After 2 letters I sent, here's the Chief's response....

When This article appeared in my local paper, I was angered and outraged that my local police department sent officers to hear this man's hate speech. I wrote a letter to the Chief of Police

Dear Chief Harmon,

          My name is Darci Huddleston.  I’m writing to you on this Sunday afternoon after I had read an article in the Daily Press regarding an “Occult Crime” seminar that occurred on Saturday January 15, 2011. I’m concerned that the “expert”, Don Rimer is not as accurate as he says he is. I have seen Don's seminars that he gave to the general public. As a member of the occult community for over 15 years I feel that he uses a lot of half truths and misinformation to scare people and make his money. I’m greatly disturbed however that some of my tax dollars went to having officers go to this training seminar, given by a man who has been debunked by many people.

          Don gives broad statements and no evidence to back it up. He claims that he's an Occult Specialist; however there is no standard or training course to certify one as being such an expert. He makes statements such as “The Church of Satan is growing” or that “Occult crime is on the rise”. He gives no evidence or resources to back this up. The FBI does not keep statistics on Occult crime. If the FBI doesn’t keep those statistics, who does?       

          Obviously they know something that Don does not, the problem is not the Occult but mental illness. In just about every case he goes through, the perpetrator had a long history of mental illness. Don would lead you to believe that the Occult drove normal teenagers crazy.

          So you may ask “how do you know what he says is untrue?” I’m a practicing Pagan, and have been so for over 15 years. I’m also a law abiding taxpayer, voter, Psychology major and blogger / journalist. I’m familiar with the wider Occult community including the Goth, Pagan/ Wiccan, and Vampiric communities. I know who’s who and what’s what. I sit on an elder’s council in the community, which is not generally offered to anyone as young as me. I’m 33.

          I decided to see one of Don’s talks when he was in Williamsburg a few years ago. It was just as I had feared a lot of unsubstantiated statements and broad generalizations. He does attempt to explain Pagan/ Wiccan practices to the crowd and makes it a point to say “Wiccans are not the problem”. He also makes statements such as “I’m in great with the Wiccan community”. I know for a fact that the man does not like Wiccans. I think the only reason he does try to get it right with them is the fact that he needs them for information. He says he’s been to some of the public rituals held for Samhain, which is possible but I know for a fact that he was kicked out of Mystic Moon’s drum circle for harassing some of the patrons. The security personnel escorted him off the property and made it clear that he was not welcome back. He’s worked with and continues to work with one person, Drema Baker. However, other elders in the community, such as Betsy Ashby of Out of the Dark stated in the article “The Cycle Continues” by Kerr Cuhulain

          "Don Rimer is a self proclaimed ‘occult crime expert’ with the Virginia Beach Police Dept. When he first started out (about 10 years ago) he was an OK guy. He just wanted to catch criminals and I am down with that. There was a murder in Virginia Beach that was definitely occult related, and he came to me for help identifying some of the symbols at the crime scene. He did the same thing in 1996 when there was a disappearance/ murder in the Vampire sub culture. I went into their culture and fished out info for him.
            When he started speaking publicly, he made it real clear that actual "occult crimes" were very rare, and he used to give a fair explanation of Paganism and Wicca.
            He got A LOT of media attention due to his involvement in the Vampire case and other high profile cases he was ‘consulted’ on. Basically, some cop from somewhere in the country would call him for advice about an ‘occult crime’ ...and then he would call me with questions. ...which was cool.  Then around 1998-1999 he started getting offered money to speak at various conferences... usually sponsored by Fundy Christians. His speeches got more and more extreme over the years as he tried to please the Fundy Christian crowd that gives him big bucks. Now to hear him tell it ‘occult crime’ is a big problem. One of his favorite tricks is to have himself ‘emergency paged’ during a speech, disappear briefly on the phone, then come back and announce to his audience ‘that call was about an occult crime I am currently working on.’
            We haven't had an "occult crime" in his jurisdiction in 5 years.
            He still calls me from time to time, but I will not help him at this point unless he shows me proof that physical harm has been done to someone first. Towards the end of the 90's I found out he was using some of the info I gave him in his talks AFTER twisting it around quite a bit. He doesn't know shit about the occult himself.”

