[ga] Re: 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)

[Joe Baptista <baptista@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The only response this needs was provided by the schools principle -
http://bit.ly/7It7ej - again I say it's a terrible state of affairs for a
student to end his school year in disgrace thanks to you and the Herman
Xennt posse.

regards
joe baptista

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 3:41 PM, John Palmer <
jpalmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  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 some "trouble caused to Joe by the student", but
> there is no mention of what this is. My guess: Joe
> invented some vague complaint and, as he always does, puts on an air of
> authority, making some claim that he has
> some rights to speak for the namespace community. The principal prrt are
> the recent victims of a Top-Level Domain (TLD) sales scam run by Dutch con
> artist Herman Xennt <http://bit.ly/aY8KoZ>. Herman known to the
> Netherlands police is a convicted felon who was arrested for drug
> trafficking and tax evasion."
>
> Lets take this apart:
>
> 1. German High School students were 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.
>
> In this he states: "German high school students at the Gymnasium Querfurt
> are the recent victims of a Top-Level Domain (TLD) sales scam run by Dutch
> con artist Herman Xennt <http://bit.ly/aY8KoZ>. Herman known to the
> Netherlands police is a convicted felon who was arrested for drug
> trafficking and tax evasion."
>
> Lets take this apart:
>
> 1. German High School students were 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<http://bit.ly/bIzZqq>,
> 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 <http://bit.ly/cUW3Z1> student project for the Gymnasium
> Querfurt <http://bit.ly/ciRfu>."
>
> 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 <baptista@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> *To:* ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> GA <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx+%3E%3E+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
>
>


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