- In his fine article, Baldknobber writes, "Anonymous
Accusation: In recent years, Federal, state and local law enforcement
bodies have started arresting and punishing people due to anonymous accusations.
Now when you show up in court you have no right to know who has accused
you of a crime. Without any chance of any repercussions, individuals, groups
and organizations now commonly issue accusations to get revenge, gain unfair
advantage, or simply because they were going on assumption rather than
actually being witness. The right to know your accuser was a cornerstone
of American justice; it created an environment which brought accountability
to legal prosecution. Without it, people are now going to jail, being fined,
and losing their children in civil disputes without ever knowing why."
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- And he is absolutely right. I would like, though, Jeff,
to use this remarkable paragraph to jump in and enlighten your regular
readers about anonymous accusation, a recent American phenomenon we must
identify, ridicule and then finally crush to preserve our civil freedoms
and way of life. It is a debilitating weapon of social intimidation that
some on the internet have termed, "shooting out all the lights",
but I like to call by other names. You see, by naming a phenomenon you
seize control of it. And it's time to lock the controls down on this one.
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- I call it Antimatter Fandom: the new American No-See-Um-ocracy.
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- WHAT ANTIMATTER FANDOM IS
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- Antimatter Fandom is when a mentally disturbed person
develops an obsession with an individual they do not know personally, but
whom they hate intensely. The intensity of the psychiatrically disturbed
person's obsession resembles fan lust for a celebrity: the Antimatter Fan
is preoccupied day and night by the object of his backwards lust: he knows
everything about you, he researches even more, he keeps records and details
on you, will solicit pictures of you, and will eventually attempt personal
contact with you. All of this behavior, however, is devoted to discrediting,
smearing and violating your reputation.
- Former President Bill Clinton, for example, has more
Antimatter Fandom around him than any celebrity to recent date, and his
wife former First Lady Hillary Clinton comes in an astoundingly close second.
Antimatter Fandom first became apparent to me during the middle Nineties,
in fact, during the Clinton Era, and exploded exponentially through the
late Nineties, until now, where it is commonplace to be an ordinary person
minding one's own business and then suddenly find oneself the object of
someone else's virulent Antimatter Fandom the next day.
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- The object of the Antimatter Fan is to become personally
intimate with you and change your life. It is your duty to prevent either
of these from occurring. We do this by identifying the pathology and its
perpetrator.
- Antimatter Fandom has happened to people I know, it has
happened to me three distinct times, and it is happening to ordinary people
everywhere in all walks of life. One moment you're living your normal
life; the next, a complete stranger has begun spreading vicious lies about
you, spreading fan fiction they have created about you to their circle
of little friends, and mounting a slander and libel campaign against you
on a level previously reserved for Anita Bryant, the Clinton couple and
Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
- You, formerly ordinary person, suddenly find yourself
having to consult lawyers, who are often barely even aware of what Antimatter
Fandom is, psychiatrists to try to decipher for you the clearly disturbed
mentality of the No See Ums who are generating your libelous new celebrity
on a 24-hour round the clock basis, and publicists to try to counter the
reckless lies being printed and spread about you with CNN ticker reliability.
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- WHO ATTRACTS ANTIMATTER FANDOM?
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- There are certain similarities I have observed in the
people who attract Antimatter Fandom.
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- Nine times out of ten they are highly independent people
who evidence a genuine talent and are outspoken about it. Not those who
hide their intelligence under a bushel, people who attract No See Ums and
Antimatter Fandom are often outgoing, friendly, gregarious and popular
with others. They generate charisma: that more than any other factor seems
to be what angers the Antimatter Fan.
- The Antimatter Celebrity attracts people and their admiration,
and is often hard at work at something that arguably would improve human
existence: the president who genuinely cares for low-income Americans;
the outspoken woman lawyer who mentors younger women instead of competing
with and undermining them; the Native American tribal leader trying to
improve life on the reservation who gets smeared by the campaign of a counterfeit
leader who isn't even Indian but wants to be; the freelance producer who
bankrupts herself to provide science fiction fans with a new version of
their long-defunct favorite British TV show at last; and in my case, the
friend of that person who is going to see justice. These are the qualities
of the people who most consistently attract Antimatter Fans and Celebrity.
Jeff Rense is one of them.
