We all know what happened with the recent farce of Serpo Release #22 and the "Intervention" of Tacitus Monroe. This release was to include the long-promised photos of Serpo as well as a lot more of the usual drivel we have come to expect from these people.
As a result of these shenanigans, I have indirectly (in public at least) been accused of a number of things, chief among them that I have "hacked" Bill Ryan's server and that I am Tacitus Monroe.
Bill has been working his little socks off behind the scenes to try and paint a picture of drama and intrigue, but more importantly to cast himself in a favourable light amongst those he deems as his followers and supporters.
First up I will paste an email from Bill that went to several people and which is right now being shared by his supporters with many who are asking questions. This is inexplicably being touted as "Fact" when the reality shows NOT ONE single piece of rational analysis has taken place here. I will then follow with my response.
Note: We at RU have been receiving information behind the scenes on a very regular basis. It would be nice if it were just one person that does this, in fact there are three people who regularly send us updates and another couple who do so on a less regular basis. This is one particular fact that both Bill & Victor find very hard to stomach, along with their friends elsewhere.
Begin Email
Hi, All:
I have a very amusing story to tell. The joke is on me. I hope you will laugh – at least after gathering your breath.
The main motivation is to restore the integrity of everyone on this list. No-one has been leaking anything. The error has been mine – and it was farcical.
Back in February/March, about a hundred years ago, Steve Broadbent helped me to set up the new Serpo website. Remember all that hassle with the domain name transfers, resulting in the site being down for a week or more? Steve helped me to sort that out. That was before RU was created and before the Wayne Jaeschke affair blew up.
I thought I’d changed the passwords... but I had not actually done this. To my horror, I’ve just checked. Steve has had open-door access to the Serpo website all along. And if he’s had access to the control panel, he’s been able to access the e-mail password (which is different, but no matter). So he’s read all the incoming contact@serpo.org e-mails, which Victor has used routinely (and quite reasonably) to communicate with me. They all come through to his desktop, each and every one. It was as simple as that. Steve did nothing illegal.
Underhand, certainly, but not illegal.
Interestingly, I can’t send from contact@serpo.org, so I always send from support@projectcamelot.org or from bill.ryan@virgin.net. So he’s only been reading my incoming mails, not my outgoing ones. But that has enabled him to have a field day. Mea culpa, as Tacitus would say.
So that’s the leak. All parties here are innocent, as they have always protested. Christmas is a good time for apologies to be proffered (and mine here is the first).
Importantly, it also confirms for definite that he is Tacitus Monroe. For those still catching up (not easy to do), Tacitus/Steve posted purported Serpo pictures on his site yesterday, warning (as an intimation) of a forthcoming release of fakes. These images were lifted directly from the Serpo server. We know this as a fact, because the image designations were not the original ones, and were changed when they were uploaded to the server by a contact of Victor’s. This is now 100% cast-iron certain and proven.
It needs to be said that Tacitus was helpful yesterday. He could have been very damaging, but chose not to be so.
At least one minor mystery is solved... so we’re making progress here
The remaining little puzzler (a huge one, actually) is how come the Serpo images are clearly fake, yet the reserve Serpo astronauts exist. (I know at least one of them does – for a fact – and have never revealed his name, phone number and address. I cannot and will not say more about this, but this is my prime source of 100% certainty that Serpo is not a hoax – supported by much circumstantial evidence apart.)
As if we didn’t know, a very complex game is being played out behind the scenes, with insider factions trying to discredit the story that an exchange program occurred. They’ve pretty much succeeded, with the generous help of those in the UFO community who should have been more intelligent, better-intentioned, more ethical, and/or more patient. I’m not sure it’s recoverable now, whatever the detailed truth. In this field, as in all media affairs, PR is king, and reigns supreme over mere facts. I’m considering making a statement about this. Victor’s statement this morning is worth reading in its entirety, but it could be summarized by saying:
There’s a lot of disinfo, the core story of the exchange program is real (as are the elderly ex-military personnel involved), insider factions are playing a plethora of merry games with it, and we may not know the truth anytime soon.
