I find it interesting that she is from Washington State. That’s where Burch’s close buddy Andy Stephenson came from. Also, strangely enough, I found a post from Burch dated August 2nd, 2006 at the Democratic Warrior. Burch joined that forum in August 2006. He mentioned the “Violet Blue” in one of his very first posts.

Here’s my theory. As soon as any of us become bloggers with any degree of success, we enter the realm of vision of shadowy, fascist elements. I believe that a plan was put in place to steal and co-opt the real Violet Blue’s identity. I noiced how the first video claimed to be made by “Violet Blue” did not even involve herself. The astroturfers have no qualms when it comes to lying. It would be interesting to find out exactly when No Name Jame first used Violet’s name.

Anyway, I wish I was on high speed internet, because then I would be able to really drop the hammer down fast on this rightwinger posing as a progressive. Because I am good at trollbusting, I have been banished from BradBlog, Democratic Underground, and the Randi Rhodes Message Board. Those three domains have Ben Burch in common.

Please scroll through the below link to see how Burch was actually exposed many years ago as being an insidious, internet presence. Because of the left gatekeepers, however, such truths get buried or become very difficult to learn about. Then ask yourselves why on earth Brad Friedman, Mike Malloy, Randi Rhodes, and many others are affiliated with this person. Ask yourselves why true peaceniks and feminists are not wanted on the major political forums. Can you smell the fascism? Have you figured out what astroturfing is yet?

This one link I just found reveals a pattern of abuse in which Violet has simply been Ben’s most recent victim. Is Ben Burch modern day cointelpro? I have made a copy of this just in case it disappears. I advise all good people to join forces. We need to watch each others’ backs. We must demand peace, love, and understanding. The dark side can try to make people like ourselves out to be concern trolls, whiners, and drama queens, but the truth is the truth.

zoominfo.com cached page on Ben Burch

Ms. Blue, take it from someone who’s been there. Don’t be afraid to let the reader decide. The truth is on your side, and sincere people will figure this out.

Nobody – I mean nobody – pulls the wool over the eyes of a Gambini

Thanks for publishing my last post. I had a few extra thoughts and am hopeful I can add them now. I am still reading through some of the letters on this blogpost, including your newer ones. You are to be commended for coming forward. And I do think it is in your best interest to have done this. Now that so many are aware of your situation, I believe it is less likely that anyone will be able to do you any harm.

First to clarify. FrankSolich is a poster at the Free Republic. I believe one of his fellow posters named PJ Comix has a website called FUnnyDUmmies, which is devoted to attacking a major forum called Democratic Underground.

I started blogging in 2005 at HuffingtonPost. You wouldn’t believe the coordinated attacks coming out against Cindy Sheehan. These people do not like outspoken women nor peaceniks. Thus, it is no surprise that a hoax attack on Cindy took place on the Randi Rhodes Message Board, a Ben Burch affiliated website.

Ben also used to be a moderator at the Democratic Underground. He was ultimately banned, and there was some type of brouhaha between DU and Burch’s Democratic Warrior when he was on about something to do with DU and whether there was some kind of lapse in their registration, thus putting some kind of accusation forward against DU for accepting money they legally had no right to accept. {sorry for the run-on sentence.}

I am unsure what was up with that. I think the posts Burch and/or some other moderator made at DW were deleted. I think the word was that Skinner {David Allen} of DU got his attorneys into action. Personally, I don’t buy that drama for one moment and believe it could have been manufactured as an insidious attempt to falsely distance DU from Burch on the surface.

Ok, now that we have that out of the way, here is how I personally feel about your story. My background is Sociology for what it’s worth. We have this high-profile, influential person Ben Burch with mucho influence on alleged progressive boards. He is pro the sex-industry. That means he is pro-prostitution. Is porn not prostitution? The men and women are having sex for money. Maybe this is a question of semantics.

