The Plot Thickens | Tom Woods

After I complained to the editors at policymic.com that I had obviously been a victim of libel, and that “Alex Stenovsky” had written an article worthy of a remedial junior-high class, they first ordered him to substantiate the charges and then, when that proved impossible, they took the article down altogether. (This is not “censorship,” by the way. It’s their site.)

But now the plot thickens. There is no such person as “Alex Stenovsky.” (This link is to a Google image search for the photo of this alleged person.)

Now what kind of person would have an incentive to write a hit piece based on falsehoods and fake anonymous quotations (no Romney campaign person would ever have said, “If Ron Paul had had an extra $1 million, he might be the president-elect today”; is that not the most laughable fake quotation in the history of the world?), and create a fake account to do it? Someone with a direct ax to grind against a campaign critic, perhaps?

Ray Holloway

When I read that 1million dollar quote, I thought, “A million dollars would hardly make a difference in some mayoral elections.” That article was trash. Shame on policymic.
http://www.facebook.com/poindexterstoo Joel Poindexter

I can think of someone who’d have an axe to grind. He’s a campaign manager with a not-so-stellar record, and a penchant for slander and dirty politics,
FarSide.Liberty

For those who are confused by the ‘no such person’ link (as I was at first!) it goes to a google-image search for the headshot of the ‘journalist’

But it appears to have been lifted from the profile of a guy named Vladimir in the UK.
guest

We keep passing around your awesome videos, so it’s harder for people to write you off as irrelevant.
L. Goldman

In style and tone that article that had all the clues that lead to a certain body-armor wearing campaign manger who foams at the mouth about Tom. The guy’s fat, greasy fingerprints are all over it.
More revelations will come.
Gamble

Ron Paul had a better chance of winning the Presidential election
than Romany however Paul first had to get the Republican nomination. In order
for Ron to get the nomination, Republicans would have to learn to love freedom
and hate tyranny, unfortunately the opposite is true. 1 million dollars will
not change this fact.
J Fournier

Sounds like Jesse figured out he has ruined himself with the liberty movement and is trying to rehabilitate himself by libeling the people who spread the truth about him.
Dave

I’m going to go out on a limb and guess the axe-grinder’s name begins with “J” and ends in “Esse Benton.”

This has not just the petty malice but also the clumsy ineptitude that are his hallmarks.
devo

tom you know the truth, and we are on your side. maybe in the spirit of some of the attacks ron paul had against him, just state the truth and then dont give them any more of your energy. i know it can be hard and that nagging feeling might not go away, but dont give them your energy or keep this alive, just let it die out like it should.

clearly someone is afraid of you, you have become “dangerous”. just keep pushing and keep up the good work. give the statis quo all the reason in the world to fear you. we want them to fear us ;D haha
Randy S

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A fan

Tom, I know your good at chess. This guy is on the run, but you need to find him and smash him. Checkmate style!
Dan

If you look at the other two articles this “Alex Stenovsky” posted, it is the same BS attack on another pro Ron Paul SuperPac. Jesse Benton might have some awkward questions to answer over the holidays.
http://www.TomWoods.com Tom Woods

Incidentally, I am not claiming that Benton himself wrote the piece. But are the anonymous quotations either made up or from Benton flaks? Absolutely no question. I evidently have a few opponents on the Ron Paul Forums over this, but why they don’t find it curious that a fake person made demonstrably false allegations against me is itself pretty curious. I would not hire these people as private detectives.
http://twitter.com/LA_Liberty LA Liberty

Stenovsky is Benton… Finkle is Einhorn!
http://twitter.com/NateForLiberty Nathan Diehl

http://www.policymic.com/articles/9011/ron-paul-movement-confronts-political-operative-who-tried-to-hijack-the-revolution/305787

http://www.policymic.com/articles/9073/super-pac-funding-questioned-in-kentucky-election-of-ron-paul-supported-thomas-massie/305789

Jesse’s *cough!*, I mean “Alex’s” other two articles still remain.

The guy in the photo, Vladimir Pallfy, actually seems like a decent human being.

http://communities.ptc.com/docs/DOC-1561/diff?secondVersionNumber=4

^^^Vladimir Pallfy wins an award for engineering. Link contains other photos of Mr. Pallfy. Maybe he should be contacted about what is happening.
http://twitter.com/NateForLiberty Nathan Diehl

Found Vladimir Pallfy on Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/vpalffy
Anonymous

The name is cleverly disguised. Who?
http://www.facebook.com/people/William-Schooler/100003032488972 William Schooler

LOL, isn’t this the agreement of our world? To take symbolism as some kind of authority or literal way. Here someone compiles some words throws them out there and lets see what kinds of effects we see. Or lets use this to divert the attention to some other stupid idea. This crap is a daily practice so few have the guts to be honest with. But who am I to say, just some independent non conforming decision maker.

The English Language and symbolism is the most conformed to and agreed upon practice of our world and all pretend to be masters of it and is by far the worse force on our planet. Most did not investigate the sources or alterations of this language and only agree it is the right way or the highway. But this is coming from someone who actually studied the Declaration Of Independence to find out it was not a paper to read but and act to decide on. That the act of independence not to go into agreement with all ideas written and where conformity was found would independence be obscured from view.

