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From: aggreenjr@netscape.net (Al Green)
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Subject: They're Back
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The Mother vagante "orthodox" cult of all "orthodox" cults is back on line and just as looney as ever. http://www.theocacna.org/
They now claim to be THE patriarchate for North America! And they continue their libelous crapola against me:
http://www.theocacna.org/green.htm
It may be of interest that this cult lost its court fight to prevent other web sites from linking to their site without their "church" approval. ANY person can link to their site by name in any reference...positive or negative. The suit was won by an independent priest called Fr. Tony Begonja. You can read about this lawsuit victory for the web at http://www.ind-movement.org/lawsuit/index.html Al Green
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8DC44FE4F for I'll bet losing this lawsuit irritated the heck out of you guys. What
do youthink of the decision which lets anyone, including me, to link to your
site inpositive or negative terms?
Al
PS: Are you aware of the stuff below from Tony Begonya's web site?
Ind-Movement.org The Lawsuit: Case News Notebook
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2002.07.18 More detail:As I said a few days ago, this round, this case,
draws to a close, I think, at least for now: The magistrate's recommendation, archived at
http://www.ind-movement.org/lawsuit/pdfs/020617_recommend_on_mtd.pdf noted that
"It is difficult to believe that a reasonable Internet user would conclude that
the disparaging remarks on Defendant's web sites regarding Plaintiff's churches
and leaders were endorsed by Plaintiffs or that such remarks would likely cause
confusion as to their source." (p. 18).
His recommendation went further to defend fair use and freedom of speech on
the Internet: "Plaintiff's request for injunctive relief sweeps too broadly
under the guise of protecting Plaintiff's alleged copyrights. Applied literally,
Plaintiffs motion would prevent Defendants from using Plaintiffs' service mark
even under circumstances that would not be commerical in nature, or would not be
likely to cause confusion, or that might be protected under the fair use
doctrine. ... Fair use is also a limitation on a copyright owner's exclusive
right to reproduce copyrighted works. ... As a practical matter, it would be
extremely difficult for this court to fashion an order that would be certain not
to chill protected speech." (p. 20)
On June 24th, the Plaintiff's objected to the magistrate's findings. This
objection is posted at
http://www.ind-movement.org/lawsuit/pdfs/020620_pls_object_to_%20recom.pdf
Finally, on July 5th, U.S. District Judge Miller made his brief ruling.
Rather than deal with the Plaintiff's June 24th objection, Miller granted
Defendant Griffith-Mair's motion to dismiss for lack of venue -- which
automatically covers all Defendants -- and he denied Plaintiff's request for
"interlocutory injunction". Miller's ruling is posted at
http://www.ind-movement.org/lawsuit/pdfs/020705_order_on_recommend.pdf
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Disclaimer It appears much that was believed to be OCA involvement was
in fact the independent acts of Al Green who was excommunicated for "Theft of
Church Property" as the canons direct. Green claimed to be acting on behalf of
the OCA but the Metropolitan denied this to our attorney and our Metropolitan.
Theft of Property
Date: Fri, Nov 22, 2002, 5:50am Subject: oca/green theft of property
The Orthodox Church in America (OCA) is allegedly engaged in theft of
property as copyright and service mark infringement. OCA bishop Theodosius at
OCA headquarters in Syosset, New York refused to acknowledge the allegations.
Historically OCA has a checkered history as the continuation of the Soviet
Living Church that 65 years ago began operating a KGB front at St. Nicholas
church in Brooklyn, New York.
Recently released documents disclose that the church was under constant
surveillance by the U.S. government for over 40 years because it was "easy for
Agents of a Foreign Government to masquerade as Ethnic Orthodox clergy". The
church building itself was confiscated by the U.S.S.R. government "as property
of the Soviet Peoples" through elaborate, dubious, and uncontested court room
proceedings in 1930.
The infringement involves copyrights and service marks of other competing
orthodox churches on websites claiming that the competing churches are not
canonical. An orthodox church is canonical if it is recognized by Bartholomew,
Ecumenical Patriarch in Istanbul, who is the pope for the eastern orthodox
denomination. Some of the competing orthodox churches have independent
historical jurisdictions preceding the OCA appearance. Bartholomew refuses to
acknowledge the OCA and in his last visit to the U.S. snubbed them by not
attending a social bash with Theodosius.
