Something truly horrible has occurred, reader. I wanted you to hear it first from me.
To start, a person's character and reputation should suffer for that which they bring upon themselves, and not what is thrust upon them.
Indeed, a decent person without a criminal record and engaging in no criminal activity who tries to live a life of service, consistency, artistry, and fidelity should be heaped with honor, lauded by superiors, appreciated among his peers, and loved by subordinates, one would think. Failing any or all of the preceding? Respectfully left alone, reader, and treated respectfully.
Let me, briefly, tell you a story about a person who satisfied all the requirements for respectful treatment alluded to above. He exists in fact, this actually pretty humble man of singular reputation, service, loyalty, and intelligence... ...but at the whim of a piqued gang of insentient sociopaths (who themselves define inconstancy, project inconsistency, and operate, apparently, outside the bounds of a required civility)... the honorable person alluded to, and unfortunately the subject of this tedious little tale, has had his reputation altered, unjustifiably, in a manner so egregiously repellent that it almost defies description.
To wit: A base character assassination by way of easy association with a crime transcending mere garden variety crime, reader ...even murder.
Yes, a crime worse than murder, reader, because the crime so stealthily accused is a slow murder that is ongoing and without end. It is a murder which transfers. It is a murder which spreads. It is a murder of the soul, and then any adjacent soul which that soul touches, reader. There's no way to sugar-coat this or otherwise put a better face on it, ... You will know this to be true.
In our 21st nation we are traditionally twitchy about this singular crime, and where there is that smoke? Why, there must be at least a chance of fire... ...am I right reader... ? ...or how could it possibly have come up, at all? Close to the fire? In this case just smoke? In "Short Attention Span Theatre," you only have one chance to make a good impression on the mass mind. Am I right about that?!
...Perchance to be burned, reader? Closest to the dog has its fleas? Why even take a chance? ...And so it goes...
I mean it's just too bad for the innocent subject of this essay, right? But... why take the smallest chance, reader, with worse than murder?
A suspicion has been raised! Persons know how serious an accusation such as the forthcoming can be... ...and these persecuting would not remotely pretend to make the charge... but that they had some good evidence of a clear and present danger! A danger so compelling regarding the subject that he is admonished that the local FBI was to be immediately notified?
FBI? In this day and age? Yes.
It doesn't matter that this scurrilous accusation (by association and ham-handed suggestion) is the result of incompetence, bias, stupidity, ineptitude, insentient enmity, and philosophical infidelity.
It doesn't matter that this stealthy charge was without foundation, support or fact and was raised at all to shut the innocent subject down without regard to common sense, base integrity, fair play, or the subject's SPOTLESS reputation.
...Without regard!
See, all that is required is the accusation, reader! Smoke must always mean fire in our presently very corrupted nation. You know this to be true, reader, on some level.
It doesn't matter that the subject of this essay is the third holder of a spotless name carrying the honor and service of protestant ministers, school Principals, Naval research engineers, and military officers.
It doesn't matter that the subject is a certified public school teacher who graduated summa cum laude from an accredited university with his bachelor of science degree , and is between employments and desirous of a teaching position requiring all trust.
It doesn't matter that the subject completed a career as a military officer, was very highly decorated as a Veteran of foreign wars, was a Master Army aviator, and has commanded service schools in an extremely competitive military career structure.
It is all for naught, blown away in an ill wind created at the first use of the word... pedophile... Pedophile is defined as: An adult sexually attracted to a child or children...
...Smoke? Fire, reader?
As has likely been clear... the subject of this essay is myself. I apologize for the tediousness of this, sincerely, but my horn has abruptly and unethically been made into a funnel, honored reader. Consequently, I aim to use every bit of lung (and keyboard) power and blow my horn clear and clearly.
Seriously reader, and you're at the whim of the same brand of sociopath, remember. What would you do?
This 2005 Halloween morning, oddly enough, I woke to one piece of mail in my E-mail box. Cold-cocked, imagine being guilty of what is suggested... bad enough!
Now, reader, imagine being innocent:
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Mon, 31 Oct 2005 04:52:35 PST
To: errol@virtuallystrange.net, Kimballwood@aol.com
Cc: alienview@adelphia.net
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 07:52:24 -0500
Subject: Alfred Lehmberg
A review of Alfred Lehmberg via Google produced the listing below, for a child porn site, and there is Alfred Lehmberg's name, using the site.Would Mr. Lehmberg be good enough to explain why his name is listed for usage at the child porn site?
