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Q: Error in jenkins when inserting execute ZAP in Build step I have the last version of Jenkins and I have installed the OWASP Zap plugin with the latest version 2.10.0
I have an error in inserting Execute ZAP in the Build step.
If I click save after having inserted it in the Build step, I got an error and in the log I saw:
2021-04-04 14:06:09.460+0000 [id=15]    WARNING o.e.j.s.h.ContextHandler$Context#log: Error while serving http://localhost:8080/job/zap-project/configSubmit
java.lang.NullPointerException
    at org.jenkinsci.plugins.zap.ZAPBuilder.<init>(ZAPBuilder.java:94)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
    at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:490)
    at org.kohsuke.stapler.RequestImpl.invokeConstructor(RequestImpl.java:530)
    at org.kohsuke.stapler.RequestImpl.instantiate(RequestImpl.java:794)
    at org.kohsuke.stapler.RequestImpl.access$200(RequestImpl.java:84)
    at org.kohsuke.stapler.RequestImpl$TypePair.convertJSON(RequestImpl.java:679)
    at org.kohsuke.stapler.RequestImpl.bindJSON(RequestImpl.java:479)
    at org.kohsuke.stapler.RequestImpl.bindJSON(RequestImpl.java:475)
    at hudson.model.Descriptor.newInstance(Descriptor.java:598)
Caused: java.lang.Error: Failed to instantiate class org.jenkinsci.plugins.zap.ZAPBuilder from {"zapHost":"localhost","zapPort":"8090","startZAPFirst":false,"jdk":"InheritFromJob","autoInstall":"true","toolUsed":"ZAP_2.10.0","zapHome":"ZAPROXY_HOME","timeout":"60","zapSettingsDir":"","autoLoadSession":"true","loadSession":"","sessionFilename":"","removeExternalSites":false,"internalSites":"","contextName":"","includedURL":"","excludedURL":"","alertFilters":"","authMode":false,"username":"","password":"[value redacted]","$redact":"password","loggedInIndicator":"","loggedOutIndicator":"","authMethod":"FORM_BASED","loginURL":"","usernameParameter":"","passwordParameter":"","extraPostData":"","authScript":"","scriptParameterName":"","scriptParameterValue":"","targetURL":"","spiderScanURL":false,"spiderScanRecurse":true,"spiderScanSubtreeOnly":false,"spiderScanMaxChildrenToCrawl":"0","ajaxSpiderURL":false,"ajaxSpiderInScopeOnly":false,"activeScanURL":false,"activeScanPolicy":"","activeScanRecurse":true,"generateReports":false,"deleteReports":false,"reportFilename":"JENKINS_ZAP_VULNERABILITY_REPORT","selectedReportMethod":"DEFAULT_REPORT","selectedReportFormats":[],"selectedExportFormats":[],"exportreportTitle":"","exportreportBy":"","exportreportFor":"","exportreportScanDate":"","exportreportReportDate":"","exportreportScanVersion":"","exportreportReportVersion":"","exportreportReportDescription":"","exportreportAlertHigh":true,"exportreportAlertMedium":true,"exportreportAlertLow":true,"exportreportAlertInformational":true,"exportreportCWEID":true,"exportreportWASCID":true,"exportreportDescription":true,"exportreportOtherInfo":true,"exportreportSolution":true,"exportreportReference":true,"exportreportRequestHeader":false,"exportreportResponseHeader":false,"exportreportRequestBody":false,"exportreportResponseBody":false,"jiraCreate":false,"jiraProjectKey":"","jiraAssignee":"","jiraAlertHigh":false,"jiraAlertMedium":false,"jiraAlertLow":false,"jiraFilterIssuesByResourceType":false,"stapler-class":"org.jenkinsci.plugins.zap.ZAPBuilder","$class":"org.jenkinsci.plugins.zap.ZAPBuilder"}
    at hudson.model.Descriptor.newInstance(Descriptor.java:606)
    at hudson.model.Descriptor.newInstancesFromHeteroList(Descriptor.java:1075)
    at hudson.model.Descriptor.newInstancesFromHeteroList(Descriptor.java:1037)
    at hudson.util.DescribableList.rebuildHetero(DescribableList.java:208)
    at hudson.model.Project.submit(Project.java:230)
    at hudson.model.Job.doConfigSubmit(Job.java:1335)
    at hudson.model.AbstractProject.doConfigSubmit(AbstractProject.java:768)
    at java.base/java.lang.invoke.MethodHandle.invokeWithArguments(MethodHandle.java:710)
    at org.kohsuke.stapler.Function$MethodFunction.invoke(Function.java:396)
Caused: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
    at org.kohsuke.stapler.Function$MethodFunction.invoke(Function.java:400)
    at org.kohsuke.stapler.Function$InstanceFunction.invoke(Function.java:408)
    at org.kohsuke.stapler.Function.bindAndInvoke(Function.java:212)
    at org.kohsuke.stapler.SelectionInterceptedFunction$Adapter.invoke(SelectionInterceptedFunction.java:36)
    at org.kohsuke.stapler.verb.HttpVerbInterceptor.invoke(HttpVerbInterceptor.java:48)
    at org.kohsuke.stapler.SelectionInterceptedFunction.bindAndInvoke(SelectionInterceptedFunction.java:26)
    at org.kohsuke.stapler.Function.bindAndInvokeAndServeResponse(Function.java:145)
    at org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$11.doDispatch(MetaClass.java:536)
    at org.kohsuke.stapler.NameBasedDispatcher.dispatch(NameBasedDispatcher.java:58)
    at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.tryInvoke(Stapler.java:766)
    at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:898)
    at org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$4.doDispatch(MetaClass.java:281)
    at org.kohsuke.stapler.NameBasedDispatcher.dispatch(NameBasedDispatcher.java:58)
    at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.tryInvoke(Stapler.java:766)
    at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:898)
    at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:694)
    at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.service(Stapler.java:240)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:790)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:791)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$ChainEnd.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1626)
    at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:154)
    at jenkins.telemetry.impl.UserLanguages$AcceptLanguageFilter.doFilter(UserLanguages.java:129)
    at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:151)
    at jenkins.security.ResourceDomainFilter.doFilter(ResourceDomainFilter.java:76)
    at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:151)
    at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:157)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.FilterHolder.doFilter(FilterHolder.java:193)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$Chain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1601)
    at hudson.security.csrf.CrumbFilter.doFilter(CrumbFilter.java:153)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.FilterHolder.doFilter(FilterHolder.java:193)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$Chain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1601)
    at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:92)
    at jenkins.security.AcegiSecurityExceptionFilter.doFilter(AcegiSecurityExceptionFilter.java:52)
    at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:97)
    at hudson.security.UnwrapSecurityExceptionFilter.doFilter(UnwrapSecurityExceptionFilter.java:51)
    at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:97)
    at org.springframework.security.web.access.ExceptionTranslationFilter.doFilter(ExceptionTranslationFilter.java:119)
    at org.springframework.security.web.access.ExceptionTranslationFilter.doFilter(ExceptionTranslationFilter.java:113)
    at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:97)
    at org.springframework.security.web.authentication.AnonymousAuthenticationFilter.doFilter(AnonymousAuthenticationFilter.java:105)
    at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:97)
    at org.springframework.security.web.authentication.rememberme.RememberMeAuthenticationFilter.doFilter(RememberMeAuthenticationFilter.java:101)
    at org.springframework.security.web.authentication.rememberme.RememberMeAuthenticationFilter.doFilter(RememberMeAuthenticationFilter.java:92)
    at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:97)
    at org.springframework.security.web.authentication.AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter.doFilter(AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter.java:218)
    at org.springframework.security.web.authentication.AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter.doFilter(AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter.java:212)
    at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:97)
    at jenkins.security.BasicHeaderProcessor.doFilter(BasicHeaderProcessor.java:93)
    at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:97)
    at org.springframework.security.web.context.SecurityContextPersistenceFilter.doFilter(SecurityContextPersistenceFilter.java:110)
    at org.springframework.security.web.context.SecurityContextPersistenceFilter.doFilter(SecurityContextPersistenceFilter.java:80)
    at hudson.security.HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter2.doFilter(HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter2.java:62)
    at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:97)
    at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:109)
    at hudson.security.HudsonFilter.doFilter(HudsonFilter.java:168)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.FilterHolder.doFilter(FilterHolder.java:193)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$Chain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1601)