I know you all will have field day with this and please be my guest, but Tom you know full well you would not be what those were accusing you of and I am pretty sure all who follow you would not even give it a moments notice (although I do question this). But the responses never really seem to address the real issue, (the abuse of language) only some independent mind seems to. Interesting.
Dan

Yeah, I know you weren’t claiming Benton wrote the piece, but based on this “Stenvosky’s” other hit pieces going after another pro-Ron Paul SuperPac who spent nearly a million dollars to help elect Massie in Kentucky, I’m thinking this guy is either Jesse Benton or one of his lackeys. Seriously, read the other hit pieces and tell me it doesn’t sound like it is coming straight from Benton. It is the same type of complaints he made about the PaulFest people, and any other Paul supporter who didn’t goose step behind him.
Anonymous

Tom, there’s another thing. Public records about RevPac’s spending don’t show high administrative costs.. he just made that up.
Anonymous

http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/expenditures.php?cycle=2012&cmte=C00499335 < this doesnt show high administration costs for RevpAc. Could the Bloomberg article have been wrong too?
TJ

“At the heart of PolicyMic is our democratic system. We believe in the power of the crowd to choose the leading voices. On PolicyMic, the community decides who gets to speak.”

I think the article in question proves the failure of “democracy” and “majority-rule” not only when applied to politics but when applied to journalism, too.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-James/100003159201952 Chris James

Damn, I literally “lol’d” at that. Nice
Anonymous

The guy who had his name stolen might have a case for identity theft.
JFF

The other obvious question is “why now?”
Ray Holloway

William Schooler, Defender of Language
Thomas D

This is probably going to sound naive, but I guess I missed something basic along the way. Who developed what beef with whom, regarding the Ron Paul campaign? Can somebody give me the nutshell version of what all this is about? Kind of a “Backstage Drama in the Ron Paul Campaign for Dummies” sort of thing, please…
guest

Tom Woods unloads on Jesse Benton and John Tate – Free Talk Live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw_B5bx8GKc

My Memories of Jesse Benton
http://www.tomwoods.com/blog/my-memories-of-jesse-bento/
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jack-Lee/504570059 Jack Lee

I participate often on policymic. It’s definitely not a perfect forum by any means, but you can often find people that are willing to engage you who will try to at least rationally back up their claims. I enjoy some of the exchanges that I have on there, plus there is also a moderate libertarian element there.
NJDave

Libelous AND a coward. This person has a bright future in politics.
Liberty Warrior

Tom, you are my hero. You writings were instrumental in erasing the decade of public school statist propaganda and steering my life towards the direction of liberty. I have never been skeptical of anything you have said previously but this whole skism is starting to get out of hand.

Jesse Benton? Jesse Benton all the time? Just because you did not agree with everything the campaign did doesn’t mean you need to try to disparage the people involved with the campaign. Its seems unreasonable how everyone has turned Benton into a whipping boy for there frustration over Ron Paul losing. This was Ron Paul’s pick for manager. Ron Paul understands politics, campaigning and elections, on every level, a little more than anyone reading this including the both of us Mr. Woods, Sir.

My wild guess is Benton has a couple more important things on his plate than crafting a sub-par alias and wasting his time on trivial BS like this. He is not sitting in his moms basement, wasting hours rehashing last years petty garbage on the Daily Paul.

A lot of people were hostile against Benton for taking that job running the campaign of McConnell, who happens to be the republican leader in the U.S. senate. A LOT of people, including you, have been saying awful things about Benton for months now. He has not bothered to utter a word in his own defense. Now as soon as these allegations regarding REV PAC’s financial reporting arise, its all a fabrication engineered by Benton.

If this pettiness continues it will kill the movement and I know that your above this.
john

Also my knee-jerk reaction after reading this.
http://www.TomWoods.com Tom Woods

I noted in this thread that I do not believe Benton wrote the article. But as I’ve said, this article is so preposterous, filled with fake quotations and false charges, and hiding behind a fake photograph and fake name — you’re telling me there is nothing fishy about that? You’re telling me this is something a disinterested third party would do? I hope you won’t take offense, but I would never hire you as a private detective.
http://www.facebook.com/ryan.griggs Ryan Griggs

BTW, what an idiot. Did this person think that no one would look into the accusation? As if the giant army of liberty-minded folks out there (which the person would have seen if he happened to be involved in the official campaign…) would just roll over and let our people get stomped on? It’s so moronic, but then again, who knows what they teach people over in McConnell’s office.
Yaki Mandu

In other words it was that character who now works for McConnell. I can only guess he was a mole who took advantage of Dr. Paul’s trust and good nature.
MonsieurMadeleine

Maybe because people are continuing to give to revpac instead of campaign for liberty, like myself, and they are envious and would rather revpac dry up than continue to promote liberty effectively.
CAPF

When a person is attacked with lies and slander such as this, it would seem prudent to ask who would benefit from it, and to consider first of all any known enemies. Jesse Benton has been a known enemy of Tom Woods for quite some time. Why wouldn’t Tom Woods suspect him of this? Libel is not something a person should just brush off. It’s a serious offense. If Jesse Benton is found to have done this, he should be held accountable.
Robert from Long Island

By the way, Dr. Woods, the site in question probably has the IP address of the person posting the article. There is very little true anonymity today.
Bent On Wood’s Destruction

An enemy of Schiff’s is an enemy of yours?I won’t name him because I think he’s a genuine sociopath.
http://twitter.com/rabidquill BenjaminThompson

This is probably the case, but wouldn’t it have been nice to see the official campaign run with the same vigor and competence as RevPAC?