Strom may or may not have been set up by the feds in 2007 when he was arrested for possession of child pornography, and some other charges that were dismissed. I was aware of the case at the time and thought it was fishy. I may be remembering wrong, but I believe child porn was spammed onto his forum, got deleted by him or the mods, but was still in his browser's cache from loading the page when the feds raided. It was 10 pics, he took a plea deal and did 2 years in prison.

At the October 2007 federal trial on charges of "attempting to coerce a 10-year-old girl into a sexual relationship by sending her anonymous gifts, driving past her house and writing lyrics to love songs declaring his desire to marry her", and of witness intimidation, Judge Norman K. Moon threw out both charges due to lack of evidence of witness tampering or solicitation of sex, but added that Strom, then in his early 50s, had engaged in questionable conduct.

Thanks for this one. An incredible and thought provoking read.

For whatever reason my mind always goes to these nooks and crannies, these few years that no U.S. or International history textbook I've ever read seems to want to say much about. We might call them "dead zones" of history

For example, there's a veritable wealth of writing on the time of the Revolutionary War, whole chapters of U.S. history texts, entire college courses and advanced disciplines with that period as the whole minor degree focus. Then you move to around the 1820s and past and how much do you ever find? It gets hazy until the few years before the Civil War. Then, of course, a great period of illumination again, endless amounts of writing and coverage about a 4-6 year period essentially. So on and so forth.

My point is that these areas of our history were likely more important to our lives today than the ones we learn the most about which is precisely why we have less general knowledge about them. They've been intentionally obfuscated, darkened and erased from the common knowledge pool and finding information is often an esoteric practice that would involve physically going to find certain books in certain libraries to track down. Imagine any young person you've seen on TikTok trying to use the Dewey decimal system.

This has been done on purpose. Much like Soljinitsen's Gulag Archipelago, a widespread dissemination of knowledge from some of these "quiet" periods of history could provoke an international upheaval. That book itself was banned and may soon be again, along with Orwell's 1984, Huxley and whatever other texts or writings that could threaten revealing the designs or heritage of the order of global masters currently attempting to curry ultimate, everlasting power.

Anti-semitism and/or anti-racial mixing viewpoints are now regarded as being more than just antiquated but gone so far as to be not tolerated at all. We regard even reading such texts for the other information it might contain as unacceptable or testing the lines at best. Therefore, valuable and necessary history that is key to understanding what is happening currently is lost along with it. They are banning Gone With the Wind now, it won't be long until the erasers catch up to more recent history; indeed, we already see it happening.

Those quotes and passages from this article are invaluable finds, all taken from those "quiet" parts of history where all the real conflicts and evils were.

Thanks again to u/ashlanddog for giving us this!

Not original. Attribute proverbs, pls. Tired of people ripping off Jesus and King Solomon .