    at org.kohsuke.stapler.compression.CompressionFilter.doFilter(CompressionFilter.java:51)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.FilterHolder.doFilter(FilterHolder.java:193)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$Chain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1601)
    at hudson.util.CharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(CharacterEncodingFilter.java:82)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.FilterHolder.doFilter(FilterHolder.java:193)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$Chain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1601)
    at org.kohsuke.stapler.DiagnosticThreadNameFilter.doFilter(DiagnosticThreadNameFilter.java:30)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.FilterHolder.doFilter(FilterHolder.java:193)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$Chain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1601)
    at jenkins.security.SuspiciousRequestFilter.doFilter(SuspiciousRequestFilter.java:36)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.FilterHolder.doFilter(FilterHolder.java:193)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$Chain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1601)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:548)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:143)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:578)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:127)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextHandle(ScopedHandler.java:235)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:1624)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextHandle(ScopedHandler.java:233)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1435)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:188)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:501)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:1594)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:186)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1350)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:141)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:127)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:516)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.lambda$handle$1(HttpChannel.java:388)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.dispatch(HttpChannel.java:633)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:380)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:279)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$ReadCallback.succeeded(AbstractConnection.java:311)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.io.FillInterest.fillable(FillInterest.java:105)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.io.ChannelEndPoint$1.run(ChannelEndPoint.java:104)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.runTask(EatWhatYouKill.java:336)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.doProduce(EatWhatYouKill.java:313)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.tryProduce(EatWhatYouKill.java:171)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.run(EatWhatYouKill.java:129)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.ReservedThreadExecutor$ReservedThread.run(ReservedThreadExecutor.java:383)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:882)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$Runner.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:1036)
    at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:834)

How can I solve this problem? Thanks in advance

A: This issue is with the newer version of Jenkins. I cannot downgrade my Jenkins for various reasons and has to use the newer version. So I downloaded an older jenkins war  and launchd this temporarily. I installed the official zap plugin, and here I was able to save the build step without any issues. I copied this jobs configuration file config.xml back to my new jenkins job and reloaded the configuration from disk. The execution went fine but still I am not able to do any modifications through the browser on the newer version of Jenkins for this job. Any configuration change that is needed I am doing this by editing the config file directly and reloading the configuration from disk.
If you had to be on the newer version of Jenkins, you can place this configuration in your job's config.xml file and modify the parameters as you need.
<builders>
    <org.jenkinsci.plugins.zap.ZAPBuilder plugin="zap@1.1.0">
      <startZAPFirst>false</startZAPFirst>
      <zaproxy>
        <startZAPFirst>false</startZAPFirst>
        <zapHost>localhost</zapHost>
        <zapPort>8081</zapPort>
        <evaluatedZapPort>0</evaluatedZapPort>
        <cmdLinesZAP/>
        <jdk>InheritFromJob</jdk>
        <toolUsed></toolUsed>
        <zapHome>ZAPROXY_HOME</zapHome>
        <timeout>60</timeout>
        <autoInstall>false</autoInstall>
        <zapSettingsDir>C:\Users\admin\OWASP ZAP</zapSettingsDir>
        <autoLoadSession>false</autoLoadSession>
        <loadSession></loadSession>
        <sessionFilename>zap_test</sessionFilename>
        <removeExternalSites>false</removeExternalSites>
        <internalSites></internalSites>
        <contextName>default</contextName>
        <excludedURL></excludedURL>
        <includedURL>http://localhost:8080</includedURL>
        <alertFilters></alertFilters>
        <authMode>false</authMode>
        <username></username>
        <password></password>
        <loggedInIndicator></loggedInIndicator>
        <loggedOutIndicator></loggedOutIndicator>
        <authMethod>FORM_BASED</authMethod>
        <loginURL></loginURL>
        <usernameParameter></usernameParameter>
        <passwordParameter></passwordParameter>
        <extraPostData></extraPostData>
        <authScript></authScript>
        <authScriptParams/>
        <targetURL>http://localhost:8080</targetURL>
        <spiderScanURL>true</spiderScanURL>
        <spiderScanRecurse>true</spiderScanRecurse>
        <spiderScanSubtreeOnly>false</spiderScanSubtreeOnly>
        <spiderScanMaxChildrenToCrawl>0</spiderScanMaxChildrenToCrawl>
        <ajaxSpiderURL>true</ajaxSpiderURL>
        <ajaxSpiderInScopeOnly>false</ajaxSpiderInScopeOnly>
        <activeScanURL>true</activeScanURL>
        <activeScanRecurse>true</activeScanRecurse>
        <activeScanPolicy></activeScanPolicy>
        <generateReports>true</generateReports>
        <deleteReports>false</deleteReports>
        <reportFilename>JENKINS_ZAP_VULNERABILITY_REPORT</reportFilename>
        <selectedReportMethod>DEFAULT_REPORT</selectedReportMethod>
        <selectedReportFormats>
          <string>html</string>
        </selectedReportFormats>
        <selectedExportFormats/>
        <exportreportTitle></exportreportTitle>
        <exportreportBy></exportreportBy>
        <exportreportFor></exportreportFor>
        <exportreportScanDate></exportreportScanDate>
        <exportreportReportDate></exportreportReportDate>
        <exportreportScanVersion></exportreportScanVersion>
        <exportreportReportVersion></exportreportReportVersion>
        <exportreportReportDescription></exportreportReportDescription>
        <exportreportAlertHigh>true</exportreportAlertHigh>
        <exportreportAlertMedium>true</exportreportAlertMedium>
        <exportreportAlertLow>true</exportreportAlertLow>
        <exportreportAlertInformational>true</exportreportAlertInformational>
        <exportreportCWEID>true</exportreportCWEID>
        <exportreportWASCID>true</exportreportWASCID>
        <exportreportDescription>true</exportreportDescription>
        <exportreportOtherInfo>true</exportreportOtherInfo>
        <exportreportSolution>true</exportreportSolution>
        <exportreportReference>true</exportreportReference>
        <exportreportRequestHeader>false</exportreportRequestHeader>
        <exportreportResponseHeader>false</exportreportResponseHeader>
        <exportreportRequestBody>false</exportreportRequestBody>
        <exportreportResponseBody>false</exportreportResponseBody>
        <jiraCreate>false</jiraCreate>
        <jiraBaseURL></jiraBaseURL>
        <jiraUsername></jiraUsername>
        <jiraPassword></jiraPassword>
        <jiraProjectKey></jiraProjectKey>
        <jiraAssignee></jiraAssignee>
        <jiraAlertHigh>false</jiraAlertHigh>
        <jiraAlertMedium>false</jiraAlertMedium>
        <jiraAlertLow>false</jiraAlertLow>
        <jiraFilterIssuesByResourceType>false</jiraFilterIssuesByResourceType>
      </zaproxy>
      <zapHost>localhost</zapHost>
      <zapPort>8081</zapPort>
    </org.jenkinsci.plugins.zap.ZAPBuilder>
  </builders>

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Archive for Asshats
Kevin Bollaert Convicted of Extortion in YouGotPosted/ChangeMyReputation Case
February 2, 2015 Adam Steinbaugh Asshats, Involuntary Porn, YouGotPosted 2 comments
Kevin Christopher Bollaert has been convicted of 27 counts of felony extortion and identity theft in connection with his operation of revenge porn site YouGotPosted.com and its extortionate partner, ChangeMyReputation.com. Bollaert was acquitted of conspiracy and one charge of identity theft. More than thirty women testified to payments demanded by Bollaert's operation.
