Dave Mason
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My original log in was Dataman19...
Name: Dave R. Mason ( No really, that is "my" name....).
About 16 months ago the world came crashing down on me.
First - Some idiot blogger in Phoenix Arizona took exception to me using Dave R. Mason, then he tied Dataman19 to Dave Mason and went on the Attack...
My identity was challenged and all of a sudden my Facebook and my hosting accounts were closed... everyone cited "numerous" complaints that I was using a stolen identity. So my accounts were all shut down. Even J.P.Morgan/Chase joined in. I was besieged with validation requests. Submitted Birth Certificate, Copy of Driver's license, Copy of Military Retiree ID Card, Even a photo copy of my White House Staff I'd. Everything was almost kosher - for a short while.
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While flying BACK FROM west Africa in April of 2015 we were directed to land at Miami for a Routine Customs Validation Check. This was my first indication that my life was going to end..,(We have "Customs Clearance Authority" which means the aircraft is registered to me and both pilots have customs clearance to "proceed direct to destination - meaning we don't stop for routine customs checks.".. But we had to land anyway.
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We were met by a swat team, I was arrested and charged with attempting to enter the United States illegally (A Patriot Act offense - a serious one). I found out I was on the "No Fly" list - but this was a private jet, and I owned it....,
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NO (I was rudely informed) the jet registration was not valid, and they started grilling me about my name and where I was born and what country Was I A Citizen of??? I had a U.S.Passport ( I say had - because they took that too). When I went to post bail my credit cards and debit cards were all declined.,, so I sat in holding status for three days.
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Then I finally found out what was happening... IDTheft !!!! And I was the thief.... I was given this name at birth, grew up with this name, west to school - all the way to PhD with this meme, Served in the US Military for 26 years with this name. Worked at the White House in Washington DC, at The Lincoln Labs infamous Batman Sensor Site in Turkey and had a Top Secret/SBI clearance - with this name. Now I was challenged, and the Government wanted to know my "real name" ????
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I had to get an assistant to bring me money to Miami to get out of holding. She thought it was funny, "They don't believe you are you? Who the he'll do they think you are???" The jet had to stay at Miami - since it no longer had a valid registration. They transfered it to Homestead CBP holding (the former Homestead AFB). The assistant came to get us in a borrowed G450. My other aircraft were also grounded. My bank account was seized byJP Morgan Chase and even my driver's license was nuked.
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Took me 10 months of constant court hearings to partly clear it up. The judges all suggested I CHANGE my Name - It would be a lot simpler. At one point I told a Judge I would be willing to change it to "Fu? ?! Y?,?!" - he wasn't impressed and charged me with contempt of court. Granted, it wasn't a rational choice on my part - but I got to sit in a cell for three days to think it all over...
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In the end it all boiled down to that blogger. He was loaded because he was ranting in a forum about all those Mexicans who sneek across the border and steal American Jobs. He was also ranting that all these foreigners were trying to take over our country, even the Muslims were secretly trying to take over America... I simply stated that Mexican citizens can come and go back and forth across the border - they don't have to sneek in - the people from South and Central America are the ones sneeking in.. As for the Foreign and Muslim Hordes - I thought he was confused, The problem is the Islamic Rdicals (Kinda like the Southern Church were the Pastor keeps Burning a Book claiming he is burning a Koran. Just to antagonize the Islamic Extremists).
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The Blogger immediately stared flaming me on just about every forum (even ones I had never heard of)... At one point he called me stupid and uneducated - I fired back and asked him if he had ever even visited another country, or had even ever traveled out of state. I postulated that I didn't think he did, just by his ignorant stance that he knew more about the world than anyone else. He fired back and started demanding that I reveal my "Real Name and Identity". Dataman19 was obviously a fake name (Dataman19.. dang,,,.it's an "on line Name. MY real Name is "Dave R. MASON".)
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THEN IT STARTED.... I started getting calls from associates and business clients. I was loosing accounts and things were getting crazy real fast. At one point I was shown a "Sex Offender Alert" it alluded that I was using a fake identity to conceal my obvious criminal past. This was starting to get bad... and fast. I tried to look up the bozo "cowboy Bob" and discovered that "His name was fake" Even his registered name " Robert - blanked out- wasn't a real person. With all I had going on I didn't have time to Persue him - but he was perusing me. All of my web sites, domain registry's. Bank accounts, car, trucks, and aircraft registrations were gone. My assistant had to pay all the bills because even my cash wasn't good. You see, there is an obscure Federal Banking Law that prohibits drug dealers and gangsters from using cash to buy things.... At at that point, the Drug Dealers and Gangsters were about 25 levels in status above me.