On the other side is the lovely Violet Blue {take that Mr. Burch, have you no shame?}. I had never heard of yourself Violet. A quick run through your resume and whatnot shows that you are a modern day Dr. Ruth. Perhaps if you were twenty years older, shorter, and had that english teacher look and approach of Dr. Ruth, perhaps you wouldn’t have been such an easy target for the mysoginists.

Burch promoting prostitution while demeaning a well-published sex therapist like yourself shows that he was playing both sides of the fence. That is what agent provocateurs do!

So why promote prostitution yet defame a sex therapist?

The porn actors are presenting women as objects for male desires. I am sure there is some erotica out there that doesn’t demean women, yet I bet those are rare compared to the mysoginist type porn videos.

Patriarchy and latent homosexuality have been shown to have an influence with the roots of fascism. Please, people, I am not attacking the lesbian/homosexual community. I think in my state of Massachusetts, they can now marry. We are the only state that voted for McGovern over Nixon. Ted Kennedy was against this illegal Iraq War from day one.

My point?

I read once how Adolph Hitler and his SS were latent homosexuals. To paraphrase from memory, such people have a hatred of women. Thankfully, nowadays the lesbian/gay community is able to be more comfortable publically in their own skin and are generally accepted as HUMAN BEINGS WITH NOTHING WRONG ABOUT THEM by the vast majority of people.

On the one hand we have Violet Blue, an accomplished sex therapist advocating for healthy sex for all, just as Dr. Ruth used to do. On the other hand, we have someone who appears to be a fascist pretending to be a progressive putting down people like Violet and Ruth Westheimer, while supporting an industry which seems to create an unhealthy atmosphere for both men and women.

From my Sociology I learned the following: Sex is biological. Gender is socially produced. There are as many sexes as there are people!

{Good people, feel free to engine search on Ben, Andy Stephenson, Bev Harris, Solich, and many more. These guys can be tied into throwing the electoral integrity movement into disarray with a bizarre attack script against Bev Harris. There is so much more to this Ben Burch story than meets the eye. It is an immense rabbit hole I have been trying to figure out for a year. One more point, I don’t want to throw this thread off or dominate it. But Burch was tight with a guy named Andy Stephenson who used to work for Bev Harris, the most famous of the election integrity activists. Andy Stephenson was in contact with someone named Mike Vreeland, a complete disinfo character generated for of all things, the 9/11 truth discussions. One last point. One of the worst attacks on Bev Harris was from the Goddess of radio herself, Randi Rhodes. From there, she took a lot of heat from Keith Olbermann. I guess Keith can’t be blamed considering the immense amount of disinfo that was generated against Bev. And that begs the question. If there was all this convolution produced to make the electoral integrity movement impossible to figure out, is that not circumstantial evidence that elections had indeed been stolen in 2000 and 2004? Why all the noise? So hopefully you can see by now Ms. Blue, that Ben Burch is no ordinary, anonymous bloke. He is and continues to be a major player with alleged progressive domains.}

Nobody – I mean nobody – pulls the wool over the eyes of a Gambini

I am sorry you have been victimized. The same thing happened to me, albeit under completely different circumstances. I am saying this goes beyond the individual named David Benjamin Burch. He is merely a part, albeit it an influential one, of a big network of insidious troublemakers spewing divide and conquer all over the blogosphere.

This may be the only thing we have in common, but perhaps it may make you feel better to know that he has not been going after you and others for personal reasons. He is working out of some black-op, psychological manual, imho.

The mysoginy is part of the program. You just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Again, David Benjamin Burch appears to be part and parcel of a modern day, cointelpro-like operation to drive true progressives off of internet forums. With your situation, he found a victim to use to promote his fascist, sexist tendencies.

He is closely associated with Randi Rhodes. Rightwingers are all over the place portraying themselves as humanists, while all the time they have been working to undermine our freedoms of speech and association.

On a thread recently at the rigged Randi Rhodes Message Board, one poster, a radical feminist, opined that it was not in the interests of Democrats to make sexual comments about Sarah Palin.

