August 1, 2008

Attacks on Flight 93 Sites

Posted by Rosemary in : Blogging, General Politics, Political Correctness

Okay, I’m getting really irrated here. I am trying to help out a friend by posting something for him, and I keep getting an error message. I’ve even tried changing the text by adding some writing of my own. Didn’t work. Here it is:

Bob has asked me to post this for him, because he keeps getting error message, even over here. I must admit, I get an error message too, so I am going to try a different approach. That is why you see this additional writing and a different title. His title that he chose is, ‘Denial of Service Attacks on Flight 93 Sites‘. He believes it is important for everyone to know that we are having an effect, as do I, because someone has flagged his blogger account and had it shut down. Below please find what he has written. His will be in italics.

At 10:33 PM last night, I received an email from Boston Maggie, saying that her blogspot site had been locked due to a spam report. She had posted some things about Jawn eF’n sKerry, (who served in Viet Nam, BTW) and she assumed it had upset some Taxachusetts liberals, who responded by hitting the “Flag This Site” button. At 10:34 PM I received an email from Blogger telling me that MY blogspot site had been locked for the same reason. Someone had hit the “Flag This Site” button on my site as well.

I would just like to add that I find this childish and disgusting. If they don’t like free speech, go back to Saudi Arabia! hehehe. Oh, I’m also writing this in the hopes that the computer will notice this is not the same post as the one I received an error message. heh.

Text of email from blogger:

Your blog at: DCProtestWarrior has been identified as a potential spam blog. To correct this, please request a review by filling out this form.

Your blog will be deleted within 20 days if it isn’t reviewed, and you’ll be unable to publish posts during this time. After we receive your request, we’ll review your blog and unlock it within two business days. If this blog doesn’t belong to you, you don’t have to do anything, and any other blogs you may have won’t be affected.

I am interrupting this email just in case this is the problem. Does anyone know what an 404 is?

We find spam by using an automated classifier.

This, in fact, is not true. Blogger contacted these two people due to someone flagging their site. Remember?

Automatic spam detection is inherently fuzzy, and occasionally a blog like yours is flagged incorrectly.

It most certainly was!

We sincerely apologize for this error.

Oh really? Who is that on your donation list? For whom are you voting?

By using this kind of system, however, we can dedicate more storage, bandwidth, and engineering resources to bloggers like you instead of to spammers.

This is a load of crap, because you told me you couldn’t block pornographers from my site! Hypocrites. I complain and there’s nothing you can do. Someone else complains once, and you shut everything down? How dare you!

For more information, please see Blogger Help.

Thank you for your understanding and for your help with our spam-fighting efforts.

Sincerely,

The Blogger Team

After a few email exchanges with people OUTSIDE the blogspot community, we came to the conclusion that someone was targeting sites with one similar theme:

The meeting is on Saturday in Somerset PA regarding the Flight 93 Memorial.This attempt to silence our opinions on the proposed design is disturbing. It means we have struck a nerve and upset some people and they believe we are making a difference.

I have followed the instructions contained in the email from blogger, as has Maggie. We will keep you updated on the progress. I feel certain that the issue will be resolved in our favor.
I have also emailed blogger support and informed them of my suspicions.

Please supply any technical help you may know of that I don’t, which would not be that hard. lol. Thank you for helping ConcreteBob and BostonMaggie. Have a good night.

I did happen to notice a code I am unfamiliar with: _mce. What does this do? It may the cause of our 404 error message. Some computer programs use codes that no other program will allow. Hmm. Should I try this again now that I’ve found some codes and deleted them? Hmm…

PS. How ironic. Blogger is the one doing the banning, and blogger is the only one that would allow me to post this so far! My head is spinning. lol.

Cross-posted @ Rosemary’s News and Ideas.

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Comment by Bubblehead

I got the exact same E-mail from Blogger last night. Even though I didn’t post anything about Flight 93, I am a fairly well-known milblogger. Maybe someone’s going after all the milblogger sites…

…or, maybe they made a change to their antispambot’s algorithm that made it get stupid.
Comment by Rosemary

Hmm. Maybe I should check my other sites that I’ve been waiting to move over to my new site so they don’t get rid of 4 years of work! I haven’t received the e-mail yet. Hmm. Just make sure you answer it! I hope everything turns out alright for you. Have a great weekend.
Comment by Bubblehead

Actually, reading around in various places, I’ve also seen liberal bloggers complaining that they’re being targeted. It looks like it really is what Blogger is saying it is: An anti-spam ‘bot algorithm that got stupid. Hopefully they’ll just do a “mass restore” soon.
Comment by Muslims Against Sharia

