Joe Marino says:I need prayer today. Our son had his son dedicated on Father’s Day. We were not invited. Our former church treats us like non-believers without any cause. The pastor and associate pastor allowed this without thinking about the ramifications, leading to my wife and daughters being very hurt. These people used to be my friends. Anger keeps welling up inside me, and I have to keep praying so that I don’t just explode. Please keep me in prayer.
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Another Prediction Fulfilled
14 comments:
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Anonymous said...
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Is Phoenix Preacher knowingly harboring a Porno Peddler. But not just any, this one is a CC pastor from Otley, UK: Steve Aspinall is his name. He leaves the longest comments on the PP blog. You'll find on such comment on the below thread if you just type in Steve Aspinall when you get to the thread:
http://phoenixpreacher.net/?p=2887
You'll find mention of Steve and his father Peter Aspinall in the calvary magazine just time in Steve Aspinall:
http://www.calvarymagazine.org/PDF/Issue_5/British_Isles.pdf
We believe he's a porn addict because he is the custodian of records for pornographic material on 2-4 porn sites. We believe PP is harboring him because several of them know about it including Michael and the fact that he is still posting there as recent as yesterday says he's not banned. Treatment for a porn addict includes "no Internet access" which means that if PP was interested in giving this guy help he would be banned from the site. Basically he needs to be banned from the Internet. Period.
Here is one of the websites where you will find him as costodian of records for the porn he peddles. When you get to the site, do a seach for Steve Aspinall and you'll find him listed with his Otley, UK address:
http://kaylacam.com/2257.html
Here is a thread from a blog site debating him, but that site was recently taken down; probably for a nice chunk of change by the CC gang. Here is a cached version of the site; when you get to it do a search for:
porn
2257
steve aspinall
chuck smith
calvary chapel costa mesa
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pKIdndXiWOkJ:lugum.com/journey/380/+http://lugum.com/journey/380/&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
I tried to post some of this stuff on PP but it didn't make it. Perhaps Steve supplies Michael with porn and other dirty ol men on PP?? -
8:55 AM
- Michael said...
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That comment may be legally actionable.
I may be willing to find out. -
12:35 PM
- Doug's Theology BLOG said...
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Mikey, Not sure how you are going to take legal account against an anonymous comment on a BLOG. I don't have access to the IP address of the poster. I guess you'll need to take blogspot.com to court to get them to give up the IP address and then you'll have to take their ISP to court to get them to give up the subscriber's name. Then you can take the poster to court for stating their opinion in a comment section of a BLOG.
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12:54 PM
- Doug's Theology BLOG said...
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Not only that but I don't see how he's defaming you since it's Steve Aspinwall who clearly is his target anyway.
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12:56 PM
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Anonymous said...
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it looks like steve is now posting under a different name on PP; he looks to be "brian" (a recently created handle) not "briand" just "brian" judging from the long-winded posts and the stuff he says; like he does not believe in a literal flood or a young earth!
See his post on 8/11/2010 at 1:30am here:
http://phoenixpreacher.net/?p=2919
also, earlier today on PP michael mis-represented the facts about what i was asking him to do in the comments he blocked... regarding this very serious problem;
Read Michael's post at #24 here:
http://phoenixpreacher.net/?p=2955
well michael, no one "...is demanding that we destroy someone else..." not by any stretch of the imagination and you know it full well; now I am convinced there is more to this story than you're letting on
steve's explanation is not plausible and he is very deceptive as we've all come to discover from the way he blogs... he will fool some of the people all the time... but not all of us...the guy who sells refigerators to eskimos is no mathch for this guy you're trying to cover for....and now we know why he leaves such long-winded comments about anything, everything and nothing....i believe it's an outlet for him as a writer of long erotic stories he has to find a way to "compensate" by blogging the porn away if you will
we sure hope none of his avid defenders on PP are customers for that God awful stuff he's associated with peddling on the web... -
1:22 PM
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Anonymous said...
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the way this story has unfolded in the last couple months when it first broke to a few people leads me to believe steve is involved in peddling porn
for instance, there were initially 4 websites with his name and uk address as custodian of records; as soon as we bring one of them to his attention it gets removed; so far 2 of them have been removed as recent as 24 hours ago after i contacted michael about it; he appears to know these sites exist but appears to want to wait for us to point them out before he removes his information from the site; we are researching to find out if his information is being replaced by an alias to cover for him or is the info being completely removed which is a sign of repentance....dunno yet..
why don't steve go on pp and set the record straight if he is truly innocent? i feel like michael knew about this before now but remained silent for a reason instead of getting this guy help to stay off the web.... again, i do not believe for one minute that this guy is innocent....especially not from the way he brags about his scholarly accolades and how smart he is..... but allva sudden he is naive and didn't have a clue about what was going on.... yeah right
this is yet another casuality of the flawed un-Biblical Moses Model some aspects of which Michael appears to secretly support in a weird kind of way... i and a few others i know have removed PP from our favorite folder until such time as this is resolved bc we feel the site has no credibility or Godly purpose at this point -
1:31 PM
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Anonymous said...