I can also tell you that after he did his speech, which I sat through quietly, he said “If I’m wrong, tell me”. I took him up on his offer. I can tell he was surprised that someone such as me would confront him in Williamsburg. I found him to be dismissive and somewhat rude. I could tell he did not like being corrected. I’ve also heard this from others as well.

to try to invite the man to dinner, my treat, at a local restaurant. He took off like he was afraid of me. He has continued to spread his lies and half truths over the years; however the occult community is starting to come out of the woodwork and confront him. His seminars would be ignored by us if it didn’t hurt innocent people in the process.

“I have heard him speak and he does not, repeat does not like Wiccans. He thinks everything that is not Christian is Satanic and he does not like being corrected. I’ve tried to correct him in several talks that he had given locally and he does not appreciate being corrected, because he finds Satanism in everything that he does, including pentacles. He thinks pentacles are the work of Satan, and if you wear one, you are a Satanist. He is considered an ‘expert’ around here on occultism and the powers that be around here like calling him in to identify items found at crime scenes or in teen’s bedrooms as Satanic. He is almost becoming a one trick pony in that he finds what he seeks.”

I went as far as to try to invite the man to dinner, my treat, at a local restaurant. He took off like he was afraid of me. He has continued to spread his lies and half truths over the years; however the occult community is starting to come out of the woodwork and confront him. His seminars would be ignored by us if it didn’t hurt innocent people in the process.

I can name 3 specific cases where hate and fear lead to death and incarceration. Tempest Smith was 12 years old. She had an interest in Wicca and Gothic themes. After months of incessant teasing by Christian students at her school (which was ignored by the administration), she hung herself. In many ways she has become a martyr in the Wiccan community, a symbol of what hate can do.

Sophie Lancaster was walking with her boyfriend, Robert Maltby in a park when they were viciously attacked by a group of teens between the ages of 15-19. They attacked the couple because they didn’t like “weirdo, mosher, freaks”. When the police arrived, they could not tell who was male and who was female. Robert survived the attack; Sophie fell into a coma and died. When one of the kids was brought in to the station for questioning, he laughed about the attack (along with his mother).

In West Memphis Arkansas, 3 young boys were found murdered. The police and a “Occult crime expert” jumped on the idea that the murder had to be the work of Satanists. The police quickly arrested 3 young men, and got a rambling confession out of one of the boys (who was not allowed access to an attorney or his parents). The boy, Jamie Miskelly, was developmentally disabled, and functioned on the level of a 6 year old. Soon 2 others were implicated, including Damien Echols, a local high school dropout who wore black, listened to Metallica and read Poe. On flimsy evidence, all three were convicted and still remain jailed in Arkansas, despite tons of support from activists and from celebrities such as Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, Johnny Depp, and the Dixie Chicks.

So to get to the point, why would I tell you all of this? We have a saying in the Occult community, “Never again the burning”. Unfortunately there are some people who could care less about the innocent people they hurt as long as it makes them a buck. I’m here to make sure we do not have any such “Witch hunts” in Williamsburg/ JCC, and that if the officers want it, accurate information that can help them down the line.

 If your department would like to speak to someone as a consultant regarding Occult related crimes or issues, I’m at your service. I live in JCC and the last thing I want is someone using my faith as an excuse to prey upon others. I’m also enclosing photos of Tempest Smith, and Sophie Lancaster (before and after the attack). I want you to look at these photos sir, and think to yourself, “Do we want another dead kid on our hands?”

                                                                    Sincerely,

                                                             Darci Huddleston

                                                  Co Regent, Court of Septum Civis

After a month, I had not recieved a response. So I was not going to let this go, I sent another letter

Dear Sir,

          My name is Darci Huddleston. I wrote you a letter about a month ago, concerning JCCPD officers attending a seminar on “Occult Crime” given by Don Rimer. I also explained in depth why I feel that Don is not the expert he claims to be, and his lack of respect for people involved in the Occult community. I am one of those people

I’m a law abiding, tax paying and VOTING individual. Despite what Don might lead you to believe, we’re not all devil worshipping pedophiles.

