Here We Go Again...

Yesterday, I went to check out Don's article (previously mentioned here), only to be confronted with this:

I then signed into my e-mail to see what the hell was going on.

Sure enough, Scribd Copyright Notice had sent me an e-mail ("Copyright Notification (06/09/2009 - 01:41 PM)‏"), dated Wednesday, 10 June 2009 4:41:00 AM. It read:

Hello, dawwih --

We have removed your document "My Inquiry into the Highgate Vampire Case" in response to a third-party notification or other indicia that this document was uploaded to Scribd.com without the authorization of the copyright owner. If you believe the removal of this document is the result of a mistake or misidentification, please visit our Scribd Support Desk to access the instructions for providing a counter-notification.

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I'm certainly going to be appealing their decision, especially as the document in question is under the copyright of Don Ecker! In fact, I previously reproduced his letter of permission here.

This certainly isn't the first time the Manchester camp (or, in this case, Manchester himself) have attempted to "shut me down" in some way, shape or form.

At this point, I can't help but be reminded of something L. Ron Hubbard Jr. said in an interview for Penthouse (June 1983), relating to his well-known father:

My father drilled into all of us: Don't go to court thinking to win a lawsuit. You go to court to harass, to delay, to exhaust the enemy financially, physically, mentally. You file every motion you can think of and you just lock them up in court. The courts, for my father, were never used to seek justice or redress, put to destroy the people he thought were enemies, to prevent negative stories from appearing. He just wanted complete control of the press --and got it.

Sure, the comparison might be a bit extreme, but I feel that one can see eerily similar parallels in the tactics being used.

I'll keep y'all updated on the progress of this latest attempt at Highgate Vampire censorship.