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Attack Equivalence —
Taking Down the Opposition:
Internet Attacks and Provocoteurs, Controlled Opposition, Trolls —
Disinformation Agents All!
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The Trustees of the Foundation

The blogisphere and social media are filled with false faces and distortions. But also, with the potential to reach hundreds of millions across the globe. At times it seems communicating in that world is much like navigating a nearly dark room filled with distorting mirrors… Add to that the free-lance hackers and the well-paid minions of the powerful who both feel empowered to interfere with those communications, to suit their perceived self-interest or pleasure, regardless of the privacy of those targeted. That is the Internet world in which we find ourselves attempting to communicate important ideas about health and food freedom.

Nonetheless, we persevere and use every means available to us to spread the word. This does get us noticed (at various times, we find our web sites with high traffic rankings) and we attract opposition. Natural Solutions Foundation and its strongest voice, Dr. Rima E. Laibow, MD, have been the victims of a number of sophisticated and sustained Internet attacks in recent months, and reaching back several years, as the Foundation has moved forward with its Decade of Nutrition plan to reclaim health care and food production for natural solutions. These attacks have included DOS (denial of service) attacks, massive (over 100,000) fake $1 donations clogging our system, attacks on our ISP and Internet Radio hosts, and most recently, during this past Sunday’s Dr. Rima Reports —
www.HealthFreedomPortal.org — when some outside source took control of her computer and downloaded a series of viruses that specifically interfered with her Skype connection. Luckily our computer security mavin was visiting and set to work, fending off the attacks as the three hour program progressed. Two primary topics were planned for the program: mind-and-mood-control-frequencies and how green financing can promote health and food freedom goals.

These cyber events led me to review some of the information available on the Internet regarding the types of attacks to which NonGovernmental Organizations (NGOs) sometimes find themselves subject. What we are experiencing is not unique and seems confirm that we’ve reached a level of “attention” marking us for opposition. Thus some weird false rumors, such as (I kid you not!) if
you eat at the BeyondOrganic™ Restaurant, “a certain doctor” will stick a needle in your neck to withdraw… something… — how do you respond to that sort of extreme bonkersness?

So, in hopes of making some sense out of the characters and creeps that haunt modern communications media, I’ve come up with some categories, presented herein in no necessary order:

1. Agents Provacoteur… people who are not what they seem!

Two kinds of provocateurs may be discered according to the net: the soft provocateur, and the hard provocateur. We have definitely seen evidence of the “soft” variety on line:

The soft provocateur is an expert at the three D’s of destruction: Dissension, Distraction, and Disruption . His arsenal includes fabrications, distortions, misrepresentations, and misinformation. He spreads slander systematically and craftily; seeking to undermine the organization’s leadership, and thus deny it of its driving force. He plants seeds of doubt with the object of turning attention away from action, and instead diverting it and its resources against itself. His modus operandi is: divide and conquer!

The hard provocateur is a more direct animal, and therefore a bit easier to detect and contain. He presents himself as a “man of action,” and is consistently trying to lure others into illegal actions. It is implied that if you don’t follow his plans of illegality, then you are somehow lacking in spirit or dedication. He thus uses intimidation and peer pressure to entrap otherwise intelligent people into participating in illegal schemes that are both doomed to fail, and designed to place the organization in a poor public light.

2. Controlled Opposition and just plain Opportunists

The archetypical Opportunist is the guy who makes whatever bumper-stickers will sell. He is communicating ideas, but not for any value he may perceive in those ideas! Some Opportunists will try to look like legitimate NGOs, but actually be in the business of just collecting money for those who control the organization. Controlled Opposition is rather more sinister. These are NGOs that ostensibly promote certain ideas, but actually, through organizational timidity, do the work of the “other side” to limit their imagination as to what may be achieved*. They are more concerned with what The Powers That Be may say about them than they are in actually achieving their stated goals! Such organizations may appear active and may raise quite a bit of money, but you can tell them by their unwillingness to Speak Truth to Power when it might cause them to be denied a “seat at the table” or other crumbs of status.

The world situation has gotten very serious indeed and those who are just playing at green solutions need to understand that now’s the time when we have to “walk our talk” which is exactly why we’ve put so much time and effort into building a community of health and food freedom advocates both on the Internet and as “boots on the ground…” for our various activities in several continents.

3. Trolls and Other Virtual Critters

The virtual political reality of the Internet has spawned its own strange critters, such as Trolls, who are people who frequent online forums, not to engage in communications within the scope of the site, but to sow dissent and cause disagreement among the members, to limit the organization’s effectiveness. Sometimes Trolls are careful to keep this Agent Provocateur aspect of Trolldom very subtle while they exploit the openness of communication to gather information that can be used for disinformation purposes later.

Deviousness is a feature of some people acting through the near anonymity of the Internet.

Internet etiquette is still poorly developed and we will, I suspect, remain prey to these critters, to some degree or another, especially as we use these new media to communicate with larger audiences. Such attacks are not exactly a vindication of our efforts, but more like an involuntary acknowledgement of them! So, we take them as a badge of honor and remain, in General Bert’s words,

“Honor-bound to implement the most secure and effective communications system possible to efficiently mass the numbers of people who will have to act together to achieve victory!”

To do this, we need everyone’s help. We have to obtain and maintain a secure satellite up-link to be able to communicate world-wide, overcome increasing Internet censorship and open attacks. We need to become the “state of the art” in NGO communications to continue to have meaningful PUSH BACK successes, like those listed on our Accomplishments Page, http://drrimatruthreports.com/?page_id=195.

We have established a Special Security Fund through our PayPal facility which earmarks your Internet Security Donations to this important task. Please give generously through this secure PayPal link:

Thank you,
Ralph Fucetola JD
Natural Solutions Foundation Trustee

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