Now check this out. That poster was then assailed with complaints to stop whining. Alleged female posters were in agreement. One of them proceeded to refer to Ms. Palin as being a “dripping vagina” and a “crotchfruit.” We are talking about Patriarchy 101 coming out of what is supposed to be a liberal board.

Don’t take me wrong. I do not want to see McCain elected. However, it is beyond ridiculous that any progressive females would ever refer to another female in those terms, at least on an alleged progressive, political board. Hippies and liberals DO NOT say those kinds of things.

Last year, the RRMB had a thread portraying Cindy Sheehan as being a whore who had done an interview with Larry Flynt. I looked into it, and the only link that was showing up was to that exact thread.

Hmmm. A hoax was started about Cindy Sheehan at the RRMB around the same time that places like FrankSolich were posting about Ms. Sheehan being a media whore. These people are pro-war. They are against peace, love, and understanding flourishing. They infiltrate and establish liberal boards in order to tarnish progressive values. They especially disdain peaceniks and feminists.

This year, after Randi Rhodes got fired from AAR for calling Hillary Clinton a corporate whore, the complete RRMB with four or so years of history, was completely erased. One can try the wayback machine but will be stymied trying to find that thread or many others.

I believe that Ben Burch is modern day cointelpro, involved in promoting controlled opposition.

If one goes to Randi’s about us page, they will see that her executive producer describes himself as being a progressive moderate. What?

Ok, I’m a conservative anarchist. WTF????

I believe you just had bad luck running into a complex network of fakes. It was not personal against you. They are into divide and conquer, and as written above, they do not like outspoken women nor dialogue and research that contains depth and good sources.

We need to find a way to fight back against these agent provocateurs ruining the internet. I could explain more, but simply wanted to get this basic message across to folks who may be wondering wtf is really going on here.

I don’t believe you are in any real danger. These people huff and puff and bully. When folks like us fight back, then they go the cybersmear route. They are arrogant and well-connected and try to send messages to everyone through individual victims like ourselves who have had the gall to say hey, cut that out.

Peace.

Anyone who has any information on this character or on any others distorting the internet, please feel free to comment at my humble forum. I am not using my regular username for this post, because I’d rather my enemies have to work a bit harder to find this post. Although with all the attacks on myself, it probably won’t make a difference anyway.

I believe in freedom of speech and association. I believe in peace and democracy.

The people united will never be defeated.

Being pursued by Fat Che is much like being chased by a great big huge blubbery whale trying to run on dry land.

http://www.adultdvdtalk.com/reviews/read_review.dlt/sku=19077/nina-hartleys-guide-to-great-sex-during-pregnancy.htm

*big transatlantic hugs*

@GDallimore: Yep, I would agree with the white knight fancy that he seems to harbour. Bet he comes crashing down to earth and switches sides should they not want to repay him with “favours”.

The language attributed to you is so obviously fake that any of your readers or listeners would instantly spot it as false.

Any support I can give seems rather small and far away, but it is here anyway.

PS:

Doesn’t the alfred quote sound like an older one? Seems like Reese didn’t die he went to work for batman.

It can’t be bargained with, it can’t be reasoned with.
It doesn’t feel pity or remorse or fear and it absolutely does not stop ever…….. (think I got that right)

We’re all rooting for you – stay safe, and you can hopefully have a good laugh when this guy finally manages to land himself in some real legal trouble.

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:23 PM, RE/Search Publications wrote:

From: benburch@pobox.com
Subject: My lawyer says I can talk about this, so I am going to.
Date: July 21, 2008 8:22:58 PM PDT
On Friday afternoon I was served with a Domestic Violence order of protection by the author Violet Blue.

Seriously.

She alleges that the note I sent her (previously seen here) and the edits I made to Wikipedia constitute a grave threat to her life and safety, and asks the court to make me give up all my firearms, to stay 500 feet away from her, and to not post about her OR her boyfriend Jonathan Moore on Wikipedia or Boing Boing or anywhere else ever again!