This is the first conviction — anywhere — of a revenge porn site owner. Casey Meyering, another site owner with a scheme identical to that of Craig Brittain, who reached a settlement with the FTC last week, also faces trial in California on extortion charges. Hunter Moore, the progenitor of so-called "revenge porn" sites, faces trial in March for alleged violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. None, including Bollaert, have been charged under California's "revenge porn" statute, which was both (1) passed after Bollaert's arrest; and (2) is inapplicable to the people running revenge porn sites by operation of CDA § 230.
I first identified the extortionate and fraudulent practice of Bollaert and his partner, Eric Chanson, almost a year before Bollaert's indictment. 1 The state's evidence — which I will detail in an update to this post later this evening — demonstrated that Bollaert operated both the revenge porn site and ChangeMyReputation, which purported to be an independent company that could remove the photos from YouGotPosted.com. Chanson, at some point — apparently after my initial post — asked Bollaert to disassociate Chanson's name from the sites, but Chanson's accounts were used to establish the means of soliciting payments through ChangeMyReputation. My research demonstrated that, among other things, emails sent from both YouGotPosted and ChangeMyReputation originated from the same San Diego IP address, and that the "ChangeMyReputation" operator could not identify a single other site from which photos could be removed. At the time, I called this practice "extortionate."
Please forgive this moment of schadenfreude: 2
After a friend — who shall remain nameless, but to whom much gratitude is owed — assisted in terminating the site's PayPal account, Bollaert began demanding that victims pay him in Amazon gift cards. Bollaert shut down the sites almost immediately after law enforcement contacted him.
I won't pretend to have an educated guess as to the amount of time Bollaert faces, but it's safe to say that it's substantial. While I could not attend the trial, I do hope to attend the sentencing.
Bollaert did raise what appears to be a defense based, in part, on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. I would be surprised if this verdict were not appealed, as it's circumspect as to whether the extortion and, in particular, identity theft charges impermissibly treat Bollaert as a publisher, which would prevent prosecution at the hands of state authorities.
I don't know whether law enforcement relied on my research in targeting Bolleart. I can only hope. ↩
Perhaps inappropriately so. My contribution amounted to writing a blog post. The real credit goes to the law enforcement officers and prosecutors who were willing to listen and try a difficult case, the attorneys who sued these guys pro bono, and, most importantly, the dozens of victims who were willing to speak up. ↩
Craig Brittain "Shuts Down" IsAnybodyDown, Renames it "ObamaNudes.com"
April 5, 2013 Adam Steinbaugh Asshats, Involuntary Porn, IsAnybodyDown, ObamaNudes.com 21 comments
[Update (2/28/15): Since Brittain is trying to get this post removed, it's received substantially more traffic than it would have otherwise. This is called the Streisand Effect: when attempts to remove content through dubious legal means winds up backfiring and exposing the content to more people who wouldn't have seen it otherwise. Meanwhile, the FTC will soon vote on whether to settle with Brittain — a settlement which does not require him to pay back his victims. I think the FTC should require him to pay his victims back, and with a spare minute or two, you can tell the FTC not to let Brittain off with a slap on the wrist.]
Yesterday, revenge porn's Craig Brittain announced on Twitter that he was ending his site, IsAnybodyDown.com (synopsis here). Many (myself included) interpreted that to mean that Brittain was shutting down his site. And with tweets like these, wouldn't you?:
The website, Is Anybody Down, will completely end.
— Craig R.S. Brittain (@CraigRSBrittain) April 4, 2013
A number of reasons contributed to my decision to end Is Anybody Down. Mostly my personal feelings.
It isn't so much that I had a change of heart. I'm not like Hunter Moore who struggles with guilt or regret. I'm just lonely
The realization that my life is empty without love and friendship is really the biggest motivating factor behind the change.
Alas, it appears that Brittain was being disingenuous: he's merely renamed the site to ObamaNudes.com — and wants more money.
IsAnybodyDown: Craig Brittain's 2005 Harassment Charge Unsurprisingly Predictive
March 18, 2013 Adam Steinbaugh Asshats, IsAnybodyDown 5 comments
Craig Brittain's revenge porn site, IsAnybodyDown.com, might have been an unremarkable ripoff of Hunter Moore's "Is Anyone Up?" site if not for "David Blade III, Esq." Blade was an invention of Craig Brittain, a fake attorney created to add an aura of legitimacy to Brittain's extortionate scheme: post nude photos along with full names, social media profiles, and phone numbers, then charge victims $250 to have them removed.
Nor was "David Blade" Brittain's only only online impersonation. I theorized that Brittain's efforts went a step further: pretend to be a Craigslist user arranging a sexual encounter, then take the photos and post them to IsAnybodyDown. That theory proved true when CBS Denver turned up emails bearing Brittain's IP address, showing that he pretended to be a "Jess Davis" to solicit nude photos, using the photos of one of his victims.
Brittain maintains that "David Blade" is real (or, at least, was created by somebody else) and that all of the photos on IsAnybodyDown come from users of the site — not him. According to Brittain, the allegations are a "fabrication" by attorney Marc Randazza (and other Brittain critics) to make money off of his site. Or something. Brittain says that "[t]here is no truth to it at all. These women are told to lie by their attorneys."
But allegations in a 2005 harassment charge and restraining order naming Brittain are unsurprisingly predictive of his future behavior: impersonating people on the internet in an effort to harm women online and offline.
An Involuntary Porn Site and its Deceptive "Reputation Management" Site, ChangeMyReputation.com
December 27, 2012 Adam Steinbaugh Asshats, Involuntary Porn, YouGotPosted 13 comments
YouGotPosted.com is an involuntary porn site similar to IsAnybodyDown.com in more than its content: it's taking a page from Craig Brittain's playbook: they destroy your reputation by posting your nude photos, name, and hometown so that it's easily found whenever someone Googles your name. And they'll keep destroying your reputation — but here's an advertisement for a company that will negotiate with them to get your photos taken down. For a fee.
Except that the 'reputation' or 'takedown' company isn't exactly independent. It's likely coordinated by the people posting those nude photos.
Anonymous Targets IsAnybodyDown.com, which Chance Trahan Claims He Doesn't Run
December 16, 2012 Adam Steinbaugh Asshats, IsAnybodyDown 20 comments
A few brief updates about involuntary porn site IsAnybodyDown.com and its "Takedown Hammer" scheme. If you're just joining us, a synopsis of the IsAnybodyDown.com controversy is here.
[Update: Chance Trahan responds at length [PDF]. He denies running the site and says that talking about him is cybersquatting, among other things. More below.]
[Update 1/7/2013: Chance deleted the above post (though here's a copy [PDF]) and replaced it with a new response. It's a copy/paste of this post edited to tell his side of the story. Chance Trahan says that the "David Blade" / "Takedown Hammer" site is, alternatively, a "parody" or a "third party hiree." Chance says he only designed the site, its logos, and created its Facebook account — the idea and content are Craig's. Chance also maintains his claim that speaking negatively about or to him (without his permission) is "harassment" and "cybersquatting," and that those criticizing him were hired to do so. Chance also commented on this post, below]
Charles Carreon (Almost) Concedes in Satirical Chas First Amendment Case
December 5, 2012 Adam Steinbaugh Asshats, Free speech, Satirical Chas v. Charles Carreon 13 comments
When we last jumped off the Charles Carreon train, he had finally been served after evading service in the Satirical Chas case. As you might recall, Carreon was mighty upset that a satirical blogger had taken up residence at charles-carreon.com. With a mighty roar and great bravado, Carreon issued one of the greatest censorious threats of internet history, raising the specter of a trademark infringement case and promising to litigate the unique trademark and First Amendment issues up and down the appellate courts.
