My apologies if in places this Chronology and the Bibliography generally read more like a diary! I have tried to include things that are relevant only to ITMA and/or my publishing activities generally. Most of my other trials and tribulations since 1990 have been thoroughly documented by myself and occasionally by others in sundry publications including on-line. When reading what other people have written, please always bear in mind caveat emptor; anything from Jewish sources should be immediately suspect, ditto “anti-fascist” sources, and at times “far right” sources even more so.
At times I have published thoroughly documented rebuttals of some of the more grotesque lies, but there is no pleasing some people.
August 2: Alexander Baron is born in Dulwich Hospital, London.
February 13: Mark Taha is born in London.
July 10: Mark Taha graduates from Essex University with a degree in History & Government.
August 8-22: My first letter ever in print, in the ultra-creepy left wing Leeds Other Paper.
August 20: I have a letter read out on Radio One.
December 10-16: I have my first ever letter published in a national weekly magazine.
Al wins the Koestler Prize for Poetry.
One of the winning poems is The Gambler, which is written in the new metre Gamblemeter.
December: My first anthology is published: A Purpose Strong And Bright.
This includes The Gambler and another poem in another new metre, City Kid, which is written in the modestly titled Baronmeter or Baronmetric Stanzas.
May 26: I contribute two riddles to the Voice newspaper through an agency, the first of many.
Sadly, in spite of the initial promise, nothing comes of this.
At some point I also devise Chainwords and Linewords (also known as Mixwords), simple puzzles. A few of these are also published in the Voice, but...
September 4: My first letter ever is published in a national weekly trade paper.
May: Al contributes to The Comedy Bulletin, a short lived publication put out by an Irish comedy writer.
October: I injure my neck in a freak accident, exacerbating a congenital weakness, and guaranteeing me a lifetime of pain. (Some would say it couldn't happen to a nicer guy).
December 30: I appear on Pete Murray's LBC Radio programme as a caller, slagging off one of his guests, a psychic or similar nut.
August/September: I begin freelancing for magazines, with mixed success.
October: I become a regular contributor to Model Journal.
This turns out to be another dead end, and an expensive one.
November 22: Most people of a certain age remember this date twenty-seven years earlier because of the Kennedy Assassination. I do, I even remember what I was doing, vaguely, at the time. This date in 1990 would be remembered by most Britons of a certain age - if at all - as the day Margaret Thatcher announced her intention not to stand for the second ballot in the Conservative leadership contest. Although she did not resign until November 28 - the day after John Major became leader - her tenure as Prime Minister was effectively over.
Mark Taha remembers November 22 for a very different reason - it was the day he met me! I had been given his phone number by Chris Tame who told me he was an idiot. Later, when I found out this “idiot” had a university degree and was one point short of MENSA, Chris told me he was an intelligent idiot. Sigh.
I would rather not go into the reason I needed the services of someone like Taha, suffice it to say it can be found at this link.
November: I contribute to Travel Days, another disaster like Model Journal.
December 8: Al serves a libel writ on Gerry Gable at the House of Lords.
December 13: I am found to have been in contempt of Parliament, and a special issue of Hansard is published just for me!
August 2: Al publishes a seminal biography of Searchlight “mole” Ray Hill.
October 15: Al publishes an exposé of Zionist agent David Irving; it is met with a press blackout except for a report in Searchlight, which claims it is a tissue of lies. High praise indeed!
I publish my third book HOLOCAUST DENIAL: NEW NAZI LIE or NEW INQUISITION?
And sell the first three copies to...Gerry Gable...through his lawyer!
June 24: Although we are not named, Mark and I are accused in Parliament by the left wing MP Jeremy Corbyn of practising “selective terrorism against radical bookshops”.
November 1: Al is arrested by Bent Filth, fitted up on ludicrous charges and thrown into Brixton Prison for six months.
May 1: Al is acquitted on the day Tony Blair is elected Prime Minister.
April 8, 2000: The ITMA website opens on Geocities.
Archived version at http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Embassy/2634/ITMA.html
April 21: satpalramisguilty opens on Geocities.
