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09 January 2014
Mitt Romney's Driving Killed Leola Anderson. His Cover-Up Tale is Proved Dishonest 17JUL12
FOUND this on Daily Kos, very interesting expose from 2012 on the real story of mitt romney's accident in France in 1968. More on the lies, deception and greed that are the real mitt romney at mitt romney & bain capital http://bucknacktssordidtawdryblog.blogspot.com/p/mitt-romney-bain-capital-updated-5okt12.html
Immediately after the 1968 accident, Mitt Romney recruited a small
group of other missionaries to help him put the blame over on the other
driver. He was under severe pressure as his father, George Romney, was
running for president. Also, the woman who was killed, Leola Anderson,
was his boss's wife. Here is a picture of the two of them from 1968:
As you can see, there is little resemblance between this Mr. H. Duane Anderson and Bishop Vilnet. No one would confuse the two men.
Yet when a set of photographs surfaced from Andre Salarnier in Bordeaux, depicting the accident victims and the cars, Romney's current Team Lying crew made sure that Mchael Kranish was led to believe that the Vilnet pic was Duane Anderson. That is how the Vilnet pic is labeled at the boston.com site.
Mr. Salarnier spoke with Bishop Vilnet in the Bazas hospital. Both men recalled that meeting in 2012. And neither man knew that Mitt Romney had set about blaming the bishop for his own bad driving.
(There are also pics of Mitt Romney is his hospital bed. One of the several details of Romney's tale is that he was "in a coma for two days" and then in his biography for "a three day coma" and on his campaign web site "a concussion." But the pics do not depict an Intensive Care Unit or any other medical apparatus that would indicate that Romney was a coma patient or had suffered a serious head injury. Mrs. Leola Anderson's obituary states clearly that he suffered "a minor head injury." We know that Mitt Romney was visited by the American Ambassador, Sargent Shriver, at request from Mitt's father, George Romney. We do not have pics of that meeting.)
Lying and Joseph Smith's "White Horse Prophecy"
Joseph Smith considered the White Horse of his prophecy -- borrowed over from the Book of Revelation, Chapter 6 -- to be an allegorical figure. Yet he gives it power and an existence in the human world. He gives it a magical power, as a spell or a charm.
"White Horse," as re-conjured by Prophet Smith, is a magical protection for lies.
-- Smith identifies lying severally and throughout his works and sermons to be the most powerful weapon for gaining earthly political power.
-- In practice, Smith's "White Horse" functions as a protection for public lies -- specifically, lies that are constructed to achieve advancement outside of the Church.
-- Smith also calls on his followers to become the followers of this Rider. To become an embodiment of the White Horse.
What should be of concern for Christians, literal-belief Christians all the more, is seeing a politician come along who believes these things. Who sees Smith's misreading of The Revelation as his personal destiny:
Catholic.com
A few days back a summary of Occupy Security MMOG's research on the Romney's 1968 accident was made available at the catholic.com web site. The scheme protected Mitt Romney by deploying a dishonest, thoroughly anti-Catholic slandered of Catholic clergy and claiming that the Roman Catholic Church had protected this priest from prosecution.
The posting at catholic.com worked like a "honey pot" in database and web site systems, attracting criminal "bees" to show what they were up to at the web site.
Yes, criminal. As illegal in their acts as Nixon's CREEP thugs and the Segretti dirty Tricks crews and the Watergate burglars.
First off, the "bees" got in and all trace of the posting was deleted from catholic.com. Even the "vilnet" tag was deleted.
Then, shortly after, a fake web page appeared at a Shanghai web server and it's hit-count was bumped up to give the fake page a high Google-search display priority. The interesting part of the content on this page is a rebuttal section from "Dale_M Forum Elder" that focuses on supporting elements of the Team Lying dysinformation stream:
"Forum Elder" is not a Catholic title. That has been added to the web site.
This section of text never appeared at catholic.com. The page forges a misrepresentation of catholic.com content.
So... what we have is Internet burglary at the catholic.com web site, followed by forgery that copies the logos and look-and-feel of catholic.com.
Welcome to the Watergate mentality.
Romney's lie about the car wreck in France are protected by criminal conspiracy. We're forty-four years out from the accident and it's still desperate craziness. All this is done by paid Dirty Tricksters, similar to the Watergate burglars, paid to support the Mittster's slander conspiracy. The crimes bridge wide mail frauds, France, England in their press, the United States, and China.
Occupy Security was able to ask around and find out where the cars collided. Mrs. Anderson is remembered despite that no one knew her. She had come to rural France from so very far away. Bishop Jean Vilnet became rather famous, for a quiet priest, serving as president of the French Council of Bishops. He did many good things. The crash site is in the middle of the three lanes of N524 Le Grande Route, right in front of the Beaulac post office:
Here is a surface image with the new (post-1968) traffic separators:
Imagine the truck back 100 meters, blocking the 21-year old Mr. Romney's vision. With the southbound Left Turn lane wide open, he steered for what he thought was his own lane.
Caution in any measure would have saved Mrs. Anderson's life.
There were no concrete traffic separators in 1968 so slowing down just a little bit would have allowed Mr. Romney to pull back to the right and avoid the Mercedes. He ignored white painted lines and went ahead.
