated. They dumped his ashes at sea, outside of Israeli territorial waters.

Perhaps the day will come when all those who persecuted the Serbs be brought to justice. Start with the world leaders who bombed them, like Clinton and Blair. Then go to those who persecuted them at the Hague. (No, I don’t mean “prosecute”; to call what they did to the Serbs at the ICTY “prosecutions” would be an insult to everyone in the criminal justice system.)

I know it will never happen, but DvDH and his ilk are the exact same type of people who worked for the Third Reich when it was in power. If the Nuremburg Trials were right and the Eichmann Trial was right, all decent human beings must renouce the atrocities committed against the Serbian people at the ICTY.

Why are we confronting DvDH?

Flame Warriors: Troller – click to see full-size original

The reason that we are continuing to confront DvDH, rather than simply deleting his comments, because he admits to having been personally involved in the ICTY (International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia) kangaroo court.

We know DvDH is not arguing in good faith. Yet it may be worthwhile to confront our enemies when they appear on this blog, rather than simply blocking them or deleting their comments. One reason why the former Soviet Union fell was that the people charged with enforcing that police state stopped believing in it themselves. when Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union an “evil empire”, it made many people in the former Soviet Union stop and think. The deep anger of the citizens of the former Czechoslovakia at the Soviet invasion following the “Prague Spring” had a similar effect. It may take years or decades for these seeds to take root, but it is worth the effort.

That having been said, there are limits to everything, including our patience.

Also see:

• Julia Gorin: Torture, Evidence-tampering, Beatings, Bribes, Blackmail and Bullying Continue at our International Kangaroo Court: Prosecutors have Witness Kidnapped, Falsely Imprisoned, and Family Detained and Threatened: All in a Day’s Work when a Serb is on Trial
• American Thinker: Soros, Beck, and the Holocaust
• Srebrenica: The Star Witness
• The Srebrenica Project
• Islam Watch: Understanding Taqiyya – Islamic Principle of Lying for the Sake of Allah
• 1389 Blog Comment Policy

SmoothStone delivers a delicious rant against the cyberstalkers, trolls, and e-jihadists visiting the excellent Smooth Stone blog:

To the war-mongering thieves in Gaza from peacepalestine.blogspot.com

An open letter to the palestinian thieves, butchers, and mass murderers who are visiting this site from peacepalestine.blogspot.com.

First of all, enjoy your Nakba. You wanted war, now you got it. You wanted war, now you’re paying the consequences…

The language in the rest of the post is a little too raw for me to quote directly, but suffice it to say that 1389 agrees with SmoothStone one hundred percent. Read it all!

Also on 1389 Message Blog.

Het Vrije Volk: LittleGreenFootballs is geïnfiltreerd.
or
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LittleGreenFootballs has been infiltrated

Bottehond 25 december 2007

For some weeks a controversy rages between the counter-jihadis of Little Green Footballs and a number of Islam-critical top bloggers. Your reporter went into the battle zone of this controversy to discover a sinister plot, and the explanation why this matter went completely out of control.

On first glance the issue seems to be whether or not some European parties are fascist or not, notably Vlaams Belang and Sverigedemokraterna. Both parties sent representatives to the anti-Islam conference in Brussels, where nearly all relevant players were present. This was not what LGF liked, being tipped off by Swedish anti-fascists.

But further investigation proved there is more going on. The debate went completely out of control: old alliances and long lasting friendships might very well be permanently damaged. How did this come to be?

Because of the Brussels Conference LGF boss Charles Johnson received messages from Europe about the assumed neo-Nazi secret agenda of Vlaams Belang and Sverigedemokraterna. Johnson obviously was flabbergasted. Understandable, because, as many posters said: “If it can be proven that European anti-Islam organizations are allied to fascists, many Americans will step aside from supporting the Euro anti-Islam organizations. An old problem was reborn again. Who doesn’t remember the messages collected by Blokwatch (and partly fabricated by them) about the roots of Flemish nationalism, who, as is commonly known, en masse choose to support the Nazis during WW2, in the hope of gaining independence after the war. Blokwatch also collected a lot of material about contacts between Vlaams Blok and questionable neo-Nazi organisation and persons. A similar file was collected about Sverigedemokraterna. The Swedes had some members in their ranks who maintained similar contacts with questionable clubs and persons.

