Corrupted-Justice Article

Since our inception in April of 2004, Corrupted-Justice has been working nonstop to generate increasing public pressure on the cyber-vigilante group perverted-justice.com to force them to do away with their officially sanctioned harassment and terrorization of literally thousands of people who have never had the benefit of a legitimate trial.

Beginning in January of 2003 and continuing unabated until November of 2006, the completely anonymous, untrained, unaccountable volunteers at perverted-justice carried out well over 1,200 of their "busts" under the umbrella of a rule enacted and enforced by Phillip Eide (a.k.a. "Xavier Von Erck" the site owner) called "the rule of no first contact"

The Rule of No First Contact

The Rule of No First Contact, as defined by Eide, stated that any perverted-justice member, volunteer, or participant who intentionally or proactively contacted the media or any law enforcement agency regarding any of the activities of perverted-justice.com would be summarily banned from the site. In other words, not only did perverted-justice intentionally not involve police in their "busts" for their first 4 years of operation, they actually forbid any contact with police, preferring instead to dole out their own form of "justice" without the bothersome inconvenience of conducting their operations within the allowable limits of the law. Von Erck's supposed reasoning? He didn't want to bother the busy police. The truth? He was fully aware of the opinion of virtually all legitimate law enforcement agencies regarding vigilantism.

In November 2006, as a result of the considerable pressure placed on his cyber-vigilante gang from the public outcry that we helped to generate over the lack of police involvement in the first two perverted-justice/MSNBC Dateline "To Catch a Predator" television entertainment programs, Eide was, completely against his will, forced to finally announce that perverted-justice would no longer participate in "sting" operations without the cooperation and involvement of law enforcement.

Perverted-justice appears to start toeing the line

With Xavier's announcement came the revelation that the perverted-justice "Follow-Up Forums", the on-line home to hundreds of anonymous volunteer would-be cyber-detectives and do-gooders with questionable motives would be purged of all of the ill-gotten personal contact details of those whom perverted-justice had "busted" with no police involvement prior to that date. From that date on, according to Von Erck, perverted-justice would no longer be publicly posting contact information regarding anyone not actually convicted of a crime in a legitimate court of law.

Naturally, Corrupted-Justice members were cautiously optimistic. While it appeared that he was taking our demands seriously by implementing much of what we had been requesting since day one, our many prior experiences with the shady "director of operations" of perverted-justice had shown that very little of what he said could actually be accepted at face value. We were well aware that Von Erck's rise to his current position was built entirely on his well-practiced knack for "spin", half-truths and outright lies. Rather than celebrate our apparent victory, we chose instead to wait and see whether or not he intended on actually meeting the spirit of his prior pronouncements. As usual, we did not have to wait long.

"He took away our toys!"

The majority of volunteer "cyber-detectives" at perverted-justice were there only because membership in the group afforded them the ability to play "super-spy" with others of a similar maturity level while they used their "leet hacker skillz" to track down personal information on people. A large portion of the forum discussion was taken up with back-slaps and high-fives as volunteers described their ever-more-clever methods of tracking down and posting more juicy tidbits of personal information regarding their targets, their family members, friends, colleagues, etc. As an additional incentive, the perverted-justice forums also acted as the means to exercise a sort of perverse "power" over those targeted by engaging in the group-led harassment campaigns via e-mail, Internet IM, and especially vicious, the "gang-up chats" that became all the rage at the height of perverted-justice's popularity.

After Xavier Von Erck's announcement that they would no longer allow the tracking down and posting of all manner of personal details on those they targeted in their "follow-up forums", he soon came to realize that he had just removed the primary incentive for approximately 80% of his volunteer non-"staff" membership to become involved in perverted-justice in the first place.

The more things change, the more they remain the same

Realizing that all of the new public scrutiny prevented him from returning to the good old days of the perverted-justice "follow-up forums" and the attendant "fun" and membership upsurge that accompanied them, Von Erck needed a new method of attracting and keeping the people who made up the "core" of perverted-justice - Those who are there because they believe that spying on and harassing people anonymously is fun!

