Carreon's Full Filing Reveals He Donated To Oatmeal Campaign Himself, Plus Other Assorted Nuttiness

from the double-wow dept

Earlier this morning we wrote about Charles Carreon suing Matthew Inman, IndieGoGo, the National Wildlife Federation and the American Cancer Society. At that time, all anyone had was the summary of the lawsuit as written by Courthouse News Service. Now, Carreon has posted the filing to his own website (with portions redacted) and the full version is now available via PACER. I've attached the officially filed version below. Rather than reveal new theories that we had missed in our original analysis, it would appear that our initial thoughts were dead on. This case is just begging to be anti-SLAPPed out of existence, in which case Carreon may find himself on the hook for significant legal fees.

When I was writing about the original case, I went looking through California's regulations on charities, and couldn't find anything that would impact Inman or IndieGoGo and all I came across was this law from this page on the California Attorney's General website. But I couldn't see how that specifically applied to Inman or IndieGoGo, since it seemed to be focused (a) on charities themselves or (b) on professional fundraisers (i.e., people hired to fundraise on a charity's behalf). It did not seem to apply to people who just tried to raise money which they promised to donate to a charity. However, that is the law that Carreon is relying on. Carreon seems to try to twist the definition of a "commercial fundraiser" to make it apply to Inman and IndieGoGo, but it's a pretty massive stretch. Inman isn't doing this "for compensation," so the law doesn't seem to apply to him. IndieGoGo is just the platform, but isn't doing the soliciting or directly touching the funds. The law is designed for an entirely different purpose.

And even if, somehow, a court actually believes that this law applies here, you might wonder how it's possible that Carreon has any standing to sue whatsoever. The fundraiser has nothing to do with him (it was about Funnyjunk, but remember that Carreon is suing on his own behalf, not Funnyjunk's.). Carreon appears to just be suing because he's pissed off. Except, that Carreon thinks he found a loophole. He donated to the campaign himself in order to create standing:
Plaintiff is a contributor to the Bear Love campaign, and made his contribution with the intent to benefit the purposes of the NWF and the ACS. Plaintiff is acting on his own behalf and to protect the rights of all other contributors to the Bear Love campaign to have their reasonable expectation that 100% of the money they contributed would go to a charitable purpose. Plaintiff opposes the payment of any funds collected from the Bear Love campaign to Indiegogo, on the grounds that the contract between Indiegogo and Inman is an illegal contract that violates the Act, and its enforcement may be enjoined. Plaintiff opposes the payment of any funds to Inman because he is not a registered commercial fundraiser, because he failed to enter into a written contract with the Charitable Organization defendants, because the Bear Love campaign utilized false and deceptive statements and insinuations of bestiality on the part of Plaintiff and his client’s “mother,” all of which tends to bring the Charitable Defendants and the institution of public giving into disrepute.
Yeah. Once again, Carreon contributed to Inman's campaign for what appears to be the sole reason of using that as a way to get standing to sue. I'm somewhat stunned.

Also, how can he possibly blame the charities? Well, Carreon's lawsuit fails in that it never actually states a claim against the charities. Seriously. At one point in the explanation of the lawsuit, he does state the following, but never actually includes the charities in any of the actual claims:
Although the Charitable Organization defendants have notified by Plaintiff in writing about the fact that the “Bear Love” campaign alleged infra is being conducted by Inman and Indiegogo in violation of the Act, and that the campaign is being conducted in a manner that could cause public disparagement of the Charitable Organization defendants’s good name and good will, neither the ACS or the NWF have acted to disavow their association with the Bear Love campaign, thus lending their tacit approval to the use of their names to the Bear Love campaign.
Again, just for emphasis, I'll point out that even with this paragraph, Carreon fails to name either charity with any of the actual claims in the lawsuit. He does include them in part of the claim, by stating that they "have failed to perform their statutory duty to exercise authority over the Bear Love campaign," but still fails to directly assert the claim against them. Even if he somehow figured out a way to work them into one of the claims, this particular legal theory of not disavowing "their association" with Inman's campaign leading to "tacit approval" is pretty ridiculous as well, and not something I could see standing up in court.

Meanwhile, Carreon's theory that Inman "disparages the image of charitable fundraising" again seems to stretch all kinds of definitions and understanding of the internet. Basically, he relies on the fact that Inman likes to mock people he doesn't like. But that's entirely unrelated to the issues at hand. Furthermore, despite Inman and Inman's lawyer explaining (in great detail) to Carreon, earlier, that Inman has an ASCII pterodactyl on all pages of The Oatmeal's source code, Carreon spends an inordinate amount of space talking about how awful this is.
Inman has announced his vindictive response to his real and imagined enemies by posting, within the source code of all of the webpages on his main website, www.theoatmeal.com, the following image and text, depicting himself as a pterodactyl that will “ptero-you a new asshole.” A screencapture of the core of the source-code appears as follows:
Following the link to http://pterodactyl.me leads the Internet user to a page on TheOatmeal.com where a video created by Inman and Sarah Donner depicts Inman, in his character as a carnivorous, prehistoric flying reptile that first rips the intestines out of a man's anus, then flogs him with his entrails, then steals a pineapple from a boy, tears his head off, flings it a girl and knocks here head off, then grinds up the girl’s head up in a wood-chipper, blends it with the pineapple, and drinks the grisly cocktail
The filing then shows screenshots from the video in question, which we'll just embed here for your viewing pleasure:
Carreon tries to claim that these images actually incite Inman's followers into action:
Inman’s followers are by and large with technologically savvy young people eager to follow the latest trend, who embrace Inman’s brutal ideology of “tearing you a new asshole.”
Seriously? Carreon is literally arguing that fans of a silly comic with cartoonishly ridiculous violence leads them to "embrace" this "brutal ideology?" Carreon really ought to spend more time online. Carreon repeatedly makes incredibly weak connections between Inman's cartoons, his online persona and the later hatred directed his way, but without any actual evidence.

Later in the lawsuit, Carreon again claims that Inman's statement that Funnyjunk "stole" images is "false and misleading." Whether or not that's true, it's irrelevant here. Funnyjunk is not a plaintiff in the lawsuit. He also goes off on Inman for "fighting words, and incitements to commit cybervandalism, none of which are entitled to constitutional protection." Neither of those make sense. It's nearly impossible to see how Inman's cartoons, as sophomoric as they might be, qualify under the standard legal definition of "fighting words" or any kind of incitement to violence. In fact, Inman has made no references inciting his audience to do anything other than give money to charities (which most people would consider a good thing).

Moving on... we've got the trademark and publicity rights claim. As expected, Carreon is asserting that various actions violate the trademark on his name and his publicity rights. The key is that someone set up a fake Twitter account in his name and tweeted various statements that might make Carreon look silly. Of course, reading some of the tweets, it seems rather obvious that the account is fake. For example, one of them talks about "backtracing" Inman's IP -- a rather obvious reference to the famous ya dun goofed internet meme. Also, as he had suggested in an interview on Friday, Carreon makes interesting leaps of logic in suggesting that Inman himself may have set up the fake account.

Then, finally, we have the "inciting and committing cybervandalism in the nature of trespass to chattels, false personation and identity theft." Here, he claims that the fact that his email address was made public was part of that incitement, claiming that he never made it public:
As noted above, Doe1 or Inman proliferated Plaintiff’s email address via a fake tweet made by “@Charles_Carreon.com.” Plaintiff had not posted the chas@charlescarreon.com email address anywhere on the Internet except where required by law and Internet regulations. (The email address appears on legal papers in PACER filings in cases where required by the rules of this and other U.S. District Courts; however, these filings are viewable only by PACER users. The email address was also used in the Whois registration database for various websites Plaintiff has registered for his benefit, and as by the authorized registrant/agent of various legal clients.) Inman or persons incited by Inman also proliferated the email address and Plaintiff’s home address on social networking websites, again for the malicious purpose of enabling cybervandalism.
Except... court filings are not only viewable to those with a PACER account. Filings with the court, if not under seal, are considered public documents and are often available from a variety of sources, including the Internet Archive and other places as well. Separately, if he didn't use an anonymizer, the whois info that includes his email address is public info. Furthermore, his address is available elsewhere online as well, including (um...) both the websites for the State Bar of California and the State Bar of Oregon. Oh, and the email address is also clearly stated in the version of the legal filing that Carreon posted to his own website. While he redacted his email address in the header, he did not within the text of the complaint. In other words, that address was widely available to the public already.

