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Andrew Bolt, referring to Bolt Watch pundit Anonymous Lefty, notes one of the problems of anonyblogging:
Funnier is how the anonymous author, barrister Jeremy Sear, hurriedly cleaned up the site, removing the more obviously defamatory postings, the instant he was publicly identified.
Most anonybloggers—well, the ones I like—write much as they would if their names were known. Which isn’t a bad general rule, considering the likelihood of exposure.
UPDATE. Sear—full name Walter Jeremy Sear; hi, Wally!—claims Bolt is guessing at his identity, and accuses him of running a “bullying campaign” intended to damage Wally’s career. Sear’s hypocrisy is epic.
UPDATE II. Wally once mentioned he’d been contacted by Bolt, requesting a correction: “Mr Bolt today contacted me, not via my blog email address but via my work one (which has never been released).” Now he claims Bolt is just “guessing” at his identity. It’s not the crime that gets you, it’s the cover-up ...
Incidentally, Sear was earlier identified (back in his Mr Lefty incarnation) by fellow legal leftoid Rob Corr (link no longer appears via Google search). Considering how many people already knew who “Anonymous” Lefty was, his squealing is comically precious.
I am in the Sydney phone book so how anon is that?
Posted by stackja1945 on 2006 03 08 at 02:46 AM • permalink#3 - It could have been worse - most lefty/inbred/chinless geeks like Jeremy have them high falutin’ double barrel names like…
‘Jeremy ‘Big end bearing’ Thistle-thwaite Sear’.Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2006 03 08 at 02:47 AM • permalinkI’s sure Tim won’t mind I put in a small plug for my blog here as I have been fighting the good fight to expose the hypocracy of Jeremy Sear for a while now. As Tim says when you post anonymously you must be prepared to own the words you write because you never know when you will be called to account.
Nick and I employ people who may or may not share our views. We also have clients who may or may not share our views.
Lefties, in our experience, tend to be punitive, aggressive and rude if their paradigms are challenged in any way shape or form. We can take it but it’s not fair for the people who work with us.
Hence our reason for our nom-de-net.
Besides, Nick and Nora Charles are role models we aspire to!
—Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 03 08 at 03:06 AM • permalinkcowardice from Jeremy but he won’t deny it ! because to lie in a public forum would be a big NO NO for a barrister , could have him struck off expect a swathe of comments there from his fellow travellers saying how evil the right .Now he is claiming tha Andrew Bolt is bullying him !! after some of the things Jeremy has said that is rich indeed
Iain - perhaps there’s a silent ‘m’ in ‘Sear’?
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 03 08 at 03:32 AM • permalinkI would not say that Although one of his fellow travellers have tried to Smear me as “revenge” for outing him this person went to a lot of trouble but withdrew when Jeremy sent them an email , guilt by association? I suggested that Jeremy needed a flea collar if he wants to lie down with such dogs .
I used to post on the Net under my real name, but I got tired of being lebelled by people who remained anonymous. So I went anonymous myself.
One day I might decloak—but if someone blows my cover in the meantime, it’s no big deal.
Posted by Evil Pundit on 2006 03 08 at 04:01 AM • permalinkSo… How good is Jeremy as an ambulance chaser, because he is piss-poor as a blogger
Ambulance chaser? That takes cunning and talent. He’d be hard pressed to keep most of his clients out of prison.Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2006 03 08 at 04:16 AM • permalinkMost anonybloggers—well, the ones I like—write much as they would if their names were known. Which isn’t a bad general rule, considering the likelihood of exposure.
To your credit Tim, you have the guts to post your views using your real name.
Unfortunately the same can’t be said for most of your righty blogging comrades. An overwhelming majority of prominent right-wing bloggers are anonymous, whilst prominent lefties (with the exception of mr lefty) all post using real names - Dunlop, Lambert, Quiggin, Basnich etc.
Why are right-wingers so ashamed of their views?
Posted by gustov_deleft on 2006 03 08 at 05:26 AM • permalinkPS - I’m referring to Aussie bloggers.
Posted by gustov_deleft on 2006 03 08 at 05:27 AM • permalinkI couldn’t care less about Mr Lefty’s politics, but was there really any reason to out him?
As I understand it, he was once threatened with being fired after his employers at a law firm found out that he wrote hysterical lefty tracts (as is his right - I write hysterical right-wing tracts).
