Just got home to find a letter from the lawyers of Melinda Tankard Reist demanding I withdraw all my posts about her or very bad things will ensue.
This is pretty amusing when you read some of the things MTR writes about those she does not approve of.
She’s going to have to sue a few more blogs than just mine, because I’m not the only one who’s written that she’s a Baptist, and attends Belconnen Baptist Church. It’s well in the public domain.
And how bizarre it is that someone who is a devout Christian is so cagey about her faith and her practice? Why not be open about her religious faith? Christians usually are. What does she have to hide?
At least I know now why Rachel Hills didn’t ask those questions, or if she asked the questions, didn’t publish any answers!
“Write about my religious beliefs and I’ll sue you!” Now that’s novel.
If you want to see just how cagey MTR is about this watch this interview with ABC TV’s Jane Hutcheon when Hutcheon asks about her religion and how it affects her work. She tries to follow Jesus, she says, but she doesn’t want anybody focusing on her religion because that will distract from her work.
Well, we might all be about to find out just exactly what MTR’s religious faith is, because she’s going to have to come clean if she wants to sue me.
Just when you think things can’t get any more bizarre…
No Place For Sheep 
It is a cowardly thing to coercively censor out dissent- what you’d expect from an ultraist, but might have been more constructive if she had engaged with some of the issues raised here.
Or did she lack the courage of her convictions.
Censorship is no substitute for honest discussion. She’s handed Jenny victory on a platter in the War of Ideas through a refusal to engage and to present her ideas for consideration, as should be the case.
Gutless.
What has she to hide, that she must resort to this?
Her own ignorance?
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Makes you wonder doesn’t it? What is being hidden? Maybe we’re going to find out.
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good on you for not giving in to her bullying
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Thank you, I don’t like bullies either.
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#24 January A reminder, sorry it’s on the wrong thread.
# 9:30
The Man Who Jumped
Send to a friend
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Australia Day 2002. In South Australia’s Woomera detention centre, protests by asylum seekers erupted. More than 200 of the detainees were on hunger strike, some had sewed their lips together. The atmosphere was explosive. At the height of the conflict, a bare-chested young man climbed on to the perimeter fence and, without warning, jumped on to the coiled razor wire below. Ten years on, this program revisits this disturbing story and asks: Who was this man? Why did he jump and what happened to him? (Commissioned by SBS) (Documentary) M (A,L) CC
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It’s amusing that she seems to think that only men can be interested in porn… it’s too bad she’s completely wrong
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I know, bit like Queen Victoria who refused to believe women could be lesbian.
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Very amusement. Surely the philosophical basis, religious or otherwise, of a writer’s worldview is absolutely central to forming an understanding of that worldview. Personally, I find the issuing of legal threats on a subject central to an author’s writing to be the hallmark of a bully and a coward. My opinion of MTR’s intellectual honesty, already pretty low, just plummeted another six notches.
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Yes, are we to be forbidden to make any comment about a public figure’s philosophical bent?
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Yeah, but Marilyn,what do you think of the censorship tactic employed against Jennifer Wilson?
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Hi Jennifer,
You’re not the only one to face such a threat from MTR. I seem to recall that she once said that she believed the best tactic was to ignore her online critics. The criticism must be beginning to hurt. In any case, it’s a tactical mistake on her part. Very few people appreciate silencing criticism.
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Thanks Ray, I agree with you on the tactics. Especially as everything I wrote is already in the public domain!
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I suspect that some people she has been associated with through Spinifex are beginning to back away because of her religious links. Being associated with feminist academics has helped her credibility. To have them begin to distance themselves will hurt.
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I don’t think I’ve heard of a public figure being so insistent on denying their religious beliefs – what does it say if you think your religion is going to distract from your message?!
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It’s the same as the censorship tactic that was used against me when I first wrote about the story that will now be shown in film and the same as the tactic used by Amanda Vanstone for calling her a fucking liar and having 2 burly AFP on my doorstep, something it seems they still do.
And the same as the tactics employed by ASIO to keep babies jailed as a “security” risk.
I do not like censorship by anyone.
Russell Skelton tried to sue me once because I showed him up to be a liar and fraud – I sooled a renowned barrister on him and never heard from him again.
As for MTR, she needs to go and join the tea party but she should not be censored either, even by herself.
