Robbie Martin aka videohoax behind Dishonest Creepy Trolling

No, I'm not "exposing" Mr. Martin...he  "exposed" himself.

A little back ground...

Back before I understood the 911 Truth gig was a scam, I wrote a piece published at 9/11 Blogger  titled:  "Heroes: The Metaphor and Evolution in 911 Activism Part 1" .  The commenter "videohoax", a dishonest troll, commented very strangely. One can see the original post here, where the user link is :

http://911blogger.com/users/videohoax

Now if one goes to that URL, one will be sent to Robbie Martin's profile:

Robbie Martin

History

Member for

8 years 23 weeks

Blog

View recent blog entries

And sure enough, if one goes to the ghostpage of the blog, http://911blogger.com/node/19332  , there he is.

Comparison :

 I had no idea my troll was Abby Martin's brother.  Oh, yeh, it's that Robbie Martin:

Iraq Beheading Video Hoax Press Release - Vanderford ...
videohoax.ctyme.com/
This is the first episode of Media Roots radio with hosts Abby and Robbie Martin. First we introduce each other and explain our personal political awakenings ...

So "videhoax" is a reference to the belief the Iraq beheading video is fake.  And this guy thinks it's smart to play creepy games on the Internet while his sister is exploiting a mentally unwell woman to push the conspiracy theories. That looks more and more like funding for a lifestyle...

This is exploitation, pure and simple.  If Martin was a real journalist, she'd have done her research on Lindauer and discovered some disturbing things:

 She was jailed for about a year but was released from custody in 2006 after another judge ruled that the government couldn't force her to be medicated for her delusions so she could stand trial.

In agreeing with the psychiatrist's finding, Preska noted the defendant once stuffed tissues into her mouth when she was admonished not to speak out during a hearing without consulting her lawyer.

 Martin might also become aware Lindauer was unable to answer questions put to her by the Occupy community:

  2 points by SLindauer (12) 3 years ago

I was fulfilling the role usually handled by diplomats. I would communicate messages back and forth between U.S> Intelligence & Libya/Iraq. The Arab govts greatly appreciated my work at the U.N. against sanctions, and I was well known on the Security Council. Whether they liked my politics depended on their position on sanctions, but I was well known there. It's only the American public that was ignorant of what I had done for years.
When the CIA got warnings about 9/11, in April & May of 2001, I was ordered to deliver threats of War to Iraq's diplomats at the United Nations-- in the event that Iraq discovered intelligence about the conspiracy & failed to pass it back through my back channel. I was instructed to say the threat originated, and I quote "at the highest levels of government above the CIA Director and above the Secretary of State." That was the exact wording.
The Bush White House was already setting up Iraq. Of course Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Again, even if you're tired of 9/11, you've got to know what actually happened, so that you can understand why the War on Terror has been a public fraud to exaggerate White House & Congressional performance on national security. You can't fight back without the facts. You don't need all the details about 9/11 to do that. But you have to know that it was an act of public deception in total. The whole thing was a con job on the American public.

  1 points by Democracydriven (658) 3 years ago

Thanks for the response Susan but you forgot to answer my questions.
What exactly is a back channel?
Who were you actually working for and who was paying your expenses?
How did you end up in this back channel position?
I am really curious as to how somebody could end up in such a influential position.

After three years, no response.  That by itself suggests Lindauer was being "handled" or coached by one of the frauds.  If she was doing this on her own, she'd have been allowed to ramble until she was banned.  Her coach probably noticed this was not a community that would swallow tin foil easily. 

But that's idle speculation.  What isn't speculation:  it's obvious that Lindauer is not credible.


I've written before I thought Abby Martin was being played by Russia Today.  I'm forced to go farther and conclude Martin is not a journalist, serious or otherwise,  but is a Libertarian opportunist.  Bringing us to her brother, dear Robbie.