So he adopted the pseudonym. Tim Blair can blog as himself because he’s a senior guy at the Bulletin. He’s smarter than Mr Lefty and I in that he never becomes hysterical. For that reason, and because of his general likeability, nobody’s going to fuck with him.
But the same cannot be said for minor lefty and righty players. They are at the whim of their real-life superiors, who might be nasty lefty/righties just looking to fire someone from the opposite team.
Lastly, and I think this is my strongest argument - Antony Loewenstein cannot stop attacking people who write anonymously. Usually because it is his only means of countering an argument.
Antony’s a laughing stock who will never amount to anything, but presumably he can afford to live that way. People like Mr Lefty (and myself) can’t afford that. We need our paying gigs outside of blogsville.
Principles don’t pay the rent and fuck principles when your readership doesn’t go above 200 punters a day.
Besides, if we really were a bunch of mature folks, we’d be busy trying to attack each other’s arguments - which, as I see it, Mr Lefty was trying to do with “Boltwatch”.
If he went off on constant ad hominem tangients, then fine, he deserves a reciprocal kick up the bum.
But if he only argued the issues, then retaliation that threatens his livelihood is fucked. It’s not a measured response. It’s a gorilla smashing a mosquito. Bolt might be the kind of guy to do that. If so, I wouldn’t bother with him.
Posted by Mike Jericho on 2006 03 08 at 05:45 AM • permalinkgustov_deleft: Why are right-wingers so ashamed of their views?
Unless your real name is gustov_deleft, your hypocrisy is outstanding.
Posted by Evil Pundit on 2006 03 08 at 06:02 AM • permalink#20 As you are already completely aware, to be openly conservative in the media or academia is to endanger future career advancement.
I doubt that someone as erudite as Professor Bunyip writes anonymously out of self-loathing or timidity.
It’s something you lefties should be terribly proud of, you know, the way you’ve fooled the world. You make movies where the “establishment” is consistently right-wing and intolerant of opposing points of view, and those movies are lauded by journalists, academics and various other members of the intelligensia who are consistently left-wing and intolerant of opposing points of view.
First you create the perception that the lefty rise to dominance was in opposition to right-wing oppression, as you yourselves exemplify intolerant ideological oppression.
Kudos to you.
If only politicians were appointed and not elected, eh? You’d dominate that field too. Damned interfering voters.
Posted by Mike Jericho on 2006 03 08 at 06:42 AM • permalinkWell… I’ve been known as Gibbo for as long as I can remember so I don’t feel like I’m hidin’ nothin’.
All jokes aside Gustov, my identity would take about 15 seconds of detective work to figure out. Stiff shit! Some of us use nicknames because that is what we are commonly known as, not because we are scared to have our viewpoints linked with our names. For f*cksake, anyone who’s ever met me knows my political views. I don’t hide nothin’.
Sorry to shoot holes in your nice conspiracy theory, Dickhead.
I post under a pseudonym here, but my real name is written under all of my posts at my blog, so not like it makes any difference….
Posted by Quentin George on 2006 03 08 at 06:53 AM • permalinkAnd some of us are just cantankerous buggers who use bits of our name. I agree with Mike Jericho. If Sears’ job could possibly be threatened, then he should not have been outed.
Blogs and opinion are not worth that much damage to ANYBODY, even someone you think is a total wally. I do not know Sears’ circumstances, he might be a wally, but he might be a wally with kids. If he loses his job, the kids get hurt, and that is not acceptable. I have no idea if that is so, but on general principles I think Mike is right.
The game is NOT worth the chance of such an outcome.
One of the things about the blogosphere is that anonymity is a very useful tool (not to be breached under most circumstances) becuase it allows people to say what they really think.
That has a lot of value IMHO.
MarkL
CanberraI posted this comment to his blog:
The comment on Bolt’s latest forum, said:
“Funnier is how the anonymous author, barrister Jeremy Sear hurriedly cleaned up the site”
which on your page has been changed to:
“Funnier is how the anonymous author hurriedly cleaned up the site”.
You argue “This is a little puzzling, as I haven’t done anything of the sort.”
Compare the two versions above and tell me if you are still puzzled. As a first time visitor to this site, it seems the ‘cleaning’ is pretty self-evident.