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But now my rights have finally been restored. Over 8 months of court hearings and $m of dollars and justice is finally served. I can go out to eat and drive my car (except in Louisianna - for some reason they still have me on their list. I got stopped outside if Shrieveport two weeks ago and was in jail for 5 days before I could call the office collect and get my assistant to fly down and rescue me. They asked her why she worked for such a shady person ( and showed her one of the flyers - it had grown to three pages).
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The other day I met this "Cowboy Bob". His actual name is "Jim - blanked -". When asked why he did all this he could only say "I thought you were some Arabie sympathizer because you were sticking up for all those Arabie Towelheads" So he made it his mission to expose me for what I was. But all I was wasn't what he thought I was. I wasn't taking sides - I quoted simple fact. Mexican citizens don't have to sneek across the border, they can freely come and go, just like you and I can freely come and go into Mexico. The so called Arabie Towel heads he was referring to are in fact Islamic Extreemists - religious fanatics ( we have a few of our own - who claim to be Christian but act less than Christian). Not all Muslims are Islamic Extremists..
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My original assessment of him by his on line rants were not that far off. He had in fact visited a foreign country - once. He had been to Mexico " and touted it was filthy and over run by low life's and thieves - had his wallet stolen". In all fairness I asked where he had been to - he told me Tiajuana ???? That isn't Mexico ! Yes it is "in" Mexico, but it isn't even a good representation of the country as a whole - Granted Mexico has their problems, but basing your International Travel experience on one visit to a seedy district of a border town isn' t visiting Mexico, and it certainly doesn't count as international travel????
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Now he is in jail - do I feel better? NO. Am I happy about it? No. Am I glad it is almost all over? YES - DEFINITELY YES!!!. So in retrospect, in the past if I (aka: Dataman19 ever crossed any if you or seemingly maligned you , I am sorry, and believe me it wasn't intentional. I was under the mistaken impression that we had free speech and that we all had something to say and an opinion. But I never considered that someone could become so unhinged over a simple statement of fact over fiction. But then, what are wars actually fought over - other than simple greed? So I now profess to always step back and take a deep breath. My original mantra is still valid " Get Mad, Get Over it, And GET Glad")
...
So I am back - I think...... A little less for wear and tear.. But at least I now know what a jail cell is like. Pun intended.
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My International travel: Visited (more than three weeks at a time). Alaska ( Yea - when you go to Alaska or Hawaii you get the feeling you are leaving the country). The Bahammas, Bahrain, Brazil, Canada (Yea the Canadians are North American, but it is still another country), Austria, Barbados ( Eastern Carribean), Bermuda, Brazil, Checkoslovakia, Columbia, China, Cuba, Denmark, Egypt, England, Greenland, Germany, Greece, Haiti, Holland, Honduras, The Domincan Republic, Ireland, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Jamaica, Lichtenstein (no one worth their salt that gas spent any time in Germany hasn't gotten the "famous Lichtenstein" stamp in their passport), Libya, Mexico (north to south - not just the dirty Tiajuana Donkey Show - Ick!), Mali (West Africa - and yes I have Been to Timbuk Tu, is in north east Mali)), Mauriania (again West Africa), Monserrat (Eastern Carribbean), Morocco, Peru, Panama, Puerto Rico, Quatar, Saudis Arabia ( in the 70s, the 80s and the 90s), Spain, Senegal ( West Africa), Turkey, and Louisiana ( I added Louisiana because they need to update their criminal database, my friends in Gretna are still laughing).