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- But who are the people who hate them and start these
smear campaigns? It's time to identify the smear tactitians, gang, because
they're out there, and Rense has run into quite a few already just by generously
running this site for us.
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- THE NO SEE UMS - SMEARING IS THE SINCEREST FORM OF FLATTERY
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- Have you ever been out in the yard working on a summer
day, when suddenly it feels like a Rottweiler with glass needles for teeth
bit down on a tender part of your skin someplace? You yell and snatch
out your clothes where it bit you, and you peer closely so you can see
the sucker that bit you, mash it, and annihilate it... but there's nothing
there.
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- Hardy suburban lawn mowing men named these nuisances
long ago, God Bless em, and what we now call these pests are NO SEE UMS:
because when they bite you, and you look to see, you "no see um."
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- I call Antimatter Fans and other pests of the internet
No See Ums for a reason. The people who love you to the point where they
cross the line and begin to hate you, and then annoy the world by daring
to go public with their lust, rely on three things the insect world also
relies on to cause you maximum damage. Like the insects that are their
namesakes, the No See Um needs three things to hurt you for making you
love them, and hurt you for that BAD:
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- 1. Invisible So You Can't See and Kill Them Instantly
- 2. A Big Painful Bite You Cannot Ignore or Pretend
Didn't Happen
- 3. Stinging Multitudes Just Like Them To Come Bite
Too
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- Let's take each one in sequence, shall we?
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- NO SEE UMS ARE INVISIBLE
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- Karen McCoy was an idiot, yes, because she opened her
mouth and became visible to hordes of Doctor Who fans. But she had a certain
history in Hollywood, there are producers and film people who know her,
and she was therefore visible. She was a de facto ex-Hollywood industry
person, so she had the right to do what she was doing and say what she
was saying. But Audra McHugh, the lovable Doctor Who fan who defamed and
smeared her out of the clear blue one sunny August morning in 1997, was
small. Insignificant to the point of invisible. She was, incredibly,
only a web designer at a non-profit children's marching band organization
called Winterguard International.
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- Boy, that's real Hollywood, ain't it?
- Hollywood didn't know who she was, still doesn't know,
and doesn't care. But the No See Um has no sense of figure and ground,
no sense of propriety, and no sense of "um... that person I want to
attack is actually doing something and experienced at that field. I am
nothing and nobody gives a damn about me. Uh, so where exactly do I get
the permission to attack this person? Why would I want to do that?"
Wrong: the No See Um jumps right over this bridge of rationality and is
fueled largely by a sense of righteous indignance, of sheer arrogance.
- They quickly seize upon a moral gray cloud, something
they think cannot be disproven easily by their lust object, the feet of
clay as it were, and loudly start announcing to everyone in their circle
of contacts that MY LUST OBJECT HAS FEET OF CLAY... FEET OF CLAY... LOOK,
LOOKIE LOOKIE HE LIED, HE LIED, SHE'S A LIAR, SHE'S A LIAR, SHE DID THIS,
HE DID THAT: IT'S AN OUTRAGE, IT'S AN OUTRAGE; WE SHOULD ALL BE OUTRAGED
---
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- Bill Clinton's most vocal No See Ums, you will learn
quickly by visiting any message board on AOL, are invisible, insignificant
people not involved in politics or law, who are RIGHTEOUSLY INDIGNANT AND
OUTRAGED by the fact that Slick Willy - gasp - sin of all sins - poked
a cute chubby girl in the Oval Office and then lied about it under oath.
"That's perjury!" The No See Um shrills.
- Nevermind JFK also used the Oval Office to poke a cute
chubby girl, and that happened to have been Marilyn Monroe (among others).
Of little importance is that like JFK, Clinton was a superb president
and statesman, and that romping with starlets seems to come as an accessory
piece to such men.
- Of even less importance is the obvious question you want
to ask the No See Um, such as, "So you're this upset about the perjury
because you're an attorney, right? And you're upholding the spirit of
the law?" No, the No See Um is neither a politician or a lawyer,
doesn't particularly give a damn about the law, and usually can't even
spell perjury -- and to the No See Um, such logic falls on deaf ears.