It may be that Charles Carreon realized that the moment he stops making an ass of himself, Satirical Chas will start to run out of material and Carreon can fade back into the internet ether from which he came. Or it may be that he doesn't want to waste the time or money litigating a case he stands a good chance of losing. Or maybe – just maybe — this holiday season, Charles Carreon's heart grew three times in size and he realized the error of his ways.
For whatever reason, Charles Carreon is crying uncle.
Charles Carreon (finally!) gets served in Satirical Charles case
November 24, 2012 Adam Steinbaugh Asshats, Carreon v. Inman (The Oatmeal case), Free speech 10 comments
You might recall that way back during the Oatmeal/Funnyjunk saga, Charles Carreon — the villainous attorney defeated in that story — went after an anonymous blogger, Satirical Charles.
A Synopsis of the Involuntary Porn Site IsAnybodyDown.com Controversy — the tl;dr
November 9, 2012 Adam Steinbaugh Asshats, Involuntary Porn, IsAnybodyDown 44 comments
If you're not yet familiar with IsAnybodyDown.com (NSFW), here's a synopsis of the controversy surrounding it:
Involuntary porn: IsAnybodyDown.com is an "involuntary porn" or "revenge porn" site, posting nude photos, names, phone numbers, hometowns, and Facebook profiles of over 700 people. The photos are posted without consent and are purportedly submitted by jealous ex-lovers, but may be culled by the site from deceived Craigslist users. The site, hosted in Romania, claims immunity from U.S. copyright law and posted emails mocking those asking to have photos removed. Its owners view the site as a "weapon."
But IsAnybodyDown.com's creators are American. The site was started by Craig Brittain of Colorado Springs (now living in Phoenix) and Chance Trahan of Tempe, Arizona, though Chance denies that he "runs" the site, insisting that he is only a freelance artist.
Enter attorney David Blade: People understandably desperate to have photos removed turned to attorney "David Blade III", who advertised on IsAnybodyDown and on his own site, TakedownLawyer.com, offering to negotiate with his old college friend Craig Brittain to have pictures removed for $250. Blade boasts of removing photos of 90 people from the site.
Attorney David Blade turns out to be fake: "David Blade" does not exist. "David Blade" is purportedly a public defender in New York, but no lawyer by that name is registered with the NY state bar. The "Takedown Lawyer" website was registered and hosted by Craig Brittain, and emails from both "David Blade" and Craig Brittain likely originated from the same computer in Colorado Springs. It appears that Craig Brittain was pretending to be attorney "David Blade", receiving money to negotiate with himself to remove photos he doesn't own. Ken White, a former Federal prosecutor, believes this is wire fraud. Craig later claimed that he doesn't know who "David Blade" is and that a friend made him up.
Enter the real attorneys: Noted First Amendment attorney Marc Randazza uncovered the scam and offered to represent victims of IsAnybodyDown.com for free. Others stepped forward to assist.
Enter the media: NPR's On the Media interviewed both Marc Randazza and Craig Brittain, and the Colorado Springs Independent interviewed Craig Brittain, leading Craig and Chance to engage extensively in the comments of the post. CBS Denver will air an interview with Craig and victims of the site on Saturday, Jan. 12th. Also: ArsTechnica, the Daily Dot, Above the Law, Lawyerist, Jezebel, Techdirt (twice), and the Italian version of the Huffington Post.
Craig and Chance try to censor their critics: Craig, a self-described "front-line first amendment warrior," tried (and failed) to use copyright law to censor posts about him at Popehat. Craig attempted to delete criticism of him from Wikipedia and was banned after making legal threats. Chance posted legal threats claiming "slander" and "invasion of privacy" in comments on my blog, Popehat, Wikipedia, Techdirt, Ethics Alarm, and a satirical video. Chance successfully had the satirical video removed, arguing that its use of his photo and name invades his privacy. Chance threatened that this blogger would be "extradited" to Arizona to face a libel suit if he didn't remove "every last word" about him.
Craig fires back: Craig responded with a "press release" and with Trolldown.com, blaming Obama for his problems and claiming that Randazza, Ken White, and myself were each paid $350,000 by "Big Porn" to take down his site. Craig launched his own personal site to respond to criticism.
Chance lashes out: Chance ranted on Twitte, on his personal site, and filed a complaint with the BBB, claiming anti-bullying site Bullyville.com is paying Randazza and others to criticize him.
Enter Anonymous: #Knightsec, the contingent of hacking group Anonymous that targeted Hunter Moore (progenitor of revenge porn) declared war on the site.
Bullyville Offers a Reward: Anti-bullying site Bullyville.com is offering a $500 reward for proof that IsAnybodyDown.com contains photos of people under the age of 18.
YouGotPosted replicates the scheme: Another involuntary porn site has created a similar dubious front to collect money from its victims: ChangeMyReputation.com.
So what's next? Things have been moderately quiet for the past few days — publicly, anyway. Stay tuned.
IsAnybodyDown Part… Screw it: Craig Brittain and Chance Trahan Embrace Censorship
November 5, 2012 Adam Steinbaugh Asshats, Involuntary Porn, IsAnybodyDown 9 comments
I didn't want to write about this anymore for awhile, but oy vey, this is quite the flameout.
IsAnybodyDown Part IV: More Evidence the People Pictured were Deceived — and Didn't Consent
In earlier posts, I documented some evidence that the proprietors of involuntary-porn site IsAnybodyDown.com were culling their photos from unsuspecting Craigslist posters and discounted their nonsensical claims that everyone who appears on the site consented to be pictured there. This post is largely a re-hash of that evidence — with some fun new discoveries.

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Category Archives: Government
Nazis in the USA 1942 – WIF Forgotten History
Operation Pastorius:
Germany's Failed
WWII American
Sabotage Scheme
When Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany declared war on the United States, his hatred for America was visceral. So when his chief of military intelligence, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris of the Abwehr, proposed a means of striking in America's heartland, crippling its industry and terrorizing its people, he approved immediately. The plan was to recruit German men, former residents of the United States, to conduct a campaign of terror bombings targeting America's infrastructure including transportation facilities, manufacturing plants, electrical distribution grids, and other targets of opportunity. It was called Operation Pastorius, named for the founder of America's first German settlement, Germantown, Pennsylvania.
The first team of bombers would be followed by a second, then a third, and support for the bombers would be drawn from Nazi sympathizers in America, according to the plan developed by Canaris and run by a deputy, Walter Kappe. Its agents were trained to identify and target Jewish owned businesses in American cities, which Hitler believed carried undue influence with the American government. Operation Pastorius was not a single wave of terror bombings, but a series of them calculated to cripple America's ability to make war through the flexing of industrial muscle. It was betrayed by at least one of the agents involved, and J. Edgar Hoover took advantage of the betrayal.
10. The Germans planned a wave of terror in the Northeast and Midwest
German military planners of the Abwehr selected the primary targets for the first wave of Operation Pastorius. They included the hydroelectric plant at Niagara, which provided electrical power for much of the northeastern United States. The Hell Gate Bridge complex, a critical railroad link connecting New York to New England was to be bombed, disrupting freight and passenger traffic. America's aluminum industry figured heavily in the target lists, which included a cryolite processing plant in Philadelphia (cryolite being essential in the smelting of the metal), and several aluminum plants in Tennessee, Illinois, and New York.
Railroad repair facilities and stations were targeted, as were locks crucial to the navigation of barges on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. During their preparation, the agents selected for Pastorius were trained in identifying and bombing targets of opportunity. They were to be selected for their economic value as well as terror effect, and included department stores and restaurants, railway depots, airports, subways, and places of public gathering. Abwehr planners envisioned the operation in effect for two years in the United States, with minimal communication between the agents and planners in Germany. The agents were trained to recognize emerging targets and act accordingly.
