Chapter 13

On the same day in July 2007 that "Seven" made that threatening post to me here, the following post was made by the member "Scooby(CYRSE)", which as I have already explained, was Lynne Malone. Again, Scooby did not know that I knew who she was..... 

Here is Lynne's post on July 30th, 2007 in the thread HERE:

Boy, I usually just read the latest news on Josh but all this drama is such a horrible witch hunt.  this is all so creepy-ish. taking photos from a private site and posting them?  Josh is the subject here.  Louise i am questioning your morals.  i see that you are so passionate about loving him but your behavour is not translated that way.  At least to me.  i think you're losing sight of the fact that you're in essence attacking Josh here by being so very disrespectful posting his private picture (no matter where you got it, you were asked to take it down) and taunting his team.  i see so many posts by you that keep saying "what did I do to get treated this way" and it's all here.  I can see it now.  I used to think you were some sort of a victim by the system but now I can see that you got banned by doing these things.  You think that Josh is grateful to have you as a fanatic?  You want him to personally contact you or you won't stop posting his private pictures or slamming his people?   I've noticed that you don't like his record label, his publicist, his manager, his ex-girlfriend, most everyone at his fan club, who else?  i can see why the father was behind you getting banned. you probably scared the crap out of him!  i'm not trying to start an argument Louise, this is your site and thank you for letting me visit and get all the latest Josh appearances and sometimes lighthearted reading but this bad mannered stuff i cant condone.  I also love Josh but not to the extent of trying to ruin lives and claim that's it's for his own good.  Come on! 
Scooby

(This post can be found in this forum by doing a search on username "CYRSE".)

Of course, I was extremely upset by this post, since I knew who made it. So I decided to tell everyone the identity of CYRSE.

Right after that, a new member named "Yoko Oh No" went on a profanity-laced rampage against me and my members here in the Pub. She also signed up under several other names... I had to scramble to stop her from spamming this place. Here are a few of her posts:

I don't even know January, never met her. I'm sure you hate her, she is young and pretty and you are a bunch of old ladies sitting on your fat ass.

speaking of rubbers, i wish your dad would have worn one, this world would have been a cleaner and better place

I'm not the one who lives in bumfucktexas.
when you say muster, is that that dang stuff you put there on them hot dogs.
i don't live near a fuckin walmart. I wouldn't shop where a right wing republican shops if i was naked in the north pole. You right wing, pro-life, red state, george bush loving mindless in-bread half-wit.

Go back to your lazy boy recliner and heat up your tv dinner and go back to watching QVC shopping network

I did some investigation, and discovered that Yoko Oh No was in fact SUE WITKIN, who was one of Lynne Malone's TOP 8 friends on her MySpace page! Again, Lynne's MySpace page was public, so I could see all of her friends there. Sue Witkin's MySpace page was also public, and that's how I found out her name.

I then told everyone here exactly WHO "Yoko Oh No" was, and that her friend was Lynne Malone.

A couple of days after Lynne posted here, I started the following thread:

http://louiseannette.com/beehiveforum071/forum/index.php?webtag=JGPUB&msg=929.1

In that thread you can see a snapshot of Lynne's MySpace page, showing Sue Witkin as her friend. You can also see a post by Lynne saved there, showing how she had "*** IHLM ***" at the top of her MySpace page. There was much specualtion about what those letters stood for, but I wouldn't guess they stood for "I Heart" me....lol....

Saying that I was shocked at the behavior of these people around Josh is an understatement. It was (and still is) mindboggling to me that a member of Josh Groban's management team would behave in such a manner: posting on a fan message board, horrible things like she did (hiding behind a fake name), and having her friend come here and use such awful language and attack members for no reason.

My big crimes? Complaining about how WB and others were mistreating Josh's fans (ignoring complaints, not updating news, fan club problems, etc.), complaining about the board police being nasty to other fans, copying a blog post from IMDB about a fan meeting Josh on vacation, and posting a photo of Josh going cross-eyed. [Note that Josh had long ago broken up with JJ, so she was rarely discussed in the Pub anymore.]  Oh gee, such heinous crimes... such dastardly deeds..... such threatening actions towards Josh Groban....NOT. Yet Lynne was claiming I was "trying to ruin lives"?? What the hell was she talking about? So Josh's fans are supposed to be good little minions and never speak up and complain about anything? They are supposed to say everything is perfect and kiss all of Josh's management personnel's collective butts? And if you don't you are labeled a troublemaker or psycho and are banned? And if Josh's fan club totally sucks, you are supposed to keep your mouth shut and pretend it's perfect, even though you paid for a service and feel like you are getting screwed? And you are supposed to say that everyone Josh works with and everyone he is friends with is just wonderful, and if you don't, then you are a "bad fan"?  Ack... it just makes my stomach turn. If you care about someone, you don't act happy about them hanging around trashy people, and you certainly don't sweep problems under the rug and lead them to believe that everything is great when it's not-- especially when things like FOJG have his name on them. If you care, you try to help improve things by speaking up and making people aware of problems that need to be fixed. If you see someone close to Josh disrespecting him, you don't go around kissing their ass and claiming that they are "very nice" just because they are close to Josh, you speak up! That's not trying to "ruin lives", that's being honest and caring. Well, that's the way I look at it...sigh. I know many people disagree with me, and I understand that. If a person believes that keeping silent and never complaining about anything is the best way to go thru life, well, I respectfully disagree with that view, but realize that everyone in the world is different.... and thank God for that!

Next chapter:  Lots of good things happen and the Pub mostly sails ahead smoothly for the rest of the year.... thanks to Josh!!