Dear reader, are you wondering what the fuck is going on here?
Simple. This is the smouldering ruin of what was once a fine
international flight simmers newsgroup. These days it mostly has only
two people posting here. The newsgroup has devolved into a protracted
cyberspacial street brawl between an abusive, lying, defamatory
cyber-bully and his karmic nemesis.
The cyber-bully is Bob Smith, a bitter and twisted American veteran of
America's war against the people of Iraq (Operation Desert Storm) and
who clearly suffers from a severe case of untreated PTSD. Bob's
aliases here include Bob_Copter_Six, Gerrys Worst Nightmare, Truth
Sayer, GIRLY MAN ALERT!!!, FUCKTARD ALERT!!!, ASS-PIRATE ALERT!!!,
ASSCLOWN ALERT!!!, ASSCLOWN AWARD!!!
Bob is a, war justifying, war glorifying, capitalism-loving, Trump-
voting, fake news regurgitating, Storm Front, Breitbart, Infowars and
Daily Stormer reading white nationalist "patriot" who abuses and
cyber-bullies people who say things he doesn't agree with - especially
if they cast aspersions on America's self-serving, mass murdering
foreign policy, past or present. If he disagrees with you he won't
enter into any rational debate with you, he'll abuse and vilify you
for daring to voice your opinion. Apparently he hasn't yet heard of
the First Amendment to America's constitution.
His karmic nemisis is Gerry Binder, a bitter and twisted Australian
veteran of America's war against the people of Vietnam, who also
suffers from PTSD and although he has received treatment for this, the
success of that treatment has been questioned by some. His aliases
include Walt_M, Sygmund_F, Nurse Ratched, N=N+1, and GOD.
Gerry is anti-war, politically left-leaning, and believes that
America's form of buccaneer capitalism is a toxic Big Business scam
that enriches few whilst exploiting the fuck out of everyone else,
both home and abroad. Furthermore, he believes that America's
military-industrial complex, as forewarned by President Eisenhower,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y06NSBBRtY has so totally ensnared
the American economy and its people that America can actually no
longer afford to let world peace break out because that would not only
crash the American economy, but also break the military-industrial
complex's usurped grip on global power. Hence America's economy is
dependent on conflict, war (US sanctioned mass murder), arms sales,
and global dominance. Another notable American general who saw this
whole mess coming as far back as 1934 was US Marine Corps Major
General Smedley Butler. He wrote the booklet War Is A Racket - you
can download a free PDF copy here:
https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
It's no surprise then that Gerry, who naiively believed he was
fighting for freedom and democracy in Vietnam, became disgusted with
what he subsequently came to believe has happened to the American-
dominated "West".
So, even in here, history was always going to happen, and to fully
understand that history we need to scan a long way back through this
newsgroup's archives. Significantly, June 2001 is a good start point.
Back then AGMFS was a friendly Flight Simulation Group filled with a
mixture of international personalities with a variety of skills and
expertise to bring to the table. Everyone from Airline and Military
pilots with everything from Airline Transport Pilot Certificates to
Flight Simulation Enthusiasts and computer experts to hobbyists with
a joystick. Everyone with something to offer and each willing to help
each other when ever they could. 99% of posts here were "on-topic".
And then, on September 11, 2001, shit happened. A group who were once
upon a time Reagan's CIA trained, CIA armed, and Saudi-funded
Wahabist fundamentalist Islamist "freedom fighters", a group that
was instrumental in running the Russian army out of Afghanistan, a
group that was, by then, also seriously pissed off with America's war
mongering, self-serving and domineering foreign policy in the Middle
East, said "ENOUGH !!!" - and they flew planes into strategic
targets in the US in order to, in _their_ view, give the Americans a
taste of their own medicine. And thus did America's toxic and
self-serving Middle Eastern foreign policy pidgeons come home to
roost - big time.
