THE RESPONSE OF ARTBELL.COM TO THE PROLIFERATING ANTI-PINOY HATE LETTER. I THINK IT'S RIGHT TO HEAR THEIR SIDE HERE AS WELL.

Filipino Hate Letter
PLEASE STOP SPREADING THIS

Filipino Hate Postings by KatLover@artbell.com is NOT
from the real Art Bell!!

The recent postings on usenet that are being forwarded
by many via email was NOT written by the real Art
Bell. Nor was it posted by our artbell.com mail
server.

Back in December 1998 there were some racist postings
made in several newsgroups on the Internet by a person
who is impersonating Art Bell. They have used the ID
of KatLover@artbell.com.

Be advised, that any messages that appear on the
USENET groups with the From: E-Mail address of
KatLover@artbell.com did not originate from the REAL
Art Bell. It is absurd to think that a public figure
and professional radio host would make such a posting.


On behalf of Art Bell and I, administrator of the
artbell.com web site, let me state that these messages
did NOT originate either from Art Bell or our domain.
Please review the headers of all messages that you
have received and send your complaints to that
domain's sysop. The messages are originating at
ucsd.edu and the fake "From" address was simply typed
in.

It has further been determined that the message text
that was in the USENET posting came from a web site:

http://server1.hypermart.net/oldscona/flip.html

This website which is no longer operational stated who
the original writer was, but not necessarially the one
who posted it on USENET under Art Bell's name. So if
you have anything to say to the actual writer of the
text, you'll have to dig deeper, because Art Bell was
not the writer.

Feel free to copy this notice and forward this on to
anyone who is concerned about this. Art and I do not
condone such racist statements made in these phony
posts and you need to be aware that ANYONE can put ANY
address in their newsreader and make messages look
like it came from ANYWHERE. However, the headers of
such postings will generally show the correct
originating host. Which in this case is NOT
artbell.com. In fact artbell.com does NOT have any
user accounts nor access to USENET.

After this announcement, it is likely this person will
choose another fake ID and make simular posts. Once
again, check the headers before jumping to
conclusions. Also, be advised that neither Art Bell
nor Keith Rowland has posted on USENET for over 2
years and don't plan to. (Because of issues like
this.) So ANY USENET posting that claims to be from
Art should be assumed to be phoney.

Thank you for your understanding in this matter.

Signed, Keith Rowland and Art Bell

Exception: On Dec 9th 1998, Art Bell made ONE posting
to the soc.culture.filipino group, denying the
previous posts. So that anyone who reads that group
and hasn't been able to see this announcement is
advised of the situation. You can check out this post
and see the headers of a real post from Art Bell.

Update: Someone else, we suspect a different person,
has now posted to the same newsgroup a message which
forges artbell@aol.com as the From address. However
examining the tracer headers, you'll see it came
through a Belgium server. This posting was a better
fake than the others (more work was done to try to
cover up the headers), but still detectable as not
being authentic. In fact, people have already detected
this same person making test postings to test groups
while trying to perfect their methods. And of course
Art would not post such a thing anyway. - KR

Response from UCSD.edu:
From: postmistress@ucsd.edu

I'm very sorry about this occurrence. Unfortunately,
this host is a PC in a Library computer lab which is
open to all students. We have been looking into
authentication solutions which would make this type of
occurrence more traceable, but at this time there is
no way for us to trace the miscreant. We apologize for
the unpleasantness.

Valerie E. Polichar
Manager of Network Technical, User, ∓ Access
Services
UCSD ACS/Network Operations

I'm sure after you read this you will make every
attempt to stop forwarding the fake postings and
RETURN THIS MESSAGE to the person who sent you the
fake message and anyone who needs to know. We have
been the victim here of hate crimes, taking the
onslaught of mail from Filipinos who are responding in
anger.

Keith Rowland
System Administrator
www.artbell.com

i was browsing over my mail when i bumped into an email of a speech(?) about filipinos made by an american radio announcer in nevada. reading it just half-way, my ears were already flushed.

thank you for further strengthening my beliefs that americans are just a bunch of loafers who depend on government, f*** all the time, and are rotten pigs who mass-murder the world for their own pleasure and profit. look for it, read on, and marvel at the loathesome idiocy that is this man.

my guess is, he either hasn't been laid for a while, or he's been laying down the wrong creatures. ei man, ever heard of homo sapiens?

just for sanity's sake, here's my version of mr. art bell's piece of work:

americans... they make me laugh!

As we in Asia have all come to notice, in the past few decades, Americans have begun to infest Asia like stray dogs. Their extensive pursuit of visiting forces agreements in many asian nations is proof of the trashy kind of values americans tend to exhibit on a regular basis. You can see this clearly by studying the attitudes and cultural Icons of most Americans.

Origins of Americans:

Are they really american? Well we've come to accept the fact the americans come from a part of the world known as the "United States". But the term "american" is used in the wrong way. You may notice that contemporary Americans try very hard to associate themselves with groups that are like themselves - americans (and around 50% of the kids get beaten up by the same american bullies in the process). I cannot count the number of times I've seen an american try to connect themselves to Asian people (since their market has been saturated, and have eyed Asians as the next market for their war toys). There is no connection, and here's why. The US may be a First World country, but there's nothing first world about its character. Old american servicemen travel to the Philippines to molest our children - victims of poverty and disenfranchisement. if these americans were indeed "first world", wouldn't the humane reaction to poverty be to help? but no, not the american. they come here, rape our women and children, and try to unwittingly take over our commerce and trade as well.