My comment was deleted. What a coward.
Oh Dan what did you expect? this is so typical of him He must be at home wishing he was the boring cat he posts so many pictures of at “anonymous Lefty” at present . Now we have his long time fellow traveller who posts as “Bridgit Gread” making the unsubstantiated claim thet the original post that inspired Andrew Bolt to name Jeremy Sear was written by Andrew himself .
Keep up posting the critical comment there and we may keep him up all night in fear of being named there agian What is the bet that the comments are closed down by tomorrow.?Iain, what have you got against him? Did the man ever wrong you personally?
Nothing will be gained by grinding a relatively unknown and inoffensive lefty blogger into the ground. Time to move on, methinks.
Bigger issues to fight over.
Posted by Mike Jericho on 2006 03 08 at 08:39 AM • permalinkAnybody ever notice that gustov doesn’t bother to actually participate in threads anymore beyond a shit-throwing single post? Far be it from me to suggest he’s just trolling for reactions now and not actually willing to engage in honest debate after he’s been drubbed for his stupidity multiple times, but the pattern is becoming hard to overlook.
Congrats gus, you’ve become the new Miranda Divide!
Yes Mike he did wrong me personally He defamed me in his blog and when I gave him the opportunity to withdraw the remark ,and told I did not require an apology he merely edited a specific slur into a more general one and did not acknowlege the edit. effectively it was a lie , encouraged others in their efforts to seek rather nasty revenge ,on his behalf against me read my blogs for all of the details he may be only a legend in his own lunch time but he has been far from inoffensive
At any rate, this whole affair around trying to expose AL’s identity is pretty pathetic. The guy’s a clueless tool, but I can’t say I hold any particularly warm feelings for those who’ve been on his case for what feels like decades now. Not that AL is an especially sympathetic victim either, given his self-aggrandizing tendencies and his obvious inability to take as much as he likes to dish out. (Typical lefty, in those regards.)
This kind of stuff was stupid and juvenile when it went on Usenet in years past, and it’s no better or more interesting on the web. And as usual, I’m not sure I’d want anything to do with either participant in real life. Yuck.
this quote is from a comment by mike Jericho
at BoltwatchMr Lefty may not get death threats, but how does Bolt know exactly what the repercussions will be for him if his identity is revealed in a national fucking paper?
Mike this statement is not factually right Andrew bolt named Jeremy in a comment to a post in his online forum not as a headline in a national newspaper. and the point is that his identity was revealed by collating snippets of information that he himself had published on the net.even the photo of him that I have at my blog was published by him in his profile at his first blog “Melbourne Lefty” .Critics of my actions like “bridgit gread” claim that I was “cowardly” for exposing Jeremy whilst using the name “niceperson” but when my identity became known I imeadiately acknowleged my name and authorship of my words .I had always composed every comment ant post at my blogs and elsewhere as if my name was known. I knew that there would be no reprocussions when my real name became known and that has been the case . Jeremy now has to acknowlege the truth, it is the only way that he can salvage what is left of his dignity .
#39 - Iain, I recall leftists at the ABC (in regard to Arthur Chrenkoff) quibbling that the Wall Street Journal’s online opinion site wasn’t really a part of the WSJ.
It was. As is the Age’s online section.
I’ve had lefties in the past become obsessed over me the way you are obsessed over Mr Lefty. My advice to you is the same. Discover women. They are more worthy of your time and efforts.
The payoff is somewhat more tangible, too.
Posted by Mike Jericho on 2006 03 08 at 10:17 AM • permalinkThanks for the sugestion about women mike but my wife would not be so happy if I were to take up your suggestion.
I am not obsessed with Jeremy but after the the last couple of months it has been like a very long game of chess and when your opponent in a chess game has lost most of his pieces there are times when you may offer a draw and there are times when it has to be played out till the end .for me it is the later case. I sometime ago ceased searching for more information about him but it is not just me he has pissed of over recent times so it is no suprise that he has been exposed .But with a name like Robert George Horatio Julius Shicklegruber-Churchill
...of Ulm.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 03 08 at 11:38 AM • permalink#9 Forgot to mention I hhave even found aphoto of this chap and have it at my Blog :0)—Iain
Yikes! I just saw Jeremy’s photo. He looks like a 19 year old Mr. Bean. He must have used Margo Kingston’s personal photographer. The chap that shoots photos in the evenings after a long day at work at the local drivers license bureau.