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- If we were obligated to believe the No See Um, if he
or she were truly worthy of our consideration, if he or she were telling
the real truth about why he or she is that obsessed with that person, we'd
see some previous consistency: Clinton's Antimatter Fans would have all
started legal ethics organizations either before or after his perjury;
Audra McHugh would be an animation producer herself right now instead of
the author of ONE piece of public art in six years, an amateur Toulouse-Lautrec
homage, which you can see right now at www.davidgould.com; Hillary Clinton's
accusers would have rallied hard against the National Organization of Women
in the Seventies or written salient articles decrying feminism in general
and female attorneys in particular. In short, they would have a track
record of previous achievement in the very field their lust object has
supposedly dragged its clay feet upon.
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- But no.
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- Here are the facts: perjury ("He lied! He lied!")
is not really the reason the No See Um wants to smear President Bill Clinton.
Nor is feminism the real reason the No See Um hates Hillary. Audra McHugh
would never have been able to prove in a court of law, or even on Dateline
NBC, that Karen McCoy was not a television producer, because if you are
producing a television show, you are a television producer. There is ample
evidence McCoy was in preproduction. Ain't It Cool News confirmed it.
That wasn't the reason. "The reason" is never the reason.
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- The reason is always that the No See Um is sexually stimulated
and energetically charged like an overloaded battery by the very thought
of the person they end up smearing. That person's charisma, frankly, just
turns the No See Um on. The No See Um responds to that person the way
Jennifer Lopez's fans react to her body. Brain shuts off, chakras switch
on. It's as though every office light at 30 Rock Plaza gets switched on
and the building is Christmas blazing. The power this person has over
the No See Um at this highly-charged moment frightens the No See Um. "I
want that person," says the No See Um to him or herself. "S/he's
energetic. S/he's different. S/he is exciting." That really is the
first thought that occurs.
- Then a different mechanism, a protective mechanism, switches
on. "I am disturbed that I want that person. I am disturbed that
I find them energetic. I am disturbed that I find them different. I am
disturbed that I find them exciting." The No See Um, or sick fan,
asks him or herself, "Why am I feeling this way about somebody I don't
even know?"
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- The answer is, YOU'RE A FAN OF THEIRS, DILDO. PART OF
YOU WANTS TO BE LIKE THEM. A SMALLER PART OF YOU, THOUGH, IS AFRAID IT
IS TOO SMALL TO BE AND NEVER WILL BE.
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- But the smallness, the inadequacy, the misery this realization
engenders in the No See Um is too much to bear. To admit it would be to
admit that another person is energetic enough, talented enough, sexy enough
in their intense charisma, to have affected the No See Um personally.
It implies the Other Person has something the No See Um must not. This
creates a homicidal level of resent and envy in the No See Um. The obsession
and smearing begin.
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- Envy is the number two motivator behind No See Ums, those
disturbed nobodies who spend each day Googling up nonsense about stars
they will never know, calling Sean Hannity to preach about superstars who
may have slept with giggly interns but have enough bodyguards to hurt the
No See Um very, very badly, telephoning ascending superstars at the studios
where they work and harassing them about "lying about being a producer",
hacking down or threatening free speech websites, and writing cryptic,
threatening emails to me, as TSI's Phil Ingram did on October 23, 2003,
because I decided to give him a taste of his own medicine: public exposure
he cannot control.
- Motivator number one, as I wrote above, is an intense
amount of admiration with faintly sexual overtones, which embarrasses and
frightens the No See Um, is first switched internally as a coping device
into envy, and is then switched externally into the more convenient and
socially-acceptable story that the No See Um is outraged by the lust object,
and BY GOSH, YOU SHOULD BE, TOO.
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- No See Ums are fans who stalk peculiar choices of celebrity.
You will notice No See Ums don't get upset and rage about Arnold Schwarzenegger's
mass groping of innocent females. There are few No See Um camps decimating
Madonna online for attempting to abort Britney Spears's career with a single,
calculated Sapphic kiss. No See Ums don't call in to Neal Boortz about
something untrue George Bush just said.
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- You see, Schwarzenegger, Madonna and Dubya are acceptable
celebrities to obsess over. The No See Um wouldn't be embarrassed by admitting
in public he is obsessed with them. Millions already are. They're safe.
What scares the No See Um is that he is obsessed with a person others
would consider him strange for being preoccupied with.
- The popular kids would laugh at a strange kid who thought
Bill Clinton was sexy. The cheerleaders would snicker in the hall past
the weird kid who found Hillary enticing. Star Trek fans already privately
think Doctor Who fans are a bunch of dorks for liking a backwards Seventies
British TV show with incomprehensible stories and abominable special effects.
