Enemy Mine

Although this blog's chief purpose is to expose Chevron's covert shills, no discussion of this topic would be complete without a mention of Chevron's Über-Shill, Justin H. I do give him credit for being completely truthful about the fact that he is a Chevron spokesperson, but that's where Justin's truth-telling begins and ends. Here are just a few of the footprints Justin's left on the Web:

Justin commenting on The Pump Handle blog

Justin attempts to undermine HuffPo blogger Han Shan

Justin's many comments on various Huffington Post articles

Justin commenting on Green Energy News

An Open Letter to Justin H of Chevron:

Dear Justin,

You may not believe this, but there's a lot that I like about you. I admire your rhetorical skills. I like that you understand the subtle art of lying with facts. You're good at this.

Real good.

But you're doing wrong.

You know this.

You know it in your bones.

You know it in the quiet moments when it's just you looking in the mirror. You'll know this many years from now when you're retired, living comfortably off the wealth you built shilling for Chevron.

I have faith in you Justin, faith that you truly do know these things, because you're not a dumb guy. To do what you do every day, I can only assume that you must have to force yourself to disconnect from your own heart and your inner sense of what's right, much in the same way that a streetwalker has to stuff her feelings in order to prostitute herself.

Is this what you want to be known for, Justin? When you look back on your life, are you going to say, "I sure am glad I did such an effective job helping Chevron avoid its responsibilities?"

Of course not, Justin.

You're better than that.

Join us.

We can't offer you the money and power that Chevron can.

We can only offer our friendship and support. You'll need these things when you finally do begin the hard work of setting the record straight.

Join us Justin, and find out what it feels like to be a hero instead of a villain.


Sincerely,

Brendan "FlightSuit" B

Don't Believe the Tripe

Hello, and welcome to Chevron Shills. I'm starting this blog as a resource to keep track of the various canned comments which Chevron's paid supporters are posting everywhere on the Web. They do this as part of Chevron's well-funded, ongoing campaign to control the conversation about their destruction of the Amazon rain forest and de facto murder of Ecuador's indigenous peoples.

Whenever this topic comes up on any public message board, forum, blog, news site, Twitter or Facebook page, it is inevitable that Chevron's shills come out of the woodwork, pretending to innocently offer an alternative view.

They're easy to spot, because they always hit the same talking points. When "Joe from Arkansas," "Betty in Des Moines," and "Larry in SF" are posting on three different message boards, and all three posts contain, verbatim, the words, "I saw the documentary Crude and was outraged by what I learned, but then I did some research and now I feel I've been duped..." well, it's pretty obvious that Joe, Betty, and Larry are all the same person, using different screen names to create the false impression that Chevron enjoys massive, grassroots support.

When you see examples of this sort of blatant, dishonest shilling, please submit links and/or screen shots to formerlyflightsuit at gmail dot com so they can be listed here. It is my hope that this blog will become a resource you can use when fighting the shills.

That way, the next time you see "Bertha in Big Bend" posing as a concerned citizen and spreading Chevron's propaganda, you'll be able to post a reply saying, "Gee, it's funny that you claim to be Bertha in Big Bend, spontaneously offering these thoughts just off the top of your head, because, according to the Chevron Shills blog, you have posted the exact same words under several different names on several different Web sites. Here's a link..."



Thank you, and...



¡Viva Ecuador!