His second claim of cybervandalism was that someone tried to reset the password on his webhosting account:
On June 13, 2012, at 9:28 p.m., either Inman or one of the persons named as Does 1 – 100 engaged in the act of trespass to chattels, cracking the password on Plaintiff’s website at http://www.charlescarreon.com and requesting to reset the password. Fortunately, the intrusion discovered instantly by Plaintiff who was sitting looking at his computer screen when he received an email from the website software system, and was able to retain control of the website by immediately changing the password using the hyperlink in the email.
First of all, merely requesting a reset password is not "cracking the password." It's requesting a new password, which the user would not be able to act upon unless they had access to Carreon's email (and there is no indication that that happened). In fact, it appears that the password reset system worked as designed, in that Carreon was warned that someone wanted to reset the password. And, actually, the fact that Carreon admits to "using the hyperlink in the email" suggests that that could have been the real hack attempt. You should never change your password using a hyperlink sent to you in an email. You should always go directly to the site yourself and login and make the change. Normally, if you receive one of those reset emails and haven't tried to reset your password, you're supposed to ignore it so that the password doesn't get reset. Clicking on the link and changing a password that way makes one susceptible to phishing attacks.

Finally, Carreon notes that some idiots online have signed his email account up for various spam emails/newsletters. If true, that's pretty stupid on whoever signed him up for those kinds of things, and people really shouldn't do that. But claiming that's "cybervandalism" or anything that can or should be pinned on Inman (again, whose target was Funnyjunk, not Carreon) seems ridiculous in the extreme.
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Filed Under: california, charity, charles carreon, matthew inman, streisand effect, the oatmeal
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  1. icon
    Lowestofthekeys (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 12:16pm

    Maybe we should make a pool for how deep Carreon will go.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  2. icon
    :Lobo Santo (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 12:16pm

    Film at 11!

    (Read in 1950's radio announcer voice) "Lawyer demonstrates how lawyers lose ability to think after having learned law! Big news!"

    /not-impressed-with-this-lawyer-guy

    link to this | view in thread ]

  3. icon
    Manabi (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 12:17pm

    Re:

    I'm voting for him creating the first black hole via digging.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  4. icon
    Lowestofthekeys (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 12:18pm

    Re: Re:

    I'm pretty sure the mass of his super-inflated ego will collapse in on itself eventually.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  5. icon
    Leigh Beadon (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 12:21pm

    Re:

    Maybe we should have Carreon make pools, since he is so good at digging.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  6. icon
    sophisticatedjanedoe (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 12:25pm

    There is character has emerged on Twitter: @Charles_Carron : pretty funny.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  7. identicon
    STStone, 18 Jun 2012 @ 12:26pm

    WOW.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  8. icon
    Dionaea (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 12:28pm

    Re: Re:

    I thought he was working on a tunnel to China...?

    link to this | view in thread ]

  9. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 18 Jun 2012 @ 12:31pm

    Anyone think that this is just an attempt to drive up stats for both sites?

    Its cause a huge war, court records, and god knows what else.

    but its also driven up readers.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  10. identicon
    Anthony, 18 Jun 2012 @ 12:35pm

    Re:

    It's a good thing that babies can't be sued.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  11. identicon
    [citation needed or GTFO], 18 Jun 2012 @ 12:38pm

    Perfect example of human beings not learning from history...

    Let's see...

    Jack Thompson: the anti-gay, anti-video game former lawyer that lost his license because of some stupid crusade for his ego.

    Paul Christoforo: Ocean Marketing that had atrocious spelling and took on Penny Arcade and PAX, causing him to become another name in the "Internet Hall of Shame."

    Now we have Charles Carreon: Once known as a defender of the First Amendment, now deciding to throw his entire career down the drain because he decided to make the whole FunnyJunk fiasco a personal grudge.

    Is there a list somewhere of all the idiots who tried to sue the internet and failed? Because I haven't seen so much "Destined to Fail" since Lamar Smith* tried to stick up for SOPA.

    *Too bad he won the primaries despite the internet against him...And he ignores everything that happened by stating that he's an advocate for the internet.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  12. identicon
    Lord Binky, 18 Jun 2012 @ 12:42pm

    Re:

    Are you suggesting Inman would pay Carreon to be an hallucinating asshole ? That would be clever, people have done worse for media exposure.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  13. identicon
    Anonymous, 18 Jun 2012 @ 12:43pm

    My prediction

    I predict that the first thing Inman's lawyers will do after reading this complaint is to ask the court for an extension until such time that they can stop laughing.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  14. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 18 Jun 2012 @ 12:44pm

    sounds to me that he is following the same path as the DoJ with the Mega case. he knows he is in the wrong, he knows he is going to lose big time but wont admit it and wont stop burying himself either. cant wait to see how deep the hole ends up

    link to this | view in thread ]

  15. identicon
    Lord Binky, 18 Jun 2012 @ 12:45pm

    I'd love to see the judge ask him "Did you just participate in something you believed to be illegal, for no reason and on purpose?"

    link to this | view in thread ]

  16. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 18 Jun 2012 @ 12:45pm

    Wow, if he carries on the volume of popcorn sales generated might be enough to stimulus to jump start the world economy.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  17. icon
    :Lobo Santo (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 12:49pm

    Re: Well

    The gift of intellect is the ability to recognize and admit when one is being stupid.

    If the above premise it true, I think it can be stated with certainty that Carreon has no intellect.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  18. icon
    Cory of PC (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 12:50pm

    Huh... guess I called it too soon for my "Everything You Know is Wrong" quote... oh well. Like I care about when I used it and mainly on Carreon and others "associated" with him.

    Now where would be that popcorn I was planning to make...

    link to this | view in thread ]

  19. icon
    davebarnes (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 12:51pm

    What if Charles Carreon is really a shill?

    Maybe, Charles Carreon is not a douchebag, but is continuing this futile war in order to increase the amount of money that will be contributed to the charities.
    Maybe, he actually works for the WWF.
    Think about it.
    Have we seen his birth certificate?

    link to this | view in thread ]

  20. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 18 Jun 2012 @ 12:54pm

    My new favourite bit...

    Plaintiff had not posted the chas@charlescarreon.com email address anywhere on the Internet except where required by law and Internet regulations


    So... he didn't post his email address anywhere except where he did post it, so therefore it wasn't public?!?!

    I have to wonder how this guy manages to tie his shoes in the morning.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  21. icon
    Cory of PC (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 12:57pm

    Re:

    Well, I got 10$ to waste...

    link to this | view in thread ]

  22. icon
    Brent (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 12:57pm

    I'm guessing that Carreon is now completely engulfed in the 'point of no return' mindset. He recognizes the harm this case is and will continue to do to his personal and professional reputations and believes the only way he recover is to actually win something.

    Either that (maybe a bit of both) or he is attempting to provoke Inman to do something that is actually illegal and then use that 'clear' offense as justification for the claims filed himself and/or on behalf of FunnyJunk.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  23. icon
    Jack (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 12:59pm

    Re: My new favourite bit...

    Funny, he posted his email address himself when he published this press release in August 2009:
    http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/08/27/idUS233035+27-Aug-2009+PRN20090827

    and it also appears here: http://www.naderlibrary.com/commonreaderbPREF.htm

    Surely he's lied to the court since he must remember that press release.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  24. icon
    apauld (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 1:00pm

    Re: My new favourite bit...

    "I have to wonder how this guy manages to tie his shoes in the morning."

