The Arminius Vámbéry Saga Continues
With special thanks to Alex Berger, he has been kind enough to forward the rest of the Nocturnal Frequency fracas for everyone's enjoyment! (note to US readers - date is posted in European form)
Alex Berger
10/06/2009 15:20
Who are the "many" that observed David in that way? Name names or don't make the claims.Arminius Vámbéry
11/06/2009 07:51
If, as you claim, Farrant's non-existent "BPOS" has "considerably in excess of 350 members" where are these members? Farrant is on Facebook as self-styled "president" of the "BPOS." He can barely muster 40 "friends" who, bar a couple of exceptions, are people young enough to be his grandchildren living in various parts of the world who he has never heard of before. Why have none of the mythological "350" ever materialised?Arminius Vámbéry
11/06/2009 07:56
The alleged "350" members have never materialised anywhere Farrant has created a group, forum or message board? They simply do not exist and have never existed. Farrant is the only member of his "BPOS." He has provided no evidence to suggest otherwise. The history he has given for his non-existent "BPOS" is risible. Anyone with half a brain could work out that if he was living rough in France picking grapes he could not be running a UK occult society. It is all liesArminius Vámbéry
11/06/2009 07:57
So now "Alex Berger" (and we all know who he is) calls the shots? Whatever happened to freedom of speech? It's apparently all right for Farrant to spout libel about Seán Manchester in two interviews but apparently not all right for someone to refute what Farrant claims? That sounds a bit like running scared to me. The truth hurts, I suppose, and Farrant is obviously reallly hurting. By the way, what has any of this got to do with "Alex Berger"? He's just a hanger-on.Alex Berger
11/06/2009 09:39
You make the mistake of assuming everyone has a facebook account. I don't have one and many of our members are c. 50-70 in age and a lot of those will also not be as net savvy as younger people. I could ask you where all the members of the VRS/BOS are hiding, but as I don't want to be on facebook I guess I'll never know. Much of our society's caseload is dealt with in private, for much the same reason as the VRS also only discuss a small percentage of their cases. You must realise that despit[cut off]Alex Berger
11/06/2009 09:41
My friend Barbara Green has summed this situation up nicely: "Bonky doesn’t have any existence without David, its like me and my shadow, waltzing down the avenue etc! Psychic Siamese Twins, poor David, one of those conjoined twins where one is a parasite ( Bonky) feeding on the other."Alex Berger
11/06/2009 09:54
We notice that you are contributing to a facebook page owned by David's ex-secretary. We believe this woman to be socially vunerable and your cinical attempts to stir the troubled waters are sad reflection on the levels to which you will stoop in order to harm David. This is not appropriate behaviour for a man of the cloth. When you finally push this woman "over the edge" it will be something you will have to live with forever.Arminius Vámbéry
11/06/2009 10:12
"'There is no British Psychic & Occult Society'." How would you know Arminius? For your information there are considerably in excess of 350 members, I don't have the exact figure to hand," claims "Alex Berger" without a shred of evidence to support such a claim. I cannot prove a negative because Farrant's members do not exist, but of they really existed that fact could be demonstrated. There is, however, plenty of circumstantial evidence to show they do not exist.Alex Berger
11/06/2009 10:19
I join Mr Anthony Hogg in condemning the removal of Don Ecker's account of the Highgate Vampire Hoax on Anthony's website by the spurious claim of copyright infringement. Manchester accuses me of preventing free speech when I asked Steve to remove his malicious bile from Nocturnal Frequencey Radio, and yet he goes and pulls a stunt like this. What a hypocrite.Arminius Vámbéry
11/06/2009 10:19
"You make the mistake of assuming everyone has a facebook account," says "Alex Berger." I would say two things to that: (1) get a Facebook account and (2) groups can be viewed without registering or being a member. "Berger" has no answer as to why none of Farrant's "350" have joined any of the forums/boards etc set up by Farrant. Membership of the Vampire Research Society is purposely kept small. The British Occult Society was formally dissolved in 1988.Arminius Vámbéry
11/06/2009 10:24
