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To: Freedom Ship supporters who visit our site. July 1, 2008
The following is an article I put on the Wikipedia web site.
I removed all of the Freedom Ship distortions that were put on the existing site by "unknown people" and replaced them with the
following. It is unfortunate that people are permitted to put anything they wish on this site and still keep their identity
secret. I think they should tell who they are, just like I did as you can see below.
For some reason, Wikipedia has taken my words off the site. They just replaced them with the same old
statements. There is a mistake in every sentence they have on the site. I told them who I was and where they could contact me.
But I have not heard from them.
However, I will re-print it here for those of you who wish to see our history and where we stand today.
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My name is Norman Nixon and I just read the documentation of Freedom Ship on this site.
I am the lead Professional Engineer associated with the design of the ship and the CEO of Freedom Ship Inc.
I have never seen anything as distorted as the reports on these pages. I wish to clarify the situation.
1. We went public long before the reported date of 1999. My engineers and myself have heard from thousands of people, over the
years, from most every country on this planet. And it has been a "learning experience" like we never expected.
2. The vast majority of these people want to join us and help us bring the ship to fruition so they can purchase space on the
ship and enjoy the same type of "new lifestyle" we envision. This was what we were hoping would happen, but it has been in
numbers far greater than we ever expected. We were originally hoping we could find enough people to build one ship, but we
have heard from enough people to build more than 3 ships.
3. We have also been contacted by a group of people who we thought in the beginning had a serious interest in the ship, but
this was an even bigger "learning experience" for us. A number of these people that came from most every country on earth
wanted nothing more than to use us for a "scam." We spent a lot of our time with several groups of these con men. In the
beginning, we thought they were "for real" when they were promising us financing for the ship. I have heard of such "scams"
all of my life but I never expected to personally meet such a criminal in person. However, I have now met with more than
two hundred of them. And we wasted a lot of valuable time meeting with them and checking them out. This has been my biggest
disappointment because we wasted a lot of time with these "characters" that we could have spent doing serious work on the
development of the ship, or producing an income to feed the family. They flew in from Australia, Hong Kong, Europe, and other
countries and we wasted our time with all of them. This was "learning experience" number 2 associated with the Freedom Ship
Project.
4. Another, smaller group, also came to us wanting more information on the ship. We worked with them also, but they started
reporting things on their web site that were far off base. It appears they were not only talking to us, but to a group of
so-called "experts" that were not even engineers, much less Registered Professional Engineers. In the beginning we spent time
explaining the technical facts about the ship to them, (trying to be nice guys) but they ignored everything we said. We were
confused as to why they were ignoring us (all Registered Professional Engineers) and putting on their web sites statements
made by people with no knowledge or credibility of any type. Then we were finally informed about the "realities" associated
with many web sites. This was "learning experience" number 3. It appears that people can make money based on how many people
they have coming to their web site. These people do everything they can to "get associated" with any "major web site" such,
as our Freedom Ship site, and they do or say anything to try and attract some of our people to their web site. We don't really
care how many of our people go to their web sites, but we strongly disagree with the things they say on their sites. These
people have gone so far as to accuse us of running a "scam." So, I invited several of them to come here and personally visit
with me, our attorney, and our engineers. But none of them came, because they could really care less about whether or not we
were running a "scam;" they just want to generate "controversy" and bring people to their web sites. This is the people who
took advantage of Freedom Ship and of Wikipedia by making totally false reports.
5. Since I have given you our history, I will also give Wikipedia the first "official" notification of where we stand today
-- July 1, 2008. We are still in business and still working on the project. But we did run into a little bump in the road.
I set up, as our President, a man who had the "Financial Experience" we "engineers" do not have. His education and Financial
Experience, as well as his personality, seemed to make him the perfect person we needed to move forward on the project. And
he assured us he had found our financing, so we were all excited. But then I discovered that our $400,000 bank account
(which we were using to do a public IPO so we could sell Freedom Ship stock to the general public) abruptly went down to
nothing. It appears he turned over our entire bank account to a man who promised him a "Peruvian Gold certificate" worth a
billion dollars. Before this we could not believe that anyone (especially a well educated and successful person) could
believe something like this. This was "learning experience" number 4. He did this without our knowledge. He also took the
money out of our bank account even though he did not have "signature authority." So, as you might guess, we have a major
law suit against everyone involved. Per the laws of the State of Florida, the crime of "racketeering" brings a fine of 3
times the money you take. So, we are going after everyone involved for $1,200,000. This crime also brings a jail penalty,
but we are willing to overlook this as long as we get our $1,200,000. This is more than we need to complete our IPO, build
the ship, and move forward.
Norman Nixon, CEO -- July 1, 2008
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