Christopher Jay
Assistant Director
Fort Wayne MediaWatch
RRRGroup
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Usage Statistics for horriblemonster.com - October 2002 - Search ...... 0.19% http://www.degraeve.coms/ 2 0.13% 1940's porn pictures 2 0.13% 2002sexy pic 20.13% aesthetic apparatus 2 0.13% alfred lehmberg 2 0.13% animal fuckphoto ...www.horriblemonster.com/things/search_200210.html - 33k - Cached -Similar pages[ More results from http://www.horriblemonster.com/ ]
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I had to read this 5 times before I understood its awful import... what it meant in the real world... and I wept... ...Wept for those gone before, myself, and those gone after.
Who dares befoul the community?
Fort Wayne Media Watch, RRR Group, operates out of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and is headed up by one Rich Reynolds, a man contentious in his criticism if not then clueless in his aspect. Verily, he is a man decidedly inconsistent with regard to an editorial philosophy... imo. Reynolds is in clear charge of an alleged murder of young crows (RRR Group) who regularly publish little attack pieces aimed at selected media producers with whom "they" disagree. I digress to say this crowd may be one person only...
Albeit, this little clutch of literary piranha ("Christopher Jay" is "Assistant Director") has previously turned its feral little eyes to me on numerous occasions over the last year, but it has always stayed within bounds... even if said bounds were insulting, mis-characterizing, and ever obfuscating.
Such was the status quo. One plays cards dealt.
Hell, I'd considered myself more or less favored in their regard, actually. Why, they'd never wished death on me as they are known to have publicly done to others. Finally, it has been rumored that this platoon (?) of vicious attack dogs does not exist at all, remember, and may be but the alter egos of Rich Reynolds himself, but this is again unsubstantiated.
Later in the morning I received this intimidating E-mail from "RRR Group":
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We are sending the information this day to the FBI field office in Montgomery.
CJ
[Christopher Jay
Assistant Director
Fort Wayne MediaWatchRRRGroup]
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Well -- that's a horse of a whole different color, isn't it, reader? As a card carrying member of a governmental corps I have an appreciation of the FBI that RRR Group does not, likely, have. I know that once the FBI bureaucratic gun is cocked, that gun is not so easily un-cocked.
And in the sights of same? Innocent people have been shot, wounded or ruined, reader. You know this to be true.
...And don't pay ANY attention, reader, to the thin protestations of RRR group that "...a private letter was outed and that was the reason for the publicity." Checking the Address lines of my E-Mail "notification" from RRR Group the reader sees that I was the copied recipient of said mail. An *afterthought* numbered third.
In the "To:" line were the host of a popular Canadian radio program AND not to be outdone... ...the address of one who could be called a philosophical enemy...
How is said mail, remotely, ...private... reader?
Let me cut to the chase and throw this imposed smoking bundle out of my reputational yard... make some ultimately futile attempt to repair the damage done... I am innocent. Should I have to even SAY that?
Numerous persons from both sides of the aisle checked the evidence provided above and identified it as bogus or otherwise false, irresponsible... and "wrong... Wrong... WRONG"
A written explication of complete and accurate findings can be found here:
http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2005/oct/m31-007.shtml
or here...
http://tinyurl.com/a4r4s
Briefly, what "RRR Group" discovered as a *smoking gun* and *clear and present danger* to the citizens of my community... ...reportedly requiring the notification of the FBI and the *forever* on-going and unending (?) internet destruction of my reputation... ...were the search results of a web site that was, not my own, not itself a porn-site of any type... ...but one that on more than one occasion in 2002 had been searched for the name... "Alfred Lehmberg"... that's all... ...along with some adjacent searches for, "Invader Zim cartoons", "WWII memorabilia" and... "kiddie-porn".
Reader, you can search Jerry Falwell's site for "child sex" and have it show up in his site-usage log... It matters not... ...Mr. Falwell must be a pedophile or a pederast... ? ...if someone searches his site for same... ? ...that's salacious smoke, eh reader? And where there's smoke there must be at least a taste of fire... ...follow? No, not "true"... at all (we should hope), but what does it matter? IT CAME UP! Remeber the length of the otherwise harried and abused attention span of persons of the mass!
Besides, that person reasons, "People just wouldn't LIE about something like this even if damage WAS done!" Right?
It remains that I have been profoundly damaged professionally with regard to public school teaching? It remains that I have been damaged socially? It remains that I have been damaged in my very home where there is much consternation and anger and outrage? It remains that I am damaged in my community? It remains I am on the indiscriminate radar of law enforcement? It remains that I am damaged in the eyes of a world-wide ufological community? It remains that I am damaged... suspect... tainted... ruined, reader?
