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I'm not a regular reader at
Unknown Country but caught wind of Whitley Strieber receiving death threats and found this thread where a poster named
didi gives a rundown of the events leading up to the banning of some certain individuals, to another poster named
Krystal.
http://www.unknowncountry.com/board/mes ... 25758.html
didi
Advanced Member
Username: sandradee
Post Number: 499
Registered: 1-2007
Posted on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 - 5:16 am:
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Krystal Gayle Potter " So, where are all these posts that led to banning ? Were they banned from having a different opinion than Whitley (and if so, on what topic and what is Whitley's opinion so I know what not to talk about) or were they being hurtful to other board members ? Lately that seems to be what the board has been about."
I have made a precis for you from the witnesses thread to get you up to speed:
Patricia Davis Posted on Sunday, April 08, 2007 -
The fluffy bunnies bit was an attempt at meeting hostility with humor, Stephen. I'll continue to use it until I come up with a better way to characterize the people who are attacking us here and in other threads.
Also, what makes them fluffy is not their insistence on their abductions being alien-instigated...what makes them fluffy to me is their incomprehensible lack of intellectual rigor when evaluating their experiences. If you read their own posts, you'll find many, many mentions of what are obviously human beings interacting with them--to me it's fluffy to not look straight at that.
Patricia Davis Posted on Sunday, April 08, 2007 -
I agree with Whitley--it is a true loss to the whole board when posters decide to flounce instead of staying to figure out what is really at the basis of a serious disagreement. Understanding will never happen as long as people abdicate the conversation and stay immersed in feeling wounded.
Patricia Davis Posted on Saturday, April 07, 2007 -
I have no problem with "challenges" as long as the "challengers" act in an adult manner. But sniping and pestering don't qualify as adult to most of us in this conversation. And being consistently misquoted and misunderstood gets REAL OLD after 2 and a half years. So my annoying restating of my stance and my reasons for taking it will continue until my words stop being twisted. And until people realize that I'm NOT denying their own alien/paranormal experiences. I'm seeking to show clearly how those experiences are being exploited by sociopaths and liars in some cases.
ddubbiedo Posted on Saturday, April 07, 2007 -
On a side note, I really hope Patricia that you will drop this constant chatter about how people who don't wish to see or agree with what you are trying to tell them are hostile and stubborn, toddlers, flouncers, fluffy bunnies and trolls. I understand the frustration you must feel in trying to help people, but in reality all this is doing is flaming the fire and making you look bad.
ddubbiedo Posted on Saturday, April 07, 2007 -
Oh Patricia... You're doing it again. It's just sad on so many levels. Like you wish others could see, I wish you could see... Everything you accuse others of doing, you are doing as well.
Whitley Strieber Posted on Sunday, April 08, 2007 -
This is not a reference to any particular post in this or any thread on my board. But, just in general, let's try to back off each other a little. It's best not to even think in terms of who's right and who's wrong, who's shallow and who's deep. The one certain mystery in this world is the human being, and we cannot judge one another because we cannot see into that darkness. Judge not...
I have seen some good people leave my board lately because of the infighting that has been taking place. Certainly, it makes it a less interesting place for me personally, as it does for others, and I find myself posting less often, too.
This is a special board. There are many people who bring extraordinary experiences and ideas here, and with them all the vulnerabilities that come with life at the extreme.
It is important to understand, for example, that somebody who prefers a lighter touch may do so because they live in a world of hurt.
I am hoping that this note will remind people to discuss the issues, and not air out their opinions of others. Usually, it is what is least and weakest in us that vents such opinions, and what is highest that finds compassion for the other man.
When you are posting, think first and always, 'if this was being said to me or about me, how would it make me feel?'
Whitley Strieber Posted on Saturday, April 14, 2007 -
I really hate to see DDubbiedo go. A LOT of good posters have left because of the ugly stuff, some of it so subtle and smart and mean that I am ready to believe it's being done by disinformation pros, which is why I'm posting this in this particular thread. I'm going to give it some thought, but I do believe we're going to go in another direction of some kind with our board. I am getting to dread coming here myself.
Whitley Strieber Posted on Monday, April 16, 2007 -
Obviously, I cannot be against people who post here about mind control and government interference of various kinds, including abuse of children. I have lived this abuse. But I don't like to see personal sniping. I've seen a lot of my best posters leave the board, and the johnny one-notes gradually take over. It's getting mean and sour, and so much of it is just more social quibbling and less and less about the ideas and the theories. Why should a person who disagrees with another be the object of scorn and vituperation?
Whitley Strieber Posted on Friday, April 20, 2007 -
Susano, Lab Rat and Patricia are off this board. The whole issue of close encounter is still in question, and we need to approach it in a way that encourages discussion and the exchange of information.
That was not happening here, and my previous warnings to be more accepting of the opinions of others were not heeded, in my opinion.
This is not an 'admin' decision. My administrator is instructed only to ban those who directly violate our posting rules, and that instruction stands.
This is the second time that I have taken this sort of action, in the history of my board. The first was against a poster styled as
OneSmartRat, who threatened my life in my subscriber section chat room. The log containing the threat was turned over to the appropriate authorities.
Whitley Strieber Posted on Saturday, April 21, 2007 -
Topics and threads are not going to be made the targets of anything. What was going on here might not have been obvious, but I have seen it before, and I have seen that there was a gradual deterioration of my board going on.
