Our Way or Highway

... the Black Raven Coven founder and administrator:

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Chops might point out that the real issues lie completely with Rochelle Moore/Raven Avalon, and they should be the ones addressing the posts in this blog. Everyone else is incidental, and Chops wonders why they are pressuring others to answer for them. .

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Edit Update 12 Aug 2011:

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Chops is going to take this opportunity to directly address Raven Avalon/Rochelle or whomever she is, since she is quite focused on Chops this week. :)
Raven's quotes are in grey, italics:

A. “Some of you are aware of the current witch wars going on which have been started by a supposed pagan named bustin' chops (enough said)..”

1.There is no 'witch war.' People's choice of spirituality has nothing to do with the issues at hand, which are you, a few of your admins/members and the Goblin Hunter behaviors/Hate List.

2. Bustin' Chops is the name of a blog, not a person. However, to belittle the Chop's author/s assumed spirituality because you do not like what they have to say does not increase your credibility.

3. Chops did not 'start' anything, Chops merely reported the events, and actually quite a bit after they were in full swing.

B. “..which has led to the opening of a group against bullying on Facebook run by jacqueline.”

1. Jacqueline Bowser did not suddenly & altruistically start a group against 'general bullying.' She was an active participant with you & certain of your admins/members and the Goblin Hunter's Hate List and groups. She created the current page after all the other groups & Goblin Hunter profiles were removed by FB for hate content. Shortly after creating it, someone apparently realized the damage the Hate List had done to its promoters, realized they weren't looking reputable, and decided to change their tune; especially after some members questioned why a supposed anti-bullying group was itself targeting and bullying people.

2. This change of tactics was discussed in your group and her group; even to include the idea of accusing Hate List victims of being the Goblin. Chops has the screen shots of these statements should you desire them posted here.

3. To state that Jacqueline is “the true pagan here” is an implied insult to all other pagans; especially given her behavior and promotion of the Goblin Hunter and the Hate List against so many pagans, many of them leaders in the community. Chops wonders if what you really meant by that was to encourage her (and others) to continue to fight & obfuscate your battle for you.

Positing false 'spiritual litmus tests' of others based on whether you approve of their opinions or not is a classic manipulation technique.We see this in the post above this one, also.

C. “ Paganism for those who believe is to harm none and be balanced not to finger point and say I am a bigger pagan than you.”

1. There is no 'harm none' rule in Paganism. That's an incomplete, and therefore misleading, quoted portion of the Wiccan Rede. One would expect a 'Third-degree Gardnerian Wiccan,' as you claim to be, to know this.

2. 'Harm none' – even for a Wiccan, does not mean allowing or ignoring bad behavior. Your frequent invocation of 'Harm None' appears to be a subtle demand for others to ignore your behavior, and is demeaning to all sincere Wiccans.

3. The only person who ever mentioned anything about being big or high was Rochelle Moore, who had an alt 'reveal her to be' the secret “High Witch of Ireland” - several years ago.

D. “I am disgusted by at the behavior of so-called UK pagans or those worldwide who act in such a manner.”

1. You were called out on copyright theft, you followed it with lies and attacks, and it continues. No one likes being caught.

2. You are using the term 'pagans' to falsely portray this as a religious/spiritual issue. That is the pagan version of someone telling a Christian shoplifter that they are a thief, and the Christian yelling 'I'm being persecuted because I'm Christian.' Your behavior has nothing to do with paganism itself, except wherein it impacts the pagan community either financially or through negativity.

E. “So you have written a blog, so you have written an odd article, or perhaps say I represent the midlands area.....truth is you are nothing more than the rioters in London.”

"not your false world.."

This is directed at Daniel Griffith, better known as Chattering Magpie of the East Midlands Pagan Federation; and the Pagan Federation Regional Officer for Derbyshire. (The above comment from Raven Avalon towards him is the apparent result of his private conversations with Jacqueline Bowser over the last few days on Facebook - which apparently were shared by Bowser with Raven Avalon.)

Comparing real-world pagan UK leaders to the “rioters in London” simply because they do not agree with you is beneath warranting a response.

Chops will also point out that Mr.Griffith/Chattering Magpie stands with his real name and location, open about himself, his credentials and background, and his roles, past and present, in the pagan community. Raven, on the other hand, uses a false name, and apparently only exists online.

" (enough said)"

Enough said, indeed.