Come on Melinda dear, do tell us all about your religious nut baggery because if adults want to make or watch porn it is their business.
of course if it involves snuff films, actual rape and children they should be lined up against a brick wall.
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Hi M,
I might be a little slow, but are you MS of K, SA, champion multiple letter writer to The Age and the like over the years about the so-called immigration debate?
I don’t mean to be nosy (although that’s what I’m doing) but if you are, I’d just like to thank you for your doggedness and voice (one of a handful) of common sense in the wilderness. If not, I’m still a little shocked (I shouldn’t be, but I do hope for the best) that Amanda would send some heavies around to shut you up. Democracy for some…
Okay, end of nosiness… Hope you don’t mind.
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I hope I’m not transgressing by writing the above, Jennifer.
Let me know. I mean well 🙂
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Course you aren’t. Gruffbutt. I was wondering where you’d got to.
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What does it say if you think your religion distracts from the message? I suspect you know the answer. The public tends to turn off when they know you are pushing a religious agenda so she’s tried to hide it and promote herself as a secular feminist. It’s dishonest.
Of course, she’ll try and argue that is irrelevant, but it is very relevant.
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I’m guessing you’re enjoying this??? LOL 🙂
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Well, you’ve gotta laugh, don’t you, Jennifer! It’s just too silly to be taken seriously, and it’s obvious that you and others like you are ‘damaging her brand’ – so they’ve resorted to the LCD in such affairs, legal action – no mediation I gather, just straight for the writ… 🙂
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Yes, I know – its what bullies do. It’s consistent with all her actions – intimidation, threats to boycott, petitions – I wasn’t all that surprised when the letter arrived. No suggestion of mediation.
I loved a tweet I got a little while ago: “Who would Jesus sue?” 🙂
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Yes, well mediation would be the Christian thing to do, ‘turn the other cheek’ what!
Except she doesn’t want to do that because that would give the game away; that would expose her religion…
Can’t have that now, can we…
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Good to see Stilgherrian weighing in.
Marilyn’s second post was on the mark; she is truly a battle scarred warrior of the culture wars.
And yes
Marilyn, you are well entitled to maintain the rage regarding the still unresolved asylum seeker situation that causes so much unnecessary suffering- we should be aware of the consequences that would be visited upon us should we ever become so careless as to take our freedoms for granted and wake up to find ourselves in such a situation. Only in the honouring of other people s needs will we shore up our own lives, as Niemoller and others pointed out
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Funny thing is I had previously just tended to ignore her, now I’m telling everybody I get the chance to about her immoral deceptive fundamentalist campaign against civil rights.
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Excellent!
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Can you publish the letter from the lawyers? My legal mind is curious about what exactly they allege to be false and defamatory.
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No, unfortunately I can’t. Of course MTR is very welcome to reply and I would certainly publish any communication from her. Her lawyer’s letter of demand isn’t for publication.
I think it’s significant that this is her first port of call – the lawyers, the threats, the attempts at intimidation. She could have very easily written a piece refuting everything I wrote, and put it up on her blog and mine. However, she chose the bullying path first off.
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Jennifer, it is standard for defamation letters from lawyers to include a sentence that states “This letter is not for publication”. There is absolutely no legal standing for that and its part of the satdnard scare mongering practice of such things.
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Yes, I suspected that but am not brave enough to risk it!
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Also, in accordance with Netiquette, you SHOULD offer her (either directly or via her lawyers) a “right of reply” – if she posts a response, do provide us with a link. I’m skeptical they’ll follow through with their threat to sue. Thanks.
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Hello! Was just directed to this via Leslie Cannold’s tweet. I just wanted to note that I believe the story about Queen Victoria refusing to acknowledge the existence of lesbians is not true. I was disabused of this by a Victorian studies professor who explained it thus (if memory serves—it was more than 20 years ago): a law was to be passed that would forbid people of the same sex sharing a bed (which definitely does sound like a anti-gay law, no doubt). Queen Victoria refused to endorse it because it would preclude sisters, female cousins and close friends from sharing a bed when this was in fact very common practice. We err in assessing Victoria/ns as prudish—it’s clear QV enjoyed a very enthusiastic and satisfactory sex life with Albert, and, returning to your theme of anti-porn crusaders, the Victorians were extremely (here’s that word again) enthusiastic collectors of porn. As for MTR, I recycled the magazine she was featured in last weekend without reading it. I’m trying to exclude from my life things that make me rationally but impotently angry, so thanks for fighting the fight for me. Also—hypocrite much, MTR? Jeez.