I’m a little upset that in one month’s time you never responded to my concerns. Perhaps you would like to write me off as “some kook”, and hope that if you ignore me I’ll go away. If that is the case, then sir do so at your own peril. I’ve begun contacting other local members of the Pagan community (who live in JCC), and if you continue to ignore our concerns, we will have no other choice but to contact the local media. Even if they don’t care for us and our rights, I’m sure there are many people who would want to know why our officers are wasting taxpayer dollars on seminars regarding a rare form of crime (that has not happened in JCC is quite a few years), when we’ve had how many hotels get robbed this past year? Not to mention the fact that the so called “expert” has been debunked in the past by other law enforcement officers and by members of the Occult community.

          We are not the bogeymen Don would have you believe that we are. We have families, homes, and pets (and no, we don’t sacrifice them). We are mainly peaceful people, but if attacked or slandered, we will fight back with all legal tools at our disposal. We would rather cooperate with law enforcement when you need the correct information, as opposed to a man who sees the devil in anything that isn’t Christian.

                                     

                                                                            Sincerely,

                                                                      Darci Huddleston

                                                                         Co-Reagent, Septum Civis

Well it seems that the threat to protest and take the issue up with the press got somewhere. This was his recent e-mail to me

Ms. Huddleston,

Since your first letter listed a phone number I tried to contact you by that method, but I wasn’t able to leave a message. Therefore, I‘ll address your concerns by email instead. Your main concern with my department seems to be one of wasting taxpayer money due to JCC officers attending this training seminar, since it was instructed by someone you believe is not a subject matter expert . This seminar was sponsored by the Newport News Police Department and Regional Organized Crime Information Center. This was a one-day training seminar and the informational brochure and resume of the instructor (Don Rimer) made it appear to be a topic that would interest law enforcement officers. Also, the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services credited each attendee with eight hours of continuing education credits, which is something every sworn officer in the state must renew every two years. Consequently, we sent three of our officers (out of force of 93 sworn) to the seminar. Whether or not your allegations against Mr. Rimer are true is not up to me to decide. You should make your complaint to the sponsors of the training seminar.  If I can be of any further help regarding this matter please contact me at any of the below listed numbers or addresses.  

Emmett H. Harmon
Chief of Police

Police Department
P.O. Box 8784

5087 John Tyler Highway
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8784
P: 757-259-5141

F: 757-229-8729
C: 757-592-6479

eharmon@james-city.va.us     

So there you have it. In Virginia, at least JCC, if you are not a Christian they will not take your complaints seriously. Read into it what you will. Any suggestions?

Now for some local issues....I can't stand this guy, why are we wasting my tax dollars?

This guy is an idiot and a half. The Daily Press ran This story  about a month ago. Being the fact that I have gone to one of Don's "Seminars" (which is nothing but hate speech, and half truths directed at anyone who is involved in the occult), I could not believe my eyes that James City County Police were in attendence. Why are my tax dollars being wasted on a guy who is a fraud? He's been debunked so many times by many people, I have no idea why he's even consulted as an "expert".

Let's also take into consideration, when was the last time we had an "Occult Related" crime in Williamsburg/ James City.....tick...tock, Buller? Buller? When was the last time a hotel (or anybody) got robbed, carjacked, assaulted, raped, ect? You get my point.

To adress this issue, I wrote a letter to the Chief of Police, Emmett H. Harmon in JCC (where I live). I told him my concerns regarding Don's "seminars", that he's been debunked, has a horrible reputation with the Occult community at large, ect. I also stated that in no uncertain terms that sending JCC officers off to this seminar to hear hate speech, with my tax dollars, offends me about as much as it would offend the African American community if the officers had attended a Klan rally.

Would you believe that in one month I got no response? Well, I sent him another letter today. I let him know that if he thinks I'm just some "kook" who will go away if he ignores me long enough, he's sadly mistaken. I let him know that I was in the process of contacting other Williamsburg pagans/ goths/ Occultists, ect. I told him that if he did not adress our concerns that I would have no problem taking the issue up with the local media (Va Gazette, Daily Press), and possibly organizing protests outside of the main office. Let's see if that gets his attention.

