- In a brief public statement made to members
of the New Jersey Press Club, hosting a pre-retirement career award for
his past work providing security support to newspaper and press companies,
such as the Daily Journal and the Newark News, American Computer Company's
Security Department head, William Barnes, expressed outrage at the unwarranted
personal attacks upon he and ACC, telephonically, in writing, and on the
world wide web, by unknown persons using the names: "Lan Lamphere"
(allegedly aka "Lance Pemberton", "Lan Delphieris",
"Pastor Scott Wrathers"), and "Todd Andrews" (allegedly
aka "The Tucson Kid" and "Dr. Dan Wollman"); and "Nexxus.org"
"Riskers.org" (allegedly aka "InSearchOf") -- and called
for the public to send ACC any information the public knows about the perpetrators,
and what appears to an amazing web of deceit and propaganda perpetrated
by them on the World Wide Web. He called for a NATIONWIDE BOYCOTT of Riskers
and Nexxus for "criminal subterfuge". "Just because we
won't sponsor them, financially, is no reason for them to act so bizarrely!"
he chided.
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- Mr. Barnes indicated that it all started
when one of the two, called American's 800 number and verbally demanded
"thousands of dollars" be paid to "Nexxus" by American
Computer, and insisting that they be "included in ACC's Roswell investigations".
The person indicated he had "just lost his job and needed some way
to support his wife and family" and that he had heard about American
from Art Bell (http://www.artbell.com). According to Barnes, American was
threatened by him telephonically, that, if ACC refused to sponsor his activities,
he, a former US Army Ranger, would 'destroy ACC, its staff and personnel
on the Internet, bearing false witnesses and deceptions intended to ruin
ACC's reputation, and otherwise undermine the entire ACC computer business.'
The demand: $150,000 in hush money.
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- According to Barnes, at first ACC treated
it from 'sympathy' over the report that Lamphere had been fired mid-december
from his former job with an organization he indicated had filmed all the
"cyclone video" footage for Jan De Bont's film "Twister".
However, subsequent threats by Lamphere and Andrews were renewed to such
an extent that the matter automatically became an issue for the legal authorities.
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- Mr. Barnes indicated: "It is American
Computer Company's publicly stated policy not to agree to blackmail attempts
or to hostage takers. We have refused to be involved with them, and refused
to pay them. As a result, these two persons using the names and two websites,
commenced exactly the threatened kinds of criminal extortion-like activities,
in my opinion. I personally believe them maybe to be somehow in the employ
of AT&T/Lucent Technologies, Inc. Corporate Security Department, by
means carefully obscured by 'no paper trail', run out of Bridgewater, New
Jersey, or by IBM Corporate Security, both of which have "storm trooper"
reputations, and which we have evidence have sent such fictitious characters
into American Computer semi-annually in the past, along with fictitious
emails, and other harassment, all in an effort to disrupt and dissipate
our efforts to compete in the PC marketplace.
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- Our evidence file has grown in recent
years, including films and photos of their staff members, testimony of
local police, surveillance by investigators, public records and other such
information, sufficient to convict both companies. As time goes on, each
additional infraction adds another nail to AT&T and IBM's coffin, as
eventually, lawsuits will be filed and they shall pay us for damages, asthey
have in two past lawsuits. We are AT&T and IBM's worst nightmare, a
company that's smarter than they are, with better products, and the ability
to dig up the kinds of FRAUDS and SCAMS they pull on the Public."
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- "In the present case of our direct
investigation of allegations that AT&T used its trusted relationship
with the Department of Defense, to loot technologies that made AT&T
hundreds of Billions of Dollars, as reflects in our materials, Stanton
Friedman's books, Lt. Phillip Corso's book, and the representations of
two NASA Astronauts, and in light of the SMOKE SCREEN coming from this
"Lan Lamphere", we are now even more inclined to believe WHERE
THERE IS SMOKE THERE'S FIRE! We are starting to truly believe that AT&T
(and IBM) did receive a UFO and/or crash debris from the War Department
in 1947, and that is probably the most earth shaking FRAUD and COVER-UP
of our time, even though we are still undecided. Imagine, this belief coming
from me: a confirmed skeptic days away from retirement, who until only
recently used to call the Roswell stories 'invented by a later day Orson
Welles'!".
