It’s Flashback Friday. Every Friday we bring back a golden oldie article from yesteryear. A chance for you to re-read it and see if it is still relevant today!
I write about all manner of subjects ranging from how evil the state of Israel is to be slowly killing the Palestinians in Gazza, through the global conspiracy and pretence about climate change, and down to what’s on the telly or the radio. Certain aspects of certain more piratical radio operations I know a lot about as I was actually there! (I also happen to be damn good at knowing how to target radio programming and advertising and can be hired for a very tiny weeny fee. No takers? Can’t think why!)
Bizarrely, you would think that by now I’d have been ‘taken out’ by the IDF or the UN, the CIA, MI6 or Al Gore or even the owners of the million-pound making bland radio station networks I can’t stand and moan about. Nope, the only campaigns of hate that I have suffered are from the obsessive fans of a radio station that used to be famous, Radio Caroline.
I’ve written about these obscure folk before, most recently in the article which details how and why the ‘religion’ of the radio station has a tiny band of old fellas that think of Radio Caroline as being some kind of deity they must protect. As I explained, they are the sad by-product of an era when it was necessary to turn Radio Caroline into a slight cult status in order to save money. Unfortunately there are a few who even to this day remain irrationally obsessive as a result of believing what they were originally told to make them devotees.
True to form after I wrote that particular article, the obsession took an expected and predictable leap forward with the reactivation of blogs designed to attack me for daring to speak of the truth about Radio Caroline. One of the blogs uses the same name – Anorak Nation – as a place where I will discuss all sorts of trivial things about radio, media, gadgets, gizmos, and anything really, alongside other like-minded ‘anoraks’. The name Anorak Nation was picked by the blogger as he thought it would upset or intimidate me, and that is his purpose. He states quite openly that he is there to defend an imagined honour of Radio Caroline. The obsessive way he goes about this is exactly as I described in my previous article. He will blog angrily and obscurely about me or what I’ve written. He will use very threatening terms and try to make fun of me or the things I’ve written.
Despite not having been there at the time and only being a member of the congregation, he is sure that the things I’ve said about Radio Caroline and my knowledge of the inner workings are completely wrong. They don’t fit in with his obsession and obscure need to believe that things were in some way different to the experiences I was actually part of during the 70s and then 80s and early 90s.
Hence, I am public enemy number one for this poor fella, and so he screams out his bile usually referring to me as a fat baldy man or changing my name to ‘Scotland’. He does this anonymously rather than using an identity from which to lob his word bombs. Of course, this isn’t the first blog doing this. A near identical blog was started about me some many years back, with the guy calling it Anorak State and Anorak Haven, and also being obsessed with calling me ‘Scotland’ and super-obsessed with publishing what he thought was my real name. I can’t bask in the glory of being the only person he designed blogs to attempt to antagonise. He also did a very nasty blog about his former work colleague / business partner from a pirate radio ship they’d been involved in.
So, like I say, being blogged about is something I’ve become used to and it doesn’t really bother me until they, as the always do, make the personal threats that compromise my security or endanger my family.
About a year ago I accidentally managed to gain access to a private forum and even watched a collective of obsessives discussing me (and, to be fair, others they don’t like too). Very nasty they are sometimes. And of course, very aware of the work of the anonymous blogger they are as he walked amongst them like a hero. It was interesting watching them excitedly laugh and poke fun as they felt that points were being scored against me or the others they’d deemed as targets to terrorise. They felt safe and secure and that their words would never be seen by me, which prompted them to be quite shockingly brutal and cruel. The extra shock of this of course being that these ‘secret’ forums were mainly inhabited by those of a somewhat actively Christian belief. Certainly they were living up to Christianity’s evil historic image of wanting to find people to accuse of crimes so that they could torture them to death. None of the loving awareness that modern day Christians are supposed to believe in, I can tell you.
I teased them at one stage by revealing in public the gist of what was being said in secret. Oh how they panicked. I still watch them today, although they believe I can’t and their language and determination has not moderated since the first time I revealed my ability.
But, as for the public blogging, I try to put myself into their mind and try to work out what they think they will achieve. Are they hopefully that when it next comes time for me to write about Radio Caroline I will in some way change my story and position in order to satisfy their need to hear only one mainly re-written prettied-up version of events, or that I will become too terrified to talk in public on the matter? Do they think they can intimidate me into running scared and hiding?
Whatever it is they believe they can achieve, I suspect the only thing they will truly succeed in is getting more and more angry and their health problems will escalate out of control. Maybe they’ll end up crossing a line and I’ll be forced to involve the police and my highly expensive lawyers, but let’s hope not.
Debate and discussion are what I’m about on this medium, and I’ll gladly take time to talk through my position with anybody who wishes to properly challenge it on life, the universe or anything. I certainly won’t be intimidated by the fodder of the Radio Caroline cult. Everything I’ve written, whether it’s about the non-event that is Radio Caroline, or the major event that is the Climate Change scam, I believe in. So, I stand by all, and why shouldn’t I?
That being the case, what is the sad old blogger going to actually achieve? Nothing. It looks like we have a stalemate. Maybe that’s why he spends more of his effort taking the piss out of the ordinary radio anoraks that the top table in the secret forum don’t like. Shame.
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