What would they think of a wacko who got wet thinking about a black female
animation producer they never met who lived 1,500 miles away and was doing
a cartoon based on wacko's favorite TV show? Oh no. Insanity like that
isn't safe to explain. It would attract the kind of ridicule No See Ums
like to dish out -- not receive.
- But, the feelings just won't go away. "I just get
so obsessed" Like any fan, the No See Um wants to express those wild
feelings that just surge and surge and rise in his chest like crazy. What
to do? The energy's got to go somewhere
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- Fans blow off steam by designing websites about their
favorite lust object, sending emails to other fans about what the star
just did, collecting pictures of them, tabulating -- and in the unbelievable
arrogance of the internet these days, critiquing -- their earlier work,
and talking about them incessantly... and eventually, in extreme cases,
breaking past security, lying their way past the star's assistants, agents
and publicists, and suddenly appearing in their favorite star's actual
life as a stalker.
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- Now witness this:
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- McHugh designed websites about Karen McCoy decrying her
as a liar, accused her of lying about being a producer, researched McCoy's
earlier work online and by telephone, sent emails about her to hundreds
of friends day after day, telephoned the place where McCoy worked, lied
to the receptionist and to McCoy's boss saying she was a journalist, and
then contacted McCoy herself - to accuse her personally.
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- If it looks identical by now, it is supposed to.
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- My point is, Antimatter Celebrity is getting out of hand
because the careers and reputations of ordinary people are being destroyed
by persons unqualified to do so. In an internet age, everyone is a celebrity
and every state and its privacy and libel laws should be Californian.
If you are out there getting your job done, and you attract an Antimatter
Fan, attorneys and authorities need to start treating your case as they
would a celebrity stalking case, because if you have fans, you are a celebrity,
whether your face has been in Vogue magazine or not. It is time to redefine
celebrity, stalking and fandom for the internet age. We can all become
celebrities overnight. It takes one thing to do it. If you have one public
fan, you're a celebrity.
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- We who attract the Antimatter Fan accidentally attract
an invisible, envious assailant who behaves like a fan but does not want
to publicly admit that he is a fan. Crucial to this disturbed individual's
fragile, self-deluded world, where he is simply protecting the universe
from your celebrity and its unworthiness (although he conferred it upon
you, without your knowledge or permission), and where nobody calls him
on the fact that he is clearly obsessed with you, is his remaining invisible
where you and your lawyers cannot pinpoint, isolate, reach, and destroy
him. He starts small and must remain small. That way when your attorneys
start demanding he leave you alone, he can pull a switch and accuse you
of harassing him (which happened to McCoy) and generate further sympathy
to his cause. Like the microbe insect with the big jaws whose sudden bite
burns like fire when you're out in the yard working, your Antimatter Fan
must remain invisible in order to continue hurting. Because he likes to
remain tiny and unseen, I call him a No See Um.
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- Which brings us to what these insects do.
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- NO SEE UMS BITE YOU HARD BECAUSE THEY WANT YOUR ATTENTION
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- Every fan's dream is to penetrate his or her love object's
private world and become closely, personally, intimately known to them.
Antimatter Fans are no different. The Antimatter Fan hates you because
he loves you and loves you because he wishes he could be you because you
excite him at the deepest levels and he just can't stand that. He would
rather that he excited himself the way you excite him. Blame it on your
being so charming and beautiful, and read on.
- The Antimatter Fan almost never knows his love object
previously or personally. He may have worked with you. In the case of
TSI, you may have even worked for them! But somehow, usually through your
achievements and resultant renown, you come to your Antimatter Fan's attention.
He begins to dwell on your charisma and popularity. He obsesses on your
expertise, your looks, your voice, your talent, your hair. He wants to
be you, to get inside you, to become you. Most of all, he wants to be
known by you. He knows he will never do it by being who and what he is.
He festers quietly, brooding over the lack of talent he knows he shows.
He will never be a part of your world and he is acutely aware of it.
But as a fan, that's the one thing he won't give up on. YOU WILL know
his name.
- How does he ensure this? By biting you hard -- repeatedly
-- so you will never escape or stop thinking about him.
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- The Republican Party, which really could be called the
William Jefferson Clinton Testosterone Brigade, wants to make sure President
Clinton will never stop thinking about its members. (Probably literally.)