...Some might argue (and recently) that homicide was justifiable given the severity of this scurrilously cloaked charge? I would, of course, not. There are supposed to be better, more satisfying and ongoing methods available to civilized persons... pause to guffaw.
I am forced to prosecute my case in the court of public opinion!
This situation cannot be belittled or made light of in any way, reader. Can it? This is tough to go over the top on!
The reflexive critic of my outrage has only to put themselves in my shoes and truth becomes clear. What does Mr. Reynolds propose that could possibly make this up to me.
I am innocent... and should never have been put in a position to have to say so. I am innocent. I am innocent. I am _innocent_.
I am innocent, reader. ...And there but for the grace of God, go you?
Mr. Reynolds?
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A P.S. to the above...
Yeah -- I know... the first impulse is to keep quiet and hope this goes away... but that won't happen where the internet is forever, and a future Grandchild (Perhaps the fifth Alfred Lehmberg?) would read something *dodgy* about Grandpa... I couldn't bear it...
You?
Further, hiding leaves my horn a funnel, friend... and the "bad guys" win... ...forgetting they are emboldened to do it... ...again.
Moreover, it would be a little too much like the raped just letting the rapist have a "by"... eh? If I can have a part in this kind of crippling egregiousness not happening to someone else? It's more than worth it.
That said, I dragged a harsh light over on this immediately because there must be guilt in trying to keep something like this quiet...knowuttamean? Besides, just rolling over for lies and scurrilous innuendo? It's not my way... Damages and apologies are demanded!
Put yourself in my shoes.
Already excluded from a teaching career for "directing children to "inappropriate" [unspecified] web-sites [my own iaw syllabus] I'm further libeled as a kiddiporn enthusiast by a person willfully damaging and continuing to damage me, continuing to intimate my guilt, because I won't step off about it, one, and two, have the additional temerity demand damages, moreover, _and_ a sincere apology.
Consider, I'm smeared like this one more time... and even the most forgiving among us will wonder why this "keeps coming up about Lehmberg." Look at Michael Jackson.
Smoke And Fire...
I'm a little disappointed I'm allowed to swing singularly on this when I would not tolerate this happening to any one reading. Some lines just cannot be crossed.
For my part, and this is no ultimatum, mind you, just a statement of intention: I will not contribute where RR is welcome as a contributor in any way. Posted.
Cutting off my nose to spite my face? Sir and Madam! Is that all my satifaction would cost... a nose?
In another more vital and impassioned time I would gladly have cut Reynolds to pieces in a duel.
Take him to court? The way the law is set up I can't do anything to him at all, and he can publish what he wants about me. I have to prove I am damaged!
When will Rich Reynolds publish what he wants about you reader.
Damages? Seven figures.
Apology? Long, detailed, unconditional, effusive, and public.
...Any civil attorneys in the Fort Wayne, Indiana area think I have a case for damages?
We'll keep you posted... reader, and thanks for your attention in this terrible matter. Remember, it could be you.
12 comments:
Mr. Lehmberg:
Again, and without any equivocation, what Jay did was reprehensible. I've said so publicly.
That's the problem with the Internet - one never knows where one's name will wind up. I can understand why people insist on anonymity.
You and I have many points of disagreement (an understatment, no doubt, in your eyes), and I think the way you express that disagreement (really, a "Christo-Fascist??) is not what ufology needs, and have said so, many times.
But no-one should be smeared the way you were. Full stop (as my British friends would say).
If my refutation of Jay's remarks came "too late" for you, my apologies, but they went up almost as soon as I became aware they had gone public (indeed, I have never actually seen the RRR blog post on the subject - it had been taken down before I got into work the next evening).
For what it's worth.
Paul Kimball
Here's why you're being taken over the jumps--
http://alienview.net/current.html
It's not only politically inappropriate, it's inaccurate.
Jewish people are not monolithic; there are many who are anti-Zionist.
So, I understand someone's becoming very upset; you are slandering a whole people, despite the fact there are Jews of courage and integrity.
http://jewsagainstzionism.com/
So, all I can so to you, Bozo, is, "What goes around, comes around," and you started it.
Ms. Cragg has failed to actually read the paper, perhaps understandably. The page design of same drips bigotry _by_ design.
She has assumed...
Persons go into the paper expecting one thing and are surprised to discover something else altogeter...
...no, this won't explain why I am being taken over, "Jumps"... ma'am.
alienview@adelphia.net
www.AlienView.net
AVG Blog -- http://alienviewgroup.blogspot.com/
Mr. Lehmberg:
Kimball: Again, and without any equivocation, what Jay did was reprehensible. I've said so publicly.
Lehmberg:
As I pointed out, Sir. What else could you have done and maintained a shred of integrity?
