Dymphna (Gates of Vienna)
Dymphna is the pseudonym of a counterjihad blogger who founded the Gates of Vienna blog along with her husband and co-author, Ned May (writing under the pseudonym Baron Bodissey).[1]
Identity
May uses unspiek@chromatism.net as the email address on his Gates of Vienna blog[2]. This domain was purchased by Edward S. May from a local Internet provider in Virginia, US, in 2001[3].
May is a member of the Episcopalian Diocese of Southern Virginia, and helped to develop its website, according to a diocesan periodical which stated:
- . Ned and his wife Ceara live near the very small town of Howardsville, in the far northwest corner of this diocese.[4]
An October 2000 version of May's website would appear to indicate he married Ceara Sullivan in 1980.[5]
According to Gates of Vienna, Dymphna is the cousin of the Irish blogger Mark Humphrys.[6]
Dymphna describes Humphrys as "a cousin I met because I found my grandmother’s wedding picture on his site. He lives in Dublin and teaches IT. An Irishman who’s a libertarian. A fierce libertarian…are there any other kinds?"[7]
EDL links
Dymphna claims to have provided support to the founder of the English Defence League in the United States:
- Back before the EDL, when he hid out here in the US (a few years back), the Baron and I supported him financially (we wuz "rich" then --i.e., full-time work). In addition, a fellow blogger gave him a condo to live in, rent free. On a golf course, no less!
- Eventually, though, he went back to England to be persecuted repeatedly by the police and QC. His answer was to form the EDL. Genius move.
- I wish he could've sustained it, but such an undertaking requires immense patience and an almost zen-like ability to suffer fools gladly and to bear intense official persecution. Few ppl have all those resources. I'm hoping & praying Tommy is able to hold onto his. i sure couldn't do what he's doing.[8]
Blogger 'Luther Blissetts' suggests this maybe a reference to Paul Ray.[9]
Notes
- ↑ Dymphna, The UK and Scandinavia Counterjihad Summit, Gates of Vienna, 14 April 2007.
- ↑ The "Fitna" Translations Gates of Vienna, 31 March 2008, accessed 2 August 2009
- ↑ Chromatism.net Whois Record DomainTools, accessed 25 August 2009
- ↑ FROM THE STANDING COMMITTEE, The Jamestown Cross, The Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia, Volume 70, No.3, May 2006, p.10.
- ↑ Who Were All Those Skinny People? - Wedding 1980, Ned May, Luna.moonstar.com, 27 August 1997, archived at the Internet Archive, 14 October 2000.
- ↑ Baron Bodissey, Comment 10 to Countries of Origin, Gates of Vienna, 25 March 2007.
- ↑ Dymphna, Living In a Neighborhood Where Chaos Mucks With My Schedules, The Neighborhood of God, 13 January 2006.
- ↑ Comment no. 34 by Dymphna in Baron Bodissey, An Open Letter to Pamela Geller (Updated #4), Gates of Vienna, 4 July 2011.
- ↑ Luther Blissetts, Dympna of Gates of Vienna on their work in 2006 with Paul Ray, EDL Founder, during his self-imposed 'exile' (on run from British Police)., easycaptures.com, 23 September 2011.
