Karmamatterz wrote:From Fourthbase:
Maybe I'm wrong, but 5 years ago wouldn't this thread be up to 20 or 30 or 40 pages by now? Am I overstating that? Is this just not as big a deal as I think it is? Because, to me, it seems like it should maybe be the most-examined event in RI-board history, that maybe it deserves more attention and internet-sleuthing than all other RI subjects ever combined? Am I wrong? Are more people than I think just assuming that Marshall went nuts and wiped out his kids, his dog, and himself? And if so, would it be because that assumption frees a person from having to confront a most dreadful reality, but one that a person might actually be able to do a tiny little something about, albeit at the possible risk of harm to oneself and/or family? Is it just so much easier and more comfortable to shoot the shit back and forth about other things, things that ask nothing of us personally, like jellyfish and feminism and third-rate theorizing about mass shootings, topics that are relatively safe in their abject hopelessness or subjective abstractness or inconsequential sensationalism?
Or is it just that the board has gradually become kind of dead in general and I've been away too long to have noticed?
If you are going to get serious about this you need to consider taking a few precautions to protect yourself.
A lot of things can be done to safeguard yourself in the event you or others actually hit pay dirt. If your efforts do discover links and you connect enough dots you may draw some unwelcome attention.
Learn how to create unalterable backups of your data. Backup your routers logs as a protection of your computer at home being compromised. Evidence to discredit you could easily be planted on your property. Consider placing well hidden surveillance cameras in/around your property that dump the video feed to a well guarded online storage server. The list could go on about other things...
In no way attempting to discourage you, but go into this eyes wide open, you might piss off the wrong people very easily asking the right questions.
To be honest, I was kind of trembling as I hit submit for some of my posts in this thread, because I wasn't sure if anyone else had ever before made some of the points I was making. Chances are that someone had. Maybe there's even a wikipedia entry devoted to a thoroughly-formed, popular theory of resistance devised in concert by a community of activists that details what I've been saying, far better than I said it. But if it were the case that I was the first to introduce a perspective that might empower people psychologically to fearlessly take on the Sociopath Hierarchy, then it might be hazardous to the well-being of me and my loved ones. And here is the lesson, my stance: I don't give a fuck. There is at least one person here who befriended me on Facebook and a few people here who know my name, and if I die in a car accident or by carbon monoxide poisoning, or if god forbid my family were slaughtered, hopefully that would be noticed and relayed to everyone here, and hopefully the reaction would not be pants-pissing paralysis and withdrawal but rather a truly-self-preserving, death-defying, fearless re-dedication to taking the Not-So-Almighty Motherfuckers down, with a helpful glowing neon sign that flashes an arrow here, this tree.
(Edit: Also, on the less extreme side, if I happened to not want to touch the lethally-electrified fence of Knowing or Saying Too Much, I am related to and friends with a few people who are regarded favorably enough by the military-industrial-complex that they maybe could give me fair warning before I crossed a fatal threshhold in that aforementioned cost-benefit analysis, if it were ever determined by whomever that I'm a threat but not quite worth killing off. Would I venture ahead, anyway, into the zone of killability? If the Marshalls of the world keep being whacked, yeah, why not, what would I ultimately have to lose? But if there are, say, alternate strategies for disarming and dethroning the Sociopathic Mafia, ones in which I don't get thrown from a roof and my family isn't secretly irradiated or whatever, then I would definitely appreciate a head's up and the opportunity to consider alternatives, for a moment. That's probably how all selling-out begins, with that thought process. I would not like to ever know. It's also, shamelessly, an informal disclaimer to any interns at Sociopath, Inc. who may be monitoring this thread, a message to their bosses: I'm unafraid, but if you ever feel the need to off me, just give me a head's up first. K, thx.)
My eyes are open. Shamefully, I don't have the detective skills or technological saavy or bank account to do much or even any meaningful research let alone paydirt-hitting myself. But that's part of the beauty of the internet, of a message board like this. The dangerous research can be crowdsourced, open-source. It's a lot harder to murder, blackmail, intimidate, or discredit 30 or 300 or 3000 people compared to just one. And if a crowd on the internet were growing demoralized by such retribution, the internet allows some strange nobody to remind them all of the upside, of their duty to forge ahead, of the limits of evil, of the inherent weakness of the power structure, of the inherent strength of a crowd of curious, pissed-off outsiders.