The collision, itself, was not a high-speed car-smashing catastrophe. If she had had a seat belt available for use, Mrs. Anderson would have survived. Unfortunately, she was the sixth person in that five-passenger capacity Citroen DS.
There is not all that much damage to these cars. The Citroen DS would have been going approximately 60 kph. The Mercedes less than 30 kph, maybe even stopped.
We have photos of these Citroen DSes after highway speed crashes. There is not much left.
If the Mercedes had been going "120 kph" or anything close to it, we would not be discussing Mr. Romney in 2012.
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The earlier posting has images for the WHOIS registration data for catholic.com and the web page with the fakery.
Romney Dirty Tricks unit google-spoofs catholic.com. CREEP revived !
Several comments recommended rewriting for clarification. That diary spends time and space on the spoofing evidence. Obviously the catholic.com web site in El Cajon, CA is not a spoofing operation in Shanghai, China.
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Similarly, we do not have to accept criminal acts. Internet burglary is a felony and setting up fake web pages gets out to illegal campaigning if there is a connection to Romney or to his campaign staff.
Deal with Democrats and you're dealing with politicians. Deal with Republicans and it's crooks.
Let's try a simple Thought Experiment using a mark-up for a Mitt Romney tax return:
Look at the "Label" section. It has an address. Mitt and Ann Romney's address.
Under penalty of perjury they declare the following:
-- Their address on the date for which this Form 1040 is filed.
You can move during a year. You can move several times. But for the date of the Form 1040, you can only use one state.
That restricts use of local tax exemptions. And you are only allowed to have one state driver's license at a time.
-- But Mitt and Ann Romney took $54,000 a year in local tax exemptions in Utah and similar advantages in Massachusetts. He said recently that the Utah house was in Ann's name -- which fails completely if she listed Massachusetts on her Form 1040.
-- But Mitt voted in Massachusetts. Which fails as a violation of election law if he declared Utah on his Form 1040.
-- But Mitt ran for Governor of Massachusetts in 2002. Which fails the Massachusetts Constitution residence requirement if he filed in Utah in 1999 or 2000 or 2001 on his Form 1040. (Plus his several perjuries in that case before the Massachusetts Ballot Law Commission.)
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Mitt Romney killed Leola Anderson. Not Bishop Jean Vilnet. Not the imaginary and much reported "Albert Marie."
Mitt Romney has supported his lie for decades. Possibly the tale has been useful as a motivation for missionaries in wine-drinking Catholic France. He was retelling the tale as recently as 2007 in multiple interviews and in 2009 with attenuation of the wilder claims.
That complex lie is the single longest-running project of Mitt Romney's life. He cannot stop it.
Along with hiding his tax returns, keeping Catholics from thinking too much about Leola Anderson and Bishop Vilnet is a tough problem.
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You can read The Revelation in a half-hour max. It's poetry.
There is the inevitable The Book of Revelation App.
And the paperback: http://www.amazon.com/...
Smith goes wack-job and makes the Anti-Christ into his conquering hero. Officially and uniquely for Smith's words, LDS rejects "White Horse Prophecy" from its doctrine. Snippets do appear in "Doctrine and Covenants."
Mitt Romney was nicknamed "One Mighty and Strong" at BYU after coming back from France. He had survive the automobile accident. He was rich. His father had made as strong run for the presidency. He was also one helluva liar.
If you want to see where this White Horse Prophecy operates as cult magic, you can research it in connection with television personality Glenn Beck. We're not going to do that for you. It's too crazy.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/17/1110907/-Mitt-Romney-s-Driving-Killed-Leola-Anderson-His-Cover-Up-Tale-is-Proved-Dishonest
This is a complicated diary. If you read it, please expect to take
some extra time. There's a ton of evidence: the accident, identifying
and finding the other driver, analyzing slanders, a forgery, and then
dealing with a cover-up scheme that is reminiscent of the 1970s
Watergate scandal.
The story begins in 1968 with Mitt Romney causing a head-on collision at Beaulac, France. He failed to accommodate obstructed vision and drove head-on into a Left Turn lane.
Mrs. Leola Anderson was killed and several others were injured. The next morning Mitt Romney lied to a reporter about who was responsible. A cover-up conspiracy ensued that unfolded with three distinct phases. Mitt Romney has been depicted over the years as a blameless victim in the accident while he and his supporters shift blame to a Catholic priest.
Big time professional media have been spoofed. The authorized biography by Michael Kranish and Scott Helman titled "The Real Romney" is polluted with intentional disinformation. Serialization of this book in the Boston Globe became a propaganda tool, freeing up Mr. Romney to run for President of the United States.
We have evidence in hand of Internet burglary and phony web pages. Several of these actions involve felonies. Romney's supporters resemble nothing more than Richard Nixon's CREEP, apart from the money laundering, and their Watergate burglars.
In any case, first off, here is the actual driver of the other car: Bishop Jean Vilnet in the Bazas, France hospital:
Romney's slanders depict this man, Bishop Vilnet, as a "drunk priest." Fraudulent representations have depicted him as "Albert Marie." Romney and his crew have stated repeatedly that this Catholic priest was speeding on a "mountain road" at "120 kph" and "swerving" out of his lane to hit Romney and kill Mrs. Anderson.
In fact, the bishop was driving two women home after Sunday Mass.
