fucking a ...member when zomb's were stupid & slow & shuffled around saying brains ,brains  LOL Now the motherfuckers are organizing ...WTF           

Don’t be afraid of fast zombies

By Ezra Klein, Published: June 28, 2013 at 2:00 pmE-mail the writer

The zombies in the new film “World War Z” are too fast to be truly scary. That may be a sacrilegious observation in some nerd circles, but it’s a key insight derived from epidemiology and, zombies aside, it has serious implications for global health.

Slow down, pal. (Astrid Riecken/The Washington Post)

The rise of fast zombies — zombies that hunt like velociraptors rather than shamble like drunks — is a great and recent innovation in zombiedom. It’s what made the film “28 Days Later” such a hit. It’s why the filmmakers opted for fast zombies in “World War Z.” (The book version uses slow zombies. Author Max Brooks told the New York Times he considers fast zombies too horrifying to think about.)
Although fast zombies appear much scarier on-screen, their speed is their weakness. Or, to be more exact, their speed is their virus’s weakness. Fast zombies don’t just run fast; they become zombies fast, too. In “World War Z,” the time between being bitten by a zombie to being reborn as a sprinting, snapping shock troop of the undead yourself is less than 15 seconds. That’s bad news for anyone in the immediate vicinity. It’s good news, though, for anyone who isn’t.
“That offers the possibility for incredible spread within a defined community,” said Jonathan Zenilman, head of the infectious-diseases division at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. “But you could surround a community and quarantine and keep it contained. You don’t have to worry about who’s on a plane to Europe.”
A scene from “World War Z” proves his point (mild spoilers ahead): A zombie ends up locked in the closet on an international flight. When a hapless flight attendant unlocks the closet, the zombie tears through the plane, creating more zombies, who in turn create more mayhem. The plane, predictably, crashes. That’s bad news for everyone on the plane. But it also arrests the spread of the disease by killing its hosts. The zombie virus can get on a plane to Europe, but because it spreads so fast and so lethally, it’s going to have trouble getting off.
Zombies, of course, are the public health community’s favorite monster. If werewolves represent our fear of the wild, aliens our fear of the unknown and vampires our fear of sex, zombies represent our fear of infectious disease. There’s a reason the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have a whole page on “Zombie Preparedness” but nothing on Dracula.
After all, that’s what zombies, at least in most modern incarnations, are: diseased people. The zombie infection is often compared to rabies. It spreads through bites, presenting through aggression. But there’s a reason rabies hasn’t overwhelmed Earth: It’s not a very efficient disease. Biting people is hard, and people tend to notice when you try it. That’s why Anne Schuchat doesn’t stay up nights fretting over zombies.

Schuchat, the director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, has worked on meningitis in West Africa, disease surveillance in South Africa and severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, in China. She worries about the diseases that infect worlds — those you can’t bring down with a shot to the head. Zombies are pleasant compared with her concerns.

We haven’t even talked about flying zombies. (“World War Z”/Paramount Pictures)

The really scary diseases, she said, tend to have three qualities: first, a host population that isn’t immune; second, the capacity to spread rapidly; third, severity.
Diseases face a choice between spreading easily and being severe. If a disease is too hard on its host, killing quickly, it can’t spread. If it’s too easy on its host, it doesn’t much matter if it spreads. “That’s one of the reasons we talk about the 1918 influenza a lot,” Schuchat said. “In many ways, it was a perfect weapon. Most people actually survived that influenza. The death rate was only about 2 percent. But that’s enormous across a society.” Had its death rate been 100 percent, by contrast, the flu would’ve been stopped in its tracks.
And for all the advances of modern medicine, influenza would have an enormous advantage today: Modern air travel means that a flu that begins the morning in Nairobi can end the day in New Jersey.
If globalization is influenza’s ally, the ability to rapidly disseminate information is its mortal enemy. The quicker the world knows what disease is coming, the faster resources can be mobilized and behavior can be changed to stop it. This is where reality and “World War Z” — the book this time, not the movie — converge. SARS caught the world unprepared in 2002 because authorities in China, where it first appeared, covered it up. Brooks deploys a similar scenario at the start of his zombie near-apocalypse.
China has learned a lot since then. “I was in Beijing during the SARS response,” Schuchat said. “The Chinese have come an enormous distance since 2003. They’re real models now.” Their responsiveness and transparency were tested in February when a new strain of avian flu was found in China. Schuchat said that this time the Chinese did everything right: They alerted the World Health Organization, sequenced the genome and released the results, and mounted a massive effort to locate infections.
China’s strides are not necessarily the norm. The concern today is the Middle East, where the SARS-like coronavirus known as Middle East respiratory syndrome, or MERS, has emerged, and transparency in dealing with it has been wanting.
Brooks believes that we like to consider these dangers in terms of zombies because we can calm our anxieties by telling ourselves that zombies aren’t real. “If all that happens because of a zombie plague, then you can say, ‘Oh, well, that would never happen, because there’s no zombies,’” he told the Times.
But, to be a bit of a downer, the threat is real, and it’s even scarier than fast zombies.

Why The NSA's Surveillance Program Is Illegal And Unconstitutional

from the period-end-stop dept

As more and more details keep coming out about the NSA's surveillance program, the story keeps coming back around to the key point that many people have been raising all along: How the hell can all of this be legal? The answer may be a simple one: it's not. The administration and various NSA defenders keep insisting that the program is "legal" in that it falls under a law approved by Congress -- though many in Congress insist that they never meant for the law to cover this level of surveillance -- and that it has oversight from the FISA Court, which similarly has approved it. Laura Donohue, a law professor and the director of Georgetown's Center on National Security and the Law, has argued that the program might be "legal" but unconstitutional at the same time. She goes through some of the history of the intelligence overreach, specifically by the NSA. She notes that the whole FISA process was designed specifically to prevent this level of overreach. In the end, she notes the programs may be within the scope of laws that Congress passed, but that doesn't make them Constitutional in the slightest.

To the extent that the FISC sanctioned PRISM, it may be consistent with the law. But it is disingenuous to suggest that millions of Americans' e-mails, photographs and documents are "incidental" to an investigation targeting foreigners overseas.

The telephony metadata program raises similar concerns. FISA did not originally envision the government accessing records.

[....] As a constitutional matter, the Supreme Court has long held that, where an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy, search and seizure may occur only once the government has obtained a warrant, supported by probable cause and issued by a judge. The warrant must specify the places to be searched and items to be seized.