Chalmers Johnson wrote an excellent trilogy of well researched books
on the subject of American foreign policy "blowback" if you want to
know more:
https://www.thenation.com/article/blowback-world-chalmers-johnson/
And once you've got your brain around Chalmers Johnson's mind-opening
elucidations, you might like to further your education of
belligerent, arrogant, self-serving, mass murderous American foreign
policy by working your way through the following reading list:
Killing Hope - by William Blum
The Normalization of War - by Andrew J. Bacevich
Dreaming War - by Gore Vidal
A Pretext for War - by James Bamford
Perpetual War [...] - by Gore Vidal
Secrets - by Daniel Ellsberg
A Bright Shining Lie - by Neil Sheehan
Body Of Secrets - by James Bamford
Rogue State - by William Blum
Rogue States - by Noam Chomsky
Rogue Nation - by Clyde Prestowitz
The Last Empire - by Gore Vidal
A People's History of The U.S. - by Howard Zinn
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy - by Greg Palast
Hegemony or Survival - by Noam Chomsky
After The Empire by Emmanuel Todd
Tell Me No Lies - by John Pilger
Now, back to the topic du jour:
In the emotion-charged months after 9/11, and through to 2004, here in
AGMSFS, there followed _many_ OFF TOPIC and acrimonious POLITICAL
arguments. Osama bin Laden and his "Reagan's Freedom Fighters" had
driven the American "patriot" flight simmers (not to mention America
as a whole) absolutely and certifiably apeshit.
Seems Americans are fine with having sent their "finest" to kill
_millions_ in the wars of aggression America has orchestrated, and yet
they go completely nuts when some people who are traumatised out of
their PTSD skulls, and totally pissed of with their countries being
monstered by America, come along and kill a few thousand Americans on
home soil. Strange, that... sort of like they have no capacity at
all for empathy - i.e. understanding how it feels to have your country
bombed to the shithouse, your house blown to smithereens, your mother,
father, sister and/or brother killed or permanently maimed - all
because America has decided your country needs a bit of "assistance"
whilst it steals your oil (or whatever else piqued its interest.)
Anyway, by the end of 2004 many of the European posters, as well as
many moderate American posters, had disappeared - having chosen to
exit the toxic atmosphere created by these "patriots" - an atmosphere
in which America's ham-fisted response to the events of 9/11 was
"defended" by these "patriots" launching vicious personal attacks
against anyone who dared to question or critique it.
Thus did a hard core of a half dozen or so American "patriot" cyber-
bullies establish their grip on what was once a fine INTERNATIONAL
flight simmers newsgroup. George W Bush's "War On Terror" had invaded
AGMSFS. These were the "patriot" cyber-thugs whom "Dallas" (Norman
Edwin Burton) would later proudly refer to as this newsgroup's "immune
system". And they would pile on with personal attacks and personal
abuse and vilification upon anyone who "misbehaved". According to
_their_ warped perception, all was still well in what _they_ now
thought of as _their_ newsgroup.
Gerry arrived here in early 2009. For the first six months or so he
was "well behaved", but by late 2009 he was getting heartily sick of
regularly seeing OFF TOPIC, American "patriotic" (political
propaganda) crap interspersed with OFF TOPIC misogynistic comments and
"jokes" and OFF TOPIC racist comments, and so he began to challenge
some of that stuff, particularly the OFF TOPIC war-glorifying and OFF
TOPIC war-mongering type of comments, and, you guessed it, all hell
broke loose!
It quickly became obvious that calling out OFF TOPIC racism, OFF TOPIC
misogyny, OFF TOPIC war glorification and OFF TOPIC war propaganda -
and being critical of US foreign policy, past and/or present - was a
"crime" warranting nothing less than the vilification and
ostracisation of such an "offender" by Dallas's "immune system".
A gaggle of "patriot" cyber bullies had launched their "War On Gerry".
And it was not to long before 50% of the traffic here was made up of
very long threads characterised by personal abuse levelled against
Gerry, with Gerry predictably availing himself of his inalienable
right to self-defence against said personal attacks.
And thus A FIVE YEAR LONG WAR of cyber-bullying was waged against
Gerry in their futile attempt to drive him out. And the more they
abused him, the more resolved he became to prevail against their
bullying. Their disingenuous (and vilificatious) catchcry was "Gerry
is a toxic troll".
In their hubris they imagined that Gerry would quickly wilt in the
face of their vilificatious and defamatory lies and abuse. The fatal
flaw in their "reasoning" was that they failed to understand that
Gerry, an Australian Vietnam war veteran who was, these days, severely
pissed off at having been lied to about the need to invade Vietnam -
and America's entire Cold War scam - was made of much, much sterner
stuff.