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here is a google search for steve's company:
"v10 media and marketing" "steve aspinall"
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22v10+media+and+marketing%22+%22steve+aspinall%22&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
as of 8/12/2010 steve's info is listed on this site:
http://www.search4freeporn.net/2257.htm
it will no doubt be removed shortly once michael or he reads about this...but you should be able to pull it up in a cached version of the site like the other site from which his info was removed yesterday:
here is the cached version of that other site from which steve's info was removed 24 hours ago after i shared it with michael:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:-BuxmbfaGF8J:www.kaylacam.com/2257.html+%22v10+media+and+marketing%22+%22steve+aspinall%22&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
I gave Michael the live url version 2 days ago and within 24 hours steve's info was removed from the active site! So we know Michael has been in touch with Steve either directly or indirectly thru someone else like Alex Grenier son of another embattled CC pastor which you can read about at Alex's blog at:
calvarychapelabuse.com
here is another siting of steve aspinall as custodian of records for a yet a fourth site:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:-BuxmbfaGF8J:www.kaylacam.com/2257.html+%22v10+media+and+marketing%22+%22steve+aspinall%22&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
my guess is steve's information from the 2 remaining sites up will be removed in the next couple days or so and you'll have to pull up the cached version if you didn't get to download the live version into your CC Folder on your hard drive
i have asked michael to counsel steve and get him to give up the internet and get serious help especially if he is still the worship or other pastor at CC Otley, UK -
1:52 PM
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Steve Aspinall said...
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Doug,
Michael is correct.
The comments being made are actionable. The charges in question, applicable under US and UK law pertain to 'libel' and 'defamation of character.'
Freedom of speech does not preclude the material harm caused by such behaviour, which is why tabloid newspapers and gossip magazines run risks and lose libel cases all the time, simply hoping that no one will sue them. Freedom of Speech doesn't wash.
You are correct that in order to deal with an anonymous poster a process would have to be followed to reveal information in court. This is not difficult and particularly under more recent US legislation the United States government takes a very dim view of 'privacy' for anonymous criminals on the internet.
I have already discussed this matter with some of the owners of proxy servers that appear to have been used in the sending of blackmail and harassment to Phoenix Preacher.
It is also true that any medium of such content is not exempt from liability in displaying such content. You should be aware of that. As the owner and operator of a blog in which you appear to appeal to your readers as a voice of authority and credibility, you are liable even for 'comments' which remain on your site which have criminally or civilly actionable statements. In short, you are liable for publishing your users, whether they're anonymous or not.
That's the legal side of this.
What should be pointed out is that you're in a dubious position of giving credence to someone who is clearly manifesting very dangerous, uncontrollable character traits, who is not under the authority of any spiritual process, any pastor, nor has any conscience for the consequences of their actions nor indeed any credible moral process for the justification of their behaviour.
You have someone posting anonymously, who hides in the shadows of the internet, who is appealing to be taken seriously, but who is clearly set on an agenda. And I can tell you that you have been extensively lied to, misdirected, and I have the proof which I'll happily take to court when this matter gets prosecuted.
What I'm not going to do is use public forum to be 'held accountable' to this lunatic (or lunatics). I'm not going to give credence to the ever-expanding conspiracy theory they have invented in which I am an evil genius running a secret immoral empire which by error or design I failed to keep secret, who has vast power over the internet to make pages appear and disappear and so on and so forth.
This rubbish is offensive to me personally, but worse than that it is offensive to anyone capable of exercising intelligent thought.
Nothing I say will change what this deranged person believes, or spreads around the internet.
If he posts his name and address then I'm happy to let him find out whether he was right or wrong in court, where at the same time I will request that a judge have him psychiatrically evaluated and assess whether hand-typing and posting in excess of fifty threats, accusations, expressions of intellectual blackmail per day to a blog is a sane and rational thing to do, or if the munchausens-esque elaborations of his fraudulent and false 'investigations' as a self declared moral policeman are grounds for concern, or if his illegal use of proxy servers and throwaway email addresses to send harrassing emails and threats is in any way making him any more credible.
What I will say is this: I am not now, nor have I been at any time in any way involved in the pornographic industry.
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5:33 AM
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Steve Aspinall said...
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CONTINUED...
Both you, and your readers can be responsible yourselves for what you choose to believe. But you'll be responsible to the law for whatever you choose to spread from here on in. Too many people hiding behind too many false and immoral claims of right to anonymity and the freedom of speech is an embarrassment to the men who wrote your constitution.
In my country we have no consitution. We are, simply, held accountable under law for what we say and where we say it.
So step up, shadowy sentinel, and take responsibility for yourself.
I notice something strange, Doug...
