Robo/Real Calls: If The Evidence Was Really Laying There Since Last Spring…

What the heckfire am I talking about this time?

Well.

As NorthVan Grumps, Dave and I discerned in our last post, Lori B from Fredericton NB, who we assume is Lori Bruce, and Astrid from Mission BC, who we assume is Astrid Dimind (and we are very willing to stand corrected on those scores), left comments on the ‘800 Notes’ Website about being called and misdirected by folks saying they were from the Conservative Party of Canada while using a number apparently with said Party.

And they left those messages on that website, where they can still be found, on Apr 30th, 2011 and May 1st, 2011.

Six other people who received calls from that number also left comments earlier in April of 2011. Four of those six explicitly mentioned that they thought it was the Conservative Party that called them.

The upshot?

Well, all of these comments, six of which explicitly noted that that they thought the calls, which were made, apparently, by real people, not robots, were coming from the Conservatives (which was further confirmed for some of these people called the number back and got an answering machine stating such), were laying there in full public view, BEFORE the May 2nd, 2011 Federal Election.

Now, given that those plain view comments pop-up with a simple Google search after typing in the phone number like, say, this….

Well….

Doesn’t that suggest that those finest of the very finest fine folks who might be behind all of this and who are, apparently, experts at mining data probably knew that those messages were sitting there just waiting for sharp reporters like, say, Terry Milewski of the CBC (and/or his research assistants) to find them?

So….

If that were the case, is it really that much of a stretch to wonder if maybe those same very fine ‘experts’ might also have had a not-so-secret scapegoat tucked away, right from the start, waiting for the day they knew this whole thing would inevitably start unravelling?

Now.

Why do I keep fussing about the possibility that there might have been ‘pre-packaged scapegoat’ so much?

Well….

You do remember that old saw about Watergate, right?

The one that went something like….

OK?

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