Kimball: That's the problem with the Internet - one never knows where one's name will wind up. I can understand why people insist on anonymity.
Lehmberg:
Oh c'mon, Mr. Kimball. That's a problem with 20 Century media _before_ the internet. Before the egalitarian technology allowing a single person the ability to defend themselves from these "Net" Weasel Media Watch groups where before they were powerless to do same. And it's the "anonymity" of the aforementioned precluding the responsibility required to be responsible and say responsible things. I have no respect for "nyms". I have respect for people.
Kimball: You and I have many points of disagreement (an understatement, no doubt, in your eyes),
Lehmberg:
You have that exactly right, and then still manage to understate it. We exist in altogether different dimensions with alternate definitions for everything, Sir. The irony, and the difference personified actually, certainly beyond your acceptance and perhaps beyond your understanding is that you create (provoke, facilitate, encourage, drive, justify) me with right-wing sensibilities, insentient hubris, canted politics, and a self-involved world view too limited for a future accelerating towards us like a long tailed comet. You create me. I perceive where you are and move a similar distance in the opposite direction... for balance... to my mind, Sir. If you move to center, I'd move to center. I suspect you'd stay where you are... ...even move further right as I moved to center, pressing your advantage. Those are my *suspicions*, and I'm stickin' to 'em. [g].
Kimball: ...and I think the way you express that disagreement (really, a "Christo-Fascist??) is not what ufology needs, and have said so, many times.
Lehmberg:
...And many times been wrong, wrong minded, and wrongly intentioned, in my opinion, Sir. Even with a degree of talent you _do_ possess and making the, uneasy, presumption that your heart is in the right place, even if your head is not... ? ...it is not for _you_ to be explicating with regard to what is *good* for ufology, imco, because you are too ready to support a mainstream effort that is suspiciously reluctant (and I understate!) to give the "respectable" the "respect" they deserve... ...when it is obvious to even you that they should be getting the "respect" that they _undeniably_ deserve!
Lehmberg:
The mainstream is not put off by the "Woo-Woo" Mr. Kimball... the mainstream knows this UFO shit is REAL. You've looked at the material! How could they NOT! The "Woo-Woo," is created by the *mainstream*, I suspect, and used as an excuse! _Not_ a reason. Still you point at the wrong target and say "disease"! You mistake, at best, or contrive, I fear, the _symptom_ for the disease. Did you follow that?
Lehmberg:
With regard to "Cristo-fascist." I was amused to observe you would ignore every other observation I made in the last three "Cartman" Episodes to fix on one of the few rhetorical questions asked in them. You see... I didn't call you a CF... I asked, as you are aware, Sir:
Lehmberg:
"In effect, well-poisoning and operating like any right-wing Christo-fascist? I propose that persons such as yourself put on their yellow plastic swimmies and take a long walk off a short peer."
Lehmberg:
I thought the swimmies were a nice touch on an old put-down, and can't you just see Eric splishing and grunting back to shore between the pilings? "I hate you guys... I hate you guys... [splish...grunt] I hate you guys... LOL!
Kimball: But no-one should be smeared the way you were. Full stop (as my British friends would say).
Lehmberg:
You got Friends? ...And British ones, too? LOL! But seriously, Sir. What else could you do and keep a shred of high ground? No points between us for something I would do for you as a matter of course only because it's the right thing to do. Consider, I'd go one better... ...this is a venue we could cooperate fully on because the activities of a desultory "R" Cubed bunch are what's not good for ufology... but I suspect that having done the minimal duty you will continue to prosecute your agenda to have me removed from the community? And do this while allowing and "R" Cubed to remain? You see the real signal sent here?
Kimball: If my refutation of Jay's remarks came "too late" for you, my apologies, but they went up almost as soon as I became aware they had gone public (indeed, I have never actually seen the RRR blog post on the subject - it had been taken down before I got into work the next evening).
Lehmberg:
Mr. Kimball, your "wrong...Wrong...WRONG" was immediately followed by a: "...having said that let me say this..." where you prosecuted for my removal... ...while giving "R" Cubed their obvious chastisement...WITHOUT... a similar call for banishment. You see the signal to the rank and file?
Kimball: For what it's worth.
Lehmberg:
Which was quite a bit, actually. I was able to make my point to you, and you showed a remarkable and appreciated civility. I think we both made efficacious gains, Sir.
alienview@adelphia.net
www.AlienView.net
AVG Blog -- http://alienviewgroup.blogspot.com/
Alfred, you have my absolute support. My own opinion on this whole attempt to desecrate your character can be found in my Live Journal (link provided):
A Spate of Malarkey
Sincerely,
Hope Vernier
Hope? There are no words... ...but you know me. I'll try anyway...