Merry Christmas, everyone –
Best to all, Bill
Interesting eh? Do you notice how Bill has it all figured out, and is explaining this all away as fact that cannot be disputed? This is Bill at his best.
Let's have a look at what he is saying in detail:
Hi, All:
I have a very amusing story to tell. The joke is on me. I hope you will laugh – at least after gathering your breath.
The main motivation is to restore the integrity of everyone on this list. No-one has been leaking anything. The error has been mine – and it was farcical.
"No-one has been leaking anything". Notice how Bill *knows* this. You are in for a big surprise mate. That's all I will say for now. The reason I have no problem letting them know there are people who are leaking us information behind the scenes is because we have the luxury of several sources. The fact that we mention this and yet they still continue to fabricate and twist events into an unrecognisably morphed version of the truth shows their true arrogance impressively. Carry on guys.
Back in February/March, about a hundred years ago, Steve Broadbent helped me to set up the new Serpo website. Remember all that hassle with the domain name transfers, resulting in the site being down for a week or more? Steve helped me to sort that out. That was before RU was created and before the Wayne Jaeschke affair blew up.
Extraordinary, a whole paragraph that I can agree on. This was back in the time when I still gave Bill the benefit of the doubt.
I thought I’d changed the passwords... but I had not actually done this. To my horror, I’ve just checked. Steve has had open-door access to the Serpo website all along. And if he’s had access to the control panel, he’s been able to access the e-mail password (which is different, but no matter). So he’s read all the incoming contact@serpo.org e-mails, which Victor has used routinely (and quite reasonably) to communicate with me. They all come through to his desktop, each and every one. It was as simple as that. Steve did nothing illegal.
First of all, an admission. I HAVE had full access to the serpo.org website. Surprised? It's no biggie - as you will see. I will explain this access in more detail below, but first let's take a look at this statement from the quote above:
And if he’s had access to the control panel, he’s been able to access the e-mail password (which is different, but no matter).
Right there is the fingerprint of the chief manipulator par excellence. We at RU have seen this many times from Bill and if recent exchanges are anything to go by, many others have too.
For your information, the "Control Panel" in use at Serpo.org is "cpanel", I provide that information so anyone with the technical know how can verify the following. Access to the CPanel in no way shape or form gives anyone access to the email passwords. He even says: "he’s been able to access the e-mail password (which is different, but no matter)" WHICH IS DIFFERENT, BUT NO MATTER??!! Of course it matters! I had access to the configuration program for the email, but no one can see the password for any email account, they are kept encrypted on the server - as they are at most webhosts. The only thing I would be able to do is change the password which would be immediately recognised by anyone with access to that account - for they would be no longer able to logon.
Btw, the following quote by Bill has a very simple explanation:
Interestingly, I can’t send from contact@serpo.org...
The web host where Serpo.org resides does not provide any smtp functionality, you have to configure your email client with your own ISP settings for sending mail. Once again Bill is trying to create intrigue where none exists.
On with the rest of the quote from above:
So he’s read all the incoming contact@serpo.org e-mails, which Victor has used routinely (and quite reasonably) to communicate with me. They all come through to his desktop, each and every one. It was as simple as that. Steve did nothing illegal.
You're damn right I have done nothing illegal! You jump from my knowing the 'site' password to my reading each and every one of the emails in one quick and easy step! What world do you live in, Xenu or Serpo? Your dishonesty in misleading people who are seeking answers wrt this is appalling in the extreme.
So he’s only been reading my incoming mails, not my outgoing ones. But that has enabled him to have a field day. Mea culpa, as Tacitus would say.
No Bill, I have NOT been reading anything of the sort.
So that’s the leak. All parties here are innocent, as they have always protested. Christmas is a good time for apologies to be proffered (and mine here is the first).
