This morning was interesting. For the first time, it has been brought to my attention (by JohnnyCanuck) that somebody has plagiarized my work. The
plagiarism in question is here:
www.suite101.com...
What the person identified as “Ron Lombard” plagiarized is here:
www.ahealedplanet.net...
The plagiarism is easy to see and easy to prove. The draft of that plagiarized essay was avidly discussed by the JFK Assassination community, as well
as the Apollo Moon Hoax community, in the spring and summer of 2001. In August 2001, Ralph McGehee was afraid to leave his house because of FBI
harassment, and I posted this to my site:
www.ahealedplanet.net...
which he said helped take the heat off of him.
In August 2001, I also hung out with Brian O’Leary in the California governor’s office,
www.ahealedplanet.net...
to talk about free energy. My co-discovery, with Jay Windley, of the footage of Armstrong’s Leap,
www.ahealedplanet.net...
led to me hanging out with Brian that summer. I suppose this instance of my work being plagiarized is interesting because recently I had to deal with
somebody’s suspicion that my work was not my own. As my editor recently told me, my work is original and unique, and I agree that I have not seen
anything quite like my work, which is partly why I did it.
The plagiarism was published in October 2001, so the timing makes sense, as there was a lot of interest in that essay not long before then, and that
essay continues to be one of the most popular on my site (my American Empire essay is my site’s most popular, followed closely by the cover-up and
medical racket essays, with my energy writings, alas, being far less popular).
I do not look for text strings from my work on the Internet. There is probably more of that happening than I am aware of, and maybe a lot more, since
this is the first time I have seen somebody do it. A recent example of what could be considered plagiarism is this:
civillibertarian.blogspot.com...
But the author links to my site (which is how I discovered it). But you will see where he intersperses my words with his. Paraphrasing authors is no
crime, but that author was treading in gray territory. As is evident from my home page, I encourage people to reproduce my work, but I also ask them
for proper attribution and a link to where they took it from.
Life is too short to try to hunt down “Ron Lombard” and protest his plagiarism. What can be troubling is that people might suspect that I
plagiarized “Ron.” It would be pretty stupid of me to author a site containing over 1,600 footnotes, and contact people like Howard Zinn
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and Ralph McGehee to ask for permission to publish quotes from their work, and then plagiarize an inconsequential article on Mick Cohen. Ah, it is
just one of the risks of being published on the Internet. My former partner Dennis has been libeled hundreds of times, including by scientists.
www.ahealedplanet.net...
and the only time I have seen him fight back was after about the 1000th instance of libel from Eric Krieg (AKA, Mr. Skeptic).
www.ahealedplanet.net...
I doubt that I would have been goaded into suing him, but Krieg’s attacks on me have been far milder than those he has visited on Dennis over the
years. My point is that there are far too many important things to do than redress grievances regarding those who lie about you and steal from you.
That Mick Cohen article is the first time I have seen outright plagiarism of my work. Thanks, Johnny!
Wade
[edit on 14-4-2007 by wadefrazier3]
[edit on 14-4-2007 by wadefrazier3]