The latest version of this site is linked from here
Archived version at http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.geocities.com/satpalramisguilty/
September 28: SearchlightArchive opens on 20m.com.
Archived version at http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.searchlightarchive.20m.com/
November 23: FinancialReform opens for business on 20m.com.
Archived version at http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.financialreform.20m.com/
May 3: vexatious_litigant website opens on Geocities.
July 2: Baron v Housmans Bookshop ends at the High Court with judgment for the Plaintiff of £14.
This was the first libel case held under the new rules in which the defence of innocent dissemination was used - and failed.
July 27: My Demon website opens.
Actually, this was not so much a website as a redirection point for my other websites, although I used it to advertise some of our publications. Archived version here.
December 4: IsMichaelStoneGuilty opens on 150m.com.
May 21: The Michael Stone website moves to its own domain; it is now located at
http://www.ismichaelstoneguilty.org/
Archived version at http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ismichaelstoneguilty.org
The domain and webspace are sponsored by an anonymous businessman from the London area.
May 27: Al is mentioned in the Sun, although not by name.
June 25: The ITMA website is closed by Geocities for some unspecified reason.
July 20: ITMA re-opens, on FreeHomePages.Com.
Archived version at http://www.freehomepages.com/itma99/
February 21: The ITMA site on FreeHomePages is closed.
February 24: ITMA goes back on-line on 150m.com.
July 17: I delete my Demon website.
I left Demon after ten years because I was being inundated with spam. Unfortunately, I moved to NTLWorld!
December 15: vexatious_litigant is back on-line, at Angel Towns (not archived).
April 16: Apparently shortly before this date, both FinancialReform and SearchlightArchive were deleted.
SearchlightArchive is back on-line at Great.Now
April 20: FinancialReform is back on-line, at Bravenet.
May 16: the Michael Stone domain expires, but nobody tells Al, and he doesn't notice.
May 31: vexatious_litigant reopens, on 2hot2cool
I gave out the following url, which has not been archived - http://free.angeltowns.com/vexlitigant/
I gave out the following url, which has not been archived - http://www.2hot2cool.com/11/vexlitigant/index.html
Mid-June: The first of many submissions to the SongFacts website; they are published shortly.
June 21: The Michael Stone website goes back on-line on freehostyou.com
August 1: SearchlightArchive re-opens, on Redrival.
August 3: The old SearchlightArchive is deleted from Great.Now.
October 18: vexatious_litigant is deleted by 2hot2cool.
October 22: vexatious_litigant is back on-line.
October 30: The Michael Stone website is down.
November 21: The Michael Stone website is back on-line.
January 23: This site is upgraded to remove pop ups.
February 15: Outrageous_Cartoons opens on Geocities.
May 16: The domain for IsMichaelStoneGuilty expires. Of course, no one tells Al.
June 14: I check IsMichaelStoneGuilty - it isn't there.
June 21: IsMichaelStoneGuilty is back on-line, at freehostyou.com.
August 17: SearchlightArchive moves to its own domain.
December 3: Al purchases the following domains:
infotextmanuscripts.org
financialreform.info
ismichaelstoneguilty.org.uk
vexatiouslitigant.org
December 8: ITMA is moved to its own domain.
FinancialReform is moved to its own domain, although the existing site on Bravenet is not deleted.
IsMichaelStoneGuilty is moved to its own domain.
A redirection point similar to my former Demon webspace is opened on BT Geocities.
vexatious_litigant is transferred to its new domain either today or shortly afterwards.
February 13: Finally, Mark Taha gets his own webpage on this site; later it is expanded to a full directory, in effect his own website.
October 15: satpalramisguilty moves to 20m.com.
October 26-7: Geocities is closed.
At this time, the only site I had on Geocities was OutRageous Cartoons, which only half counts.
August 4: SearchlightArchive is moved to a new sub-directory on this site, here:
http://www.infotextmanuscripts.org/searchlightarchive/
This was in view of the imminent expiration of the domain. There was so little traffic that I couldn't justify renewing it.
http://www.infotextmanuscripts.org/vexatiouslitigant/
February 9: I realised the old FinancialReform site at Bravenet had not been deleted; I e-mailed them the following day, and it was deleted forthwith.
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