Friday, October 05, 2007

Jesse Harris is a Liar and a thief (Updated)

Below is another accusation from liar and thief blogger Jessie Harris.

What amazes me again is that he has again admitted "remember that I snagged a copy" downloading my email list from a proto website I was trying to get going to better handle my free newsletter distribution.

Additionally other parties downloaded this list and I have their IP addresses and time stamp when this happened.

It was in fact Jessie Harris that posted to the Utah Blogosphere about the list and where to find it.

Jessie’s big revelation that I’m involved with the Voucher War Blogsite is no news at all.

In fact if Jessie had been reading The Political Spyglass like my other subscribers, I indicated that I created the site some time ago to focus on the voucher battle, so the spyglass can continue posting about other events.

There are several Pseudonym authors on the site, just like there are many bloggers here in Utah that use pseudonym names like Utah Conservative, Part of the Plan, Voice of Utah, annonoymous on Utah Amicas, the list goes on and on. I'm sure these people do not what their identies exposed for many reasons.

Mr. Harris has provided a link to another sockpuppet website called "against utah vouchers" that claims they have some evidence to support Jessie’s claim.

Here is the exact quote “A friend of mine far more sopisticated at the technology end of the Internet found that Utahns for Public School (singular) - host of the offensive, deceptive e-mail -redirects to a site called www.thespyglass.us/.”

Well whoever your friend is (probably Harris) is an idiot. No email was sent by http://www.thespyglass.us/ The site is parked and has been inactive for weeks.

Anymore Lies?

Here is what Jessie Harris posted today

Was Mark Towner Behind the Voucher News E-mail?
That depends on who you talk to. It seems that a fair number of Utah bloggers (like Marshall over at Wasatch Watcher) believe it to be so. The Deseret News reported on the deceptive spam e-mail in today's edition. What's suspicious is that the contents of the e-mail linked to a pair of Towner blogs and, for some odd reason, to the Utah Democrats blog. Why the link to a blog that supports vouchers when the purpose of the e-mail is to "tell these pro voucher people what

Utahn’s for Public School really think"? Simple answer: it's a red herring.

But how do we know that Voucher News is linked to Towner? Check out the following screenshot:

That post is by The Political Spyglass, the name of Towner's main blog. (There's also classic Towneresque spelling and grammatical errors in the e-mail message.) Given his long and sordid history of spamming (read more here and here), it doesn't take Dick Tracy to stick two and two together and suspect that Towner used his large e-mail list to boost blog traffic and try and stir the pot a bit. I can't prove it yet…. but you can.

If you have been the recipient of one of these e-mails, please forward the entire message to me (with headers) so I can analyze them and see what correlation there is between his spam list (remember that I snagged a copy?) and the recipients of this message. I've also sent e-mails to the Deseret News and Utahns for Public Schools to let them in on our suspicions. (Hey Mark? I have the screenshot of the site, so no changing the author of the post, m-kay?) I may be pro-voucher, but I feel much more strongly about being anti-spam.

UPDATE: There's no maybe about it. The e-mails are from Mark Towner. Busted!

A Previous Post on the Spyglass
Jesse Harris is a Liar and a thiefAnti 1st amendment jack ass Jesse Harris http://www.coolestfamilyever.com/has shown his true colors. First he calls me a liar saying I did not have anywhere near the 10,000 subscribers I claimed for the Spyglass Newsletter. Now after stealing 5800 edited down email addresses his fist accusation is debunked.

Do I receive and apology, no just more attacks and statements of how he plans on revealing the contents of the stolen email list.

Additionally by posting on his own website how he subscribed to my email list and agreeing to the terms, which included not downloading information without permission, chose to suggest other bloggers to duplicate his unethical if not illegal behavior.

His blog sites and his open support of UTOPIA, and distain of Comcast and Qwest takes a “holier than thou” attitude because I continue to “spam” thousands of email addresses with a link to my free Political Newsletter The Spyglass.

The Spyglass is nothing more than a place for me to post articles that interest me and for others to read what is happening in the world of politics. Additionally it provides me an easy archive of thoughts and stories.

Additionally I sometimes write commentary or comments to get other bloggers feedback on issues or events.What part of the First Amendment does Jesse Harris not understand?

I guess this is what you can expect from a Liar and thief.

Mark Towner,
Publisher

3 comments:

Jason The said...

I dunno, Mark.

Between the admitted similarities of "content" on the other site (or yours) and the spam email that was sent out, as well as some suspicious "annonymous" commenting on various sites by "Jason Bourne", things do look a bit suspicious.

Haven't researched it fully myself, but whoever was behind the spam email is a very dishonest person, and you have proven yourself ethically challenged so far (in my opinion) with your voluntary editing of your own past posting on this blog to hide your tracks on certain issues, and questionable tactics of inflammatory posting with unfounded titles such as this. (we all followed the "list" topic, and found that 1) Harris lied about nothing, and 2) stole nothing (regardless of how many times you go on about useless time stamps and pointless IP addresses).

My point it that your own behaviour makes it easy to believe that you may in fact be behind such a dishonest and sneaky tactic as the false spam email sent out by Utah Public School (no S).

Regardless of opinion though, I'm sure the truth will come out eventually. Someone stupid enough to send the email was probably stupid enough to leave a fairly obvious trail. As is usually the case.

Anonymous said...

Mark, you don't actually address Jesse's speculation. It's an easy enough question: Did you have any involvement at all in the "Utahns for Public School" (no 's') e-mail that went out?

Jason The said...

Just noticed on Utah Amicus you cleared up that whole "Jason Bourne" thing with a comment: "I am not Jason Bourne - Mark Towner."

Well that sure explains... Wait, why is Mark Towner following the comment thread of a post about Jason Bourne if he is not Jason Bourne?

Wow, so many questions. And I second Voice of Utah, in that you haven't addressed Jesse's speculation.