A photo lifted from manteca live! was used in the "anonymous smear site." And it's right at the top of the page! I thought it looked familiar! Here is a side by side comparison. I want you to know there is no permission to use this picture and there's no association between this blog and the anonymous smear site. For the non-computer savy let me briefly explain how someone can simply "grab" a photograph from any website. All you need to do is right click on a picture and you can save it to your disk on your computer. There's really no technical way to stop this. (Some suggest you can "mark" your pictures to help prevent this. That's possible but impractical.) This is not to say it's right or "legal" to steal someone's photographs. But what I'm saying is that it's very easy to simply "take" a photograph from a web site like this one and just use it without permission for whatever nefarious purpose.
Also, I want to caution the reader also to be careful about interpreting "information" presented in some web site. There's an implication in some of the text of the smear site that "they are trying to find us! But since everything is 'true' there's nothing they can do." In other words they are telling you "you should believe this -- after all I couldn't say it if wasn't true!" Never assume that what you read on line must be true, or else the government would order them to remove it. It's not that simple! It can take months or years and many dollars to fight a first amendment case and even then it can hinge on esoteric definitions of what is "true" and the various standards for libel for public figures and so on and so on. There is no "they" that you can just call up or email and tell them to "remove something from the Internet 'cause it's not true." It's a highly complex issue and I can't caution you enough to never assume something is true because "otherwise they would make them remove it."
I agree with Jackie that the candidates should disavow themselves from this sneaky web site. The people deserve to know if any of the candidates are responsible for this abomination.
For the record the photo that you claim was "lifted" from your blog is publicly available for download through google picasa. If you don't want them publicly available for download, then block access to them.
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ReplyDeleteThe mysterious picasa web album cleverly named the mantecalive! photo album is the photo hosting site for this blog. (Google provides this "blogger" and "picasa")
Both this web site and the photos are provided as a public service for anyone to read and view. But in the "mantecalive" picasa folder each photo has a usage note just to the right of the photo. Some are "creative commons" meaning the photo may be used with credit but the photo that was lifted is labeled © All Rights Reserved.