Pop Quiz (Multiple Personality Disorder Tribute Thread)

June 7, 2003 | Korova Milk Bar

[Korova Milk Bar]

As it turns out, neither of those screen names had a future, Mr. Anderson.

[Tijeras_Slim]

If I FReeped under 5 different identities I'd have to give up eating, sleeping, and what remaining work I accomplish. This is weird.

[jpl]

Add my name to the list of people who doesn't think that TGS should be banned. Frankly, I think you are overreacting just a bit, and that using the posted link to the JDO is a rather flimsy pretext. TGS is no fan of Mordechai Levy and the JDO, and looking back through his older posts will show that to be pretty clear.

I see some openly avowed liberals on this site, not to mention liberals that are fraudulently pretending to be conservatives (I'm not going to mention any names), yet they don't get banned from this site, which is supposed to be strictly for conservatives. I respectfully ask the moderators to think it over.

[Admin Moderator]

Got a good reason for someone to have a cache of screen names signed up months or years ago?

Or a good reason for someone to be pretending to be many people? Not just on this thread, but on others in the past?

[jpl]

No. I wasn't aware that he had done that before.

[Wallaby]

I see much has happened here since I was bumped to this thread by TGS or by one of his alter egos. I was surprised to learn that he was the same individual as the oldtimer CAR. Though I can understand why he would want to change his name to reflect new interests in a new era, I can't excuse his keeping a secret cache of aliases to pretend to be several different people on the same thread. Still, I'll miss his posts and I hope he'll be allowed back before too long.

[Wallaby]

>You know you're a Freepin' addict when ...

... after learning that two familiar screen names belong to the same person, you search the archives to read that person's old postings.

[Admin Moderator]

This thread is very interesting.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/823470/posts

Especially knowing that niman is also Rupert Cadel, Morton Ballard, MortonDBallard, Louis Mason, co-jones, RightWingJailBird were all the same person.

Particularly interesting is how niman accused The Great Satan of being Morton Ballard. And how niman accused The Great Satan of being Clinton's a Rapist- which had not been revealed at that time. See post 265.

It is also interesting how we were alerted to the fact that niman was also Louis Mason and Rupert Cadel. It was reported to us by The Great Satan.

Also interesting, this morning we got a mail from someone who was telling us that she was certain posters Mort, MortonDBallard, and one other I won't name are all the same person. This user congratulated us for banning TGS. The interesting thing is that this user signed up this year, but the MortonDBallard name had been banned last year, before this user ever came to FR. And the name Mort has not had any posts at all since the counters were implemented back in 2000. The user also seems confused as to if she is in Indiana or Michigan, but that is a side issue.

Games people play, you take it or you leave it...

[Admin Moderator]

Dighton, you may enjoy this thread.

Also, when you get to the post just before this one and follow the link and read that thread, make sure to follow the link on post 296 and read the resulting page.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/823470/posts?page=296#296

[jpl]

I read the whole diatribe on that page. It appears that it doesn't actually claim that TGS is the anthrax mailer, but that the anthrax mailer is a lone American scientist (probably a microbiologist). Oh, and he claims that you are also the same person as TGS and CAR. This is the first time I have actually seen a web page set up to specifically counterattack one particular individual here on FR. Strangely, this exact same "Open Letter to Jim Robinson" diatribe appears on the pages

http://www.truthsayer.com/

and

http://mystery-microbes.tripod.com/anopenlettertojimrobinsonfreerepublicandinterestedfreepers

The open letter is signed by "TruthSayer Foundation International", which sounds like a bogus organization to me. A Yahoo search turns up nothing except that page. A WHOIS search on truthsayer.com shows that the domain has been registered to Tucows, Inc. I'll bet that whoever created this page is probably the same guy that got into the pissing contest with him a little while back.

[Wallaby]

That's a pretty creepy site, all right. I notice, however. that it says your screen name is another alias for TGS, and so implies that you, too, are the anthrax killer. Yet, you aren't afraid to post under Badabing Badaboom. Nor was TGS afraid to post as TGS. He wasn't even afraid to reveal that he was posting under several names, as we see here. So I think he saw taking on several aliases as just bending the rules of the forum a bit. He wasn't acting out of fear but solely for his own amusement.

[ZeitgeistSurfer]

For what it's worth, I'd also like to support the unbanning of TGS. Without a doubt he has been one of the most intelligent and provocative posters here. He is in a small group of about 25 posters who collectively form the core intellectual content of FR. I understand the complaints leveled towards him and some his regretable behavior. However, the loss of his fascinating posts, theories and speculations would be keenly felt by me and, I'm sure many other FReepers.

[Admin Moderator]

Ha!

That truthsayer page is a hoot.

http://www.truthsayer.com/

The fun part of that page is the John Quincy Adams writing that supposedly was censored here on Free Republic. Here's the real story.

Back in December, MortonDBallard signed up and posted that Adams piece. We knew that day that it was the same person as Mort Goetz, but at Jim's direction we let it go instead of nuking him (which is what we normally do to returning, banned posters).

Then a month later, was one of the threads I linked to above, and Jim decided enough with all of those personalities, and they were nuked. That is when MortonDBallard's posting of John Quincy Adams' work came down.

Some censorship of John Q. Adams, eh?

Never let it be said that FR censors JQA.

[dighton]

A fascinating saga. Thanks for the ping, AM.

He's got 'em on the list -- he's got 'em on the list;
And they'll none of 'em be missed -- they'll none of 'em be missed.

[Admin Moderator]

While you are here, let me ask you.

Take a look at this post here.

Tell me your impressions of that post.

[dighton]

In isolation, #17 makes no impression on me. As part of a whole, I'd guess it's The Great Satan chattering with himself.

[Wallaby]

>You know you're a Freepin' addict when ...

... after learning that two familiar screen names belong to the same person, you search the archives to read that person's old postings.

When I posted the above, I meant to point to the posting of CAR/TGS on the Freeper addict thread.

[Admin Moderator]

This is the part that I am still not quite able to put together. That post, #17, was that user's first post on Free Republic.

Within a minute, we got an abuse report from TGS telling us it is niman.

It was.

It sure looks to me like TGS was being stalked by this guy.

This post here explains much, I believe. Including how just on the guy's screen name TGS knew it was Niman.

If TGS could give a good explanation as to why he had these multiple screen names laying around from 2001, and why he was trying to play niman's game of making himself look like multiple people (which he knew had gotten niman banned many times), then I would recommend he be restored.

[dighton]

If TGS could give a good explanation as to why he had these multiple screen names laying around from 2001, and why he was trying to play niman's game of making himself look like multiple people (which he knew had gotten niman banned many times), then I would recommend he be restored.

Multiple screen names aside, it seems to me that he was begging for trouble. Case in point: his repeated assertion that the Iraqi decapitation strikes were a fraud ("faux-decapitation"), and that President Bush, fearing a massive anthrax attack, had gone along with or arranged Saddam's safe passage out of Iraq. Awfully Michael Rivero-ish, IMHO.

[general_re]

Admit it - you two are really the same person, just pretending to have a conversation ;)