I can’t resist. I have been trying to ignore it for a while now but it has reached such a level of hypocrisy it has become quite comical at this point. I thought for sure that by now they would have just given up…no….not given up but,moved on.
Gosh, it seems like forever ago that we actually thought there was no hope at beating a bunch of greedy foreign casino investors and stopping them from building a mega casino resort in our community. They had land….they had a Tribe….they had the host Town’s BoS in their pocket and they had the fear factor.
The casino is coming, there is nothing you can do to stop it. Make a deal or suffer the consequences. Resistance is futile…..
The fear factor that worked so well in other towns in other states backfired. Not only did a group of concerned citizens band together to form a grassroots organization dedicated to educating the community about the negative effects of a casino, it created us bloggers, and we are a force to be reckoned with.
They have tried to quell our voices….they have used their own twisted form of the fear factor to shut us up. We have been raked through the coals by pro-casino forces. They have called us liars, ignorant, racists, classists, hate mongers and much more. We have been threatened with lawsuits, had our professional and personal lives threatened, and we have been publicly called bullies and cyberstalkers. It hasn’t worked. The funny thing is, we are the ones accused of cyberstalking and bullying, yet the ones who accuse us of this continue to troll our blogs looking for little nuggets of information to take back and twist into their own little warped version of reality. They are the ones who harass us in on-line forums and public comment sections in local newspapers. Heck, they are so desperate for some drama in their lives they have their own little blogger who thinks that copying one news article from almost a year ago while commenting about our current blogs is some form of revenge. It is comical to read the comment section of this blog….we are the hate mongers according to them, but apparently calling someone “that blogging bitch from Bridgewater” is okay….and calling someone else a “bag of trash” is perfectly acceptable and insinuating that a blogger is out of control and must be “headed for divorce” is normal. It is also acceptable to these “kind and caring” people to post this on a public newspaper’s webpage:
RAMBO TO CRAP PIERCE
YO DUDE,I'M GONNA AWARD YOU THE CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF UGLY. P.S. YOUR WIFE CAME IN SECOND. THEY HAVE YOUR SEAT AT THE ROYAL BRONZED. CONGRATS YOU LOW LIFE BUM!!!!!!!!!
Gosh….now that was completely uncalled for, yet not surprising...and we’re the bullies?! This comment was so way out of line that the website editor of the newspaper had to remove it…he also was kind enough to remove several other comments made about me and my fellow bloggers. The funny thing about it is the article was about the Town of Middleboro voting for a new Fire Truck and to purchase a tract of land that the owner didn’t want to sell to the Town until there was a Preservation Restriction put in the article. The comment section turned into a battlefield of pro casino posters attacking casinofacts.org, misquoting me, posting as me, posting as other anti casino bloggers and posting under anonymous names to write things about anti casino people and their families. These are the people who love to troll our blogs for anything to enhance the drama of their world….yet we’re the cyberstalkers?
I thought I would be kind enough to return the favor and troll their blogs and copy and paste their comments for posting, but honestly…the comments are so superficial and lacking in any creativity it isn’t worth it. I will say however that after calling one anti casino blogger a “blogging bitch” and another “a bag of trash” and going on a rant about the evils of the anti casino bloggers, the owner of this site who calls herself the internet avenger (insert rolling eyes and hysterical laughter here) had these words of wisdom to share….
On some level one has to see these people as pretty pathetic. I read somewhere that anyone who finds their sense of self esteem in diminishing others is clearly at odds with the laws of nature. Karma will come back to bite them threefold in the end. - the internet avenger
On some level one has to see these people as pretty pathetic. I read somewhere that anyone who finds their sense of self esteem in diminishing others is clearly at odds with the laws of nature. Karma will come back to bite them threefold in the end. - the internet avenger
Hey, we can add pathetic to the list of names they call us!
I really feel the need to point out to our avenger friend here.... accusing other people of poor behavior while actually being the one doing the bad behavior is a form of psychological projection or narcissistic personality disorder. It is a defense mechanism where one person attributes one’s own unacceptable behavior or unwanted emotions or thoughts to other people, an aggressive man or woman who accuses other people of being hostile, for example . It allows for the expression of the unwanted subconscious impulses or desires without letting the conscious mind recognize them. Another example would be an individual who unconsciously recognizes his or her aggressive tendencies will then see other people acting in an excessively aggressive way."
