FILIPINOS ARE VICTIMS OF AN EMAIL HOAX --

WE NEED YOUR HELP TO STOP IT

Over the last three years someone has been posting a 
malicious letter about Filipino's with the subject: 
"Filipinos Make Me Puke". In an attempt to smear 
Art Bell, someone took this Hate Message from a web 
site (now defunct),  anonymously posted it to the 
Internet and signed Art Bell's name and address 
to it. Every few months it gets posted again and again 
on newsgroups and e-mail lists, with additional
hateful language to incite Filipino Internet users to 
respond to Art Bell.

ART BELL DID NOT WRITE THIS EMAIL

Art Bell is as much a victim of this hoax as you are. 
In fact, he is married to a Filipina and has the highest 
regard for the Philippine people. He is as offended by 
the contents of this email as you are. He has posted
these facts on his website and has responded to every 
single email from any of you with the truth and the 
facts. Still, the vicious anti-Filipino email keeps 
circulating and angry Filipinos keep emailing Art!

ART BELL DID NOT WRITE THE HATEFUL 
ANTI-FILIPINO EMAIL

Most recently, on July 1, 2001 the email attributed to 
Art Bell surfaced in a show business column in the 
Philippine Daily Inquirer, without the writer
bothering to check the validity of the story. Two days 
later, July 3, the same column was taken up by a 
retraction and an apology, which the paper will run 
every day of the week, through July 8th. Please go to 
http://www.artbell.com/filipino.html to see this 
retraction, as well as the statement from Premiere 
Radio Networks, the company that syndicates Art 
Bell's radio program, Coast to Coast, and Art's statement 
about the most recent developments in this 
outrageous fraud.

The Philippine Daily Inquirer has now become a 
victim of this same hoax. They are doing the right 
thing by printing a retraction. Now, we need you 
to do the RIGHT THING.

Set the record straight. PLEASE FORWARD THIS 
MESSAGE to all your friends.

Post this far and wide in your Filipino communities. 
Stop spreading Filipino hate. The bogus email is like 
a virus, causing mayhem and havoc in your community 
and in the life of ART BELL, WHO IS INNOCENT. We need 
your help to fight the spread of this HOAX. Please spread 
this warning wherever you see any version of the hate 
letter about Filipinos with Art Bell's name attached.

Delete the hateful email and FORWARD THIS EMAIL 
AS YOUR RESPONSE. Direct your friends to 
http://www.artbell.com/filipino.html for the facts.

You are doing your fellow Filipinos a disservice  by not 
warning them; by allowing them to be DUPPED and 
ABUSED by the hateful language and the fraud that is 
being perpetrated on Art Bell.

THANK YOU FOR DOING THE RIGHT THING.