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I am an old school Electronics Technical Engineer, A Microbiologist (PhD), an Applied Physist (PhD - that title is good for a lot if laughs at parties), and a Micro Chemist (PhD). My Master's are in Electronics, International Government, and Underwater Basketball (- wanted one in Underwater Polo but we kept drowning the horses.... they won't use the snorkel, and the damned diver's mask just wouldn't stay on). Oh yea, and an Eagle Scout ( at least I haven't been told to return that yet. When I get my new Passport I am listing my Profession as " Poet Lauriate". Hemingway was one, and that is the very reason he never needed a VISA ( Not the Credit Card) to visit other countries. Poet is an occupation that is admitted to just about every country - after all. The poets write verse praising a country and the tourists just click there to see it. So that is my new profession. If I am challenged I have a perfect piece of verse " Nine minutes pleasure, Nine months if Shame, two hours in the hospital ole Buster Came, Buster was a !?!?!, his mother was a ?!!!!, Buster wouldn't be here if the ?!!!! Hadn't tore". May or may not work - but then telling that one judge what I wanted to change my name too didn't work out so well... Maybe I need th rethink the occupation a little.... I know, "Equal Opportunity Bigot" then I can rightfully pick on everyone. No friends, but then who needs friends, they drink all your scotch, never fail to show up to eat steak or shrimp and lobster, and always show up with a $3.99 bottle if cheap ( but good) wine when they come to diner.....
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Experiences: Broadcasting, Wood Working, Photography, Graphic Arts, Publishing and Printing, Flying - small Plane all the way up to Jets and Rotary wing ( Fancy name for Helicopters), Automotive Engineering, Drag Racing, Circle Track ( Not NASCAR - the Non Athletic Sport Centered Around Red Necks), Carpentry, Sheet Metal, Masonry (it's in my blood, and my family name), International Telecommunications and International Shipping and Trade, and last, but not the least Small Business Development. You can add farming, but My great Grandfather was a farmer, and he made me promise to not make my living in the dirt when I grew up - I think he meant not be a Politician or lawyer ( But I do have a Law Degree - Nashville School of Law. I just don't have the stomach for all political B.S. associated with law and politics....).
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So, I have laid it all out in the open. I am happy I can actually use the internet again. And I am happy to be back - I think... Getting rid of that damned ankle bracelet was a relief. I never realized it, but everyone sees it around your ankle, and I am absolutely amazed at how many people actually knew what it was - surprises just keep on coming.
..
So I am back on one of my favorite forums again... Hook Rah
Name: Dave R. Mason ( No really, that is "my" name....).
About 16 months ago the world came crashing down on me.
First - Some idiot blogger in Phoenix Arizona took exception to me using Dave R. Mason, then he tied Dataman19 to Dave Mason and went on the Attack...
My identity was challenged and all of a sudden my Facebook and my hosting accounts were closed... everyone cited "numerous" complaints that I was using a stolen identity. So my accounts were all shut down. Even J.P.Morgan/Chase joined in. I was besieged with validation requests. Submitted Birth Certificate, Copy of Driver's license, Copy of Military Retiree ID Card, Even a photo copy of my White House Staff I'd. Everything was almost kosher - for a short while.
..
While flying BACK FROM west Africa in April of 2015 we were directed to land at Miami for a Routine Customs Validation Check. This was my first indication that my life was going to end..,(We have "Customs Clearance Authority" which means the aircraft is registered to me and both pilots have customs clearance to "proceed direct to destination - meaning we don't stop for routine customs checks.".. But we had to land anyway.
..
We were met by a swat team, I was arrested and charged with attempting to enter the United States illegally (A Patriot Act offense - a serious one). I found out I was on the "No Fly" list - but this was a private jet, and I owned it....,
..
NO (I was rudely informed) the jet registration was not valid, and they started grilling me about my name and where I was born and what country Was I A Citizen of??? I had a U.S.Passport ( I say had - because they took that too). When I went to post bail my credit cards and debit cards were all declined.,, so I sat in holding status for three days.
..
Then I finally found out what was happening... IDTheft !!!! And I was the thief.... I was given this name at birth, grew up with this name, west to school - all the way to PhD with this meme, Served in the US Military for 26 years with this name. Worked at the White House in Washington DC, at The Lincoln Labs infamous Batman Sensor Site in Turkey and had a Top Secret/SBI clearance - with this name. Now I was challenged, and the Government wanted to know my "real name" ????
...