[....]Americans reasonably expect that their movements, communications and decisions will not be recorded and analyzed by the government. A majority of the Supreme Court seems to agree. Last year, the court considered a case involving 28-day GPS surveillance. Justice Samuel Alito suggested that in most criminal investigations, long-term monitoring "impinges on expectations of privacy." Justice Sonia Sotomayor recognized that following a person's movements "reflects a wealth of detail about her familial, political, professional, religious, and sexual associations."

Meanwhile two other law professors, Jennifer Granick from Stanford and Chris Sprigman, who just moved to NYU from UVA, have written an even more detailed piece for the NY Times explaining why the programs are illegal and unconstitutional. They note that some have claimed the programs are "legal," accepting the administration's claims. However, they argue that even that claim is highly unlikely.

This view is wrong — and not only, or even mainly, because of the privacy issues raised by the American Civil Liberties Union and other critics. The two programs violate both the letter and the spirit of federal law. No statute explicitly authorizes mass surveillance. Through a series of legal contortions, the Obama administration has argued that Congress, since 9/11, intended to implicitly authorize mass surveillance. But this strategy mostly consists of wordplay, fear-mongering and a highly selective reading of the law. Americans deserve better from the White House — and from President Obama, who has seemingly forgotten the constitutional law he once taught.

They detail why each of the two programs are not actually justified by the laws that are used to defend them. First up, Section 215 of the Patriot Act, the so called "tangible things" clause, which was, at one time, known as the "library records" clause as it was used to collect library records to see what books people were checking out, but which is now being used to justify the collection of "metadata" on pretty much every phone call made and (as we just learned) many emails as well.

Even in the fearful time when the Patriot Act was enacted, in October 2001, lawmakers never contemplated that Section 215 would be used for phone metadata, or for mass surveillance of any sort. Representative F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., a Wisconsin Republican and one of the architects of the Patriot Act, and a man not known as a civil libertarian, has said that "Congress intended to allow the intelligence communities to access targeted information for specific investigations." The N.S.A.'s demand for information about every American's phone calls isn't "targeted" at all — it's a dragnet. "How can every call that every American makes or receives be relevant to a specific investigation?" Mr. Sensenbrenner has asked. The answer is simple: It's not.

The government claims that under Section 215 it may seize all of our phone call information now because it might conceivably be relevant to an investigation at some later date, even if there is no particular reason to believe that any but a tiny fraction of the data collected might possibly be suspicious. That is a shockingly flimsy argument — any data might be "relevant" to an investigation eventually, if by "eventually" you mean "sometime before the end of time." If all data is "relevant," it makes a mockery of the already shaky concept of relevance.

From there, we move onto PRISM, which is justified under Section 1881a of the FISA Amendments Act (FAA). This was the part of the law that "allowed" warrantless wiretapping, a program that had been going on for years, but had to be "approved" after the press found out about it. Even though this program granted broad powers for the collection of information (perhaps unconstitutionally so), Granick and Sprigman point out that even PRISM appears to exceed the boundaries of the already too broad law:

Like the Patriot Act, the FISA Amendments Act gives the government very broad surveillance authority. And yet the Prism program appears to outstrip that authority. In particular, the government "may not intentionally acquire any communication as to which the sender and all intended recipients are known at the time of the acquisition to be located in the United States."

The government knows that it regularly obtains Americans' protected communications. The Washington Post reported that Prism is designed to produce at least 51 percent confidence in a target's "foreignness" — as John Oliver of "The Daily Show" put it, "a coin flip plus 1 percent." By turning a blind eye to the fact that 49-plus percent of the communications might be purely among Americans, the N.S.A. has intentionally acquired information it is not allowed to have, even under the terrifyingly broad auspices of the FISA Amendments Act.

The Granick and Sprigman piece also points out that to tap dance around the fact that both of these programs clearly violate the laws that defenders claim allowed them, those defenders basically try to redefine the English language -- such that "acquire" now only means "looks at" rather than "acquire", and "target" means target of the investigation rather than the person whose data is collected, and "incidental" means, well, let's not even try to figure out what it means, because it doesn't appear the NSA knows. Donohue, Granick and Sprigman point out that the Supreme Court was pretty clear in US v. Jones concerning widespread, long term monitoring, which suggests these programs are, on top of being illegal, unconstitutional under the 4th Amendment.

Eventually, these programs are going to get tested in court. The government is going to do everything it can to avoid the lawsuits, claiming a lack of standing, national security and whatever else it can think up. But, sooner or later they're going to have to face the music and realize that stomping all over the Constitution and the law isn't what the American public signed up for.

Lance Armstrong Says Winning Tour de France Was 'Impossible' Without Doping

like him ,don't like him ..The Tour from day 1    ...100 yrs ago  ...has been FULL of cheaters ! The VERY 1st Winner was a cheater !!    Bush league bullshit,petty lil boy shit that "they"   stripped LA's  Titles   ..I Love the Tour & ALWAYS will. buts that's just low man ....that's just mean, man!   " They" are just mad He did it better ~ "They"   'cleaned'   the Sport up ..now !  yep after a 100 yrs.   & I got a bridge i'd like to sell ya  :0    ..it's cheap?               

Lance Armstrong Says Winning Tour de France Was 'Impossible' Without Doping

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Lance Armstrong Says Winning Tour de France Was 'Impossible' Without Doping

Lance Armstrong's original confession to using performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France tried to appear apologetic, but nobody really bought it. Now that time has passed and he's just another ex-rider, he's being a lot more direct, admitting that he "didn't invent doping." He was just better at it than everyone else.
In his most in-depth interview since he sat down with Oprah last winter, Armstrong spoke to the French newspaper Le Monde, which oddly enough was one of his earliest and harshest critics. Way back in 1999, the paper was one of the first to accuse the rider of using questionable drugs. In the new interview, on the eve of this year's Tour, Armstrong says that in his day the race was "impossible to win without doping" and that he "simply participated in a system."
But since he was in that system and he still dominated it, Armstrong says that he still consider himself the record-holder for most Tour victories. He still has his seven yellow jerseys, and even though his name was struck from the record books, no one else stepped up to be declared the victor.
The Le Monde interview also appears to have caused some confusion, possibly due to translation issues. When Armstrong said "In many way, [the culture of doping] will never end," some thought he was implying that the cycling world is still filled with doped riders even today. That charge upset some current athletes. However, Armstrong later claririfed on Twitter that he was merely talking about his era, adding, "Today? I have no idea. I'm hopeful it's possible."
In the end, it's clear that Armstrong is still angry that he's received the harshest treatment out of the dozens of accused dopers, simply he because he was the best. 