The simplest way to accomplish this without bringing too much attention to Von Erck's primary moneymaker, perverted-justice proper? Start up a new website - One that allows people to continue tracking down and posting personal information about others but this time, make it even easier!

"Wikisposure" is born

In the original perverted-justice follow-up forums, people were targeted for allegedly engaging in explicit sexual on-line chats with a perverted-justice volunteer pretending to be a sex-starved horny teenager. In this new incarnation, people are now being targeted simply based on any suggestion, accusation or assumption that they may have some sort of tenuous link to anything associated with someone accused of being a pedophile, anyone involved in speaking their opinion on the rights of registered sex offenders, anyone who voices a contrary opinion regarding current sex offender laws, or anyone the anonymous, untrained perverted-justice volunteers have determined may have pedophilic leanings as a result of an opinion voiced or something they may have written on-line.

To accomplish this, Xavier Von Erck created his "Wikisposure" site - a website dedicated to publicly "exposing" anyone the group decides to target. The site is based on a completely bastardized implementation of the "Wiki" concept - A community-maintained and edited on-line "encyclopedia". In Von Erck's version, the ability to add and edit content is strictly controlled and belongs only to a select set of perverted-justice volunteers. As with the old follow-up forum days, the actual identities of those tracking down and posting personal details on the pages are well-protected, thereby alleviating any requirement for the volunteers to actually assume responsibility for the accusations they make. The "Wiki" format also ostensibly disassociates Von Erck himself from legal responsibility as he can always claim that the site is "community edited" therefore he should not be held personally responsible for its content.

Numbered among the few actual outspoken advocates of pedophilia listed on the site are a number of sex offenders who have served their time and are now simply attempting to get on with their lives, but most unbelievably, perverted-justice members are now going after people who have merely voiced an opinion regarding today's sex offender laws! They have retrieved names from on-line petitions and created individual public "exposure" pages for each individual whose name appeared. They have created pages to expose family members of those who dared to come to the defense of their loved ones. They have scanned the Internet looking for blog and forum postings from anyone who voices an opinion that differs from their personal moral viewpoints and twisted their words to fabricate a context completely unintended by the original author in order to make them appear evil.

The Wikisposure web pages include names, addresses, photographs, employment details, associate's details and all manner of other personal information on those they are targeting.

As it was with the original perverted-justice forums, the sprinkling of disclaimers contending that the information found on the site should not be used for harassment is patently ridiculous. The only reason for publicly posting personal contact details on the site is to encourage the anonymous harassment of those individuals, and based on the large influx of complaints that we have been receiving from those so-targeted, it is clearly evident that the perverted-justice harassment and terrorization machine is once again in operation and building up a head of steam.

The only solution: The law

A number of those being targeted on the new perverted-justice "Wikisposure" page have contacted corrupted-justice.com looking for assistance and advice. In the majority of cases, our advice remains the same - Anyone who feels they are being defamed by perverted-justice.com must contact an attorney and look into the posibility of launching a civil suit against Xavier Von Erck, the owner of the Wikisposure site and those involved in the actual posting of the defamatory statements.

Unlike the "old days" when Von Erck and most of his senior members were virtually destitute, the group and it's senior managers now have significant income as a result of their partnership with the Dateline entertainment program. A defamation suit is an expensive proposition when there is little or no likelihood of actually recovering any damages awarded. Von Erck's recent significant financial windfall along with any punative amounts taken from the individuals responsible for actually writing the defamatory statements should be ample inventive to actually pursue a civil lawsuit. Regardless, you can be virtually assured that it will be the only means by which you can reasonably expect to force Von Erck to have the defamatory information removed.

As we have been doing since our inception, our staff are continuously in the process of seeking out and archiving identity information on those involved with all aspects of perverted-justice's operations including those responsible for the wikisposure pages. The information is securely archived and provided on request, free-of-charge to any attorneys attempting to prepare potential legal action against perverted-justice. If you have been falsely accused or unfairly targeted by the vigilante group, feel free to have your attorney contact any of our staff. We may not have information on every participant but we will do our best to provide anything that may be helpful in pursuing legal action against perverted-justice, its owner, or anyone who participates in their destructive activities.