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My second letter to Orear, listing the errors in the Aug. 2 article…

Greg –

Consider this list of errors in your August 2 article.

1. You have me spelling the “judge’s” name ‘Finckenship.’ Here’s the paper you were apparently getting your news from quoting me spelling it correctly. You didn’t seem overly surprised or bothered when I notified you of the error. Deliberate attempt to make me look careless/stupid/lazy?

Last week, he posted a message on the site that said his organization would support the killing of Federal Court of Canada Justice Konrad W. von Finckenstein, members of the Canadian Human Rights Commission and Ottawa lawyer Richard Warman.

http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/CityandRegion/2006/07/29/1708583-sun.html

The original commentary on VNN:
http://www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com/?p=683#comments

2. VNN came back online on July 29. Your article was published August 2. Did you not check whether we were back up, or were you trying to leave the misleading impression that we’re shut down, perhaps for good? Even though I wasn’t around, this is not an acceptable mistake to make.

3. You state that I posted threats against Finckenstein et al. Not true. I stated an opinion. It was mischaracterized as a death threat by Canadian papers, and echoed by you. Again, sloppy or actionable?

4. You quote Warman: “This is a direct indication to murder,” Warman said… Again, this is incredibly sloppy work on your part. He said, of course, incitement. You need to reread your articles before you print them.

That’s two major-league screw-ups in one story, and we aren’t even below the fold on the front page!

5. You assert our ISP shut us down. As I told you earlier today, this is not accurate. You risk serious damage to KDE through your reliance on the reporting of others.

The above are five technical errors independent of content. I won’t even get into the biased framing of the story. One expects little of KDE, given its history, but you’re verging into dangerous territory.

KirksvilleToday.com (http://www.kirksvilletoday.com/) will keep close watch on your tenure as editor of KDE, Greg. Your every screw-up, bit of unfair coverage, inaccuracy and misspelling will duly be highlighted and criticized. Look on the bright side – you get a freelance ombudsman.

Clean up your act or you can tell Freels that my lawyers will be calling.

Alex Linder

Second article, published this evening – without my LTE clearing up hopelessly confused/deceitful Orear’s mistakes in article #1, indeed compounding them with fresh errors.

Prosecutor joins FBI, district attorney in Web site investigation
BY GREGORY OREAR, Managing Editor
Published: Thursday, August 3, 2006 3:28 PM CDT
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KIRKSVILLE – The Adair County prosecutor is working with federal officials on an investigation into death threats [sic – no threats were posted] allegedly posted on a Kirksville man’s Web site.

Mark Williams told the Daily Express in an exclusive interview that he met with agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and representatives from the United States District Attorney’s office this week regarding Alex Linder’s Web site, the Vanguard News Network.

The Web site was shut down last week after Linder allegedly posted a death [sic, and double sic if the improperly ommitted word were included] against Federal Court of Canada Justice Konrad W. von Finckenstein, members of the Canadian Human Rights Commission and Ottawa lawyer Richard Warman.

Williams and federal authorities are now trying to decide if any laws were broken, and if so, which ones.

“We are trying to figure out if this crosses the line,” Williams said. “The FBI is going to further discuss the case with the U.S. Attorneys office and they will contact me.”

[“…trying to figure out”… How hard is it to figure out if a crime has been committed? Answer, it isn’t hard at all, it’s easy, it takes about ten seconds. What takes weeks and weeks is to figure how to twist plain words to railroad the innocent. Is the FBI/district attorney/local prosecutor conspiring with a foreign government to deny an American citizen his civil rights?]

Williams and Kirksville Police Chief Jim Hughes both received letters last week from Canadian officials regarding the site.

“The Canadian authorities who sent us the letter … they have taken it very seriously,” Williams said. “And they asked us to investigate it, which we are.”

The threats [sic] were posted after London, Ontario resident Tomasz Winnicki was jailed for nine months for contempt of court. Winnicki had violated a court order from von Finckenstein barring him from posting hate messages [sic].

The London Free Press in Ontario, Canada, reported after being informed of the threats, the Internet service provider shut down the main Web site and the VNN forum July 26.

However, Linder indicated in an interview this morning that the ISP, Cable Bay, had nothing to do with the site going offline.

“The P1 [sic -T1] service was actually yanked from pressure I think came from Canada,” he said. “Essentially, you have foreigners messing with our first amendment rights.”

He also asserted he broke no laws.

“I’m here, I’m not in jail and I didn’t do anything,” he said.

Linder said this is the 10th time he has had to change sites [sic – servers. If you’re concluding that Orear is hopelessly dense and not much beyond functionally literate, you’re on the mark.] , and that this time, they have added a number of sites and servers. [No, that’s not what I said. I said we have many different sites. And we use a number of different servers.]

“They can still knock us down, but we can get back up again,” he said.

Linder said a Web blog version of the Site came back online within three or four days [No, what I said was that VNN was online when you wrote the article yesterday, but for some reason you left that fact out.], and the forum site was back this morning.

However, as of noon, the forum site in fact was still offline. [The forum was in fact up, although still having some of the data restored.]

http://www.kirksvilledailyexpress.com/articles/2006/08/03/news/news1.txt

Yes, the irony of it all. “Human rights” for whom? For gays – for minorities? Certainly not for free speech by anyone except those who take content out of context.

I would classify this muck from the opposition as “dark comedy” at its best.

Alex—I noticed that the unsigned AP story making the rounds has omitted the fact that you attributed the VNN editorial position to Thomas Jefferson on tyrants and tyranny.

“Killing Warman, “judge” von Finckenstein, or any of the jews who make up the dictatorial “human rights” council that persecutes loyal Canadians such as Winnicki would be a genuine act of patriotism. That is Thomas Jefferson’s view, and it is VNN’s view too.”

You are in good company with the Thomas Jefferson. The “tyranny of printers” must be broken today, just as it was in Jefferson’s day.

My ancestors were against slavery and abolitionists. No niggers, no Abos. Who can argue?

Let’s just say the coming week should prove interesting. If KDE thinks it can shit on me with no response, it has another think coming. I’ve sent a response to the article it published, and it is simple fairness for KDE to print it.

“It appears that your county prosecutor is a bit of a spaz. Pat Robertson recently called for the assassination of Hugo Chavez, so if they come for you they’ll have to pick him up along the way. I don’t see anything wrong with saying that the death of foreign tyrants would be a good thing. If that’s illegal, every poster on FreeRepublic would be locked up.”

I don’t know — and don’t much care — what Saddam Hussein did halfway across the globe. But I do know that plenty of Americans have called for his head on a platter. Your point is well taken.

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