According to a narcissistic personality disorder website, bullies project their inadequacies, shortcomings, behaviors etc. on to other people to avoid facing up to their inadequacy and doing something about it (learning about oneself can be painful), and to distract and divert attention away from themselves and their inadequacies. Projection is achieved through blame, criticism and allegation. Wow! I think I have hit the jackpot here….
So how does one defend themselves from the narcissistic projectionist? Well, I have found myself remembering that childhood poem "I am rubber, you are glue, whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you". Yeah, it may sound childish, but it does help separate your feelings from someone else's projection and allows us bloggers to focus on the issue at hand…stopping the casino.
Oh yeah, one more thing….apparently in the eyes of the avenger, karma functions like fate — bad fate, at that: an inexplicable, unchangeable force coming out of our past, for which we are somehow vaguely responsible and powerless to fight and us anti casino bloggers had better watch out because karma is going to get us. Too bad she doesn’t understand that the concept of karma is non-linear and complex. It does not promote resigned powerlessness, but instead focuses on the liberating potential of what the mind is doing with every moment. Who we are and where we come from is not as important as our mind’s motives for what it is doing at a given time. When a person can abandon his or her obsession with finding vicarious pride in his or her past, and can take actual pride in the motives that underlie his or her present actions, that person can drop his or her myths about who he or she is, and can instead be honest about what he or she is doing with each moment and at the same time make the effort to do it right. Karma implies that we ourselves are responsible for our own happiness and misery. We create our own Heaven. We create our own Hell. We are the architects of our own fate. That is karma.
- be the change you want to see in the world -
21 comments:
What a beautiful and gracious response to all the hate that has been thrown your way!
You have truly accomplished a masterpeice in this post for which those who oppose the casino applaud.
And what a great truth you have revealed about the sad inner lives of those so convinced in their righteousness.
The nastiness tossed out by those who are distorting the truth has been revealing of some real cancers of personalities.
What is even more revealing is their willingness to resort to personal attacks and lies because they truly have no defense for the mega casino.
Bravo, carver chick! Well done and a standing ovation is deserved!
Very nice post CC. Cool video too.
- Bag-O-Trash
Thank you, Carverchick for explaining to the Ignorant Avenger where she can go. (In a nice way.)
I also spoke with the news editor you mentioned, after discovering people posting as me on his site. And you could tell he couldn't understand why grown adults would be engaging in this sort of behavior. I was at a loss as what to tell him. So if it happens again, I'll just e-mail him this blog.
Yours truly
Bridgewater's blogging beyotch
Masterful!
Ben
Internet Avenger?
Bwaaaaaaaa!
It's interesting that this issue brought out every hate monger and angry wacko to smear and lie.
In large measure it seems that they were convinced they could steam roll the mega casino with their lavish spending on out of town goons who made offensive racists comments. (You have never heard of one of those goons being named as a resident of the area, yet THEY still haven't figured that out.)
It is to the credit of a poorly funded and hastily organized group that the casino was defeated and is not coming. Casino gambling will be defeated yet again in the legislature.
The anger of the hate mongers won't disappear with this issue because they have finally found a satisfactory target for their personal shortcomings.
There are several posters with serious dysfunctional personal lives that have been disclosed in their anonymous comments.
The anonymity of their venom is a statement itself.
Nice job. I've read those sites and they speak poorly of the participants.
trish
It's a shame the yellow journalism of Winokur and the Taunton bird cage liner fed into the madness, but note that the syntax of most of the anonymous comments seems consistent with a single person with insomnia.
It certainly appears that VB is strickened with sleeplessness again that may explain her irrational comments and hallucinations about the identity of the bloggers who are clearly identified in their blogs.
The recorded hours of the blog postings are midnight - 3 AM again.
If she can't tolerate the current criticism with hubby in a minor office, how will she cope when his aspirations for higher elected office come about? Is she going to vent her hate on everyone who criticizes?
beth
Beth,
I agree that the majority of posts are from only two or three people. Since they post anonymously I cannot begin to say who that may be, but like you, I too have my suspicions as to who it is. Either way it doesn't matter....let them say what they will. We know who we are, we blog as we see fit (and right) and we will not be silenced because a couple of rude and crass people have their panties in a bunch over comments to our blogs.