Actually, all things considered, his photo fits his persona.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 03 08 at 11:47 AM • permalinkI can see why Jericho is up set they both use legal threats to squash debates. Birds of a feather stick together.
PW
It’s been an open secret from the start in fact he outed him self.
MrLefty (wjsear@#####.com.au)Says:
December 26th, 2004 at 6:09 pm e
Hi YobboYou know how M*lbourneLefty is gone?
Strangely enough, there’s a new blog called AnonymousLefty which appeared at just about the same time as ML went offline!
Amazing coincidence.
I’d be happy to take any links over you might previously have been directing to ML…
cheers!
http://www.gravett.org/yobbo/?p=1251#comment-6892
MarkL
The only threat to Jeremy’s job is Jeremy if he brakes client confidentiality again on his blog.
Have we become that which we decry?
Does one not despise the MSM for focusing on the MSM? Media reporting on themselves is one of the symptoms of their many diseased organs.
Is the blog now infected with this most invidious and debilitating disease?
I hope not…
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 03 08 at 04:55 PM • permalinkThat’s “upset”, you fucking gimp.
Gimp Gravett. Yeah, that suits you. Doesn’t it, Gimpy?
Posted by Mike Jericho on 2006 03 08 at 05:50 PM • permalinkIt’s worth noting that while I was defending Gimpy here on Darp’s site against the numerous attacks he was taking, he was busily having me investigated.
Gimpy doesn’t get to talk to anyone about blog ethics. Or honour. In fact, he doesn’t really get to talk at all, because he can’t. Fucking spastic.
Posted by Mike Jericho on 2006 03 08 at 05:53 PM • permalink#13 Swine
There is a certain level of propriety I have come to expect at a high quality blog like this, and I wish to point out that we should not lower ourselves to the depths of making fun of people’s names.
To maintain the tone of this thread, I strongly suggest we should go no further with the suggestion that there is a silent m in Sear, or indeed, to suggest that a rearrangement of his surname spells “arse” or indeed his full name: “jeer my arse” - even if it bears a striking resemblance to his face.
We do not need this kind of childish mockery.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 03 08 at 06:43 PM • permalinkI think he had a sleepless night
UPDATE: One further remark, for the benefit of simpletons who can’t understand why someone whose political writing IS NOT THEIR JOB might wish to remain anonymous: some people have careers in which they work with and for people who may well not share their political views; in careers in which potential clients may allow such factors to influence their decision to employ that person; and some people may be at the early stages of such careers, in which their professional lives and political views really need to be kept quite separate.
The political writings of people like Andrew Bolt and Tim Blair are their jobs. So their use of their real names is hardly particularly courageous. Their employers know exactly what their views are - because that’s why they’re paying them! And certain people without careers (and nothing better to do with their time than stalk and harass other bloggers) may feel comfortable using their real names simply because, hey, it’s not like Centrelink is going to cancel their NewStart cheque.
But, for those who feel the need, the use of a pseudonym IS a perfectly valid choice. Frankly, it’s no-one’s business who I am and what I do. (Unless I rely on same in support of my arguments. Which I don’t.) Attempted unmasking really is nothing more than an attack on the person, because the attacker can’t adequately deal with their argument. If you can take my argument on, why would you feel the need to try to reveal my name?
And, by the way, this (and my other blog) are mere blogspot blogs. They are an occasional hobby. They’re not professionally hosted. They’re not the recipients of a great deal of my time. And they are absolutely not intended as exhaustively-researched academic treatises (which is appropriate in the case of BoltWatch, because neither are Bolt’s columns). So for professional commentators like Andrew Bolt and Tim Blair to be so threatened by my blogs’ existence that they need to devote time and space to trying to “out” their writer… well, I think that says a great deal more about these great, established newspaper columnists than it does about me.
Me thinks he doth protest to much
Jeremy, mate you are the author of your own fate , as well as your blogs . If you are not prepared to own your opinions why do you publish them? Sadly the problem for you is not that you have leftist opinions but that you often argue them very poorly indeed, which is what potential clients for a barrister would notice before the colour of his politics.
