I woke up to all sorts of comments today. One goes back to the entry I made on Monday Oct. 23rd. It was about another comment made about that time. Below are both comments.
Anonymous said...
UPDATE ON BRIAN KASTEL: I have sad news for those of us who love Brian. Brian had his hearing on Tuesday and the Judge revolked his probation because of the positive results of a random drug test. The results were positive for marijuana, Diazepam (Valium) and trace amounts of cocaine. The level of valium in his blood (according to the probation officer who testified at the hearing) indicated that Brain had taken 5 to 10mg's approx. one hour before his schedueled monthly meeting with his probation officer. Brian did not have a prescription for the drug. The officer decided to test him because he said it was obvious he was high on something and he said Brian kept dropping a pencil he was holding and he seemed to avoid direct eye contact. A subsequent search of his apartment also turned up some drug paraphanelia described as "a pipe used to smoke meth or crack cocaine" (no drug residue in pipe), a small bag of seeds and marijuna stems, some rolling papers and "a homemade water pipe used to smoke marijuana". No child pornography was found in his apartment or on his computer hard drive. A police officer testified the drive had recently been formated and no forensics could be done on either his personal computer or what was described as "an older laptop" because the laptop was missing the hard drive. He said they also found several hundred printed pictures of young girls and boys approx. 6 to 10 years old clipped mostly from catalogs and store circulars. He said the children were fully clothed in the pictures or in bathing suits and are not illegal but the probation officer testified that "it demonstates Mr. Kastel's continueing interest in minor childen" and he said it looked like some of the photo's were several years old and a number of them appear to have been folded as if to fit in a wallet. He also said a pair of binoculars and a telescope though not illegal also raises questions about their intended use. There was no mention of his blog by either the judge or the prosecuter. Brian did not testify but his public defender read a short note from a former landlord that basically said Brian was friendly and in the 4 months he rented from him he was always on time with the rent. The lady prosecuter asked to look at the letter. After comparing the dates she said to the judge that Brian's rent was paid for by a check from HRS sent directly to the landlord on the 3rd day of each month and Brian was never late paying the rent because he didn't pay rent, the state paid it for him. She then said all that letter tell's the court is Mr. Kastel is friendly and she said I would smile a lot too if someone was paying my rent every month your honor. The judge then said something like I think we can find a nice apartment for Mr. Kastel. Do you like green Mr. Kastel?. It was funny and even Brian chuckled. The whole thing took maybe 10 minutes and despite the seriousness of the matter Brian looked like he was a kid on a field trip. He was dressed in the standard orange jump suit and had both leg and wrist chains on. He smiled a lot and kept looking around the court room for familiar faces and as far as I know only his sister and a family friend were there and neither took the stand or spoke to Brian.Brian has just over 5 years remaining on his sentence and though it is unlikely he will serve the entire term he will not be eligible for a parole hearing under Florida law for at least 8 months. Don't get your hopes up, a hearing is not a guarentee he will be released it is just a hearing. He is schedueled to be transferred from the Pinellas County Jail early next week and will likely do his time at Stark in North Florida. His good friend Danny said he talked to Brian on the phone and said he is resigned to doing the time and is adjusting well to the idea of returning to prison. He said he will use the time to write a book about his life and feels that what ever time he serves will only help build interest in his book and boost initial sales.
12:39 AM
disgruntled said...
You must know that the entire monologue above is a complete fabrication. Every sentence can be easily checked for veracity, and not one single sentence within the entire piece has even a shred of truth, except these two lines: "There was no mention of his blog by either the judge or the prosecuter. [sic]," and: "No child pornography was found in his apartment or on his computer hard drive." However, his computer (a desktop) was never searched by LE upon his arrest.
Nevertheless, the hackers who had free, unrestricted access to everything on his system in the several months preceding his arrest never did find any such incriminating material either, despite their fine-toothed combing that they were certain would reveal his "secret pedophile activities. " All they uncovered were emails and documents that continued to provide an avalanche of evidence for his truthfulness and forthrightness. And we see how those have been presented.
Your own integrity shines brightly for not bowing to the Gestapo-like intimidation tactics of those people nor back-pedaling or attempting to make excuses for your befriending him.Major props to you, Gem.
1:23 AM
There was also this, which I think must have come from the same person who wrote the comment above.