In the following weeks many bloggers pointed Johnson to the fact that most of the “evidence” was razor thin, could be easily countered and was often manipulated. Then something important happened. Every reasonable man with sufficient understanding of politics will understand the vulnerable position of the international anti-Islam movement, and will know he has to work carefully and with restriction. Not so on LGF. Every critical remark about the “evidence” or suggestion of making things up were tarred as fascists or VB apologists. Even the most reasonable posters were scolded and suspected. Johnson was not capable of keeping the situation under control. Far from it: he was tempted by a herd of Lizards (which is how the posters on LGF call themselves) to estrange himself even more from such reputable bloggers as Fjordman, the folks of Gates of Vienna and Brussels Journal.

In the ongoing debate a Norwegian antifascist, Øyvind Strømmen, showed up. He wrote the book “Eurofascism”. Several times Charles Johnson published parts of this book, all of them accusations aimed at Vlaams Belang and Sverigedemokraterna. Of course, all of this was simply more of the same. In my opinion, it was a major error of Charles Johnson to quote from this book. Not just because the material was mainly irrelevant; to the contrary. Such accusations should always be taken seriously. But because he refused to call for a time-out or discuss matters with the (at that time) friends and allied bloggers, Johnson hanged himself with his, or better phrased, this evidence. That evidence became quickly irrelevant; matters had gone too far already. Apparently Charles Johnson had released the genie out of the bottle and had no idea how to get it back again. He had few options but to keep walking the path he made himself.

Now the smoke has cleared, mainly because Johnson’s opponents had the wisdom not to overreact we can make up the balance sheet. Those who followed the debates have seen the resentful tone that many Lizards used. LGF is known as very much pro-Israel, which really is a point to their benefit. It’s no surprise many Shoah survivors or descendants from them are amongst the Lizards, and they turned themselves away from the Euro movement. Add to this the deep suspicion many Americans hold about Europe, and European history, and we have the explanations for this debate that went completely out of control. At least, that is what a superficial observer will think.

However, to quote Daniël Belinfante: “there is more going on”. Let’s have a closer look at this gentleman Mr. Øyvind Strømmen. Who is he? A small investigation showed that Mr. Strømmen is member of this club: [listed at ECPR: European Consortium for Political Research]. When we read this list carefully, we find the name and founder of Blokwatch, the “anti-fascist” blog that began the accusations of fascism against Vlaams Belang. This is Bart Spruyt. You will find his name on this list.

But there is more: Mr. Spruyt, a friend of Øyvind Strømmen, did much to internationalize the ‘anti-fascist’ jihad by founding disreputable anarchistic-like clubs such as AFA Netherlands. These chappies are internationally organized. Scandinavia abounds with these little progressive clubs. Perhaps you recall the attempted murder on four SIOE members in Copenhagen, recently? Yes, friends of our friends Spruyt and Strømmen. Those of you who would bear the stench can open a cesspit of extreme left Inquisition. And be surprised of the way these little hysteric clubs work intimately together, internationally.

What are the conclusions of this little investigation? The obvious, of course. LGF has been infiltrated by left wing fanatics, who respect nobody and nothing to achieve their goals. Those who tar everybody fascist who resists, for example, the Islamization of Europe. We are talking here about delusional fanatics who are so utterly convinced of being right (compare them the Baader Meinhof gang) they don’t worry about one victim more or less. They actually became what they fought: merciless fascists. Their current champion: Øyvind Strømmen. The man shows off with his many ‘investigations’, but got his ‘investigation’ directly from Bart Spruyt. I do not doubt this applies to his ‘investigations’ about Sverigedemokraterna as well.

Please draw your own conclusions by reading his own forum. A very weak debater, drawing up smokescreen after smokescreen. All questions that might compromise him will remain unanswered. However, his strategy is clear enough: he wants to uncover the Islam-watchers as fascist fanatics, or at least as their helpers. Practically ALL Islam critics (Bat Ye ‘Or, Oriana, Robert Spencer, Mark Steyn, Fjordman, you just name anyone) have been criticized by him. There can be no doubt at all: Øyvind Strømmen thinks Islamization is a hoax, and Islam critics are mentally ill or (his preference) fascists. And this is supposed to be the source of Johnson? An infamy!