Make as many comments about me not having a career(I am not in receipt of a newstart allowance by the way)it is wonderfully ironic for a self confessed egalitarian socialist to deride someone else because they do not aspire to a high position in the social hierarchy as you do .
That dignity that you should be concerned with is getting more muddied with every piss poor attempt you make to justify the continuing farce that your identity has been comprehensively exposed . Admit the truth you know it makes sense.Who said you were allowed to talk, Gimp?
You’ll wait until I give you permission in future.
Posted by Mike Jericho on 2006 03 08 at 07:44 PM • permalinkFucking lame old Gimp, stuttering and stammering like the broken-record spastic you are.
You took your shot at me, while my back was turned, and you missed.
It’s my turn now. Your job is to sit back and wait for it to hit you.
I promise you, I won’t miss.
Posted by Mike Jericho on 2006 03 08 at 07:47 PM • permalinkGreat. So you all attack Mr. Lefty for remaining anonymous, behind anonymity. Hilarious!! By the way, my name is Gustov Delefe. Changing the last letter to a T, appealed to my sense of humour.
My point remains unchallenged. What do righty bloggers (not commentators) espouse their views from behind anonymity? It is clearly a sign of insecurity and an admission that they are embarrassed about their opinions.
Posted by gustov_deleft on 2006 03 08 at 07:53 PM • permalinkGreat. So you all attack Mr. Lefty for remaining anonymous, behind anonymity. Hilarious!! By the way, my name is Gustov Delefe. Changing the last letter to a T, appealed to my sense of humour.
Gustov My name is known and I post under it at my blogs which are linked to by both my user name here and the links posted on this thread.Like wise Gary posts here and elsewhere under his own name and can be linked to from his user name and links posted a very general claim by you easily disproved but top marks for admitting your own name .
I do not attack Jeremy personally I attack the foibles in his published words and respond to his deeds .Gusty
Now that you mention it, I do feel insecure and also embarrassed about my bad opinions
My real name is Margos Maide incidentally - changing the letter is a good joke that I share for your enjoyment
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 03 08 at 08:11 PM • permalinkIain,
I’ve had a look at the whole saga surrounding you, and it would appear that your original attacks on Lefty were done anonymously. Apparently another Lefty commentator discovered your name, and it was only then you started posting under your real name.
You seem to be a very petty person.
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You are scared of the truth arn’t you Walter Jeremy Sear ?What do righty bloggers (not commentators) espouse their views from behind anonymity?
What part of my comment at #10 don’t you understand Gustov?
—Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 03 08 at 08:30 PM • permalink#62 Iain, you only post under your real name now because you were outed. Didn’t you post under the name Being Nice and pretend to be a woman?
Actually i posted under the username “niceperson” and never claimed to be female when asked directly I said i did not wish to confirm or deny certian people (Jeremy included)made the assumption that I was a woman.
The point was I never claimed to need to remain anonymous and and I said inumerable times that the revelation of my identity would not matter to me and I would accept authorship of my words when my name became known as I did .
the other point was that Jeremy himself revealed his identiy bit by bit over time as some posts here on this thread have clearly shown.In the interests of open and accountable blogging, my real name is actually Tony.T.Dentist.
That is all. Thank you.
Posted by Tony.T.Teacher on 2006 03 08 at 08:39 PM • permalink#43 - richard, you’re confusing me with my twin half-brother. Don’t ask - there are too many branches on the family tree and a fair number have grown intertwined over succeeding generations. That at any rate is how Mummy used to explain the single eye in the middle of Great-Aunt Charlotte’s forehead.
#53 - MM, childish mockery is one of the many liberties that Western civilsation bestows upon those who share it. Shame on those who would deny us its pleasures!
‘Jeer my arse’ though - boy, that’s good.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 03 08 at 08:40 PM • permalink#68 Nora,
I understood what you wrote, however, did not accept your reasoning. If you are so insecure about what other people think of you, then perhaps you shouldn’t say anything.
Posted by gustov_deleft on 2006 03 08 at 09:15 PM • permalinkGustav, Skeptic, Mike and Iain - please take blog slap fight somehwere else…or not. I reckon this thread has been quite ruined by now.
Posted by Major John on 2006 03 08 at 09:17 PM • permalinkAnd why would people have assumed that?
