I once tangled with Rex Curry, an individual very keen on promoting his theories about the US pledge of allegiance all over the Internet without regard to whether or not it's the right place to do so. Inevitably, he was banned from Wikipedia towards the end of 2005, and he took this rather badly. Months later, angry posts berating myself and other admins still surface across the Web and Usenet [1]. Here are some excerpts... — Matt Crypto 19:21, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Rex's main page on me

Rex has a special page on his website devoted to me (fame, at last!). I can't link to it from here because his site is currently spam blacklisted from Wikipedia. Here's an excerpt:

"Matt Crypto is a freaky stalker weirdo who rants on Wikipedia and he is so bad that he helped to inspire the term “wikiling writers” as a reference to him and others of his ilk. He knowingly engages in personal attacks and deletions of and vandalism of any information (even links) that explain the connection between Francis Bellamy, Edward Bellamy and National Socialism. He spams screeds about his propaganda all over Wikipedia. Matt Crypto is the egregious in his disruptive rant-spamming, personal attacks and general kookiness. Matt was challenged to respond to the facts that he suppressed or to concede those fact, and the wikiling conceded that the facts that he suppresses are correct and that he deletes those facts because he does not want Wikipedia readers to know the truth. He constantly spams his own point of view in his diatribes, and his diatribes have the effect of covering up for Nazism. It is behavior that breaks Wikipedia's rules. What kind of people cover-up for Nazis and that horrid ideology? Crypto has conceded the three points below.

Dr. Rex Curry is the historian who made the following discoveries that are suppressed by neo-Nazis and others on Wikipedia:

1. Dr. Rex Curry showed that the USA's early Pledge of Allegiance (to the flag) used a straight-arm salute and it was the origin of the salute of the monstrous National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis). Dr. Curry helped to establish that it was not an ancient Roman salute, and that the "ancient Roman salute" is a myth. The myth is still repeated in modern efforts to cover-up Dr. Curry's discoveries about the Pledge's poisonous pedigree."...(etc etc)

Dear Matt Crypto, sorry for getting in touch with you this way, but I can't find a way to get any contact information for you. I checked your blog and your wiki page, but no email addresses. I'm a researcher for a company that produces content for History, Discovery, and similar networks. You have really great photos of Bletchely Park and the Lorenz Cipher machine and I would love to use them in a TV show we're working on. The images have clearly been put in the public domain, but my clearance supervisor says we need an email letter from you absolutely confirming this. We would also like to offer you some sort of compensation if they make it into the episode. Please contact me if we can work something out. Chris Morcom - chris.morcom@flight33.tv 818-905-3300 Ext.265

Rex's best insults

Collected from various net posts:

• "Cryptologist & Freaky Stalker Weirdo: Matt Crypto concedes his historical ignorance !!"
• "Matt Crypto thinks of himself as an amateur cryptographer (note his nerdy name) but he did not know that the swastika was used by the National Socialist German Workers' Party to represent meshed "S" letters for their "socialism." That is, He did not know until he learned of Dr. Curry's research."
• "Matt Crypto is British. Matt Crypto posted a photograph of himself on the web and it confirms that he is full of himself. Would you believe that Matt Crypto David is a computer geek?"
• "British Matt Crypto is from York in the United Kingdom. Would you believe that Matt Crypto is a loser computer geek? He describes himself as a student "probably permanently." By his own admission his voice is too naff. Matt Crypto posted a photograph of himself on the web and it confirms that he is a nerd who is full of himself." [2]
• "On his own page, Crypto concedes that he once doubted Dr. Curry's work, "but he sure put me in my place" Crypto says about the Doctor. Wikipedia has for a long time supported Dr. Curry's work and Matt Crypto also conceded that Crypto had been rebuked, and he confirmed Dr. Curry's work publicly on Wikipedia."
• "As part of his public apology, Crypto attempts levity by comparing himself to a cuckoo bird. His comparison is appropo. Here is information that Matt Crypto actually posted about himself on his own page: "Matt Crypto is a freaky stalker weirdo..."
• "Matt Crypto is just another nutbag trying to push something. British Matt Crypto is from York in the United Kingdom. Would you believe that Matt Crypto David is a computer geek? Matt Crypto posted a photograph of himself on the web and it confirms that he is a nerd who is full of himself. By his own admission his voice is too naff."
• "Matt Crypto is still a real nut case. Matt Crypto's vandalism of posts shows that he is a terrible Wikipedia addict and mental wikiling. How is his vandalism legitimate or worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia?"
• "Matt Crypto is an individual very keen on protecting Nazi propaganda on the Wikipedia bulletin board, and Crypto is very keen on promoting those theories that he protects by deleting truthful information that anyone else tries to add that doesn't fit Crypto's propaganda scheme. Crypto also tries to protect Nazi propaganda all over the Internet without regard to whether or not it's the right place to do so. Inevitably, Crypto was humiliated on Wikipedia and elsewhere for his misbehavior towards the end of last year, and Crypto took this rather badly...The only reason Crypto hasn't deleted the reference to Dr. Curry's work in the wikipedia above is because Crypto is not very bright." (November 2006)

