Encouragement
The field of work we're in involves interaction with a number of
unsavory characters: antisemites, racists, racist skinheads, fascists,
and so on. As a result, we have to put up with some forms of
disagreement which are, shall we say, less than scholarly.
We choose to interpret these as encouraging signs: if our work
angers this element, we must be doing something right.
The 'Wladislaw Nizkor' Fraud
We confess, folks! This is the funniest tribute to our
effectiveness we've ever seen!
- Don Ellis honours Nizkor
- Arkansas resident Don Ellis chose to honour The
Nizkor Project with an energetic display of base vulgarity in early
2000.
- Up Yours! mailbomb attack.
- The interesting thing is that, on March 4th, 1997, Ingrid Rimland
accused us
of encouraging Up Yours attacks, rather than having been the victim of
one.
- The Matt Giwer "False Light"
statements and threats
- Mr.
Giwer needs no introduction to alt.revisionism users - many
of whom have consigned him to the dustbin through the magic of
global UNIX newsreader KILL files.
Mr. Giwer is no stranger to publishing false accusations -
his Internet Service Provider, Netcom, has already been placed
on legal notice by one user who tired of the lies.
Mr. Giwer's latest diatribe has resulted in another such
notice being sent to Netcom by registered mail.
- The Jeff Dranetz E-Mailbombing
- The Nizkor site was targeted for e-mailbombing many years ago. Thanks to
our tight security measures, it was little more than a minor annoyance
to us. The bomber's next target, though, might get his or her email
access shut down for days or weeks, by a continual flood of unwanted
messages. We hope to ensure that this particular mailbomber doesn't get
the chance to do it again.
Working with Netcom.com, whose equipment was "hijacked" to
make the attack, we determined that it originated from Xensei.com.
Xensei has kindly confirmed that the originating account was
"jeffd," which belongs to one
Jeff Dranetz.
Mr. Dranetz had actually
bragged
about his ability to commit exactly the same type of e-mailbombing,
roughly twelve hours after Nizkor was hit. And a little while later, he
threatened
to do the same thing to another user. His account was suspended.
- "Zinkor on the Internet"
- Tom Metzger
is the leader of a group called
White Aryan Resistance,
or W.A.R. In a taped phone-in propaganda message, Mr. Metzger calls his
followers' attention to "Zinkor on the Internet."
In reference to those of us who maintain this project, he suggests
that his followers "locate them, confront them, and that will be
the end of that."
We are taking this threat seriously, because of Mr. Metzger's history
of violence: he was found liable, in a civil suit, of inciting three
skinheads to beat an Ethiopian immigrant to death. As
described
in the book Hate Crimes:
Moving up behind Seraw, [Mieske] repeatedly struck him in the
back of the head with a baseball bat, while Strasser and Brewster
kicked all three black men. When it was over ... Seraw was
pronounced dead on arrival. He had died as a result of a
fractured skull.
Metzger's reaction to the verdict was to
promise more violence:
"we will put more blood on the streets than you've ever seen..."
- Quinn Mebesius' general threat (details not available yet)
- Quinn Mebesius commented on Nizkor's ftp archives, and asked if
anyone else kept of a list of "enemies." He then wrote,
"I mean, I have my own list. And if I ever get frustrated enough,
or become terminally ill, I might just visit some of the names on
it."
- Ralph Kreider's death threat
- The
following message was received from an Edmonton,
Alberta user:
- "McVay, I don't like you, you are a poor misguided piece
of shit. Remember that what goes around comes around. You I would love
to encounter and send straight to hell."
- AryanGar's almost unintelligible death threat
- A user by the name of AryanGar posted a rambling diatribe to the Stormfront mailing list,
concerning "spies" on that list:
We would have to do what we do know for "cyber cells" send
references or get someone to vouch for you. But, If only one of
these bastards gets through he could vouch for a few more of his
Nitzcor jew/race traitor...should be wiped from the face of this
planets buddies...
We can't quite parse the grammar of that last sentence, but the
meaning is clear.
- The Bart Alsbrook "Bootboy" Libel
- A particularly encouraging development, as it clearly
points to our success at frustrating extremists on the
InterNet, was the posting of libelous material concerning Ken
McVay, the Director of the Nizkor Project, on a Skinhead web
site. After notification that legal action was pending, the
offending text was changed from libelous to merely insulting.
- The Zxzhjfitkl [sic] comment
- Just another piece of hate email.
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