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For the record - Earth Day press release

bh | 03.11.2001 00:18

For the public record I post examples of the press releases I was sending out before unfurling the Eden Wing Banner at the Summit of the Americas on Earth Day 2001...I have been laughing at that ridiculous event and the foolish press releases that went along with it and decided to 'share' as well as to get this established on the 'public record'

For the record - Earth Day press release
For the record - Earth Day press release


This evening I have been doing a search of the web for evidence of postings I made predicting the unfurling of my Eden Wing banner over the Summit of the Americas on Earth Day and have come up with the following examples of my 'press release'. By the way, God only knows what people must have thought when they received these 'press releases' (I am embarrassed to read them myself) but I enter them into the public record as evidence that it was not in fact a nut that was spamming the newsgroups, clubs, media, and every Metropolitan community church that had an email address on the planet, among other places.

The original Eden Wing on my Website showing the unfurling of my banner on Earth Day is located here if you haven't seen it before, and the attached photo is from Sunday Morning on Earth Day.

Eden Wing Banner unfurled in protest on Earth Day 2001

As well please note that I was so excited that I did not look up the reference and it should read 'Eagle' not stork (the stork is considered an evil bird in prophecy for some reason. Whenever evil is threatened with being conquered the stork comes and flies evil away to some place safe where it can still be worshipped. So I embarrassed by the reference to a 'stork' for that very reason.)

This first post was to some kind of Metropolitan community church bulletin board or guest book. Note that Earth Day was April 22nd and these 'press releases' are all dated either late Friday evening or early Saturday morning (earth day was 04/22/2001) You will notice that the time is 4 in the morning on Saturday the 21st (it was an all night spamming session getting out my press release because I was going to the Summit of the Americas to unfurl my Eden banner, a truly historic event, I thought, but God only knows what everyone else must have been thinking...)


http://www.lpage.com/wgb/wgbview.dbm?owner=fforc

Saturday 04/21/2001 4:52:03am

Name: Brent Herbert

E-Mail: feedback@awitness.org

Homepage Title: A Witness to Yahweh

Homepage URL: www.awitness.org/

Referred By: Search Engine

Location: ?

Comments: Fly to Eden on Stork wings with YAHWEH



I also sent my post to newsgroups of all kinds and found these examples...

alt.bible - 20 Apr 2001 by b herbert


alt.2600.hackerz - 20 Apr 2001 by b herbert


The following are examples of sarcastic posts in response to my newsgroup spamming (who knows what they must have thought getting a 'press release' like that thing, but you can sort of tell just by reading those sarcastic responses it generated)


alt.romance Date: 2001-04-21 20:31:33 PST "An artist who has been compared to Tennessee Williams' character Blanche DuBois showed me what she called photographs of the Antichrist."


Newsgroups: alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk Date: 2001-04-21 00:54:02 (please post to urban legends from now on)


Newsgroups: alt.dss.hack Date: 2001-04-20 22:28:02 "Ummm.. Not to be rude or anything, but,......shouldn't you be down at the airport passing out flowers and pamphlets ??"


Newsgroups: alt.seduction.fast Date: 2001-04-20 22:32:30 PST What the fuck?!?! Manos


Newsgroups: alt.rave Date: 2001-04-20 22:49:30 PST What the fuck?? did i miss something? was this a reply to something? if so what was it?


this was posted to alt.journalism which was moderated and didn't actually get posted to their newsgroup until after the fact I noticed (dated the 24th two days after earth day)


Newsgroups: alt.journalism Date: 2001-04-24 07:21:35 PST


The following are just a few examples of postings to Yahoo clubs, of which there are so very many, and this is just a small selection. You might need to register for a moniker and password to access the club pages...


on the Paragensis awakenings club

Fly away to Eden on stork wings with Yahweh 4/20/01 8:11 pm


on the Fortean Phenomenon club

fly on stork wings to Eden with Yahweh 4/20/01 8:17 pm (By the way they sent me a really nice virtual postcard on the 23rd of April, thanks a lot)


on the Christian versus atheists club

Fly to Eden on stork wings ,,, 4/20/01 8:12 pm


on the Celtic Moon club

Flyin to Eden on Stork wings with YAHWEH 4/21/01 2:12 am


on the UFO believers club

fly on stork wings with YAHWEH to Eden - 4/20/01 8:19 pm

Eden Wing page

Index


bh
- Homepage: www.awitness.org/

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