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- According to Barnes: In writings to a
noted Radio Talk Show host, Lamphere and Todd Andrews insisted they were
prepared to "cut ACC a new A--h-le". Utilizing their Websites,
they then engaged in a campaign of lies, propaganda, slander, flame mail,
smear, bearing of false witnesses, false claims that they were "involved
with ACC in business" and that "they were customers of ACC dissatisfied
with their products", contacting ACC in the interim reminding them
that unless the money was forthcoming, the extortion and blackmail would
continue. They publicized the web registrations entered into forms by ACC
personnel for customers purchasing web sites from ACC, and contacted ACC
Customers, directly and by email, harassing them and offering them money
to claim they were not happy with their computers.
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- Barnes indicated that ACC's security
department has received several contacts from persons claiming to own ACC
products which were, in fact, not ACC products, during the course of the
past few weeks, as a result. Investigation of one of these calls, resulted
in a written confession from the caller, that he was an acquaintance of
Todd Andrews who had been pressured into contacting ACC and he knew Andrews
was gathering others to do the same thing, according to Barnes.
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- Further, Barnes indicated that whenever
ACC attempted to be "reconciliatory" towards the two perpetrators,
the harassment of ACC elevated to a worse level. Barnes said: both claim
to be friends and business associates of Stanton Friedman and Dr. Bruce
Maccabbee, but American found reason to believe the acquaintenship claimed
by Lamphere was only incidental and not formal, and may have been used
to lend credence to their claims of being "the largest UFO group on
the net", which they claim has "over 400 members". Barnes
found that by members, they meant people who register with their "website"
by clicking on a link giving one a password to access documents in their
"archives" - a very clever scheme to build membership, as he'd
ever seen. But groups like Cufon, Mufon, Francisco Lopez and so-on have
membership numbering in the millions, he indicated.
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- Barnes noted that the only other thing
he had gathered about the perpetrators "Andrews" and "Lamphere",
was that on their websites were stores which referred to an "Omega"
society they appeared to allege was "running the world", under
the alleged leadership of "Zodiak", who employs George Bush,
Ronald Reagan, Colin Powell and Norman Schwartzkopf, and have suggested
that the source of their story's verification, was "First Lady Hillary
Clinton". Barnes found these claims ludicrous and borderlining on
"psychotic". He said he felt that both persons might be "dangerous
lunatics" if they truly believed that Ronald Reagan and George Bush
were "running the world, or trying to" and that some hidden character
named "Zodiak" was in charge "behind the scenes".
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- "Next thing you know, they'll be
claiming that Jack Shulman is this 'Zodiak' and ACC is running the whole
show!" said Barnes.
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- Until recent telephone death threats
were made upon American Computer personnel, from person or persons shielding
their identities, telephonically threatening the heads of ACC, Barnes said:
ACC had proceeded as if the foregoing perpetrators were just "over-zealous
entrepreneurs" or "some left wing group" and had remained
silent. However Barnes indicated that matters of the extortion, and Website
blackmail, had now been relinquished to the hands of Legal Counsel. Barnes
indicated that the matter of the extortion and blackmail is now under investigation,
he indicated without saying by whom.
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- Barnes recommends that anyone reading
the foregoing persons 'pedestrian assaults on us from the NEXXUS and RISKERS
website and from the safety of anonymity, treat them in the proper light
of the huge monetary demands made upon us by phone and by email by Lamphere
and by the smear campaign from his cohort, Andrews'."
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- "Anyone with evidence or additional
information about the assault on ACC, should direct it to our email address
or, if you prefer, to our counsel:
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- Legal Department American Computer Company
6 Commerce Drive, 2nd Floor Cranford, NJ 07016"
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- -- Barnes concluded.
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- The above is not necessarily the opinion
of the American Computer Company. It is published for reasons of full
disclosure of the opinions of members of the public who respond to the
entertainment oriented piece: A SPECIAL INVESTIGATION of the Roswell/Corona
- AT&T Transistor allegations. Neither warranty nor guaranty of accuracy
is stipulated herein. For more information, contact the Legal Department
of the American Computer Company.
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- © 1998 American Computer Company.
All Rights Reserved.
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