They assumed that because I mentioned in comments at the now seemingly defunct “boltwatch” that I looked after my children and did the cooking.When asked directly I simply said that “niceperson” was a gender neutral username and I did not wish to specify. I am not responible for the asumptions of others based on gender sterotypes , it gave me more than a few chuckles at the time.and even now I feel a warm inner glow to think that those lefties who are so keen for people to move ouside the usual gender roles should have made such an assumption on such a flimsy bassis .Since the subject of this thread is dickhead-ery, many of the comments are relevant
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 03 08 at 09:47 PM • permalinkAs his blogs are now down I have republished his last post because it is relevent to the thread :o)
oh and the firts comment is a copy of the comment thread from that post . I do have the couple of posts he subsequently deleted but they are on my other computer. so apoligies to those who will find the comments they posted missing.Iain. ... let me get this straight.
he did wrong me personally He defamed me in his blog and when I gave him the opportunity to withdraw the remark ,and told I did not require an apology he merely edited a specific slur into a more general one and did not acknowlege the edit. effectively it was a lie
so, to recap the story according to you:
1. He defamed you.
2. You told him to withdraw, no apology necessary.
3. He then changed the offending material.
4. But he did not acknowledge the change (which would have been effectively an apology- something you insisted was not necessary).
5. You go apeshit.
6. You snoop around and find out who he really is, then ‘out’ him.
7. Which, by the consensus of all the reasonable voices on here (plus Gustav), was a fucked up thing to do.What am I missing?
Posted by daddy dave on 2006 03 08 at 11:43 PM • permalinkMargo’s Maid,
You have very good point control with the rapier of your wit.As for anonymous posting here, we RWDBs who are memebers of the Neo-con conspiracy must keep our identities secret. Regulations you know. Thus we post with made up names and even, in cases such as my own, made up identities. Even finding out where I “live” will do you no good, the cover is so deep.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 03 09 at 12:45 AM • permalink#75. Read it again Gustov.
Better still I’ll reproduce it line by line with further explanation to make it easier for you:
Nick and I employ people who may or may not share our views. We also have clients who may or may not share our views.
We run a safe workplace. We don’t want people who work with us who may not share our views to feel uncomfortable. I understand ‘the right to feel comfortable at all times’ is something which mandatory for lefties.
We also have clients who may or may not share our views.
We have a business to run and responsibilities to our staff and I do not want to let the various political and social prejudices of those who do not share our views impacting negatively on our business.
Lefties, in our experience, tend to be punitive, aggressive and rude if their paradigms are challenged in any way shape or form. We can take it but it’s not fair for the people who work with us.
In Nick’s and my working experience (based on the profession that we trained in) our industry is replete with lefties who could prevent us from earning a living in this field if our conservative values were widely known.
If the issue was Nick and I on our own, then I would not have a problem with blogging under our real names, however we have people we are responsible for, so our primary duty, even over and above expressing our opinions is ensuring our business is running trouble free for our team.
Have I made it clear for you?
—Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 03 09 at 01:42 AM • permalinkNow despite the volume of commnets here Jeremy has sent me two comments to the last pot at MY Blog have a look for your selves I have included his comments in an Updatefor my last post now he is claiming he has copyright for the photo sourced from google and demands that I take it down from my blog ...... Talk about stable doors after the horse has bolted Ho Hum
#85 ~ Nora, you and Nick have nothing to explain to anyone.
It’s your God-given right to write whatever the hell you want under whatever pseudonym you want.
If people don’t like it, then they obviously don’t like basic human liberties. Such people are to be ignored.
Posted by Mike Jericho on 2006 03 09 at 03:26 AM • permalinkIain I know for a fact that you are a sad, vindictive obsessed little man. You have been following Lefty around for months. Why do you care so much - the purpose of Boltwatch is to debate Bolt’s opinions - and if you were concerned at the views Lefty was espousing it would be fair to have a crack at them, but you don’t even bother. I know it has been said before but you really need to GET A LIFE - and leave the other nasty people on this blog to get back to their true purpose.
Way to go on the generalisations Jacki
—Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 03 09 at 06:22 AM • permalinkRegarding people posting under anonymous handles, I don’t get it. I mean, everybody knows I’m a 23 year old wookiehead called Roger.