Not only did these "patriot" ABUSE TROLLS lose the war of their own
making, but their war had destroyed this newsgroup. And, being the
liars they were, they blamed it all on Gerry. "Gerry destroyed this
newsgroup" was now their new catchcry.
If only, much earlier on, they had been civil in how they dealt with
those who had expressed doubts about the US response to 9/11, and
later, (since they labelled Gerry a "troll") if only they had heeded
the well-understood wisdom of "not feeding the troll", this newsgroup
could arguably have remained very viable indeed. Sadly, in true
American "patriot" style, they still blame everyone except themselves.
Sadly too, it's the only way in which they can justify their
"patriotic" investment in the deluded, megalomanic idea that America
is the rightful, ordained-by-God, master and ruler of the "free" world
- "and that includes flightsim newsgroups too, goddammit !!! Hooah!!"
AGMSFS's "immune system" turned out to be very much like a fatal dose
of AIDS in that Dallas's much vaunted "immune cells" ended up killing
its own body.
In here it doesn't really matter that much. All they destroyed was a
UseNet newsgroup that was probably already doomed by technological
"progress", but out there, in the real world, where those very same
"patriotic" attitudes shape American foreign (global !!!) policy, if I
were you, dear reader, I'd be afraid. VERY afraid...
"Dallas's Cowboys do AGMSFS":
http://checkthisout999.blogspot.com.au/2015/05/blog-post_28.html
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UPDATE: From 2015 onwards, upon the demise of this newsgroup,
and to ensure that it remained a smouldering ruin with no hope of
recovery, one Trump-voting Texan "patriot" cyberstalker in particular,
Bob Smith (who just happened to be one of Dallas's loyal foot
soldiers), kept posting (and indeed still does post) personal attacks
upon Gerry in the form of vilificatious and defamtory lies.
And so, history keeps right on happening...
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=== It's time to guzzle another Copter_Six_Pack ===
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Bob Smith, a.k.a. Bob_Copter_Six, a.k.a. Truth Sayer, a.k.a. Gerrys
Worst Nightmare hates Gerry Binder's "offensive" sigs. Classic
examples of which are as follows:
> Offence freely given to those who wish to take it.
and
> =====================================
> US war cry: "Keep on killin' 'em till
> they submit to our superior culture!
> Hooah!!!"
> =====================================
Here he is, playing dress ups:
https://checkthisout999.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-truth-slayer.html
Interestingly, Bob is offended by stuff Gerry has uttered, but, for
some weird unfathomable reason (maybe it's a "patriot" thang), he is
NOT offended when his own country, America, does the following:
[1] Instigating and waging state-sanctioned mass murder all over
this planet to further its own corrupt empire and calling that
"fighting for freedom and democracy".
[2] Conducting, aiding and abetting assassination plots in other
countries because their leaders are not "US-friendly".***
[3] Training and funding people to overthow regimes which are not
"US-friendly".***
[4] Actively supporting and arming non-democratic, mass murderous
regimes which _are_ "US-friendly".***
*** "US-friendly" is code for "letting American corporations vacuum
huge profits out of their countries whilst paying local employees
peanuts and avoiding local taxes."
The only people Gerry (happily) offends are nutjobs who, like himself,
were once suckered into that mass-murderous shit-storm which is US
foreign policy, but who, _unlike_ himself, refuse to acknowledge the
evils inherent in [1], [2], [3] and [4] above.
These days Gerry's "offensiveness" is NOT accomplished by
participating in or condoning America's mass murder of millions in
order to "liberate" them so as to expose their countries to economic
rape and pillage by corporations whose major shareholders
"accidentally" happen to be mega-rich American citizens.
Nor by offensively strewing millions of cluster bomblets all over
their countryside which will continue to kill and maim innocent
civilians for decades to come.
Nor by offensively polluting their landscape with "agent orange" or
depleted uranium, thereby making millions of innocent civilians sick
and causing millions of birth defects for decades to come.
Nor by offensively using armed drones to violate another country's
sovereign airspace to assassinate "terror suspects" without affording
said "suspects" anything even vaguely resembling due process.
No, Gerry's "offensiveness" is delivered _only_ in the form of
harmless, tiny little electronic characters appearing on people's
monitors, tablets or cell phones, and his "offensiveness" is generally
only experienced by, and limited to, those who are apologists for
state sanctioned mass murder and the glorification of war.
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