Curry's self-description:

"RexCurry.net is the history-making, news-breaking website that archives the work of the lawyer, author, and instructor. A sixth-generation Floridian and a life-long resident, Rex has predecessors who helped settle and develop the Bahamas and Key West when government there was nearly non-existent...RexCurry.net is a familiar voice of freedom for millions. As a celebrity historian, international businessman, worldwide correspondent, journalist, distinguished lecturer, noted political and cultural commentator, political scientist, consultant, author, freedom phenom and activist, Professor Curry operates a think tank and pressure group to promote liberty."

"...The noted cryptographer and symbologist Dr. Rex Curry..."

Curry's santification:

I am sorry to interrupt your talking here ( unfortunately i am an anonymous user but later i ll show up ) I just want to say that I met Dr Curry discoveries in a disqus post and tried to argue with a probably Curry's incarnation of a Dr Curry's fan. He just used my words to perpetuate his own propaganda over and over, not listening, not caring, not accepting any answer to his argumentations, nor history nor wikipedia as any reliable source, despite his nonexistent "self-called discoveries claims ". I noticed he has a site and a serie of interviews in various blogs organized with the aim to catch any "Dr Rex" question in google searches. In this way, going on till the third page where I found this post, I think everybody will have the self promoted version of his story and his works as first google answers to any question about him. To try to stop this nonsense political war against wikipedia and free google searches ( war that he is by far winning with a zillion of fake interviews and a site full of references ) I suggest t open a real Dr Rex Curry page here... explaining everything... blocking it by the start to the assault of non real contributors ( included my temporary anonymity ). Have a nice work guys.... i did'n realized that someone could mix fascism-nazism-marxism in a single anti american party called socialism. I was shocked because with all the defects here socialists and even communist ( not ordinary communist I must say ) fought till death against fascism and nazism. Of course marxism was involved in deaths in asia and russia, but who knows if this blood stains goes directly to all the socialistic movement ( that had a total different set of ideas about how to interact with political life ). I think this implication would be a big offense, maybe useful now that communism and fascism are gone ( without sadness ) and the only right wing far enemy is social state incarnated by the old idea of socialism ( that is almost outdated, expired in every state, replaced by social democracy parties, maybe even too much conservative social democracy parties: but this is another mystification against with a total different work is needed)... but this simplification has a clear actual purpose and it is misleading regarding the past truth. And it is misleading also regarding 70 years of history in which socialistic parties evolved in europe till becoming liberal ones ( or the one that are called so in america ). Always caring for democracy (disregarding communistic asian and russian ones, that also called themselves socialist, without really adhering to the basics of the definition ). Therefore I think we should stop this mystification to happen in internet just because the eneterpreeur mr curry has bought many blogs and site ( i suspect half free ) to sell books and present himself as a political expert. let's stop disinformation. I know u can do it better than me ( of course this ws no question at all ) and I fear my ideas too got too much emotional and political involved and i guess this is not very good historical approach, but ,well my speaking is just a question not a statement and I will make no historical contribution whatsoever, I just want to underline a strange missing page on internet. Have a nice day again.