Did Strømmen enter the debate alone? Of course not. I found so much hatred in the ongoing debate that my conclusion is that Charles Johnson not only has a very questionable advisor, but also that the Lizards have been infiltrated. Check it out for yourself. Observe the responses from the Lizards: foaming at the mouth as they blast their ‘fascist’ mantra to your postings. Amongst them are a lot of Europeans who will claim not to be left wing orientated. But also a bunch of Lizards who feed Charles Johnson with a deluge of evidence. Evidence collected for many years by the Strømmens and Spruyts of the world. There is a little bit of good news to report as well. Charles Johnson has put some distance between himself and Strømmen. He repeatedly said that he doesn’t agree with everything Strømmen said or stands for. Hardly possible, as Charles keeps the photo of Oriana prominently on his website. Hopefully he will realize one cannot have it both ways. I called on LGF for a debate. Face to face, for communication of such and important matter by mail will not do. The raid on LGF by Euro extremists makes it crystal clear that we cannot afford to. Only reason can heal the breach. Therefore I suggest we all take responsibility for our own action and take it from there.

The only question remaining is: will Øyvind Strømmen hang Charles Johnson’s scalp on his AFA belt, or will Charles Johnson see reason, and organize a mediation?

Also see:

• Haters and spammers and trolls, oh my!

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As we all know, some people in the world are angry and destructive, and many of those are on the Internet. These angry people exert a negative effect on anyone who has the misfortune to encounter them, even if it is only a feeling of fatigue and disgust. Some angry and destructive persons are genuinely dangerous.

The Internet is a tool that can be used for good or ill. The team at 1389 Blog is working hard to do some good: to use the Internet to confront and curb jihadism and expansionist Islam, and to provide knowledge and tools to others who are working to accomplish the same goals. We will never allow anyone to abuse the comments on this blog for the purpose of undermining this effort.

False accusations, mudslinging, and editorial discretion

We have grown especially weary and disgusted with haters who use blogs, comments, forums, Wikis, social news sites, or email to circulate false allegations against others – whether it be public figures, other bloggers, entire groups of people, or whomever else they hate. Despite claims of “fairness” and “impartiality,” disinformation has been planted throughout Wikipedia and other social media, where it becomes fuel for flame wars, mudslinging, and propaganda.

Typically, one or more responders will put in hours or days of unpaid effort to refute those accusations, but then, the malicious accuser simply goes elsewhere and starts the same process all over again.

We have other things to do besides responding to the same falsehoods again and again. If these miscreants can’t win the argument on facts and logic, they hope to win by shouting us down and wasting our time.

Yes – these haters have the right to post what they want – on their own blogs – and to face whatever consequences accrue. When haters commit libel, their victims may sue. When haters incite violence against the persons or groups that they hate, they have passed the boundaries of protected political speech, and we will do what we can to shut them down.

No one has the right to take advantage of other people’s blogs and websites to spew false accusations, obscenities, and bile in front of the readership that reputable bloggers and admins have worked so hard to earn. No one has the right to spam the comments or forum threads on someone else’s website for the purpose of interfering with that website or harassing its owners and participants.

Excluding malicious comments is not censorship – it is vital editorial discretion. No blog or forum administrator – or for that matter, no publisher or media producer – can, or should, publicize every response that comes in. Bigoted ranting, name-calling, bullying and threats, spam, obscenity, incoherent rambles, libel and slander, and ad hominem attacks, attract a lynch-mob mentality, drive away decent readers and participants, and expose the website or organization to repercussions, legal or otherwise. And the endlessly misused argumentum ad Nazium, a/k/a reductio ad Hitlerum, is a signal to readers that the argument has worn itself out, and that intelligent life has departed from that venue.

