As the number of signatures at the LetIndiaDevelop Petition zoomed past those at the Sabrang site, several users complained that the link http://www.letindiadevelop.com was leading people to the Sabrang-sponsored site. A quick check confirmed that the worthies who showed their penchant for misleading again with this brilliantly original display of maturity were as follows:
Registrant: STOP FUNDING HATE. ORGWe have NOOO way of guessing who might have done this, of course....
(though by amazing coincidence, that registration is identical to the one on the Sabrang Communications / Forum of Indian Leftists "Petition" site....)
But consider this brag from one of Sabrang/FOIL's early report-endorsers: No less a Saviour of India than the world-renowned Mr. Ashwin Mahesh, in "IndiaTogether Newsletter" from Nov. 2002, caught in what appears to us to be condonement, if not outright endorsement, of a cyber crime, describing such uncivilized behavior as a "cyber encounter":
" In what seems to be the beginning of an escalating cyber encounter in the United States, the former blocked the web address letindiadevelop.org for their campaign. But the web address letindiadevelop.com has been purchased by SFH and redirected to www.stopfundinghate.org "
Update December 12, 2002:
From a friend: "It looks like the CTSFH people have been forced to come out of their veil of anonymity. At one time, the records for "stopfundinghate.org" pointed to anonymous entities. But now the records have been made public (after a complaint was filed with their registrar)
Registrant: The Campaign To Stop Funding Hate
From a post at the Bharat-Rakshak Forum (www.bharat-rakshak.com)
"The "Friends of South Asia" group, website is http://www.mindspring.com/~akhila_raman/fosa/
Note the address listed by FOSA: PO BOX 20136, Stanford, CA. "
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Update Dec. 27: The "rebuttal" posted at Sabrang's hate site, purportedly giving the LetIndiaDevelop url, still points to the Sabrang/FOIL cyber-flimflam site.
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