Both support Ron Paul, even years after being proven beyond a shadow of the doubt, Paul is a fringe rightwing loon who hobnobs with Nazi sympathizers and made millions publishing his racist newletters. Newsletters Lew Rockwell, another Libertarian "truther" profited from:

In 1984, as he left Congress, Paul also set up Ron Paul & Associates (RP&A), with his wife and daughter and his former congressional chief of staff, Lew Rockwell. The next year, RP&A began publishing several publications including The Ron Paul Investment Letter, The Ron Paul Survival Report, and The Ron Paul Political Report. By 1993, RP&A was earning $940,000 per year.

Yet Martin and Martin are proud "Voices of Liberty, Powered by Ron Paul":

Robbie Martin - Voices of Liberty, Powered by Ron Paul www.voicesofliberty.com/bio/robbie-martin/
Sep 9, 2014 - Robbie Martin. http://www.mediaroots.org. Co-host of Media Roots Radio with Abby Martin. Founder of RecordLabelRecords.org. Writer for ...

This would be laughably hokey, except for the fact that Libertarian Liberty Loons are almost always pushing a hidden racist, reactionary, agenda.

Not hard to find.  Either these two intrepid "journalists" are too incompetent to discover this on their own, or, much more likely, they know they're part of a dishonest propaganda machine connected to sleazy racist frauds. 

Let's go back to dear, dear Robbie's comments on my blog and see what the point of them could be.

  i feel sorry for whoever

i feel sorry for whoever read that rant!

Submitted by videohoax on Tue, 02/10/2009 - 11:48am

Well!  I never!

But seriously, Robbie aka VH seems to be trolling for discouragement by being dismissive and bitchy.  Little did he know, had he simply been honest about being knowingly involved in a right-wing racist fraud, I would have fled the so called "movement" a long, long time ago.  

But Robbie wanted to keep that under his hat.  Not only that, but he was keenly interested in recruiting leftists to the cause.

  i think with the right

i think with the right marketing push and distribution chain this film could get just as popular as some of the recent liberal/left leaning documentaries like Freedom to Facism, Why we Fight, and Who killed the electric car. I wonder what the disinformation people are doing beyond these initial screenings. I firmly believe we could see something like this at sundance or even cannes
thoughts?

videohoax on Fri, 09/08/2006 - 5:53pm.

But when he knew he was talking to a left liberal he's dismissive and bitchy?  He's doing it wrong.

Of course the real reason was, by this time, those wittingly involved in the truther fraud has sussed out I would never push Ron Paul, would never let Holocaust denial slide, would never swallow any "red pills".  Robbie/videohoax wasn't the first passive/aggressive "troll" trying to tell me, via a code so obscure Alan Turning would be at a loss, that I was unwelcome.  As I've said before, these people have no one to blame but themselves:

The problem with using left political rhetoric, slogans and ideas is, um...well, the obvious: they set themselves up to get leftists interested in what they had to say.  And if they set up their con well(and for several years they did), those leftists are going to get involved and expect them to walk the lefty anti-racist talk.  And they'll be very unhappy when the movement "leaders" refuse to denounce, and kick out the racists(Barrett, Fetzer, Bollyn, Thorn, Dice, Tarpley, etc, ad nausum).   

Someone didn't think that one through.

Now, with Robbie's wee correction to his 911blogger account, I'm aware of yet one more fraud to add to the list.  A few searches will show his sister is promoted on this website:

http://mycatbirdseat.com/2014/06/hillary-clinton-2016-a-recipe-for-endless-war/

My Catbird Seat June 18, 2014 1
Abby Martin calls out former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton over her lucrative speaking tour in the run up to the 2016 presidential elections as well as outlining the former first lady’s corporate ties

On the same website, Merlin Miller is a contributor:
http://mycatbirdseat.com/2014/05/traitors-in-our-government-allegiance-to-israel/

Traitors in our Government Allegiance to Israel

Merlin Miller May 10, 2014 4 There's a fifth column in America. A Trojan Horse within our laws, composed of dual citizens and foreign nationals.