Time for me to catch up, New Anonymous press release

ANONYMOUS PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Distribution
February 7th, 2011

Recently, the head of internet security firm HBGary Federal, Aaron Barr, sought to elevate his investigation of the Anonymous movement by providing the Financial Times with what he claimed to be accurate and useful information about those who allegedly drive our activities.

In yesterday's release we inferred that the information presented was easy to undermine by any of the millions of people around the world with a cursory understanding of internet culture. Not only was the information provided by HBGary Federal woefully inaccurate, it provided no incriminating evidence against any of the persons named.
Today, Anonymous learned that HBGary Federal intended to sell to the FBI a large document (it can be found at http://hizost.com/d/zjb) that allegedly detailed the identities of dozens of our participants.

Within hours of learning this, Anonymous infiltrated HBGary Federal's network and websites. Anonymous acquired the document with supposed personal details of anons, along with 50,000 company e-mails (~4.71GB) - all of which have now been distributed on the internet. Additionally, his associated websites and social media accounts were hijacked and manipulated to stress how poorly this 'security expert' handles matters of his own security (http://imagebin.org/136490). Woe to his clients and others who invested in his confidence.

The lack of quality in Aaron Barr's undertaken research is worth noting. Aaron Barr missed a great deal of information that has been available online, and in fact failed to identify some of those whose identities were never intended to be hidden. People such as DailyKos' diarist blogger Barrett Brown, and the administrator of anonnews.org, joepie91, whose identities could have been found in under a minute with a simple Google search.

It is also worth noting that Aaron Barr was also providing this documentation as an example of investigation protocol. This would introduce a systematic flaw to the FBI's investigative woodwork. The risk of institutionalising a flawed procedure exponentiates a problem, and it does so at the taxpayers expense in every sense. Had the FBI indeed bought this information from HBGary Federal, it would have been paid for by taxpayers money, and many innocent people would have been marked as leaders in actions they may not even have been associated with.

Unlike you, Aaron, we did our research, we know who you are, and now, so will everyone else. Although you have managed to ruin your credibility in an attempt to further it, you did provide us with entertainment, albeit very briefly.

Anonymous does not have leaders. We are not a group, we are not an organization. We are just an idea. What we have done today will appear harsh. It is harsh. We will respond to those who seek to threaten us. We understand that our participants have been concerned about recent FBI raids and companies such as HBGary Federal lurking and logging our chats, so we’ve given all of Anonymous a message: we will fight back.

We are Anonymous.
We are legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect us - always.

Yours faithfully,
Anonymous.

====================================================
Additional notes for republication:
* A transcript of the e-mails that were exchanged to gain root access to www.rootkit.com can be found here: http://pastie.org/1535735
* An image of the deface that was done on HBGary can be found here: http://imagebin.org/136505
When using this information for further research, please save these resources as they may become unavailable over time due to their sensitive nature.

Latest News, Jullian Assange gets bail, whoops we changed our minds...

This has been a hard one to keep up with today. I got out of the shower this morning and the breaking news was that Jullian Assange would be released on bail with a few conditions. Then the Swedish government filed an objection, so he will be in for another 48hrs till another hearing. I predict another series of hacking attacks on the Swedish government...

However, Operation Leakspin is still going strong. Go to youtube and repost the videos far and wide.



In other news, A new study proves that Fox News makes you stupid. Big surprise, I've been saying this for years...

That's all I've got for now, more updates possible later on as news comes in.

Operation Leakspin, new videos and updates.

Latest news, as of this morning the "Support Jullian Assange" site on worldpress is down,  possible DDoS's. There was another attack on mastercard.com last night. Don't know how long it was down.

There seems to be a split in the Operation Paybackc rowd, some going on with Operation Leakspin (see video) and others who wish to keep up the LOIC attacks against Paypal, Mastercard, Visa, ect. Some Anti-Anonomous group has poped up calling itself The Regime (or Fagime, as others call them). Possible ties to the Church of Scientology have been claimed, but doubtfull. Check the like for more info.