9. Eight agents were recruited and trained by the Abwehr
Originally, 12 men were recruited by the Abwehr, selected by Walter Kappe from lists of men who had been repatriated from the United States. Four quickly dropped out of the program, and eight were sent to complete three weeks of training at an Abwehr facility in April 1942. They were trained in the handling of demolition charges and timers, the manufacturing of bombs and munitions, and their placement for maximum effect. They also received training in target selection, small arms, and other aspects of espionage. The training was conducted at an Abwehr facility about 50 miles from Berlin, with some of the instruction provided by operatives of the Irish Republican Army working in concert with the Abwehr.
All of the men selected had lived in the United States for some time, and at least two were American citizens. Another two had served in the United States Army or National Guard. As they were trained, the Abwehr created life histories for each, giving them fictional backgrounds based on their American experiences, and the documents necessary to sustain the charade. Drivers licenses, birth certificates, passports, social security cards, and letters from friends and family were prepared for the men to carry during their mission in the United States. When the training was complete the men traveled to L'Orient in France, from whence the Kriegsmarine carried them to the America.
8. They were landed in the United States by two separate U-boats
Divided into two teams of four — one led by George John Dasch, the other by Edward Kerling — the agents were carried by U-Boats to the United States. The first to arrive reached Long Island near Montauk in the early morning of June 13, 1942. The team led by Dasch went ashore wearing German uniforms. The uniforms and the explosives which they brought ashore were buried near their landing point, to be retrieved later, and the four men walked to nearby Amagansett, where they boarded a Long Island Railroad train to New York, inconspicuous amongst the early morning commuters. By the time they arrived in New York their presence in America was known to the authorities.
The second team, led by Kerling, was deposited on Ponte Vedra beach near Jacksonville, Florida, going ashore in the darkness wearing swim trunks and German uniform caps. They arrived on June 16. They dressed on the beach, buried their explosives, and walked to a Greyhound bus station, where they caught a bus to Jacksonville. From there they traveled by train to Cincinnati, where they split into pairs, with two moving on to Chicago and the other two, including Kerling, traveling to New York. All eight agents were to reconnoiter their targets, and rendezvous in Cincinnati on July 4, 1942, to coordinate the bombings to ensure maximum terror effect.
7. The teams planned a campaign of sabotage to last two years
The teams went ashore carrying explosives for their first wave of bombings on targets assigned by the Abwehr. In Germany, Walter Kappe was already planning for additional teams to be sent to America, including himself. He planned to establish a headquarters for sabotage and espionage in the United States following the success of the first wave. Supported by Canaris, he sent the first teams of agents to America well-equipped to support themselves and their operations for two years. Each team leader – Dasch and Kerling – carried with them a list of contacts, Germans known to be sympathetic to the Nazis. The lists were written in invisible ink on a handkerchief.
The team leaders were to contact Nazi sympathizers known to the Abwehr and Gestapo, establishing and utilizing a network of mail drops and contacts through which additional teams could communicate with one another. Substantial German communities in cities were to be plumbed for support for the German operations. The support of the German communities was considered to be necessary for the long-term maintenance of the teams. The United States was not yet on a full war footing when the teams arrived in America, and security was still relatively lax, which the Abwehr believed would allow their agents to assimilate in the German areas with little difficulty.
6. The sabotage teams had false documents and American money
The teams carried $50,000 dollars, in denominations of $50 or less, under control of the team leader, to be used for expenses including travel, purchases of additional explosives and, if necessary, bribes of officials or supporters. Each man was also allotted $9,000 — about half of which was controlled by the team leader, with the rest carried in money belts by the agents. An additional $400 was held by each member for immediate use. All of the money was genuine to avoid the unnecessary risks inherent with using counterfeit funds.
Kerling's team was tasked with bombing the Newark station of the Pennsylvania Railroad, repair facilities near Altoona, Pennsylvania, the Hell Gate Bridge, and Ohio River dams and locks between Cincinnati and Louisville. Dasch was to target the electrodynamic plants at Niagara, Alcoa plants in several states, and the cryolite processing plant in Philadelphia. Both teams were to target department stores and large train stations wherever possible, with the aim of creating terror among the populace. The agents all carried false documentation which supported their carefully crafted backstories as they moved freely to accomplish their missions.
5. The New York team was accosted by the Coast Guard, escaped, and a manhunt began
As Dasch and his team buried their explosives on the beach in the dark at about 2:30 in the morning of June 13, he noticed someone on the beach staring at him. It was US Coast Guardsman John Cullen. Dasch told Cullen that he and his party were fishing, though they lacked fishing equipment. When Cullen appeared suspicious, Dasch threatened him, then attempted to bribe him with $260. Cullen promised to forget what he had seen and returned to his station at Amagansett, where he informed his superiors of what he had seen, and more importantly, heard. While Dasch was speaking to him Cullen heard the others talking – in German
By the time the Coast Guard returned to the site the Germans were gone, but they discovered evidence of digging and when they went back to their station it was with the information that explosives and German uniforms were buried on the beach. Before Dasch's team arrived at Penn Station in New York, the FBI in Washington knew of the discovery on Long Island. Dasch and his team split up in New York, registering in pairs at two hotels, safely hidden in the throngs of the city. In Washington, the information was filed accordingly. Kerling's team had not yet landed when Dasch arrived in New York.
4. The teams planned to meet in Cincinnati to begin their attacks on the 4th of July, 1942
The following day Dasch told the agent he was traveling with, Ernst Burger, that he had no intention of carrying out the attacks as planned, and was instead going to inform the FBI of the entire operation. Burger was given the choice of either cooperating or being thrown out of their upper story hotel room window. Dasch called the FBI on June 15 and was disregarded as a crackpot. The next day he traveled to Washington, checked in at the Mayflower Hotel, and went to the FBI with his information. After he presented the large sum of American cash he was carrying he got the Bureau's attention. The fact that his story confirmed the findings on Long Island was also noted. Within a few hours, using his information, the FBI had the rest of his team in custody. Kerling's team landed in Florida the same day.
Dasch could not give the FBI much information regarding the whereabouts of the second team, only that the teams were to meet in Cincinnati on July 4. He did tell the FBI about the invisible ink on the handkerchief. He could not recall the means of revealing the ink. The FBI allowed Dasch to remain in his Mayflower Hotel room, where he was closely watched, while it rapidly solved the mystery of the invisible ink, which was reactive to ammonia. The listed contacts in several cities were placed under 24-hour surveillance. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover ordered the arrest of Dasch's team kept secret, so as not to alert the remaining four German saboteurs.
3. The remaining Germans were rounded up in New York and Chicago
Kerling and his associate, Werner Thiel, traveled from Cincinnati to New York, where Kerling contacted Helmut Leiner, whom he knew from his earlier life in America. Leiner's name was on the list provided to the FBI and he was under surveillance. The FBI followed Kerling from that point on, and when he met with Thiel in a bar a few days later they promptly arrested the pair, leaving just two of the German agents still free. Though the FBI did not know it, they were in Chicago, where one of them, Herbert Laupt, had also decided to forego his mission.
Laupt had been raised from the age of five in Chicago, and in 1940 failed to register for the draft, as the law then required. Desirous of marrying his girlfriend, he went to the FBI office in Chicago and told them that he had contacted his draft board. The FBI recognized his name and let him go, hoping he would lead them to the sole remaining German agent. After three days of following him, they arrested Laupt for espionage. Laupt, hoping for leniency, told them they could find the last agent of Operation Pastorius, Hermann Neubauer, at the Sheridan Plaza Hotel. He was taken into custody by the FBI that same evening when he returned from watching a movie. As soon as news of the arrests in Chicago reached Washington, Dasch was arrested.
2. The Germans were tried as spies by a military tribunal
Hoover proudly announced the arrests of the team of German saboteurs as the result of an FBI operation, failing to mention the role played by Dasch when he approached the Bureau with the story. He preferred the public and the Germans believe in the efficiency of the American security effort. For the same reason, he urged the Germans be tried by military tribunal, in secret, telling President Roosevelt that a public trial would reveal too much of the FBI's methods. Roosevelt agreed, and the eight were tried together by a tribunal of seven Army generals, with the Attorney General of the United States, Francis Biddle, serving as the prosecutor.
