- We have sent an urgent request to Mr. Green to reply
to the charges that he, in publishing 'Code Red', threw out ten pages of
Mr. Booth's source reference and citations.
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- Here is the allegation from Mr. Booth:
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- "However, and as you are aware of, instead of the
10 pages of references I had sent to Mr. Green to be included what he chose
to do instead was to substitute 12 pages for the promotion of his books
and publications. Since I became aware of this issue I have attempted to
contact Mr. Green and have been rebuffed and have not had any of my calls
returned by either him or his associates."
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- What is not clear is *when* Mr. Booth 'became aware'
that all of his references had been deleted and when he began efforts to
contact Mr. Green about this extremely damaging alleged omission.
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- We await Mr. Green's response to the allegations.
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- An email relating to the above...
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- Comment From Blue Star
4-22-4
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- Jeff - I thought this transcript might be of interest
regarding Booth's charges against his publisher.
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- From 'David Booth Responds'
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- "Against many of yours (sic) better judgement I
agreed to assist Wayne Green in making more public my vision of last year.
Upon his advice this took the form of my compiling a number of previously
written and contemporary articles that you all have been aware of... I
referred readers to the last chapter wherein I had referenced the numerous
sources I had quoted and referred to in the writing of the book."
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- From 'The Final Interview'
4-12-4
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- Jeff: So David...let me just ask you to explain to our
listeners, where your original... where you say your original information
came from, how it might have been available to millions of people. And
did you or did you not actually copyright it, or is it even possible to
copyright something once it is on the net...
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- David: Okay. To answer your question directly, I have
written probably millions of words over the last 20 years. And all different,
you know, types of media, you know, from books to magazine articles to,
uh internet, uh, you know, especially back in the, uh, late 80s, early
90s, etcetera.
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- And then this:
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- Jeff: So all of your earlier writings -- magazine articles,
internet postings and so on and so forth -- basically are what, in your
personal archives at home?
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- David: Oh, of course.
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- Jeff: On hard drives and so on...
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- David: Of course, of course.
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- Jeff: And I am assuming that you went to those and used
many of those in the writing of your book.
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- David: Oh, absolutely. I mean, before my book was even
published, you know, it goes through a process, a vetting process like,
you know, any book does, you know, where the attorneys look through it
and they vet it and everything like that.
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- Now, Jeff...Even leaving aside the glaring discrepancy
in the two statements above, does David Booth really believe it is legally
and morally okay to steal the work of other people and claim it as his
own, whether or not he intended to put a list of sources of the plagiarized
material in the back of his book? Does he really think it's defensible
to copy verbatim articles and stories comprising tens of thousands of words
that others have written and copyrighted, slap it together into a book
with a few transitional paragraphs here and there, and then have the audacity
to refer repeatedly to it as "my story" and even proclaim, "I've
got my story to tell, not anyone else's"?
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- For someone who claims to be a Christian, he's got a
pretty loose set of morals.
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