Note to
Readers:
After 6 years, I have been permanently banned from posting on
Rumor Mill News (RMN at www.rumormillnews.com )
after receiving email from a fictitious name writing from the
U.S. Army Intelligence. The note began by specifically saying
that the sender would recommend to Rayelan of RMN that I "not be
allowed to post."
The
note came from the home of U.S. Army Intelligence at
Fort Huachuca, Arizona. The note, which came through the RMN
website, was a rather incoherent response to my critical article
about the republishing of the anti-Islamic cartoons in Denmark.
The writer at
Fort
Huachuca, using the
fictitious name "Herb
Lane," began his Valentine's Day note
thusly:
Re:
IS
DENMARK BEING SET UP? Why a Nation
Known for Pork is Attacking Islam
Personally I
would recommend to Rayelan that you not be allowed to post.
I saw that this bizarre note was not
really coming from a private citizen named "Herb Lane" but came
from a U.S. military computer at the training center for U.S.
Army Intelligence. As an American with a strong sense of the
right of free speech, I was naturally incensed.
Valentine's Day is also my birthday and I
understood this was my present from U.S. Army Intelligence,
where Mark Lane of American Free Press also
happened to begin his career.
I posted a quick note about this hate mail
from U.S. Army Intelligence on Rumor Mill News under the title
"Bollyn Receives Anti-Islamic Hate Mail from U.S. Army
Intelligence."
See:
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?noframes;read=119027
The writer from Fort Huachuca exhibited
the rabid anti-Islamic world view that has long contaminated the
thinking of the U.S.
military.
The
writer from U.S. Army Intelligence
is evidently on a
first-name basis with Rayelan, who runs Rumor Mill News. In any
case, Rayelan was very quick to heed his recommendation. Within
hours of this posting I was permanently "decomissioned" from
RMN.
When I discovered that I was unable to
post on RMN, I wrote to Rayelan:
Dear Rayelan,
How odd. I am unable to log
onto RMN the day after the U.S. Army Intelligence said I should
be banned. Have I been banned from RMN? If not, how can I log
on? Please advise.
Within hours I received this termination
notice from Zapper, the webmaster at RMN:
...We appreciate your hard
work and efforts over the years, even in the face of some pretty
severe personal consequences you've endured.
The decision to decommision you,
however, is final.
- Zapper
The whole story will
be posted on my website on Monday, February 18.