The Germans were provided with legal representation, but the outcome of the trial was a foregone conclusion. All of the Germans were tried under the penalty of death if found guilty, which they were on July 27. The court recommended the death penalty, though Biddle recommended clemency for Dasch and Burger. The entire court transcript, which ran over 3,000 pages, was sent to Roosevelt, who held the authority to implement the court's recommendation or grant lesser sentences. Roosevelt's review of the documents revealed to him that Hoover's reports of the FBI's role in the unraveling of the German plan had been somewhat exaggerated. Dasch's role in exposing the plot remained hidden from the public.
1. All were sentenced to death by the tribunal, but FDR extended clemency
Roosevelt accepted the recommendation from Biddle, supported by Hoover, and granted clemency for Burger, who was sentenced to life at hard labor, and Dasch, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison. His decision was announced on August 7, 1942. The following day the remaining six German agents were executed in the District of Columbia Jail, using the electric chair. They had been back in the United States less than two months. An enraged Hitler forbade Canaris from conducting further sabotage operations in the United States when he learned that all eight of the agents had denounced Nazism to the FBI. Truman later commuted the sentences of Burger and Dasch, ordering them deported to occupied Germany
Neither were welcomed in Germany, where they were generally reviled as traitors. Dasch tried several times over the remainder of his life to return to the United States, but Hoover blocked his efforts each time. Dasch reported that Hoover had offered him immunity from prosecution in exchange for his giving the story to the FBI; Hoover steadfastly denied he had. In 1959 Dasch published a book entitled Eight Spies Against America, which related his side of the story. It did not sell well, nor did it generate support for his quest for a Presidential pardon, as he had hoped. Dasch died in Germany in 1992, still condemned there as a traitor.
Nazis in the USA 1942 –
WIF Forgotten History
Categories: Conspiracies, Espionage, Government, History, photography, War Tags: Abwehr, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, Attorney General of the United States Francis Biddle, FBI, J Edgar Hoover, Nazi Germany, Operation Pastorius, U-Boat
50 National Parks on a Dime – WIF 10 Cent Travel
The road trip Olson designed is 14,498 miles long and it would take you about two months to complete the loop if you're going "at a breakneck speed." In other words, you'd better take a few months off work before getting on the road.
Map: Randy Olson
Here's a list of all the national parks Olson included in his itinerary. Note that you can start the trip at any stop in the loop.
Sadly, Alaska is too far out-of-the-way, thereby busting our budget.
By chance, or maybe not, we are beginning our journey at perhaps the single most breathtaking sight in these United States of America, the Grand Canyon. Keep in mind that the first hints of winter are creeping their way into the Northern tier of our country (and our origin is far from the circus that is our nation's Capital).
So it is: From desert to desert, the American West to East and back again, the unparalleled vision of Theodore Roosevelt unfolds behind every rise, hill and mountain.
Keep in mind that it took passion and foresight for to preserve and protect these wilderness and forested areas, by and through the office of the President. Without such sanctions, this trip may never have left the garage… just one more thing to be thankful for as we approach **Thanksgiving… but that is a story for another day.
Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
Saguaro National Park, Arizona
Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas
Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico
Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee
Everglades National Park, Florida
Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida
Biscayne National Park, Florida
Congaree National Park, South Carolina
Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
Acadia National Park, Maine
Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio
Isle Royale National Park, Michigan
Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota
Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota
Badlands National Park, South Dakota
Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota
Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Colorado
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
Canyonlands National Park, Utah
Arches National Park, Utah
Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
Zion National Park, Utah
Great Basin National Park, Nevada
Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
Glacier National Park, Montana
North Cascades National Park, Washington
Mount Rainier National Park, Washington
Olympic National Park, Washington
Crater Lake National Park, Oregon
Redwood National and State Parks, California
Lassen Volcanic National Park, California
Yosemite National Park, California
Kings Canyon National Park, California
Sequoia National Park, California
Pinnacles National Park, California
Channel Islands National Park, California
Joshua Tree National Park, California
Death Valley National Park, California
"What a place to run out of gas!"
** Special credit is due to the Creator, without which none of this would be possible.
National Park Road Trip –
WIF 10 Cent Travel
Categories: Geography, Government, Nature, Transportation, Travel Tags: Alaska, American West, Death Valley, Divine Creator, National Park System, Thanksgiving, Theodore Roosevelt
Alpha Omega M.D. – Episode #229
… As the men of the Florida Panhandle arrange strange combinations of meat and condiment on their day-old bread, reality has set in…
Just what was this riot that Alice Paul stands accused of sanctioning?
After the threat of the influenza had run its course, removing the stigma of human contact, especially public gatherings, Alice and her staunchest supporters began touring state capitols, hoping to influence legislators, the makers of law that would bring the rights of women up to snuff.
On a cool late winter day, one where if you are going to listen to a speech at an outdoor venue, you must really want to hear what is going to be said and hundreds do; dresses blowing in the northerly breezes, gloved hands clapping with every "sisters for equality" reference. There are a lot of households in Tallahassee that will be going without Saturday evening dinner and hundreds of men who are outraged at the audacity of their women. But this event had been touted for several weeks, so it is likely that these men thought the women's movement, this National Woman's Party, was just a lot of hot air, not about to amount to anything.
As they arrange strange combinations of meat and condiment on their day-old bread, reality has set in.
"Where is our dignity, ladies? Are we doomed to be chained to the kitchen stove forever, only to have our hands go raw from dishwater or the never ending laundry? And then watch our men leave the house to go out and vote, only to come home half liquored up, ordering us around like servants.
"It is time——–no past time for the women of America to have equal rights!" Alice Paul is hardly a striking figure, somewhat ordinary, with a dark hair and complexion, dark eyes focused on her goal. But there is no denying her effectiveness as a speaker, able to arouse the sleeping spirit of the female gender, causing them to admit infuriation for the first time. "Let's take our cause to the steps of Florida's state legislature! It is time that the "good old boys club" learns that one half of their constituency is oppressed, but not powerless!"
Alpha Omega M.D.
Categories: Alpha Omega M.D., Government, Historical Fiction, Justice, Organization, Politics, The Law Tags: 1920, Alice Paul, National Woman's Party, Tallahassee Florida, Votes for Women
…The right to vote on offices and issues that relate to women is important, particularly when one half of the population have no say in their own self-determination…
"Homage to Suffragette" by Bernard van Lierop
… Attorney James Ferrell is tackling a case that no other lawyer wants to get within an addendum of; woman's suffrage in the South, a contradiction of terms in itself. On a campaign through the Panhandle, having served at the core of the movement in England, Alice Paul has been arrested for inciting a riot; not that a riot of women is a huge threat to mankind, but the protest marches that seem to follow her around the country have law enforcement on their ready, and in the South, that means, 'Not in my town.'
The right to vote on offices and issues that relate to women is important, particularly when one half of the population have no say in their own self-determination. Something has to be said, someone has to take a stand – something has to be done. And unpopular as it is, in an entrenchment of tradition, shaking the branches of a tree is the best way to reap the fruit.
And despite her stint in the Cinderella troupe, Phoebe Love has kept a close eye toward this matter, entreating advisor Ferrell not to allow this gross miscarriage of justice to languish in the Florida court system; even to the point that Mrs. Love funds Paul's defense.
Now these are very strong terms for a woman who has been a stay-at-home wife for her forty year marriage, none of which she ever did not have a say on who, what, when, where, how, or why. A vote, on whether Woodrow Wilson should remain as President or be replaced by Charles Evans Hughes in the election of 1916 was not hers to have.