Your poster repeatedly vents his frustration that I refuse to give account for myself in public. Yet curiously he claims to have heard my account, and to find it incredulous. That tells you that this is someone who knows more about me than he is saying, who has chosen not only to ignore the due process that he claims to be undertaking, but who is sufficiently ashamed of what he is doing as to hide like an infant in the darkness.
This will not wash, buster, the Lord rebuke you.
There is no process, Biblical or civil, legal or spiritual which justifies what is being done here, or how it is being done.
I will not be doing anything to repost the accusations against me because I will not be accountable for drawing the attention of believers to pornographic websites so that they can explore this dark world for themselves, racked with prejudice and morbid curiosity. Satan doesn't need my help taking them to that place. I worry that your poster is altogether too familiar with the terminology and the character of this kind of material and it doesn't belong in the so-called 'Christian' arena of discussion.
Blogs and forums which nurture this kind of garbage are now entering an age where they will have to take account for what they do. They appeal to readers for credibility and the appearance of spiritual and Biblical legitimacy, and it will be issues like this, prosecuted by obsessive lunatics, and nurtured by supposedly well-meaning but immature Christian wannabe's which eventually brings down this entire scene, and shows it up for having believed, promoted, prosecuted and disseminated every spurious rumour, libellous insinuation, hateful tirade, foundless accusation and blatant lie which some self-declared, unverifiable, mentally unstable lunatic chooses to poison believers minds with.
I sincerely hope that in the future whenever anyone waves pages printed from internet sites as gospel truth exposes on the lives of ministers in the church to humiliate them and persecute them in the public arena, that there will be someone with integrity not far behind waving pages like these which prove that 'internet crusaders' cannot be trusted.
If you want to talk to me about these issues, you can do the decent thing and talk to me directly.
To do that you'll have to get over whatever prejudice you have toward Michael, and you'll have to ask him to put you in touch with me.
That might be a humbling experience. But you'll be doing it in order to get to the truth, and for the greater good.
The ball is in your court. -
5:34 AM
- john said...
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Now Doug, that's vintage Steve Aspinall writing you got here. We've heard of sins of commission and sins of omission. Steve just gave us something new: “sins of hot air emission”.... designed to obfuscate the real issues. Nice try Stevie.
So here goes:
Quote from CC Missions Magazine in connection with Steve Aspinall and “Righteous Books”:
“Steve Aspinall, worship leader at CC Otley and son of Peter Aspinall, began a ministry called Righteous Books.”
http://www.calvarymagazine.org/PDF/Issue_5/British_Isles.pdf
Here is the link to Righteous Books Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Righteous-Books/105687369470354
Notice the single link on Steve’s Righteous Books Facebook Page from a certain “David Biggs” Click on “David Bigg’s” to get to David’s facebook page showing a poster image advertising “Sexy Sundays” at the XXX rated “Room Service Lounge” in Atlanta, GA which opened 9/4/2009. Signature drinks from the menu at Room Service Lounge include: “do not disturb”, “white linen”, “wake up call” and “pillow mint”.
Why did David Biggs/Room Service Lounge link to Steve's “Righteous Books” facebook page? Why is the “Righteous Books” website now inactive i.e., the links are dead!? See righteousbooks.com (domain name registered to a UK server). It is a very common pattern to see leaders entrenched in secret sin speak out against the very sins they practice: Remember George Alan Rekers, a prominent anti-gay activist and cofounder of the conservative Family Research Council hired male prostitute! Same for Ted Haggard and countless other “conservative Christians” on Capitol Hill that we’re all too familiar with…Catholic Congressman Mark Foley - perhaps the foremost opponents of child pornography - molesting young congressional male pages.
We can save Steve a lot of trouble in his baseless quest for the identities of his accusers. If he's looking for identities we'll need a signed and notarized agreement saying he'll use it to sue us and not just to satisfy his and others curiosity. If Steve is prepared to sue that is a lawsuit we welcome as it will enable us to take sworn depositions from a number of CC pastors including, but not limited to, Chuck Smith and Papa Aspinall. Steve will lose the main case and we will the counter suit and the third party claim. And, if he should file an appeal we'll get an expert to solidify our victory with an amicus brief tailor made to address the obscure yet well-documented psychiatric condition that drove Steve to bring false charges in the first place. -
9:21 AM
- john said...
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Reposting last 2 sentences with a typo correction:
Steve will lose the main case and we will WIN the counter suit and the third party claim. And, if he should file an appeal we'll get an expert to solidify our victory with an amicus brief tailor made to address the obscure yet well-documented psychiatric condition that drove Steve to bring false charges in the first place. -
9:29 AM
- john said...
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Doug, I think your Phoenix Preacher link to the right needs updating. And why don't you put up a link to Alex Grenier's blogsite at calvarychapelabuse.com while you're at it...
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9:35 AM
- Doug's Theology BLOG said...
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John, I updated the links, thanks. Doug
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