Hi, Swiss Guy. Sorry I missed you. I was busy washing my kid's soccer uniform. :giggle:
Seriously, thanks for ringing in. Your members should understand that the purpose of this thread is to discuss the facts of Lauren Giddings' murder, and the prosecution of Stephen McDaniel, as they are reported by the maintstream media. It has come to the point now where McDaniel's participation as a user at your site has come to play in the proceedings. To that extent, this board's rules allow us to discuss operatorchan.org as it pertains to the case against Stephen McDaniel. The discussion should not, and will not, extend beyond that narrow focus.
That said, we welcome you and any of your members to join us while we hash out our theories. As the case progresses, your input could be very helpful.
You didn't miss me.
Thats why I came over. The proverbial cat is out of the bag, our name is already in court and the news media (with of course a sharp uptick in traffic), and thus, open discussion of OPchan is of course fine and dandy.
I will note that the tone of discourse in relation to our site seems to have changed for the better, which I of course am glad to know.
Here is my personal opinion and recollection on this case and OPchan:
Firstly, we took over OPchan about 3 months ago from the previous Administrator, during the transition, the payment on the server lapsed (due to the previous administrations error) and we went down for a week. We lost literally all data, even our historical archives of the best threads dating to the beginning of the website were gone. Contrary to what some have possibly posted here (no doubt due to a troll), we were not seized by the FBI. In fact, we're not even ran out of the United States anymore.
At no time have we received notice from either the current provider or previous provider of a Subpoena or Warrant to seize and utilize data pertaining to OPchan, which of course calls into question how exactly they intend on verfying the "troll" post in court. I remember the post, and one of our regular members has privately admitted to writing it. If my recollection is correct, it was written shortly after he was in custody and when you WS people started poking around OPchan, thus providing us a great opportunity to troll, it's a pity it ended up in court. You'll recall right around that time I showed up here trying to prevent some sort of *chan meltdown, as is known to happen.
We've spoken to one reporter, that is it, in fact, no other reporter has even tried to contact us to verify or not verify the post. We may possibly be doing other interviews, but nothing beyond what is known fact, we will not officially on the record speculate. What I can conform is that SoL was a username linked to McDaniel, and that he did post on OPchan at one point, and that he did so in a non-secure method that allowed anyone to post with the name SoL. All records beyond screencaps and the like (which of course do not meet chain-of-custody needs) from that period are gone beyond retrieval.
Basically, I am very sure (personally) that the post used in the bond hearing was not in-fact posted by McDaniel, and look forward to seeing how the prosecution intends on proving that it was.
I don't know if McDaniel is innocent or Guilty, but I certainly believe that he is legally innocent until proven guilty, and that the prosecution using that post as any kind of evidence in court re-enforces my personal view that they have very little solid evidence to convict him with.
If they do not have evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt he is guilty of the crime, he should walk, wither he did it or not. This is how the legal system works, and it works that way for a reason.