Website at heart of fire dispute changed.
THE internet website at the heart of the latest fire strike lampoons the poetry of chief fire officer Malcolm Saunders.The site - www. merseyventure. com/mm - was allegedly set up by the FBU member from Toxteth fire station whose suspension provoked yesterday's wildcat strike.
It carries satirical reworkings of some of Mr Saunders's own published poetry, but no link to the discussion boards thought to have caused most concern.
The only link still in existence on the page today takes surfers to the fire service's official employees' information exchange page, with threats to take action against discussion board contributors.
That site carries a letter posted by clerk to the fire authority Peter Rhodes on August 16 referring to two discussion boards and threatening to take action against contributors to them.
It appears under the headline "Make yourselves known. . . or else!" and demands to know the real identities of contributors to the discussion boards with pen names like General Caos, Mad Mal, Corporal Punishment and Fat Hand.
Mr Rhodes says he intends to take action against the authors and adds: "One board has now been discontinued no doubt because you recognised that it contained not only defamatory statements but possibly was a means of harassing staff employed by the Fire Authority."
He also accuses the site of containing an incitement to people to make hoax 999 calls, a criminal offence.
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| Publication: | Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England) |
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| Date: | Sep 11, 2001 |
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