So what do you do? We need to fall back and regroup. The LOIC attacks were good, it got their attention. It told the enemies of free speech that we will not take it lying down. It worked, however you can't keep using the same attack and expect it to be effective. Stronger defences will come up, and attempts that fail don't make great publicity. Attacking the companies who cut off Wikileaks isn't going to hurt the governments who abused human rights (not just the US). Getting the information out will. So check out the video below on how to do that.

Time to get to the serious work to looking through the cables and passing out the leaks.....

"During times of universal decit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary idea"

                                                                                         -Orwell, 1984.

News from the front; Cease Fire, Repeat, Cease Fire...

I was going to go into more links but this is the info I got today.

And I did find this today



ANON OPS: A Press Release
December 10, 2010


Who is Anonymous

In their most recent public statement, WikiLeaks is the only group of people to identify Anonymous correctly. Anonymous is not a group, but rather an Internet gathering.

Both Anonymous and the media that is covering it are aware of the percieved dissent between individuals in the gathering. This does not, however, mean that the command structure of Anonymous is failing for a simple reason: Anonymous has a very loose and decentralized command structure that operates on ideas rather than directives.

We do not believe that a similar movement exists in the world today and as such we have to learn by trial and error. We are now in the process of better communicating some core values to the individual atoms that comprise Anonymous - we also want to take this opportunity to communicate a message to the media, so that the average Internet Citizen can get to know who we are and what we represent.

Anonymous is not a group of hackers. We are average Interent Citizens ourselves and our motivation is a collective sense of being fed up with all the minor and major injustices we witness every day.

We do not want to steal your personal information or credit card numbers. We also do not seek to attack critical infrastructure of companies such as Mastercard, Visa, PayPal or Amazon. Our current goal is to raise awareness about WikiLeaks and the underhanded methods employed by the above companies to impair WikiLeaks' ability to function.


What is Operation: Payback
As stated above, the point of Operation: Payback was never to target critical infrastructure of any of the companies or organizations affected. Rather than doing that, we focused on their corporate websites, which is to say, their online "public face". It is a symbolic action - as blogger and academic Evgeny Morozov put it, a legitimate expression of dissent.


The background to the attacks on PayPal and the calls to attack Amazon.com


Amazon, which was until recently WikiLeaks' DNS provider, was one of the first companies to drop support for WikiLeaks. On December 9th, BusinessInsider.com reported that Amazon.co.uk were hosting the recently leaked diplomatic cables in e-book form. (Amazon.co.uk has since ceased selling the bundle of the diplomatic cables.)


After this piece of news circulated, parts of Anonymous on Twitter asked for Amazon.com to be targetted. The attack never occured.

While it is indeed possible that Anonymous may not have been able to take Amazon.com down in a DDoS attack, this is not the only reason the attack never occured. After the attack was so advertised in the media, we felt that it would affect people such as consumers in a negative way and make them feel threatened by Anonymous. Simply put, attacking a major online retailer when people are buying presents for their loved ones, would be in bad taste.

The continuing attacks on PayPal are already tested and preferable: while not damaging their ability to process payments, they are successful in slowing their network down just enough for people to notice and thus, we achieve our goal of raising awareness

So for now, cease fire. Hold all attacks. There is also This update and somebody sent me this

Get to work

Update from the front....

I kinda hate the fact I work wierd hours and sleep even wierder ones. As the Apox Kids said, STAY AWAKE! So on to the latest news from the front.

A 16 year old boy was arrested in connection with the Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on Mastercard. Find more about it here . The attacks agains Amazon have subsided so that the army can concentrate on PayPal. Thousands of new recruits are joining worldwide. Red Pill anyone? Websites are popping up like mad and I doubt there is any way I can cover this sort of story in a conventional sense. Keep informed, don't trust the mainstream media on this one. The press burries parts of the story, such as the fact that One accuser in the Assange rape case has ties to the CIA. There is a petition going to keep Wikileaks online, Check it out here.  I can point you in the right direction, but you are the one who has to Follow the white rabbit. Keep up with the news on the fight here.




Update: I've got a few more sites to list, namely this one. However I'm making it a point to try to document all I can find out there. Who knows how long it will be up before Big Brother shuts it down. Time to free your mind