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By Daffodil J. Altan, Monday, Mar. 2 2009 @ 8:00AM
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A supporter or two of Brian West--the plastic surgeon whose ups and (mostly) downs, involving his drinking problem and former patients, I've covered in these pages--has now taken to trying to sully mine and Sacramento CBS television reporter Kurtis Ming's names with a comical new blog experiment. Ming has covered the story involving West since it began to unfold in Sacramento several years ago, and before West moved down south and began practicing in Long Beach, Huntington Beach and LA.

The new blog has a "mediaconspiracy.wordpress" URL and is pleasantly and concisely called: "Daffodil J. Altan of OC Weekly And Kurtis Ming's Malicious And Relentless Campaign Of Libel Against A GOOD DOCTOR!"

Someone now has the burdensome task of clicking and clicking again (and again) on the blog's home page so that the site can rise to the top of the Google search machine popularity contest--and presumably ruin our credibility as reporters forever.

The mystery bloggers have done their best to find whatever internet "dirt" they can on me and Kurtis. They've had to work even harder with what little they've found to create the kinds of sensational headlines that would make someone cringe if they weren't so funny. So far they've been able to pull out a grand total of three sordid, dark-secret posts to rival the reported stories Kurtis and I have done about West--and the failed internal workings of the California Medical Board--in the past.

Following my blog post a week ago about the ruling of the state attorney general's case against West involving four former patients (he was found guilty of two charges, not guilty of two others), the mystery bloggers really dug deep. It seems they found their smoking gun and enough incriminating evidence against me for this juicy headline: "Daffodil Altan Arrested -- Alcohol Related Offence!!!" (exclamation points and British spelling theirs).


The post--pulled from my college newspaper's electronic archives (and now a cached page) --tells the riveting, police-blotter details of my former life of crime: As a freshman in college, I got caught by a police officer at a party holding a can of beer and was given a Minor In Possession ticket.
 
Additional headlines on the blog, all breathlessly related to this one incident (and linking back to the same disabled cached page), include: "Daffodil Altan's history with ALCOHOL and BREAKING THE LAW" (caps theirs--what, no exclamation points?); and "The State of Arizona vs. Daffodil Altan."

Even better, and to give things the kind of immediacy that, say, a breaking news item might carry, our blogger friends conveniently left out the date and only told of these events as having unfolded on a cryptic "Saturday" sometime in (recent?) history. The date was January 1996. It's been 13 years. My past has finally caught up with me. I feel a little relieved. Nice work mystery bloggers. thanks to you, I no longer have to hide my dark secret.
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Gabriel San Roman says:

Damn Daffodil - THUG LIFE!

Posted On: Monday, Mar. 2 2009 @ 10:32AM
How annoying says:

ahh you forgot this is the OC it is exciting!

if you were rich or had some kind of importance at the time that ticket could have turned into millions of dollars of rip off but that’s a little exaggerated.
I hear the participating agencies are trying to get better about it, but they are overloaded with work and have carreer metrics to think about. A more common sense approach would offer fewer arrests and convictions, However, I have been told that we have a reputation for aggressive law enforcement, and prosecution. Things like below can turn into having your life ruined.
Open container, near beer, under the influence,
others include:
Possession of a controlled substance, prescription outside of the offical container like a loose pill at the bottom of your purse.
Getting mad at someone and yelling at them on the phone "Terrorist Threats" Sarcasinm taken out of context
Restraining order violations.
Making out in the back seat of your car and getting caught, sun bathing topless or skinny dipping, (that is why some people take european vacations).

You can eventually have those kinds of things removed from your record, but they will always be there to be found. In messy conflicts people use whatever they can and it does unfortunately harm people.

In my personal experience most of the people I've talked to are pretty professional and hopefully can show some discretion. It is always the horror stories we always hear about. And real crime is scary.

People usually don't talk about "advisement" from law enforcement or admitting that they made mistakes, cops, district attornies or accused party of a conflict or later acceptance from employer etc.

Posted On: Monday, Mar. 2 2009 @ 11:37AM
Ryan Cox says:

That's some dirty dirt. How did you pass the background check for OCW???

Posted On: Monday, Mar. 2 2009 @ 7:44PM
Annoying says:

That dirty dirt can be used to

Seize assets
make false arrests
undermine protected and unprotected parties in restraining order cases. Normal process.
Turn a competent individual into an incompetent one
provoke homelessness and illness
commit violent acts against the supposed perpetrators and instigator
Add discriminatory acts of harm against people with disabilities delays in benefits or no benefits.
And pre-mature death in rare cases?
or as a rule?
the data is hard to link because multiple parties are involved and as time goes by the real dirty deeds add up. Take a simple example.
A homeless person is living in a car, ("He" = HE/ She or Other or multiple parties) gets busted for sleeping in the car, has an empty beer can, and prescription medication and acts "suspicious" when arrested. So they 5150 and then press charges he gets charged with multiple misdemeanor violations and has the car impounded and can't afford an attorney or can afford an attorney doesn’t really matter.
The person looses their car and personal property which gets confiscated. The personal property and car get auctioned off and homeless person gets released eventually to the street with nothing, the bum eventually.
If the family won't help or had the intention to steal the personal property and the preson can’t get outside intervention and support. He’ll get re-arrested again and again until major illness and death occurs- worst case.
Hate crime cases?
No one intended to harm the person (as they say, he is just a victim of his own circumstances) People who blame victims or bully usually have the motto” It was the unintended consequences of his actions that brought harm” it was his fault finger pointing. Mouse traps and blame games.
If the "victim" starts acting weird or politically incorrect, you can give them a label and call it an illness.

In World War II they called that mayhem and larceny, now they can call it asset abandonment and tax evasion. just turn it around.

A wealthy person can end up broke and homeless in a relatively short period of time without any protection from abuse.

Also all the robbing parties can deny that intention because the thief is distributed among many parties..

Thats called Authority without accountability.

Of course this kind of stuff never happens...

Posted On: Monday, Mar. 2 2009 @ 9:21PM
Of Age MV says:

Uh, hey, Lois Lane-- can I buy you a drink?

Posted On: Monday, Mar. 2 2009 @ 10:51PM
jim says:

Dear D-
Aren't those blogs just awful? They actually provide the other, truthful side of the story. If you consider yourself a journalist, rather than a recepticle at the end of the CPIL media sleaze tube, you would have studied the actual facts. I realize it takes effort and journalistic integrity, but you could try it once just to see what its like.
Dr.West doesn't employ a Media Lobbyist like CPIL, so the blogs are the only real equalizer

Posted On: Tuesday, Mar. 3 2009 @ 9:35AM

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