[alac-forum] Multiple Domain Name Abuser
Please do not post my email address when posting this
message. . .
What is the procedure for getting many domains
released by a multiple domain name abuser?
It seems that it is in the best monetary interest of
WIPO to arbitrate these separately, but that is what
the abuser is counting on. If he charges $500 for us
to purchase the domain and you charge $1000 to
arbitrate - what is our incentive to pursue
arbitration, particularly when it is not a deterrent
to his activity?
Originally this abuser was redirecting all of his
registered domains to http://www.abortionismurder.org
(an extremely graphic anti-abortion website). He is
no longer doing this or is in the process of
transferring his domains and will begin redirecting
again at some point (This month, May 2004, he changed
registrars from www.name-services.com to
www.directnic.com).
Enclosed is all of the research I have done on this
abuser. Each new section is all capital letters.
He has recently changed most of his registrations to
the following:
Administrative Contact:
flynn, mike mikeflynn4567@xxxxxxxxxxx
425 w 58st.
new york, NY 10019
US
917-251-1853
Domain servers in listed order:
NS0.DIRECTNIC.COM 204.251.10.100
NS1.DIRECTNIC.COM 206.251.177.2
The following research was done in 2002 and some of
this information has changed. He does not have all
the domains listed. For example, AOL has obviously
arbitrated and won www.aoltechsupport.com - but this
is because I told them about this. My path to fight
him so far has been to let organizations with far more
money go after him.
This is a letter containing all of the research I sent
to the FTC July 18th of 2002 - unfortunately it is
considered to be out of their jurisdiction.
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LETTER TO THE FTC - JULY 2002
We have reason to believe John Wichmann of the Bronx,
New York, is engaging in anti-abortion terrorism,
identity theft and fraud. For more information about
John Wichmann please see the attached section
entitled, John Wichmann Information.
The most disturbing domain he has registered is
www.briandeneke.com, the name of a murdered boy. Here
is a small link concerning his familys response to
this violation:
http://www.punknews.org/article.php?sid=3594
What we believe occurred is John Wichmann, operating
as John Barry, and now "Mike Flynn" registered my
husbands domain and then used internet forwarding,
also known as mirroring, to forward the website to
http://dogs.onlyhere.net which in turn forward to the
disturbingly graphic anti-abortion website
http://www.abortionismurder.org.
It is our opinion that John Wichmann is not after
press for the anti-abortion website unlike William
Purdy (see attached section entitled William Purdy).
He is after money and uses the anti-abortion site
outrage his potential victims, gambling that they
would rather pay him $500 - $2500 to transfer the
domain name than pay for legal and arbitration fees.
Although many complaints have been filed against John
Barry with ICANN (The Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers, http://www.icann.org)
recommended arbitration organizations (see attached
Approved Providers for Uniform Domain-Name
Dispute-Resolution Policy), the following arbitration
identifies John Wichmann as the real culprit:
http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/2002/d2002-0120.html
John Barry has also been reviewed numerous times by
two of the ICANN approved arbitration organizations.
He has lost each of these reviews. Here are the links
to the arbitration results:
http://www.arb-forum.com/domains/decisions/109043.htm
http://www.arb-forum.com/domains/decisions/105210.htm
http://www.arb-forum.com/domains/decisions/105211.htm
http://www.arb-forum.com/domains/decisions/101518.htm
http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/2002/d2002-0020.html
http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/2002/d2002-0316.html
http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/2002/d2002-0005.html
http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/2002/d2002-0120.html
**Although it may appear that this is still under
arbitration, the domain has been transferred to the
Complainant.
This is the most recent arbitration I can find about
this person and in this one he is listed as his
current alias "Mike Flynn."
http://www.cpradr.org/ICANN/icannDecisionCPR0231-030123.htm
The following links are various links concerning John
Barry:
http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/3582110.htm
http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,50749,00.html
http://users.skynet.be/serverspace/FriedKitten/2002_03_01_archive.html
- Under the March 12 entry
http://www.thereporter.com/Current/News/Inside/02/04/dailyinside041602.html
- Under Newspaper hit by Cybersquatter
This is all very similar to the circumstances of John
Zuccarini case initiated by the FTC as you can see
here: At the request of the Federal Trade Commission,
the court permanently barred the defendant from
diverting or obstructing consumers on the Internet and
from launching Web sites or Web pages that belong to
unrelated third parties. The court also has barred the
defendant from participating in advertising affiliate
programs on the Internet, and has ordered him to give
up more than $1.8 million in ill-gotten gains.