Oh, and by the way…

If you want to argue with us, you’d better be loaded for bear. We expect to see verifiable evidence and valid logic, presented in a clear and civil manner. Just for starters:

• Calling us liars, racists, Nazis, or whatever else is evidence only of your incivility. Accusing us of being “racists” or “Holocaust deniers” or “fascists” merely because we do not accept your accusations against Jews, Israelis, Serbs, European conservatives, white Americans, or whomever it is you happen to hate, doesn’t cut it either.
• Hearsay, rumors, innuendo, or unconfirmed urban legends, or something you thought you heard from a “friend of a friend,” does not make for sufficient evidence to back up an allegation.
• Articles in Wikipedia are acceptable only for noncontroversial matters, such as technical background, computer and Internet history, and definitions of words and phrases (as shown here in the previous item). But when it comes to controversial political, religious, or historical issues, Wikipedia is far too vulnerable to vandalism, flame wars, and spin, and we generally cannot accept it as evidence. (See our Reference Material resource page, and Byzantine Sacred Art: Wikipedia, the Source of Disinformation, for more on Wikipedia spin jobs.)
• For that matter, we roundly condemn Wikipedia’s self-righteous pretense of enforcing a neutral point of view. It is senseless to make a virtue out of amorality! When we write or blog, we do our best to gather and publish the whole truth and nothing but. There is no neutral ground between right and wrong, between good and evil, between truth and error. There is no room for diluting the truth by presenting falsehood alongside it, in an effort to appear “fair and balanced.” The devil has too many spokesmen already, and too many spokeswomen too!
• Making patronizing remarks, such as claiming that you “pity” us, is nothing more than mudslinging disguised behind a false sense of moral superiority, and it will get your remarks flushed into the spam bucket without a second thought.
• If you, or any of your sources have a vested interest in the issue that could affect credibility, we expect you to disclose it.
• Just because you saw something in the mainstream media does not automatically mean it is true. Many stories, photos, and videos have appeared in the mainstream media and have later been shown to be planted by untrustworthy sources, staged, mislabeled, Photoshopped, or otherwise falsified. Check it first!

In particular, we will not post comments that contain racist or bigoted ranting, especially the anti-Semitic ranting and the Serb-bashing that seems to be plaguing the blogosphere these days. We don’t care how many times you have seen or heard the same piece of Serb-bashing or Jew-bashing or Israel-bashing in the blogosphere or even in the mainstream media. As we have just pointed out, this does NOT make it true, nor does it give you any right to repeat it here.

What’s a blogger or admin to do?

1389 Blog posts a comments policy and we enforce it consistently. Anyone with a modicum of common sense should already be aware of what is acceptable on this and most other blogs. But if you have any doubts, read it before you send us email or comment on this, or any other, post on this blog.

We encourage people to post comments or use the Contact Us form in our blog to expose injustice or other wrongdoing. We have no objection to leveling verifiable accusations against public officials or other culpable individuals, organizations, or governments. We have no objection to polemics or to strong opinions. We encourage readers to engage in vigorous debate and to point out any factual errors that we or other commenters might make. We also encourage readers to investigate and report suspicious incidents and criminal or terrorist activity, and to keep us up to date with that information. But if the accusations cannot be substantiated, the communication in question will be either refuted or deleted.

It is up to us, as bloggers and admins, to maintain civility in our part of the blogosphere. If we fail to make this effort, the better part (in both senses of the word) of our audience will leave. I suggest that it is time for each of us to set up and enforce our comment policies to stop that from happening. And when it comes to dealing with haters, I suggest that we take care neither to let malicious commenters spew their bile until everyone else gives up and lets the haters have the last word, nor to allow false accusations to stand unanswered in any of our comment or forum threads.

Also see:

• There’s an angry fire in cyberspace
• Foehammer’s Anvil: Words of Warning to Commenters
• The definitive guide to Trolls – Ubuntu Forums
• Flame Warriors Home
• Attacking genuine evil in the blogosphere

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Read this insightful article by Julia Gorin:

Newsmax, or Newshoax? Newsmax does a Lewinski on Clinton

This raises some other questions:

• How many other bloggers have the Clintons bought and corrupted?
• Could they be behind the recent changes at Little Green Footballs?
• Do the Clintons – or someone working on their behalf – also pay “trolls” to disrupt the activities of legitimate bloggers who raise issues that could make the Clintons look bad?

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Who are the REAL racists in the blogosphere?