 Merlin Miller is a racist with direct ties to the White Supremacist American Freedom Party.

This disgusts me to no end.  Of course Robbie and Abby will plead they have no control over who supports their stuff, and how unfair they're being picked on here, "guilt by association", etc.   But maybe they should have thought about that before claiming to be "powered by" a racist scumbag like Ron Paul.

Mind, I would have never known that I was the focus of Robbie's attention if the owners of 911blogger had deleted my account and comments because I do not want anything I've said going to support what is now obviously a fraud.  That request was made some time ago.  I would never have noticed who my troll was if they had been responsive.  Maybe the Martins would like a wee chat with the 911blogger owners about that....

And the owners are perfectly capable of removing blogs/comments/accounts.  For instance, they've removed the only one I left live...about how Craig 'Killtown' Lazo is friends with Lew Rockwell, Ron Paul's right hand man, proving the truther fraud goes to the top of the Libertarian Party:

If this is it....Part 5- “Killtown”, Lew Rockwell and the Ludwig von Mises Institute

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Showing the "never delete" policy is a lie and Keogh and Orangatan are hypocrites.  I suspect it was one comment in particular they found troublesome:

Possibly the most important message in this blog--

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/26/ron-paul-95-percent-of-black-men-are...
Indeed, it is shocking to consider the uniformity of opinion among blacks in this country. Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5% of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty, and the end of welfare and affirmative action…. Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the “criminal justice system,” I think we can safely assume that 95% of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.
“But, whoever actually wrote them, the newsletters I saw all had one thing in common: They were published under a banner containing Paul’s name, and the articles (except for one special edition of a newsletter that contained the byline of another writer) seem designed to create the impression that they were written by him--and reflected his views. What they reveal are decades worth of obsession with conspiracies, sympathy for the right-wing militia movement, and deeply held bigotry against blacks, Jews, and gays. In short, they suggest that Ron Paul is not the plain-speaking antiwar activist his supporters believe they are backing--but rather a member in good standing of some of the oldest and ugliest traditions in American politics.”
“To understand Paul’s philosophy, the best place to start is probably the Ludwig von Mises Institute, a libertarian think tank based in Auburn, Alabama. The institute is named for a libertarian Austrian economist, but it was founded by a man named Lew Rockwell, who also served as Paul’s congressional chief of staff from 1978 to 1982.”
“The politics of the organization are complicated--its philosophy derives largely from the work of the late Murray Rothbard, a Bronx-born son of Jewish immigrants from Poland and a self-described “anarcho-capitalist” who viewed the state as nothing more than “a criminal gang”--but one aspect of the institute’s worldview stands out as particularly disturbing: its attachment to the Confederacy.”
And

Now I must regretfully caution all 9/11 truth activists of African descent, or who identify as African descent or who LOOK LIKE they could be of African descent: there are bono fide racists(er, supporters of “the Confederacy”) operating in 9/11 truth and we know how dangerous racists can be. Under no circumstances let anyone manipulate you into surrendering your anonymity unless it is your informed decision.

http://coljennysparks.blogspot.com/2010/06/if-this-is-itpart-5-killtown-...

Submitted by Col. Jenny Sparks on Wed, 06/02/2010 - 5:29pm.

Now you have to think why would anyone who is not a racist want to hide proof of racists in the 911 truth movement?

It's all good...anyone can still read that blog here:

 http://coljennysparks.blogspot.com/2010/06/if-this-is-itpart-5-killtown-lew.html


As for Robbie Martin aka videohoax, I should feel sad for him wasting his life on this fraudulent conspiracy crap.

Then I remember he almost certainly knows it's a front to organize the fringe racist right.  He is likely one of the parties behind the heavy Russian webtraffic, here and here, as his Facebook page has him actually living in Russia:

https://www.facebook.com/FluorescentGrey

• Podcast & Video Producer, Writer at Media Roots

  1953 to present

   
• Lives in Molokanskiy, Orenburgskaya Oblast', Russia

In any case, it's a lesson in how not to do diplomacy.  If Robbie's someone's useful idiot, he might consider dropping the gig.