That is why women like Alice Paul place themselves at risk, utilizing shock tactics and not-so-subtly nudging society into noticing injustice. Men look at her with disdain, largely fearing what equal rights would do to their present tidy arrangement. And it is not like many women embrace her radical concepts.
Equal rights;
Does that mean I will have get a job and trade my skirts in for overalls?
Or fight in a war, how horrible?
Such is the misunderstanding, misinformation in this "miss and mrs." issue.
Categories: Alpha Omega M.D., Government, Human Nature, Justice, Politics, The Law Tags: "Sister Suffragette" Mary Poppins, 1920, Alice Paul, right-to-vote, Tallahassee Florida
When Intentions Do Not Match Results – WIF Government
That Went
Horribly Wrong
The government is necessary and most of the time they should be trusted — at least (and especially) your local government. You need police, firefighters, and even bureaucrats and tax collectors. However, sometimes the government makes it hard for people to trust them. Whether through malice, or just plain incompetence, sometimes the United States government's best laid plans and programs went horribly wrong, and caused massive damage… or even deaths. In today's article, we will go over 10 programs or agencies that have caused serious and lasting harm.
10. Smokey The Bear Helped Create More Massive Wildfires
Smokey the Bear is one of the most well known mascots of all time, except instead of being the mascot for a major sports team, Smokey is the mascot for United States natural parks, and all of US wildlife and forests in general. Smokey was conceived by the United States government decades ago in order to spread awareness about the importance of putting out your fires, especially old campfires and the sparks from your cigarettes. His famous line "Only YOU can prevent forest fires" is catchy and known by many outside of States.
However, despite the best intentions of the government, Smokey the Bear has actually done a lot more harm than good at this point, and with how much death and destruction recent wildfires have caused, the entire thing is no laughing matter. Because the campaign worked a bit too well, people became so obsessed with putting out tiny brush fires — even natural ones — that not enough natural clearing was occurring. This meant that when a wildfire does start now, it usually has way too much fuel to help it keep moving, whereas otherwise it might have choked itself off because dry brush was regularly burned out naturally.
9. The Fast And Furious Scandal Ended Up Giving More Guns To The Cartels
Fast and the Furious was a scandal that caused a lot of damage to the Obama administration's reputation, and especially to his attorney general Eric Holder. The federal government knows the cartels often come across the border, buy lots of guns, and then sneak them across the border again to use in wars with other drug dealers and even their own government. Now, the United States government has long tried to prevent this, but the Obama administration got another idea.
They figured that if they knew this reliably happened so much, instead of putting all efforts to stop it and get gun stores to be a bit more vigilant, they actually decided to pull a trick on the cartels. They allowed a whole bunch of gun sales, with the plan to track the guns so they could figure out where in Mexico (or elsewhere) they were ending up, and who ultimately was using them. Now, this could have led to valuable intelligence, and if they had managed to track the people down and get the guns back, it would have been a successful operation. Unfortunately, it became a scandal after it became public that the government had completely lost track of the guns, making the entire operation a complete waste that just made the cartels more powerful.
8. The War On Drugs Is A Colossal Failure And An Enormous Boondoggle
The war on drugs was started back in the Nixon era, and ramped-up to even more of a fevered pitch during the Reagan years. In fact, Nancy Reagan, the First Lady at the time, even made it her mission in life to go on a campaign against drugs, with her famous slogan, "Just say no." (Something that basically never worked for any teenager under peer pressure… ever). The idea was that if we put enough government dollars into restrictive laws and prison sentences, cracked down hard on the gangs and on individual dealers, and went all out against the drugs as if we are actually at war, we would make a huge dent and get lots of people off drugs. However, the truth is that all the facts suggest that the "War on Drugs" was a colossal waste of time and money.
Despite all the arguably unfair prison sentences for small drug offenses, the bigger issue is simply that the program has not been effective. Even though an incredible amount of time and money has been spent, evidence shows that over the years, access to drugs has become cheaper, the cartels and drug dealers are making more money, more people are doing drugs, and the problem is actually getting worse. It doesn't help that legal drugs like opioids helped create an entirely new black market for getting high and ruining your life.
7. The Housing Projects Cemented Segregation
All the way back in the FDR years, the United States of America saw a need for more low income housing for poor urban citizens — which is often code for black people. Now, there were a lot of ways this could be done, but the government did it really the wrong way entirely. Obviously, we don't know for sure what their intentions were, but the effect was devastating for the black community, and helped codify segregation permanently into the very infrastructure of the United States.
The housing projects were all put in the same city blocks, and were closely packed together. They were not spread out within different zip codes throughout the big cities, as would make more sense, and none of them were built in slightly wealthier zones, to help uplift the poor people coming to live in the projects. Instead, they chose more run-down parts of the city, and closely packed the housing projects together.
Because cities' tax revenues are based on the riches of its citizens, small cities that have a lot of housing projects tend to have very little money to fix anything, have nice schools, or even keep the city up. And because moving is so expensive, most people born in the projects will simply never get out.
6. Poisoning People During Prohibition
The prohibition era is a well known time from America's history, and perhaps one of the biggest mistakes in modern history. It is well known that a huge new class of drug cartels spawned due to prohibition, and it didn't even work. The federal government was annoyed that people kept finding ways to flout their decree, and wanted to force people to behave — or else. They devised a plan to teach people that alcohol WAS bad for them, even if they didn't think so, and even if they had to put bad stuff in alcohol that wasn't usually in it.
So, they figured if they poisoned a bunch of bootleg alcohol, people would get sick stop drinking due to the dangers. They poisoned a bunch of alcohol from industrial sources and denatured it, making it unsafe to drink; then, they just waited, knowing the bootleggers usually used those sources. Tens of thousands got sick and thousands died, at least according to most estimates. The government did not admit until later what they did, and it is hard to know for sure just how many hospital stays and deaths were caused by this irresponsible and deadly action by the United States government.
5. FEMA Keeps Failing At Basic Disaster Management Over And Over Again
FEMA is the Federal Emergency Management Agency, but mismanaging things seems to be their real purview. Back in the Bush years, FEMA was called out for their terrible response to Hurricane Katrina, and many people still believe that with more competent leadership at the top of the agency, more people and property could have been saved. More recently, FEMA made it into the news because of its poor response to the crisis in Puerto Rico.
FEMA brought a whole bunch of bottled water (about a football field's worth all stacked up) and meant to distribute it to people in need. Unfortunately, this huge supply of water, instead of going to the people who needed it, rotted outside in the crazy heat, and became completely unusable. Desperate locals were forced to carefully ration their drinking water from springs and other sources instead, as the bottled water could no longer be trusted as safe. Unfortunately, while the agency is necessary and important, it needs leadership that is better at managing emergencies — with competent leadership, so many more lives would be saved when disasters happen.
4. No Child Left Behind Left Our Children Worse Off Than Ever Before
Back in the Bush years, we had an update to our current education plan that was dubbed "No Child Left Behind." For the most part, it was a continuation of a previous policy with a few changes, but that didn't make it a good idea. The point of No Child Left Behind was to force more standardized testing, and punish underperforming schools. The system was meant to encourage underperforming schools to get their act together, and not fail to properly teach their students.
However, an emphasis on a one size fits all approach like standardized testing doesn't play to people's specific needs or the needs of that community, and forces the teachers to mostly "teach for the test," which can mean not emphasizing a lot of important knowledge. To make matters worse, No Child Left Behind doesn't give any funding to help underperforming schools, which is what they really need. If a school isn't doing well, the vast majority of the time the reason has to do with not having enough funds. If a school is punished for not doing well enough, if anything they will only do even worse, and the system will continue to fail our children and leave lots of them behind.
3. The Forced Busing Programs Were Done Clumsily And Didn't Have Much Impact
Recently in the Democratic presidential debates, the candidates were talking about the busing programs meant to help integrate black children into white public schools and vice versa. While the issue brought up a contentious debate between the candidates and a couple of interesting soundbites, there is reason to believe the program was not at all helpful (which may be why it was ultimately shut down). While some black students did get to benefit from going to some nicer schools, it also caused some resentment for people sent to schools far away from them that weren't as nice.
