As this was, according to AOL, the result of a complaint by another user, we put this down to an individual with an axe to grind against us.
2. For obvious reasons, we were careful to keep the exact contents of Stargate under wraps until publication was imminent.
The level of interest in what the book might say can be gauged by the many thousands of hits on the Templar Lodge Hotel web site in the weeks leading up to publication.
This figure is for all hits, a large percentage of which were for the hotel pages, not just those relating to the Stargate Assembly.
However, after our first detailed postings on the Assembly, a very strange thing happened.
The hit rate dropped by around 80% - again, for the site as a whole.
The site's service provider could only explain this by users being blocked from accessing the site in some way.
This is confirmed by numerous complaints by users who were either unable to access the site or whose emails were not delivered.
It is interesting that about 70% of hits around this period were from the state of Virginia.
The inhabitants of that state clearly have no problems accessing the site.
Is it a coincidence that Virginia is home to most of the US defense and intelligence agencies, such as the CIA?
(The Stargate Conspiracy is, of course, about a major, long-term and ultimately terrifying plan involving the CIA.)
3. On 12 July the website was completely down, showing only a 'site under construction' message.
Not only had no changes been made to the site but attempts to resolve the problem by the service provider produced bizarre and illogical effects that their support personnel had never encountered before.
Although the situation was resolved within a couple of days, the service provider was unable to explain it in terms of a technical fault.
Significantly, one of the support people stated that the problems experienced were 'impossible without interference' to the site - i.e. the problems were caused by some outside agency.
4. On the very same day, the website of Quest Research, a professional research business that was involved in the Egyptological aspects of Stargate and which has a page devoted to the book, went down.
Again, the service provider (a different one from Templar Lodge) was unable to give any reason for the failure.
Thus, the only two sites on the World Wide Web containing information on The Stargate Conspiracy were offline at the same time, and the cause of both failures remains a mystery.
5. So far, three individuals who made major research contributions to The Stargate Conspiracy, and who are known to be close associates of ours, have had their email accounts temporarily suspended.
Two happened simultaneously with the two web site failures.
One of these was explained by the account incorrectly showing that it was in arrears, although the service provider was unable to explain how this happened
The other provider was unable to offer any explanation.
6. A significant component of the Templar Lodge Hotel's email facilities also went down at the same time, and has, at the time of writing, not yet been restored.
The service provider (a different one from the web site provider) has acknowledged that there is a technical problem but have not yet identified the cause.
While all of the above problems (except the hotel email) have been resolved, various sites and individuals were off-line at a critical time, and resolution proved time-consuming and frustrating for those involved. Such a catalogue of problems seems far beyond coincidence.
It is significant that the majority of them happened within the space of a few days in the week leading up to the press launch of The Stargate Conspiracy at the Templar Lodge Hotel, presumably with the aim of discouraging interest in the event.
It seems that a concerted effort is being made to make access to information about the book on the Internet as difficult as possible.
In particular, the two web site failures can only be explained by outside interference.
If you experience problems reaching the Stargate Assembly, please don't give up.
We welcome your views and support.
If nothing else, let's show Them that we will all fight to maintain freedom of speech.
(Editor's note: All email facilities and web sites have now been restored to their full operational capacities.
However, service providers generally remain unable to provide further explanations behind each 'fault').