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2002/05/cupcake.htm
For complete information see attached documents titled
Court Shuts down Cyberscam Permanently, Civil
Action No. 01-CV-4854, and review the FTC website at
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2002/05/cupcake.htm.
My personal impressions are based upon reading all
arbitration notices and correlating the information:
1) John Barry could be an alias taken from this
article. Should Cybersquatting be Treated as a
Trademark Violation?
http://speakout.com/activism/issue_briefs/1263b-1.html
2) The real culprit seems to be John Wichmann (and
maybe others) who actually responded to this
arbitration:
http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/2002/d2002-0120.html
3) John Barry is not after press for the
anti-abortion website. He is after money and uses the
anti-abortion site to push peoples buttons, gambling
that they would rather pay him $500 - $2500 than pay
for legal and arbitration fees.
5) It is unreasonable to pay for arbitration when many
very similar cases have already been arbitrated with
the same result. It is irresponsible of the
arbitration organizations and ICANN to let this go on,
basically taking money for performing the same
function over and over rather than resolving the
larger problem. We are concerned about the inherent
conflict of interest in the arbitration process.
People like John Barry and John Zuccarini have made
the arbitration companies lots of money.
Based on the arbitration information above we have
concluded that there in an inherent conflict of
interest in the arbitration process. It is
unreasonable to pay for arbitration when many very
similar cases have already been arbitrated with the
same result. It is irresponsible of the arbitration
organizations and ICANN to let this go on, basically
taking money for performing the same function over and
over rather than resolving the larger problem. We are
concerned about the inherent conflict of interest in
the arbitration process. People like John Wichmann
and John Zuccarini (see below) have made the
arbitration companies lots of money.
What follows is a small sample of the fast-growing
list of websites registered by John Wichmann (under
his aliases).
NOTE: Again, some of this is out of date as he has
lost some of these domains.
www.sanantoniopolicedepartment.com
www.sandiegopolicedepartment.com
www.sanfranciscochamberofcommerce.com
www.sanfranciscocitycollege.com
www.andrewlloydweber.com
www.aoltechsupport.com
www.austinpolicedepartment.com
www.barbrawalters.com
www.barnesandnoblebookstore.com
www.briandeneke.com
www.bringyourdaughtertoworkday.com
www.bureauofalcoholtobaccoandfirearms.com
www.californiadepartmentofcorrections.com
www.huntforredoctober.com
www.unitedstatedepartmentofeducation.com
www.walterdisney.com
www.marthastewartcooking.com
www.olympiccommittee.com
www.aaronburr.com
www.alabamadepartmentofeducation.com
www.albertspeer.com
www.andersonvilleprison.com
www.annekleinwatch.com
www.anthonyperkins.com
www.arizonadepartmentofcorrection.com
www.arizonadepartmentofmotorvehicles.com
www.arkansasgameandfishcommission.com
www.arlingtonstartelegram.com
www.austinindependentschooldistrict.com
www.baileybankandbiddle.com
www.baileybankbiddle.com
www.baldwinwallacecollege.com
www.baltimoremuseumofart.com
www.baltimorewashingtoninternationalairport.com
www.barbarabach.com
www.barnesandnobleonline.com
www.bookertwashington.com
www.brookanddunn.com
www.bureauofjusticestatistics.com
www.bureauofmotorvehicle.com
www.bureauofreclamation.com
www.californiacounty.com
www.californiadepartmentofhealthservices.com
www.californiastateuniversitysacramento.com