I had to get an assistant to bring me money to Miami to get out of holding. She thought it was funny, "They don't believe you are you? Who the he'll do they think you are???" The jet had to stay at Miami - since it no longer had a valid registration. They transfered it to Homestead CBP holding (the former Homestead AFB). The assistant came to get us in a borrowed G450. My other aircraft were also grounded. My bank account was seized byJP Morgan Chase and even my driver's license was nuked.
...
Took me 10 months of constant court hearings to partly clear it up. The judges all suggested I CHANGE my Name - It would be a lot simpler. At one point I told a Judge I would be willing to change it to "Fu? ?! Y?,?!" - he wasn't impressed and charged me with contempt of court. Granted, it wasn't a rational choice on my part - but I got to sit in a cell for three days to think it all over...
..
In the end it all boiled down to that blogger. He was loaded because he was ranting in a forum about all those Mexicans who sneek across the border and steal American Jobs. He was also ranting that all these foreigners were trying to take over our country, even the Muslims were secretly trying to take over America... I simply stated that Mexican citizens can come and go back and forth across the border - they don't have to sneek in - the people from South and Central America are the ones sneeking in.. As for the Foreign and Muslim Hordes - I thought he was confused, The problem is the Islamic Rdicals (Kinda like the Southern Church were the Pastor keeps Burning a Book claiming he is burning a Koran. Just to antagonize the Islamic Extremists).
..
The Blogger immediately stared flaming me on just about every forum (even ones I had never heard of)... At one point he called me stupid and uneducated - I fired back and asked him if he had ever even visited another country, or had even ever traveled out of state. I postulated that I didn't think he did, just by his ignorant stance that he knew more about the world than anyone else. He fired back and started demanding that I reveal my "Real Name and Identity". Dataman19 was obviously a fake name (Dataman19.. dang,,,.it's an "on line Name. MY real Name is "Dave R. MASON".)
...
THEN IT STARTED.... I started getting calls from associates and business clients. I was loosing accounts and things were getting crazy real fast. At one point I was shown a "Sex Offender Alert" it alluded that I was using a fake identity to conceal my obvious criminal past. This was starting to get bad... and fast. I tried to look up the bozo "cowboy Bob" and discovered that "His name was fake" Even his registered name " Robert - blanked out- wasn't a real person. With all I had going on I didn't have time to Persue him - but he was perusing me. All of my web sites, domain registry's. Bank accounts, car, trucks, and aircraft registrations were gone. My assistant had to pay all the bills because even my cash wasn't good. You see, there is an obscure Federal Banking Law that prohibits drug dealers and gangsters from using cash to buy things.... At at that point, the Drug Dealers and Gangsters were about 25 levels in status above me.
...
But now my rights have finally been restored. Over 8 months of court hearings and $m of dollars and justice is finally served. I can go out to eat and drive my car (except in Louisianna - for some reason they still have me on their list. I got stopped outside if Shrieveport two weeks ago and was in jail for 5 days before I could call the office collect and get my assistant to fly down and rescue me. They asked her why she worked for such a shady person ( and showed her one of the flyers - it had grown to three pages).
...
The other day I met this "Cowboy Bob". His actual name is "Jim - blanked -". When asked why he did all this he could only say "I thought you were some Arabie sympathizer because you were sticking up for all those Arabie Towelheads" So he made it his mission to expose me for what I was. But all I was wasn't what he thought I was. I wasn't taking sides - I quoted simple fact. Mexican citizens don't have to sneek across the border, they can freely come and go, just like you and I can freely come and go into Mexico. The so called Arabie Towel heads he was referring to are in fact Islamic Extreemists - religious fanatics ( we have a few of our own - who claim to be Christian but act less than Christian). Not all Muslims are Islamic Extremists..
...
My original assessment of him by his on line rants were not that far off. He had in fact visited a foreign country - once. He had been to Mexico " and touted it was filthy and over run by low life's and thieves - had his wallet stolen". In all fairness I asked where he had been to - he told me Tiajuana ???? That isn't Mexico ! Yes it is "in" Mexico, but it isn't even a good representation of the country as a whole - Granted Mexico has their problems, but basing your International Travel experience on one visit to a seedy district of a border town isn' t visiting Mexico, and it certainly doesn't count as international travel????
..
