[ga] The ICANN / INAIC scandal (you mean Joe drags in) drags in the Gymnasium Querfurt high school again - Palmer investigates (Palmer corrects joes lies and slander)

["John Palmer" <jpalmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe is correct - I am investigating. 

It appears so far that this student, Christopher Mettin is an entrepeneur who 
has created a 
TLD registry that is part of Public-Root.

This is located at: http://tld.gqbc-online.com/index.htm

This is not a fraud or a crime. If INAIC is in violation of any laws or 
registration requirements,
then Joe should report them to the proper authorities. Oh wait, he does that 
all of the time and
lo and behold, the matter falls into a black hole.

Translation: Joe's vendettas against people are of no concern to law 
enforcement. They regularily toss
his complaints into the trash. His claim is that they are feckless and harried 
by other crimes and "Oh, they
just don't have enough time to investigate".

Nonsense.  If half of Joe's claims were true, many people would be fined or in 
prison. Yet, no one has been arrested
or convicted of anything. 

Oh, and by the way, the website listed above is STILL ONLINE and operating 
today? How can this be, if its such a 
horrible fraud? I'm sure the German police would have stopped this student if 
he was committing a crime - right?

Of course, the answer really is that this is a very smart young man who is 
starting a business of his own and is
doing nothing wrong. 

Joe's web page on this matter 
(http://baptista.cynikal.net/gqnet/news-item.html) is full of lies, distortions 
and slander. Let me list
these:

Joe claims that the principal of Gymnasium Querfurt said that the student would 
be "punished" for some "wrong-doing". I see no mention of
any wrong-doing, except perhaps that he did not make it clear enough that his 
website was not the official school website. 
The principal mentions someere NOT victims of a recent Top-Level Domain sales 
scam. INAIC is a legitimate business with many paying customers. If it was a 
scam, it would have been reported and shut down by the Dutch authorities. Joes 
claim that the police are
simply "too busy" all of the time, is nonsense.

2. Joe calls Herman Xennt a "con artist". Show me convictions for fraud that 
Herman has. There aren't any. 

3. Herman is not a convicted felon, that I can tell. I have asked for official 
copies of any such court papers and 
Joe has refused to provide them. 

4. Some folks were living at the Cyberbunker (Not Xennt) and were running an 
XTC lab and it caught fire. They arrested everyone
there including Herman. The subsequent police investigation found that Herman 
WAS NOT involved in any way in this drug
lab and he was RELEASED. Joe doesn't tell you that, does he?

5. Finally, this section finishes up with one of the old Baptista saws: "Tax 
evasion". Again, Joe WHERE ARE THE COURT
RECORDS?

In the next section, Joe hallucinates:

"The school joins an impressive list of organizations on the INAIC victims 
list. Both the Government of Turkey and SITA (Societe Internationale de 
Telecommunications Aeronautique) participated in marketing stolen property 
through INAIC. In these cases the intellectual property rights to top-level 
domains sold by INAIC are part of a commercial fraud involving formerere NOT 
victims of a recent Top-Level Domain sales scam. INAIC is a legitimate business 
with many paying customers. If it was a scam, it would have been reported and 
shut down by the Dutch authorities. Joes claim that the police are
simply "too busy" all of the time, is nonsense.

2. Joe calls Herman Xennt a "con artist". Show me convictions for fraud that 
Herman has. There aren't any. 

3. Herman is not a convicted felon, that I can tell. I have asked for official 
copies of any such court papers and 
Joe has refused to provide them. 

4. Some folks were living at the Cyberbunker (Not Xennt) and were running an 
XTC lab and it caught fire. They arrested everyone
there including Herman. The subsequent police investigation found that Herman 
WAS NOT involved in any way in this drug
lab and he was RELEASED. Joe doesn't tell you that, does he?

5. Finally, this section finishes up with one of the old Baptista saws: "Tax 
evasion". Again, Joe WHERE ARE THE COURT
RECORDS?

In the next section, Joe hallucinates:

"The school joins an impressive list of organizations on the INAIC victims 
list. Both the Government of Turkey and SITA (Societe Internationale de 
Telecommunications Aeronautique) participated in marketing stolen property 
through INAIC. In these cases the intellectual property rights to top-level 
domains sold by INAIC are part of a commercial fraud involving former partners 
of Herman Xennt and the Top Level Domain Association, another front for the 
organization."

