Joe Stanley Speaks

Wow.  I totally agree.
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The Old Dominion Blog Alliance and Their Tactics of Terror

The Old Dominion Blog Alliance is a loose collection of individuals who blog in order to promote a conservative political agenda. That, in and of itself, would be great if that was all it was.

Unfortunately, this group’s most vocal members are a coven of ill-informed, fulminating, bullies so overwrought with political passion that they have lost all sight of fairness, civility, and discretion. Their detachment from reality has led them so far off the path that they know no bounds, no extent, and no depths to which they will not stoop.

After these gutless invertebrate have spent weeks conspiring to destroy an individual for holding a belief or idea that was not pre-approved by the ODBA they then scurry and cry foul when responded to. The sanctimonious among them quote the Old Testament with forked tongues and their chief pettifogger steps away from busting rocks to promise frivolous lawsuits.

The less vocal members of this organization sit on their hands and shake their heads. “It’s not us! We didn’t say anything!” It somehow fails to dawn on them that they have lent this organization credence by lending it their names. Abraham Lincoln once said, “To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men."

These silent sheep are being used as virtual shields to protect the lowest of the ODBA.

In the early summer of 2007, I volunteered my services to Senator Roscoe Reynolds. I believe Senator Reynolds is a strong advocate for Southwest Virginia and all working Virginians. The extent of my volunteer services was to build a pro-Reynolds site. Quite frankly, Mr. Evans poor showing in this race leaves Senator Reynolds virtually unopposed. He has no need to even mention Evans’ name, much less talk about his character or lack thereof.

Unfortunately, Evans’ campaign manager and cowardly ODBA member Alton Foley spoon fed his fellow bloggers some reality-altering kool-aid. It is their fantasy that if they can bloody Reynolds on the net then they’ll beat him at the ballot box. Their first attack on Senator Reynolds was for “hiring” me and a rehash of their outrageous attacks upon me from the 2006 cycle.

What they don’t understand is that attacking the staff, much less a volunteer doesn’t push votes. That is process–inside baseball–and no one cares. When their attacks failed to take root they became harsher, continuing their attacks upon me and my business. They were very persistent and never let the facts get in their way.

Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. And Here.

Don't forget this one where Kat Wilton advises, "Politics is a hard-hitting and frequently rough arena for people to play in, and if you can't take the heat, get the bloody hell out of the kitchen!" I suppose that is a one way street.

It was apparent that the attacks were coordinated and getting more and more personal. When the ODBA cannot win by promoting their ideas, they try and bully everyone else out of the room. If they scare off the staff and volunteers, in their mind, what will Reynolds do? He’ll win. He will win either way because he is the best man in this race and one of the best in the Virginia Senate.

At some point, I was angered at being attacked for no reason and more so by having my business and livelihood targeted. I decided to speculate the domain www.olddominionblogalliance.com. At that point I was still opposed to domain names of the individuals involved.

At no point did I ask anyone for their advice or consent on the path I was taking. What I do in my time is my business and my business alone.

I started to point it to a prominent Democratic site, but I don’t know of anyone who wants to be associated with these hate mongers and flat-earthers. I considered pointing the domain to a jihadist web site to draw a comparison on the extremism present in both groups. While I think the ODBA and their ilk eat away at the very core of what we are as a nation, I don’t think the ODBA is anti-American so decided to look elsewhere. One group stood out as equally loathsome and cowardly.

NAMBLA is an organization that advocates a set of beliefs that turn my stomach. Through misinformation, prevarication, and a false sense of earnestness, they pursue a predatory agenda that brings direct harm to countless innocent individuals. Their primary defense is the first amendment.

It is my opinion that the ODBA conducts itself in much the same way. While the end product is far less repugnant than pedophilia, no fewer individuals are hurt by the organization. The main distinction I can make between the two organizations is that NAMBLA believes in the first amendment, and ODBA only believes in their right to free speech.

I said as much to Jim Riley in an email when I was first asked about the domain.

This was not a joke, a prank, or any other kind of political horseplay. I meant the comparison. In short order, the ODBA proved my point once again. They were shocked that someone would fire back. I had sullied their “good name.” They quoted scripture, made fat jokes, threatened me and promised lawsuits. None of this bothers me as I would expect no less from these miscreants.

They have fabricated my right to political free-speech into a scandal on their blogs. They even issued a laughable press release on a Saturday morning.

They have lied about and attacked my business associates, social acquaintances, and anyone even remotely connected with me. When that didn’t get them anywhere these jackals then attacked my deceased mother, and are now going after my minor-aged daughter. One member, a Portsmouth, Virginia police officer who has a daycare center operated out of his home, published my home address and phone number to the web while his cohorts made unspeakable accusations regarding my fitness as a parent.

The genesis of all this hysteria was a free, positive web site for Sen. Reynolds.

The ODBA is out of control. They need to be stopped.

- Joe Stanley

Comments

One problem, Joe. You registered the ODBA domain name before anyone started coming after you. The only mention of you before you registered it was that Roscoe must be getting desperate in order to hire a consultant of your caliber, hardly an insult.