Romney's story has continued for decades among Mormon missionaries in France as hateful anti-Catholic propaganda.
Mitt Romney believes that he can lie with impunity. He sees himself as "One Mighty and Strong," the hero of Joseph Smith's "White Horse Prophecy," and destined to lie and bully his way to the presidency. As you will be able to see from the evidence, presented below le chignon d'orange, there is not a stitch of truth to what Romney says.
The story begins in 1968 with Mitt Romney causing a head-on collision at Beaulac, France. He failed to accommodate obstructed vision and drove head-on into a Left Turn lane.
Mrs. Leola Anderson was killed and several others were injured. The next morning Mitt Romney lied to a reporter about who was responsible. A cover-up conspiracy ensued that unfolded with three distinct phases. Mitt Romney has been depicted over the years as a blameless victim in the accident while he and his supporters shift blame to a Catholic priest.
Big time professional media have been spoofed. The authorized biography by Michael Kranish and Scott Helman titled "The Real Romney" is polluted with intentional disinformation. Serialization of this book in the Boston Globe became a propaganda tool, freeing up Mr. Romney to run for President of the United States.
We have evidence in hand of Internet burglary and phony web pages. Several of these actions involve felonies. Romney's supporters resemble nothing more than Richard Nixon's CREEP, apart from the money laundering, and their Watergate burglars.
In any case, first off, here is the actual driver of the other car: Bishop Jean Vilnet in the Bazas, France hospital:
Romney's slanders depict this man, Bishop Vilnet, as a "drunk priest." Fraudulent representations have depicted him as "Albert Marie." Romney and his crew have stated repeatedly that this Catholic priest was speeding on a "mountain road" at "120 kph" and "swerving" out of his lane to hit Romney and kill Mrs. Anderson.
In fact, the bishop was driving two women home after Sunday Mass.
Romney's story has continued for decades among Mormon missionaries in France as hateful anti-Catholic propaganda.
Mitt Romney believes that he can lie with impunity. He sees himself as "One Mighty and Strong," the hero of Joseph Smith's "White Horse Prophecy," and destined to lie and bully his way to the presidency. As you will be able to see from the evidence, presented below le chignon d'orange, there is not a stitch of truth to what Romney says.
As you can see, there is little resemblance between this Mr. H. Duane Anderson and Bishop Vilnet. No one would confuse the two men.
Yet when a set of photographs surfaced from Andre Salarnier in Bordeaux, depicting the accident victims and the cars, Romney's current Team Lying crew made sure that Mchael Kranish was led to believe that the Vilnet pic was Duane Anderson. That is how the Vilnet pic is labeled at the boston.com site.
Mr. Salarnier spoke with Bishop Vilnet in the Bazas hospital. Both men recalled that meeting in 2012. And neither man knew that Mitt Romney had set about blaming the bishop for his own bad driving.
(There are also pics of Mitt Romney is his hospital bed. One of the several details of Romney's tale is that he was "in a coma for two days" and then in his biography for "a three day coma" and on his campaign web site "a concussion." But the pics do not depict an Intensive Care Unit or any other medical apparatus that would indicate that Romney was a coma patient or had suffered a serious head injury. Mrs. Leola Anderson's obituary states clearly that he suffered "a minor head injury." We know that Mitt Romney was visited by the American Ambassador, Sargent Shriver, at request from Mitt's father, George Romney. We do not have pics of that meeting.)
Lying and Joseph Smith's "White Horse Prophecy"
Joseph Smith considered the White Horse of his prophecy -- borrowed over from the Book of Revelation, Chapter 6 -- to be an allegorical figure. Yet he gives it power and an existence in the human world. He gives it a magical power, as a spell or a charm.
"White Horse," as re-conjured by Prophet Smith, is a magical protection for lies.
-- Smith identifies lying severally and throughout his works and sermons to be the most powerful weapon for gaining earthly political power.
-- In practice, Smith's "White Horse" functions as a protection for public lies -- specifically, lies that are constructed to achieve advancement outside of the Church.
-- Smith also calls on his followers to become the followers of this Rider. To become an embodiment of the White Horse.
What should be of concern for Christians, literal-belief Christians all the more, is seeing a politician come along who believes these things. Who sees Smith's misreading of The Revelation as his personal destiny:
Verse 2: And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.This man will change any position. He lies with no moral distress. He will say almost anything. He is emulating the Christian Anti-Christ, the one who gets 42 months to lay waste to the earth, and he does not know it. Mitt Romney has never read the Christian Bible.
Catholic.com
A few days back a summary of Occupy Security MMOG's research on the Romney's 1968 accident was made available at the catholic.com web site. The scheme protected Mitt Romney by deploying a dishonest, thoroughly anti-Catholic slandered of Catholic clergy and claiming that the Roman Catholic Church had protected this priest from prosecution.
The posting at catholic.com worked like a "honey pot" in database and web site systems, attracting criminal "bees" to show what they were up to at the web site.
Yes, criminal. As illegal in their acts as Nixon's CREEP thugs and the Segretti dirty Tricks crews and the Watergate burglars.
First off, the "bees" got in and all trace of the posting was deleted from catholic.com. Even the "vilnet" tag was deleted.