Leftists, that’s who!

The blogosphere has become a mighty ugly place lately, and I am about to clear up and dispose of some of the filth and lies that are being flung about. This mess must be cleaned up, for many reasons – just for starters, the failure to deny and refute false accusations is all too often taken to be a tacit admission of wrongdoing.

In the comments associated with Fjordman’s recent article published at Gates of Vienna, this recent GOV article about the Celtic cross, and WRONG ON SERBIA at Atlas Shrugs, the lizardoid hate squad once again reveals, among other things, their own rabid racism against Serbs.

As shown by their own words, THEY, and only they, are the real racists. Not the Serbs, not the Israelis, not the European anti-immigration parties – but the leftists who spread their lies in the MSM and the blogosphere, and their jihadist allies – those are the racists and the real neo-Nazis of our era.

No need to rely on tenuous chains of guilt by association, or dubious interpretations of ambiguous symbols in photos on the Web, or even on mainstream media spin and taqiyya. If your stomach can handle it, just look at the words the perpetrators themselves use.

Using blood libel to incite real genocide

Let me remind Nodrog (a/k/a “the poster formerly known as Gordon,” often accused of being one of Charles Johnson’s sockpuppets/multiple personalities) and everyone else currently or formerly associated with Leftist Green Footballs, that false accusations of genocide have been used, and are still being used, to incite real genocide against those falsely accused – in this case, the Serbs. This, in itself, is a war crime – on your part – and it has not gone unnoticed.

Oh, I’m not done yet – I have many other points to make!

No, it is NOT too late to remove militant Islam from Kosovo!

Some commenters insist that the proposed turnover of Kosovo to the local al-Qaeda-affiliated jihadist/narcoterrorist gang is a fait accompli, simply because of demographics. I say that’s just plain wrong.

The Albanians who have infiltrated Kosovo over the past century do have a place to which they can, and must, return: Albania. The fact that their own relatives and countrymen have made Albania unfit to live in matters not. They must return there. To allow them to remain in Kosovo would be to reward a century of genocide against Serbs. That is intolerable.

What’s wrong with Serb nationalism? Nothing!

Milosevic was no Serb nationalist, but a hapless appeaser who was repeatedly hoodwinked by the US and NATO, and ultimately disposed of. See Emperor’s Clothes for background. That site has the whole history of MSM pro-jihadist taqiyya!

If you want to know what a Serb nationalist is all about, I am a Serb nationalist. I am not ashamed of being a Serb nationalist, nor should anyone ever be!

1. I claim that the Serbian people has a right to exist.
2. I claim that those of us who are of Serbian ancestry have the right to be known and identified as Serbs (or as Serbian-Americans, Serbian-Canadians, Serbian-Australians, as the case may be), without anyone else thinking that this gives them the right to attack us.
3. I claim that Orthodox Christian Serbs have the right to continue practicing our religion, wherever in the world we may happen to be.
4. I claim that we as Serbs have the same right to defend ourselves against attack that anyone else has – and that this includes the right to cooperate among ourselves for mutual protection.

Anybody out there who disagrees with me?

I’ve already thrown the glove down – if you pick it up, you’d better be loaded for bear. Be advised that I expect valid logic supported with provable factual information. I expect the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Anything else will be met with the most thorough takedown imaginable.

Some commenters have truly evil motives

There are some truly evil people in the world, and entirely too many of them are on the Internet. (Just for starters, see Fast-growing al Qaeda presence on the Web.) As one might expect, the blogosphere has become a primary target.

Conservatives have been too patient with liars and deceivers on the Web

The conservative blogosphere is being MUCH too patient with crypto-jihadist leftists such as Nodrog, who serve the cause of expansionist Islam by persistently uttering blood libels against Serbs, Jews, and European conservatives. In particular, I have seen no evidence that any of these LGF stooges are arguing in good faith. Any leftist who argues in good faith will soon find no alternative but to abandon leftism.

Leftist ideology is always and everywhere harmful and wrong, and is especially harmful to those it purports to help. The same is true, unfortunately, of Islam. Thus, leftists and jihadists are natural allies.

