The Cowardly Crusader [1]
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton [2] on
Someone who calls himself "Fred Curran" has been creating "parody" websites attacking environmental groups including Greenpeace [3], Friends of the Earth [4] and the Pure Food Campaign [5]. Curran's parodies, at greenpiece.org [6], earthfiends.org [7] and purefoods.org [8], say that Greenpeace "has no credibility," FoE is supported by "thousands of suckers," and the Pure Food Campaign is a "propaganda machine" running an "organic con game." But what about the credibility of "Fred Curran"? His domain name registration [9] lists his address as 1800 M St NW, Washington, DC, which happens to be the address of a U.S. Post Office station and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Curran lists his phone number as 202-728-7510, which rings at the office of SpiralHeart [10], "a non-profit organization dedicated to providing education & training in the Reclaiming Tradition style of Witchcraft." Have we got a witch at the USDA, or is Curran using a fake name, a fake address and a fake phone number? If there's a whistleblower out there who would like to expose his real identity, contact editor@prwatch.org [11].