This is an emergency open letter to the AALPI, and a posting to all Destiny Worldwide Net Newsgroups and blogs, the IRCCR yahoo group, and the AALPI. This Church and its related organization has come under attack by Satan, in a most vicious and hateful way. This is the FIRST such alert we have EVER published, and we ask for members and friends to pray earnestly in this matter, that God will stay the hand of Satan, and rebuke him, throwing him back into the pit where he belongs. We further appeal to members and friends, that they contact whatever legal help they can in their own community, and give a generous donation to keep this organization going in this time of distressing need. We will prevail. God is not mocked! We are sending this to ALL of our outlets, in case Satan temporarily succeeds in his vile campaign to silence our communications.
http://www.destiny-worldwide.net/rcg/

To Whom It May Concern:

I have been a church pastor for over 12 years now, and a man of God all my life. As you can understand, in my profession, I seek to help people, not to hurt them.
However, this organization has recently come under attack by a PI from the State of Arizona, a James B. Peck. We are appealing to your Association to intervene in this situation before it becomes a public embarrassment to the entire Private Investigations profession in the State of Arizona.
But, before we get into what he has done, and how he has attacked us, perhaps you would like to know about James B. Peck’s interesting activities in Costa Rica. I believe this will cast this matter into a light that Mr. Peck would rather not discuss. However, since he has attacked us, we have no choice but to set the record straight as to who is behind the vicious, untrue, and Satanic accusations he has made against us.
Here is some background you may not be aware of concerning this PI.
This information comes from published sources at http://www.amcostarica.com
Once there, you just need to enter the name James Peck, and three results will pop up from your search. If you prefer not to do the search, or the articles have been taken down for some reason, we have archived them and can email them to you as file attachments should that be more convenient for you.
I think you will find these stories to be of interest:
1. Some time ago, James Peck worked for a company in Costa Rica called The Vault. He was a salesman for their high interest investment scheme, which later turned out to be a gigantic scam. Roy Taylor, the owner of the Vault, shot himself rather than face the police when they raided his office. One of our members was told a few years back by his attorney that Roy Taylor had “mafia connections,” and warned him to stay away from him or his business. So, the question is, what was a licensed PI doing working for an alleged gangster and / or con artist, earning money from selling the scams for a commission?
2. It is curious that the announcement of Peck’s Operation Recovery Task Force appears in the same issue of this online newspaper that covers the growing scandal at the Vault. Did he switch right from being a salesman for the Vault to his new venture “helping” Brothers Investors?
3. It is further stated in the press that Mr. Peck also had an investment with another high yield loan outfit called The Brothers. We wonder whether Mr. Peck has reported his earnings in either venture to the IRS? We are reporting this matter to the IRS’s office of criminal investigations, as well as the following piece of information:
4. Concerning the office Mr. Peck opened up in Costa Rica some time ago, to “help” investors recover their funds. The Sept. 11, 2003, edition of AMCOSTARICA.com, had this to say about it:
Others, number unknown, have contracted with Jim Peck, a former investigator from Arizona and commission salesman for The Vault. Peck, a Villalobos creditor himself, said June 12 that he had set up an "Operation Recovery Task Force" to find Luis Enrique Villalobos and force him to pay back money owed to those who join the task force. He predicted quick success, but nothing has been heard from him since and he has not responded to e-mail messages.