Day in, day out, Bill Clinton's Antimatter Fans and No See Ums light their
icon candles, burn their incense sticks and kneel before their psychological
framed photo of The Man They Hate Most... and obsess over where his penis
went, how, and when. To the infinite amusement of thinking people everywhere,
this enormous fan club does exactly what fans do: obsess over their love
object's sexual exploits -- without, to borrow from Bob Dylan, "any
attempts to shovel a glimpse into the ditch" of what this kind of
obsession means.
- It means they idolize Bill Clinton the way Brad Pitt's
fans idolize Brad Pitt.
- Notice how they hate Hillary.
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- Of course they do! Hillary has HIM! She's the kind
of "lucky wife" referred to so chillingly on the Estrogen Brigade
websites devoted to lusted-after male stars around the world who happen
to also be married. She's the hated Deborah of Hugh Jackman, the mutually
despised Jennifers of Brad Pitt and Ben Affleck, the scorned Britney of
Justin Timberlake and the loathed Francesca of Ralph Fiennes.
- I am almost convinced now that more than half the NeoConservative
Republican Party are supposedly "straight" men who actually nurture
a mutual, Skull-and-Bones-level-secretive closet gay fascination with Clinton.
The dynamics are exactly the same as a spiteful female salsa club bonded
by mutual lust for Ricky Martin. They're preoccupied with Clinton's sexual
behaviors to the point where it has become pathologically overt, they want
to call the sole shots on where his penis goes, and they absolutely despise
the person his penis visits the most -- that would be arguably, still,
Hillary Rodham Clinton. They despise her with the venomous specificity
of a million frustrated would-be "other women" eyeing a star's
lucky wife. It is amazing to me how calmly William and Hillary deal with
this Boschian reality.
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- Listening to any right-wing radio talk show is in fact
like visiting a Bill Clinton Estrogen Brigade website and clicking on its
"I Hate Hillary" page. Bill's Antimatter Fans criticize The
Lucky Bitch with nebulous charges she will never be able to completely
disprove -- and that's the whole idea.
- "Hillary is a lesbian."
- "Hillary is ugly."
- "Hillary wants to be a man and have a man's power."
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- Blah, blah, blah. It's all fan drivel, envious mudslinging,
and it passes for talk radio and internet website content in 2003. No
one can adequately prove his own sexual orientation to those who refuse
to believe it; No See Ums know that; no person can fully define whether
he is attractive or unattractive, because that's completely subjective;
No See Ums are aware of that; and an opinion such as "she's a liar",
"she doesn't have the right to do Doctor Who", and "she
wants to be a man and have a man's power" cannot be disproven, because
they are nothing more than one person's opinion; all of it intentional
-- and the unwitting target is placed in a double bind by the No See Um,
because if you attempt to fight back, you give your fan the legitimacy
and personal contact he craves, but if you say nothing in your defense,
other No See Ums conclude that their hero's opinion must be fact. This
is the widespread mental pathology of our times.
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- To get into Bill Clinton's consciousness, and (they hope)
be on his mind as much as he is on theirs, No See Ums bite him again and
again with an accusation particularly abhorrent to a socially-conscious
lawyer: "he lied under oath."
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- To get into Hillary Clinton's consciousness, and be on
her mind as much as she is on theirs, the No See Ums bite her again and
again with the accusation most hurtful to heterosexual career women: "she's
a dyke."
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- To get into Karen McCoy's consciousness, and be on her
mind as much as McCoy was on her own, Audra McHugh bit her again and again
with the accusation most calculated to anger a working producer more than
any other: "she's not a real producer and is lying about her experience
and expertise."
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- No See Ums are tiny but their bite gets your attention.
How can it be that something so small can bite that hard? Most people
bitten by a No See Um on a summer day recall later that it burned worse
than being stung by a yellowjacket. This, from something so minute it
cannot be seen by the naked eye! The fact that you can't see and smack
it only makes your anger smolder to more lethal levels. But don't waste
your energy. Save it. Stoke it. Use libel laws to isolate and locate
the nuisance and then expend your anger in a single exhaled defamation
lawsuit, using collected printouts of the No See Ums' written bites. When
you collect your Antimatter Fan's wages and house, you will smile remembering
what you read here and how it calmed you down enough to take action.