    I'm guessing one noose at a time....

    link to this | view in thread ]

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    Phil, 18 Jun 2012 @ 1:01pm

    http://thetrichordist.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/letter-to-emily-white-at-npr-all-songs-considered/

    This guy blows a massive hole in the lame arguments you make on this blog.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  26. icon
    Keii (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 1:06pm

    It's funny watching lawyers self-destruct.
    First Jack Thompson and now this guy.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  27. identicon
    Rich Kulawiec, 18 Jun 2012 @ 1:08pm

    Some technical points in re "private" email addresses

    1. Setting up a truly private email address is difficult -- and largely pointless. (After all, if it's truly private, then nobody but the owner knows it and this rather limits its usefulness. I have a few of these that are used by my own software agents, simply because it's convenient.) Creating a truly private address requires running your own mailserver on your own hardware (shared hosts and clouds need not apply) and configuring the MTA (Mail Transport Agent) on that system so that it won't reveal the address when queried (e.g., via SMTP VRFY). None of this is within the reach of most people.

    2. Of course once you share any email address with ANYONE -- a registrar, a document processor, ANYONE -- it's no longer private in any sense. These entities may publish it (deliberately) or leak it (accidentally) or store it or share it or any number of other things.

    3. Even addresses which aren't shared but which are insufficiently obscure can be deduced via brute-force enumeration -- something that spammers discovered a long time ago. John Smith at example.com might be jsmith, john.smith, jack.smith, smith.john, smithj, or any number of other similar variants...and it takes only a small percentage of a botnet to run their exercise on millions of users.

    4. Even addresses which are carefully set up as in (1) above may not remain private: security compromises in desktops, laptops, phones, pads, etc., can yield them up quite readily. Again, spammers have become quite adept at "harvesting" addresses by targeting these.

    Bottom line: setting up and maintaining a "private" email address is a technically challenging task that requires specialized knowledge and dedicated hardware.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  28. identicon
    [citation needed or GTFO], 18 Jun 2012 @ 1:10pm

    Relevance?

    Oh...after four months, you're bringing HIM up again...

    ...Why?

    link to this | view in thread ]

  29. icon
    Keii (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 1:10pm

    Re:

    On a somewhat related note, if this case ever goes to jury, I want to be on that jury and smuggle some popcorn in.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  30. icon
    Cory of PC (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 1:17pm

    Re: Re:

    Let me join you!

    link to this | view in thread ]

  31. icon
    Jack (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 1:17pm

    Re: Some technical points in re "private" email addresses

    He's never attempted to keep his address private, he's posted it on the net himself and even published in at least one press release on the Internet.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  32. identicon
    Coyote, 18 Jun 2012 @ 1:18pm

    So, what's the office number of Carreon Industries? I assume they do very well in plumbing, construction and all sorts of nasty, muddy business, like digging dirt and shoveling elephant shit.

    I have this big elephant shit called my house. Could you come help me clean it up, remodel it dig a few holes? I'd like a pool. Just not too deep. Otherwise, you might hit the septic tank.

    Not that you'd notice or anything, though, considering the amount of shit you've got piling up in your own backyard.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  33. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 18 Jun 2012 @ 1:19pm

    Butthurt Level: Oatmeal

    link to this | view in thread ]

  34. icon
    GMacGuffin (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 1:19pm

    Courts don't like it when a party takes action specifically to create standing... (Cue CAN-SPAM class-action plaintiffs who, despite their efforts, were not able to convince the court they were an ISP for standing purposes.)

    link to this | view in thread ]

  35. icon
    Lowestofthekeys (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 1:21pm

    Re: Relevance?

    I think all the people posting links to Lowery's blog are actually Lowery himself and he is desperately trying to increase his web presence and SEO.

    Unfortunately, since he clearly doe snot understand how the internet works, he is failing at both making a point and helping his blog.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  36. icon
    Brent (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 1:37pm

    Re: Re: Relevance?

    not to mention that the linked article has nothing to do with this article or subject... which actually strengthens your point(s).

    also +1 for the "doe snot" 'typo'.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  37. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 18 Jun 2012 @ 1:40pm

    Carreon's Disciplinary History

    According to the Oregon State Bar's website, Charles Carreon's license to practice law was suspended for 60 days back in 2005. It looks like he was engaging in the unauthorized practice of law in British Columbia, and also took money from his trust account to pay part of a judgment against him and his wife without his client's permission.

    http://www.osbar.org/_docs/dbreport/dbr19.pdf

    His documents start on page 311.

    I am by no means implying that he is a terrible lawyer just because he received a disciplinary sanction, it's just always helpful to look at these things for a little context.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  38. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 18 Jun 2012 @ 1:45pm

    Finally, Carreon notes that some idiots online have signed his email account up for various spam emails/newsletters.

    Why not? FunnyJunk also incited spam attacks against the Oatmeal. What's fair is fair (not that I'm saying The Oatmeal did incite those).

    link to this | view in thread ]

  39. icon
    Andrew F (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 1:46pm

    Re: Carreon's Disciplinary History

    There's also a short summary of the disciplinary action on his California bar summary: http://members.calbar.ca.gov/fal/Member/Detail/127139

    link to this | view in thread ]

  40. icon
    apauld (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 1:50pm

    Re:

    "I'd love to see the judge ask him "Did you just participate in something you believed to be illegal, for no reason and on purpose?"

    I had thought of that also; and if stated as "Did you chose to donate for the sole purpose of creating this lawsuit?" it shouldn't turn out well for Carreon. I would think that voluntarily participating in anything just so you could sue the principals; ought to be actionable in it's self.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  41. identicon
    Beech, 18 Jun 2012 @ 1:58pm

    Really? no one wants to point out how carreon is trying to say that Inman is trying to say that HE is a pterodactyl? Not to mention, the comic about the motherfucking pterodactyl has been up forever. The thing in the souce code has been up since ~2007 i think. And the music video embedded was up long before this spat came around as well. Is carreon trying to say that Inman has been staging this assault on him in the background of his website for YEARS before he ever sent him the threatening letter?

    link to this | view in thread ]

  42. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 18 Jun 2012 @ 1:58pm

    What's also interesting is that Carreon failed to read the Updates on the fundraiser. He states that he has no idea what Inman will do if the proceeds exceed $20,000.

    Inman says it all goes to charity: http://www.indiegogo.com/bearlovegood?c=activity

    Carreon's donation to the campaign to obtain legal standing to sue is an interesting turn of affairs, however. Cynical and tactical at once!

    link to this | view in thread ]

  43. icon
    apauld (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 2:03pm

    Re:

    I know you have a point; it is at the top of your head...

    link to this | view in thread ]

  44. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 18 Jun 2012 @ 2:08pm

    Re: Re:

    Judge: Did you chose to donate for the sole purpose of creating this lawsuit?

    Carreon: Oh, no! As stated in my filing, the only reason I donated was because I care so much about the charities!

    Judge: And did you donate before or after you asked IndieGoGo to terminate the fundraser?

    Carreon: After, because then I knew they would get the money.

    Judge: So why did you name the charities in this case?

    Carreon: oh, wait - did I say "after"? I meant before.

    Judge: OK, so if you did it before, why did you try to get IndieGoGo to cancel the fundraiser?

    Carreon: Dammit - did I say "Before" .. umm.. wait, can we start over?

    link to this | view in thread ]

  45. icon
    GMacGuffin (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 2:11pm

    Re: Carreon's Disciplinary History

    Messing with client trust funds is lawyer-no-no #1 (and no, there is no current disciplinary sanction for douchebaggery).

    link to this | view in thread ]

  46. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 18 Jun 2012 @ 2:21pm

    Re:

    This guy blows a massive hole in the lame arguments you make on this blog.

    No. It really does not.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  47. icon
    Some Other Guy (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 2:28pm

    Re:

    It's turtles all the way down!

    link to this | view in thread ]

  48. icon
    Baldaur Regis (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 2:29pm

    Re:

    Given his baffling reactions to what is, in essence, a flame war, the judge might be more apt to ask him, "Why are you wearing women's clothing and is that red thing on your face a clown nose?"

    This is one dog who, after years of chasing the crazy train, finally caught it.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  49. icon
    apauld (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 2:31pm

    Re: Perfect example of human beings not learning from history...

    link to this | view in thread ]

  50. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 18 Jun 2012 @ 2:31pm

    someone needs to find a bear and have the bear punch this guy in the sack. nothing like a good punch to the sack by a bear to make a person come to their senses...

    link to this | view in thread ]

  51. identicon
    Grant, 18 Jun 2012 @ 2:32pm

    the ironic thing is that I've never visited or seen more stuff on the oatmeal site then when this whole thing started.