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Obfuscation FTW

When caught publishing hate lists and persecution of people in the pagan community, what to do, what to do when you realize you've trashed your credibility and reputations and gone too far?

Blame the victims:

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It's a bit odd that these alts have begun accusing the Bunnies that pointed out their bad behavior ...of attempting to to drive up book sales - when this is Rochelle/Ravens entire raison d'etre. While there is a Bunny or two that's published, none of the discussions involving these issues have ever mentioned Bunnies or their books, nor has Chops ever promoted any Bunny publishing. Curious.

Chops does recall, however, a random and slightly incoherent comment from a Black Raven Coven member a month or so ago, that out of the blue, suddenly began asking the Bunnies which of them were published authors, and demanding their 'author credentials.' It was pure Rochelle Moore style from 2010, angry and completely out of context. The discussion at the time was over Ravon Avalon's theft of copyrightd images, and claiming they were pictures of her taken by a friend - as covered in a previous post.

Chops, with a long *sigh*, gives you, Dear Reader, a recap and summary of this entire blog:

App. 2005-6: Siobhan Moore Whelan appears on the internet, writing Xtian and Wiccan & miscellaneous content for the free Associated Content and poetry sites online. She also uses the name Rochelle Moore and Rochelle Whelan Moore on MySpace, Gather, and several free writing and social networking sites. All the writings contain cut & pasted info from other online sites. Also writing as Free Whelan, she publishes a giddy retrospective of drugs, dealing with Dublin drug police, and concert-going in the 70's.

In the next couple of years, she self-publishes a couple of small books. Bad reviews on Amazon are removed by her, and she leaves herself glowing reviews with alts all over the internet. Sales are apparently poor, and most she does not pay to republish.

2008/2010: By 2008, she uses only the name Rochelle Moore and promotes herself as a published author and winner of international awards, with interviews all over the world. All false. Two internet 'interviews' by phone and chosen as a winner (allegedly, cannot be located) on a free poetry forum, Voices.net.

She discovers Facebook, abandons her MySpace page and makes numerous Facebook pages, groups and profiles. In March of 2009, she runs afoul of a UK group by stealing and posting a rather serious ritual from their copyrighted website. She attacks in return, but eventually removes the material.

In May, Facebook removes her (and the posts involved, on what is now the Black Raven Coven group page, formerly her Witches and Wiccans of Facebook - hosted by 'renouned' author Rochelle Moore) for running a poetry contest to generate money; ostensibly for an unnamed charity.

She later claims that she runs an animal sanctuary and solicits donations; however, calls to the sanctuary she mentions are met with denials of ever having heard of her. (Chops was told that she made a subsequent donation to the shelter when that info was made public, but cannot verify that claim.)

In between, she writes articles for Associated Content. The 'information' articles for Associated Content contain/ed some wrong -and sometimes dangerous information- particularly in matters of medicine or herbal use. All the writings contain much cut & pasted info from other online sites; sometimes hilariously disjointed or even double-pasted.

She has also changed her persona by this time period to be a non-Wiccan witch of ancient lineage, descended from the Druids and practicing thousands of years-old witchcraft, with a "renouned famous-all-over-Ireland Grandmother witch who handed down the family BOS from generations back. She is secretly the 'high witch of Ireland.' She refers often to her spells, etc, being thousands of years old.

At this time, her and her son are also running online 'tourist' trips in Dublin from Facebook Irish tourism pages/groups, asking for non-refundable deposits to their untraceable PayPal accounts, & giving false contact addresses and phone numbers. Following a particularly notable Midsummer scam fiasco and reports to the Irish Tourism Department, their 'company' and Paypal accounts vanish.

Later in 2010, Rochelle Moore's book, Beyond the Third Eye, is dropped from publication by the Yarborough family publishing company. A few members of the Fluffy Bunny group had brought the (2/3rds of the book) plagiarism to light. (It has since come to light that Rochelle deceived the publishing company at the time the book contract was signed, illegally using a false name and lying about the content being her original material.)