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- The No See Um bites you as hard as it can to burn itself
into your mind and provoke you into making personal and intimate contact
with it. Recognize that intimate contact is what it wants. It wants others
to think of it whenever they think of you. Deny them that privilege.
They haven't earned it. Ignore the bites, collect as much evidence of
the wounds as you can, then simply sue the bastard.
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- STINGING MULTITUDES THAT JOIN TO STING WITH THEM
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- The final weapon in the No See Um's arsenal is his trusty
community of fellow stinging insects.
- No Antimatter Fan will dare be seen without his all-important
community. Next to searching out and destroying envied lust objects, collecting
more fellow insects to enlarge his community is what the Antimatter Fan
spends the most time on. He values being part of a specific group, a tribe.
This tribe is the most important thing he has. He pays all the club dues
ahead of time, he bends over backwards flattering fellow community members
to gain favor, and he exhausts himself by answering fellow insects' emails
and phone calls quickly -- lest his insects, he is certain, turn on him
and leave him open to outside attack.
- I call Antimatter Fans "No See Ums" because
they act like insects. Insects are social creatures who value their role
and membership in a hive community. Democrats have often recently marveled
at the amazing ability of Republicans, especially the more fascist and
NeoConservative of them, to close ranks swiftly in the presence of enemies
and toss individuality over a cliff to achieve the goal of the tribe.
Dems would be in fact wise to emulate this behavior, because it is the
only way to take back Washington. Greens, for instance, refuse to surrender
individuality for anyone and they are enemies who hand the White House
to Republicans again and again, because unlike insects, they will battle
other Liberals over petty disputes instead of tightly closing ranks and
deferring debate until the after goal is achieved. In short they don't
play fair and are undermining the Non-Republican cause.
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- Not all No See Ums are NeoConservatives, but all NeoConservatives
are No See Ums. Insect Thinking has won the White House. In about a decade,
America will resemble a hive as testimony to their lowest-common-denominator,
man-as-insect, Darwinian strategy. Ever look at a bee colony? Hives are
fascist.
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- The No See Um's ace of spades is reliance on the insect
community he serves. It is his nuclear deterrance. He knows he will win
against his love object every time, as long as he has a bank of other hivelings
he can call upon to join him in slander, and motivate them into hating/lusting
for his target too. The troubling factor is that No See Ums do think alike,
and engage in insect think; so rational arguments mean nothing to them.
Debating or disproving the smear does no good. All the No See Um has
to do is perform the bee dance that demonstrates he is a member of the
hive, then say, "I hate the target because he ________." Immediately
all the other bees will snap in line and chorus, "We hate the target
because he is ________." And the real smear begins. The hapless Antimatter
Celebrity is now swatting and slapping at a swarm of bees instead of just
one, because the No See Um can rely on the fealty of a tribe, and that
tribe defends him.
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- Once under attack by a multitude of stinging insects,
the target is almost destined to fail. One cannot fight off a bee swarm
and steer a ship at the same time. This is why Karen McCoy, under siege
by Audra McHugh and her hive of stinging multitudes by early 1998, had
to relinquish the Doctor Who animation project and seemingly prove McHugh
right after all. Between meetings with attorneys, explaining to them what
was going on, and flying back and forth to London, I don't think she could
have avoided steering her ship into the rocks at all. That was McHugh's
strategy. It is the NeoCon strategy. It works.
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- Bees succeed because when one bee attacks, he emits a
chemical that rallies the other bees to join him and swarm his unfortunate
target. Ants succeed because when their hill is invaded, as a multitude
they spread all over the invader and lay siege as a legion to bring it
to the ground, then devour it. Republicans succeed because when one Republican
attacks, other Republicans quickly close ranks and support him, no matter
what he says, no matter what he does, no matter what law he breaks or what
crime he commits. Antimatter Fans who libel and defame innocent people
have also succeeded, using the same social-insect strategy.
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- Until now.
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- There is a popular saying: "Naming a thing will
give you power over it." It is my stark intention here to name the
phenomenon which has terrorized so many in the Nineties and now, and has
given fascists in America their temporary power. We must name it, for
in naming it, we step from under the black umbrella of its control, stand
outside it, and gain ultimate power over it. We must designate a name
for this psychological dysfunction that grips America which has been used
to defame, smear and cripple the careers and lives of so many. Naming
the sickness is the first step. Calling it and defeating it are all that
remain.
