Anonymous writes:
Note that everyone who has ever disagreed with Mr. Echols is by definition a "child sex predator and child pornographer" and winds up having any personal information Mr. Echols can scrape up on them placed on Mr. Echols Web site of "child sex predators and child pornographers."
Ah yes, good ol' Mike Echols. A person so low that even rabble-rousers like Ms. Anne Cox of CPAC refuse to mention his name without spitting. The feds are very happy that Echols is in business, of course, as long as he continues to direct his harrassment efforts at people critical of the governments anti-porn and censorship agenda. They'll do anything to help him, particularly through quasi-governmental organizations like NCMEC, as long as they keep their plausible deniability intact should he go too far. A pest with friends in high places, one might say.
Any animosity directed at Mr. Echols by individuals thus libeled merely serves to reinforce Mr. Echols' delusions that he is continuously under attack by "child sex predators and child pornographers" for his fabulous work in protecting children from "child sex predators and child pornographers."
To a hammer, everything looks like a nail. To a "child-saver," everything looks like a pedophile. One day, not so long ago, I flamed some member of the frothing radical feminist man-haters contingent, who wanted to shred the Constitution, and the next day, I was rewarded with my own entry on Echol's page, inviting people to mail in my personal information so it could be posted. Later, I engaged arch-kook Noreen Gosch on a CNN IRC server, from a shell box in Salt Lake City, and Echols happily added "Lives in Salt Lake City" to my entry. Noreen is a fine woman who thinks that the International Pedophile Conspiracy is run under the CIA's MK-ULTRA program, and uses Satanic Ritual Abuse to produce multiple personalities in their secret child operatives. Of course, it's all run by Michael Aquino, who has had his own problems with the Echols and Goschs of the world. The Animal Emancipations folks have a very amusing Echols web page of their own, with audio files of threats he left on their answering machines. Yes, Echols not only does pedophiles, he does animal rights activists too.
From a Cypherpunkish point of view, I suppose we should mirror Echols all over the place, and build him his own Eternity Server, should the BoyChat folks succeed in making him ISPless.
From a practical point of view, Echols is likely to become a lot more dangerous, now that we have Ashcroft in office, and the government is about to embark on another Ed Meese-style "porn causes all crime" campaign with the help of its conservative fellow travellers.
It would be highly amusing if he managed to mainstream himself, and by the second Shrub term, had gotten himself installed as our nations first Pedophile Czar. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"