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I hope this doesn’t mean the royal family will come after me as well. Thanks for that, maybe Victoria was very misunderstood.
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Victoria and Albert were also very enthusiastic collectors of art featuring nudes, especially sculpture… 🙂
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Nah, Queen Lizzie knows well that many of the men in her employ over the years at Buckingham palace have been gay. She has been known to stand on the balcony/landing and call down to the kitchen something like – ‘can any of the queens in the kitchen get an old queen up here some supper?”
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We must fight them from the air, from the land…… wall by wall, hole by hole. We won’t give up an inch… nor single leylandii, from colour bonded suburb to zinc alumed suburb, man to man to women to men to women to women. We won’t give up. never!
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Although the whole prude vs porn argument doesnt really interest me, I find it interesting that the usual arguments for allowing some level of pornography tend to lie around : civil liberties, removal of government control over peoples personal choices and a general view against censorship. There are some much more positive arguments that can be put. For instance for those needing sperm donation the use of magazines at sperm banks can assist the collectors efforts, those with dull sex lives can spice it up a little by trying something new – (thinking bored long term partners here), and the knowledge that having a sex life is good for healthy living / general happiness.
The Baptist Christian thing tends to want to restrict a sex life to only those in married states and willing to procreate…a bit of an extreme example of over controlling dominating behaviour in my opinion. Don’t they have restraining orders for this type of behaviour?
Disclaimer: I’ve never been much interested in porn as Ive always preferred to be a participant than just a spectator of other peoples efforts.
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I find your disclaimer somewhat weird, AJ, are you saying that porn is only for the partner-less?
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I’ve come from Skepticlawyer. Scary stuff this, the treat to sue, if you expose. They shoot messengers, don’t they, though hopefully not always. I admire your courage in standing up to such threats with further exposition.
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Thank you. I don’t scare easily and I don’t like being bullied either. 🙂
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I personally dont give a fuck about peoples beliefs, as someone that values civil liberty I won’t use it to drive a wedge between people, I will always attack an argument on merit, whoever it is.
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Thanks for commenting, Wil. Sometimes beliefs are relevant, sometimes they aren’t is what I think.
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For reflection and gaining insight into wowserism, get a decka at this. All the way back in 1956.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/rewind/txt/s1189084.htm
Of course Eugene Goossens has since been restored somewhat but as a man he was demolished.
You could also peruse the sad case of Prof.Sam Orr of Tasmania a few years later.
Finally: In (Anglo) Court you often get ‘law’ not always ‘justice’.
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Yes, Australians like to think they are tolerant but there is a very strong current of Puritan wowserism and moral fascism in this country.
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You’re certainly not alone Jennifer. I too have been threatened by MTR with legal action, along with receiving threatening and abusive (bullying) emails, from one of her ‘lap dogs’ for telling my truth about my experience of her through a couple of my campaigns. Her wrath laid upon me was due to my association with Leslie Cannold during my Pull the Pin (on beauty pageants for children) campaign. Little did I know that that would be like waving a red rag to a bull. However, instead of calling and speaking with me directly, she contacted personal friends of mine AND MY EMPLOYER in an attempt to undermine me, and I was tossed from her fold faster than I could say ‘Jesus!’. She was most upset with me for sharing an article Leslie wrote calling some child beauty pageant objectors ‘religious psuedo-feminists’, and insisted that I must have known Leslie was referring to her (I didn’t know – or care).
@Tiga Bu – despite my best efforts and offers to respectfully resolve this with her, mediation was never an option for her. She has since been dogged in her crusade against me, creating a ‘war’ where there wasn’t one and asking some mutual friends whose ‘mast they pin their flag to’.
I haven’t experienced anything like this since high school – in fact, not even then! It’s very disturbing that this is coming from someone who is speaking out using a supposedly feminist platform. Bullying and attempting to silence others is anti-feminist in my opinion, and all of this takes away from what the real issues are.