The only way leftists and jihadists can peddle their poison with any degree of success is by committing evil:

• Lying
• Cheating
• Stealing
• Libeling and slandering innocent people
• Using violence whenever they don’t get their way.

The only difference between leftists like Charles Johnson and his minions, and ordinary jihadists, is that some of the leftists are so deluded by their own sense of self-importance that they actually believe their own taqiyya.

Many people have pointed out that these leftists keep repeating the same lies even after they are soundly refuted. They are deaf and blind to any evidence that contradicts the gutter racist propaganda that they spew forth. This is an object lesson in identifying those who are not presenting their arguments in good faith.

Charles Johnson and Little Green Footballs have never led the counter-jihad

I contend that Charles Johnson has never been a member of the counterjihad, much less a leader of it. He is a greedy blogger who uses terrorism stories to get page views, while at the same time serving the interests of the jihadists by exerting a chilling effect on all attempts to counteract jihadism. CJ and his followers must be, and are being, discredited with the utmost thoroughness and finality, so that none of them will ever again be able to do any further damage to the counterjihadist cause.

Aid and comfort to the enemy

The Bosnian Muslim mujahideen and the Kosovo Albanian Muslim KLA (under whatever false name they are calling themselves this week) are the local branches of al Qaeda in the Balkans.

By continuing to spread enemy propaganda on behalf of al Qaeda, under the guise of being counter-jihadist bloggers, Charles Johnson and his stooges from Leftist Green Footballs are HELPING THE ENEMY.

Last I checked, the US is at war with AQ. If nothing else, as long as OBL’s fatwa against the US remains in effect, AQ is at war with the US. That makes them enemies. That makes these “lizardoids” traitors.

You DO have to choose sides in these conflicts. There is no middle ground between good and evil, between truth and error, between supporting your country and supporting its enemies. Attempting to remain neutral means evading one’s duties.

Throughout history, giving aid and comfort to the enemy of one’s homeland has been a capital offense, not only in the US but just about everywhere else. This is because a traitor does far more damage than any legitimate enemy combatant. At least in the US, those laws have not been changed, and when things get bad enough – and they will – the US will begin enforcing those laws again.

Rope, tree, US Constitutional definition of treason, lizards…

Understanding the turncoat mindset at LGF

• Watch the drama at LGF from a front-row seat
• Jihad Watch: The Great Nazi-Hunter Charles Johnson Bags Another One
• Jihad Watch: “The way he went after people was like a mental illness”
• Chronicles: Kosovo as a Symbol of Anti-Postmodernism
• Crisis du Mois

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For more discussion of what blogging and blog commenting is all about, see:

• Foehammer’s Anvil: Words of Warning to Commenters
• The definitive guide to Trolls – Ubuntu Forums
• Flame Warriors Home
• Haters and Spammers and Trolls, oh my!

(Updated 11/3/07, 11/12/07, 11/15/07, 11/24/07)
We win, they lose!

From the redoubtable Jawa Report:

• Cyber Report of Loser’s Super Cyber Dud
• Al Qaeda’s Coming Cyber Attack Cancelled
• The Jawa Report: Al Qaeda Declares Internet Jihad
• Al Qaeda’s “Jihadi Battalions to Attack the Internet” Declaration (translation is here)

AQ is making threats. So what else is new?

Suffice it to say that 1389 won’t be staying up nights worrying about this.

Jihadis of every stripe have been trying to shut down opposition blogs and websites all along! Ever since there have been counterterrorist/anti-jihadist websites and blogs, there have been problems with pro-jihadist activity. It goes with the territory. We’ve dealt with hackers, trolls, cyberstalkers, DDOS attacks, abuse of “censorware” to block access to our sites, slander and defamation, frivolous (albeit expensive) lawsuits, death threats, actual physical attacks – you name it!

Guess what? We have been aware of the risks all along, and we know how to fight back. (See Dancho Danchev: Electronic Jihad v3.0 – What Cyber Jihad Isn’t if you’re curious about the techie details.) We’re still here, and we’re here to stay!