I am eager to see further discussion of mind control, but I do not want to see people attacked personally, however subtle the attack, because they don't agree with another person's theories. It's about ideas and information, not personalities.
Whitley Strieber Posted on Saturday, April 21, 2007 -
"This is a plea to the good folks here who have ever cared about people who believe that SOME alien abduction is also related to human interference. We have been for all intents and purposes been silenced."
That is not true. Posters who engaged in subtle and/or overt attacks on those who did not agree with them have been removed from the board in hope that it will help bring the board back to its former level of excellence. Over time, they had driven away a lot of good posters who did not agree with the mind control hypothesis.
I am all for the mind control threads. I believe that some element of mind control is involved. As a child, I had direct experience of it.
There is no reason not to discuss it. But to create an atmosphere where posters feel that they will be unwelcome if they post other ideas in this thread or anywhere else on the board--that is not acceptable.
Whitley Strieber Posted on Saturday, April 21, 2007 -
This thread is still about mind control. But as far as Susano/Thomaspayne and Patricia/Lilypat are concerned, they simply are not welcome here, I'm sorry. Just read their posts on Black Vault where they are, respectively, Thomaspayne and Lilypat and you'll see why, although you probably won't agree with me. An example of the latest claptrap is that it was "no coincidence" that I banned them on Adolf Hitler's birthday, if indeed, it was his birthday, which I neither know nor care.
I just don't feel we need posters like that. What can they accomplish, except to confuse the extremely serious issue that is addressed in this thread, which is the question of the degree to which people in the US have been harmed by secret mind control operations.
I don't need disinformers and agents-provacateurs around here, frankly, and if you wish to be loyal to them, then that's your call, but that's what I think they probably are.
I was hoping to attract people to this particular thread who had actual experience with mind control. For example, the kids who were taken to Tallahasee by the Finders in 1985. I have reason to believe that some of them, now young adults, may still be alive. But with posters ready to sneer at their least efforts to be heard, how are they going to stay around here? The answer is only this: maybe they will show up again.
If you want to play footsie with the intelligence pros who troll this neck of the woods looking for information, please do so, but I hope you will not find them on this board.
Whitley Strieber Posted on Saturday, April 21, 2007 -
As far as this site getting ready to stop, I am not so sure. The message board has a couple of thousand posters. There are a couple of thousand subscribers. Thirty thousand free newsletter subscribers. A quarter of a million regular free Dreamland listeners. A million visitors a month to the site itself, generating sixty million hits.
So, the message boards may be going through a spot of bother, but the site itself is healthy.
Whitley Strieber Posted on Saturday, April 21, 2007 -
Nobody invalidated anybody, as far as I know. My problem is that claiming that mind control is the only answer and all but making a religion out of it, then attacking those who disagree and calling them names is the kind of toxic stuff I, personally, can do without.
If you were a government agent intent on wrecking this board and leaving people with the impression that mind control is THE answer, this is how you would do it.
There are vulnerable people around here, and the internet is a shark tank. I guess trying to brain the sharks in a setting like this is the equivalent of tilting at windmills, but I do try. Foolish boy.
Whitley Strieber Posted on Sunday, April 22, 2007 -
My life is threatened in my own chatroom by somebody who then proceeds to move from San Francisco to Austin, Texas, just a few miles from where I was then living. When I turn over the chat transcripts to the authorities, they warn me that this individual is almost certainly extremely dangerous to me, but they can do nothing because there is no certain way to link the words in the transcript to the individual involved.
But they do watch the individual for a while, intending to make an arrest if the individual comes near me or my home.
I spend my nights with this, for years, while watching the individual's friends continue to snipe at me on my own message boards, at my expense, and to excoriate me under other names on other boards.
I bear this for more years, even after I finally move away from my home, largely because of the pressure of fear.
Then I see, on another board, this comment by one of them:
"Think of rabbit stew and rabbit fur! Rabbit fur coats are always so pretty! Have you ever tried hunting? I have not yet, but I would love to"
That is a threat. A death threat. It was made just a few days ago, and led directly to the removal of three individuals from my board.
But it did not remove the danger that I believe these people represent.
But, of course, that's just me scapegoating, isn't it? Sorry!
Whitley Strieber Posted on Sunday, April 22, 2007 -
Yes, it's all my fault! I somehow psychically anticipated the threat on BV. So it was all caused by me. And when the gun goes off in my stupid face, my fault again--I had it coming, after all, right?
I am coming to hate this board--or, at least, this putrid thread.
Whitley Strieber Posted on Sunday, April 22, 2007 -
How incredibly insensitive and vicious some of these posts are. "Could only be seen as threatening by a paranoid?" Where do you get off?? But, of course, you have nothing to worry about. You can't be recognized on the street like I can. And if I do get my brains blown out, what fun for you! A couple of days of great news stories--UFO nut shot by another UFO nut. Hilarious!
Anne Strieber Posted on Sunday, April 22, 2007 -
I rarely get involved here, but it's obvious to me that you people are baiting my husband. Teasing him because he is frightened by an obvious threat. It's vile, what you are doing, and yet he spends his money to let you do it. As far as I am concerned, this whole board thing should end. You're horrible.