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Dec. 26, 2005 In what Aruba will undoubtedly call a Christmas Day miracle, the timeline for the Internet-directed misinformation and defamation campaign targetted against all things Aruban (which had previously been determined to have commenced at 1:37 p.m. on May 31, 2005 http://www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/05dec/article248.html) has now been pushed back to May 30, 2005, at 10:41 p.m. As was revealed in the above article, “Another posting, by a newly minted and newly joined arbeej (likely the same person), was made at 11:46 p.m. on May 31, 2005.” Arbeej claims kinship with another self-confessed Mountain Brook Internet expert; an individual who, in a feat of preternatural prescience which must have Nostradamus hanging his head in shame (and Serenissimus Petrus doing cartwheels), wrote about Natalee Holloway “being raped, molested and used. Thats not funny. She is being drugged so she doesnt know where she is, the crack whores are passing her around, the Aruban government wont do anything about it because ... well they dont really have a government.“ (http://www.livejournal.com/users/yx32oblivion/ May 31, 2005, 11:17 p.m.) Both Arbeej and her relative (who interchangeably post as mbhs05, mmsmyly and salksalk) are both heavily into ellipse-larded prose and should seek counselling for their ongoing grief, as their litany of outrage, whilst most impressively prolific, has continued, unabated, for almost seven full months. The reputations and innermost secrets of Joran van der Sloot, the Kalpoe brothers, all of their friends and even the most casual of their acquaintances have been gleaned from the Internet and, often accompanied by obscenity-filled defamations, spread infamously across the World Wide Web. In a most fitting of reversals, when the Arbeej-related mbhs05 attempted to spread misinformation at http://ceetveerefugees.11.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?28377#28377 on December 25, board regulars hoisted her upon her own petard and refuted her misstatements with information contained in the publicly accessible weblogs of purported Mountain Brook friends and trip participants (almost all of whom, most curiously, make no mention at all of that vanishing--which eventually spawned hundreds of thousands of outraged, anguished Internet postings and festooned their fair city in miles of yellow ribbons). Those working Christmas Day are usually low down on the seniority list and the initial poster was quickly and decisively hung, drawn and quartered. In a quick (but failed) attempt to patch the new holes in the Holloway hoodwinking, a glib-talking individual with a very familiar style, posting as the newly joined DeanDonovan and obviously much higher up the HMI misinformation ladder, pushed himself away from his festive feast and tried to limit the extent of the damage with the use of a few thousand carefully chosen words (and what is union scale for a holiday call-out?). Tsk, tsk. Many CTVers must be from Missouri, the show-me state, as they certainly didn’t buy the pig in the poke that Farmer Dean was trying to pass off as prime pork, and it didn’t take long for him to be sent packing back to the baloney-laden board from whence he was called (he, unlike Beth, did not vow to return http://www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/sept/article109.html) The Internet is indeed a remarkable tool; it is invaluable to those running smear- and defamation-filled donation drives, yet it also unites people with common goals and allows them to exchange ideas, perceptions of injustice and their suggestions for making Humpty Dumpty whole again. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men didn’t have the powers of the World Wide Web at their disposal, and certainly didn’t have the one-click-away ability to instantly communicate with Representative Spencer Bachus, the Birmingham FBI and Deputy Chief Dompig of the Aruban law enforcement department. Sated with a their feasts of turkey, hopefully rejuvenated by some well-earned rest, might not the foregoing want to do some poking of their own at the proffered, mysterious pig in the poke—especially inasmuch as the origins of the story keep moving further back in time: if it goes much further back, the Internet campaign will have started before Natalee Holloway left Alabama for Aruba? ------------ About the author: Dayo Gould is a frequent visitor to Aruba, and is a volunteer ESL teacher in a Christian school. Email: ed_asp@hotmail.com Tell your friends about this site! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com. Please link to this article rather than copying and pasting it onto your site (which would be unauthorized and illegal). |
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