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- I hereby define Antimatter Celebrity:
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- "Antimatter Celebrity is unwanted public attention
that confers unsolicited infamy, celebrity, or notoriety upon an individual,
interfering with their life, altering their public image and/or reputation,
and that frequently appears as the result of one or more individuals targeting
and defaming said individual for personal, subjective, and often difficult
to qualify, reasons."
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- I hereby define Antimatter Fan:
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- "An Antimatter Fan is an individual who evidences
obsessive interest in a person unknown or only impersonally known to said
individual, who collects and is unusually interested in gathering and spreading
libelous, defaming and negative information about that person, who exhibits
compulsive fan-to-celebrity behaviors such as unsolicited correspondence
(including emails) to and about that person, unsolicited website construction
about that person, unsolicited and defaming correspondence, telephone calls
and emails to third parties about that person, and who, if not identified
and intervened with in time, in extreme cases, escalates his activities
to attempts to personally visit, contact or become intimately known to
that person, often in activities that borderline legal definitions of harassment
and stalking. The Antimatter Fan categorically and with great vehemence
denies that he or she is a fan of the targeted person, but the obsession
he or she exhibits, and the quasisexual intensity of said obsession, makes
his or her role as an unwanted fan evident and clear. The target does
not have to have appeared in popular magazines or in motion pictures or
television to be considered a celebrity. The fact that he or she has apparent
fans engaging in fan behavior such as outlined above constitutes an extant
celebrity."
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- No See Um is my slang term for an Antimatter Fan. What's
yours?
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- DESTROYING THE ANTIMATTER FAN
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- Finally, I would like to state from experience that it
is fairly easy to defuse and destroy the Antimatter Fan and the negative
celebrity his obsession with you has bequeathed upon you without your solicitation.
It takes three steps.
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- 1. Remain Impersonal and Do Not Indulge Contact.
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- Do not award your Antimatter Fan any personal contact
with you. He will provoke you by saying the most outrageous and insulting
things about you he can absolutely imagine. You will want to fight back
and do it personally. Resist this urge. It is smart to bear in mind that
he has spent a lot of time thinking about you and figuring out what he
can say or print that will hurt you the most. That, he believes, you bring
you out swinging and put you in his face where he can enjoy deep, personal
and intimate contact with his favorite celebrity. Deny the bastard the
privilege. Ignore, print, and keep all his statements and continue with
your life. Do not answer his allegations. If you must, simply release
a statement. In that statement, restrict your comments to the short paragraph
impersonal form favored by Hollywood public relations firms, and keep it
plural first person: "We are saddened that certain individuals feel
it necessary to cause nuisance for innocent firms (persons, individuals).
While consulting our legal counsel, we wish (Antimatter Fan) the best
and thank our fans and supporters for continuing to wish us well. Thank
you." Repeat this statement and don't elaborate from it. Say nothing
further. Allow your attorneys to do the talking from then on. In court
when you are awarded your Antimatter Fan's house and property, you will
be thankful you did so.
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- 2. Start Collecting Some Ammo of Your Own
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- I guarantee you will want to delete the emails your Antimatter
Fan has written to and about you. You'll want to erase his messages to
you on your answering machine. You will desire to destroy and shred those
letters, statements and emails you find between your Antimatter Fan and
his hive friends discussing you and sharing lies about you. DON'T DO IT.
This material is called Evidence. As soon as it appears on your phone,
buy a little phone microphone from Radio Shack for 2 bucks and a small
$10 tape recorder. Record the messages on tapes and start indexing and
labeling them. Keep the tapes in a safe place, such as a bank deposit
box or inside a combination safe. As soon as Antimatter Fan libel appears
in your email inbox, skip over delete and instead print out a copy, store
it in a folder, and store the email in a digital folder. Label and index
it. Keep all records. You will need them in court and your lawyer will
thank you. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHRED, DELETE OR DESTROY ANYTHING YOUR
ANTIMATTER FAN SAYS OR WRITES ABOUT YOU. BELIEVE ME, HE OR SHE IS PRAYING
YOU WILL.
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- 3. Sue, and Then Continue Living Your Successful Life,
Doing The Exact Thing Your Fan Envied and Hated About You In The First
Place
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- Nuff said. I believe if enough of us do this enough
times, not only will the country change, Antimatter defamation, especially
on the internet, will stop.
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