Maybe the next time Robbie thinks about luring leftists into a fringe right propaganda machine just so he can try to bully them when they don't play ball, he'll think twice.

But I doubt it. The grandiose entitlement of "truther" frauds seems without end....



For more on the bankrupt toxicity of the Libertarian Party read this great article:

What's wrong with libertarianism

By their trolling they shall be known...

Time for a wee retrospective on "trolls" and how they reinforce the 9/11 "truth" scam.      

Recently "videohoax" has become more active at 911blogger as a champion of Glenn Greenwald:

http://911blogger.com/news/2014-01-01/risks-trusting-snowden-story

 Really surprising, this is a typical baseless smear job

I've enjoyed Kevin Ryan's work as well as Sibel Edmonds. I watch Corbett's podcast pretty regularly, but recently with this jumping on the band wagon of essentially calling one of the most important journalists we have a shill or somehow working for the enemy has turned me off to almost all of their work. In my eyes it has significantly hurt all of their credibility in the 9/11 truth movement and elsewhere. Nothing in Ryan's article proves anything.
Pretty sad that someone has effectively caused a divide and conquer scenario with one of the best allies we have outside of our 9/11 truth bubble. Greenwald may not be openly for 9/11 truth but the net results of his work have caused a lot of damage to the united states credibility, and ultimately this should be the same goal we all share. Very unfortunate and embarrassing day to consider myself part of the movement.

videohoax on Sun, 01/05/2014 - 12:38pm.

Last I heard from videohoax was a weird comment they left on one of my articles that we'll examine later:

http://911blogger.com/node/19332

It was titled:  "Heroes: The Metaphor and Evolution in 911 Activism Part 1"  and can be found here. 

An excerpt for context and tone:

In The Mighty Wurlizer, one of the ways the CIA managed activist groups was to outright fund them. The catch was only a handful of people in these groups were “witting”, that is, knew their funding came from government sources. Today, the more likely source would be a front corporation with a feel good name, like “The Alliance for Social Justice and Stuff”. Its possible that the number of witting people could be increased in this altered model.
So even in your most infiltrated group, most members will not know it. But there will be clues. Witting and invested members( “made men” in the mafia) will always try to cover up problems instead of solving them. They will also be on the front lines to get rid of anyone who comes too close to the operation. They will set up “theater” where some members will fight others to convince the unwitting the group is a random collection of sincere activists. They can make their own internal disputes this way, and have the added advantage of being completely controlled. This sounds a bit abstract; here’s a fictitious scenario showing a possible operation starting in usenet and moving to real life and back to usnet...

This was written before I understood the "truth" movement was a right-wing front and scam.  But the techniques are still used, because scammers of all sorts use these techniques.

This article was received lukewarmly, though the future owner of the website was supportive.  Even encouraging(ironic considering the latest turn of events):

 I've been following this.

I noticed last week they introduced the concept of RFID chips implanted in people. Hiro and his friend Ando each had them and Ando had his forcibly put in against his will, but was assured he'd not regret it. I'm wondering what way this show is going to go. I shouldn't be surprised really if NBC or GE is airing it. Glad to see you analyzing this aspect of our pop culture though Colonel. Keep it up.

Submitted by Orangutan. on Mon, 02/09/2009 - 1:33pm

"Keep it up"?  Surely he regrets those rash words now....

Then "videohoax" pops up to lead with this nonsensical bit:

 i feel sorry for whoever

i feel sorry for whoever read that rant!

Submitted by videohoax on Tue, 02/10/2009 - 11:48am

Passive aggressive much?

