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Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXV - The Brand (and Reputation)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 09, 2026,
updated Nov 09, 2026

Two months ago: What Reputation?

BBC's front page right now (and all day long):

Russell Brand sentenced to 10 years and six months for rape and sexual assault

Earlier this year (by Garrett's own spouse):

fuck all of this, Matthew Garrett is a rapist, kidnapper, and abuser

Previous Parts:

2026-10-12 Intercontinental Brigading - Part I - The Failed Attempt to 'Swat' Our Series About the Attacks and Crimes Committed Against Us
2026-10-13 Intercontinental Brigading - Part II - An Outline of This Series
2026-10-14 Intercontinental Brigading - Part III - Reporting Harassment From America to British Police
2026-10-16 Intercontinental Brigading - Part IV - Harassment Registered With the Police Before Projection Attempts Made From America
2026-10-16 Intercontinental Brigading - Part V - Keeping Linux Under Users' Control, Not Microsoft's (NSA) Control, Leads to Weaponisation of Cops (Killing the Messengers)
2026-10-17 Intercontinental Brigading - Part VI - Racism Against Blacks
2026-10-18 Intercontinental Brigading - Part VII - Weekend Abuse Reported to British Police (Rogue Actors Take No Breaks)
2026-10-19 Intercontinental Brigading - Part VIII - How We Convinced British Police That the Americans Were Just Manipulating and Tricking Them at the Expense of British Taxpayers
2026-10-20 Intercontinental Brigading - Part IX - Swatting is Not Funny, Swatting is a Murder Attempt
2026-10-21 Intercontinental Brigading - Part X - American Back Doors Inside Our Computers, With Transatlantic Swatting Against Critics Thrown 'Into the Mix'
2026-10-22 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XI - Losing Over a Million Pounds (Borrowed Money) to Try to Silence Critics of Restricted Boot With Microsoft-Controlled "Certificates"
2026-10-23 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XII - Lawfare to Cover Up Microsoft's Restricted Boot Calamity (Microsoft as Authority Over Linux), Garrett Wants to Talk About Penises Instead
2026-10-24 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XIII - Censorship by All Means Available in a Continent So Far Away, as 'Secure' (Restricted, Restriction by Microsoft) Boot Has a Crisis of Legitimacy
2026-10-25 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XIV - Six Years of Learning Irish, But the Real Issue Was Microsoft-controlled 'Secure' (Restricted) Boot
2026-10-26 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XV - Annualised Consequences for Opposing Microsoft Back Doors in Linux Since 2012
2026-10-26 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XVI - The Faustian Pact That Irritates Hired Guns is Still a Distraction From the Serious Harm Done by Their Clients to GNU/Linux Users (Notably Plagiarism and Back Doors)
2026-10-27 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XVII - The Relevance of Silent Layoffs at Microsoft
2026-10-27 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XVIII - Microsoft is Not the Victim (It Was Never the Victim), It's Just DARVO
2026-10-28 Intercontinental Brigading - Part IX - Literature About Malignant Narcissists in America Silencing the Press
2026-10-28 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XX - Restricted and Moot, or How 'Secure Boot' Turns Out to be a Disaster (Again) This Week
2026-10-29 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXI - Techrights Was Right, So Why Was It Punished by Lawfare While the Culprits Walk Away Scot-free?
2026-10-29 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXII - Still "Radio Silence" From "Restricted Boot" Perpetrators (After Techrights Proven Right Again)
2026-10-30 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXIII - What Garrett Did Puts Elections at Risk (Also in His Own Country, Where a Dictator Trusts Only Machines That 'Support' Him)
2026-10-30 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXIV - It's an Inherently American Issue and American Elections Are at Risk From Restricted ('Secure') Boot and LLM Chatbots (Disinformation at Scale)
2026-10-31 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXV - Election Integrity at a Time of Back Doors and Very Severe Bugs in UEFI
2026-11-01 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXVI - The "Law and Order" Candidate Who Crushes Both Law and Order and Even Rejects Election Outcomes (Insurrection Follows)
2026-11-02 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXVII - Shooting the Messengers (People Who Oppose Microsoft Back Doors), Even Across the Atlantic
2026-11-02 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXVIII - Microsoft Doesn't Want People to Speak About Microsoft-Controlled Restricted ('Secure') Boot, a Silent Injustice and Back Door/Kill Switch
2026-11-03 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXIX - Undermining US Election While Engaging in Lawfare in England (BBC) Against Publishers That Cover Anti-Election Violence
2026-11-03 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXX - Breaking This Year’s Election Process With Bug Doors in Restricted Boot
2026-11-03 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXI - Microsoft and Promoters of "Secure Boot" Are to Blame
2026-11-04 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXII - Malfunctions Reported in Windows Voting Machines (as Usual)
2026-11-04 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXIII - Shooting the Messenger is a Presidential Tactic
2026-11-04 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXIV - Women as Hostages, Even Spouses
2026-11-04 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXV - When One Does Not Understand Security (Nor Ever Pursues Security)
2026-11-04 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXVI - A Potent Microsoft Threat to Administration of Justice Globally (Not Just Fair Elections)
2026-11-04 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXVII - Tasteless, Tactless Time for "Virtue-Signalling" (When Your Actions Are Much Like the GOP's)
2026-11-05 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXVIII - Telling the Police About the Defamatory Blog Where Posts Targeted My Wife and I (From Across the Atlantic Ocean)
2026-11-05 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXIX - Crime Numbers Regarding GGG (Americans) and Why Those Still Matter
2026-11-06 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXX - Swatting by Proxy
2026-11-06 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXI - What I Told British Police About Lozza the Same Month Garrett Was Preparing His First Nastygram From 'Hired Guns' Brett Wilson LLP
2026-11-07 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXII - Running One's Mouth
2026-11-08 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXIII - Weaponising Cops in Another Continent (Europe), Knowing They Cannot Come to Your Home in America, While Threatening Women
2026-11-08 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXIV - Why the Swatting Failed

