Dear Ernie,

I was engaged almost the whole day yesterday with important meeting activities so I missed the whole fireworks.

When I opened my computer this morning, I was stunned to discover that I was being bowled over, and my-- Fed I & Fed II expose’ that appeared on June 24, 2009, was the subject of a "slacktivist" attack by a "troll" named "Jon".

I read your response to this attacker: "Activists and Slacktivists - (also some comments on FreedomsPhoenix editorial policies)" that appeared the other day, the 28th of June, 2009. For ease of reference, I created this link: Freedomphoenix.com attacked by Slacktivist Troll – for readers this e-mail to have an immediate access.

It took me about an hour reading your "lecture" of what FP.com is all about so that "slacktivist" trolls like this "Jon" Quixote who operates by groping his way in the dark would be able to see the light of day.

A truckload of comments that followed was kilometric. I didn’t just read all of them -- I have to "digest" each one of them. What I did not learn from my upbringing and later on in the academe was the use of "dirty" smart-alecky words of smart alecks who are shredding the person of their targets with such remarkable ease as if when they attack one another, they are fish in the water. This is strange and very unfamiliar to me, hence the extra time I needed to understand them before I could intervene.

I thought that if I add my intervention at the bottom of those comments, the reader is so exhausted and fagged out that it won’t be read anymore by anyone who is already snoring.

THIS IS THE REASON WHY I AM SENDING MY INTERVENTION IN THE FORM OF AN E-MAIL TO THE EDITOR SO THAT IT WILL BE READ, BECAUSE IT IS ONLY FAIR THAT BEING THE BUTT OF THE JOKE, I TOO IS ENTITLED TO LAUGH.

Before starting your response, I noted your own prologue enclosed in digression (p): (I\'m in the mood for some good \'ole online debating. I got the next 24 hours that I can set aside spots time for this, so let\'s take advantage of my \'teeth grinding\' emotional state and have at it - heartfelt thank you to Edwin Sumcad).

You don’t have to thank me, but if you have to, I say okay, not at all… you are kind-hearted, etc.

The first observation that knocked me off was the audacious challenge hurled against the "owner" of this freedom site. To me the sound of it came from genocidal dictators like Hitler, if Saddam Hussein is just a neophyte in comparison. Both lords of intolerance born to Hades, the Greek god of the underworld, on mere suspicion, shoots on sight freedom advocates like you and me.

Here’s the crack of the whip of the threatening Rambo: (Jon to Ernie) "If I ever see anything like this again [Fed I & Fed II that I authored and published by FP.com], you will be boycotted and any patriots that I have turned on to this site will boycott you also."

Carrot & stick, Ernie boy, get it?

Who does he thinks he is? Does he have a magic flute who like the Pied Piper in German folklore, gathers "patriots" like rats and lead them to their doom in this site?

Better still, who does he thinks Ernie is – his bad little crawling baby he could spank if the toddler does not follow instructions not to wet his diaper … or something to that effect?

Gracious me! Only the likes of Saddam Hussein who issued a license to Ernie to publish FP.com may issue this kind of threat. And I didn’t even hear anything about this Jon guy … anything at all relevant to this website, from the time Adam & Eve bastardized the Garden of Eden!
Then this guy turned on me: "This article is so chock full of dis-info it is ridiculous. I thought you guys were better. I would also recommend not carrying any more articles by Edwin Sumcad.　 If I ever see his name on this site again, you are done with me."

Powell Gammill couldn’t stand it. His response to this guy’s plea to protect him because he is terrified to see my name in this site, is an excellent parody against juvenile delinquency … a crying baby-mentality that looks for nursing boobs to suckle.

[Listen Jonnie, this is for you]: "As for the desire that I protect and shield your mind from the ideas of others, I ain\'t your mommy.　 Seek to suckle on the comfort of someone else\'s teat, because these tits run dry!" Gammill.

This packs a wallop! The guy’s oddity suffers a black eye. With this dry "teat" the editor is swinging like a baseball bat, you are done with Jon, Gammill. Read Jonnie’s threat. If you need a lawyer, you know where to find me. I have a clown client before accused of making people cry instead of laugh, and I brought down the house. The Jury acquits.

This guy’s objection to the Fed expose’ I wrote is that it was "… full of dis-info …" His problem was, he did not or cannot specify what "dis-info" he was talking about. This is a common problem of those whose intellect is severely limited by how and what they feel, and therefore it is easier to resort to name-calling than argue the issue/s raised, which tasked the brain. Upstairs, there is no intellectual attraction there that you and I expect to see.

The twin articles flagged the public’s attention to the misconception Fed-haters peddle around, e.g., that the Federal Reserve is a private entity run by "thieves". It is a terrible mistake the public should know. I alone, as a journalist crusader against any public lie opportunist politicians market for publicity, have uncovered this public conjuring, and decided to publish it at FP.com -- home of Libertarian and anti-federalist activists -- with neither fear nor favor.