Even State Courts Getting Skeptical About Prenda

from the quash-them dept/http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130627/16270523643/even-state-courts-getting-skeptical-about-prenda.shtml

We've talked a few times about Prenda's big bag of tricks in trying to get contact information associated with IP addresses by any means necessary. Lately, that's meant filing questionable "hacking" (not copyright) cases in state court -- especially in St. Clair County, Illinois, which is currently enmeshed in a giant drug scandal -- where a named defendant is "sued" but the focus is on identifying people associated with a variety of IP addresses named as co-conspirators (but not named as defendants). In one such case, officially for "LW Systems," but involving the same crew of Prenda folks, the court has now put the brakes on the subpoenas, quashing them at the request of various ISPs and John Does associated with the IP addresses.

The "defendant" in this case, Christopher Hubbard is represented by Adam Urbanczyk, who, in previous cases, was accused by the judge of being "in bed together" with Team Prenda, for not opposing any sort of discovery. In an altogether different case, yet with some similarities to the one at hand, a defendant admitted to the court that he had agreed to be a named defendant and take a dive in not opposing discovery as part of his own "settlement."

In this case, the judge, Andrew Gleeson, clearly suspected something was up and said that he wanted to know more about the ownership and control of LW Systems. Gleeson also said that he was aware of Judge Wright's famous order in the Prenda case in California, as well as the Delvan Neville deposition in the First Time Videos case in Florida, which presents an awful lot of evidence that John Steele is uploading the videos himself, and setting them to encourage downloading -- which would certainly call into question what sort of "hacking" went on to access the files.

At the very least, Gleeson has also granted the motions to quash the subpoenas, meaning that "LW Systems" doesn't get the information it's been seeking.

Gleeson said he had questions about the complaint and ownership of plaintiff – LW Systems.

“I think I need to be careful…,” Gleeson said. “This is major litigation that will take years to go through.”

While it's not a resounding push back on Team Prenda, it certainly suggests that one of the few courts in the country that was still a "friendly" home for their cases is now growing skeptical as well.

Tour tomorrow folks  100 yrs :O             I Love the tour de France !!!!!!!!               :O          

Armstrong: I'm still record Tour de France winner

By JOHN LEICESTER (AP Sports Writer) | The Associated Press – 

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/armstrong-im-still-record-tour-130215820--spt.html

PORTO VECCHIO, Corsica (AP) -- The dirty past of the Tour de France came back on Friday to haunt the 100th edition of cycling's showcase race, with Lance Armstrong telling a newspaper he couldn't have won without doping.

Armstrong's interview with Le Monde was surprising on many levels, not least because of his long-antagonistic relationship with the respected French daily that first reported in 1999 that corticosteroids were found in the American's urine as he was riding his way to the first of his seven Tour wins. In response, Armstrong complained he was being persecuted by ''vulture journalism, desperate journalism.''

Now seemingly prepared to let bygones be bygones, Armstrong told Le Monde he still considers himself the record-holder for Tour victories, even though all seven of his titles were stripped from him last year for doping. He also said his life has been ruined by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency investigation that exposed as lies his years of denials that he and his teammates doped.

The interview was the latest blast from cycling's doping-tainted recent history to rain on the 100th Tour.

Previously, Armstrong's former rival on French roads, 1997 Tour winner Jan Ullrich, confessed to blood-doping for the first time with a Spanish doctor. French media also reported that a Senate investigation into the effectiveness of anti-doping controls pieced together evidence of drug use at the 1998 Tour by Laurent Jalabert, a former star of the race now turned broadcaster.

Not surprising in Armstrong's interview was his claim that it was ''impossible'' to win the Tour without doping when he was racing. Armstrong already told U.S. television talk show host Oprah Winfrey when he finally confessed this January that doping was just ''part of the job'' of being a pro cyclist.

The banned hormone erythropoietin, or EPO, wasn't detectable by cycling's doping controls until 2001 and so was widely abused because it prompts the body to produce oxygen-carrying red blood cells, giving a big performance boost to endurance athletes.

Armstrong was clearly talking about his own era, rather than the Tour today. Le Monde reported that he was responding to the question: ''When you raced, was it possible to perform without doping?''

''That depends on which races you wanted to win. The Tour de France? No. Impossible to win without doping. Because the Tour is a test of endurance where oxygen is decisive,'' Le Monde quoted Armstrong as saying. It published the interview in French.

Some subsequent media reports about Le Monde's interview concluded that Armstrong was saying doping is still necessary now, rather than when he was winning the Tour from 1999-2005. That suggestion provoked dismay from current riders, race organizers and the sport's governing body, the International Cycling Union or UCI.

''If he's saying things like he doesn't think that it's possible to win the Tour clean, then he should be quiet - because it is possible,'' said American rider Tejay van Garderen of the BMC team.
Asked later by The Associated Press to clarify his comments, Armstrong said on Twitter that he was talking about the period from 1999-2005. He indicated that doping might not be necessary now.
''Today? I have no idea. I'm hopeful it's possible,'' he tweeted.

In a statement issued before that clarification, UCI President Pat McQuaid called the timing of Armstrong's comments ''very sad.''

''I can tell him categorically that he is wrong. His comments do absolutely nothing to help cycling,'' McQuaid said in a statement. ''The culture within cycling has changed since the Armstrong era and it is now possible to race and win clean.

''Riders and teams owners have been forthright in saying that it is possible to win clean - and I agree with them.''

America  ...New Business Models !!  (funny how going back to the 'old ways' isn't so bad )  Doctors ALL across this Land  should be Told shown This !!!     Invest  in each other  &  WE ALL will benefit !    We are Americans god damn it !!!                  