The truth is that to fix our issues involving schools, we need to make sure schools in poorer areas are properly funded, and aren't relying on the tax revenue of their local city. Shifting a few students around doesn't change the fact that a school under-performs because it has no funding, and only helps a few students, and hurts others who are moved to the low income school. In the end, we have to fix the infrastructure problems inherent in the system, or we are only assisting a few people here and there — which does nothing to ameliorate the overall problem.
2. The Laws Regarding Service Animals Have Created Massive Confusion
Recently you may have seen debates on the news about bringing service animals on board flights, as well as the more dubious "emotional support animals." Technically, all animals are "emotional support" as that is the whole point of having a pet, and animals with that designation don't usually go through any special training. However, the whole thing has become a nightmare for hotel owners, airliners and many other businesses. The problem is how the law is worded. The ADA protects disabled people and ensures that service animals are allowed to go with them because they need the animal — it is essential. It's not a pet; it performs actual, hugely importance services. However, emotional support animals are not protected by the ADA at all.
This has created a huge problem, and has been a boon for scammers, due to the other part of the law. In order to ensure a blind person or someone similar isn't turned away because they forgot some paperwork, you are not allowed to demand proof of paperwork that an animal is a service animal. Now, you could probably get away with arguing for exotic animals, as the bar for proof is sensibly higher, since they aren't really trained. Several airlines seem to have legally gotten away with turning away that kind of nonsense, so there is precedent for it.
1. MKUltra Failed To Produce Results, Apart From Alleged Deaths
MKUltra was an infamous government program that started back in the 1950s, and was the government's attempt to find some kind of useful mind control or other applications for war, and intelligence gathering. The program lasted for decades, and experimented with everything from mind altering drugs like LSD, to various technological applications for brainwashing or mind control. Many conspiracy theories have sprung from the program about what they did learn, and some people think the government is regularly using techniques from the project to control specific people or even the masses.
However, the government claims that the project was shuttered after decades of work because it simply didn't provide useful results. The experiments allegedly caused a handful of deaths, as well as one by alleged suicide due to delusions from LSD exposure, and the government subjected some inmates to experimentation — without their knowledge — to hallucinogens like LSD. While these tests may have harmed some people, it wasn't even worth it if what the government claims was true. They were unable to find a way to control people's minds, and if anything just got a lot of people a lot more interested in checking out that LSD stuff. And even if the conspiracy theorists are right and they did learn something useful, drugging inmates against their will, and allegedly causing the deaths of multiple people, makes the whole thing something less than a victory for the federal government.
When Intentions Do Not Match Results –
WIF Government
Categories: Controversy, Doctrine, Government, Human Nature, Politics, The Law Tags: Eric Holder, FEMA, No Child Left Behind, prohibition, Service Animals, Smokey the Bear, War On Drugs
Alpha Omega M.D. – Episode # 203
…Woodrow Wilson does what he had hoped could be permanently avoided. The addition of American forces changes the Great War into the 1st World War…
The United States of America is about to be pushed to the brink. That very January, the crafty British have intercepted what amounts to a German proposed alliance with Mexico; making promises of regained territory and financial aid, in return for Mexican aggression should their neighbors to the north lose neutrality. Unrestricted submarine warfare is added to that brazen new strategy. They will be sinking a few more ships, but they are going to find out that Poncho Villa is no Attila the Hun.
Even a dove has its breaking point; kindly cooing will turn into fearsome protection of its nest. Woodrow Wilson does what he had hoped could be permanently avoided. The addition of American forces changes the Great War into the 1st World War.
Ironically, April 1917 also marks the opening of the Pearson-Eastman Journal's War Bureau in Paris. The war, whichever tag you place on it, has dominated their pages ever since the untimely demise of John Ferrell. Never mind the fighting, the string of human interest stories is unending and Harv Pearson has inserted personality into an otherwise faceless and grossly inhuman exercise.
And for the first time since their meeting, back in '01, they are working independent of the other. It is not a palatable arrangement, each month of life apart is subtracted from their total, but they will find that spreading out their unique talents is expeditious.
Judith is handling the domestic front, watching the nation pull together for a patriotic cause. With most of the healthy men rushing to save Europe from advancing German forces, women take up the slack, working in the factories and shipyards, tilling the land, caring for the sick. Some of the pictures she takes are strangely surreal, the face of America changing in unrecognizable proportions.
Other of her photojournalistic endeavors take on a familiar pretense, as she rubs elbows with stars of silent motion pictures; some rocketing to larger than life status. Movies have captured the imagination of America and indeed the world, giving millions of people shared experiences. Theaters may be hundreds of miles apart, but the magical motion sequences are the same.
One easy way to support the boys "over there", is to buy Liberty Bonds, even though investors would get a higher rate of return from railroad issued paper. To further entice greenbacks from prosperous pockets, movie stars are asked to be headliners at bond rallies. The biggest names in silent films answer the call, taking time out of their busy schedules to contribute to bolster moral: Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Buster Keaton, and Rudolph Valentino.
Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and Charlie Chaplin selling Liberty Bonds
Episode # 203
Categories: Alpha Omega M.D., Government, Journalism, Movies, photography, War Tags: Hollywood, Liberty Bonds, Mary Pickford, Movie Stars Support WWI, Photojournalism, The Great War, World War I
…we sent in the Florida National Guard, in anticipation of Hank Blount pulling some monkey business…
Monkey Business by Mister Bones – Deviantart
"I trust those people," President Roosevelt tells his Attorney General, Charles Bonaparte, the great-nephew of Napoleon I, of a family of lawyers predating the "Little Corporal", "and if what they write about this Blount character is true, I am going to make this the last trust I bust!"
"You will have to stand in line, sir. We've had our eye on him for years, but we did not know how to go about nailing him to the wall, without completely shutting down his town… his town, boy doesn't that sound strange? We are lucky he didn't try to secede, creating his own principality."
"Oh, my no, Bonaparte. We would have resurrected your uncle Napoleon, if we had to. Bully, I say! Or how does a Rough Rider reunion sound? Can you see 100 fifty year olds storming into that dictator's town?"
"Fortunately it will not come to that. After Pearson's article went to print, we sent in the Florida National Guard, in anticipation of him pulling some monkey business."
"National Guard you say… without my authorization? I'm not too thrilled with this lame duck thing."
"Please don't be upset, Teddy. You were out West, in the wilderness somewhere, when Pearson warned us about the article. We had to move and the Vice-president signed off on our plan."
"You speak as if we were successful," the leader debriefs.
"A Guard battalion caught him leaving town and he is in custody; should be at F.B.I. headquarters in Atlanta, as we speak."
"The Federal Bureau of Investigation? Bully. Not a year old and already on the job. They will be a crime fighter's best friend, just you wait!"
"No more escaping justice because of laws that vary from state to state." Charles Bonaparte is a lame duck himself, but he can be proud that the F.B.I. is created under his watch as the nation's number one lawyer.
Categories: Alpha Omega M.D., Government, Historical Fiction, Journalism, Justice, The Law Tags: Charles Bonaparte, FBI, lame duck, monkey business, Napoleon Bonaparte, Theodore Roosevelt


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(NRO) – The New York Times is fond of running "big idea" opinion essays claiming that humans are just another animal in the forest — and, sometimes, that plants are persons too.
It was a strange epiphany. To be human today is to deny our animal nature, though it's always there, as the earth remains round beneath our feet even when it feels flat. I had always been an animal, and would always be one, but it wasn't until I was prey, my own fur standing on end and certain base-level decisions being made in milliseconds (in a part of my mind that often takes 10 minutes to choose toothpaste in the grocery store), that the meat-and-bone reality settled over me. I was smaller and slower than the bear. My claws were no match for hers. And almost every part of me was edible.


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