---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rob Smith nobs03@gmail.com Date: Jan 22, 2006 1:06 PM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] A Wikipedia lynching To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@wikipedia.org
As cited, using Wikipedia as a forum for unsourced criticism of Prof. Harvey Klehr occurs here http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:List_of_Americans_in_the_Veno...
"It is about the legacy of the Cold War, anticommunist Witch Hunts, Red-baiting, and McCarthyism. Haynes and Klehr and Romerstein are part of a project to make it appear that violations of civil liberties during the Cold War and McCarthyism were justified"
Here the "project" becomes the "Venona Posse project" http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Harry_Magdoff_and_espionage&a...
Here he refers to Prof. Klehr's work as "outrageous McCarthyite POV Red-baiting defamatory Blacklist "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Americans_in_the_Venona_pa...
"berlet posse" bring up 673 Google results http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=berlet+posse&btnG=Google+Search *All* linked to "right-wing extremist groups." See for example SourceWatch http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Chip_Berlet "Berlet specializes in tracking and analyzing right-wing movements. He has written about the John Birch Society, armed militias, Ku Klux Klan, Posse Comitatus, Aryan Nations, Christian Identity, racist skinheads, and the Lyndon LaRouche fascist cult."
These smears fail Wikipedia *policy (policy, *i.e., a rule) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civility#Examples and are defamatory. Nonetheless, ArbCom remonstrances failed consideration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Nobs01_and_o...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Nobs01_and_o...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Nobs01_and_o...
The record is clear, and issues have not changed. It should be noted, I have chosen to work within the project regarding the host of criticisms directed at Wikipedia's credibility, and not taken my case outside Wikipedia, despite a genuine interest in what has been termed the "cultic" nature of concerted efforts to censor and silence people of good will inside Wikipedia
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