Videohoax did't always leave such comments.  They used to sound quite civil:

http://911blogger.com/news/2006-09-08/my-review-9-11-press-truth

yeah i loved it

just got my copy in the mail yesterday. I was very impressed by how effective it was without mentioning demolition, wargames, or fake hijackers. I think this is the best 911 truth movie ive seen since Loose Change 2.
Still waiting for my copy of improbable collapse, its been over a month and i still have not recieved it in the mail.

videohoax on Fri, 09/08/2006 - 12:45pm.

 on bergers website it says

on bergers website it says it should already be out technically, who did you hear this from? I wish i would have made it out to the oakland showing, i live in fremont but luckily my copy arrived in the mail on the same night.

videohoax on Fri, 09/08/2006 - 5:47pm.

 they are two entirely

they are two entirely different films, one is a direct implication that is an inside job false flag attack (greatconspiracy) and one lets the viewer's imagination fill in the blanks on what happened but directly implies a cover up (911pressfortruth). They have a different agenda and i think they each do the job well, however i think PRess for truth would be significantly more effective in converting fence sitters, people on the left, and even republicans that the 9/11 investigation was an obvious coverup. While i am a firm Mihopper, i think its good to see a different style of film made about 911 with high production values.

videohoax on Fri, 09/08/2006 - 5:50pm.

That last one I've highlighted for the evidence these people deliberately had the idea of recruiting from the left for their right wing front.  Videohoax also fishes for feedback about targetting this audiance:

 i think with the right

i think with the right marketing push and distribution chain this film could get just as popular as some of the recent liberal/left leaning documentaries like Freedom to Facism, Why we Fight, and Who killed the electric car. I wonder what the disinformation people are doing beyond these initial screenings. I firmly believe we could see something like this at sundance or even cannes
thoughts?

videohoax on Fri, 09/08/2006 - 5:53pm.

 [Never mind "From Freedom to Fascism" was NOT a left documentary, but came from the fringe, crazed Libertarian right....]

But if videohoax is so concerned  about the  "disinformation people", then why did he leave a dismissive comment about my article about the kind of people pushing disinformatuon?

 i feel sorry for whoever

i feel sorry for whoever read that rant!

Submitted by videohoax on Tue, 02/10/2009 - 11:48am

This comment is dishonest:  the article is not a rant and can't be mistaken for one by any reasonable person.  Therefore part of the purpose is to start an argument.    This is manipulative. 

Who does this?  People sucked into the "truth" movement are conditioned to think "agents" or COINTELPRO.  But because it's a fraud, we know there are no agents.  Since there are no agents, and this comment is pointless except as lame flamebait, we can safely assume  vidoehoax" is pushing and protecting the fraud. 

It's one thing to spread useful paranoia among the "sheeple"  that play them off each other.   It's quite another to describe the dynamics of the fraud, whether it's used by "agents" or conartists, such that site users will be able to see when they're being manipulated.  I'm sure that's what "videohoax" objected to: an article that helped people not only see through the fog, but risked them discovering the fraud.  

It's interesting to note from obtained traffic records"videohoax" only visited the thread for  a minute and a half:    

Visit Length:1 min 34 secs

That includes the time s/he took to comment on a 1000+ word document . Either they were sent a copy to read, or they came with an agenda to leave a dismissive comment because of the author, hoping to demoralize or discourage them.


The irony is, had these clowns used this tactic in late 2007, it might have sorta worked.  Instead they used the rightwing-cult-scare tactics of video stalking and intimidation...guaranteeing people like me wouldn't leave until they knew exactly who was doing this shit.  If it had been the governement, I would be sitting on a nice fat settlement right now.

But it's not the government.  It's a cluster of fringe conspiracy frauds terrified of being caught.  As they should be.  Because I frankly don't care where the fat settlement  check comes from.


Final note of "videohoaxs" return:  they post less than 15 mins after a comment about cult leader Webster Tarpley and don't blink an eye:

 Tarpley has been saying this for months...

