True Lies

Just when I think I have seen it all, I am again awed by the amazing agility of the human mind.  The ability to twist truth into lies and lies into truth was demonstrated during an exchange I had recently with a UK Susan Boyle fan. 

I don't call them lies, I call them a difference of opinion.

Let’s see…  if you think something happened (even if it didn’t), is it your opinion that matters, rather than the truth?

I differed in my opinion from others and who I chose to believe, it is a free country.

You may indeed differ in your opinions and in whom you choose to believe.  But that still does not make the issue a matter of opinion.  If you choose to believe the earth is flat, that does not mean it is flat.  It simply means you are wrong.  You chose to believe the cyber-bully, but that does not mean the things he told you were true.  It simply means you were wrong. 

Thye (sic) and I were posting our thoughts as we saw them, we are entitled to our opinion.

“Our thoughts as we saw them”?  No matter how divorced from reality those thoughts were, you cling to them as an entitlement.  As the saying goes; you are entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own facts.  Some members who believed in the takeover hoax appear to be so invested in the erroneous scenario that they cannot let it go. 

I suspect that is why we did not get actual apologies for the lies and false accusations.  Instead, there was generic one-size-fits-all-and-covers-all apology in the board report that did not address the behavior of staff last July and August. 

In fact, the Board report actually made the situation worse. Instead of addressing the lies and resulting actions, the report perpetuated some of the lies and created new ones.  This was a deliberate cover-up.  Not only were staff unaccountable for their actions, but the report sought to shift the blame to others. 

People who knew it was not true wrote and signed that report.  Pickled Tink created and signed a report she knew was not true.  Lonni signed a report she knew did not tell the whole story.  Truus signed a report she knew did not tell the truth. 

If the rest of the Board read the Aug. 4 report from lchris, they were aware that at least parts of the official report were not true.  They are all liable for that document.   And there is no indemnity insurance.  I wonder if SBFII could ever purchase indemnity insurance given Kalua's personal situation.

O villainy! Ho! let the door be lock'd

Kalua:   As administrator of this forum Susan Boyle comes first, but the protection of all the members of this forum is my duty.

The protection of members should indeed be a priority.  But the forum has consistently failed to protect members from a persistent and dangerous cyber-bully.  This person has had at least 23 different identities on the forum alone.  He has plagued Susan Boyle sites all over the internet.

He has concocted and/or exacerbated damaging stories about Susan, her family, her management team and her fans.  He has posted online, and sent messages by PM and by email.  He has even tried to profit from his malicious fabrications by selling them to eager tabloids and told fans to 'watch for' it.

He has told many lies to many people, but one of his most successful attacks on the Susan Boyle fan community occurred last July.  He was instrumental in the uproar on the forum because he was in communication with Lonni, Judy, Mirrim, CanadianBill, UKSusanfanAnn and Marty, to name a few. 

He had somehow gained credibility with both Admins and some Staff and members as Mark Conner/Orgonon and perhaps other false identities.  He may well have been in touch with other staff and members. He convinced them that the other fan sites were going to “takeover” SBFII.  He told lies about lchris, Citroenlady, Dyebat and others.

He has told many lies about fans from Susan Boyle fansites.  He sent messages with those lies to other fans and to Susan Boyle's family and Sony and her management companies.  Then he proceeded to accuse the fans who received his messages of being the ones who started the false rumors.  He often twisted facts around like that, pitting one person or group against another.  It is sick. 

The SBFII site Admins and some Staff have known about him in his various guises for many months.  They have banned him repeatedly, but he keeps coming back.  He has been able to continue fooling people because no one will publicly post his false identities, emails and stories so that all members of the Susan Boyle community would be informed and forewarned.

LChris has lobbied hard for this information to be made available to you, the members, for your safety. Yet, the Board, Admins and Staff refuse. They are (and have been) taking advice from Sony's lawyers. I find it hard to believe that Sony's lawyers have been given the full extent of what the Admins and Staff know about this situation. I seriously doubt that they would put themselves in a position of liability over a prolific cyber-stalker, cyber-bully.