That said, let me remind everyone to continue to take appropriate precautions:

• Make sure that the latest versions of your anti-virus/anti-malware products are installed and configured correctly.
• Make sure that your operating system is up to date with all security-related patches.
• If you have a blog or website, take backups of everything and keep the backups in several places.
• If your site is unexpectedly down or cannot be accessed, contact your hosting provider immediately.
• If you are being attacked, please refer to our Stop Blog Censorship and Reference Material resource pages for more information about how to report it and what to do next. Also, please let us know by using this form to send us email.

Why did AQ announce this now?

Here’s one possibility: AQ is upset about the way things are going in Iraq. They’re forced to acknowledge that their posteriors are being kicked not only by US and coalition troops, but by the Iraqis themselves. (See “The darkness has become pitch black” – Osama bin Laden on Iraq situation.) The Jawa Report says that sources indicate that AQ may be turning more of its attention to Afghanistan, because it has no future in Iraq.

Numerous AQ attacks have been thwarted in various other places around the world. Yes, AQ is dangerous, but certainly not invincible. Not if we put our minds and hearts and strength into stopping them!

Also see:

• McAfee Avert Labs Blog: Cyber Jihad Isn’t Here Yet
• The Jawa Report: Open Source Assessment of al Qaeda and Taliban
• The Jawa Report: Al Qaeda Taking Over Taliban?
• Michael Yon Online Magazine: Iraqi Islamic Party Says al Qaeda Is Defeated
• Audio: Michael Yon on the Defeat of al Qaeda in Iraq
• Terrorism: Latest bin Laden message ‘the most important in al-Qaeda’s history’
• Cyber Jihad, Litigation Jihad Cyber Litigation Foiled
• WashTimes: Web sites ready for al Qaeda ‘morons’
• AP: Experts convene to discuss terrorists’ use of Internet

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What is Twitter, anyway?

Twitter is a social networking and microblogging environment. If you’re wondering what this means in real life, Twitter is a place where you can let your friends know what you’re doing, network and meet new people, and keep a shared record of interesting things that you encounter on the Internet and in real life. There are even “tweetups” in various locations where Twitterers can get together in person.

How does Twitter work?

When you bring up the first Twitter screen, it asks you, “What are you doing right now?” Although people do use Twitter to answer that question, Twitter is far more than that.

Once you have signed on, you can recount your daily activities, share news items and links, or converse with other Twitterers, in messages of up to 140 characters each. Messages are sometimes known as “tweets” or “updates.” If your text is longer than that, you can continue it in the next 140-character message.

Each user can page back to see earlier messages. This means that you can communicate either in “real time” or by posting messages that others will see when they sign on later.

How do I access Twitter?

You can access Twitter from just about any device that has an Internet browser or messaging capability: a PC, Mac, or Linux machine; a smartphone or PDA such as Blackberry or iPhone; or any cell phone that has a web browser and/or text messaging (SMS or IM). Once you have a user ID, you can use any combination of these methods.

To access Twitter from a desktop or laptop browser, enter http://twitter.com in the address field. That’s all you need.

It’s free; just follow the simple instructions for signing up.

For those who prefer other user interface styles, various downloadable desktop clients are available, including a plugin for Facebook.

To access Twitter Mobile from a cell phone or other mobile device, simply enter http://m.twitter.com in the browser address field. Here again, there are other interfaces you can use, depending on the type of device. If you wish, you can also associate your cell phone number with your Twitter user ID, so that you can send SMS text messages to 40404 and have them appear with your user ID. This also lets you receive “tweets” as text messages on your cell phone. If the text messages get to be too much, you can turn that feature on or off at your convenience.

Tech Tip: If you plan to use Twitter from any mobile device, make sure that you have a service plan that allows for unlimited web browsing and a sufficiently large number of text messages per month. Keep an eye on the amount of data traffic through your account. Even if the company’s television ads claim that they offer “unlimited access,” read the fine print on the service agreement before you sign!

Who will see my messages?

Twitter lets you send two kinds of messages: normal “tweets” that can be viewed by anyone, and direct messages that go to one specific individual.

Direct messages are useful if you want to send someone an email addy or a personal invitation, or if you are communicating with family members or business associates. To send a direct message, enter a “d” followed by a space and the other Twitterer’s user ID (e.g., d 1389 for a direct message to me).

