I Expect This Slanderous Crap To Be Removed, Immediately

By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - And I want an apology, too. Steven Rich, using the alias "William Smartlee" sent a letter via email to Eric Jackson, the owner of a website called The Panama News. Jackson published this letter without verifying the veracity of what was being said, nor establishing the identity of the writer. Since Jackson now knows "William Smartlee" is actually Steven Rich, the same person he was corresponding with as "Ruth Osborn" who was trying to get him to publish (more crap) about my supposed ties to the CIA, Jackson should recognize Steven Rich was playing him for a fool. Steven Rich as able to convince there's a "connection" between me and the porno industry in Panama, simply because I know Mona Sutherland. Jackson should also recognize these asinine accusations about the porn industry in Panama are actually coming from someone who used to work for them. Steven Rich didn't have any problem with the porn industry while they were paying his bills, but only developed a distaste after the was fired for being a thief. Anyway, Jackson should remove the following from his website immediately and issue a personal apology. (more)

Jackson Published The Following: In the Letters To The Editor Section:

• Winner's ties with the pornography industry
  
  
• Fabian (snip), the Dutch national who runs a porn website empire in Panama, has been in the news lately.
  
  
• Don Winner has connections with Fabian (snip) which I will explain after first providing you with the Panama Star stories about Fabian (snip) published last Tuesday and Wednesday.
  
  
• The Panama Star newspaper recently published two stories about Fabian (snip) and his porn companies.
  
  
• Fabian is mentioned by first name in this article.
  
  
• The second article contains a reference to Fabian and Dana being investigated by the RCMP without mentioning their names:
  
  
• In Canada where the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) have a sophisticated network, fighting on-line child pornography, in association with other units around the globe and where Canadian law enables them to track and prosecute Canadian offenders anywhere in the world, a local tip off recently led to a check on a local “adult” distributor.
  
  
• The next day’s online Panama Star has this story quoting Fabian (without mentioning his name).
  
  
• That day’s printed version has more articles about the “expat and his wife” who run an Adult Entertainment empire. The online version doesn’t have these extra articles.
  
  
• The connection between Don Winner and Fabian (snip) can be made with their relationship to Mona Sutherland, an American woman living in Panama. Mona Sutherland has been a friend and has worked with Don Winner for several years. The connections between them are tricky to prove because Mona Sutherland uses an alias in her porno articles "Mona Moore." This Word document breaks down who Mona Moore is by resumes and by photos in comparison to the real Mona Sutherland. Apparently, Mona Sutherland didn't want people to know that she is the notorious Mona Moore in the porno industry. Mona Moore is the same Mona Sutherland who works for Don Winner.
  
  
• William Smartlee

But, Jackson Is A Punk Bitch: Undoubtedly, Eric Jackson will weakly argue "but I didn't write that..." as an excuse. He will try to make some bullshit technical argument, when what matters here are fundamental issues of right and wrong. What should be noted is that the editor of the English language section of the "Estrella" newspaper is David Young, that Eric Jackson also works there, and that David Young basically worships the ground Eric Jackson walks on. On 18 June 2009, Eric Jackson wrote the following for the "Estrella" -

• In the electronic mailbox
• 06-18-2009 | ERIC JACKSON
• thepanamanews@gmail.com
• As Mark Twain put it, “Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.” Here in Panama, it’s part of a day’s work
  
  
• Panama Star Denials, denunciations, threats --- all part of a day's work. The worst of all are the foreigners who have heard about how the powers that be in Panama intimidate the press, and put on their exaggerated versions of how they think it ought to work.
  
  
• I published a letter in The Panama News , about a woman who writes under an assumed name for pornographic web sites and helped to organize pornographer summits here. The letter included an attachment and many hyperlinks and documented its writer's allegations quite well.
  
  
• Within minutes of the upload came the screeching phone call. At the point which it came to threats I hung up. There came 18 more calls in quick succession, which I didn't take, until to save the battery in my cell phone I turned the thing off. Mona Sutherland alias Mona Moore summarized by e-mail:
  
  
• In light of what you have just written about me (under [a pseudonym] and I can prove that it is really you), I have decided to go ahead and proceed via my lawyer considering you have published "facts" that are untrue. I have been living in Panama for 4 years, and it's not very difficult for me to get to the bottom of issues either. You make grave mistakes talking about people you know nothing about via your pathetic excuse of a C-rate online newspaper.
  
  
• My lawyer will be in touch soon, Mona M. Sutherland.
  
  
• Ah, yes. She's going to prove a false assertion about the letter's authorship. It wouldn't be the first time that was done in a Panamanian court. And what did she say were the "'facts' that are untrue" upon which her lawyer is going to build a case?
  
  
• "I do not work for Don Winner." But indeed, she runs Mr. Winner's "Young Expats in Panama" e-mail chat group. Moreover, Ms. Sutherland asserted to Panama Star reporter Marijulia Pujol Lloyd , she "was never involved per se in the pornographic industry" and Winner has no ties to it.
  
  
• Writing as "Mona Moore" on the Klixx website, Ms. Sutherland puts it this way:
  
  
• We are all in adult and love it, but since it has always been an industry that lounges on the shores of the mainstream as opposed to immersing itself, we often find ourselves having to go an extra mile to ensure smooth business operations. In the case of models, it is finding women that enjoy their job and stick around for more than a couple of months.
  
  
• [It is] essential to assess a potential model’s personality, asking themselves questions such as.. Does she like sex? Does that come across on camera?
  
  
• And Don Winner? Other than having Sutherland/ Moore running one of his e-mail groups? Other than hanging out with Fabian (snip)? Do a Google search using the keywords "Panama" and "hookers." Why does Winner's copyright pirate web site, the Panama Guide, come up first?
  
  
• It's because he puts all these teasing tag words in his web site, so as to attract people who think that they will be clicking onto a pornographic web site and in that way deceptively drive up the alleged readership numbers of his publication.
  
  
• Anyway, as somebody who has two JDs -- the doctorate in jurisprudence and the juvenile delinquent record -- I must admit to getting these perverse kicks contemplating a calumnia e injuria case wherein what is alleged to be false and defamatory is someone else's characterization of Ms. Sutherland alias Moore running an e-mail group for Don Winner as "working for" him.
  
  
• All in a day's work, here at 9° North.

How About Now, Eric Maybe it's my turn for a few "perverse kicks." But I won't sue you - I'll just report extensively on the efforts of someone else who has a whole lot more resources at their disposal than I do. So, are you willing to "stand by" all of the bullshit Steven Rich sent you, now that you know it's source and the motivations behind the author? One more notch taken off of the "credibility" scale for Eric Jackson. But we already knew that, didn't we.

Copyright 2009 by Don Winner for Panama-Guide.com. Go ahead and use whatever you like as long as you credit the source. Salud.