Then, shortly after, a fake web page appeared at a Shanghai web server and it's hit-count was bumped up to give the fake page a high Google-search display priority. The interesting part of the content on this page is a rebuttal section from "Dale_M Forum Elder" that focuses on supporting elements of the Team Lying dysinformation stream:
"Forum Elder" is not a Catholic title. That has been added to the web site.
This section of text never appeared at catholic.com. The page forges a misrepresentation of catholic.com content.
So... what we have is Internet burglary at the catholic.com web site, followed by forgery that copies the logos and look-and-feel of catholic.com.
Welcome to the Watergate mentality.
Romney's lie about the car wreck in France are protected by criminal conspiracy. We're forty-four years out from the accident and it's still desperate craziness. All this is done by paid Dirty Tricksters, similar to the Watergate burglars, paid to support the Mittster's slander conspiracy. The crimes bridge wide mail frauds, France, England in their press, the United States, and China.
Occupy Security was able to ask around and find out where the cars collided. Mrs. Anderson is remembered despite that no one knew her. She had come to rural France from so very far away. Bishop Jean Vilnet became rather famous, for a quiet priest, serving as president of the French Council of Bishops. He did many good things. The crash site is in the middle of the three lanes of N524 Le Grande Route, right in front of the Beaulac post office:
Here is a surface image with the new (post-1968) traffic separators:
Imagine the truck back 100 meters, blocking the 21-year old Mr. Romney's vision. With the southbound Left Turn lane wide open, he steered for what he thought was his own lane.
Caution in any measure would have saved Mrs. Anderson's life.
There were no concrete traffic separators in 1968 so slowing down just a little bit would have allowed Mr. Romney to pull back to the right and avoid the Mercedes. He ignored white painted lines and went ahead.
The collision, itself, was not a high-speed car-smashing catastrophe. If she had had a seat belt available for use, Mrs. Anderson would have survived. Unfortunately, she was the sixth person in that five-passenger capacity Citroen DS.
There is not all that much damage to these cars. The Citroen DS would have been going approximately 60 kph. The Mercedes less than 30 kph, maybe even stopped.
We have photos of these Citroen DSes after highway speed crashes. There is not much left.
If the Mercedes had been going "120 kph" or anything close to it, we would not be discussing Mr. Romney in 2012.
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The earlier posting has images for the WHOIS registration data for catholic.com and the web page with the fakery.
Romney Dirty Tricks unit google-spoofs catholic.com. CREEP revived !
Several comments recommended rewriting for clarification. That diary spends time and space on the spoofing evidence. Obviously the catholic.com web site in El Cajon, CA is not a spoofing operation in Shanghai, China.
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Similarly, we do not have to accept criminal acts. Internet burglary is a felony and setting up fake web pages gets out to illegal campaigning if there is a connection to Romney or to his campaign staff.
Deal with Democrats and you're dealing with politicians. Deal with Republicans and it's crooks.
Let's try a simple Thought Experiment using a mark-up for a Mitt Romney tax return:
Look at the "Label" section. It has an address. Mitt and Ann Romney's address.
Under penalty of perjury they declare the following:
-- Their address on the date for which this Form 1040 is filed.
You can move during a year. You can move several times. But for the date of the Form 1040, you can only use one state.
That restricts use of local tax exemptions. And you are only allowed to have one state driver's license at a time.
-- But Mitt and Ann Romney took $54,000 a year in local tax exemptions in Utah and similar advantages in Massachusetts. He said recently that the Utah house was in Ann's name -- which fails completely if she listed Massachusetts on her Form 1040.
-- But Mitt voted in Massachusetts. Which fails as a violation of election law if he declared Utah on his Form 1040.
-- But Mitt ran for Governor of Massachusetts in 2002. Which fails the Massachusetts Constitution residence requirement if he filed in Utah in 1999 or 2000 or 2001 on his Form 1040. (Plus his several perjuries in that case before the Massachusetts Ballot Law Commission.)
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Mitt Romney killed Leola Anderson. Not Bishop Jean Vilnet. Not the imaginary and much reported "Albert Marie."
Mitt Romney has supported his lie for decades. Possibly the tale has been useful as a motivation for missionaries in wine-drinking Catholic France. He was retelling the tale as recently as 2007 in multiple interviews and in 2009 with attenuation of the wilder claims.
That complex lie is the single longest-running project of Mitt Romney's life. He cannot stop it.
Along with hiding his tax returns, keeping Catholics from thinking too much about Leola Anderson and Bishop Vilnet is a tough problem.
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Rachel Maddow has picked up on Mitt Romney and Ann Romney's problems with their legal addresses for the period 1999 through 2002. Several diaries appeared here at dailykos. She and her crew at MSNBC have more and higher qulaity research resources than the Poor OccSec (mostly retiree) MMOG hands who dug out what these address declarations imply legally. Also, several more web pages have disappeared from their original servers, magically to reappear elsewhere out of legal range of U.S. DoJ and with large hit-counts to up their statuses with the search engines. Republicans are professional criminals, mostly, at the top.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Revelation of St. John the Divine, Chapter 6 is Joseph Smith's departure point for his "White Horse Prophecy."
You can read The Revelation in a half-hour max. It's poetry.
There is the inevitable The Book of Revelation App.
And the paperback: http://www.amazon.com/...
