LIKE MAYBE PETHERICK WAS *FORCED* TO DO SOMETHING HE DID NOT *WANT* TO DO...
ALSO HIS REASONS ARE RATHER "LAME" - ALL NEWSPAPERS GO THROUGH THE MOTIONS OF BEING ACCUSED OF PRINTING FALSE STORIES... I USED TO WORK WITH ONE OF THE LARGEST NEWSPAPERS.
NOT SAYING FALSE STORIES ARE NEVER PRINTED- THEY ARE, BUT TERMINATION BY EMAIL IS JUVENILE AND HIS WORDS ARE TOO...
: PRESS RELEASE
: October 9, 2006
: Christopher Bollyn Fired from American Free Press
: Christopher Bollyn of American Free Press was fired by the
: managing editor Chris Petherick on Saturday morning,
: October 7, 2006.
: Bollyn, who has written for AFP (formerly The Spotlight) since
: June 2000, was terminated in an email memo from Petherick
: "effective immediately."
: Petherick's letter of dismissal gave two reasons for firing
: Bollyn: His first reason: "Our reporters would not
: dream of submitting a false story. The same cannot be said
: for you, however."
: Petherick implies that I have submitted false stories. I have,
: therefore, asked him to clarify exactly which stories of
: mine were factually incorrect.
: Petherick's second reason was that I was a disloyal employee
: who had accused AFP of being under the control of some
: other agency. He said, "By accusing AFP of being under
: the control of some other agency, you lie."
: I have asked Petherick to show where and when I have accused
: "AFP of being under the control of some other
: agency."
: As of this point, Petherick has failed to clarify his
: accusations and statements.
: Petherick concluded his notice of dismissal saying, "For
: the reasons above, please do not bother to submit anything
: else to this newspaper. In addition, we will no longer be
: able to pay your salary.
: "This is effective immediately.
: Christopher J. Petherick
: Managing Editor/AFP"
: It should be noted that Bollyn was fired some 6 weeks after
: being attacked and TASERed by undercover police at his
: home. The identities of the three men involved in the
: police provocation and assault were kept secret for over a
: month.
: American Free Press has collected funds at its office in
: Washington for a legal defense fund for Bollyn. Bollyn has
: repeatedly requested a list of the donors in order to thank
: them personally. As of this point Bollyn has not received a
: list and has no idea how much money has been raised for his
: forthcoming legal battle.
: During American Free Press's recent "First
: Amendment" conference in Washington, Bollyn was told
: to stay away by the senior staff of American Free Press.
: Bollyn was told that Michael Piper had given an ultimatum
: that either he or Bollyn would attend. If Bollyn were to
: attend, Piper said he would boycott the conference.
: Bollyn's arrest was followed by an immediate and intense
: attack on his character by Scott Makufka (a.k.a. Victor
: Thorn) and Lisa Guliani of WING TV. Bollyn first became
: aware of WING TV's character assassination campaign against
: him on Piper's radio show in which he was aggressively
: interrogated by Makufka.
: Makufka and Guliani also write for AFP and its sister
: publication The Barnes Review. They have on-going book
: publishing and sales arrangements with AFP. WING TV has
: worked closely with Piper and published a book of his
: called Dirty Secrets (2005).
: Bollyn had only recently started to defend himself from the
: attacks of Makufka and Guliani by posting factual
: information about them and their background on the Rumor
: Mill News website.
: WING TV's "character assassination" attacks of
: Bollyn are on-going in different forums and continue to
: this day. AFP has done nothing to stop their attacks
: against Bollyn.
: Photo: Christopher Bollyn (left) and Professor Steven E. Jones
: of Brigham Young University discussing 9/11 evidence in
: Provo, Utah in March 2006. Bollyn and Jones have
: collaborated on a scientific investigation of the molten
: metal found in the rubble of the World Trade Center five
: weeks after 9/11.
: Bollyn first reported the discovery of molten metal in the
: summer of 2002 after speaking with two of the contractors
: who oversaw the removal of the debris. Jones has determined
: that the metal is from a Thermite reaction, evidence of a
: controlled demolition of the three WTC towers.
: In the past month both Jones and Bollyn have been removed from
: their jobs after being attacked and publicly humiliated for
: their 9/11 research. In both cases, a radio show was used
: to set up a situation in order to malign the two
: researchers and question their credibility.