U.S. Doctors Are Dumping All Health Insurance and charging patients LESS

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(NaturalNews) In some places across the US, high-cost health insurance coverage is being discarded altogether. The looming Affordable Care Act health insurance mandate seems to be inspiring constructive disobedience. Yes, doctors are now “outsmarting” this government mandated health care system and moving towards a cash only system. This is leading to more affordable, expansive care for many – as the red tape is eliminated. Quality, affordable health care will return to America, not through blind compliance to mandates, but from those who completely defy the health insurance system altogether. As doctors move toward a much simpler system, they can charge less and also spend more time caring about their patients instead of dealing with unneeded paperwork.
Kansas physician cuts through the red tape
This is exactly what’s happening in Wichita, Kansas. The red tape is being cut down. This Kansas family physician, Doug Nunamaker, says he is now offering higher quality health care at a fraction of the cost after abandoning the entire money-bloated insurance system. He now effectively cuts overhead costs and charges his patients a small monthly fee, reducing medical service costs across the board.
Tired of all the red tape and insurance paperwork over the last five years, 32-year old Nunamaker decided to simplify his practice. Noticing how wasteful the system really was, Nunamaker realized that he paid an entire staff to manage health insurance red tape. By ditching this system, Nunamaker has been able to lower costs to patients and spend more time actually caring for them.
Most of Nunamaker’s clients are self employed, small business owners. These patients are now testifying that a small monthly fee to Nunamaker’s office is much more affordable than modern day health insurance plans (which are set to be mandated on Americans in 2014).
A more efficient route based on personal choice
Nunamaker also recommends to his patients that they opt to carry a high deductible health insurance plan to cover extreme emergencies that may require hospitalization. This option, coupled with Nunamer’s monthly fee, continues to be much more affordable than buying into current health insurance packages.
With much simpler options on the table, Nunamaker presents a more efficient way for Americans to be covered in case of an emergency and also providing inexpensive access to a wide variety of care.
In this way, healthy people aren’t forced to pay for another person’s poor lifestyle choices (like under Obamacare).
Nunamaker’s way also prevents a select few from feeling “entitled” to free healthcare. Everyone who chooses to participate pays a reasonable fair share based on age. Under Obamacare, nearly everyone, whether they choose or not, pays for everyone’s universal medical expenses, necessary and unnecessary.
Nunamaker working with colleagues to provide expansive network of affordable care
Under the Nunamaker’s basic membership plan, patients pay a flat monthly fee based on age that allows them to access unlimited “direct primary care” from medical providers that work at his practice.
For example, pediatric services are accessible for only $10 a month. Adults up to age 44 only pay $50 a month. Anyone over 44 pays only $100 a month. This cash only method, which also encompasses credit and debit transactions, is bypassing hours of wasted time, bloated prices, and red tape. It effectively goes around the new “Affordable Care Act” and actually offers affordable care. For example, a basic cholesterol test only costs his patients $3, compared to a typical $90 charge brought on by an insurance company.
Nunamaker is also working with professionals outside his office to create a network of coverage that includes services he cannot provide. He and a colleague have already got the price of an MRI down to $400, compared to what they were charging through insurance companies – around $2,000.
Obamacare requires all Americans to pay for the stupid decisions of others, like “walking into a lamppost”
As this Wichita family physician cuts through red tape, the Affordable Care Act is poised to add more new red tape to health care, which includes 122,000 new health codes. These codes include absurdities like “injuries sustained from a turtle,” or “injuries sustained from walking into a lamppost.”
As Americans are forced to pay for absurd medical decisions and even ones that go against their personal beliefs, many doctors across the US will have the option to defy Obamacare, giving Americans individual liberty to choose the medical services and health care they deem appropriate for themselves.
As more red tape befalls America, the best doctors will lead with integrity and show some guts, adopting a more responsible form of health care. The US can move back toward a much simpler, less expensive form of healthcare. A government mandated system that caters to pharmaceutical companies is destroying true healthcare.
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http://www.breitbart.com/system/wire/upiUPI-20130614-232724-6523
http://www.upi.com

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Obama’s African Assassination Vacation Exposed

Thursday, June 27, 2013 20:50

 

 

David Chase Taylor
June 27, 2013
Truther.org
SWITZERLAND, Zürich — On June 26th, 2013, U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama left with his wife Michelle and their two daughters Sasha and Malia on a week-long trip to Africa. If Obama and his family survive the apparent terror waiting for them in Africa, they are slated to return to the United States on July 3, 2013.
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According to the Secret Service’s itinerary, Obama will spend one night in Dakar, Senegal, two nights in Johannesburg, South Africa, a night in Cape Town, South Africa, and one night in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Although the locations of Obama’s trip are public, the arrival and departure dates of his South Africa and Tanzania stops are curiously not.
Obama’s African Itinerary (2013):
1. Senegal (June 26 — June 28)
2. South Africa (June 28 — June?)
3. Tanzania (June? — July 3)
With former South African president Nelson Mandela on life-support and near death, the public has been programmed over the last few weeks for the impending death of an African leader, except in this case it just might be current U.S. president Barack Obama. Although it’s impossible know exactly how an Obama attack or assassination “event” will play out in Africa, there are four Obama terror scenarios which have been identified and may manifest themselves in a concoction of the following: a “Black Hawk Down/White House Down”-type attack and hostage scenario, a pro-apartheid white militia type attack in South Africa, an Al Shabaab terrorist drone strike on Obama in Tanzania, and U.N. inside job attack on Obama courtesy of 1,000-plus counterfeit U.N. diplomatic passports which are allegedly floating around Africa right  now. Regardless of how Obama is attacked, former U.S. President George W, Bush will also conveniently be in Africa to spin the Obama attacks as he has been instructed.
As previously revealed by Truther.org’s sister website entitled ObamaCSI.com, the real or staged assassination of Obama by the Israeli Mossad has been planned for some time. Whether people like Obama or not, an Obama assassination must be stopped at all costs! The murder of Obama would divide America between black and white, Democrat and Republican, and would inevitably cause riots, looting, violence, bloodshed, and chaos across America.
An African Obama assassination “event” would accomplish 3 things:

A. The real or staged assassination of Obama would automatically rally Obama supporters worldwide and Obama’s popularity would skyrocket. In other words, Obama would be on the lips and in the minds of billions people worldwide and would experience a political renaissance of sorts, especially if he is injured and survives a deadly attack. In the aftermath, Obama would look strong, heroic and bulletproof.
B. If Obama is severely injured or killed while on office, America would be leaderless and would appear weak on the world stage. This scenario could possibly “invite” future acts of terror against the United States allegedly stemming from Al Qaeda, Al Shabaab, or even China. With self-admitted Zionist and current Vice President Joe Biden at the helm, war at the behest of Israel would be inevitable.
C. In the aftermath of an Obama assassination “event”, U.S. government funded hate groups such as the KKK and the Black Panthers Party would be paid to go into the American street and either protest or celebrate. These protests and parties would eventually turn to riots and places such as California and Florida would likely go up in flames. Photos of videos of racist rants and signs would then be used by the media to paint Americans, especially conservative gun-owning Americans, as racist and hateful people who are despicably celebrating the attack and/or death of the first African-American president.
Potential Motives
The potential “motives” for an Obama attack and/or assassination while he is in Africa are numerous and started when Obama began praising gay rights the first day he landed in Africa.  Also, according to a June 26th, 2013, New York Times report, South Africans are “angry over the administration’s antiterrorism policies”, and have organized a massive “NO-bama” protest on Friday, June 28, 2013, the same day that the movie “White House Down” will be released (see below). Aside from the anti-Obama sentiment in South Africa, according to a June 22nd, 2013, Foreign Policy report, President Obama’s trip to Africa is coming under fire by enraged Kenyans because he will not be visiting Kenya, the birthplace of his father.
Obama Assassination Trending
To date, there have been over 65 Obama assassination plots in which individuals were either questioned, arrested, detained or convicted for making death threats against U.S. President Obama. While some of the documented cases may have in fact been legitimate threats to Obama, most if not all of them appear to be staged “events” orchestrated to give the impression that Obama is in tremendous danger, especially due to his race. If and when an Obama assassination plot manifests itself in reality, it will be used by the Zionist owned media to create unprecedented racial division and turmoil within the United States. As of April 23rd, 2013, there have been an unprecedented amount of threats to both Obama and world leaders ultimately indicating that a presidential assassination is imminent.  
Assassination Threats Trending:
1. September 6, 2012: 2012 DNC Obama Assassination Plot Foiled (Charlotte, North Carolina)
2. April 23, 2013: “Hacked” AP Twitter Tweets ‘Explosions At White House’ (Washington, D.C.)
3. May 30, 2013: Man Jailed For Threatening Obama On Twitter (Charlotte, North Carolina)
4. May 30, 2013: Suspicious Ricin Laced Letter Addressed To Obama (Washington, D.C.)
5. June 2, 2013: British Man Pleads Guilty To Threatening To Kill Prince Harry (London, England)
6. June 3, 2013: Helicopter Carrying Iran’s President Makes Emergency Landing (North Iran)
7. June 6, 2013: Man Cleared For Firing At Czech President With Air Pistol (Prague, Czech Republic)
8. June 11, 2013: Secret Service “Visits” Outspoken Critic of Obama (Examiner)
9. June 11, 2013: Monument To Michelle Obama Ancestor Toppled (Rex, Georgia)
10. June 14, 2013: Iraq Officials Say Gunmen Kill Provincial Election Candidate (Mosul, Iraq)
11. June 16, 2013: Plane Carrying George W. Bush Diverted After Smell Of Smoke (Louisville, Kentucky)
12. June 17, 2013: Obama Assassination Fears: US Aircraft Carriers Off Ireland During G8 Summit (BT)
13. June 19, 2013: Protesters Throw Eggs At Conservative Presidential Candidate (Santiago, Chili)
14. June 26, 2013: Taliban Launch Attack on Afghan Presidential Palace (Kabul, Afghanistan)
[Does not purport to be a complete list of events]
1. WHITE HOUSE DOWN:
1.1: White House Down
“White House Down” (2013), is a film (see trailer) which will be released on June 28th, 2013, which will coincidentally be Obama’s second day in Africa. Curiously, the movie trailer shows helicopters going down as well as an attack on the “Beast”, otherwise known as the U.S. presidential limousine. Should Obama be attacked and/or assassinated in Africa, it is highly likely that the world will witness a similar storyline to the original “Black Hawk Down” whereby White House journalists, Secret Service agents and possibly even Obama himself are kidnapped and held captive by Islamic or African terrorists. Over a decade ago, the book “Black Hawk Down” (1999) was released which was eventually turned into a movie (see trailer) entitled “Black Hawk Down” (2001). Both the book and the film depict U.S. Special Forces and U.N. forces engaging the militia of Somalia in an attempt to capture a Somali warlord, ultimately resulting in a pair of UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters being downed and their crews being held captive. The story then follows the subsequent attempt by their fellow U.S. soldiers to rescue the Black Hawk crews from the Somali militia.
1.2: Obama’s African SecurityDetail
Based on information surrounding Obama’s trip to Africa, it would appear that an elaborate assassination “event” is in the works with plenty of options to choose from. According to a June 13th, 2013, Washington Post report, the Secret Service does not want Obama traveling anywhere without a top-rated trauma center nearby: “Hundreds of U.S. Secret Service agents will be dispatched to secure facilities in Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania. A Navy aircraft carrier or amphibious ship, with a fully staffed medical trauma center, will be stationed offshore in case of an emergency. Military cargo planes will airlift in 56 support vehicles, including 14 limousines and three trucks loaded with sheets of bullet­proof glass to cover the windows of the hotels where the first family will stay. Fighter jets will fly in shifts, giving 24-hour coverage over the president’s airspace, so they can intervene quickly if an errant plane gets too close.” The report further states that the Obama’s entourage includes, “…a specialized communications vehicle for secure telephone and video connections, a truck that jams radio frequencies around the presidential motorcade, a fully loaded ambulance that can handle biological or chemical contaminants and a truck for X-ray equipment.”
2. LIMOUSINE ATTACK:
2.1: The “Beast”
According to a June 21st, 2013, Fox News report entitled “U.S. Govt. Starts Shopping For A New Presidential Limousine”, the “battle to build the next “Beast” has begun”. According to the report, “The Department of Homeland Security has opened bidding for the contract to design and engineer the next presidential limousine”. Why exactly DHS is seeking a new Presidential limo 5 days before Obama is set to go to Africa is unknown, but a spokesperson for the U.S. Secret Service confirmed that the department is in fact looking into purchasing a next generation limo. The report further states that the so-called “Beast” is “widely believed to be built on the chassis of a medium duty GM truck in order to accommodate armoring capable of withstanding direct strikes from rocket-propelled grenades and improvised explosive devices”. The “Beast” is also equipped with “a suite of electronic communications and jamming equipment, and a sealed air system to protect against gas attacks”.
2.2: Limo Terror Trending
In the last few months, an unprecedented amount of horrific limousine related “accidents”, arrests, explosions, fires and wrecks have occurred around the United States. Although it’s impossible to confirm, it would appear that most if not all of these incidents were staged with the goal of programming Americans that limos are unsafe and vulnerable to attack prior to an Obama assassination “event” occurring in Africa when he is attacked while riding in his presidential limo entitled “The Beast”.
Limo Terror Timeline:
1. May 6, 2013: Limousine Fire Kills Five Including Newlywed Bride (San Francisco, California)
2. May 13, 2013: Limo Driver Arrested For DUI While Taking 23 Teens To Prom (Chicago, Illinois)
3. June 5, 2013: Limo Driver Arrested After Jewelry Theft (Osterville, Massachusetts)
4. June 9, 2013:  Injuries Reported In Overnight Limousine Crash (Las Vegas, Nevada)
5. June 10, 2013: 10 Elderly Women Escape Unharmed From Limo Fire (Walnut Creek, California)
6. June 14, 2013: Students Uninjured In Limo Fire On Way To Dance (Millstone Township, New Jersey)
7. June 20, 2013: Limousine Bursts Into Flames On Commercial Street (Boston, Massachusetts)
8. June 24, 2013: Jersey City Man Attacks Limo Driver (Hoboken, New Jersey)
9. June 27, 2013: Police Search For Suspects After Limo Passenger Shot (Atlantic City, New Jersey)
3. SOUTH AFRICA ATTACK:
3.1: South Africa Obama Assassination
If Obama is attacked or assassinated while in Africa, it will most likely occur in South Africa where it can be blamed on white racists who are angry with the end of apartheid and the notion of a “powerful” black leader. A race-based attack will obviously cause unprecedented race related division and turmoil in Africa as well as in America—exactly what it is intended to do. As the June 18th, 2013, Fox News propaganda headline foreshadowed, “Ex-South Africa Ambassador Criticizes Israeli Policies As ‘Replication Of Apartheid’”, the key words obviously being, “South Africa” and “Replication of Apartheid”. Based on the anti-Obama protests taking place in South Africa and the recent assassination of a South African police commander, everything is in place for a spectacular Obama assassination “event”
3.2: NO-Bama Protest in South Africa
According to a June 26th, 2013, New York Times report: “Angry over the administration’s antiterrorism policies, a “NO-bama” coalition of lawyers, students and trade unions in South Africa is promising a National Day of Action on Friday, the day the president is expected to arrive there. Student groups say they will protest when Mr. Obama is scheduled to receive an honorary degree. The South African Muslim Lawyers Association delivered a 600-page brief to the South African government that it called the “Obama Docket,” demanding that the president be arrested for war crimes when he lands in the country”. As paid rioters and operatives take to the street to allegedly protest Obama on Friday, June 28th, 2013, a sniper or mob could easily attack on Obama setting off a chain of events which could lead to Obama’s assassination and the death of innocent civilians.
3.3: South African Police Commander Assassinated