See above, but keep believing it
Now for the true stretch of imagination:
Importantly, it also confirms for definite that he is Tacitus Monroe. For those still catching up (not easy to do), Tacitus/Steve posted purported Serpo pictures on his site yesterday, warning (as an intimation) of a forthcoming release of fakes. These images were lifted directly from the Serpo server. We know this as a fact, because the image designations were not the original ones, and were changed when they were uploaded to the server by a contact of Victor’s. This is now 100% cast-iron certain and proven.
"Importantly it also confirms for definite that he is Tacitus Monroe"
HOW in the blue hell do you work that one out?! If you can get people to believe the nonsense with the emails, I suppose you think your powers of persuasion are quite simply beyond reproach and you can suggest anything you like now? No Bill, you cannot. I will outline exactly what I know wrt Tacitus Monroe and the pictures that were sent via ftp to serpo.org.
As I mentioned above, I was in possession of the site password. This allowed me to upload your site during the change to that host because it also granted me ftp access to the server - as you know. You have also stated in the past that you had given ftp access to anonymous should the long-promised photos ever be "delivered". Incidentally, there a number of other people that Bill has given this password to. You will note he neglects to mention that.
I wondered if those pictures would ever appear too but I certainly wasn't going to check the server every day either. I created a small script that did it for me. Several times a day, every day, an ftp connection was made to the site and the incoming ftp directory checked to see if any files were present.
Weeks and weeks went by with nothing, which didn't surprise me in the slightest. Imagine my surprise however when I received a notification last week that there were 7 new files in the incoming directory! I ftp'd to the server and there they were, the promised photos. I didn't actually KNOW they were the promised photos, but going on the description you yourself gave of two that you had seen at Laughlin and, in your own words: "moved you to tears", it was pretty clear these were the ones.
It was also pretty damn clear that they are fake! We were ecstatic by this development. Within five minutes Ryan (Dube) and I found a photo on Google Images that matched exactly with one of the pictures in the directory. This was it we thought, the final proof that Serpo is nothing more than a poorly written piece of fiction being spread throughout the net by people such as yourself.
We were expecting an announcement at any time in the form of an update to Serpo.org and triumphant email stream by Victor. Yes I will admit, we were quite excited by this development. We were also bewildered by what exactly had moved you to tears Bill.
Then came surprise number 2. Our "old friend" Tacitus Monroe makes another appearance with a new page on his website and a post at OM with two of the pictures as sent to serpo.org! I won't tell you what I said out loud when I saw that particular development, it was perplexing to say the least. At first I thought he was stealing our thunder but I've since come to a far different conclusion.
We knew from very early on that Tacitus had insider knowledge wrt Project Serpo. This has been in the form of things he has said in public and also private email exchanges he has forwarded. He appeared to have the exact same information as ourselves and a little more besides. Why in the world would he post these pictures before Victor or Bill? The place he chose to post was also of great interest, especially when one reads the posts preceding his. The obvious course of action for those who have no interest in seeing people being led around by the nose was to wait until the pictures are released "officially". Tacitus averted a major crisis for Victor and Bill and also created a great deal of serpo-related drama in the process.
We were alerted to a number of posts at OM that might explain this particular mystery. I have already posted this information at the RU forum but will include it here for reference:
"Hmm, there is something very strange going on at the moment. Tacitus Monroe is back on our screens and has updated his website with a couple of pictures and is claiming they are part of the photos promised by Anonymous way back last year.
A number of people have asked in the past whether or not Tacitus could be someone on the side of those pushing the Serpo story. There is a lot of circumstantial evidence to suggest this and I have brought it up when I was a moderator at OM. The mere fact that he appears to be in possession of insider emails is suspicious in itself and because of this I thought he was probably someone closely connected with one of the Team of 5. While it may look like Tacitus is attacking the story, one thing he is definitely doing is promoting discussion of it.
From here (Greatwaller):Even those promised pictures which Anonymous said he would send out after last Christmas season, have so far not materialized to date...beyond some shown to Bill at Laughlin conference, including the dramatic photo of two suns setting behind the hills on a desert landscape which he concluded could be a scene of Planet Serpo.
Bill also told the radio host that even if those promised pictures appeared, skeptics could still disbelieve them and dismiss them as mere photoshop reproductions.