www.carrieannemoss.com
www.catonahottinroof.com
www.charlesgoodyear.com
www.charliebrownchristmas.com
www.cheerios.net
www.chicagofieldmuseum.com
www.chicagohospital.com
www.chicagomidwayairport.com
www.chicagoohareairport.com
www.chrisnoth.com
www.christophercolombus.com
www.cincinnatipublicschools.com
www.citycollegeofchicago.com
www.coloradodepartmentofmotorvehicles.com
www.coloradodepartmentoftransportation.com
www.commonwealthofkentucky.com
www.connecticutdepartmentofmotorvehicles.com
www.connieselleca.com
www.dallaschamberofcommerce.com
www.debbiegibson.com
www.denverchamberofcommerce.com
www.departmentofhealthandhumanservices.com
www.dharmaandgreg.com
www.dorlandsmedicaldictionary.com
www.dowjonesindustrialaverage.com
www.edsullivanshow.com
www.edwardsmovietheaters.com
www.floridahighschoolfootball.com
www.gallbladderdisease.com
www.garycoleman.com
www.generalhospitalsoapopera.com
www.georgiahighschoolfootball.com
www.ghostofmississippi.com
www.hechtsdepartmentstore.com
www.highschoolfootballrecruiting.com
www.highschoolfootballscores.com
www.houndofthebaskervilles.com
www.huckleberryhound.com
www.idahodepartmentoflabor.com
www.janeleeves.com
www.janemansfield.com
www.jeffersoncitynewstribune.com
www.jonathanrhysmeyers.com
www.kentuckywildcatbasketball.com
www.kimcatrall.com
www.lesleyannwarren.com
www.lewisandclarkexpedition.com
www.lillianhellman.com
www.losangeleschamberofcommerce.com
www.losangelespolicedepartment.com
www.marieclairemagazine.com
www.marieosmonddoll.com
www.marinecorpsinstitute.com
www.marthastewartchristmas.com
www.marthastewartrecipe.com
www.massachusettsinstituteoftechnology.com
www.mikemeyers.com
www.nationallampoonschristmasvacation.com
www.newyorkcitychamberofcommerce.com
www.newyorkdepartmentofmotorvehicles.com
www.peggyflemming.com
www.peterandthewolf.com
www.philadelphiamuseumofart.com
www.phoenixpolicedepartment.com
www.robertfrostpoetry.com
www.robertmorrisassociates.com
www.samuelcoleridge.com
www.santamonicacitycollege.com
www.sarahvaughn.com
www.seattlepolicedepartment.com
www.stevenhawking.com
www.takeyourdaughtertowork.com
www.texasdepartmentofmotorvehicle.com
www.theuniversityofphoenix.com
www.transunioncreditbureau.com
www.unitedstatecensusbureau.com
www.universityofcaliforniasantacruz.com
www.usdepartmentofhealthandhumanservices.com
www.victornavone.com
www.waltereliasdisney.com
As stated above, we are aware of potentially hundreds
of other websites that have been registered in this
manner were being forwarded to
www.abortionismurder.org. We are continuing to
research this to provide the most accurate and
complete information. We would be more than happy to
share our findings with you.
Please help us put a stop to this.
We look forward to the opportunity to discuss this
further
Thank you,
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JOHN WICHMANN INFORMATION
John Wichmann
aka John Barry
aka John Simms
aka John McNair
aka John Hutchins
aka Tom Mann
aka Tony Ballucci, ESQ
aka Mike Flynn
Doing business as:
Domains for Sale Inc.
Domain for Sale Inc.
Domains For You
Buy This Domain
Using email addresses:
dom4sale@xxxxxxx
nylegal1@xxxxxxx
maxx1818@xxxxxxx
tomk668@xxxxxxx
mikeflynn4567@xxxxxxxxxxx
Alleged Address of John Barry
5444 Arlington Avenue. g14
Bronx, NY 10471
Alleged Address of John Simms
2465 Palisade Avenue
Bronx, NY 10463
Alleged Address of Toney Ballucci, ESQ.
43 Brewer Street
Bronx, NY 10471
Alleged Address of Mike Flynn
425 w 58st.
new york, NY 10019
US
JAILED JUROR WANTS 500G FROM JUDGE
New York Post; New York; May 15, 1999; DAREH
GREGORIAN;
Judge Alexander Hunter ordered John Wichmann locked up
last June, after the
juror told the judge he thought he was
"condescending."