Smith goes wack-job and makes the Anti-Christ into his conquering hero. Officially and uniquely for Smith's words, LDS rejects "White Horse Prophecy" from its doctrine. Snippets do appear in "Doctrine and Covenants."
Mitt Romney was nicknamed "One Mighty and Strong" at BYU after coming back from France. He had survive the automobile accident. He was rich. His father had made as strong run for the presidency. He was also one helluva liar.
If you want to see where this White Horse Prophecy operates as cult magic, you can research it in connection with television personality Glenn Beck. We're not going to do that for you. It's too crazy.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/17/1110907/-Mitt-Romney-s-Driving-Killed-Leola-Anderson-His-Cover-Up-Tale-is-Proved-Dishonest
17 October 2013
He confessed to RAPE. But he's walking free & Anonymous Takes On the Maryville Rape Scandal. Is This a Good Thing? 17&15OKT13
RAPES of women in India have been part of the national nightly news broadcast over the past year and many have been disgusted with the brutality of these crimes as well as the lack of justice for the victims. But what is not so well known is the number of brutal rapes in this country, America, and the ease with which the rapist gets away with his crime or receives a minimal punishment. More appalling is the way the victim and her family is stigmatized by the community, often harassed and even brutalized for reporting the crime. Stubenville, OH, Billings, MT, now Maryville, Mo. God only knows how many other women and their families across the U.S. are in similar situations. Why this seemingly growing level of sexual violence against women in the U.S.? Maybe it has something to do with so many right wing politicians and media pundits promoting political platforms degrading women, equating unrestricted access to birth control as proof of women being sluts and whores and just asking for it, that whole "justifiable rape" argument we heard during last year's election campaigns. Please sign this petition calling on the Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster to investigate the rape of Daisy Coleman and the coverup by the Maryville, MO "justice" community. And if you want more on politicians and rape, or the cases in Billings or Steubenville, just search rape on this blog, unfortunately there are too many entries....
Following this call to action is an article from Mother Jones on Anonymous taking on the Maryville, MO "justice" community, their motivations and success in prior actions and the hazards of these actions committed anonymously. PLEASE DON'T let Anonymous' campaign keep you from signing the petition from UltraViolet, they are two separate organizations and actions......
Local authorities in Missouri need to hear from you right away.
Nearly 2 years ago, 14-year-old Daisy Coleman* was raped at a party by a high school football star and grandson of a powerful local politician in Maryville, Missouri. But now, he’s walking free while Daisy and her family struggle to survive with what happened to her.1
Immediately after the rape, Daisy and her mother went to the hospital and reported it to police. Matthew Barnett was charged, and he confessed on tape.2
But a few months later, county prosecutor Robert Rice--who has close ties to the alleged rapist's influential grandfather--dropped the charges. Worse, the town and high school ganged up not on the rapist, but on Daisy and her family. Classmates said they hoped she "gets what's comin," calling her terrible names. The Colemans were forced to move out of town, Daisy's mom lost her job over the case, and their house was even burned to the ground--the cause of the fire still undetermined.3
This is Steubenville all over again. And just like the Steubenville case, if thousands of us speak out and shine a national spotlight on Maryville, we can get justice for Daisy and her family. There’s a lot of national media attention on this case right now, and news just broke that a special prosecutor will be appointed to investigate.4 But this case has been slow walked for years. We need to make sure every single person responsible for delaying justice--including local officials--is investigated and held accountable. Will you sign the petition to demand justice for Daisy?
Sign the petition to ask the Attorney General to investigate everyone involved in the rape and the cover-up.
After the rape, Barnett left Daisy in her yard, barely conscious and wearing a t-shirt. The temperature in Maryville that night was just 22 degrees. When Daisy’s mom found her passed out at her front door at 5 a.m., her wet hair was frozen, and she was injured from the attack. She cried when her mom asked her what had happened.5
The town of Maryville seems happy to move on and forget the rape now that the charges have been dropped and the Colemans have left, but Daisy's recovery has been slower. She has attempted suicide twice, has been hospitalized multiple times, and spent three months at a residence for struggling teens. "You’re the s-word, you’re the w-word… b-word. Just, after a while, you start to believe it," she told a reporter about the constant torment. Barnett has gone on with his life, enrolling at Central Missouri University this year.6
Rape is an epidemic in this country--1 in 5 women will be sexually assaulted, but only 3% of attackers ever spend a single day in jail.7 And when authorities ignore attacks on young girls and let rapists go free, it perpetuates a culture and justice system that tolerates rape and blames survivors for the crimes against them.
Prosecutor Rice told the Kansas City Star that this brutal rape was just "incorrigible teenagers" drinking and having sex--ignoring evidence collected from rape kits and bedding from the crime scene, witnesses' accounts, and even the taped confession of the rapist.8 And if you thought this story couldn’t get worse, since the rape became public, Daisy's mom has learned that other girls had tried to come forward before--but according to the sheriff, they were "all liars and... just wanted to crucify those poor innocent boys."9
Horrific cases like this one are becoming too familiar--from Jane Doe in Steubenville, Ohio; to Rehtaeh Parsons in Halifax, Nova Scotia; and Cherice Moralez in Billings, Montana.10 But we can't let this keep happening. Can you sign the petition to make sure that Daisy's rapist is brought to justice?
Add your name.