I find this very curious. What happened to the money he collected from those who signed up with his “Recovery Task Force?”
The June 13 AMCOSTARICA of the same year says that he was charging an up front fee of 5% of the face value of investor’s investments in The Brothers to help them “recover” their losses, but, by Sept. 11 of the same year, according to the account above, he had closed up shop and left Costa Rica. Did he pay these advance fees back? Can he prove it? Did he pay taxes on it if he didn’t give it back?
This is of interest, because the AVERAGE investment with The Brothers is reported to have been $100,000.00 – with some having invested SUBSTANTIALLY MORE! So there is simply no way to tell how many tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars Peck took in with this operation before he closed up shop and left town.
So, far from having the moral high ground here, James B. Peck, PI, has a lot of suspicious things in HIS background, and I am sure the IRS, the Arizona Department of Safety, and other agencies would be interested in hearing of Peck’s offshore adventures with alleged gangsters, etc.! I am sure your association would not want this mess to explode into the headlines of your local newspapers soon, but that is EXACTLY what will happen unless he immediately ceases from his persecution of this Church!
Dealing with issues involving carnal and unsightly behavior, gangsters, theft, revenge, back stabbing, slander, libel, witch hunts, etc., are not things that I care to deal with at any time. However, when I find my church and its work under attack, I have no choice but to speak out, especially when such attacks are mean spirited, malicious, slanderous, and libelous. The Bible teaches us that these are the works of Satan, not of God.
I founded the Restoration Church of God, and its outreach ministry, Destiny Worldwide Associates, back in 1992, to show a ray of light in an evil, Satanic, and hate filled world.
Jesus Christ taught us that we should live in peace with every man, holding malice towards none, and charity towards all. We are also instructed to turn the other cheek when attacked, but we believe that this does not mean we are to be a doormat for Satan to wipe his feet on our backs.
Therefore, it pained me very greatly to learn upon entering my office this morning that a vitriolic, mean spirited, Satan inspired attack had been unjustly launched against our organization and website by a man by the name of James B. Peck, who claims to be a licensed PI in your state of Arizona, giving his license number as “Licensed with Arizona Dept. of Public Safety, 00378135,” at the end of one of his viscous and spiteful hate emails. We have no way of knowing if this information is true or false, but we are requesting that you follow through on this matter, verify the license data, and see what you can do in this matter with the State of Arizona, as I am sure that your profession would rather clean its own house than have dirty laundry aired in public.
Just relating this matter brings me a great deal of pain and suffering, and has caused me immense emotional distress. I am very distraught that Satan has inspired this misguided man to launch such an attack upon our organization on the flimsiest of pretexts.
I have been praying for him on an hourly basis since learning of this fiasco, and had hoped that the Lord would lay it on his heart to cease and desist in his foaming rage and evil diatribes. But, sadly, this has been to no avail.
I do not wish to make this letter over long, as I am sure that you are quite busy and would quickly become bored with the horrid, lurid, twisted details, so I will summarize this for you briefly. If you have any further questions, or need further information from me in the investigation that I am sure you will wish to conduct, then I would be happy to answer whatever questions you might have pertaining to this matter at the email address this email is being sent from, which is our Church email address rather than one of the general office addresses.
After all, I know that most of the members of your organization are hard working, honest, professional men and women who would never dream of launching vicious and unfounded attacks on innocent Christian people, and I am sure that you would not want this matter to go into the news media or the general internet community, to tarnish the image of your hard working, decent, honest, members. I think that the fact that James Peck has chosen not to join your organization is a red flag already that something is not right with this man, and I ask that you do something about this matter immediately to stop this nonsense, or we will be forced to issue news releases, press kits, etc. to worldwide media which could do damage to the image of your entire profession.
We will, if necessary, insure that the public integrity and reputation of this organization is not tarnished by an individual seeking Satanic revenge for who knows what purpose. Please do not confuse our Christian character with being a doormat, nor allowing such outrages to continue.
This whole stupid thing started on a yahoo newsgroup, called IRCCR. It is my understanding that one of our email addresses is subscribed to this group, and since much of his character assassination and slander has taken place there, I have no choice but to CC that group.
Anyway, someone using that address at the time allegedly made a remark that James Peck was a “fraud and an arrogant SOB,” from what I have been able to gather. We still do not know, and may never know, if that post originated in our office or not, but, one of our volunteer staff on duty over the weekend, on God’s Sabbath, no less, encountered a sudden vitriolic attack from Mr. Peck against Destiny Worldwide, asking for “an immediate retraction of this slanderous, libelous spam.”
Apparently, this man has no respect for Jewish, Jewish Christian or regular Christian days of rest, as he continued his diatribes and threats all weekend. One wonders if he harbors anti Semitic or anti Christian views. It would not surprise me to learn that he does, but that is a matter between him and God.
To set the record straight, whether or not the statement in question was indeed slanderous or libelous would be for a court of law to decide, and, considering the sickening nature of this newsgroup, and the gratuitous insults found there, such a statement is indeed in character with the tone of that group.
I am shocked, therefore, to discover that one of our email accounts is even subscribed to a group so filled with hate, slander, and libel on a daily basis. And it most certainly was not spam, as Mr. Peck claims, because he subscribed to said group, and should have understood the low tone and nature of the posters there, and, if he did not accept that situation of opening himself up to public criticism, he should have unsubscribed himself from that group immediately, rather than continue to subject himself to unwanted criticism. So his ridiculous claim that he was “slandered by spam” reveals itself for what it is: totally false, misleading, malicious, and vituperative in the extreme.
You can be sure that as soon as this matter is resolved, I have given instructions to unsubscribe any and all of our organizational email addresses from this revolting group, but, unfortunately, we need to monitor and reply in this forum as needed.
It has been reported to me by the staff member on duty over the weekend that they issued statements in keeping with our general guidelines, and have disavowed all knowledge of said incident, and promised to get to the bottom of this. But this was not enough for Mr. Peck, who insisted that we admit that said email came from this organization, or someone within it, and that we admit that, and publicly apologize.
As you can well understand, this organization most certainly will not admit to having issued any posting unless we can prove that it did indeed originate in one of our offices, pending a complete investigation into the matter, starting today, Monday. Further, the staff member theorized that perhaps a hacker had hacked into the web based account in question, and posted this message to that group. This was simply a guess made by this staffer, and the matter remains under investigation here.
The staffer then issued a formal apology to Mr. Peck, but that was not good enough for him. Instead of waiting on the beginning of the work week for us to study this matter and get back to him as promised, he took it upon himself to start a vituperative war of aggression against us, sending hateful, slanderous accusations to Yahoo, our ISP, our administrative contact, and the entire world through this despicable IRCCR yahoo group.
The Bible teaches us that to rush to judgment is unwise, and a way of fools. It further states that “he who answers a matter before he hears the facts is a fool.” Unfortunately, we are dealing here with a rash, judgmental, angry, hate filled, and spiteful man who violates all of the principles of balance and prudence taught throughout the pages of the Bible.
Just to give you an understanding of the character of this individual, let me quote some brief excerpts from his recent emails, as well as some things published in the press about him. I am sure you will find this interesting.
> If I don't get an appology from you or whoever is
> responsible within 48 hours, I will be having your
> ISP investigate this matter and my legal team will
> be getting a court order to seize all your
> computers, examine your ISP's server and records,
> scan all hard
> drives, evaluate the evidence and take appropriate
> civil action,
> providing you have any assets. I will also
> seek Attorney fees.
>
To which our staffer answered with an apology and a promise to look into the matter further come Monday morning, when our offices opened.
He stated this to us:
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As you are aware, your ISP has a zero tolerance for
spam and would