Now the Bronx middle-school teacher is returning the
favor - slapping Hunter with
a $500,000 lawsuit for false arrest, "extreme
emotional distress and mental
anguish."
The run-in happened on June 16, when Wichmann, 32, was
a prospective juror in
a buy-and-bust drug case.
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WILLIAM PURDY
Judge orders alleged cybersquatter to shut down
anti-abortion Web sites
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A federal judge has ordered a South
St. Paul man to shut down his anti-abortion Web sites
with domain names that are confusingly similar to the
trademarked names of some of the nation's best known
companies.
U.S. District Judge Ann D. Montgomery issued a
temporary restraining order Tuesday against William S.
Purdy Sr. on behalf of McDonald's Corp., PepsiCo Inc.,
Coca-Cola Co., The Washington Post Co. and
Washingtonpost.newsweekInteractive Co.
She ordered Purdy to immediately shut down his Web
sites with the confusing names and transfer their
ownership to the appropriate companies.
Montgomery also ordered Purdy not to create any more
Web sites with names similar to trademarked names
owned by the companies and that don't alert Internet
users to nature of the Web site's content within the
domain name.
Purdy said Tuesday that he'll appeal the injunction.
He said he is buying addresses like
bloodycoca-cola.com or pepsideathmills.com to continue
his anti-abortion protest.
Purdy, who represented himself, argued that the
companies don't like what he has to say and that the
issue is one of free speech. He has said that he
opposes the Post's abortion rights editorial position
and Coke's contributions to Planned Parenthood. He
said it was impossible to criticize a company without
using its name.
Most of the sites, which divert traffic to
anti-abortion Web sites, were set up July 4. The sites
contain disclaimers and graphic images of aborted
fetuses.
Mercury News 7/23/02
Abortionismurder.org replies to Politech with list of
domains
7 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 15:03:59 -0400
7 To: politech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
7 Subject: FC: Abortionismurder.org replies to
Politech with list of domains
7 From: Declan McCullagh declan@xxxxxxxx
7 Cc: wpurdy@xxxxxxxxx
Previous Politech message:
"Abortionismurder.org buys domains similar in name to
newspapers"
http://www.politechbot.com/p-03763.html
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From: "William S. Purdy" wpurdy@xxxxxxxxx
To: declan@xxxxxxxx
Subject: current list of domain names owned by William
S. Purdy - subject
of your letter "FC: Abortionismurder.org buys domains
similar in name to
newspapers"
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 14:02:52 -0500
Dear Declan,
For your information her is the current list of domain
names I now own and
where they are currently pointing. I also have
included a small
dissertation from ME on the logic of the law which you
are welcome to quote
or not quote as you prefer.
Kim Gandy is the President of NOW - National
Organization for Women which
promotes abortion every chance it gets and has sued
Joe Sheidler of Prolife
Action League under RICO (first time ever RICO has
been used to quell civil
disobedience activities) and which case is now before
the U.S. Supreme court
to be heard this coming fall.
You will see that I bought several new ones and they
are now all pointing as
stated below. Except for www.ACLU.cc the new ones
are, I believe,
bullet-proof because they make a statement - free
speech statements within
the domain name like WalmartSUCKS.com which the courts
allow only my
statement is like ABORTaclu.com etc. Then I have some
like NOWaborts.com
which still clearly make a statement. But nowSAYS is
a little different in
that it the reader must wonder, "Does NOW really say
that?" - and 'that'
being "Abortion Is Murder". (NOTE: I am now pointing
some domain names to
the www.AbortionCams.com site which was featured on
Peter Jennings last
Thursday evening news.)
I included the ACLU because they are suppose to defend
Free Speech so we'll
see how they act when it is their ox that is being
gored. The ALCU has
generally been very quiet when prolife individual
speech freedoms have been
trampled on, and they are rabidly pro-choice in all of
their positions.