"My friend Barbara Green has summed this situation up nicely: 'Bonky doesn’t have any existence without David'," repeats "Berger." Why have none of you people got an ounce of originality? You take something I said weeks ago and mirror it back as if you are somehow being clever. I am flattered that my words are so potent, but it is, of course, Farrant who desperately needs Seán Manchester. Why else would he talk endlessly about him in both interviews on Genier's blogtalk?Arminius Vámbéry
11/06/2009 10:31
"I join Mr Anthony Hogg in condemning the removal of Don Ecker's account of the Highgate Vampire Hoax on Anthony's website by the spurious claim of copyright infringement," says "Berger." The images uploaded by Ecker were predomiantly from "The Highgate Vampire" book and the VRS website, all of which is the exclusise copyright of Seán Manchester. If Seán Manchester owns the copyright to stolen images how can any action to recover them be spurious?Arminius Vámbéry
11/06/2009 10:34
"We notice that you are contributing to a facebook page owned by David's ex-secretary. We believe this woman to be socially vunerable and your cinical attempts to stir the troubled waters are sad reflection on the levels to which you will stoop in order to harm David," states "Berger." It was, however, Farrant's ex-girlfriend Catherine Fearnley who started the Facebook group, not me, in order to refute all the malice and hatred on Farrant's blog.Arminius Vámbéry
11/06/2009 10:37
"When you finally push this woman 'over the edge' it will be something you will have to live with forever," claims "Berger." Yet this woman, whose name is Catherine Fearnley, says she has never been happier than she is now and that she was pushed over the edge when she was Farrant's girlfirend and he had her do all his dirty work for him; something she now deeply regrets.Arminius Vámbéry
11/06/2009 10:43
You are a rather silly person, "Alex Berger," who always manages to make a bad situation worse. Your claims are adolescent and asinine. Allowing yourself to become an extension to Farrant's malicious hate campaign is something you must live with. Perhaps one day, like Miss Fearnley, you will perhaps wake up and recognise what is going on and regret your deceitful allegations? Until that day arrives, you are transparently no more than Farrant's dupe.Alex Berger
11/06/2009 10:49
"Yet this woman, whose name is Catherine Fearnley, says she has never been happier than she is now and that she was pushed over the edge when she was Farrant's girlfirend ..." David denies that Catherine was his girlfriend. But that aside, you must agree that Catherine felt she had been spurned and lots of what she said and did in the aftermath of this was malicious. (Such as contacting the police about emails supposedly sent from David's computers - None were found).Alex Berger
11/06/2009 10:54
"If Seán Manchester owns the copyright to stolen images how can any action to recover them be spurious?". OK - So let's ask Don to remove the images whose copyright you so closely guard and republish the original sans images. What you really object to is that he failed to believe your lurid vampire story and had the guts to say so. Copyright is being used as a smokescreen.Alex Berger
11/06/2009 11:02
"You are a rather silly person, "Alex Berger," who always manages to make a bad situation worse. Your claims are adolescent and asinine." That's a cheek! It's a damn sight less adolescent and asinine than claiming to have fought a "giant vampire spider" whilst dressed only in a shiny purple robe standing in a magic circle of burning sulphur!!Alex Berger
11/06/2009 11:07
Despite your obviously low opinion of me I don't actually hate you Sean. All I want is for David to get a fair crack of the whip and not be bullied into a corner by your reams of copy and paste
nonsense. You refuse to contribute to any project involving David but often turn up later trying to malign him. You stared this comments row by calling David "disingenuous and deceitful".
Arminius Vámbéry - what a fruit loop! LOL! FYI, Mr. Berger is right. Sean is notorious for shutting down blogs who use images that Sean clearly does not own (like from TV shows) or those that can be used in accordance with the Fair Use laws of the US. However, Sean regularly steals images he does not own and claims Fair Use privilege.
A warning to Bonky: this blog is archived. Pull this stunt with us and we'll move the whole thing to a private account with a provider that could care less. Play fair with us and we will play fair with you.