She also alleges that what I said about her was untrue, and that’s just not the case; I have only said true things about her in any of these places.

She also alleges that every single editor who has criticized her on Wikipedia was me!

Now, I’ve not been to SF in 9 years, don’t plan to be in SF, have no firearms, never lied about her, and moreover never threatened her life or safety in any way.

What I did threaten was the fiction she wishes to promote about herself online that she was somehow wronged by Ada (the adult film actress formerly named Violet Blue) and the fiction that her name from birth was Violet Blue.

Well, I have a background check that says she was named Wendi Sullivan Blue, and a person who used to know her who says that her passport said just “Wendi Sullivan”.

In the case abstract I have read about her case against Ada, it appears to my unschooled mind that she means to have the court believe that her name has always been “Violet Blue” and so I can fully understand why she would want to suppress that true information!

This is the same Violet Blue who recently had the temerity to take the blog Boing Boing to the woodshed for having decided that she was objectionable enough to drop all of their references about her, the same Violet Blue who claims to be in favor of freedom of speech and to be for unrestricted (open source) information, but who shows what she is really made of by trying to erase the entire life and career of Ada while extracting monetary damages from her and also by trying to silence me by branding me some sort of violent stalker.

Now, I am sure that she thought I would just fold and accept a restraining order, but I have a really great lawyer who is going to take this case on unless they agree to drop it.

He says he absolutely can and will win this case in trial, having never lost a case in a California court, and this being so obviously an attempt to suppress free speech by a public figure covered by the NYT vs. Sullivan precedent. He’s really HAPPY to be able to take on a case like this.

So, that’s the long and the short of it.

I have scanned the entire document that was served to me; It is 140 MB in size, and if anybody wants it, let me know.

Nobody ever said this was going to be a smooth ride, so fasten your seat belts, and we’ll get the refreshment cart out as soon as the air calms a bit.

-Ben

Ever since I began reading here about you and your friends’ serious problems with cyberstalking, I’ve been envisioning some kind of business dealing in obtaining online TRO’s, and, where those failed, other legal tactics to confront, thwart, and expose these stalkers. Could be a very successful start-up. (www.getoutofmyspace.com anyone?)

Violet Blue, you hold an ocean of courage to put yourself out there like you do in the first place. Please stay strong, safe, and close to your friends, and let us readers know if there’s anything we can do to help.

I agree with Kat’s statements in post #44, Violet. We need you. We need a strong, eloquent spokesperson who can help us push back this tide of puritanical bullshit that we, as a country, are awash in.

I don’t know what else to say other than that I am furious. I almost wish it were possible to take Burch behind the woodshed and teach him a lesson, but that would only make some people feel sorry for the loser.

here’s his original “hahahah” post, screencapped: http://tinynibbles.fotki.com/fun/picture7.html

and everything else you said — I agree. this post by Postmodern Sex Geek sums up your point quite well:
http://postmodernsexgeek.blogspot.com/2008/08/violence-against-women-it-all-in-your.html

One more thing, just so you know that some people understand that your ‘violent fantasies’ as mentioned on the Gawker aren’t necessarily so. Ironic that your next post was about Larry Flint, shot for his beliefs. And was Eric Rudolf fictional? There are definitely domestic terrorists with anti-sex agendas in this country!

I sincerely hope that no batshit crazy idiot with a violent agenda saw your personal info when it was posted. Burch can protest all he wants about how he can’t stalk you from across the country, but posting your personal info in a public place is tantamount to a passive-aggressive attempt to help someone find you and attack you.

The Gawker person may think you’re not famous enough to merit this, but I doubt anyone would’ve thought Jodi Foster was famous enough to merit an attempted presidential assassination before it happened. Crazy doesn’t follow logic!

Keep posting, honey. Now I’m checking for new posts to make sure you’re still safe <3