Thanks for all you do,
-Nita, Shaunna, Kat, Karin, Malinda, Adam, and Gabriela, the UltraViolet team
*We wouldn't normally identify a sexual assault survivor by name, but Daisy and her family have come forward publicly in pursuit of justice, and their names have appeared in the media with their permission.
Sources:
1. Nightmare in Maryville: Teens’ sexual encounter ignites a firestorm against family, Kansas City Star, October 12, 2013
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Maryville, Missouri sex assault case: Hack group Anonymous plans 'Twitter storm', NBC News, October 16, 2013
5. Nightmare in Maryville: Teens’ sexual encounter ignites a firestorm against family, Kansas City Star, October 12, 2013
6. Ibid.
7. Nearly 1 in 5 Women in U.S. Survey Say They Have Been Sexually Assaulted, New York Times, December 14, 2011
Reporting Rates, Rape Abuse & Incest National Network
8. Nightmare in Maryville: Teens’ sexual encounter ignites a firestorm against family, Kansas City Star, October 12, 2013
9. Maryville Mom Says More Girls Came Forward With Tales of Assault, Jezebel, October 15, 2013
10. Sexting Scourge, Slate, April 10, 2013
Montana judge criticized for 31-day sentence for ex-teacher who raped teen, Reuters, August 28, 2013
Crypt0nymous/YouTube
Anonymous yesterday launched a campaign of vigilante justice over yet another high school jock sexual assault scandal.
It's becoming an all-too-familiar narrative. The otherwise-sleepy middle American town in the spotlight this time around is Maryville, Missouri, where former high school football player Matthew Barnett, the grandson of former Missouri state Rep. Rex Barnett, was accused of sexually assaulting a highly intoxicated 14-year-old girl named Daisy Coleman, while a 15-year-old boy was accused of doing the same to the girl's 13-year-old friend. A third boy, Jordan Zech, admitted to recording one of the incidents on a cellphone. Daisy's mother later found her sprawled on the front porch of her house in a semiconscious state, her hair frozen and her shoes and possessions scattered in a neighbor's yard.
That cold January night in 2012 was only the beginning of the nightmare for the Coleman family, who told their story in an in-depth feature in the Kansas City Star on Sunday. Daisy's mother, Melinda Coleman, who allowed the press to use her daughter's name, told reporter Dugan Arnett that in the weeks and months following the incident, Daisy and her family members were spurned and bullied and eventually run out of town. Later, the Coleman's house in Maryville, which was on the market, mysteriously burned to the ground. Fire officials haven't determined the cause of the blaze. The Star reported that despite many of the facts in the case being largely undisputed—the boys said they had sex with the girls and admitted to leaving Daisy "outside in 30-degree weather"—Robert Rice, the Nodaway County prosecutor, dropped the felony sexual assault and misdemeanor child endangerment charges against Barnett and a felony sexual exploitation charge against Zech.
Rice told the Star the charges were dropped for lack of evidence and other information that came to light. "There wasn't any prosecuting attorney that could take that case to trial," he said. But the 15-year-old boy admitted to having nonconsensual sex with Daisy's friend, was charged as a minor, and made a plea deal to serve several months in a juvenile facility, according to local public radio station KCUR.
Now Anonymous, the amorphous collective of online activists, pranksters, and hackers, is on the case. The group is credited with bringing national attention to cases like this through internet and social-media campaigns. It's also responsible for sometimes employing questionable, borderline illegal tactics to expose the people they think are to blame. Such was the case in Steubenville, Ohio, where two high school football players were accused of raping a girl. An offshoot of Anonymous gained access to private social-media accounts and leaked videos and photos that revealed the identities of many high school students who were caught talking about the rape on camera but were never charged with crimes. Though the group's intentions may have been in the right place, Anonymous' tactics also swept up the victim in its crusade for justice, exposing her identity to the world. Yesterday, the group released a statement announcing their campaign #OpMaryville and #Justice4Daisy:
Gabriella Coleman (no relation to
the alleged victim), a McGill University anthropologist who is writing a
book about Anonymous, calls these campaigns seeking justice for rape
victims one of the group's more successful issues. After the hacktivist
collective successfully turned Steubenville into a national story through its unforgiving rogue tactics, the group has been approached by dozens of alleged rape victims
pleading for help. "It doesn't surprise me at all that they are going
after this," Coleman says. "The fact that Anonymous is interested can
bring massive attention to the issue."
But where there is vigilantism, there can also be collateral damage. Take the residents of Steubenville, who were painted as apologists for the two high school football stars that were convicted in March of raping a girl there. Outspoken feminist writer Katie J.M. Baker filed a dispatch from Steubenville in September for Jezebel and described the residents as traumatized by the events that transpired and despondent over the characterization of the entire community as being complicit with the act.
In the coming days, Gabriella Coleman says she expects a coordinated campaign by Anonymous to get the local law enforcement back on the case, despite the dismissal of the charges. She said the group has learned from its past campaigns, including the Rehteah Parsons case in Canada, where the group successfully lobbied local law enforcement to reopen what had been considered a closed case.
"Unless there is publicity, a lot can fall through the cracks," Coleman says. "It's certainly the case that sometimes the publicity brought to a case has negative consequences, but one can also say bringing no publicity to the acts has even worse consequences."