In a move which conveniently cleared the way for an attack on Obama while in South Africa, on June 18th, 2013, it was reported that a South African police commander was found murdered in a field with his hands and feet bound. According to the report, Major General Tirhani Simon Maswanganyi’s body was discovered in a field near a road north of the capital Pretoria, South Africa. Gauteng province commissioner Mzwandile Petros stated that, “His hands and feet were tied up…There were no visible injuries caused by gunshots on the body”. Maswanganyi, a 31 year police veteran, was reportedly in charge of Johannesburg police station and surrounding areas. The report concluded by stating that police began their search after discovering his abandoned vehicle with his uniform and identity card. Access to police uniforms and identity cards can now be cited as a reason for an Obama security breach while in South Africa.
4. UNITED NATIONS ATTACK:
4.1: U.N. Attacked by Al Shabaab
In what appears to a sign that Al Shabaab is for real and a legitimate threat to the world, on June 19, 2013, it was reported that at least 15 people were killed in an assault by militant Islamists on a U.N. office in Mogadishu, Somalia. According to the report, the gun-battle inside the office lasted for more than an hour and witnesses stated that suicide bomber blew up a car at its entrance and four gunmen entered. The al-Qaeda-linked group al-Shabaab has since stated that it was behind the attack and will most likely be behind an attack on Obama when he is in Tanzania.
4.2: U.N. Fake Passports
A June 19th, 2013, report by Fox New entitled, “Mystery Organization With UN Ties Issues Diplomatic IDs — Except They Aren’t”, essentially provides the needed plausible deniability for an epic security failure surrounding Obama while in Africa. According to the report, “A controversial organization with tenuous ties to the United Nations — and which counts Kenyan relatives of Barack Obama among its good-will ambassadors — is supplying its officials and advisers with travel documents designed to look much like U.N.-affiliated diplomatic passports. The problem is, they aren’t”. According to an email examined by Fox News, Obama and his mother apparently resigned their goodwill ambassador status with IIMSAM in mid-2012, citing dissatisfaction with “the ongoing negativity of the organization.” Among other things, the email charged that IIMSAM’s Kenyan staff had not been paid in a year and were themselves malnourished. The report concludes that the number of documents issues is not known, but “documents examined by Fox News are higher than 1,000, possibly indicating that at least that many have been handed out”. The obviously fabricated Fox News report was issued so that in the wake of an Obama attack/assassination in Africa, irate Kenyans with fake diplomatic passports/IDs could be scapegoated.
5. AL SHABAAB ATTACK:
5.1: Al Shabaab & Obama
The fictitious feud between U.S. President Barack Obama and the CIA funded terror group Al Shabaab is outright laughable. According to reports, Al Shabaab planned to kill Obama at his presidential inauguration and allegedly targeted Obama’s grandmother in Kenya. On June 7th, 2012, the U.S. government offered a reward for information on the whereabouts of leaders in the Somali militant group Al-Shabaab. Two days later on June 9th, 2012, Al Shabaab responded to Obama’s bounty by offering a counter bounty of 10 camels for President Barack Obama and two camels for information on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Coincidentally, on June 26th, 2013, it was reported that Al Qaeda terrorists have changed their communication methods after the NSA leaks made by alleged whistleblower Edwards Snowden, giving ample reason for Obama’s security to be compromised by Al Qaeda in the near future. Interestingly, on October 27th, 2012, just 10 days prior to the 2012 election, Al Qaeda called on Muslims to kidnap Westerners with the purpose of trading victims for Islamic jihadist prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay.
5.2: Al Shabaab Drone Strike?
On May 8th, 2013, ABC news ran the propaganda headline “New Terrorist Magazine Targets Obama, Drones”, clearly foreshadowing that Obama may be targeted with a terrorist drone in the near future. According to the report, “Obama appears with a bull’s-eye on his head in a new English-language magazine published online apparently by Islamist militants, who also urge Muslims around the world to try to hack and manipulate American drones. The magazine allegedly goes on to state: “This is a call to anyone in the Islamic Ummah with knowledge, expertise and theories regarding anti-drone technology. [...] These drones can be hacked and manipulated as evidenced by the efforts of the Iraq Mujahideen”. The report concludes by stating that the Associated Press found an Al Qaeda guide with 22 tips on avoiding drones, which was conveniently left behind by militants driven out of Timbuktu, Mali. The tip sheet referenced similar software reportedly used by the Iraqi militants in 2009 to intercept the drone’s surveillance images.
5.3: U.S. Drone Crashes in Somalia
Coincidentally, just twenty days later on May 28th, 2013, it was reported that a U.S. reconnaissance drone had crashed in Somalia. According to the report, the crash happened in the southern Shabelle region, where African troops are fighting Al Shabaab insurgents. The provincial governor, Abdikadir Mohamed Nur, stated that an Al Qaeda-linked group had shot at the drone for several hours, eventually hitting it. The injured U.S. drone can now be theoretically loaded with explosives by Al Shabaab and used in an attack against Obama when he arrives in Tanzania, a country just south of Somalia. In reality, if a drone strike is called out on Obama, rest assured the drone will be under command and control of real Zionist terrorists located within the U.S. military.
5.4: African Based Terror Blinking Red
As evidenced, terrorism in Africa has reached an unprecedented level and will likely culminate with an attack on Obama. The following reports, while partially fabricated to be sure, were disseminated with the goal of programming the public that Africa is an unsafe place just prior to major false-flag terror attacks in Africa or stemming from Africa, as witnessed in the recently foiled “Operation Northwoods 2.0” terror plot.
Africa Terror Timeline:
1. May 29, 2013: 41 Child Soldiers With Armed Groups Released (Central African Republic)
2. June 3, 2013: 22 Prisoners, Including Suspected Extremists, Escaped Prison (Niamey, Niger)
3. June 11, 2013: Shooting At Paramilitary Base In Niger; Gunmen Not Known (Niamey, Niger)
4. June 12, 2013: UN Report Adds Malian Militia Groups To List Of Child Recruiters (Mali, Africa)
5. June 18, 2013: Senior Johannesburg Cop Found Murdered (Johannesburg, South Africa)
6. June 18, 2013: West Africa Has World’s Worst Piracy Rate: Report (London, England)
7. June 18, 2013: Shells Hit Sudan Town As African Football Cup Opens (Kadugli, Sudan)
8. June 18, 2013: More Sailors Affected By Piracy Off West Africa Than Somalia (Dakar, Senegal)
9. June 18, 2013: Kidnapped French Sailor Freed In Nigeria (Yenagoa, Nigeria)
10. June 19, 2013: Somalia UN Office Attack By Al-Shabab ‘Kills 15′ (Mogadishu, Somalia)
11. June 21, 2013: Spanish Police Smash Al-Qaeda Ring In Ceuta (Ceuta, North Africa)
12. June 22, 2013: Fort Hood Deploys Riot Police Soldiers To Egypt (Egyptian/Israeli Border)
13. June 24, 2013: African Leaders Want Navy To Fight Gulf Of Guinea Piracy (Yaounde, Cameroon)
14. June 25, 2013: Libya A Key Terrorism Transit Hub, Warns African Union (Oran, Algeria)
15. June 26, 2013: Al Qaeda-Linked Terror Group Targeting Civilians, Children In Nigeria (Lagos, Nigeria)
16. June 30, 2013: Massive Protest Planned In Egypt For June 30th, 2013 (Cairo, Egypt)
6. OBAMA ASSASSINATION AFTERMATH:
6.1: The “Veep” TV Show
In what appears to be a move to program Americans for the Vice President Joe Biden, commonly referred to as the “Veep”, to take over if and when Obama is assassinated, a television show entitled “Veep” was launched on April 22, 2012. According to Wikipedia, “Veep is an HBO television comedy series, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, set in the office of Selina Meyer, a fictional Vice President of the United States”. If Obama is severely injured or assassinated, he will no longer be able to continue as President, thus making Joe Biden the defunct President of the United States.
6.2: George W. Bush In Africa
It’s not often that Africa get a visit from a U.S. president, much less two at the same time. However, as “luck” would have it, current U.S. President Obama and former U.S. President George W. Bush will be in Africa at the same time and even in the same country! In the event that Obama is attached, injured or killed, Bush will be right there to grandstand on the international stage and spin the Obama attack as he has been instructed. According to a June 22nd, 2013, New York Times report, “It’s coincidental that we have two American presidents on the continent at the same time – in the same country at the same time – but it’s indicative of a continued commitment, which is great news,” said Hannah Abney, communications director for the George W. Bush Presidential Center. “It wasn’t planned. It really was coincidental. But we’re really excited about it.” A June 23rd, 2013, Washington Times report then stated that, “Mr. Obama’s trip to Africa will coincide with a visit to the continent from former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura…They’ll then travel to Tanzania, a visit that will overlap with Mr. Obama’s stop in that country.The commander in chief and his predecessor aren’t scheduled to meet, but first lady Michelle Obama plans to attend the African First Ladies Summit with Mrs. Bush on July 2.”
Conclusion
It’s imperative to remember that starting fights between different races, classes and religions is taken word for word from the 3rd Protocol of the Protocols of Zion. The main goal of the Zionist establishment is to get America to destroy herself the same way that Russia was destroyed under Stalin. This is done by dividing and then collapse society upon itself by baiting the gun-owning American public into a violent revolution against their own police and military while the real terrorists sit off-shore and pull the strings. An assassination of Obama would go a long way in making sure that this happens.
About the Author
David Chase Taylor, the editor-in-chief of Truther.org, is an American journalist living in Zürich, Switzerland where he has applied for political asylum since the release of The Nuclear Bible, a book credited with subverting a false-flag/state-sponsored nuclear terror attack upon America in Dallas, Texas on February 6, 2011. Taylor has since released The Bio-Terror Bible, a website exposing the coming global bio-terror pandemic likely planned for 2013. Taylor has also exposed numerous terror plots including the 2012 DNC Terror Plot, the “Twilight” Premier Terror Plot, as well as Alex Jones’ links to STRATFOR.