Hope... a name, a word, a transfer.
A "transfer" of confidence guilelessly given and some evidence that cloying shadows will be dissipated and a feckless darkness not allowed to stand?
A "word" of solace kindly given at a time of some risk to the supporter (...who could be tarred with the same scurrilous brush as a result...) ...and so... ...as _brave_ as it is efficacious and optimistic?
A "name" of a friend when one was needed? A friend who is more willing to trade on experience and integrity previously displayed as social currency and NOT be so easily swayed by the spurious accusations of the vicious moment... ...accusations having no basis in fact or reality... or hope?
Thank you Ms. Vernier. I'm proud and humbled to have you on my wing in this. Relieved, ma'am, you're on my flank. Enriched, I'm not alone!
Yeah... I know... but given the stakes? It's hard to be "over the top" on this... ...no apologies. It stands... and thanks.
Lehmberg's name was in a search term list which was compiled from who knows what engine's logfiles. Not only did one line have his first and last name, but another listed 'lehmberg rense'. http://www.horriblemonster.com/things/search_200207.html
What does that prove? That Rense, too, is a pedophile?
Or how about http://www.horriblemonster.com/link/2002/05/14/ ? What does that prove? Lehmberg works for Guardian Unlimited, CNET.com, or the New York times? Præposterous!!!
I would further suggest that when one is presented with a truly-ambiguous set of facts, the interpretation of that set of facts will often tell us more about the interpretor than the ambiguous set of facts.
Why did Ms. Connors call Rich's sexual orientation into question? Why did Christopher Jay do similarly with Lehmberg? I suspect only the two of them will ever know for certain.
As the dust settles, what has been accomplished? Have we proven that Mr. Lehmberg isn't a pedophile? Probably not. Have we proven that Mr. Reynolds isn't gay? Probably not. Have we proven that the moon isn't made of green cheese? Probably not.
Proving a negative is a rather remarkable endeavor to begin with.
Of all three, it would seem that the green cheese theory is most probable. Mr. Lehmberg has a wife of some many years, and after many years of knowing Rich, he never put any sort of 'moves' on me.
But what's first-hand, eye-witness testimony worth nowadays?
The sad part about the internet is it is very easily and very often done that people take the identity of others, especially in the committing of a crime. It is another sad part of the blog media to report not on truth, but to report on semi fact, and fantasy and proclaim it as being fact, yet once again that is up to the mentality of the reader that follows such sites with belief that it is true. Yet these blogs run with very little responsiblity to present the facts, I do wonder how long before they cross the line and end up with a court case against them.
Chin up old man, the path you travel is one that will bring many sorts of attacks, all you can do is smile and move forward and not dwell on them, for when you do, you lose time that is better spent elsewhere.
Any civil attorneys in the Fort Wayne, Indiana area think I have a case for damages?
You would have to prove that you have suffered a real financial loss. I find it difficult to believe that anyone worth being taken seriously would take these absurd facts as any sort of real evidence against your character.
That doesn't excuse the comments. But it does place them in perspective.
Alfred, I won't even try to refute this point by point. You, and others have done so, and eloquently. I SHALL say that I have known you for a number of years now, and anyone who knows the man knows that these allegations are not only false, they are so absurd as to be ludicrous. I would NEVER hesitate to leave my grandchildren, male or female, with you, knowing that they would be not only safe, but come back to me more knowledgeable about the universe we live in, as well.
Several times, you have pulled me back from the brink of despair, sometimes not knowing that you did so. Don't let these idiots take you to that same brink. You are worth more in a minute than all of them collectively are worth in a mile.
People who spread lies like that, that are easily proved false only harm themselves. Up until that time I thought it would be impossible for me to dislike the rrr group more than I already did and they have proved me wrong.
I wonder if this is the same type of valuable research they are using to get to the bottom of UFOs and other mysteries? I have a feeling it is.
Well -- you know, Lesley? I think the "R" Cubers are uniquely positioned to learn... not only an important lesson themselves, but a lesson that might transfer to other reflexive sociopaths who would use similar tactics.
We shall see. For my part? I want my 'entirely' unsullied name back.
This drum is thrust upon us (in a manner of speaking) I think we ought to bang the hell out of it. We're remiss if we don't, as it's not about me so much; it's about us. Or, as another person writing to me put it:
"One could even start feeling a little sorry for these pathetic slobs.... but, NAW! A slam-dunk victory for you is a victory for everyone who's ever posted a controversial opinion online, too, and then been slandered for their sincerity. As you said, but for the grace of God..."
But for the grace of God...
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