Joe is correct - I am investigating.
It appears so far that this student, Christopher Mettin is an entrepeneur who
has created a
TLD registry that is part of Public-Root.
This is located at: http://tld.gqbc-online.com/index.htm
This is not a fraud or a crime. If INAIC is in violation of any laws or
registration requirements,
then Joe should report them to the proper authorities. Oh wait, he does that
all of the time and
lo and behold, the matter falls into a black hole.
Translation: Joe's vendettas against people are of no concern to law
enforcement. They regularily toss
his complaints into the trash. His claim is that they are feckless and harried by
other crimes and "Oh, they
just don't have enough time to investigate".
Nonsense. If half of Joe's claims were true, many people would be fined or in
prison. Yet, no one has been arrested
or convicted of anything.
Oh, and by the way, the website listed above is STILL ONLINE and operating
today? How can this be, if its such a
horrible fraud? I'm sure the German police would have stopped this student if
he was committing a crime - right?
Of course, the answer really is that this is a very smart young man who is
starting a business of his own and is
doing nothing wrong.
Joe's web page on this matter (http://baptista.cynikal.net/gqnet/news-item.html) is full of lies, distortions and slander. Let me
list
these:
Joe claims that the principal of Gymnasium Querfurt said that the student would be "punished" for some "wrong-doing". I see no
mention of
any wrong-doing, except perhaps that he did not make it clear enough that his
website was not the official school website.
The principal mentions some "trouble caused to Joe by the student", but there
is no mention of what this is. My guess: Joe
invented some vague complaint and, as he always does, puts on an air of
authority, making some claim that he has
some rights to speak for the namespace community. The principal probably took
him at his word and thought he was
apologizing to some representative of a large group of people. Joe is NO SUCH
THING.
On Joe's Querfurt news page, he makes some reference to the student contacting
ARIN for something. First of all, ARIN has
no authority in Europe - RIPE is the RIR for Europe. Secondly, as Joe often
does, he provides NO proof of any such contact.
You would think that if Joe had any evidence of this, he would not hesitate to post it on this page, but its not there. Why?
Probably
because it is all a lie. Joe can clear this up by presenting such evidence of a
fraudulent contact between this student and ARIN.
Now, lets look at the myriad of lies and distortions in the September 21, 2009 section of
Joe's Querfurt "news" page.
In this he states: "German high school students at the Gymnasium Querfurt are the recent victims of a Top-Level Domain (TLD) sales
scam run by Dutch con artist Herman Xennt. Herman known to the Netherlands police is a convicted felon who was arrested for drug
trafficking and tax evasion."
Lets take this apart:
1. German High School students were NOT victims of a recent Top-Level Domain sales scam. INAIC is a legitimate business with many
paying customers. If it was a scam, it would have been reported and shut down by the Dutch authorities. Joes claim that the police
are
simply "too busy" all of the time, is nonsense.
2. Joe calls Herman Xennt a "con artist". Show me convictions for fraud that
Herman has. There aren't any.
3. Herman is not a convicted felon, that I can tell. I have asked for official
copies of any such court papers and
Joe has refused to provide them.
4. Some folks were living at the Cyberbunker (Not Xennt) and were running an
XTC lab and it caught fire. They arrested everyone
there including Herman. The subsequent police investigation found that Herman
WAS NOT involved in any way in this drug
lab and he was RELEASED. Joe doesn't tell you that, does he?
5. Finally, this section finishes up with one of the old Baptista saws: "Tax
evasion". Again, Joe WHERE ARE THE COURT
RECORDS?
In the next section, Joe hallucinates:
"The school joins an impressive list of organizations on the INAIC victims list. Both the Government of Turkey and SITA (Societe
Internationale de Telecommunications Aeronautique) participated in marketing stolen property through INAIC. In these cases the
intellectual property rights to top-level domains sold by INAIC are part of a commercial fraud involving former partners of Herman
Xennt and the Top Level Domain Association, another front for the organization."
Lets see:
1. The school was not a victim of anyone, including INAIC.
2. Turkey and SITA were victims alright - of Joe. In 2005, after Herman and others would not let him run the show, he set out to
destroy the effort and
as part of this effort, he threatened and insulted people in the Turkish govt and SITA (as well as those at Tiscali and others) into
dropping their support
for the project. You can see one of his accusations against his victims here, that they participated in "marketing stolen
property" - in the US you
can be sued into poverty for making those kinds of false claims.