    Carreon is probably helping the oatmeal tremendously increase their traffic through this whole thing.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  52. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 18 Jun 2012 @ 2:33pm

    someone needs to find a bear and have the bear punch this guy in the sack. nothing like a good punch to the sack by a bear to make a person come to their senses...

    link to this | view in thread ]

  53. icon
    Maxwell (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 2:44pm

    Award Inman his legal fees then give all the sanction money against Carreon to the charities.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  54. icon
    Chris Rhodes (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 2:48pm

    It Has to Be Said

    I hope the court ptero's him a new asshole.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  55. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 18 Jun 2012 @ 3:02pm

    Re:

    Unfortunately the account is now suspended.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  56. icon
    Andrew (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 3:05pm

    Costs

    In New Zealand, a litigant in person is unable to claim costs (not having had to instruct or pay for a lawyer).

    Anybody know if that is also the case in the States?

    link to this | view in thread ]

  57. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 18 Jun 2012 @ 3:14pm

    In the grand scheme of useful professions I used to consider the un-fireable federal civil servant to be essentially the dead end of productivity, the gutter of the American workforce, a valid reason the federal government is ruining our currency with waste and spending explosions...

    But really, it's people like Carreon who are the worst of the worst. The American economy would likely be going gangbusters if the patent system hadn't been transmogrified into a system of property ownership via legal fight by lawyers such as him. This infestation of trolls and vultures has turned the creative process of the American economy into their own personal b*tch through threats and lawsuits. The creativity of the free people of this earth wouldn't be hamstrung by scum like this if they didn't have to look over their shoulder any time they feared having their creativity stolen and themselves muscled out of the industry by those with money and legal staff via patents that are too vague, copyright enforcement that should not apply, and trademark fights that are baseless.

    You are scum, Charles Carreon. You contribute nothing to society. Your ego and greed are the reason millions are out of work right now. You are a contemptible butt baby that managed to live from out of the anus of mankind, polluting our lives with pre-restraint of our own imaginations and paranoia for those who have already created beautiful things. If I had 10+ billion dollars I would try to forcibly use you as a space monkey for early colonization of Mars, at least then we'd get valuable data out of your pathetic existence.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  58. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 18 Jun 2012 @ 4:07pm

    youjustwentfullretard.jpeg

    not surprised in the least, he did state that he was going to pursue this to ridiculous lengths.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  59. icon
    Anonymous Coward of Esteemed Trolling (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 4:25pm

    FUCK IT.. Techdirters....just force me to be Carreons wife

    Is it wrong of me to want, to help him get to China, all with the aim of him learning Kung foo ?
    Then he can go kick Inman's ass for using charity and misleading depictions of himself to gainer support.
    Angry responses welcomed.
    If Carreon wins the LEGAL fight ( even portions of it )
    I will smile at Law beating Inman's PR manipulation and spamming stunt.


    Carreon doesn't give a fuck about PR or how he looks
    Inman's tactics are useless against him... lulz
    Many a man would fall under the pressure, not Carreon.
    All the moar drama for us !
    Admit it....YOU love it too, amiright
    --Inman.... Sneakily hiding behind charity
    --Carreon.... Fuck you and fuck your charity, I'm gonna legally butt-fuck you hard

    Lulz... this is fine ass drama.

    But i reckon he knows how to use law to get a result.
    The court of public opinion is not the law. #JustSayin

    link to this | view in thread ]

  60. icon
    Anonymous Coward of Esteemed Trolling (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 4:28pm

    Fallacy for a point of both sides not innocent

    Did Inman call babies "thieves" too.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  61. icon
    Anonymous Coward of Esteemed Trolling (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 4:30pm

    Re: Re:

    I hate it when Twitter do that.
    Many a good joke is ruined by impersonation rules.
    Even when you clearly specify... it's a parody.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  62. icon
    TtfnJohn (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 4:38pm

    Re: Re: Re: Relevance?

    It wasn't a typo.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  63. identicon
    deselect, 18 Jun 2012 @ 4:40pm

    Wow.

    The Oatmeal blacked out his information in his blog, however Charles Carreon still insists The Oatmeal gave out his email. However Mr. Carreon has done exactly what he is suing over to someone else:

    http://www.ragingblog.com/2009/05/pornographers-infringe-emily-trademark-and-mattel-is-sile nt-how-swell-is-that/

    He also claims there is no other way to contact him, however on the above link if you click "contact" you will get his email address.

    More reading:
    http://charles-carreon.com

    link to this | view in thread ]

  64. icon
    TtfnJohn (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 4:46pm

    Re:

    Almost 10 times that much now. Keep it coming as you dig Carreon three are a whole mess of baby animals cheering for you.

    None of whom want to grow up to be a lawyer. Something with a little more class like a fully licensed carnivore, wolverine class with a special taste for lawyers.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  65. identicon
    Lurker Keith, 18 Jun 2012 @ 4:57pm

    Washington Post story

    Got another big link for you: the Washington Post now has a story up about the lawsuit.

    It also has some info about how Carreon became involved w/ Funnyjunk, & it appears to have nothing to do w/ The Oatmeal, originally...

    Carreon, 56, tells Comic Riffs that FunnyJunk hired him "five or six months ago" for general website review and that the matter of The Oatmeal's 2011 blogpost came up. Carreon says he decided to send Inman a standard "hardball letter" accusing him of defamation — for which he sought $20,000 in damages — and demanded that he take down all references to FunnyJunk.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  66. icon
    Khaim (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 4:58pm

    Re: Costs

    I'm not sure why that would be relevant. Inman is going to hire the most expensive lawyers he can find, since the anti-SLAPP law will push those costs on to Carreon. Meanwhile, Carreon has a snowball's chance in hell of winning anything, regardless of whether he can claim costs on his own time.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  67. identicon
    Lurker Keith, 18 Jun 2012 @ 5:03pm

    the fake Twitter account

    Also, one of the commenters on Ars Technica's update on the suit (after they manage to read the filing) claimed to be behind the fake Twitter account, & has set up a new one, now that the original fake has been suspended.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  68. icon
    Anonymous Coward of Esteemed Trolling (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 5:21pm

    Re: Fallacy for a point of both sides not innocent

    did you question that ?

    *Did babies call funnyjunk "thieves" too.




    But... wait...Inman is getting sued.

    Babies crying about people stealing can get sued.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  69. identicon
    Digitari, 18 Jun 2012 @ 5:34pm

    Re: Re:It's gotta be said 2.0

    Oatmeal sure can be some funnyjunk at times :)

    link to this | view in thread ]

  70. icon
    Leigh Beadon (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 5:37pm

    Re:

    This guy blows a massive hole in the lame arguments you make on this blog.

    You're absolutely right - until I read that, I was going to argue that Carreon's lawsuit is the stupidest thing I'd seen all day

    link to this | view in thread ]

  71. icon
    Andrew (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 6:36pm

    Re: Re: Costs

    Of course it doesn't affect the strength of his substantive claim. Here, it's a pretty obvious and easy-to-follow rule. If the rule applies in the USA, it demonstrates even more ignorance on Carreon's part.

    Inman has already chosen a good lawyer, and I hope that he was chosen on the basis of experience and skill rather than price.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  72. icon
    apauld (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 7:03pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    perfect!

    link to this | view in thread ]

  73. icon
    apauld (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 7:15pm

    Re: Washington Post story

    awesome, just awesome.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  74. icon
    apauld (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 7:39pm

    Re:

    I concur. I did though, a couple days ago, check out his site. I find this situation to be the only interesting or funny thing about the oatmeal. It makes me think funnyjunk must be worse since it's users re-post oatmeals content there. I did not, however, actually look at funnyjunk's site; just not ready to go there after seeing the stuff I've seen.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  75. identicon
    TDR, 18 Jun 2012 @ 8:16pm

    To paraphrase Holly:

    "You're a total smeghead, aren't you, Carreon?"