Now he is in jail - do I feel better? NO. Am I happy about it? No. Am I glad it is almost all over? YES - DEFINITELY YES!!!. So in retrospect, in the past if I (aka: Dataman19 ever crossed any if you or seemingly maligned you , I am sorry, and believe me it wasn't intentional. I was under the mistaken impression that we had free speech and that we all had something to say and an opinion. But I never considered that someone could become so unhinged over a simple statement of fact over fiction. But then, what are wars actually fought over - other than simple greed? So I now profess to always step back and take a deep breath. My original mantra is still valid " Get Mad, Get Over it, And GET Glad")
...
So I am back - I think...... A little less for wear and tear.. But at least I now know what a jail cell is like. Pun intended.
..
My International travel: Visited (more than three weeks at a time). Alaska ( Yea - when you go to Alaska or Hawaii you get the feeling you are leaving the country). The Bahammas, Bahrain, Brazil, Canada (Yea the Canadians are North American, but it is still another country), Austria, Barbados ( Eastern Carribean), Bermuda, Brazil, Checkoslovakia, Columbia, China, Cuba, Denmark, Egypt, England, Greenland, Germany, Greece, Haiti, Holland, Honduras, The Domincan Republic, Ireland, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Jamaica, Lichtenstein (no one worth their salt that gas spent any time in Germany hasn't gotten the "famous Lichtenstein" stamp in their passport), Libya, Mexico (north to south - not just the dirty Tiajuana Donkey Show - Ick!), Mali (West Africa - and yes I have Been to Timbuk Tu, is in north east Mali)), Mauriania (again West Africa), Monserrat (Eastern Carribbean), Morocco, Peru, Panama, Puerto Rico, Quatar, Saudis Arabia ( in the 70s, the 80s and the 90s), Spain, Senegal ( West Africa), Turkey, and Louisiana ( I added Louisiana because they need to update their criminal database, my friends in Gretna are still laughing).
...
I am an old school Electronics Technical Engineer, A Microbiologist (PhD), an Applied Physist (PhD - that title is good for a lot if laughs at parties), and a Micro Chemist (PhD). My Master's are in Electronics, International Government, and Underwater Basketball (- wanted one in Underwater Polo but we kept drowning the horses.... they won't use the snorkel, and the damned diver's mask just wouldn't stay on). Oh yea, and an Eagle Scout ( at least I haven't been told to return that yet. When I get my new Passport I am listing my Profession as " Poet Lauriate". Hemingway was one, and that is the very reason he never needed a VISA ( Not the Credit Card) to visit other countries. Poet is an occupation that is admitted to just about every country - after all. The poets write verse praising a country and the tourists just click there to see it. So that is my new profession. If I am challenged I have a perfect piece of verse " Nine minutes pleasure, Nine months if Shame, two hours in the hospital ole Buster Came, Buster was a !?!?!, his mother was a ?!!!!, Buster wouldn't be here if the ?!!!! Hadn't tore". May or may not work - but then telling that one judge what I wanted to change my name too didn't work out so well... Maybe I need th rethink the occupation a little.... I know, "Equal Opportunity Bigot" then I can rightfully pick on everyone. No friends, but then who needs friends, they drink all your scotch, never fail to show up to eat steak or shrimp and lobster, and always show up with a $3.99 bottle if cheap ( but good) wine when they come to diner.....
...
Experiences: Broadcasting, Wood Working, Photography, Graphic Arts, Publishing and Printing, Flying - small Plane all the way up to Jets and Rotary wing ( Fancy name for Helicopters), Automotive Engineering, Drag Racing, Circle Track ( Not NASCAR - the Non Athletic Sport Centered Around Red Necks), Carpentry, Sheet Metal, Masonry (it's in my blood, and my family name), International Telecommunications and International Shipping and Trade, and last, but not the least Small Business Development. You can add farming, but My great Grandfather was a farmer, and he made me promise to not make my living in the dirt when I grew up - I think he meant not be a Politician or lawyer ( But I do have a Law Degree - Nashville School of Law. I just don't have the stomach for all political B.S. associated with law and politics....).
....
So, I have laid it all out in the open. I am happy I can actually use the internet again. And I am happy to be back - I think... Getting rid of that damned ankle bracelet was a relief. I never realized it, but everyone sees it around your ankle, and I am absolutely amazed at how many people actually knew what it was - surprises just keep on coming.
..
So I am back on one of my favorite forums again... Hook Rah
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