The News Organizations (these were specifically used
because of their
editorial support for abortion) is extremely
interesting, and may become
quite intriguing and may forever change the way that
American individuals
can rebut large and powerful newspapers' editorials
and positions. Think
about it, that is all I am doing when I buy a domain
name
WashingtonPostSAYS.com and then it points to 'Abortion
Is Murder' - or my
own rebuttal page on an issue. It is the same when I
buy a domain name
ABORTwashingtonpost.com and have it point to an
anti-abortion site - I am
making the statement that the Washington Post is in
error in their position
and one should 'abort' their position on that issue.
I think the courts are
going to really wrestle with it since it has been
established that I could
have bought (but they bought it first)
WashingtonPost.sucks.com and pointed
it anywhere.
I know you see all the ramifications in what I am
doing, and how if even
partially successful in the courts which I believe I
will be, how it could
start a whole new manner in which to "speak" and
protest on an issue, or how
to protest and rebut an organization's position on and
issue - any issue.
The whole SUCKS thing started when a biker got mad at
a Wal-Mart or K-Mart
that refused to return his money on a faulty product,
went home and bought
the domain name WalmartSUCKS.com, survived all the
First Amendment court
battles, and the rest is history. I could for example
buy a domain names
FUCKwal-mart or SUCKwashington-post or HATEwal-mart or
UpYOURSwashingtonpost
AND they would be bullet-proof under the First
Amendment rulings. I do know
I will have a harder time with the 'exact name'
domains that do NOT make a
statement in the domain name itself, but my position
will be that putting
together the domain name with the site to which they
are pointing, they do
make a statement.
So far I have received certified or express Cease and
Desist letters from
Washington Post (two letters), Usa Today, Minneapolis
Star Tribune, Pepsi,
and McDonalds. I expect they'll be in Federal Court
this week for Temporary
Restraining Orders and the like. Because of the Free
Speech issues, I can't
help but think the News Organizations are debating
whether to pursue me on
www.NameSAYS domain names, even though the Washington
Post, USA Today, and
Minneapolis Star Tribune all mentioned the SAYS domain
names in their
letters.
Well that is it. Thank you for your interest.
Yours truly,
William S. Purdy
What follows are the domains that were affected by
William Purdy in 2002. I believe many of these have
been released to their owners.
ACLU
www.ACLU.cc - at this time points to
http://www.abortionismurder.org/special.shtml
www.ACLUaborts.com - at this time points to
http://www.abortioncams.com/index.htm
www.acluMURDERS.com - at this time points to
http://www.abortionismurder.org/special.shtml
www.acluSAYS.com - at this time points to
http://www.abortionismurder.org/special.shtml
Washington Post
www.WashingtonPostMURDERS.com - at this time points to
http://www.abortionismurder.org/special.shtml
http://www.ABORTwashingtonpost.com/ - at this time
points to
http://www.abortionismurder.org/special.shtml
http://www.WashingtonPost.cc at this time points to
http://www.abortioncams.com/index.htm
http://www.WashingtonPost.ws at this time points to
http://www.abortioncams.com/index.htm
www.My-WashingtonPost.com -
http://www.abortionismurder.org/special.shtml
www.WashingtonPostSays.com - at this time points to
http://www.abortionismurder.org/special.shtml
Minneapolis Star Tribune
www.StarTribuneKNOWS.com - at this time points to
http://www.abortionismurder.org/special.shtml
www.ABORTstartribune.com - at this time points to
http://www.abortioncams.com/index.htm
www.StarTribuneABORTS.com - at this time points to
http://www.abortioncams.com/index.htm
www.StarTribunes.com - at this time points to
http://www.abortioncams.com/
www.StarTribuneSays.com - at this time points to
http://www.abortionismurder.org/special.shtml
USA Today
www.USATodaySays.com - at this time points to
http://www.abortioncams.com/index.htm
http://www.ABORTusaToday.com/ - at this time points to
http://www.abortionismurder.org/special.shtml
Chicago Tribune
www.MyChicagoTribune.com - at this time points to
http://www.abortioncams.com/index.htm
Alan Colmes
http://www.TheAlanColmesShow.com - at this time
points to
http://www.abortionismurder.org/notconvinced.shtml
www.AlanColmes.org - at this time points to
http://www.abortioncams.com/
NOW and it's president Kim Gandy
www.NationalOrganizationForWomen.com - at this time
points to
http://www.abortioncams.com/
www.NOWsays.com - at this time points to
http://www.abortionismurder.org/notconvinced.shtml
www.NOWaborts.com - at this time points to
http://www.abortioncams.com/index.htm
www.abortNOW.com -
http://www.abortionismurder.org/special.shtml
www.KimGandySAYS.com - at this time points to
http://www.abortionismurder.org/special.shtml
www.KimGandy.org - at this time points to
http://www.abortioncams.com/index.htm
Planned Parenthood and it's teen internet magazine
TeenWire
www.abortPlannedParenthood.com - at this time points
to
http://www.abortioncams.com/index.htm
www.TeensWire.com - at this time points to
http://www.abortionismurder.org/notconvinced.shtml
www.TeenWires.com - at this time points to
http://www.abortionismurder.org/notconvinced.shtml
www.TeenWire.biz - at this time points to
http://www.abortionismurder.org/notconvinced.shtml
www.TeenWire.info - at this time points to
http://www.abortionismurder.org/notconvinced.shtml
Other abortion-neutral names being used but not
because of any stand they
have taken on abortion.