    And Kryten:

    "He held a position of no importance. He was a lowly parasite, a zero. A piece of sputum swirling around the toilet bowl of life. He was like the security guard at the front gate who thinks of himself as head of the corporation. And so, when this dispute with the Oatmeal arose, Charles Carreon went over the edge. It was his case, ergo, his pride. I ask the court to look at this man, this sad man, this pathetic man, this joke of a man. A man who sat and failed his mental health exam on no less than fourteen occasions. A man so petty and small-minded, he would while away his hours writing threat letters for defendants he hadn't even met yet. A man who commanded as much love and respect from his fellow human beings as Long John Silver's parrot. An overzealous lawyer with a Napoleon complex. Who would ask this man to represent them in a court of law? Only a yogurt."

    link to this | view in thread ]

  76. icon
    BeeAitch (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 8:41pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    So, black hole either way? I'm good with that.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  77. identicon
    Lurker Keith, 18 Jun 2012 @ 8:54pm

    Re:

    It isn't fair to Rimmer to compare him to Carreon.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  78. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 18 Jun 2012 @ 9:35pm

    Re: FUCK IT.. Techdirters....just force me to be Carreons wife

    fine ass drama? no dipshit, this is a comedy.

    its just one angry retard lashing out after having been called on his angry retard behavior.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  79. identicon
    VMax, 18 Jun 2012 @ 9:54pm

    Re:

    I was waiting for someone to mention the "full retard". Thanks for that.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  80. identicon
    VMax, 18 Jun 2012 @ 10:07pm

    You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead - your next stop, the Carreon Zone!
    A hole so deep, so vast, that your only chance is to just keep digging.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  81. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 18 Jun 2012 @ 10:07pm

    Re:

    googlypants too silly for you, eh hurricane head?

    Where are your sleeping giant artist friends now?

    link to this | view in thread ]

  82. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 18 Jun 2012 @ 10:31pm

    Carrion is a hero, protecting us from the evils of internet comics.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  83. icon
    Any Mouse (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 10:33pm

    A note to Carreon

    I have just three words for you, Mr Charles Carreon:

    Please grow up.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  84. icon
    TaraCarreon (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 10:45pm

    WANTED FOR IMPERSONATING A CHARITY: MATT INMAN
    $100,000 REWARD
    (Balloon 1: "Fight Cancer")
    (Balloon 2: "Love Bears")

    http://www.american-buddha.com/wanted-poster-matt-inman10.jpg

    link to this | view in thread ]

  85. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 18 Jun 2012 @ 10:54pm

    Re: Film at 11!

    link to this | view in thread ]

  86. icon
    G Thompson (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 11:20pm

    I've figured it out.

    This isn't about any wrong done supposedly (in some alternate reality of unicorns and fairy dust) against Carreon its about Carreon not getting his daily fibre of Oatmeal and is therefore backed up and constipated.


    ie: Carreon is full of SHIT!

    link to this | view in thread ]

  87. icon
    G Thompson (profile), 18 Jun 2012 @ 11:28pm

    Re:

    uhuh..

    I give it 4/10 for effort.. 1/10 for originality.. and 9/10 for being evidential proof of hypocrisy and thuggery (and guaranteed to be in any counter suit)

    link to this | view in thread ]

  88. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 19 Jun 2012 @ 12:02am

    "Also, as he had suggested in an interview on Friday, Carreon makes interesting leaps of logic in suggesting that Inman himself may have set up the fake account."

    Here he is wrong again...

    http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/angry-internet-lawyer-sues-the-oatmeal-bears- and-cancer-research/?comments=1&post=22970150#comment-22970150

    link to this | view in thread ]

  89. icon
    PaulT (profile), 19 Jun 2012 @ 2:11am

    Re: Perfect example of human beings not learning from history...

    "Is there a list somewhere of all the idiots who tried to sue the internet and failed?"

    Possibly, but that list will be endless, going forward.

    Combine a self-righteous moral crusade with a complete misunderstanding of how the internet actually works. Add to that greed and the potential for short-term fame and profit (even if the latter is realistically not going to happen), and you get the perfect incentive for clueless marketers, politicians and lawyers to step forward.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  90. icon
    mattarse (profile), 19 Jun 2012 @ 2:27am

    I for one am sending Carreon email of support.

    I don't want this shit to end!

    link to this | view in thread ]

  91. identicon
    STStone, 19 Jun 2012 @ 3:19am

    Re:

    Inman has not once impersonated a charity. Inman has said that he plans to donate the money received through his fundraising efforts to charity; that hardly comes across as an "impersonation" of a charity.

    Cute work with Photoshop, though. Did you buy your copy?

    link to this | view in thread ]

  92. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 19 Jun 2012 @ 4:22am

    Re:

    Don't you have an internet library to run? You're not helping your husband any and in fact are only adding to the whole "this guy is quite out of his mind" opinion that people have already formed.

    It's bad enough you're husband's suing charities now. Don't add to the damage by now trying to back up his assertions that Inman is somehow pretending to be two charities.

    Seriously, you two need to be taught how the internet works, because you're both obviously clueless about it. Your husband keeps ranting and foaming at the mouth and thinks this will keep people from laughing at him. You actually believe calling your website an "internet library" allows you to post copyrighted material and not have to follow DMCA procedure. Lol. You cannot make up that kind of hilarity.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  93. icon
    bratwurzt (profile), 19 Jun 2012 @ 4:50am

    Re: FUCK IT.. Techdirters....just force me to be Carreons wife

    This is not trolling. You don't get funny by fancy fonts and failed attempts to write an ellipsis. It's obvious you're on Carreon's side of argument and that makes you a bad troll - you should use an emotional bait and wait for response and THEN assert some lie as a fact. You know - we are more vulnerable when we're confused by your... khm... "esteemed trolling". But hey - you can't have good trolling without bad ones.

    #justSaying #nothingToSeeHereCarreon

    link to this | view in thread ]

  94. icon
    bratwurzt (profile), 19 Jun 2012 @ 4:52am

    Re: Re: Fallacy for a point of both sides not innocent

    Are shakespeare monkeys writing this?

    link to this | view in thread ]

  95. icon
    Marcel de Jong (profile), 19 Jun 2012 @ 5:12am

    Re:

    Wanted for sheer stupidity: the family Carreon.
    reward: Eternal internet fame.

    Seriously, Tara. Your husband is fighting with windmills here, like a true Don Quixote.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  96. icon
    Cory of PC (profile), 19 Jun 2012 @ 5:40am

    Re:

    Just ask me: do you know if he is impersonating a charity and, if so, how?

    Otherwise I got nothing to say. This... this is really low. More low than having someone suing two respectable charities. Hope you're enjoying your husband's fame in idiocy.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  97. icon
    TaraCarreon (profile), 19 Jun 2012 @ 8:19am

    Re: Carreon's Disciplinary History

    Charles didn't do anything. He took the fall for a decision I made to pay the rent on the basis of a prior agreement with our client to pay, on which agreement client reneged when his company went bust and he split with his partner, which partner we sided with, who ended up opening a car wash rather than work with said partner, and it was a vendetta against Charles for his alliance with good partner, as opposed to bad partner. Things are seldom what they seem.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  98. icon
    TaraCarreon (profile), 19 Jun 2012 @ 8:35am

    Re: Re: Carreon's Disciplinary History

    Not that this terrorist lynch mob cares anything for the truth. There's a driving ignorance and hatred going on at this TechDirt site that I've never seen before. I think it's a cover for the Mafia, I really do.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  99. icon
    TaraCarreon (profile), 19 Jun 2012 @ 8:37am

    Re: Re: Re: Carreon's Disciplinary History

    But it's really depressing, and I'm getting the fuck out of here. These people are UGLY.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  100. identicon
    Adam Steinbaugh, 19 Jun 2012 @ 8:59am

    Re: Re: Carreon's Disciplinary History

    So he, to reimburse the rent payment, took that amount from the client's funds (which should have been in a client trust account)?