Islamic fundamentalists have been waging a terror campaign for half a century. At first, it has largely gone unnoticed. Marine Barracks, PanAm 103, First WTC Bombing, Khobar Towers, African Embassies, USS Cole were nothing more than distant incidents for most Americans. On September 11, 2001 it hit home. If most of Americans of the last generation remember where they were when Kennedy was shot, we all remember where we were when the second plane hit. And we knew: we are at war. We can call it the War on Terror, the War for the Free World, the War with Islamic Fascism, it doesn’t really matter. We all know who the enemy is. It’s Islamic radicals who are guided by the ideology of Islamic supremacy. Just as Nazis were guided by the ideology of Aryan supremacy. The only difference is that Gihadis consider it their religious duty to impose Islam all over the world and many of them yearn to die (and kill) for Allah. They use lines from the Koran such as “kill them [infidels] wherever you find them” or “slay the idolaters wherever you find them” as their guiding principles. I won’t get into lengthy theological explanation whether or not those lines are taken out of context or whether or not they only apply to specific historical events; it doesn’t matter. What matters is that Islamic fundamentalist believe that killing or subjugating infidels is their religious duty and they act accordingly. Some of you may be surprised why a Muslim would be speaking so harshly about his coreligionists. May I remind you, that Islamic radicals murder more Muslims than Christians, Jews, Hindus and everybody else combined. Gihadis may hate you for being infidels. But they really hate us for not following their demented dogma. And our attempts to reform Islam do not earn us much love either.

I would like to address the issue of Islamic symbolism in the proposed design. The shape of the “broken circle” resembles a crescent moon. So does the shape of the tower. Crescent moon is the most recognizable Islamic symbol. When we pray, we face Mecca and Mosques are traditionally built to face Mecca. The case could be made that the proposed design is aligned in North-Easterly direction, which corresponds with Qiblah, a direction to Mecca. Conventional wisdom would dictate that since Mecca is located to the South-East of Somerset, Qiblah cannot possibly have a North-Easterly direction. This assumption would be correct if you’re using a flat map. However, if you take a globe, place pins on locations of Somerset and Mecca, and connect those pins with a string, you’ll see that string at the base of Somerset pin points North-East. This symbolism may not be noticeable to a non-Muslim, and it is also possible, but likely improbable that the designer is ignorant of its significance. The proposed design would be perfect for EgyptAir 990 memorial. But for United 93 memorial, it is simply unacceptable.

On September 11, 2001 Americans came together. Conservatives and Liberals, Democrats and Republicans, Left and Right. We came together… For about two weeks. Then most of us fell back into complacency and political correctness. The very fact that Islamic symbolism is considered to be included in the memorial to the victims of Islamic terrorism proves it better than anything else.

In 2001 Islamofascist terrorists hijacked Flight 93 murdering 40 people on board. There were no Muslim people on that flight. There were Islamofascist terrorists. What possible reason could be there for including anything Islamic or anything even resembling an Islamic symbol into Flight 93 Memorial? Inclusion of Islamic symbols memorializes murderers who brought down the plane and is tantamount to spitting in the faces of victims and their families. United Airlines Flight 93 was hijacked in 2001. Let’s not allow hijacking of Flight 93 Memorial in 2008. We, as Americans, owe it to the heroes of Flight 93!

Khalim Massoud
President
Muslims Against Sharia

http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/2008/07/rally-this-saturday-stop-crescent.html
Comment by Rosemary

Thank you, Bubblehead. Last night I started having with my IE. I could not open my homepage, although I could open other sites. That was weird. I just chalk it up to computer weirdness. Sometimes stuff happens, and we will never know why. I, personally, do not care why, just as long as it gets fixed which it has.
Comment by Rosemary

Dear Khalim, Thank you for commenting. Your comment got stuck in the spammer, and I did not see it until now. I have read your work before, and I understand your struggle. I hope you will understand when I say I am a little skeptical, but I am willing to give you a voice.

Why am I skeptical? Because of the tools that the jihadis use. It is okay to befriend infidels, as long as it is a lie. It is okay to lie.

The God who created this universe does NOT approve of lying. I truly wish we could all come together and figure out once and for all who is here to harm us (especially my Muslim women sisters) and who is here to harm us. They will not come out and tell us.

This is so cowardly. I am a Proud American Christian. I’m not hiding from anyone. You are not either, although you may find it necessary at some later date. I know they have IRGI here, and I know that there are some Hizbullah here too. WHY? How did they get in here? WHY DOES OUR GOV’T NOT PROTECT US? Because they don’t want to offend anyone?

BULL-O-NE! (Bologna) They are offending ME! Ya know? lol. Thank you for your kind words. Those words apply to you as well. You are American too, right? Then be proud!

PS. When it happened, all religions opened their doors to the Muslims so that they would not have to fear. I long for those days.
Comment by Muslims Against Sharia

“hope you will understand when I say I am a little skeptical”

I do

“I know they have IRGI here, and I know that there are some Hizbullah here too.”

Duh!

“WHY DOES OUR GOV’T NOT PROTECT US?”

Pick one.

“They are offending ME!”

Then, you need to speak up!