3. What does the TLDA have to do with any of this? I'll tell you what - the TLDA IS A VICTIM, again, a victim of Joe Baptista. As a
founding member and
officer of the TLDA, I can tell you that Joe has done nothing but try to destroy our organization. As we began to accomplish
things, Joe misused our
public e-mail lists to further his mad vendetta against Herman and Co. It got so bad that we finally banished him from the lists.
Joe would regularily insult
our members, including calling Karl Peters a "welfare bum" and insulting his family. He did similar things to Bradley Thornton, one
of our other active members.
This actually led to a loss of credibility for the TLDA since all the public saw when they looked in on us was Joe attacking and
everyone else trying to
defend themselves against his vile actions.
The next section of the website may contain some kernel of truth. It appears
that INAIC has confused Christopher's gqbc-online.de
with an official school project. According to the school principal, this is not
the case. This error should be corrected asap.
Funny thing is, that later in the new pages, Joe states:
"Christopher Mettin the schools 18 year old student network administrator runs the GQnet student project for the Gymnasium
Querfurt."
Joe, wait a moment - you just said that GQNet is being misrepresented as official school page, now you are claiming that it is
official?
Which is is, Joe?
Joe concludes the Querfurt news section by complaining about incorporation of
INAIC. As stated before, it is probably
illegal in Holland to run a business that is not legitimate and if so many
people were being defrauded, the Dutch authorities would
have closed down this business a long time ago. Why haven't they? Could it be
that INAIC is a legitimate business? You
judge for yourself. : http://www.inaic.com
Conclusion: This "news" page is just another one of Joe's attempts to tar
people who would not kow-tow to his demands. Joe has
a need to have people consider him a "wise internet guru" and demands that they all sit
at his feet and respect his "wisdom". He
has falsly claimed that he is a "representative" of the "public root" or otherwise represents the interest of some unknown TLD
holders
and others, yet no one of substance has ever come forward saying that they cede
that role to him. Anyone who dares to question
his authority or go against him will be on the receiving end of his wrath. He
will launch an intense vendetta against that person or
persons and will attempt to recruit others into this effort. This is what happened with the TLDA in the last 3 years - he attempted
to
use the legitimacy of the TLDA as a weapon in his vendetta against Herman Xennt
and as a result, almost destroyed it. When those
he tries to recruit show hesitation to join the cause, he adds them to his list of "enemies" and attacks them as well. This is
evident
in his attacks against Karl Peters, the Chairman of the TLDA board. When Karl
asked him to calm down and refused to kow-tow to
him, Joe called Karl a "welfare bum" and insulted Karl's family. A similar fate
befell Bradley Thornton as well.
What Joe did in 2005 was to destroy a business opportunity that would have
benefitted thousands of organizations and would have
been a credible alternative to the monopoly of ICANN. Everyone should realize
what damage this psychotic has caused. The reason
that I keep harping on this is that I am determined that he not be able to cause any further damage to people. Education and
information
about what he is will go along way towards mitigating future damage.
Thats why I have the list http://lair.lionpost.net/mailman/listinfo/baptista-offenses online - as a repository for all of the
information regarding
Joe's antics. Anyone with information on his antics that is not currently on
that list, feel free to join the list and post it.
My conclusion, until and unless other facts are presented: There was NO SCANDAL
involving the Gymnasium Querfurt or Christopher
Mettin. This student is simply an entrepeneur that has started a small business
and I wish him well and am so sorry that he has
become a pawn in the psychosis of Joe Baptista. For the most part, the stuff on Joe's Querfurt news page is misleading, omissive
and
in places, a flat out lie.
Thanks for your patience while I investigated.
If you have any questions, please contact me.
Cheers,
John
----- Original Message -----
From: Joe Baptista
To: [email protected] >> GA
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 1:17 PM
Subject: [ga] The ICANN / INAIC scandal drags in the Gymnasium Querfurt high
school again - Palmer investigates
It has just come to my attention John Palmer is investigating the Gymnasium Querfurt scandal - http://bit.ly/5AEP1w - expect more
insightful comments to come this way.
cheers
joe baptista
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