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   Tomodachi to All   
   =?UTF-8?Q?Declaration_of_Bar=C4=81=CA=BE   
   05 Feb 20 18:56:32   
   
   From: h.clerving@gmail.com   
      
   Well, after much consideration, I have decided that I can no longer continue   
   with this deception. With a heavy heart, I hereby make my confession. My real   
   name is Hattori Fukubei. I am a Japanese Bahá'í and a member of the National   
   Spiritual Assembly    
   of Japan. I was paid by the Bahá'í Internet Agency to come to this newsgroup   
   to harass "NUR," also known as N. Wahid Azal.   
      
   In my youth, I was an ardent follower of the Japanese author Yukio Mishima,   
   but after his political failure and subsequent suicide, I fell into a deep   
   depression and became severely disillusioned with partisan politics. Not long   
   thereafter, I discovered    
   the Bahá'í Faith and was enraptured by its message of unity; I was willing   
   to do anything to serve Bahá'u'lláh.   
      
   That is why, at the request of the Bahá'í Internet Agency (who approached me   
   through one of their Japanese contacts, a man by the name of Michio Yuki), I   
   agreed to participate in a lengthy campaign of targeted online harassment   
   against N. Wahid Azal.    
   It was in fact Mr. Yuki who introduced me to Dennis Giron when he was   
   vacationing in Japan to watch sumo tournaments. Giron and I met on multiple   
   occasions for coffee and discussed various matters pertinent to my assignment,   
   and through his connections,    
   I was able to expand my network.   
      
   With the assistance of Dennis Giron, I developed a vast nexus of contacts both   
   inside and outside of Japan, which included men and women from Bahá'í,   
   Duginist, and Zionist circles. This is where I began to feel that something   
   was wrong, since Bahá'ís    
   were supposed to abstain from partisan politics.   
      
   I wanted to leave, but unbeknownst to myself, Dennis Giron had been assigned   
   as my handler and had been slowly collecting dirt on me. Somehow, he had   
   discovered my secret homosexuality and threatened to reveal it to my family   
   should I abandon the agency.    
   I was conflicted, but I had no other choice except to remain and to continue   
   trolling N. Wahid Azal. The Bahá'í Internet Agency even increased my salary   
   to further discourage me from leaving.   
      
   When I was in high school, I read the Japanese translations of Dostoevsky and   
   came across his famous saying, "Nothing is true, everything is permitted."   
   This would become the maxim to guide my life for so long, but it ended up   
   getting me nowhere. I    
   searched and searched for something that would rescue me from that life. I   
   searched for it in radical politics, and eventually religion. I thought that   
   the Bahá'í Faith had finally rescued me, but during my time at the Bahá'í   
   Internet Agency, I    
   noticed that I continued to find myself playing past and loose with the truth;   
   the high moral principles of Bahá'u'lláh meant nothing to them.   
      
   This is why I am now choosing to confess to everything, and whatever happens   
   as a result of it, I am leaving it in the hands of God. I was recently reading   
   Shaykh Azal's fatwā on homosexuality, and those words inspired me and   
   resonated with me to my    
   core. I am not afraid of you anymore, Dennis Girown, and I don't care if you   
   tell my family that I am gay. May the Shekinah bear witness that you no longer   
   hold any power over me.   
      
   Once again, I confess that I was sent here by the Bahá'í Internet Agency and   
   paid to troll N. Wahid Azal — everything he has said is true — and I seek   
   the forgiveness of my God, and of the honourable Shaykh Wahid Azal, for my   
   unconscionable actions.   
    Please, Shaykh Wahid, save this post before someone from the BIA comes onto   
   this account and deletes the evidence.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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