Tarpley sums up how to tell a limited hangout operation in his latest World Crisis Radio broadcast...
- The "whistleblower" has a "Damascus Road conversion"
- Nothing new is revealed
- Nothing is revealed about the big covert ops (like 9-11)
- No politician gets canned
- The "whistleblower" becomes an immediate media darling while real whistleblowers struggle to get noticed...
...listen at http://tarpley.net/world-crisis-radio/

jimwilkie on Sun, 01/05/2014 - 12:22pm.

Videohoax knows which side his bread is buttered on.

[Edit:  it's come to my attention some funny editing is going in in that thread.  Now "videohoax" has a comment addressing this one:

yes the same Tarpley who said

yes the same Tarpley who said that Cosmos and Jim Hoffman were basically both government agents with absolutely no evidence (they called out Tarpley for his signed petition scandal) during a 9/11 truth conference.

videohoax on Sun, 01/05/2014 - 12:45pm.

I know for a fact that comment didn't exist at 12:55pm.  Unfortunately I didn't think it was screen worthy to capture...but someone running the website thinks traffic to this thread is worrying enough to get someone to address this.   No, Cosmos is not a government agent. I doubt Hoffman is either.  But I know Hoffman's wife is a con artist...  

Another new comment from videohoax(is this guy a speed typist?), with an amusing reply from jkeogh:

 Glad to see others agree that

Glad to see others agree that this is getting kinda ridiculous. I wonder why Ryan Sibel and Corbett decided to all damage their credibility so heavily by jumping on board baseless Mainstream media style smears? Really sad, because up until this point I saw them as some of the best researchers we had.

videohoax on Sun, 01/05/2014 - 12:40pm.

»

Journalism

Dissenting voices and alternative points of view are good things.
BTW I went and found your first comment (sept 2006) where you explain your username has nothing to do with no-planes, but I bet most folks would assume that's what it's about... it's easy to change if you like.

jkeogh on Sun, 01/05/2014 - 3:37pm.

This is rank hypocrisy after the webmaster and mods were told to delete all  posts from one account because the user does not want to be associated with their fraudulent website.

Not only did they refuse to do this, but they invented a new rule March 2012 that everything posted to the website is there forever:

http://911blogger.com/rules 

GENERAL RULES: POSTING AND COMMENTING

Posts and comments made on 911blogger.com are stored forever. Material generally remains published unless it is determined to be in violation of the rules.

So how does does wee "videohoax" get a waiver?  Because he registered before the rule change?  That can't be it because the account requesting deletion of posts was also registered before the rule change.

There's only one reason for a rule like that, which  I'll explore in a future blog.

For now let me note Keogh is lying:  videohoaxes earliest post has nothing to do with "no planes".    But there are "no planers" nearby his earlier posts, including my bestest buddy Craig "KT" Lazo:

 Implosion world PDF and 911myths.com need some debunking

I think this website is one of the lower quality debunkingf sites out there. Paul watson should go after 911 myths.com (which has a lot more comprehensive info) and someone, probably steven jones or an explosives expert needs to debunk the PDF that implosionworld wrote recently. These are the new ammunition for the debunking community because the popular mechanics stuff isnt working for them anymore. The implosion world piece seems fairly credible, but id love to see an expert tear it to shreds.
"Stop giving attention to the "no plane theory" disinfo agents like Nico Haupt, Morgan Reynolds, Shayler, killtown, CB_Brooklyn, webfairy, Holmgren, and others who are sabotaging this movement, either by sheer stupidity or intentionally." - V for Vendetta

videohoax on Fri, 09/22/2006 - 2:49pm.

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""no plane theory" disinfo agents like...killtown"

Whoever believes that I'm a disinfo agent is a complete and utter moron.

Killtown on Fri, 09/22/2006 - 3:42pm.

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I'll vouch for that

You did a lot of great work!
Thanks, man.

bruce1337 on Fri, 09/22/2006 - 3:47pm.]

Note: as a results of complaints, Justin Keogh appears to have destroyed his contact email address.  At least it bounces and claims the host doesn't exist.