Relax, folks!

This is why I like this site...

You can totally see the different levels of paranoia.

Paranoia Scale

Low
Thomas Crowne
William
ArcAngel
HENRY X
K_OS
thehippiedude
Proud American
e-nonymous
Ycon
Illmatic67
High

Joe your paranoia scale is not correct

I was in on the joke, I was (-RKBA-)

Illumatic knew about it.

It went way too far.

Sorry TC ... Still a traitor for helping though!

So ... Guess that make's me highest on the paranoia scale ... WOOHOO!!! I'm the craziest mofo out of the bunch! That a good thing?

my scale is probably way off... I have no clue who was in on it and who wasn't. (lol, I keep forgetting your a mod Ycon, then I see the stars next to your name, quite a few of 'em there)

But my point is that you can see the different levels that make up the conspiracy nut. Some are cool and level headed, and some are irratic and vulgar. The irratic ones seem to think that somone is out to get them and are always defending their position, no matter the cost. The cool headed ones persue facts, and dig out information. I'd say that most of our members are in the cool headed territory. *cough* suck up! *cough*

O.K. even if i don't agree with an april fools joke that was initiated on 31st march. You got me!!
I claim to be the most paranoid because i deleted ALL my previous posts at this site!!

BUT reading through the HS links it looks like i have good reason to be paranoid.
X.

Glad to see people are over it already...
There IS a sense of humour amongst active posters!

Not so fast!! I made a list of all the people who called me names, and I'm coming after each and every one of you!!

William, you're first, you big, bald-headed, knuckle draggin', nose pickin', subway ridin' yank! Loser buys beer, and I demand a micro-brewery!

If you turn out to whip me, then winner buys beer and I still demand a microbrewery.
No matter, I want good beer!!

you will get Nattie Light and like it... I can't believe I fell for this!!

It was a well executed plan.

but you've obviously been in contact with these folks and they have at least some interest in the site or we would not have seen and heard all of this stuff, but we're getting it full force outta the box.

If it is truly a big April Fools joke... COOL!! GOOD ONE!!

But if its not, there are a lot of us here who have a lot to lose if some DC wanker gets his joint in a twist due to a comment made by one of us as we vent our anger or disgust for a government that we don't always agree with. I hope that you can understand that and can accept the outrage and surprise this bit of spying by the nice folks at HLS.

All of you "freinds of dubbya" are happy as hell right now but think back to our discussions when Clinton was in office; there were more than a few of you prepared to pull the trigger yourselves and many had stated it with regularity. So now the tables are turned and dubbya got his daddies spy-buddies sticking there noses into our clubhouse and Spanky ain't happy 'bout it!!

This place has become "mecca" for those of us who relish our freedom to speak openly on issues that, if discussed over the office watercooler at work or in the halls of higher learning, may cause judgemental attitudes directed back at us in very nasty or even hostile & possibly violent ways.

Just leave us to say it feels as if our privacy has been violated in a way that may make this a less open environment for discussions, political or otherwise.

I truly hope for the sake of the ATS board that this was a joke but I'm inclined to think otherwise. Just call it the conspiricy nut aspect that refuses to yield to niether reason nor common sense.

Well executed doesn't even begin to describe it. I was completely convinced. You guys did a good job, but beware. I may wanna pull one on you mods next year.

Did anyone come up with a plan to find out if it was real or not??
I wasn't sure so that is why I asked "Joseph" for an email address in case we needed to contact him if the forum was down.
The reason being, that if he were real then he would have no problem giving an address, especially if he was here to snoop.
I figured if an email address was given, I could easily trace it and find out if it was Gov. or not. Since I never got a reply, I figured it must have been false, so I went to bed... Given this was a little past midnight... Paid for that the next day.
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Be Cool
K_OS

MountainStar... Haven't we been over this... you have to use the reverse EMP when on earth...lol

Oh yeah that's right Stupid me. Thanks K_OS
I'll do a flyby PA. Who took the "Do not remove, under penalty of law" off my mattress? It was a joke right????