Her threatening email to me said not to reply to her directly but through her lawyers – but she didn’t leave their contact details, and I still haven’t heard boo from them. I wish they’d call ‘coz I have shitloads of emails and messages they’d love. Truth is the best defence to defamation.
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I’M Jennifer Wilson!
I’m also Catherine Manning!
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The question is… who exactly is the user jjane246 on wikipedia — the person who apparently has signed up to ‘edit’ wikipedia to change just one single page.
Guess which one 🙂
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/jjane246
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This is Tankard Reist Wikipedia page which is edited within an inch of its life?
On the RiotAct blog this: http://the-riotact.com/melinda-tankard-reist-suing-a-femblogger-for-calling-her-a-baptist/63602
and this:
“Interestingly the Google Cache for MTR’s facebook page has this to say:
Tankard Reist has links with Australia’s Right to Life Association. and Endeavour Forum, which promotes the claim that induced abortion causes breast cancer. For instance, Tankard Reist was invited to speak at EF’s July 1997 public meeting, an event reported in the Endeavour Forum newsletter of that month on pages 1 and 12, in which the self-styled feminist is described as “Mrs” Tankard Reist. She attends the Belconnen Baptist Church, Canberra.
But the current page makes no such mention.
MTR’s Wikipedia revision history is a fascinating document. But the reference to her attendance at Belconnen Baptist Church appears to have been removed on 12 December 2011”
Looks like somebody is trying to cover their tracks.
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What are ‘The Chaser’ doing?
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The last few, re Wiki, are devastating revelations- far from trying to initiate debate, they seem in fact to have been actively removing contextual information to hinder people’s understanding of where a number of ideas that others might find peculiar, might derive.
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Found this tweet at http://www.sci-ence.org/red-flag2/
IT seems to fit here exceptionally well:
‘Amazing how ugly “love they neighbour” Christians get at the smallest sign they don’t get their way.’
Who would Jesus sue? No one, he didn’t have lots of money like MTR obviously has to waste on lawyers…And his opinion of such people is quite clear.
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I know I was going to try to resist, but I have to say Jennifer: I think you could take this as your official welcome to the Australian commentariat!
As to the question of what she has to hide my response would be probably not that much. Look at it in this round-about way: I’m spending a coulpe of weeks in Taiwan hanging out with my other half and her extended family. The presidential election, which concluded yesterday, was fought to a background of uncertainty of over the very future of the country. Despite the successful incumbant Ma Ying Jeou’s ostensibe support for closer relations with China, politics here really is a balancing act between mitigating the threat of being engulfed by China and the knowledge that there is such a depth of feeling surrounding the sanctity of the Taiwanese identity and way of life that any attempt to restrict that would cause wide-scale unrest. In that sense, the current state of detente is almost inevitable, and so Taiwanese people need to live their lives and conduct international trade with the knowledge that any wrong move could contribute either to a loss of self-determination, or to the possibility of some kind of war, maybe involving the US, Australia etc.
You have said here several times that the issues MTR deals with – pornography, the supposed dissolving of social standards – are pretty insignificant when all is said and done. And that’s just it: if she can get so worked up over your blog that she has to pay people to threaten you (I wonder how much that letter cost her??) then I’d say it’s highly likely she’s a person who is incapable of looking outside of herself and of considering the serious issues that face real people out there in the real world. And it seems you’ve just proven that to all of us.
Victory by knock-out! Who’s next? Jesus? If you don’t watch out you’ll find yourself on Q&A 😉
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Reading through this post made me stop and ponder something. Out of curiosity I am posing this as a question. Given your outright rejection of Christian based morality Jen, do you embrace any kind of philosophy, belief or ethical teachings? Asked merely for information…am curious where your values lie (Understand if you prefer not to disclose on a public blog though)
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I don’t embrace any institutionalized morality. I love many things Jesus said but I have no interest in the religions built up around someone I regard as a thinking human being. I read and appreciate a wide range of thinkers and philosophers but am not tied to “believing” in any of them. I’m just not a believer. I’m not very interested in any theory or philosophy that has no practice. I’ve long been interested in human rights, especially with regard to asylum seekers, women and children.
I don’t think I outrightly reject all Christian morality, but there are expressions of that morality I do reject. I was educated in a high Anglican convent school, and I had nothing but love and respect for the nuns who cared for me and taught me. But they were nothing like fundamentalist Christians in their outlook.