Rochelle goes on the attack for months , claiming persecution, witch hunting, publishes lists of people & groups she wants Reported and banned from Facebook. (Somehow overlooking that her book wouldn't have been dropped if more than half wasn't plagiarized material.) She uses her group members and many alts (Poppy Wild, Frederick Dealimao, Trevor Houdek, Elder Moon, Mark Harrington, Germaine Aston, Silvermist, Irish Pagans, etc) to try to generate false outrage, pretend to be lawyers and new publishers, threaten everyone; posts work and personal information about people on her hit list, and then suffers 'sudden illnesses' which generate group sympathy. Less than a month after the book was pulled from the market, her second -and last- internet radio interviewer discovered she had plagiarized a Pravda article of his, in her book, shortly after presenting her on his internet psychic show; mere weeks before the book was pulled. At first a staunch defender of her amidst the cries of plagiarism, he soon threatened a lawsuit after his discovery, and Rochelle suddenly moved to France and largely disappeared from Facebook.

Late 2010: Zara Alcott, a previous alt of Rochelles on Facebook, pays Lulu.com to self-republish the plagiarized book under a different name. The two books are identical. Lulu removes the book from their  online catalogue when they discover it is the plagiarized & repackaged Beyond The Third Eye.

Early 2011: (Isabelle) Raven Avalon, Bram Darkraven, Freya LaVey, Isis Waterwytch & Zoe Oakmoon all appear on the internet & Facebook simultaneously, promoting their small self-published 'Black Raven Coven' book everywhere; in all the exact same social networking sites that Rochelle did. They originally had links to Rochelle Moore's books when they first created their Twitter & Gather accounts - those have since been removed. Isobelle Raven Avalon claims to be a third-degree Gardnerian witch who has been teaching and running seminars for decades. (Just as with Rochelle, no one in the claimed Wiltshire area (or anywhere else) has ever heard of her, her coven or anyone -or anywhere- else they claim to be. She will not provide anything to back up her teaching 'credentials', and anyone who questions is attacked and banned. She refuses to respond to offers to meet publicly with well-known pagan area representatives to clear her suspicion of being Rochelle Moore.)

She creates several groups and pages on FB, changes her old Rochelle Moore group to the new Black Raven Coven group to sell her book, using Moore's 'When the Levee Breaks' book cover as the coven logo. The former publishers of Beyond The Third Eye also confirmed that Rochelle had originally submitted this art as the first proposed cover for Beyond The Third Eye. She also uses Rochelles  purple pentagram book cover and alters it to be a Black Rock Coven/Raven Avalon logo. The graphic artist is notified, contacts Raven Avalon, and is told "Rochelle let them use it." Rochelle did not own the rights to it, the artist did. "Raven" settles for paying a fee for the use of the art. (This occurred even before Raven Avalon and her coven were claiming not to know Rochelle Moore.) Recently, coven alt Silvermist, when this fact was brought up, stated that the credit card Raven paid for the artwork with was later "fraudulently used to start three internet businesses in Australia, where the artist is from." The implication teeters on actionable criminal slander. The artist resides in the UK.

The Coven was charging the Facebook group members via PayPal in their 'teaching coven' "if you hadn't bought their book" but wanted to participate in the secret group. They deny this, but the pages are still viewable, as is the post in their group Discussions. The main 'Coven' page is Rochelle Moore's former 'Witches and Wiccans of Facebook, hosted by renouned author Rochelle Moore page; she changed the name, but the url cannot be changed. If you continue to scroll far back through the coven pages, you will find all the old Rochelle convos with her alts, book spam and even the early plagiarism conflicts and the poetry money-raising scam.

People on Facebook (some of them Bunnies) catch on to all of the above, start talking about it, catch her out stealing copyrighted pictures and claiming they are of herself - and the same attack cycle begins. Rochelle/Raven Avalon and alts go on the attack, claiming persecution, witch hunting, publishes (as the Goblin Hunter) a hate list of people & groups she wants Reported and banned from Facebook. She uses her groups and many alts again to try to generate false outrage, pretend to be victims, and they create several anti-cyberbullying groups to try to gain supporters of some kind.

In a (forgive Chops, but it must be said) black-humor-what-an-idiot sort of way, the Goblin Hunter & Raven Avalon targets the people from 2010 that Rochelle had listed back then. Many of these people were no longer active and had never mentioned Raven or her 'coven' -in 2011. Oops. Many more of the 130+ pagans named on the list were blindly copied from friend lists and groups of people they disliked, which inadvertantly led to them targeting notables such as Sorita D'Estes, Raymond Buckland, Green Egg, etc.  The current public names running this iterations attack campaign are the Black Raven/Goblin Hunter crew; Joanne Nelson, Jacqueline Morrow Bowser, Freya LaVey, Emily Dicksen, and a few others.