Anonymous' #OpMaryville acts so far have fallen more in the prankster realm than in serious hacker sleuthing. Yesterday, the group exposed a restaurant that was linked to Barnett, and people subsequently flooded the Yelp page with negative reviews. But the collective is also asking the press to file Freedom of Information Act requests to look for any connection between Rex Barnett and the prosecutor who dropped the charges against the boys. They have also planned a demonstration in Maryville on October 22, asking supporters who cannot attend to send daisies in support.
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/10/maryville-anonymous-football-rape-case
Following this call to action is an article from Mother Jones on Anonymous taking on the Maryville, MO "justice" community, their motivations and success in prior actions and the hazards of these actions committed anonymously. PLEASE DON'T let Anonymous' campaign keep you from signing the petition from UltraViolet, they are two separate organizations and actions......
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Local authorities in Missouri need to hear from you right away.
Nearly 2 years ago, 14-year-old Daisy Coleman* was raped at a party by a high school football star and grandson of a powerful local politician in Maryville, Missouri. But now, he’s walking free while Daisy and her family struggle to survive with what happened to her.1
Immediately after the rape, Daisy and her mother went to the hospital and reported it to police. Matthew Barnett was charged, and he confessed on tape.2
But a few months later, county prosecutor Robert Rice--who has close ties to the alleged rapist's influential grandfather--dropped the charges. Worse, the town and high school ganged up not on the rapist, but on Daisy and her family. Classmates said they hoped she "gets what's comin," calling her terrible names. The Colemans were forced to move out of town, Daisy's mom lost her job over the case, and their house was even burned to the ground--the cause of the fire still undetermined.3
This is Steubenville all over again. And just like the Steubenville case, if thousands of us speak out and shine a national spotlight on Maryville, we can get justice for Daisy and her family. There’s a lot of national media attention on this case right now, and news just broke that a special prosecutor will be appointed to investigate.4 But this case has been slow walked for years. We need to make sure every single person responsible for delaying justice--including local officials--is investigated and held accountable. Will you sign the petition to demand justice for Daisy?
Sign the petition to ask the Attorney General to investigate everyone involved in the rape and the cover-up.
After the rape, Barnett left Daisy in her yard, barely conscious and wearing a t-shirt. The temperature in Maryville that night was just 22 degrees. When Daisy’s mom found her passed out at her front door at 5 a.m., her wet hair was frozen, and she was injured from the attack. She cried when her mom asked her what had happened.5
The town of Maryville seems happy to move on and forget the rape now that the charges have been dropped and the Colemans have left, but Daisy's recovery has been slower. She has attempted suicide twice, has been hospitalized multiple times, and spent three months at a residence for struggling teens. "You’re the s-word, you’re the w-word… b-word. Just, after a while, you start to believe it," she told a reporter about the constant torment. Barnett has gone on with his life, enrolling at Central Missouri University this year.6
Rape is an epidemic in this country--1 in 5 women will be sexually assaulted, but only 3% of attackers ever spend a single day in jail.7 And when authorities ignore attacks on young girls and let rapists go free, it perpetuates a culture and justice system that tolerates rape and blames survivors for the crimes against them.
Prosecutor Rice told the Kansas City Star that this brutal rape was just "incorrigible teenagers" drinking and having sex--ignoring evidence collected from rape kits and bedding from the crime scene, witnesses' accounts, and even the taped confession of the rapist.8 And if you thought this story couldn’t get worse, since the rape became public, Daisy's mom has learned that other girls had tried to come forward before--but according to the sheriff, they were "all liars and... just wanted to crucify those poor innocent boys."9
Horrific cases like this one are becoming too familiar--from Jane Doe in Steubenville, Ohio; to Rehtaeh Parsons in Halifax, Nova Scotia; and Cherice Moralez in Billings, Montana.10 But we can't let this keep happening. Can you sign the petition to make sure that Daisy's rapist is brought to justice?
Add your name.
Thanks for all you do,
-Nita, Shaunna, Kat, Karin, Malinda, Adam, and Gabriela, the UltraViolet team
*We wouldn't normally identify a sexual assault survivor by name, but Daisy and her family have come forward publicly in pursuit of justice, and their names have appeared in the media with their permission.
Sources:
1. Nightmare in Maryville: Teens’ sexual encounter ignites a firestorm against family, Kansas City Star, October 12, 2013
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Maryville, Missouri sex assault case: Hack group Anonymous plans 'Twitter storm', NBC News, October 16, 2013
5. Nightmare in Maryville: Teens’ sexual encounter ignites a firestorm against family, Kansas City Star, October 12, 2013
6. Ibid.
7. Nearly 1 in 5 Women in U.S. Survey Say They Have Been Sexually Assaulted, New York Times, December 14, 2011
Reporting Rates, Rape Abuse & Incest National Network
8. Nightmare in Maryville: Teens’ sexual encounter ignites a firestorm against family, Kansas City Star, October 12, 2013
9. Maryville Mom Says More Girls Came Forward With Tales of Assault, Jezebel, October 15, 2013
10. Sexting Scourge, Slate, April 10, 2013
Montana judge criticized for 31-day sentence for ex-teacher who raped teen, Reuters, August 28, 2013
Anonymous Takes On the Maryville Rape Scandal. Is This a Good Thing?
| Tue Oct. 15, 2013 12:33 PM PDT
Crypt0nymous/YouTube It's becoming an all-too-familiar narrative. The otherwise-sleepy middle American town in the spotlight this time around is Maryville, Missouri, where former high school football player Matthew Barnett, the grandson of former Missouri state Rep. Rex Barnett, was accused of sexually assaulting a highly intoxicated 14-year-old girl named Daisy Coleman, while a 15-year-old boy was accused of doing the same to the girl's 13-year-old friend. A third boy, Jordan Zech, admitted to recording one of the incidents on a cellphone. Daisy's mother later found her sprawled on the front porch of her house in a semiconscious state, her hair frozen and her shoes and possessions scattered in a neighbor's yard.