    That most certainly IS doing something.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  101. icon
    Jack (profile), 19 Jun 2012 @ 9:21am

    Re: Re: Carreon's Disciplinary History

    The complaint on the CA bar website also states that he was practicing law in Canada without a license to do so.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  102. identicon
    sumtekguy, 19 Jun 2012 @ 9:21am

    Libel

    by stating on his website that Matt Inman instigated the internet to cause "security attacks" on him.. isn't this libel? just curious...

    link to this | view in thread ]

  103. identicon
    Business Software Alliance, 19 Jun 2012 @ 9:27am

    Re: Re:

    One subpoena will tell us.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  104. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 19 Jun 2012 @ 9:27am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Carreon's Disciplinary History

    The adult thing to do would be to just leave. You don't have to announce to the world your plans to do so. And what's truly depressing and ugly IS SUING TWO CHARITY ORGANIZATIONS for no reason whatsoever, besides spite and anger at being humiliated and laughed at for things you yourself did to cause said laughter.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  105. identicon
    Just an Opinion, 19 Jun 2012 @ 9:30am

    Wow....16 years as a lawyer. You wouldn't know it from his filling. This publicity certainly will not get him work, quite the opposite unless his new jog is as a comedian.

    It's even more surprising seeing as Carreon is supposed to be an expert on internet law (or so he thinks after the sex.com case). It doesn't look like he has even been on the internet since 2000 based on his accusations.

    He is also suing the maker of biometric finger print scanners too. I am willing to bet he just flushed all his other cases/work to deal with this non-case.

    I see this lawyer going bankrupt, especially after Inman counter-sues for legal costs and damages.

    link to this | view in thread ]

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    TaraCarreon (profile), 19 Jun 2012 @ 12:36pm

    Mike Masnick Retard Wannabe Lawyer Writer ejaculates: "Carreon tries to claim that these images actually incite Inman's followers into action:
    'Inman’s followers are by and large technologically savvy young people eager to follow the latest trend, who embrace Inman’s brutal ideology of tearing you a new asshole.'
    Seriously? Carreon is literally arguing that fans of a silly comic with cartoonishly ridiculous violence leads them to 'embrace' this 'brutal ideology?' Carreon really ought to spend more time online. Carreon repeatedly makes incredibly weak connections between Inman's cartoons, his online persona and the later hatred directed his way, but without any actual evidence."

    My response: History is full of evidence of the connection between hate speech and hate action. We need go no further than the Nazi propaganda against the Jews. "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion," Henry Ford's "The International Jew," and cartoon books like Elwira Bauer's "Trust No Fox on His Green Heath and No Jew on His Oath," were all tools for teaching anti-semitism. They had a widespread influence, all evil, that was used as a justification for the Holocaust and innumerable pogroms around the world. As Perry M. Atterberry said, they "feed the fears of the credulous and fan the flames of fanaticism and hate."

    Who in their right mind could say that there is no connection between thought and action? Only a fascist would say something like this.

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    TaraCarreon (profile), 19 Jun 2012 @ 12:44pm

    Re:

    These techdirt nazi scumbags are doing to Charles what they did to the Jews in Nazi Germany:

    The Jewish Lawyer

    Just as children have their fights,
    Grown-ups have their quarrels, too.
    Parents judge in children’s squabbles,
    Judges settle grown-ups’ disputes.
    A good lawyer must before the judge
    Lay bare all the details of the case
    When the trial once begins.
    The lawyer gets his money.
    So it is in the whole wide world...
    Our farmer Michael goes to town.
    He’s got a date with the sharp attorney.
    See him in the sketch I’ve drawn,
    With handsome wife in fine attire.
    Next them the lawyer may be seen,
    He’s looking very poor and mean.
    Just now his trade is very slack,
    From farmer Michael he expects a whack!
    To the farmer he makes a plea:
    “Dear rich Michael be kind to me.
    Couldn’t you bring me butter, wine,
    Flour and eggs? That would be fine!
    Just give me time with this tricky suit;
    We’ll win the case and money to boot!”
    Here’s good prospect, I surmise,
    But all he said was a pack of lies.
    The peasant folk from Dummelsbrumm
    Believe it all: they are so dumb!
    They bring him every kind of food.
    And, Boy! that lawyer’s feeling good.
    The end is sad to this long tale:
    The farmer had to go to court,
    So long the Jewish lawyer fought,
    Primed with the farmers butter and eggs.
    Now round and plump and plump and round,
    Jew lawyer weighs 240 pound.
    Only when there was nothing left
    Did, strangely enough, the trial end.
    The farmer, true, had won the case;
    Now he wonders with long face
    Who his goods and money took.
    They were stolen all by the Jewish crook.

    http://naderlibrary.com/911.trustnofoxongreenheath.htm

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  108. identicon
    Xaratherus, 19 Jun 2012 @ 1:21pm

    Fark headline pulled

    Interesting, Fark had a headline linking to this story earlier today but it's been pulled now. I wonder if Carreon hit them with a cease and desist? :P

    link to this | view in thread ]

  109. icon
    TaraCarreon (profile), 19 Jun 2012 @ 1:29pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Carreon's Disciplinary History

    "No reason whatsoever?" Why are you so retarded? You can't read? You don't think the public's donations should go to the charities they wanted them to go to? You think donation and fund-raising should be a free-for-all? You're an idiot, pure and simple. You can't see beyond your own dick.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  110. icon
    TaraCarreon (profile), 19 Jun 2012 @ 1:29pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Carreon's Disciplinary History

    "No reason whatsoever?" Why are you so retarded? You can't read? You don't think the public's donations should go to the charities they wanted them to go to? You think donation and fund-raising should be a free-for-all? You're an idiot, pure and simple. You can't see beyond your own dick.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  111. icon
    TaraCarreon (profile), 19 Jun 2012 @ 1:30pm

    Re: Re: Re: Carreon's Disciplinary History

    No, I did it.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  112. icon
    TaraCarreon (profile), 19 Jun 2012 @ 1:30pm

    Re: Re: Re: Carreon's Disciplinary History

    That's bullshit. We had a client, we went to see him.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  113. identicon
    Today I Learned, 19 Jun 2012 @ 1:34pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Carreon's Disciplinary History

    Today I learned that having a client means you have a license.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  114. identicon
    Who Washes The Washers?, 19 Jun 2012 @ 1:34pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Carreon's Disciplinary History

    I thought you were leaving forever.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  115. icon
    TaraCarreon (profile), 19 Jun 2012 @ 1:43pm

    Re:

    I bet you were on the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" writing committee.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  116. icon
    TaraCarreon (profile), 19 Jun 2012 @ 1:46pm

    Re: Re:

    It's against the law to represent a charity without a contract. It's against the law for a charity not to monitor rogue fundraisers. The law makes sense. It's to protect the public.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  117. icon
    TaraCarreon (profile), 19 Jun 2012 @ 1:48pm

    Re:

    26 years as a lawyer.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  118. icon
    TaraCarreon (profile), 19 Jun 2012 @ 1:52pm

    Re: Re:

    Both sides of Charles' family, the Ainsa/Anzas and the Carreons, were Spanish Conversos. The Carreon name is on the list online. Ainsa, on the other hand, his mother's surname, is also a town in Basque Spain. When Spanish Jews converted to Catholicism, in order to discard their Jewish surnames, they often took the name of their town, and thus their surnames are also "place names." Thus, it is quite likely that Charles is genetically Jewish from both sides of his family.

    The Ainsa family also had the typical southwestern U.S. tradition of mysteriously refusing to eat pork. That is something that is said to be the vestiges of Jews fleeing not only from Spain to Mexico, but then, when the Inquisition also took effect in Mexico, they further fled to northern New Spain, into New Mexico, and what is now Arizona.

    The Ainsas also attained great prominence as a wealthy family in San Francisco before the San Francisco earthquake and fire. Jose Ainsa was a member of the Crab expedition that ended in the incredible Caborca massacre, and his story is a matter of legend. And if we're looking for family pride, Jose Ainsa refused to leave Mexico before he was given an apology for being arrested as a member of the Crab expedition. Everyone else was killed and he was the only one left alive because he was so handsome and well spoken that the daughter of a prominent family fell in love with him, and begged the governor to pardon him. And he was pardoned, but he still refused to leave Mexico until he got an apology, at which point his friends bundled him up and carried him back to San Francisco. See "Hey Dude, Where's My Silver Mines?" by Charles Carreon

    http://www.naderlibrary.com/AZ.heydudesilver.htm

    link to this | view in thread ]

  119. icon
    Ann (profile), 19 Jun 2012 @ 3:27pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Carreon's Disciplinary History

    Mrs. Carreon, what people are responding negatively to is the clear double standard that both you and your husband live by. You have voiced a blatant disregard for the DMCA notification system and yet have asked that others utilize it. You and your husband collapse on your fainting couches over the nasty things that have been said to and about you, but you then use the highly offensive and insensitive term "retard" over and over in this forum. You balk at the comic that Inman drew of FunnyJunk's mother, but have made far more disgusting photoshopped collages of various political figured you disagree with yourselves. The blatant hypocrisy you have both exercised is flabbergasting, but becomes particularly abhorrent when it is coupled with litigious action. Two of the largest charities in the country cannot possible police every dollar raised in their names. If my children set up a lemonade stand to raise money for the American Cancer Society without registering is your husband going to sue them too?