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my first thought is to repeat it on my blog and encourage other bloggers I know to repeat it, so that Tanky has to stump up Interim Disbursements to cover action against lots and lots and lots of people.
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The first thought is often the best, and that’s all I’ll say 🙂
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I already had MTR listed on my own blog as one of several “Enemies of Austraian Internet”. Happy to mirror as well.
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Thanks, that’s a great idea.
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On my blog I embedded a video of Melinda talking to Shine TV, a Christian organisation. It features shots of her talking at a NZ ‘family’ conference. Here is video evidence of her links to conservative Christian groups http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5-NM_qvq6E
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I’m loving the “Miracle Prayer Requests” advert that is overlayed on that interview 😀
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See in that YouTube clip where MTR says pornification “has crept up on us through adversiting, through marketing through the goals of global corporations … “they’ve” done 2 things; they’ve targeted children,… and they used sexualised ways of targeting the children” … then brings in the pornography industry … very “gish-gallop”-like in her ongoing ‘commentary’.
She undermines some good points by conflating a number of issues, and ignores the role of parents and community standards through schools and other civil entities in countering those, until prompted, yet even then implies parents are only “rising up” after being led by organisations such as hers.
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oh dear Tiga – do not mock. My Miracle Prayer is that Tanky just go away.
You say it only works if I am A Believer?
Like the Tooth Fairy?
goes off singing that Monkees hit
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It is good to see Marshall Stacks’ contribution, amplified by Ann O’ Dyne further along the (food?) chain. This ampification emphasises the sorry tale of coercion sympathetically added by another victim, Catherine Manning, an instance that reveals that proto fascism is no joking matter.
Litigate or perish.
Those of us attempting to retrieve St Clair Park in Adelaide back from the developers, have been subjected to a similar campaign of threats, trolling etc, from a right wing Labor mp and former cabinet minister, for similarly trying to break through a wall of silence.
The processes outlined here have been stock-standard formulaic from the right, since they succeeded in gagging Bob Brown over Tassie rainforests, back early in the decade.
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In my opinion it seems like MTR realises that if there is any religious connotation associated with her opinions the majority will simply dismiss her as a bible basher and she will lose what little legitimacy she had left.
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I’ve wondered if that is the reason behind it all.
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MTR’s is related to a guy who is a fundamentalist Paster running a offshoot of the CRC’s in Red Cliffs near Mildura. Perhaps thats whats she is hiding.
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What a pathetic coward.
What’s she hiding?
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I really, really wish you well.
My partner & I, artists, have been defending a defamation claim brought against us in Feb/March 2011.
My partner, whose comments on this matter can be found on her site http://leeanneart.com/guildfordlanegallery.html , expresses similar sentiments to yours when we received such legal documents.
From our own experience, I am sorry to say that it is probably going to get uglier and far worse. We have so far paid around $40,000.00 in legal fees.
The Australian legal community does not care…
In the US they call this a SLAPP.
As a consequence of the defamation action against us even Telstra disconnected us from the internet. We had to wait a month for re-connection. This is possible in Australia because there are no laws here that protect against what in the US is called “prior restraint”.
We had to host our websites in the USA.
Defamation relies on what is called a “reverse onus”, that is, you have to prove you did not defame, rather than your accuser prove their claim. Ugly indeed!
The law even implies that even though what you have written is true, “truth” is only an excuse, and that you really have defamed the person, but defamed them legitimately.
Our experience is recounted here http://www.cyberrefugee.com
I, and (on behalf of my partner) wish you the very best of luck – and that someone will act for you pro bono…. Demetrios Vakras
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Dear Melinda Tankard Reist,
Can you please confirm here and now that neither you nor your supporters (supporters being just that, or those registered to your site,colleagues etc)have ever influenced any content on the ABC nor received any preferential treatment.
Can you also state here or on the ABC Drum that you have never used a pseudonym(or more than one pseudonym) to reply on any ABC online forum/blog or on this blog.
Ms Reist did you manipulate or filter the data in your book on post abortion females or not.
If you say no please publish ALL of the raw data minus individual names.
You ‘appear’ to have a problem with sex melinda.