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Church Of Scientology Uses Copyright, Trademark, And Cyberbullying Laws To Silence Critical Parody

from the still-not-a-religion dept

For faith-based hilarity, you just can't do any better than the Church of Scientology. These photoshop masters have built for themselves the kind of reputation normally reserved for Stasi-style secret police. The constant target of Anonymous, ex-members, and every critical-thinking person on the planet are best known for gobbling up shallow celebrities, creepily persecuting critics and ex-members, and possessing the monumental testicles required to include a freaking space opera in their faith. As part of their attempts to silence critics, they've regularly run up against the wider internet, often using IP laws to gag speech.

Well, it turns out you just can't teach a kinda-old non-religion religion new tricks. Reader John alerts us to a case in which the Church of Scientology is using copyright, trademark and cyberbullying laws to silence a parody criticizing the "church", Will Smith, and the attempt to destroy film making commonly known as After Earth. Recently, they demanded that GoDaddy nix cheerupwillsmith.com, which parodied the church and the film, over the use of their logos, a letter from church-leader David Miscavige, a photo of the same Miscavige, and a parody portrayal of Mr. Miscavige.

Pointing to the presence of CSI logos and a photograph of Mr. Miscavige on the site, CSI told GoDaddy the site violated CSI’s copyright and trademark rights, and asked the company to take it down. GoDaddy promptly complied. CSI also claimed that the creators of the site had violated California Penal Code section 528.5, which forbids the credible impersonation of a human person online. Section 528.5 was intended to be used to combat cyberbullying; as we anticipated, however, it’s now being used to target political speech.

