Bonum Certa Men Certa

Today We Got an Early Birthday Gift

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 07, 2024,
updated Nov 07, 2024

Black and white chessboard shown from the top

Eliminate overt corruption before corruption eliminates you (i.e. before it's too late because corruption becomes an institutional norm, in other words the corrupt protect their corrupt appointers/peers, so there's no agency left to speak to)

OVER THE next few days we shall cover EPO affairs, mostly based on internal communications and publications. This will last several days (split across a number of days for greater/maximal effect, more time for readers to catch up or digest the message).

Some of the correspondence is in effect "leaked" (not meant to be seen by the outside world) and it's important for highlighting right-wing or bipartisan corruption in Europe. EPO crimes impact the EU, too. It's impossible to combat corruption until or unless it becomes known, visible, and fully verifiable (based on wholly hard evidence; it's hard to distort or deflect from one's own words). Benoît Battistelli was literally connected to nazis (through his near ancestors) and his close friend António Campinos is still in charge of the EPO, so the same cabal is already in control of the EPO for nearly 15 years. Maybe they want to beat Putin at a ruthless regime's duration. During Battistelli's term several law firms in London were summonsed to terrorise and spy on me. Now, almost a decade later, Microsoft does the same thing*. To make matters worse, family members are also targeted, even slandered and bullied. The police regularly visits our home to collect evidence of the crimes committed against us (we happily invite them to do so).

Either way, we have skilled legal people ensuring we can publish factual information peacefully and we shall continue doing so. For another 18 years? Sounds ambitious, as that mostly depends on the health of the Net and of the people involved.

A couple of years ago our webhost told me privately that we had made some truly dangerous enemies that kept sending her - but not to me - vicious threats. They keep trying to do this, but webhost very quickly catch up and learn how to thwart empty threats (at minimal cost/risk to them).

EPO leaks will be published over the next few days. Those leaks help us fight against European software patents - i.e. patents which are both illegal and undesirable. By extension, this helps us fight for software developers, not just Free software developers.

Exciting times. Like it says in the top banner (in Latin), "Certa Bonum Certamen" or "Bonum Certamen Certa" ("Fight the Good Fight"). Someone must do this in these dangerous times, more so when basic rights are revoked and Russian statehood becomes the status quo in more nations. The statements made by officials are mostly lies. We need media that goes deep and exposes suppressed facts.

I never got paid for any of my work on this site (I only got billed a lot). But life isn't about money, it is about doing good things that count. Had I been paid for the hours spent on the site, the work would be valued at millions, but I don't need millions. I want justice, I want things to improve. Many others do the same, hence they are willing to become whistleblowers and they risk their careers in the process. We need to applaud them, not unmask them or scare them.

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* Be patient. They will pay for it dearly and regret that they even started, i.e. 100% the same as EPO in 2015. When people budget cheaply for a fight, begin with ill intentions and resort to unscrupulous tactics they can only pray it'll stay hidden. This did not work for Madame Streisand. It very seldom works for anybody and we're growing a fine collection of cautionary tales.

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