The Russian Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow, Alexy, also shunned the OCA in his
last visit by refusing to meet Theodosius. The press reported that the failed
meeting was significant because since the collapse of the Soviet Union records
released there show that Alexy was a sovok-agent installed by the Kremlin for
political control of the church.
Alfred G. Green, Jr. of Endicott, New York was reportedly the agent for the
thefts. Green disclosed he was a member of OCA since leaving the Episcopal
church in 1973 and was a deacon, the clergy rank below a priest. Green then
qualified his statement by describing himself as "a retired deacon" and then
later denied he was an OCA deacon at all.
On the internet Green posed as an academic expert on writing but has no known
degrees. Green was a former stringer for newspapers in the Binghamton, New York
area and has done technical writing assignments for temporary service agencies
in New York and New Jersey. Green acknowledged he opened the internet account
websites that published the alleged infringements. The published documents are
written in a website language that has embedded on each page the attributes of
Green as "content compiler" and OCA as "content author".
The content of the websites is the same. OCA and Green list the churches by
name that compete with the OCA and exclude the service mark designations of some
which is allegedly service mark infringement. They then quote information from
the competing church publications without permission which is allegedly
copyright infringement. The net result of the alleged OCA and Green conspiracy
is to defame the competing churches, clergy, jurisdictions, and missions by any
means possible.
OCA and Green stated on some of the websites they were under no obligation to
recognize or respect the service marks and copyrights of the competing churches
because of fair use. That principle states limited quotations from copyrighted
material may be made without permission for purposes of literary review. However
OCA and Green quoted paragraph-long tracts for the expressed purpose of
defamation, purposely ignored service mark designations, and failed to obtain
the permissions required legally before publication of their defamatory
materials. OCA and Green are also allegedly engaged in theft of service by way
of hijacking website links. Each website has a public internet address. When one
website refers to another website address, the jargon is that one site links to
another. When OCA and Green on their site refer to the link of a competing
church site in order to defame that site and without the target site's
permission, the jargon is theft of service by hijacking links. Green repeatedly
published on the internet that he was proud of what he was doing under the
auspices of OCA "to expose non canonical churches". In the process, OCA and
Green apparently exposed themselves as non canonical. Service mark and copyright
infringement is illegal. Repeated attempts may result in federal criminal
prosecution, especially where collusion and conspiracy is proven. The FBI is
required to investigate allegations of copyright infringement. Since passage of
the Digital Millennium Computer Act, the federal law requires internet service
providers to register annually for a fee the name of an Agent for Copyright
Infringement. Internet service providers are becoming sensitive to service mark
and copyright infringement.
Websites by OCA and Green were removed rapidly by internet service providers.
In a period of five days alone from September 21-25, 1999, five websites
attributed to OCA and Green were removed by the following internet service
providers:
1. http://aggreen.net/orth_links/ortholink.html by the web authoring company
of Green's son, Lorne, through Light Realm Communications and UUNET Technologies
2.http://www.pronetisp.net/~aggreen/other-orthodox/other.html through Pronet
and AT&T WorldNet
3. http://verica.com/usr/aggreenj/otherorthodox/other.html through Marco
Spoerrle, Virtualis Systems, and Qwest Communications
4. http://verica.com/usr/aggreenj/otherorthodox/other2.html through Marco
Spoerrle, Virtualis Systems, and Qwest Communications
5. http://www.freeyellow.com/members8/aggreen/other-orthodox/other2.html
through Freeyellow.com, EmiNet, and SPRINT It is reported that OCA and Green are
engaging in more infringement by way of internet websites which offer free
service in return for paid ads that display on the same content page. Because
the websites are free OCA and Green may hop from provider to provider for when
one site is closed down another free one is opened the same day. After one of
our Church attorneys contacted the OCA Metropolitan we received a letter of
apology and clear statement that Green is not and was not acting on behalf of
the OCA.
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From: aggreenjr@netscape.net
(Al Green)
To: info@theocacna.org
Subject: Losing the
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On June 12th, after sifting
through a blizzard of paper and sitting through two hearings, U.S. Magistrate
Judge Shaffer made his recommendations. The gist of it went like this: he
granted both remaining Defendant's motion to dismiss for lack of personal
jurisdiction, and he denied the Plaintiff's erroneously-named motion for
"interlocutory injunction".
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