Like I said...they should have moved on by now but apparently have nothing else to do with their time except disect what we write and blame us for their own failings. I have said my peace regarding the "revenger"....now I can move on to more important things...stopping the casino!
Finally a well considered comment on the spewing!
Well said, the points were made and let's stomp casino gambling to death in the Commonwealth!
Too bad the same clowns have commandeered nemasket.
Last year in the feeding frenzy, Mr. Bond set the tone and made casino opponents the enemy.
He repeatedly indicated that the TMFH vote was 2/3, when in fact, it wasn't.
He did his little grandstanding routine on August 20, while the moderator of the site in question was on vacation, instead of requesting the comment be removed.
In short, someone labelled him a 'sore winner.'
It isn't leadership when you continue to trash those who disagree with you as he has done.
And it isn't 'follow the leader' for those who follow his example and post in the tone he has set because they have no facts to support their endeavor.
Clearly, Mr. Bond never lived in a 'community' before moving to Mboro and trashing what existed.
I blame Mr. Bond for the hostile tone of those anonymous blogs because he doesn't understand leadership and can't tolerate any criticism.
Carver Chick,
You are so sweet to defend the likes of myself from these oh so bigoted hate-mongers. They need to stop hating people like myself who are different from them. They are so small minded and cannot tolerate diversity. You and all my wonderful friends are such support for me during such an emotional time.
Hugs & Kisses,
Lola
Thanks for again exposing their idiocy for all to read. The fight continues against the Middleboro Bingo Hall and its backers. We fear none of them.
Recipient of the congressional metal of ugly.
Carver Chick, you're a grand and elegant lady for being so forgiving. Three cheers and a standing ovation for being polite and kind and humorour in your condemnation of such cads!
What is striking in the posts of the Ignorant Avenger and Vicious Val, who appear to be the same person, is:
1. the recurring need to convey that she possesses special or secret information that is unavailable to you
2. the frequency with which she gets things totally wrong (like the identities of bloggers in cases where the information is available on their blogs)
3. her inability to tolerate criticism
4. a presentation that pretends a well educated person that is misleading
5. a willingness to demean and insult others that indicates a low self-esteem
There are other observations one might make of this poster who is clearly unhappy and angry, but the thoughts of others would be of interest.
pam
pam, your #2 is so accurate about the total misunderstanding of factual information. Even when the information is available, she is wrong. Her thinking is clearly distorted and lacks reason.
As the voice of authority, she posted "Cranberry Cynic (who I'm told is Bob Dunphy)" which is totally wrong if she had done a little internet checking, but she pretends those secret and inside sources. Voices in her head, maybe?
Her sense of superiority caused by low self-esteem is evident in her posts.
Maybe Hal could help out since he is a friend.
ben
My child along with his friends were reading one of those hate-filled sites you mention when they were coaxed to log on and post anonymously. They were then told "give me what I crave."
The casino supporters have destroyed their credibility by participating in that demented conduct.
In a group brain fart, they decided to blame another for what the site owner posted, find some strange 'real meaning' for his comment and then create a rampage of attacks.
It's time to grow up, casino supporters. Stick to the facts and stop the childish stupidity.
Frankly, I, for one, have had enough.
I'm just glad that other awful site is gone. To see what was going on in their sick minds, I felt obligated to read that trash, but it made me sick. Those who are known to the public who were posting on that site should be embarrassed that they participated.
BECAUSE I HAVE SUCH GREAT RESPECT FOR YOU, I READ THIS SOMEWHERE WROTE IT DOWN & NOW SENDING IT TO YOU.
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Dear carverchick,
PLEASE! NEVER STOP BLOGGING FOR US!! THE ONLY WAY WE GET TO READ THE TRUTH & KNOW THE TRUE HONEST "FACTS"
Anon 7:12,
Your comment is called Desiderata for Bloggers, written by Ian from Hamburg. Nice work, thank Ian!
http://lettershometoyou.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/desiderata-for-bloggers/
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