That cold January night in 2012 was only the beginning of the nightmare for the Coleman family, who told their story in an in-depth feature in the Kansas City Star on Sunday. Daisy's mother, Melinda Coleman, who allowed the press to use her daughter's name, told reporter Dugan Arnett that in the weeks and months following the incident, Daisy and her family members were spurned and bullied and eventually run out of town. Later, the Coleman's house in Maryville, which was on the market, mysteriously burned to the ground. Fire officials haven't determined the cause of the blaze. The Star reported that despite many of the facts in the case being largely undisputed—the boys said they had sex with the girls and admitted to leaving Daisy "outside in 30-degree weather"—Robert Rice, the Nodaway County prosecutor, dropped the felony sexual assault and misdemeanor child endangerment charges against Barnett and a felony sexual exploitation charge against Zech.
Rice told the Star the charges were dropped for lack of evidence and other information that came to light. "There wasn't any prosecuting attorney that could take that case to trial," he said. But the 15-year-old boy admitted to having nonconsensual sex with Daisy's friend, was charged as a minor, and made a plea deal to serve several months in a juvenile facility, according to local public radio station KCUR.
Now Anonymous, the amorphous collective of online activists, pranksters, and hackers, is on the case. The group is credited with bringing national attention to cases like this through internet and social-media campaigns. It's also responsible for sometimes employing questionable, borderline illegal tactics to expose the people they think are to blame. Such was the case in Steubenville, Ohio, where two high school football players were accused of raping a girl. An offshoot of Anonymous gained access to private social-media accounts and leaked videos and photos that revealed the identities of many high school students who were caught talking about the rape on camera but were never charged with crimes. Though the group's intentions may have been in the right place, Anonymous' tactics also swept up the victim in its crusade for justice, exposing her identity to the world. Yesterday, the group released a statement announcing their campaign #OpMaryville and #Justice4Daisy:
We demand an immediate investigation into the handling by local authorities of Daisy's case. Why was a suspect, who confessed to a crime, released with no charges? How was video and medical evidence not enough to put one of these football players inside a court room? What is the connection of these prosecutors, if any, to Rep. Rex Barnett? Most of all, We are wondering, how do the residents of Maryville sleep at night?
But where there is vigilantism, there can also be collateral damage. Take the residents of Steubenville, who were painted as apologists for the two high school football stars that were convicted in March of raping a girl there. Outspoken feminist writer Katie J.M. Baker filed a dispatch from Steubenville in September for Jezebel and described the residents as traumatized by the events that transpired and despondent over the characterization of the entire community as being complicit with the act.
Townspeople who tried to set the record straight by talking to reporters told me they were dubbed victim-blaming rape apologists and received so many death threats they had to change their phone numbers and email addresses. "We supported and still support Jane Doe 100%," [one Steubenville resident] said. "But the focus shifted when we watched helplessly as the media ripped innocent people apart we’d known since we were babies." She said her priorities changed when commenters posted photos of her young children online and called for them to be raped because her husband is a Big Red coach. "That's when this became less about Jane Doe and more about an entire town being destroyed for what two people did," she said. "That's when Jane Doe's wellbeing took a backseat."But Baker ultimately concluded opening a national conversation on rape culture, entitlement, and sexual consent is worth the possible fallout. "Horrible stories like this one make a strong case for narrative trumping nuance," Baker tells Mother Jones. "It's less important to me how this story [in Maryville] is different from Steubenville and more important that the country has Steubenville as a reference point in listing the ways the fight against rape culture is far from over—and we wouldn't if it wasn't for Anonymous, despite their mishandling of the Steubenville case."
In the coming days, Gabriella Coleman says she expects a coordinated campaign by Anonymous to get the local law enforcement back on the case, despite the dismissal of the charges. She said the group has learned from its past campaigns, including the Rehteah Parsons case in Canada, where the group successfully lobbied local law enforcement to reopen what had been considered a closed case.
"Unless there is publicity, a lot can fall through the cracks," Coleman says. "It's certainly the case that sometimes the publicity brought to a case has negative consequences, but one can also say bringing no publicity to the acts has even worse consequences."
Anonymous' #OpMaryville acts so far have fallen more in the prankster realm than in serious hacker sleuthing. Yesterday, the group exposed a restaurant that was linked to Barnett, and people subsequently flooded the Yelp page with negative reviews. But the collective is also asking the press to file Freedom of Information Act requests to look for any connection between Rex Barnett and the prosecutor who dropped the charges against the boys. They have also planned a demonstration in Maryville on October 22, asking supporters who cannot attend to send daisies in support.
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