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Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXVIII - Keeping Both Eyes on the Ball

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 12, 2026

Keeping Up Appearances

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Keep Your Eye on the Ball

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
2026-11-09 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXV - The Brand (and Reputation)
2026-11-10 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXVI - Attempts to Kill Critics
2026-11-11 Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXVII - "Making a False Complaint to Police is a Crime." (British Cops Aren't American Mercenaries)

One common misconception is that the matters discussed in the series boil down to a personal spat, a dispute over matters of a gossip-like nature.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

At the core and heart of it all there's a debate over Microsoft's conduct and technical sabotage. It's a commercial and technical issue. Sure, with GGG ("Restricted Boot" Garrett, "Microsoft Plagiarism" Graveley & "Gas The Jews" Lozza) we deal with two people already arrested and three people connected to Microsoft. But context matters. In fact, context is everything. Imagine you're promoting monopoly and its back doors while collaborating with folks who keep attacking blacks, attacking old people etc. Or with men who strangle women an tell them to kill themselves. There are moral issues too, for sure, but we must always revert back to the core issues, which impact millions of people.

They understandably prefer it when it seems like a personal matter.

We're not talking about folks genuinely concerned about legitimate criticisms; they're even oversensitive about things that prove hypocrisy, e.g. being stingy when it comes to tipping underpaid labour, then talking about "slavery" and technical terms like "master". The goal here is reputation laundering, that is all. What if there is hardly any reputation to begin with?

One upside of these disputes is that they raise at least two very important issues concerning the law.

Techrights, for instance, raises two important questions these days: 1) despite London trying to be "centre of the world", should it permit legal actions from foreigners including Russian oligarchs and American "broligarchs"? 2) when does the Web become everything, including decentralised things one cannot control?

We believe that (1) seems suitable for the Supreme Court to consider or the Court of Appeal for (2).

Why are American monopolists connected to alleged Microsoft (US) fraud [1, 2] forum shopping in another continent? Because the burden is on the reporter to prove truth rather than on the challenger to prove falsity (like in the US)? Because it costs about $700,000 just to defend a claim? How about the audacity of trying to put female NHS workers in prison for merely writing about online abuse?

Beware distractions. As we put it last month, based on his own public statements and his spouse's public statements, Garrett had already run out of money way before any judgement and it would be foolish to ignore such data points. He was borrowing already a year before an expensive trial, so it was clear that he - just like or along with his litigation partner from Microsoft - would pay nothing upon losing their cases. They were moreover based in another continent - very far away from London - so compelling them to pay anything would be a logistical nightmare, according to legal experts in the UK. They knew this. Politicians now understand this too and we need an elaborate reform to curtail such cross-Atlantic lawsuits. █


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