07-02-2006, 06:55 AM
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Who really cares about privacy?
I hear each day how the President invades our privacy through wire taps, etc. Who really violates our privacy? The left-wing of this country that's who. Recently, Huffington (former Democratic candidate for President) has published the phone numbers and addresses of the Swifts boat vets in order to harrass them. Remember, all of these men are decorated war vets and Huffington's closest combat is fighting over some lipstick at some high-end store in Hollywood.
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Some readers of HuffingtonPost.com have initiated a new wave of harassing phone calls to Swift Boat veterans who questioned John Kerry's military record in the 2004 campaign -- and the website's proprietors remained ignorant of it for days, despite repeated complaints.
Last Saturday morning, HuffPost, Arianna Huffington's year-old online effort, linked to a story regarding the release of Navy personal information. By Saturday afternoon, two registered "trusted" HuffPost commenters posted the names and personal information of more than a dozen Swift Boat veterans.
"SatanLivesinUSA" wrote at 2:15 p.m., June 24, "SwiftBoatVets who need some Black Ops done on them. I have some very good ideas I gleaned from 'CIA BOOK of DIRTY TRICKS' Don't get mad, get EVEN." Minutes later, at 2:19 p.m., "YvonneMoorhead" repeatedly pasted SatanLivesinUSA's comments on that page and on another Huffington Post post. Elsewhere, in February, YvonneMoorhead had posted, "F*** em, they died for the greater Isreali [sic] goal of stealing more land by having its proxy America invade Iraq and next Iran. They are not called Masters of Deceit for nothing." Aside from one or two complaints, fellow commenters did not object to the posting of the information or the threats.
Some of these men reported receiving harassing and threatening phone calls over the weekend. At 2:30 a.m., Saturday, June 24, Adrian Lonsdale said he received a call from an apparently drunk man claiming to be another veteran, Van Odell. The caller said, "Our lies are all over the Internet. We are in deep ****."
After the contact information was posted on the Huffington Post, the harassing calls increased in frequency. Saturday afternoon Lonsdale received another call, "congratulating" him for "ruining our country." In the early hours of Sunday morning, Van Odell received three calls, he told TAS, at 1:47 a.m., 1:48, and 1:50. A man calmly told him, "I want to know why you lied about John Kerry... Traitors must die. We will get you. You can't get away with this." Then his call descended into cursing, at which point Odell said he hung up on him. Odell received another round of calls around 3 p.m. Sunday afternoon. He has turned his phone off so that his six-year-old grandson could not pick up the calls.
Though the men have contacted their local law enforcement officials, they had difficulty addressing the harassment through the Huffington Post. They told TAS that they repeatedly emailed HuffPost at info@huffingtonpost.com, beginning Sunday night. Odell's son said that he and co-workers flagged the comments as "abusive."
The comments remained posted on the pages until Tuesday afternoon, when TAS contacted Katharine Zaleski, HuffPost news editor, via an unlisted telephone number. HuffPost promptly removed the comments.
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