Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXIX - We Didn't Start the Fire

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 12, 2026

It started in 2012 when Garrett actively worked with Microsoft staff to shoehorn "Restricted Boot" into Linux so that Microsoft can control Linux and its users.

Recently: "The Judge Accepted That Mrs Schestowitz Had Been the Subject of a Vicious Campaign of Online Harassment"

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)
2026-11-12	Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXVIII - Keeping Both Eyes on the Ball

In 2021 I said in a video about Garrett that filing lawsuits would only cause financial devastation for everybody, including him. Neither he nor I (or us) was a millionaire. I said this again two years later in response to escalation in rhetoric. After my wife and I had sued him in September 2024 [1, 2] - something we did only because he had "started the fire" (reference to the song) - his marriage was in trouble, as was his financial situation^*. He began talking about a girlfriend he was with - the one who is not his spouse! His spouse spoke out months later.

Still with his girlfriend hours ago:

Jensen Huang can afford to pay his wife 80+ billion dollars and file for divorce. Garrett cannot.

Garrett is still defiant.

He tries to put my wife in prison (he spends a lot of money on this^**). Maybe he's still thinking those sorts of things are "funny" rather than distressful.

How many GNU/Linux users feel distressed due to fatal problems with Restricted Boot? Millions of people? Hundreds of millions? █

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^* Recently Garrett spoke about trial costs (salaries from Jensen Huang aren't enough); as last month, based on his own public statements and his spouse's public statements, he 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 - not only Russia is the culprit here.

^** Strictly speaking, he is not paying for this in full and he risks eviction if not for third parties bailing him out and maybe a CFA. His Microsoft litigation buddy (double-dipping the Court's docket to help him) has no income sources anymore.

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