What is it?
Something other than the kitten executions?
Should the whole of society pay for your insecurities?
Why is that?
My final advice MTR?
Seek non religious professional assistance.It’s not too late.
And for the record it is really pathetic to bully on one hand the one person who always responded under her own name on her ABC Drum articles while you shape shifted ad infinitum to avoid damaging your brand,
You suck lady.
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I saw the interview with Jane Hutcheon and I cringed in pseudo sympathy for the ever so prude Reist as she denied her own make believe God.
A woman of little obvious principle clutching to the school girl $$$ circuit and malleable teenage minds to earn a quid and waffle part-time to the sadly gullible converted suburban groinal cob-webbers.
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Reist is a coward and a bully, now she’ll know what the Streisand effect is.
You have my support.
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Is it too early to start making pledges for the legal fighting fund?
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Yes! I haven’t received any court papers so as of now it’s still in the threat stage. Thank you so much.
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Dear MTR,
It’s true that you are also seeking to legally impose editing,retractions and adjustments to ABC Drum/Opinion comments and articles, as you have on this blog and other individuals, isn’t it?
(ABC ghosts awatching, please comment.If you don’t the Minister will.)
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If anyone from
anonymous
is reading can they please find out whether MTR or her supporters are using pseudonyms on online blogs,particularly the ABC and on this authors blogs and upload that information.The Pseudos they would be good.
Cheers.
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This morning there was a blog on the ABC (Drum or Opinion) about media and it seems to have mysteriously disappeared?
Anyone else notice?
No point in asking Aunty she is as bent as a clock spring.
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As someone who writes opinion pieces for a living, including occasionally for ABC’s The Drum, I find this sort of paranoid conspiracy theory hilarious. A vague hand-wavey allegation that the ABC is corrupt because, oh, something happened that you didn’t understand but didn’t bother to actually ask them about. Instead, in the middle of the night, you post a comment on an unrelated story on an unrelated website.
You know the number one cause of stories appearing online and then disappearing in the middle of the night? Tired editors preparing a story for later publication and accidentally posting it live rather than scheduling it to be posted later — then noticing their mistake and fixing it. A slip of the mouse.
You know the number one reason editors don’t respond to indignant allegations of conspiracy from the punters? They’re too busy and simply don’t have the time.
As someone who used to be a producer for ABC Radio a couple decades or more back, I know that when a punter presents “Aunty is as bent as a clock spring” a statement of fact and says, quite clearly, that there’s “no point” because their mind is already made up on that point that there’s little benefit in continuing the dialogue. And yes, I’m well aware of the contradiction inherent of what I’m doing right now.
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“You see, yet another lackey of the ABC trying to stifle the truth! They know no limits of depravity, these (ex)ABC types, and will stop at nothing to prevent the truth from being heard and to defend the indefensible!!! It is shameful!!! It is corrupt!!! It is proof that all we’ve been saying about Aunty is true!!!!”
I said that out-loud, didn’t I…
Actually, I’m joking, and I agree with you, Stilgherrian; I was just running through the possible replies in my heid…
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High horse you have there pardner.
The ABC has had ample opportunity and most of the spaghetti solutions you flung have been hurled before and missed the wall.
The ABC could easily have dispelled any doubt by allowing a more open approach to their editing and moderating.
Many bloggers there have had similar ‘suspect experiences’
Maybe next time youre in the building chowing down on biscuits we paid for you can ‘borrow’ a list of the past and present moderation team.
The ABC can also come out of their bunker and say something anytime they like,
because if MTR has not complained ad nauseum over the years about Drum and Opinion comment on Wilson articles I’ll eat Uluru.
She ‘seems’ to have very successful in that endeavour.Very(wink wink)
Can’t say I’ve ever seen one response under Reists name though.
Here she is so committed to the cause, and yet no words under her name on any of Wilsons works.
And free speech is not filtered text.
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And here is it might be timely to say that No Place for Sheep does not necessarily endorse commenters’ opinions.
I like to run an open comments section with minimum moderation. But if you overstep I will delete the bits I don’t like without explanation.
Hoffman that smiley wasn’t enough to stop you getting deleted. 🙂 If you want to insult people go and do it on their blogs.
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By the way Stilgherrian the post quoted below was for you.