www.DrinkCoke.org - at this time points to
http://www.abortionismurder.org/notconvinced.shtml
www.MyCoca-Cola.com - at this time points to
http://www.abortionismurder.org/notconvinced.shtml
www.MyMcDonalds.com - at this time points to
http://www.abortionismurder.org/special.shtml
www.MyPepsi.org - at this time points to
http://www.abortionismurder.org/special.shtml
www.PepsiSays.com - at this time points to
http://www.abortionismurder.org/notconvinced.shtml
Chicago SunTimes Article
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-abort11.html
Deceptive names promote anti-abortion site
July 11, 2002
BY KATE N. GROSSMAN STAFF REPORTER
An anti-abortion activist is buying up Internet domain
names with slight variations on names of major news
outlets, businesses and the National Organization for
Women and linking them to a Web site profiling
gruesome pictures of bloody, aborted fetuses.
In the last week, William Purdy, a self-described free
speech advocate and "abortion abolitionist" has bought
about 30 names. They include references to the Chicago
Tribune, the Washington Post, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, actor
Gary Coleman and commentator Alan Colmes.
Purdy said he targeted businesses and individuals that
he considers to be pro-choice.
Several of these organizations are now on the attack,
working quickly to remove their names from those
bought by Purdy. Purdy's domain names link to
abortionismurder. org, a site affiliated with an
anti-abortion group with the same name, which
highlights a picture of a fetus with its head cut off.
"It's typical of the behavior of the anti-abortion
zealots," said NOW President Kim Gandy, whose
organization is considering legal action. "Lies and
misrepresentations are part of their stock in trade."
The Washington Post sent Purdy a "cease and desist"
letter Monday, and the Minneapolis public schools are
pursuing legal action against him. The Chicago Tribune
released a statement distancing itself from the site,
saying Purdy has "misappropriated" the paper's name.
Purdy, of South St. Paul, Minn., a retired Amtrak
engineer, says he won't back down.
"I don't have a lawyer because I don't need one," said
Purdy, who has been arrested but not convicted
multiple times for shouting anti-abortion slogans at
former President Bill Clinton, presidential candidate
Michael Dukakis and others.
"I have free speech rights protected by the
Constitution," he said.
Not so fast, two law professors said. If this goes to
court, "there's a lot going against him," said
Jennifer Granick of the Center for Internet and
Society at Stanford Law School.
"If the name is similar to a trademark, and you have
no good reason for using it, you generally have to
give [the domain name] up," she said, citing the
federal Anti-Cybersquatting Act.
In 1997, for example, a New York court ruled that a
defendant wasn't entitled to use
plannedparenthood.com.
Abortionismurder.org has been sued for cybersquatting
multiple times but has given up the adopted domain
names before the cases reached court, said Thomas P.
Fitch, the group's director.
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CONCLUSION
Again, what path should I take against this abuser
when the system supports his actions?
Please help.
Thank you for reading this long message.