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Doctor's Data Seeks Federal Court Shutdown Order
for Barrett/Quackwatch/Skeptics...
Opinion by Consumer Advocate
Tim
Bolen
Thursday,
April 19th, 2012
Most of my readers are
quite familiar with the
sleazy antics of Stephen
Barrett and his coterie.
So what I tell you today
will be no surprise.
No surprise at all.
But before I tell you
about what just happened in
the Doctor's Data versus
Stephen Barrett Federal
court case I want to
familiarize you with Federal
Law
18 USC § 1512 - Tampering
with a witness, victim, or
an informant
Just
below are important excerpts from that
law, relevant to this article:
(b) Whoever knowingly uses intimidation, threatens, or corruptly persuades another person, or attempts to do so, or engages in misleading conduct toward another person, with intent to—
(1) influence, delay, or prevent the testimony of any person in an official proceeding;
(2) cause or induce any person to—
(A) withhold testimony, or withhold a record, document, or other object, from an official proceeding;
(B) alter, destroy, mutilate, or conceal an object with intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding;
(C) evade legal process summoning that person to appear as a witness, or to produce a record, document, or other object, in an official proceeding; or
(D) be absent from an official proceeding to which such person has been summoned by legal process; or
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
(c) Whoever corruptly—
(1) alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document, or other object, or attempts to do so, with the intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding; or
(2) otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
(d) Whoever intentionally harasses another person and thereby hinders, delays, prevents, or dissuades any person from—
(1) attending or testifying in an official proceeding; or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 3 years, or both.
What happened in Court...
Recently filed Court documents clearly show that Doctor's Data is asking the Judge in the case to put a stop to Barrett, and his cronies, intimidating witnesses and prospective witnesses in the Doctor's Data v Stephen Barrett Federal court case.
Below is an excerpt from a document you can read in its entirety by clicking here. In fact, in that file are four separate documents, all related. The first is the actual Motion, the second the confidentiality agreement, the third is the agreement signature page, and the fourth is Barrett's threatening email to Joe Mercola MD.
What you are about to read is unusual in court cases. But, as we all know, there comes a time when society's scum, like Stephen Barrett, are going to get dragged into court for their activities. So, you can expect, from this sort of low life form (Barrett) that non-acceptable activities will be brought to bear. Witness Intimidation is one of those activities. There are legal ways to combat that. Below is one of them. Above, the criminal statute, is another.
What Doctor's Data is asking the court to do is to prohibit, by "Protective Order," Barrett, his associates, or any of the other Defendants, from using the media, including the internet, to harass or intimidate witnesses or potential witnesses, not only during the trial, but for ten years after it is over. Violation of the Court's order would result in "Contempt of Court" charges being filed against the perpetrators.
"Contempt of Court" charges would have serious consequences for Barrett, his minions, and "aiders and abettors (skeptics)," a term described below.
Indirect Criminal Contempt—Persons Against Whom the Action May Be Commenced
To be held in criminal contempt for violation of a court order, the defendant must be an original party, one legally identified with an original party, or an aider and abettor of one of the above enumerated persons. Backo v. Local 281, United Brothers of Carpenters and Joiners, 438 F.2d 176, 180-81 (2d Cir. 1970), cert. denied, 404 U.S. 858 (1971); Reich v. United States, 239 F.2d 134, 137 (1st Cir. 1956), cert. denied, 352 U.S. 1004 (1957). But see Manness v. Meyers, 419 U.S. 449 (1975) (attorney giving good faith legal advice not to be found in contempt).
So, here is the excerpt from the court documents...



What's really important about this action...
We are seeing the REAL ISSUES in this case being directly addressed - the actual day-to-day activities of Barrett, his minions, and co-conspirators. From the above excerpt let's look at one very important part:

"Viral" devastation? I'll
explain - the typical "skeptic"
(pseudo-skeptic) internet trick is to
attack someone and "take it viral"
meaning to dominate the internet with
their negative attack on some one, or
some thing. They try and create
what they call "The Streisand Effect,"
attempting to create the total ruination
of their target. Below is an
excerpt from the person, Tim Farley, who
designs and maintains this campaign, and
teaches this method to the
co-conspirators.
What is a google
bomb?
You may have
noticed me mention
google bombs
occasionally. They are incredibly useful in the
promotion of
special purpose websites
such as the ones skeptics build. Essentially it
involves as many different web sites as possible
linking to a specific target site with a specific
piece of text.
Google uses an
algorithm called
Page Rank which
uses (among other things) number of other sites
which link to a given site, to determine its ranking
in results. The algorithm has changed over the years
since the original patent, and many aspects of it
are now considered trade secrets by Google. But it
is known that aside from the number of incoming
links, other aspects which are considered are the
content of the target site and the text used to link
to the site.
Page rank and
algorithms like it can give an idea of the overall
importance of a site on the web, but how are results
for individual searches ranked? That has to be
decided in a way that is specific to the search
being done. And so Google considers how the text of
the search relates to the text on the target page,
and also (crucially) the text used to link to the
site.
And so if hundreds
or thousands of web sites all decide to link to a
given target with a given piece of text, it will
affect where that site appears in Google searches
for that text.
Why is this
important?
Studies have shown
that since the rise of search engines like Google,
the vast majority of users on the net rely on them
almost exclusively as a navigation tool. If you are
an experienced user of the Internet, this may seem
alien to you. After all, aren’t bookmarks far faster
and more reliable? Can’t one easily type a URL? I
understand your confusion.
The fact remains,
there are huge numbers of people out there that are
not comfortable with typing a URL or with
maintaining a list of bookmarks. They simply type
the name of the site they want into the search box
in their browser and find it in the results. They do
this because it works.
Naive users
notwithstanding, successful webmasters know from
examining their logs that the vast majority of their
incoming traffic comes from search engines. There
are entire businesses oriented around optimizing a
given business website for specific search terms. It
is called
search engine optimization or SEO. SEO experts
know that whether you appear in the first page of
search results is crucial to the success of your web
site. In fact, there have been several
documented incidents where Google has decreased
the page rank of sites for one reason or another,
causing a huge drop in traffic. This has even
spawned lawsuits on occasion.
In the skeptic
movement we know we must get the word out to what
Michael Shermer calls “fence sitters” — people who
have no strong opinion on skeptical topics. If
someone is considering visiting a psychic or a
homeopath, it can be crucial that they read some
skeptical material about the topic first. In order
for that to happen, they have to be able to find our
sites easily. Ideally, they should find our sites
accidentally while searching for the
very things we oppose. We can be a huge force for
good by making sure our content is easily found by
people like this.
This Motion will address this issue, and
this activity, directly. More, I
absolutely HOPE Barrett, his minions,
and his "aiders and abbetors" (skeptics)
violate the Protective Order once it is
enacted by the court.
Why? Because the federal court,
under a Contempt Citation, has almost
unlimited power to, for instance, simply
shut down their internet presence in its
entirety. Forever.
And, it is time for that...
Stay tuned. There is more coming.
Tim Bolen - Consumer
Advocate
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