An Important Announcement Regarding Cyber Bullying

This is to address the recent and false accusations made by former SRI Case Manager Mr. Lon Strickler where is has stated that SRI team members have been waging a campaign to have his Phantoms & Monsters Facebook page shut down, which is totally untrue.  He has also made personal attacks against specific SRI members, including Directors Irene Allen and Mark Johnson, all of which are also completely untrue. Mr. Strickler has used false accusations in order to manipulate his followers and supporters, and has openly requested a "call to action" against SRI.

This will be our final public response to Mr. Strickler’s attempts to attack and defame SRI and its members.  For the record, no member of SRI is engaged in any campaign to shut down websites run by Mr. Strickler.  SRI has no desire to engage in conflict with Mr. Strickler or any other group or individuals for any reason.  Our mission is to help people who are experiencing paranormal issues in their lives while also bringing a greater awareness of the paranormal and other concepts to the public in general, of which we will continue to do so.

We recognize that the paranormal community is no stranger to drama with many groups and individuals having had very public conflicts over the past several years.   It’s our opinion that this type of behavior does nothing but make the paranormal community look unprofessional, and we at SRI want no part of it.  However, Mr. Strickler has continued to wage public and private attacks against SRI and its members on both his Facebook pages (where SRI members have been banned from viewing or responding to his attacks), as well as his Phantoms & Monsters and Astral Perceptions blogs.  

In April of this year Mr. Strickler chose to leave SRI of his own free will when it was discovered that he was sending threatening messages to SRI founder Irene Allen under a false e-mail account on the SRI Guestbook Page. When the IP addresses were traced they led directly to Mr. Strickler’s front door. When confronted with this information during a telephone conversation between himself and SRI founder Irene Allen, Mr. Strickler admitted to posting the threats because he did not like the direction where SRI was heading, a direction that gave more responsibility to the SRI team as a whole and less to him personally.  Before the matter could be discussed further Mr. Strickler hung up on Irene and immediately and publicly posted his resignation for all to see on Facebook and his blog pages, as well as personally e-mailing clients of SRI.  Mr. Strickler then engaged in a scorched earth campaign of damaging all SRI related websites and media of which he held control over by deleting content in a fit of anger. He then blocked or banned SRI members from his Facebook pages in an attempt to prevent them from seeing his attacks. 

In the months that followed Mr. Strickler has repeatedly engaged in attacks on SRI and its members, both publicly on his websites and Facebook pages.  He has also continued to post threatening messages under false e-mail accounts on the SRI Guestbook page, as well as sending threatening e-mails to SRI Director Irene Block. Twice in the past few months Irene had reached out via telephone to Mr. Strickler asking for him to stop the attacks and for our two organizations to co-exist in peace.  During the first conversation Mr. Strickler agreed to the truce, yet soon afterward the attacks continued. When Irene contacted him a second time, Mr. Strickler was openly defiant and belligerent, and his behavior was witnessed by others present during the call.  Since that time the attacks have not only continued but have escalated.

This post is not intended to agitate Mr. Strickler to further attacks or to fuel a so-called “feud” between organizations. It is simply to present the truth to the public since Mr. Strickler’s false accusations have dominated the Internet for the past several months.

From this point forward SRI will no longer respond or react to further taunts and accusations from Mr. Strickler or his followers.  Any further attacks or false accusations from Mr. Strickler or his followers will be met with silence. Any transgressions from Mr. Strickler or his followers that break the law or are libelous/defamatory will be handled through the courts.  The decision to end this matter rests solely with Mr. Strickler and we hope that he would make the correct decision.
 

If anyone has any questions we ask that you contact SRI Directors Irene Allen or Mark Johnson directly via e-mail at mail@spiritrescueinternational.com.

Thank you and God bless.