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Hoffmann says:
January 21, 2012 at 11:29 am
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i just cannot believe my eyes…talking about the pots calling the kettle black..gees tall poppy syndrome is alive and well eh? WHAT an absolute load of cyberbabbling bullies..google;* the psychology of projection* and take a good long hard look at yourselves people..you are so far off the beam its not even funny.
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Im not sure which way your arguing here Zeitgeister? What is it you are specifically calling “projection” please?
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Is MS Devine (the official fluffer, foghorn of Liberal misery), filtering her in tray?
Hot kitchen syndrome M’Lady?
(Oh!, of course,the interwebby thing might be a-broken LOL.)
Sound familiar?
Either way, No comments appear on this Pusillanimous, Sycophantic,Grovelling Apologetic Official Advertorial for the MTR campaign to ‘define all forms of non marital sex’ as acts of physical terrorism.
By the way—- Ms “Mere-Anger Defined”,
The MTR lawyers are the ones waging a campaign.
That’s the witch hunt.
The subsequent reaction is justified and growing.
Their tactic of waiting to try to ride this out is about to reach the good old Aussie conclusion befitting such cock-sure bullying.
It’s called, ” to come a gutsa.”
And M’Lady, quite contrary that you say that those ‘seeking truth’ are witch hunters, and those ‘hiding ‘it are the heroins.
I believe it’s called a *white arm band view* of history. One which takes puerile to a whole new level.
(*Denial* for the bright ones.)
And we all know that denial is a dish best served by hypocrites.
Therein lies the crux of the Crux.
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Religion is to be written about because it’s in the public domain. If you don’t want people to write about your religious beliefs, keep it to yourself. Keep up the good work, this is a brilliant blog. Many thanks.
Greetings from London.
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I very much appreciate your encouragement my friend and am now going to chill out and listen to Cohen’s Songs from the Road! 🙂
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How would I see such a conversation emerging? A tightly moderated thread for such an event, no sarking; no personal rancour.
Melinda Tankard Reist ought to expect questions on concerning the basis and back ground of her ideas and whatever concrete proposals she may have the future. After all, Mel, it seems you are the one who wants to change things, we have a right to know what, why and the right to question the assumptions that lead to propositions. Dr Wilson surely knows the difference between snideness, for the want of something better, and a legitimate query?
So, NOT idiot bald statements like, “she’s a bible basher-nick off”, prejudging as to any alleged fundamentalism before the woman has had a chance to put her view across.
In return, how about less Manichean hyperbole as to the “all men are beasts” line, for example, from Tankard Reist?
Less emotionalism for want of a kinder term, from debaters and subsequent posters.
Perhaps more development of the “commodification” line”,what it means, is, how it works and how, where or even if its necessary or possibl,e to prevent “commodification” of a new generation, given the complexities of human individuation in a given socio-cultural millieu and given we live in a society increasingly “capitalist”, for want of a better word a society increasingly driven by “whatever it takes”, in the aggregation of wealth and power for a few.
Is commodification achieved most effectively through porn, or do the big business purveyors of youth culture do this in more sophisticated ways,as w e might see with the morbid dwelling upon the sex lives of movie stars at a site like Fairfax on line, at he expense of better developed sensibilities?
Or are libertarians to blame, even if their pastimes only occur in the privacy of their own homes, among consenting adults?
If there is some sort of censorship on the agenda, how is this worked to prevent censorship of politics and current affairs, as appears possible with the Conroy plan?
I’d imagine there is so much of substance that could be investigated in a non adversarial way, that trolls would be inclined to drop away and those with a genuine interest encouraged, instead.
Come on, fellas! I’d fall over from shock if a civilised event were ever to take place, of course.
Maybe a good way to reduce tensions and remember we are all human, would be to drop further legal threats, until the notion of a proper and constructive debate is first investigated. If agreement was reached on terms and means for a conversation and participants THEN abused by partisans,THEN whoever was in the wrong could be subject to legal process and whoever got nailed, I’d have no sympathy whatsoever for, if an insult was gratuitous.
As I said above, all conjectural and the main figures will do as they see fit, it’s their lives.
But I find it wounding, to think that not only morons, but educated adults- more the shame- can’t conduct a discussion on issues of mutual concern, for the benefit of all concerned.
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