First fat joke was made by Joe himself.

http://virginiavirtucon.wordpress.com/2007/08/23/joe-stanley-admits-role-in-scandal/#comments

3. Joe Stanley - August 23, 2007
That picture really does make me look fat.

4. Riley, Not O'Reilly - August 23, 2007
Sorry, Joe. That’s the only one I had.

5. Joe Stanley - August 23, 2007
That was a joke, I am fat.

6. Riley, Not O'Reilly - August 23, 2007
Ah, I get it. I suppose we don’t have the same sense of humor. I don’t find pedophilia funny, either.

[Va Blogger]

Do you really expect anyone to believe that you were a happenstance, innocent victim? If you're going to go to such great lengths to try and clear the air, at least own up to your end of the ordeal.

Keep digging that hole, Joe.

Two words --

Summary judgment.

This must be Joe and Ben's legal defense strategy -- "this was a political statement, not defamation..."

[James Young]

The relevant portion is here: "While the end product is far less repugnant than pedophilia, no fewer individuals are hurt by the organization."

You. Sanctimonious. Boob.

I wonder how Roscoe Reynolds, Eric Ferguson and Chap Peterson are going to respond to reporters once they starting getting called for comment (if they haven't been called already.)

[Bubby]

Contrast this post from Riley at Va Virtucon:

...Joey Stanley and his Yellow-Bellied Whiney Puppies Strategy Group — best known for Sen. Thinskin Gump’s (D-WashPo) controversial (some in the media have even said anti-Semitic) attack on Harris Miller during last year’s Democrat primary.

... we now see that Little Joey has trotted out Ben Tribbett who is apparently still blogging at the deceased “Not Larry Saboto” website despite the fact that his “#1 source of … income since 2005 is poker in Atlantic City or Las Vegas“.

With this comment from Jay Hughs at Va Virtucon:

I can’t speak to other blogs because I have no input in their management/decision making processes. But I can speak to Virginia Virtucon because I do have input into that blog’s management/decision making processes. At no time has Virtucon ever employed any of the tactics that you describe, i.e. slanderous, pornographic, false, misleading, etc. etc. etc. etc.

Jay, are you a liar, or are you just "misinformed"?

Can you people, and by you people I mean the ODBA, do ANYTHING other than threaten folks.

I think it was quite clear that Joe stands on his own on this.

If only any of you were willing to stand on your own.

Bubby, name what is slanderous, pornographic, false, misleading about any of that?

Is there anything remotely defensible about what Joe Stanley did? Even Michael Vick apologized.

Wow, Joe! You certainly have awakened the ire of the "WAGUs" (Weirdos And Geeks United). Funny how they say the most slanerous things about others but just can't take it themselves.

Don't sweat it. Most of them probaly never go outside.

I am surprised that anyone that Joe (who is in the right) has linked to regarding their baseless and pathetic attacks is still on NLS's blogroll. They should be taken off immediately.

[Doug]

Conflating most things is pretty cheap and gross. But both sides do it. Constantly. And if very disgusting ways.

[Doug]

"in" not "if"

And don't pick on Riley: he's busy fighting those men's bathroom sex soliciting charges.

[Bubby]

The member blogs of ODBA use their individual blogs to replicate misleading, false, pornographic, slanderous, and fraudulent information across the Commonwealth in an attempt to make it seem widely accepted, and legitimate. As a matter of course ODBA bloggers censor, delete, and falsify comments posted to their blogs that disagree, or provide information refuting their posts. While ODBA bloggers run their own public blogs like some American wing of the Iron Guard, they shamelessly take full advantage of other open, free speech Commonwealth blogs to further pimp their discredited fantasies and attack their “enemies” — enjoying the freedom they are unwilling to offer others. The Harris Miller cartoon conspiracy to wit.

[Bubby]

THE BIRTH OF ODBA -

Ward Smythe said...
Why am I on this [ODBA] list?

SWAC Girl said...
In the words of President George W. Bush, "You're either with us or against us."

http://swacgirl.blogspot.com/2006/12/in-defense-of-general-grievous-dog.html

ODBA stands for Odious, Defamatory, Blgoted Assholes, right?

Any member of the press carrying water for the ODBA, including Mastio will be exposed for the hack he/she is.

How come you took The Daily Whackjob off your blogroll? Did I miss something?

We should remember that no one reads ODBA blogs except ODBA members and very few other folks.

They should not be given a platform on a blog of this magnitude.

I suggest we let the ODBA manufactured echo chamber keep rolling on ODBA. Hardly anyone pays attention to what is written there.

Alton Foley, Jeff Evans' campaign manager, is the one who once wrote on his blog that he had "no use for the Koran except to piss on it."

Many of the ODBA members have played dirty, including trying to get members of their own party fired from their jobs.

[Bubba]

Political geeks are one thing.

Computer geeks are another.

Put them together in a little fight and guess what. It's like a fight between geeks at a Star Trek convention and no one cares. Next.

[Bubby]

Wrong Bubba, conspiring to harm, or deprive a man of his livelihood - that's an actionable offense. I'm sure that Joe is collecting up all the evidence.