Lets see:

1. The school was not a victim of anyone, including INAIC.

2. Turkey and SITA were victims alright - of Joe. In 2005, after Herman and 
others would not let him run the show, he set out to destroy the effort and
as part of this effort, he threatened and insulted people in the Turkish govt 
and SITA (as well as those at Tiscali and others) into dropping their support
for the project.  You can see one of his accusations against his victims here, 
that they participated in "marketing stolen property" - in the US you
can be sued into poverty for making those kinds of false claims.

3. What does the TLDA have to do with any of this? I'll tell you what - the 
TLDA IS A VICTIM, again, a victim of Joe Baptista. As a founding member and 
officer of the TLDA, I can tell you that Joe has done nothing but try to 
destroy our  organization. As we began to accomplish things, Joe misused our
public e-mail lists to further his mad vendetta against Herman and Co. It got 
so bad that we finally banished him from the lists. Joe would regularily insult
our members, including calling Karl Peters a "welfare bum" and insulting his 
family. He did similar things to Bradley Thornton, one of our other active 
members.
This actually led to a loss of credibility for the TLDA since all the public 
saw when they looked in on us was Joe attacking and everyone else trying to 
defend themselves against his vile actions.

The next section of the website may contain some kernel of truth. It appears 
that INAIC has confused Christopher's gqbc-online.de 
with an official school project. According to the school principal, this is not 
the case. This error should be corrected asap.

Funny thing is, that later in the new pages, Joe states:

"Christopher Mettin the schools 18 year old student network administrator runs 
the GQnet student project for the Gymnasium Querfurt."

Joe, wait a moment - you just said that GQNet is being misrepresented as 
official school page, now you are claiming that it is official?
Which is is, Joe?

Joe concludes the Querfurt news section by complaining about incorporation of  
INAIC. As stated before, it is probably
illegal in Holland to run a business that is not legitimate and if so many 
people were being defrauded, the Dutch authorities would
have closed down this business a long time ago. Why haven't they? Could it be 
that INAIC is a legitimate business? You
judge for yourself. : http://www.inaic.com

Conclusion: This "news" page is just another one of Joe's attempts to tar 
people who would not kow-tow to his demands. Joe has
a need to have people consider him a "wise internet guru" and demands that they 
all sit at his feet and respect his "wisdom". He
has falsly claimed that he is a "representative" of the "public root" or 
otherwise represents the interest of some unknown TLD holders
and others, yet no one of substance has ever come forward saying that they cede 
that role to him. Anyone who dares to question
his authority or go against him will be on the receiving end of his wrath. He 
will launch an intense vendetta against that person or
persons and will attempt to recruit others into this effort. This is what 
happened with the TLDA in the last 3 years - he attempted to
use the legitimacy of the TLDA as a weapon in his vendetta against Herman Xennt 
and as a result, almost destroyed it.  When those
he tries to recruit show hesitation to join the cause, he adds them to his list 
of "enemies" and attacks them as well. This is evident
in his attacks against Karl Peters, the Chairman of the TLDA board. When Karl 
asked him to calm down and refused to kow-tow to
him, Joe called Karl a "welfare bum" and insulted Karl's family. A similar fate 
befell Bradley Thornton  as well.

What Joe did in 2005 was to destroy a business opportunity that would have 
benefitted thousands of organizations and would have
been a credible alternative to the monopoly of ICANN. Everyone should realize 
what damage this psychotic has caused. The reason
that I keep harping on this is that I am determined that he  not be able to 
cause any further damage to people. Education and information
about what he is will go along way towards mitigating future damage. 

Thats why I have the list 
http://lair.lionpost.net/mailman/listinfo/baptista-offenses online - as a 
repository for all of the information regarding
Joe's antics. Anyone with information on his antics that is not currently on 
that list, feel free to join the list and post it.

My conclusion, until and unless other facts are presented: There was NO SCANDAL 
involving the Gymnasium Querfurt or Christopher 
Mettin. This student is simply an entrepeneur that has started a small business 
and I wish him well and am so sorry that he has
become a pawn in the psychosis of Joe Baptista.  For the most part, the stuff 
on Joe's Querfurt news page is misleading, omissive and
in places, a flat out lie. 

Thanks for your patience while I investigated.

If you have any questions, please contact me.

Cheers,
John



----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Joe Baptista 
  To: ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> GA 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 1:17 PM
  Subject: [ga] The ICANN / INAIC scandal drags in the Gymnasium Querfurt high 
school again - Palmer investigates


  It has just come to my attention John Palmer is investigating the Gymnasium 
Querfurt scandal - http://bit.ly/5AEP1w - expect more insightful comments to 
come this way.

  cheers
  joe baptista