Yeller-belly

February 24th, 2005 at 8:57 pm by Preston Taylor Holmes

Small Mike has taken down his ForsaketheTroops.Info website. (Thanks for the tip, Linda!)

When you go to the site now, you see this:

Mike then claims that the site was owned by a fictional couple – Scott and Laurie Vogel. Pish posh.

We don’t normally air business matters with clients in the public, as we believe in respecting clients’ privacy, however, Forsake The Troops, led by Scott Vogel and Laurie Vogel, chose to bring their business out in the public by way of threats and obscenities towards us. We find it tasteless that they felt that the fact the owner of SMIS has a biracial child is something to be used against him.

We apologize to the many people who were offended, and thank those who wrote in to complain, giving us the documentation to show that the Internet community did not appreciate their presence.

Furthermore, Forsake The Troops has chosen to refuse to honor an outstanding bill for some services. The money isn’t of concern to us, though it costs money to run the servers, we have many customers who are good, decent people and pay their bills on time.

According to commenter Drew, the whole thing was a publicity stunt for his hosting company, which is apparently what he did with his last anti-military website CitizensAgainstTheTroops.Org. You would think that there are better ways to get name recognition than being a complete asshole.

At least one good thing came from this: if you have webhosting needs, you now know who NOT to use…. SMISHosting.Com.

UPDATE: Now Small Mike has dropped all pretense. Forsakethetroops.info is now Small Mike’s personal white-supremacist website. Go see for yourself – or better yet, don’t.

Thanks to commenter Marble for the tip.

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12 Responses to “Yeller-belly”

1. Raven Says:
   February 24th, 2005 at 9:35 pm

   Hey, I’m so HAPPY this site is down. And what a scam of a hosting company.

2. Vince Aut Morire Says:
   February 24th, 2005 at 10:09 pm

   I’m Right, You’re Left, He’s Gone
   Forsake the troops has been removed from the internet. A hearty thanks to the tireless efforts of the forum members at Weapons Depot.com, Conservative Friends, and my fellow bloggers. More: Preston says…

3. Chad Evans Says:
   February 24th, 2005 at 10:21 pm

   The old addage of ‘any publicity is good publicity’ is accurate though Preston. Sure it was a tasteless thing to do, but now people have heard of the hosting service.

4. Marble Says:
   February 25th, 2005 at 8:41 am

   Just went there to check out the “ERROR” message and was at a White Power Site. I just hope that this loser dosen’t breed.

5. Preston Taylor Holmes Says:
   February 25th, 2005 at 9:23 am

   Chad, of course you’re right. However, I’m sure the folks who have heard of the hosting service now have a less than positive image of the “company”. Or at least, I would hope so.

6. Marble Says:
   February 25th, 2005 at 11:51 am

   Thanks – Great Site you have

7. Pile On® Says:
   February 25th, 2005 at 11:51 am

   Less than positive….there is the understatement of the day. Not wanting to give them mor pub, not that I offer much, is what kept me from Piling on® this one.

8. Something... and Half of Something Says:
   February 26th, 2005 at 10:54 am

   Forsake the Troops is Gone!
   UPDATE II: I have nothing but respect for SMIS Hosting, they nuked that nasty site. and write them a little thank you note. They deserve it! It seems the Small Mike, who took it down (SMIS Hosting) is the same…

9. likwidshoe Says:
   February 26th, 2005 at 7:30 pm

   His site got deluged by listeners of Jim Quinn (of which I am one) http://www.warroom.com Quinn talked about it on his radio show and the very next day the site was down.

10. Preston Taylor Holmes Says:
    February 27th, 2005 at 11:04 am

    Thanks for the tip, Marble. Pile On®, I’m disappointed that you didn’t Pile On® in this story. You’re not living up to your name. Thanks for the warroom tip, Likwid. Do they have any stations that stream online?

11. Neal Says:
    February 27th, 2005 at 7:38 pm

    Now 4Sale at $15,000: forsakethetroops.info

    But an answer is available:

    http://forsakethetroops.us/

    Dedicated to exposing those that try to undermine our military at every opportunity!

12. likwidshoe Says:
    March 25th, 2005 at 5:52 pm

    Preston asked, “Do they have any stations that stream online?”

    Nothing live yet. You could do what I do and listen to the daily archives located here: http://archives.warroom.com/archives.php They usually put up the morning show at around noon and sometimes at around 4PM or so. Give the show a listen, I’ve been listening for about eight years now.