Young americans have become obsessed with dating senselessly. contemporary Filipinos don't go out every night, trying to hook up with different people at singles bars, f***, then leave women/men afterwards. we're not that desperate. neither are we that trashy to gloat over the inability to get one-night stands. Here in this "third world", we court women and gain trust, and eventually marry them. not like THERE where you collect wedding rings like they were toys. and don't give us that "black thang" issue, because we don't treat people like that. you do. have you seen the treatment and portrayal of black americans in YOUR tv shows and movies? what of your treatment of chinese people in your films in the 1950s, having the nerve to call them "chinks"?

that's first world. right. if that's how first world people think, i'd rather stay here at my side of the hemisphere.

You can't see the connection with being first world, and being human vis-a-vis humane, huh? what's even funnier is that if americans really are that great, in Japan, they still need to learn niponggo. i thought you were better than asians? why do you have to learn the Asian language? But that's the case for most americans no matter where they live in the world. and what of your bulging fiscal deficits?

Nothing in american Culture can be seen as American.

They may have architectural, artistic, or cultural influence in some way to us asians, but thinking of the great countries in the world now such as Japan, Korea, and China, where is the US? oh, i get it, at the tail end. trying to catch up with europe and the rest of asia. The Philippines may not have a good economy, but at least we know we didn't cause it. YOUR open door policy and pushing forward of the GATT-WTO and parity rights worsened the economies of many asian countries who were not ready for globalization, including the philippines. but your blasted country had to swoon our government to thinkiing it was the right thing to do- to open up to the world even if we didn't have the strength of the local market to do so.

because we thought YOU were the custodians of the earth's welfare. darn it. we were SO wrong. you're the wolf in sheep's clothing.

and besides, aren't the american indians the REAL americans? these white folk from britain- PEASANTS who ventured outside europe- don't have any real american blood in them. filipinos on the other hand, come from NOBLE races of aetas, indonese and malays. ah, mr. bell, we already had forms of democracy in our states while you had apartheid and slavery there.

if pinoys are trashy people when we chat, guess who taught us to be trashy? yup. you americans did. what's even trashier is what these americans talk about. i mean, c'mon. how lewd can you get? and you say you have values. kiss my a**. name me one top-grossing american movie shown in the 80s, 90s till the present that didn't have f*** in the dialogue, or didn't show women's breasts or men's butts, or didn't have lotsa blood, cars exploding and more lauding of the terroristic act?!

Do these americans know what's going on? they're polluting the earth in more ways than one (not a surprise with all the nuclear waste they're dumping all over the globe). THIS is the natural "Trash" element in americans manifesting itself. Nothing good has ever come from the States aside from hate, more fighting, bullying and death. thanks to the "first world" values.

Recognizing your Roots
(A Message to mr. bell)

Please recognize your ROOTS! You come from the peasant ancestry! You country is a disgusting and filthy place. Most people there live with psychological disorder, torn families, mania and work-related stress! You have no culture other than that taken from mexicans, british and french peoples. thank Jesus people in the world don't act like you. you constantly want sex, sell sex and promote sex in your TV shows, films, ads and the like. as a superpower, you want us to follow? right? we have a MUCH HIGHER level of RESPECT for each other, than you. you leave your elderly in nursing homes, and consider them useless; you let your women get raped in the streets and reason out that it's a trend; you let unborn children die because you think it's a right to kill people; you destroy other countries in pursuit of "democracatic ideals"; you slaughter whole families in pursuit of a wild goose chase. There is NO WAY that we will connect ourselves with you.

the only reason we use your language is for subtle domination of your nation. haven't you noticed? some parts of your country are actually being run by filipinos now?

prostitutes you call them. we call them our advance army. wait till we send in the other troops - our nurses, students, surgeons and other doctors, engineers, politicians, singers and dancers, architects, food entrepreneurs (you got six jollibee food outlets there)make-up artists, designers, textilers, broadcasters, furniture, and more.

aren't you afraid? you should be.
be afraid. be very afraid.

Our technological advancement may not come close to what you have, but the flourescent lamp didn't come from you. we made that. as well as the moon rover that your country used to frolic in the moon. yes, mr. bell, a pinoy built that. 'cause your scientists couldn't. or were too busy f***ing themselves.

You take credit for Japanese cars, video games, and Hentai.You have no concept nor respect of culture. and i think you also don't read history books. do you read at all? Can we demonstrate how to use Confucianism or Taoism in you everyday life? yes. we have a very rich inter-racial relationship with the chinese. come to ongpin, binondo, and cebu. You, on the other hand, can't. And you will NEVER be able to.

I understand that you have been trying to create an identity for yourselves as a dynamic people. but it is NOT working. Your Identity is not american. you don't even know where you come from: british? danish? french? german? Think about what that means.

memoirs of my worst new year ever

this year, after a brief word fight with my sister,
i spent new year alone at a room in my lola's house.
i couldn't bear to see all of them.

that and the fact that grace and i fought
also because i fought with the family. she's told me
time and again
to leave the house if i want peace of mind;
i will. i think i will.

it's been two weeks after new year.
the hurt isn't there anymore. not even memories
of the words said.
but the angst is there. the vengence is rising.
darn fire dawg.