Moreover, the basic reason could be quite simply and plain why Anonymous is dragging his feet on those pictures is because he could have met fierce resistence from the opposing faction within DIA, I think! And even getting further postings out to the public appear to be in a limbo.
Hopefully, the disclosure process will continue and that with the combined efforts of Anonymous and his five DIA colleagues would somehow surmount difficulties among themselves within the DIA, and send to us a posting of two...
A posting of two what?
Taken from here: (Greatwaller)Anonymous and Co. have gone too far in the revelation of Serpo and it would be in their interest to continue on despite difficulties.
I think Anon is pausing to give the impression that he has been stopped in his tracks to go forward with the Serpo Story...this is the way of the Art of War strategy as envisoned more than two centuries ago in ancient China by the brilliant military expert named Sun Tzu.
Never reveal to one's opponent one's true intention and just keep the opponent guessing and spring a surprise on him...at the most unexpected moment...!
That was when Tacitus made his post, in direct response to the above.
Everyone knows that OM is the main supporting ground for the Serpo story and for that reason they have a very solid "working relationship" with both Bill Ryan and Victor Martinez - choosing to believe without question anything they are told by these two people.
I don't think anyone can be in any doubt whether Tacitus' actions had a positive or negative effect on the Serpo story. Each time he surfaced the drama and intrigue went off the scale and had everyone discussing Serpo just as things were thankfully starting to fall silent. All this was achieved while at the same time conveying the impression he is against the story. It doesn't fit.
What does fit is trying to pin a load of nonsense on the team at RU for doing nothing more than shining a light of truth on a fairy tale.
Bill clarifies this even further in his email:
It needs to be said that Tacitus was helpful yesterday. He could have been very damaging, but chose not to be so.
Absolutely Bill.
The email continues:
The remaining little puzzler (a huge one, actually) is how come the Serpo images are clearly fake, yet the reserve Serpo astronauts exist. (I know at least one of them does – for a fact – and have never revealed his name, phone number and address. I cannot and will not say more about this, but this is my prime source of 100% certainty that Serpo is not a hoax – supported by much circumstantial evidence apart.)
Ah, the old "cannot and will not say more about this". How many times have we seen this already? Simply tell the tale and provide no proof, much less do any actual research or ask difficult questions. You have absolutely NO WAY of knowing that the names you are being presented with are connected in any way whatsoever to the fantasy that is Project Serpo. Spoken with Paul recently, Bill? How about Gene? How about TL or HM? What about all of the other non-existent people!
You say above "the Serpo images are clearly fake, yet the reserve Serpo astronauts exist". How do you KNOW that? You don't. You've been given the name of a possibly elderly gentleman and been told he was a reserve Serpo astronaut. I would bet my house and car that you have been given this information by the very same person that has already verifiably lied to you on numerous occasions- both in matters related to Serpo and personal! Yet here you are presenting all of this as fact. You haven't verified anything Bill. You have been told things and you believe them no questions asked. What is then horrendously inappropriate is you then come out in public and present it as truth. Do you have any idea how ridiculous that looks? You quite clearly have no idea the amount of damage you are doing to the credibility of serious researchers in this and related fields.
As if we didn’t know, a very complex game is being played out behind the scenes, with insider factions trying to discredit the story that an exchange program occurred. They’ve pretty much succeeded, with the generous help of those in the UFO community who should have been more intelligent, better-intentioned, more ethical, and/or more patient.
No, what you truly hoped for was more gullible, more stupid, less talkative and more like sheep. I have never seen such patronising tripe in my entire life. A game is being played out behind the scenes alright, who is the gamesmaster Bill?
There’s a lot of disinfo, the core story of the exchange program is real (as are the elderly ex-military personnel involved), insider factions are playing a plethora of merry games with it, and we may not know the truth anytime soon.
There you go again. All statements with absolutely nothing to go on other than your incredible belief that all of this happened. I wonder if Capt. Bill played a part in that belief?
Perhaps we will know the truth sometime soon...