May the Force be with you all.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 03 09 at 06:59 AM • permalinkNora
I totally respect your desire to remain anonymous and your reasons for doing so. None the less I am willing to bet that you have been careful not to be too revealing in the things you publish and as Tim says in his original comment at the start of this thread, you don’t write anything that is defamatory or false because you are anonymous.
The whole point, and the Irony, about Jeremy sear is that he has been so sloppy in concealing his identity he may as well have been typing his blogs naked outside Spencer Street Station. As Tim says he has been an Anonymous Lefty in name only from the beginning of his blogging career. And on top of that he made the rather spurious claim that he had to remain Anonymous BECAUSE Andrew bolt would get him sacked if his name were known, for writing critical pieces about Andrew’s collum’s.
As for “Jacki’s “comment it is our old friend who made such a fool of herself on the “packer attackers “ thread a little while back Bridgit Gread / Emily P this person claims to be a “journalist” in real life…
Strangely both She and Jeremy Sear are expressing so much hate for me when all I have done is point out, that the barrister has not only no wig but he has no clothes either.Some time in the 1950s Clayton Moore looked into a camera and told me “I wear this mask in the cause of justice.” That was good enough for me then, and it still is.
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 03 09 at 05:57 PM • permalinkI would laugh at the Lone Ranger? No, I would not. Only evildoers do that.
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 03 10 at 11:40 AM • permalinkA comment from boltwatch that sums up the situation perfectly
This point has been made before, but is worth making again: in the SMH in December, you revealed that Andrew Bolt knows who you are. Now you describe his naming of you on his forum as a “guess” at your identity.
The only thing that could possibly salvage this attempt to hide your identity is the claim that Bolt is setting out to ruin the career of some completely innocent lawyer - out of whom no-one has ever heard a peep. Is this at all plausible?
I understand and completely sympathise with the rationale that you wouldn’t want your blogging activities to be noticed by an employer who may well have different political views from yours. But since you are listed as a barrister, does this reason make any sense in your case? Aren’t barristers sole traders? You don’t actually have an “employer”, unless you start calling your clients “employers”. I’ve never heard a barrister make that semantic leap before, but the broader point is that it’s a totally different relationship from the one that a solicitor has with a law firm.So fear of persecution is really not a good reason for you to remain anonymous.David Smith 03.11.06 - 10:24 am #
After deleting most of this comment and most of the next one as well Jeremy posts thisDear David.
My identity is frankly none of yours, or anyone else’s, business.
It is not a topic of discussion on this blog.
Bring it up again and be banned.End of story.
MrLefty Homepage 03.11.06 - 5:40 pm
But what is the subject of the post this comment is attached to ?
BoltWatch The Terrible
Oh, dear. Poor, precious Andrew. Whilst many political writers would be flattered by having anyone bother to set up a website exclusively to discuss what they write - particularly an open, debate-friendly, measured one like BoltWatch - he turns out to be more than a little flustered by it.
It appears that he wants to try to bully me into shutting it down, by publishing guesses at my name. And by trying to portray BoltWatch as some sort of extreme, “defamatory” hate site, which it’s clearly not.Jeremy your foolishness is becoming very boring and I know you will be reading this but when you post at your blog a piece where your identity IS the topic how can you treaten to ban a David Smith when all he did was point out the flaws in your logic ? My you are just not thinking clearly are you? It is no wonder that your listing where I got the more recent photo does not list ANY areas of speciality.
For any readers who may wish to pass on advice or good wishes To Jeremy here is his email address .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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Ah a fellow traveller speaks,
Emily P / Bridgit Gread, one of Jeremy’s most ardent supporters and some time author of some of the sillier Boltwatch articles last time you appeared in the “packer attackers” thread you were comprehensively shown up .From his futile attempts to deny the undeniable it is clear that Jeremy has a most tenuous grasp on reality at present.Your attempt at smear tactics is just so typical of you . I mock Jeremy because he is like the fairy tale Emperor walking naked and some has to tell him so when all of his “electronic friends” are say all is well. It is not just his dignity that is hanging in the breeze I bet his fellows in chambers will be having a great laugh at his expense and it won’t be because of his political opinions but because of a silly reaction to his public exposure.
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Honestly Tim, I’d post with my real name too.
But with a name like Robert George Horatio Julius Shicklegruber-Churchill - it’s not exactly compact, is it?