    I would advise that you revisit the tenets of the religion that you and your husband founded last summer. Particularly the tenets regarding showing one face at all times and being aware of the consequences of our actions. The following passage seems particularly poignant:

    "We are blessed with minds that allow us to reflect upon what we intend, and to consider the likely consequences of our acts before we do them."

    http://www.oestia.com/

    link to this | view in thread ]

  120. icon
    Abigail (profile), 19 Jun 2012 @ 3:34pm

    You should have listed the first time...

    Tara, let me leave you the same advise as those who ostracized you while in Ashland: go to therapy for (at least) a year.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  121. identicon
    STStone, 19 Jun 2012 @ 5:22pm

    Re:

    You know, if you want people to take you seriously, it might help if you didn't refer to people you disagree with as retards.

    Also, stop spewing the crazy. You make no sense and you distract from the argument at ha--oooooooh I see what you want to do now.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  122. identicon
    STStone, 19 Jun 2012 @ 5:23pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    And this has what to do with Chuck trying to shake down Matthew Inman and suing Inman after his plan backfired, exactly?

    link to this | view in thread ]

  123. identicon
    STStone, 19 Jun 2012 @ 5:25pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    It's against the law to represent a charity without a contract. It's against the law for a charity not to monitor rogue fundraisers.

    1.) Prove it by citing actual case law.
    2.) Prove Inman has acted as a "rogue" fundraiser.

    Y'see, when you make accusations, the burden of proof lies upon you to actually, y'know, prove them.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  124. identicon
    Adam Steinbaugh, 19 Jun 2012 @ 6:24pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Carreon's Disciplinary History

    Really! So he either 1) allowed you access to a client's trust account, 2) allowed you access to a non-trust account containing client funds, or 3) you accessed a client trust account without authorization.

    I would wager that 1 and 2 are ethical breaches. 3? Well...

    link to this | view in thread ]

  125. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 19 Jun 2012 @ 6:48pm

    Re:

    You know what? I read The Oatmeal. I don't agree with everything he says. I have not even considered making a donation. But your husband is standing out like a much, much larger asshole by antagonising everyone who doesn't completely agree with him.

    Keep railing against the sky while it rains on your face; it'll do you the same amount of good as you're getting here.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  126. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 19 Jun 2012 @ 7:03pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Carreon's Disciplinary History

    Wow, wait to make a point. That point being that you're a loon and get all bent out of shape just like your husband does, and the sad part is I didn't even mock you. I said basically, "Okay, bye, but it's odd that your husband is suing for no good reason whatsoever two charities. CHARITIES!"

    You do your husband a great service arguing on his behalf and calling people who point out he's suing innocent charities retards. I can quite clearly read, which is why I said what I did. I read about your husband suing two charity organization. And in case you don't get it, as you probably don't, I was being sarcastic. You're actually doing your husband a great disservice, but then again, he's been doing that on his own for a week now. So a bit more bad PR on the part of his wife surely won't be that much worse. "Hey, internet, Carreon's wife is calling people 'retards' and 'idiots' for pointing out her husband is now suing two charities." Oh yeah, if you thought the ridicule before was bad can you imagine how much worse it's gonna get now that you've gone and put your foot in your mouth with those remarks? If I was the quick to anger sort (like you two seem to be), I'd just take a quick screenshot or two (or just link to the comment) and post them on reddit and elsewhere and just let the chips fall where they may. But unlike you two, I'm a nice guy and I'm not quick to anger.

    Lol. As for the rest of what you said. Wow. Again, bravo. So not only is your husband a douchebag per his actions, his wife is also a raving lunatic who can't handle having her husband's douchebaggery called out and criticized.

    I do think donations should go wherever people want them to go. Which is why I think it's odd that your husband is suing two charities. Where people obviously wanted their money to go, which is why they donated to said charities through IndieGoGo in the first place. Donations should indeed be a free for all. Hence the word "donate", as in give your money to those you want to. Fund raising should also be a free for all. Hence, "fund raising" as in try and raise funds.

    I think the "idiot, pure and simple" is you. And your husband. I can see beyond my own dick. You and your husband can't see beyond your own anger, that much is evident.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  127. identicon
    Adam Steinbaugh, 19 Jun 2012 @ 7:27pm

    Re:

    You're quite correct that 'hate speech' contributed greatly to the advent of the Holocaust and other atrocities.

    But even hate speech is still protected by the First Amendment.

    Not that that's the relevant category of speech at issue here. You're looking for the category relating to incitement. Even then, inciting speech is protected by the First Amendment unless it is intended and likely to create an immediate breach of the peace. As in -- right now, someone is going to get physically violent.

    I greatly sympathize with the fact that people are saying all sorts of nasty stuff about you and Mr. Carreon. Some of it, I think, crosses the line, and you're right to condemn it.

    But the solution isn't to go and drag someone into court far away from their homes -- an act which can be quite confusing, costly, and tolling, especially when you don't have the comfort of an able friend, family member, or husband who has the benefit of having worked tirelessly to learn the intricacies of the legal process. Nor is the solution to use that high level of education to go and find a statute with which you can bludgeon the other side with the purported purpose of ensuring that charities get their money (and, in the process, costing those same charities a great deal, and deterring others from donating or starting their own fundraisers -- a Pyrrhic victory, if it gets to that).

    No, the solution is to fight back -- with more speech. Just as you're doing now, and just as Mr. Carreon is doing elsewhere. Public debate is caustic -- if you don't want to be criticized (perhaps vehemently), do nothing.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  128. identicon
    COME AT ME BRO, 19 Jun 2012 @ 10:22pm

    TO TARA CARREON (AND YOUR STUPID HUSBAND TOO):

    I would like to state, for the record, on behalf of the WHOLE INTERNET, that you are both are fucked in the head. The levels of hypocrisy you have both displayed is unfathomable. IT'S TIME TO STOP DIGGING, BITCH.

    If any of this bullshit makes it anywhere near a courtroom, I will be absolutely ashamed.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  129. icon
    G Thompson (profile), 19 Jun 2012 @ 10:50pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    as long as I'm not doing it for commercial purposes (which creates monetary gain for myself) I will represent any fucking charity I so desire.

    I really do not care about any fucking stupid Californian law (which doesn't actually say what you think it says) or Californian attorney (like for example your husband) who thinks they are some god(s) gift to the internet because of some case they did in regards to "sex.com" that was really for the clients anyway and has subsequently unethically 'advertised' how great they are to have won the case when in fact any attorney has to do the best for their client no matter what.

    When you and your husband lose this case, I want you to remember the words you just typed "The law makes sense. It's to protect the public" and don't dare whine or have a ego induced hissy fit, because you loosing the current case you have both initiated will absolutely PROTECT the public

    link to this | view in thread ]

  130. identicon
    Deselect, 20 Jun 2012 @ 1:02am

    Hey you guys better watch out what you say about Charles Carreon, he has subpoenaed ArsTechnica and Twitter to find out who all the scary internet people are. Also his wife Tara will draw genitals on your face if they can. All of this is explained here:

    http://charles-carreon.com/2012/06/20/i ... ernet-now/

    Also they will probably claim that drawing dicks on your face is satire, but a cartoon woman seducing a bear is total pornography.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  131. icon
    Marcel de Jong (profile), 20 Jun 2012 @ 2:53am

    Re: Re: Re:

    NAZI's? You bandy this word around, but I don't think you know what it means.
    Go read a few history books, that is, if you can read. And if you can't, I'd suggest you learn to and then read those history books.