Also noteworthy is that Freya Lavey and Bram Darkraven, admins of Black Raven Coven began posting screenshots from the old Rochelle Moore scandal of a year ago for the Goblin Hunter hate campaign.

More recently, Raven and Bram Darkraven have pressured their group members, implying that they are not "true pagans" if they do not agree with this campaign. A few members have questioned these tactics.

That's it in a nutshell, and in conclusion, this person, whomever she really is, is apparently a determined online scammer who seems set on profiting from the pagan community. Proof of all the above statements are contained in this blog; should anyone really want the entire sordid story, start at the New Here? link on the left upper menu on any page.

The pagan community will blow the whistle on scammers, and will continue to do so whenever possible. In the interim, Chops dearly hopes these people will take a long, very long vacation.
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As a final word, especially given the apparent 'plan' these folks have to try to turn the hate campaign back on the victims, Chops leaves you with the following image, and it should settle forever any potential doubts as to who was behind, and with, the Goblin Hunter and the pagan 'hit list' they put out to harrass many FB pagans.

Note: bolded names are intended to show the commonalities between Rochelle Moore's/her alts and all the other groups, as well as the commonalities between the Raven Avalon and Goblin hunter groups - and especially given the current denials amongst the key players. Actual screenshots are available of the collated information.

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EDIT Update 10 August 2011: 

Chops has received notice of this post on Facebook:

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While Chops doesn't truly see the need to respond to blatant revisionism, and especially long-distance and second-hand requests - for the sake of our Dear Readers we will engage in a moment of redundancy:

Mz. Bowser was in every single group with the Goblin Hunter, and usually an admin. Screenshots can be found in all previous Chops posts on this matter.

Bowser was also on all the Goblin Hunters personal friend lists, even after the Goblin Hunters profiles were removed by FaceBook for Hate Speech content, several times. Bowser was an admin in the very first Goblin Hunter page, on the very first day, which posted the pagan Hate List for the very first time and demanded that everyone on the list be Reported and banned from Facebook. Bowser approved of all this in her comments, contributed to every Goblin hate group, and when Facebook removed the Goblin Hunter & the previous iterations of the Cyberbully groups they kept creating, she converted her former Connecticut Bosses page to the current Cyberbully one.

Should anyone care to provide proof that Chops is in error, Chops will happily review any information provided here in our comments sections.

Edit Update:

Jacqueline Morrow Bowser has responded in the comments section.



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Minor update to the Rochelle Moore/Raven Avalon/Goblin Hunter/Joanne Nelson/Jaqueline Morrow Bowser/et al Facebook mini series:

Rochelle has suddenly made a reappearance (along with old alts Poppy Wild, Frederick Dealimao, etc) after disappearing last year when her book, Beyond The Third Eye was dropped by its publisher for massive plagiarism. She has changed her page title, edited her info, and added a free AOL.fr address to support her claim last year of having "moved to France" when the hammer descended and lawsuits were threatened by authors she had plagiarized.

As a reminder, here is an example from last year of Moore/Avalons hilarious fabrications with her alt, Poppy Wild: click here.

This reappearance coincides with 'Isabelle' Raven Avalon being 'gone' for a week to tend an ill daughter (sound familiar?), and the apparent removal *or admin disabling) from Facebook of Raven/Rochelles Black Raven Covens private 'teaching' group.

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Chops might point out to one of the posters in the above screenshot that a Closed group can't be cyberbullied, nor reported by anyone but admins or members, and no one can join unless an Admin approves. If the group is gone, then Rochelle/Raven either deleted it or temporarily withdrew it from access. Chops also notes that Kiah Webster is an old familiar name from the Rochelle Moore days of yore. Also friends with some of the Moore/Raven/Goblin Hunter crowd. ;)

Continuing onward, Moore/Avalons alts are friended with, and appearing in the 'anti-cyberbullying' groups being run by the cyberbully Goblin Hunter hate-list people:

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Perhaps Bowser would care to respond to the many screenshots on Chops previous posts, showing her as an active and aggressive member/admin in the Hate-list cyberbullying campaign against so many Facebook pagans.

Stay aware, lovely people. The only possible purpose for the hate-list people to continue to seek membership for their groups is to have a pool of innocent people to use when they want to call on group members to Report someone en masse, to attempt to get someone banned from Facebook.



...and the beat goes on.

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