If this editorial revelation is the "dis-info" this guy was referring to, then he either could not read or could not understand what he reads. The celebrated Lewis case I dissected in the Fed I & Fed II editorials pointed out that the Fed is NOT a government entity only for purposes of Federal Tort Claims Act. Other than this tort case, the Fed is a GOVERNMENT INSTITUTION created by Congress, and run by the Fed’s Board of Governors that is unlikely to be a bunch of "thieves" as recklessly and ruthlessly portrayed by ignorant radicals and extremely angry abolitionists.

Instead of wasting time giving a homily on how a free website should be run, I suggest that Jon and his kind should ambush not the author but the cure the author prescribed for anxiety called "Fedreservanities": Severe Reactions: Cure Pill I Prescribe – Know The Role Of Fed In The Economy, June 29, 2009.
I have been unfairly stereotyped as a "Fed apologist" or a propagandist that spread a lie about the Federal Reserve. If anyone can disprove what I wrote that the Fed is a federal institution, not a private entity allegedly run by "thieves", I will retract faster than the six o’clock train to Toronto and banner a mile-deep apology just to measure how deep would then be my regret – if I what I wrote is proven to be untrue.

That the Fed is a public entity is not even my own declaration. It is the declaration of the high courts. [Lewis, supra] So how can the docketed decisions of the high courts be a "dis-info"?

To wake him up to reality, you slapped this oddity from nowhere with "I need NeoConned Net Trolls like Edwin Sumcad …" You hurt my feelings not because you said so, but because it is mislabeling me miles away from the truth of who I am.

Perhaps I am the only journalist you know in your entire life whom you met at the crossroads of journalism who is APOLITICAL. Unlike you guys, I have never been a casualty of any political party affiliation or a captive of party-loyalty and servitude, meaning I am not a liberal or conservative or independent. I am all of them rolled into one, anytime I choose to be, or when I choose to be just anyone of them. You can see me which one of them or all of them when you read thousands of my essays and editorial writings both in the Media and the academe.

In FP.com, I am not a neocon when I write something positive about neocons and what they stand for. To write like a neocon, does not mean that you are a neocon.

Neither am I a liberal headhunter in the jungle when I hunt and harpoon the excesses of useless neocons.

Because I endorse your passion for individual liberty that I happen to share does not make me a Libertarian. The fact that I am against Dr. Ron Paul’s H.R. 1207 because politically correct politicians I abhor have no expertise on fiscal and monetary policies when they takeover the function of the Fed in the guise of "audit", does not mean that I am against Paul’s person. My admiration of his courage ends where my disagreement over his economic and political philosophies begins.

As my credential suggests and read by millions in your site, I am a member of the academe with several graduate degrees – in journalism, in law, and economics. I spent most of my adult time in school. It was years back then when I was much younger that through competitive government scholarship I earned my graduate diploma as a Fiscal and Monetary Specialist under the United Nations World Bank-ILO Development Program.

I served in the UN for 11 years as a senior diplomat, specifically in Social and Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific. I knew the Fed and what central banking means, and I knew the Fed editorials I wrote more than I know the back of my palm.

Considering that I was a journalist and still is up to now since I was 17 years old and that was more than 50 years ago, a publisher, and a recipient of several excellence awards in journalism, I have probably written more editorials than anyone of you combined have. My writings have one of the biggest hits in the Internet, and many Websites caught up with some of them.

A few online publications had invited me to write as a regular columnist in their sites [I only accepted one since I also write columns in some local newspapers]. The publishers and I are mutual beneficiaries of my writings. But the greatest beneficiaries of all are the millions of our reading public.

In view of the foregoing record on file, which declares who I am, to be labeled as a "troll" in FP.com seemed extremely unjust and unfair to those millions of readers, let alone the fact that it is untrue as this author stands falsely accused, since in all those years, these readers knew that my passion as an award-winning journalist has neither been questioned nor seen as beholden to anyone or to any teachings or ideology whatsoever.

You must know by now since I boarded your train to freedom, that the only path I tread is one that leads to the commonweal. My only consuming desire in life is to be free when I write … to switch on the light for those in the dark who want to see the truth but for some reasons, cannot. The Light speaks of the title of my FP.com account.

If I am a "troll", then everybody watchout! I am a troll not of the Fed but of the people.

My right as a free-lance journalist and your right as a publisher of this site are similar. We are on the same boat in pursuit of liberty and freedom.

As owner, you have all the right to disconnect any writer anytime you want. You can put out the light in my account anytime of night and day. As a contributing Lamplighter, I have also the right to leave your site anytime if I so choose to disconnect myself for any reason I want.

But here’s the difference: My right to leave anytime I want, does not include the right to dictate to you as owner of your site, what opinion any writer on board should right, or not write, nor does that include the right to order you which writer should be deleted or banned.

I take the pain of detailing this background information to you, so that misfits like this guy who attacked and threatened you and "our" site of liberty and freedom, should know.

He has all the right to leave anytime he wants, and never to be heard again from the moment he walks out of the door. #

Yours truly,

Edwin A. Sumcad