Go figure has left a new comment on your post "11/17/2006 04:51:00 PM":
You wrote: "Why are they so obsessed with my little junk drawer, my friendship with Brian or anyone else on line? What is the point they are trying to make by hijacking Brian's blog, making public emails from the people who supported Brain in his attempt at becoming a better person, and vilifying those people, as well as spending seemingly unending hours searching for every post ever made, in an attempt to embarrass, and intimidate."
One word, Gem: misogyny.
Examine this in the context of latent tendencies toward violent sexual abuse, and the picture becomes exceedingly clear. (yeah, it sure does, huh?) And the MALICIOUS HACKING that compromised not only the blog, but the computers and online accounts of several people leaves few ALTernatives as to who is/was responsible.
This also points to the phenomenon of psychology known as "overcompensation." Considering that the vast majority of perpetrators have never been caught for their crimes, this overlap of closet victimizers parading around as white hats should surprise no one.It will be interesting to see who becomes the next Mr. Foley.
FWIW, I think you are a truly benevolent soul. Keep on keeping on. God bless you.
Thank you for your input and kind remarks. Please come back again, it's good to hear positive comments. Except for three of four friends, I have felt like I was fighting a war all by myself. The rest of the folks who were attacked so viciously, the ones I know about anyway, fell apart. They got scared right off the net.
I want to add that some of "Those people" are overcompensating in more than one way. And that I have said all along, "me thinks they doth protest too much." I also think there is more than a bit of projection going on with some of those less than real people.
AND THEN THERE IS THIS GUY....
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "12/31/2006 11:52:00 AM": "I am so tired of you and your ilk jumping on typos, miss spellings, and now you questioning MY work ethic?"
I didn't see no typos. You said immigrants get their housing subsidized and money from the government to start businesses. That's an absolute lie, and I'm just setting you straight.You blabber about "truth" and then spread lies in the next paragraph. And then when somebody points out your lies, you call them an asshole. What a joke.
Didn't see any typos.
Your comments were not just pointing out an error on my part, concerning funding for the Russian families, you were being a rude, condescending, asshole. The joke is on you asshole, because most people know the difference between a mistake and a lie.
An absolute lie is one that is told with deliberate intent to deceive.
I did no such thing.
I might have been blabbering on about something I knew little about, which is my right, BTW, but I had no intent to "spread lies" while you had every intent to be an asshole.
Look asshole, I'm just setting you straight, I'm pointing out that you are an asshole. I'm not joking about it either. You are an absolute asshole.
Anonymous said...
UPDATE ON BRIAN KASTEL: I have sad news for those of us who love Brian. Brian had his hearing on Tuesday and the Judge revolked his probation because of the positive results of a random drug test. The results were positive for marijuana, Diazepam (Valium) and trace amounts of cocaine. The level of valium in his blood (according to the probation officer who testified at the hearing) indicated that Brain had taken 5 to 10mg's approx. one hour before his schedueled monthly meeting with his probation officer. Brian did not have a prescription for the drug. The officer decided to test him because he said it was obvious he was high on something and he said Brian kept dropping a pencil he was holding and he seemed to avoid direct eye contact. A subsequent search of his apartment also turned up some drug paraphanelia described as "a pipe used to smoke meth or crack cocaine" (no drug residue in pipe), a small bag of seeds and marijuna stems, some rolling papers and "a homemade water pipe used to smoke marijuana". No child pornography was found in his apartment or on his computer hard drive. A police officer testified the drive had recently been formated and no forensics could be done on either his personal computer or what was described as "an older laptop" because the laptop was missing the hard drive. He said they also found several hundred printed pictures of young girls and boys approx. 6 to 10 years old clipped mostly from catalogs and store circulars. He said the children were fully clothed in the pictures or in bathing suits and are not illegal but the probation officer testified that "it demonstates Mr. Kastel's continueing interest in minor childen" and he said it looked like some of the photo's were several years old and a number of them appear to have been folded as if to fit in a wallet. He also said a pair of binoculars and a telescope though not illegal also raises questions about their intended use. There was no mention of his blog by either the judge or the prosecuter. Brian did not testify but his public defender read a short note from a former landlord that basically said Brian was friendly and in the 4 months he rented from him he was always on time with the rent. The lady prosecuter asked to look at the letter. After comparing the dates she said to the judge that Brian's rent was paid for by a check from HRS sent directly to the landlord on the 3rd day of each month and Brian was never late paying the rent because he didn't pay rent, the state paid it for him. She then said all that letter tell's the court is Mr. Kastel is friendly and she said I would smile a lot too if someone was paying my rent every month your honor. The judge then said something like I think we can find a nice apartment for Mr. Kastel. Do you like green Mr. Kastel?. It was funny and even Brian chuckled. The whole thing took maybe 10 minutes and despite the seriousness of the matter Brian looked like he was a kid on a field trip. He was dressed in the standard orange jump suit and had both leg and wrist chains on. He smiled a lot and kept looking around the court room for familiar faces and as far as I know only his sister and a family friend were there and neither took the stand or spoke to Brian.Brian has just over 5 years remaining on his sentence and though it is unlikely he will serve the entire term he will not be eligible for a parole hearing under Florida law for at least 8 months. Don't get your hopes up, a hearing is not a guarentee he will be released it is just a hearing. He is schedueled to be transferred from the Pinellas County Jail early next week and will likely do his time at Stark in North Florida. His good friend Danny said he talked to Brian on the phone and said he is resigned to doing the time and is adjusting well to the idea of returning to prison. He said he will use the time to write a book about his life and feels that what ever time he serves will only help build interest in his book and boost initial sales.