    There is a place for people like you, it's a psychiatric institution.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  132. icon
    Marcel de Jong (profile), 20 Jun 2012 @ 2:56am

    Re: Re:

    So, we've put your husband in a gas chamber, have we? Subjected him to all sorts of medical examinations?
    Locked him up in concentration camps?

    You two need to get your head examined.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  133. icon
    Anonymous Coward of Esteemed Trolling (profile), 20 Jun 2012 @ 4:00am

    Re: Re: FUCK IT.. Techdirters....just force me to be Carreons wife

    I too am confused by your name.

    Sorry I am wrong....again, what am i like. tut tut
    buthurtz .... that name actually makes sense.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  134. icon
    Anonymous Coward of Esteemed Trolling (profile), 20 Jun 2012 @ 4:07am

    Re: Re: Re: Fallacy for a point of both sides not innocent

    Go after the monkeys writing the message.

    Ignore Shakespeare, he donated to charity, so as to make it OK to lock up monkeys for infinity, all because he was too lazy to write his own books.

    Personal attacks for opposing opinion... how original
    #HowIsThatWorkingOutForYa

    link to this | view in thread ]

  135. icon
    Halleyscomet (profile), 20 Jun 2012 @ 2:33pm

    Re: Re:

    Seriously? Is that the best you've got, playing the race card when NONE of the arguments against your husband have been about race?

    link to this | view in thread ]

  136. icon
    JV (profile), 20 Jun 2012 @ 2:58pm

    Re:

    WANTED FOR BEING AN EXTREME DOUCHE: Charles Carreon
    No reward, just personal satisfaction is seeing this guy's career go down in smoke.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  137. icon
    Halleyscomet (profile), 20 Jun 2012 @ 2:59pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    "Both sides of Charles' family, the Ainsa/Anzas and the Carreons, were Spanish Conversos."

    His ancestry is not relevant to this discussion. Your insistence upon bringing it up is perplexing.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  138. icon
    Halleyscomet (profile), 20 Jun 2012 @ 3:03pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    "It's against the law to represent a charity without a contract. It's against the law for a charity not to monitor rogue fundraisers."

    You might want to check out Popehat's analysis of that claim.

    http://www.popehat.com/2012/06/19/the-oatmeal-v-funnyjunk-part-v-a-brief-review-of-charles -carreons-complaint/

    Start at the words "Sweet Charity:" in the article "The Oatmeal v. FunnyJunk, Part V: A Brief Review of Charles Carreon's Complaint"

    Mr. Carreon appears to have misread the statute.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  139. icon
    Halleyscomet (profile), 20 Jun 2012 @ 3:04pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re:

    She might be trying to play the race card by way of defending Carreon.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  140. icon
    Jack (profile), 20 Jun 2012 @ 4:27pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Carreon's Disciplinary History

    link to this | view in thread ]

  141. icon
    Jack (profile), 20 Jun 2012 @ 4:32pm

    Re:

    Your own websites are filled with hate speech and vulgar attacks on public figures that you dislike. You're hate and vulgarity far eclipses anything that Inman has ever had on his website (and yet you pretend to be a Buddhist).

    link to this | view in thread ]

  142. icon
    Jack (profile), 20 Jun 2012 @ 4:33pm

    Re:

    I second this opinion.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  143. icon
    Jack (profile), 20 Jun 2012 @ 4:35pm

    Re: You should have listed the first time...

    I think a couple of years in a mental hospital would be more appropriate in this case.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  144. icon
    Jack (profile), 20 Jun 2012 @ 4:39pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    I'm Jewish, please don't try and connect your bat-shit crazy mishigas to my people.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  145. icon
    Wispet (profile), 20 Jun 2012 @ 5:06pm

    Re:

    I got a real laugh out of you trolling the Guardian with your ignorance. You have the worst grasp of history and politics I've run across in 30 years of teaching American undergraduates.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  146. icon
    Wispet (profile), 20 Jun 2012 @ 5:07pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    Again with the lack of historical knowledge, let alone rhetoric and logic...

    link to this | view in thread ]

  147. icon
    Wispet (profile), 20 Jun 2012 @ 5:10pm

    Re: Re:

    And? 35 years as a University professor. Read a book. On history. And then one on fascism. And then one on art. And then one on humor. And then one on what digital archives. etc.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  148. icon
    Wispet (profile), 20 Jun 2012 @ 5:18pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    "The Ainsa family also had the typical southwestern U.S. tradition of mysteriously refusing to eat pork."

    OMG dying of laughter.

    I suspect you are trying to refer to the practices that are sometimes called "Crypto-Judaism." These are not "typical" of any U.S. "Southwestern" "tradition."

    I wouldn't be using the word "library" near anything you've concocted.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  149. icon
    Jack (profile), 20 Jun 2012 @ 7:24pm

    Re:

    I hope that he subpoenas TD for my info. At this point I'm feeling left out.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  150. identicon
    Jason, 20 Jun 2012 @ 7:56pm

    Re: Re:

    Thirded

    link to this | view in thread ]

  151. identicon
    Will, 20 Jun 2012 @ 8:57pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    Fourthed.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  152. identicon
    Jason, 20 Jun 2012 @ 10:11pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re:

    Don't mind me, just proliferating the evidence since he wants to hide it

    http://imgur.com/GD4Kx

    link to this | view in thread ]

  153. icon
    bratwurzt (profile), 21 Jun 2012 @ 3:13am

    Re: Re: Re: FUCK IT.. Techdirters....just force me to be Carreons wife

    1. No need for panic - confusion is natural state of your mind.

    2. buthurtz - are you 10? Or are you homophobic bisexual who's confused by homosexual impulses? No worries - confusion is normal, check no. 1 :)

    link to this | view in thread ]

  154. icon
    bratwurzt (profile), 21 Jun 2012 @ 3:19am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Fallacy for a point of both sides not innocent

    You're not getting better at this - your opinion is a simple (and pretty bad) trolling bait. Hypocrisy much?

    It's working out pretty good - trolling a troll is much more fun when that troll sucks at it.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  155. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 21 Jun 2012 @ 11:25am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Relevance?

    Doe Snot- Lady dear with runny noses.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  156. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 21 Jun 2012 @ 8:24pm

    Re:

    Your comic sucks. Not quite the oatmeal, is it?

    link to this | view in thread ]

  157. identicon
    AJPaul, 22 Jun 2012 @ 1:34am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Carreon's Disciplinary History

    Wow. I can't believe how mature and professional you are. You two really do deserve each other, don't you?

    link to this | view in thread ]

  158. identicon
    Deselect, 22 Jun 2012 @ 10:59pm

    I mean no one is crazy enough to sue for dinosaurs... right?
    http://charles-carreon.com

    link to this | view in thread ]

  159. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 26 Jun 2012 @ 3:38pm

    You're gonna need an ocean

    link to this | view in thread ]

  160. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 26 Jun 2012 @ 3:39pm

    You're gonna need an ocean

    link to this | view in thread ]

  161. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 30 Jun 2012 @ 11:09pm

    Re: Re: Re: Carreon's Disciplinary History

    I can see why you two are married... Your views are just as fucked up and demented as you husbands. You two deserve each other.

    It's pretty obvious you're having a blast leeching off of Charles 15 minuets. I figured since his 15 minuets was of a very negative nature you guys would let it die. Some of his views with what they suggest are just plain absurd.

    What I don't get is why you think you're so special. Do you seriously think Charles and yourself are the first to be trolled on the internet?

    He had it coming from the second he started to spew such moronic comments.

    I'm extremely for open information and I don't even hold it against him. I believe he was wrong and should just admit it. It's not a crime to be wrong considering we're all wrong at one point or another.

    If I fuck up I have no problem saying that I did. Even if it can be very embarrassing. It might hurt your ego, but letting it go on for so long will only make things worse when/if you decided to say you were wrong.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  162. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 11 Aug 2012 @ 5:02am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Carreon's Disciplinary History

    SHUT THE FUCK FAGASS

    link to this | view in thread ]

  163. icon
    BearGriz72 (profile), 25 Jun 2017 @ 3:13pm

    FYI

    It appears that http://pterodactyl.me is defunct.

    link to this | view in thread ]


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