Anyone can see your normal “tweets” if they are watching the public timeline or if they view your profile page. You have the option of preventing this access by locking your updates for access only by friends, but most people choose not to do that.

To direct a normal “tweet” to a specific Twitterer, put an at-sign followed immediately by the Twitterer’s user ID in the message (e.g., @1389 for a message to me). Everyone else can still see the “tweet,” but it will also appear in the other user’s Replies tab.

The real question is not who could potentially see your messages, but who actually will be reading them. Twitterers generally stay on their own home page most of the time. Your home page shows you only the messages from other Twitterers whom you are following. In order to have a conversation, the “following” relationship needs to be mutual. This structure helps to make Twitter self-policing, in that spammers, trolls, and other bad actors find themselves tuned out. On the other hand, it does make it more difficult for a new Twitterer to begin establishing a network of friends.

So how do I start building a network on Twitter?

Once you have your user ID, you can start the process by choosing to follow other Twitterers whose messages you find interesting. To see another user’s profile, you can click on that person’s user ID or enter http://twitter.com/their_ID, substituting the other Twitterer’s actual user ID for their_ID. On the profile page, you can click on a button if you want to begin following that user. Whether other users choose to follow you in return is up to them; some will and some won’t, for whatever reason.

It helps if you already know someone who is an active Twitterer. Some people display their Twitter user IDs in MySpace or Facebook or their blogs. Once you have set up an account on Twitter, you can begin following him or her, and perhaps send an email asking the other user to start following you on Twitter and to help you get started by introducing you to others.

If you’re not comfortable doing that, you can always follow me by clicking on http://twitter.com/1389, or you can leave a comment here asking for my assistance. I check my follower list regularly and will follow anyone in return who is not a spambot and who behaves in a civil manner. Let me know what your interests are, and I’ll try to introduce you to other Twitterers who share those interests.

What are some of the “unwritten rules”?

• You gotta “tweet”! If you don’t interact with the people who are following you, they’ll figure that you aren’t on the system any more and they’ll drop you. Get to know people, say hello or good morning, remember who they are and ask them about things that they are interested in. Check your direct messages and your “replies” tab regularly.
• Don’t “spam.” People do converse about what is going on in their workplace, and about products, services, or intellectual property that they or their company are offering, and that’s generally okay. But people will block Twitterers who spew out blatant sales pitches or advertisements. By the same token, feel free to block and/or report any user that appears to be a “spambot” or is abusing the system.
• It’s okay to send links to interesting news stories or blog posts, whether on your blog or someone else’s. Twitter uses Tiny URL to convert long URLs to shorter ones. This allows the link to fit into a short text message, but the downside is that other Twitterers won’t be able to see where the link is going until they click on it. So be sure that your message includes a few words explaining what the link is all about. If you want people to visit your blog, tell them what you posted there!
• Don’t be shy about inviting people! There are some prominent Twitterers, including media people, politicians, campaign managers, well-known bloggers, and tech industry innovators. Go ahead and follow them; many of them will follow you back, and some will converse with you if you have something to say with regard to their areas of interest.
• Controversial topics are not off-limits. This may surprise you, but prominent Twitterers generally will not flame you or drop you just because you expressed a point of view that they don’t happen to agree with. It’s true that Silicon Valley and media people have a reputation for being left-wing, but some of them are willing to hear other points of view, if expressed in a civil manner. If you speak your mind, and back up your statements with verifiable facts and logic, a few people will drop you, but a far greater number will begin following you!

Anything else that would be helpful to know?

Tech tip: Did you know that you can claim your Twitter account as a blog on Technorati?
It’s very easy to do. It will make your tweets searchable and it will give you more of a presence on Technorati. After you do this, be sure to ping your blog(s) on Technorati regularly to keep Technorati up to date.

Also see:

• Twitter FAQ
• Twitter Fan Wiki (highly recommended by Twitterer Thiothixene)
• Top 10 Twitter Apps from Readwriteweb
• Twitter vs. Pownce – Comparison with Rolling Updates
• Paper: Why We Twitter (hat tip to Twitterer Jeff Quinton)
• Updated: Two MORE Takes on Twitter
• Why Bloggers Need to Ping
• In Disasters, Everyone, Not Just Bloggers, Should Use Twitter

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