12:39 AM
disgruntled said...
You must know that the entire monologue above is a complete fabrication. Every sentence can be easily checked for veracity, and not one single sentence within the entire piece has even a shred of truth, except these two lines: "There was no mention of his blog by either the judge or the prosecuter. [sic]," and: "No child pornography was found in his apartment or on his computer hard drive." However, his computer (a desktop) was never searched by LE upon his arrest.
Nevertheless, the hackers who had free, unrestricted access to everything on his system in the several months preceding his arrest never did find any such incriminating material either, despite their fine-toothed combing that they were certain would reveal his "secret pedophile activities. " All they uncovered were emails and documents that continued to provide an avalanche of evidence for his truthfulness and forthrightness. And we see how those have been presented.
Your own integrity shines brightly for not bowing to the Gestapo-like intimidation tactics of those people nor back-pedaling or attempting to make excuses for your befriending him.Major props to you, Gem.
1:23 AM
There was also this, which I think must have come from the same person who wrote the comment above.
Go figure has left a new comment on your post "11/17/2006 04:51:00 PM":
You wrote: "Why are they so obsessed with my little junk drawer, my friendship with Brian or anyone else on line? What is the point they are trying to make by hijacking Brian's blog, making public emails from the people who supported Brain in his attempt at becoming a better person, and vilifying those people, as well as spending seemingly unending hours searching for every post ever made, in an attempt to embarrass, and intimidate."
One word, Gem: misogyny.
Examine this in the context of latent tendencies toward violent sexual abuse, and the picture becomes exceedingly clear. (yeah, it sure does, huh?) And the MALICIOUS HACKING that compromised not only the blog, but the computers and online accounts of several people leaves few ALTernatives as to who is/was responsible.
This also points to the phenomenon of psychology known as "overcompensation." Considering that the vast majority of perpetrators have never been caught for their crimes, this overlap of closet victimizers parading around as white hats should surprise no one.It will be interesting to see who becomes the next Mr. Foley.
FWIW, I think you are a truly benevolent soul. Keep on keeping on. God bless you.
Thank you for your input and kind remarks. Please come back again, it's good to hear positive comments. Except for three of four friends, I have felt like I was fighting a war all by myself. The rest of the folks who were attacked so viciously, the ones I know about anyway, fell apart. They got scared right off the net.
I want to add that some of "Those people" are overcompensating in more than one way. And that I have said all along, "me thinks they doth protest too much." I also think there is more than a bit of projection going on with some of those less than real people.
AND THEN THERE IS THIS GUY....
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "12/31/2006 11:52:00 AM": "I am so tired of you and your ilk jumping on typos, miss spellings, and now you questioning MY work ethic?"
I didn't see no typos. You said immigrants get their housing subsidized and money from the government to start businesses. That's an absolute lie, and I'm just setting you straight.You blabber about "truth" and then spread lies in the next paragraph. And then when somebody points out your lies, you call them an asshole. What a joke.
Didn't see any typos.
Your comments were not just pointing out an error on my part, concerning funding for the Russian families, you were being a rude, condescending, asshole. The joke is on you asshole, because most people know the difference between a mistake and a lie.
An absolute lie is one that is told with deliberate intent to deceive.
I did no such thing.
I might have been blabbering on about something I knew little about, which is my right, BTW, but I had no intent to "spread lies" while you had every intent to be an asshole.
Look asshole, I'm just setting you straight, I'm pointing out that you are an asshole. I'm not joking about it either. You are an absolute asshole.
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