Today Garrett submitted documents arguing why my wife - not him - belongs in prison. It's a bizarre argument to make given what the judge in charge of media and communication in the whole of the UK said a year ago (November 2025). Today my wife recalled that the judge had offered to speak to us some more in person. We don't resent that judge. We respected her judgment and followed the Order.

2 years ago what I call the GGG brigade ("Restricted Boot" Garrett, "Microsoft Plagiarism" Graveley & "Gas The Jews" Lozza), in conjunction with legal threats from Garrett, tried to swat us. The previous part explained why it failed. In short, the cops recognised my wife had been the victim of extreme abuse [1, 2] (mostly online), likely hate crimes too (but it's hard to hold accountable or arrest people who do so from across the Atlantic Ocean).

"In some cases," they explained to us in formal communications, "like minor online harassment and minor domestic disputes the procedure tells them to separate the parties. In their eyes, this goal of keeping the peace may feature more highly than your right to free speech."

"By way of analogy, in domestic disputes, they can make a restraining order against somebody (usually a man) even if they do not have evidence for a trial or a conviction. Therefore, they frequently use such tactics as restraining orders without making a subsequent prosecution. If the two parties stop complaining and if nobody was physically harmed they sometimes just wait a few months and then drop the whole procedure."

"Nobody is left with any criminal record."

After that Rianne and I continued to write about what had happened. We merely explained the facts. At no point did cops try to intervene. They only intervened when we called them up, e.g. to come in person to pick up further evidence. They had no qualm about it and they acted quite professionally. Those were female cops (or kinder officers) about 70% of the time; they could relate to my wife and attempted too give her assurances. British culture is, in general, intolerant towards misogynists.

On a closing note, remember that my wife hadn't done anything to invite or deserve this. The judge wrote this in her judgement. She said the same about me.

The petty litigation was a "funny" stunt to punish me (as attempted since 2021) for exposing abuses by Microsoft against Linux and Free software. It was funded bythird parties and Microsoft salaries. Nowadays it is funded by NVIDIA salaries (trying to imprison critics). █

Garrett, Graveley and Lozza

 Dr and Mrs Schestowitz explained to me that these are matters they take very seriously, and that they are serious people running serious websites dealing in serious technical and socio-political matters. They do not admire facetiousness

'Fuck you vigorously with a chainsaw. Your continual whining and conspiracy theories have done more to encourage me to stab people to death than anyone else in recent history.' -Matthew Garrett

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