Scramble the Geeks
Over at Scott Tribes a commentor has left an intelligible tech comment as to the relative likliehood that the IP used by Warman as he sockpuppeted “Lucy” was the same one used to sockpuppet “90sareover” (the vile puppet which made the horrible remarks about Sen. Anne Cools. Here’s his conclusion:
On the basis of the evidence presented, no reasonable person could conclude, beyond reasonable doubt, that Richard Warman made the disgusting Anne Cools post.
However, in my view, as an engineer who’s worked with DARPANet since the 80’s, and the Internet since then, there is certainly enough evidence at this stage to believe that, on the balance of evidence presented, if it is correct, Richard Warman’s computer was likely used to make the September 2003 Anne Cools post.
This is emphatically not certainty, as I’ve stated above. But to dismiss the case with the arguments that Mike has made smacks of nothing but sophistry.
I’ve no dog in this hunt, as southerners would say. I’m not a conservative blogger, and I don’t regularly post anywhere. (I’ve worked on Wikipedia for years, and I’ve made maybe 20 posts in the last 5 years. But this case has attracted my attention, partly because of the free speech elements, and also because (more recently) of the news about the very disturbing post smashing Senator Cools.
Whoever made that post about Senator Cools is a contemptible excuse for a human being. If it was someone trying to smear Mr. Warman, then he or she is doubly contemptible. If it was Mr Warman himself… well, words fail me. holmwood, scott’s diatribe
I would say that the state of play on Warman at the moment is that the pro-censorship folks know he did it and that explains sending out Kinsella to throw sand in peoples’ eyes while the damage is assessed and various pro-censorship folks are brought onside. Warman has not been heard from but I suspect he’s being woodshedded to come up with a “fighting non-apology/admission.”
Something on the lines of “I had no choice but to write those disgusting words to establish my credibility so that I could gather evidence of what those Nazis were up to. I had to talk like they talk to make sure I could shut them up.”
Look for Kinsella, the CJC and possibly B’nai Brith (which should know better) along with some black/feminist/Muslim organizations, to come out in support of Warman in the next day or two. It will be all about Nazis and anti-Semites/blacks/Muslims and the noble end of destroying hate speech justifying these tawdry tactical means. Warman will be transformed into a hero wading through the cesspools of the wider shores of the internet provoking bigotry and hatred all the better to stamp it out.
Written by jay on January 24th, 2008 with
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jay
WL Mackenzie Redux
Holmwood
#1. January 24th, 2008, at 7:01 AM.
“black/feminist/”?
This is beneath you. Nor did any of us progressives “send out WK.” We’re too busy to go to the meetings these days.
Good Christ, Jay, smarten up.