As the EFF notes while placing the Church of Scientology on their takedown hall of shame list, we have some major problems here. First, the copyright claim fails on the grounds of fair use, since the use was critical parody, with only the necessary usage used therein. The trademark claim is also pitiful for many of the same reasons, though we can add that the website was not attempting to compete in the market of religion with the "church." As for the penal code claim, it is true that that law was meant to combat cyberbullying, but I think the EFF might be off when they say:

Finally, the claim that the site violated the California Penal Code is equally absurd. Section 528.5 applies only to "credible" impersonations. No viewer would think the site offered a credible impersonation of Mr. Miscavige.

Au contraire, bonjour. Given the absurdity of the actions by these clowns, it would take a great deal to convince me of anything in which they are not capable. However, I don't think they're own depravity is reason for which they could be charged with cyberbullying.

So congratulations, Scientologists. You've now made the EFF hall of shame. And if you don't like how you're portrayed there or here, you can go audit yourselves.

Yet Another Teen Making Stupid Jokes On Social Media Now Faces Years In Jail

from the not-this-again dept

It's getting ridiculous just how frequently this sort of thing is happening. We had the so-called Twitter joke trial in the UK, in which Paul Chambers was arrested and tried for making a joke on Twitter about airport closures in which he (very obviously jokingly) "threatened" to blow the airport "sky high" if it wasn't reopened by the time he had to fly. We had the story of Joe Lipari, who was arrested for paraphrasing Fight Club on Facebook in expressing his annoyance with employees at his local Apple store. More recently, we wrote about high school kid Cam D'Ambrosio who was arrested and held without bail for making "terroristic threats," where those "threats" turned out to be some immature boastful rap lyrics that, when actually put in context, didn't actually suggest any threats at all.

The latest one involves Justin Carter, a teenager in Texas who made a joke on Facebook where he and some other kids were hassling each other over the video game League of Legends. One of the kids said something to Justin along the lines of, "Oh you're insane, you're crazy, you're messed up in the head." In response, Justin said:

'Oh yeah, I'm real messed up in the head, I'm going to go shoot up a school full of kids and eat their still, beating hearts,’ and the next two lines were lol and jk.

In context, there is nothing surprising or odd at all about this conversation. It's how teenaged boys communicate. They get on each other and mock each other and the response was actually pretty reasonable. One kid called him insane, and he responded by effectively mocking the claim that he was insane. And then immediately followed it up with lol and jk to cement the fact that he was kidding -- which should have been obvious to everyone anyway, even without the caveats.

But... apparently it was not obvious to the police, or to some very confused woman in Canada who called the police.

Justin Carter was arrested the next month and has been jailed since March 27. He’s charged with making a terroristic threat and is facing eight years in prison, according to his dad.

It turns out that Justin's mother actually posted a comment on our last story about Cam D'Ambrosio, which I didn't see until just now, explaining much of his story as well, and linking to a Change.org petition trying to get her son released from prison.

Once again, this situation is insane. We've reached a point where media hype and moral panics are leading law enforcement to seriously overreact to anything they think is a threat. We have no problem at all with law enforcement checking in on situations like this, but they should quickly realize what it is and move on. To arrest someone for such a joking comment on Facebook, and then to keep him in jail and legitimately claim that it was some sort of "terroristic threat," is shameful and suggests that law enforcement is more interested in building up their "stats" than actually making sure that justice is served and the public is safe.

Woman Sues Plastic Surgeon For $23 Million Because He Put Before/After Pictures Of Her On The Web

from the proportionality-means-something dept/http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130627/18004323644/woman-sues-plastic-surgeon-23-million-because-he-put-beforeafter-pictures-her-web.shtml

A bunch of folks have sent in variations on the following story involving Catherine Manizone, who had a nose job done a few years ago by plastic surgeon Grigoriy Mashkevich, but who is now suing him for $23 million. You might think that the lawsuit is about the nose job gone wrong. But, no, her complaint is that Dr. Mashkevich put "before" and "after" pictures he took of Manizone online as an example of his work. $23 million? New York does have a relatively strong "publicity rights" law -- which are state based laws that are being increasingly expanded and abused these days. However, at their core, the idea is that people wouldn't be put in advertisements or seen as endorsing a product or service without their permission. So, perhaps there's a small publicity rights claim here, though it would be surprising if Dr. Mashkevich never actually had patients sign a release form for the use of such photos (Update: there is evidence that she signed a form saying the photos were only for her confidential files, so it appears that he did fail to get the proper permission). Of course, even if he failed in that basic step, the idea that having these photos posted online should lead to a $23 million award is just insane.

Equally as ridiculous is the idea that finding these pictures online caused such horrible harm to Manizone and her reputation. In the lawsuit, she explains the "harm" the photos have caused:

Plaintiff has been, is and will continue to be greatly distressed and humiliated, has been, is and will continue to be exposed to public ridicule and contempt; and the plaintiff has been, is and will continue to be greatly injured in her reputation and has been, is and will continue to be otherwise greatly injured.

As Plaintiff's photographs are still available for viewing on the World Wide Web, Plaintiff's damages continue to accrue to date and will continue for an undeterminable period of time.

Of course, there are a few issues with this. First, the surgery happened in January of 2011 "to improve her appearance, self esteem and confidence" but she didn't notice the photos online until February 2013. If she didn't even know the photos were online for two years how could she possibly have been so greatly distressed by the photos online? If they were really causing her to be "exposed to public ridicule and contempt" then, um, wouldn't she have examples of that actually happening?

Second, I'm still trying to figure out why she would have been subject to "public ridicule and contempt" merely for getting a nose job. I mean, I guess it's possible, but wouldn't people who already knew her simply notice the nose job? And would people who didn't know her really care at all?

Finally, and most importantly, it seems likely that filing a highly questionable $23 million lawsuit against your plastic surgeon is a hell of a lot more likely to create public ridicule and contempt than any before and after photos of a nose job. So, will she be suing her lawyer next for being "greatly distressed and humiliated" while being "exposed to public ridicule and contempt" for filing this lawsuit? And, of course, if she was concerned that people would know she got a nose job because of the photos, which even she didn't realize existed for two years, shouldn't someone have pointed out to her that filing a public lawsuit like this would be a hell of a lot more likely to draw attention to the fact that she got a nose job?

Again, if it really is true that he used her images without signed permission, there may be a minor publicity rights issue, but the claims about public ridicule and contempt, along with the idea that the photos created massive damages, just don't make any sense. Combined with the insane request for $23 million, the whole thing really feels a lot more like a money grab than a serious complaint.