Note, the issue of spam in this instance is debatable, to say the least, to any rational mind.

probably shut your website down with the
physical evidence that I will be providing.

You could also loose all Yahoo privilages.

If the evidence supports legal liability, I will
also log your name,

Corporations, email address/s and domain
address/s on a worldwide spam registry. Your organization will be linked
to spam and no ISP will touch you in the future.

So, our volunteer did issue the demanded apology, but the attacks continue unabated, not waiting for the results of our own investigation into this matter.
Instead, he has done us much further damage today.
Peck is not a patient man, but rather very imprudent and prone to rush to judgment, not to mention extremely arrogant, as he himself admits.

The person responsible for the spam message in> question has not> begun to see arrogance!>> Jim Peck, P.I.> James B. Peck & Associates> Scottsdale, AZ 85254> >

I am sure this is not the image of the professional PI that you would like to present to the world!
But today, not wishing to wait on my reply as promised, he got even more ridiculous and defamatory:

At this time, I wish to issue an ecommerce
warning with regard to the Destiny-Worldwide.net web site.
In my opinion they have violated numerous FTC laws and
I am currently checking Costa Rican laws.
Those are ridiculous fabrications, and the ecommerce warning is also ridiculous, as we offer almost nothing for sale at our site, although we do gratefully take donations and attempt to help people in their daily lives! I don’t have the faintest idea what “FTC LAWS AND REGULATIONS” could apply to a CHURCH anyway, as we are a religious organization, which Mr. Peck COULD have discovered upon a further examination of the Restoration Website, which takes up the majority of the disk space on the domain.
We are taking Mr. Peck’s “warning” very seriously, and the question to you is, do you REALLY want such a person of this caliber representing the PI’s of Arizona to the world? Well, he IS, sad to say, unless you can help rectify this situation even though he is not a member.
But his vicious attacks and spurious accusations didn’t stop there. Further down in his most recent email of today, he writes:

When I wrote to the registrant of the domain and
asked a few questions, he continued to send spam
messages
What a ridiculous and untrue statement, and he knows it! Our address is subscribed to the list in question and so is his. Therefore, he has GIVEN HIS PERMISSION TO RECEIVE ANY EMAIL SENT TO THIS GROUP, AND HE KNOWS IT! If he doesn’t like the messages he receives from the list, he can unsubscribe himself, as we plan to do the moment these attacks on us stop and he issues an apology to EVERYONE he has contacted in this matter.
Also, since when are our representative’s explanations spam? In what warped, perverted, sick, mind can they be construed so?
Only Satan can be responsible for such horrendous and downright evil behavior.
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in the forum. He never listed his name in the
message. This is very suspious to me.
Really, since when is not revealing one’s name and preserving one’s privacy “suspicious?” Especially when the “requests” are barked out as orders by some master to a slave. We will NOT tolerate your tone and attitude any further, Mr. Peck. How DARE you make such ridiculous and outrageous claims and insinuations? You should be glad that we have commissioned this matter to GOD, Mr. Peck, and are praying for your enlightenment, and that you will see the light of truth, love, joy, peace, and brotherhood, and will stop breathing forthe hate, envy, Satanic anger and spite!
OF COURSE the old lady who volunteered to answer our email over the weekend refused to give her name to a loud mouthed Satan inspired man breathing threats against her and her Church! As a pastor, I cannot call you what you should be called. All I can say is “Get thee behind me Satan!”
And I have given instructions to EVERYONE HERE not to give out their names to you, nor to anyone you are working with, as a precaution against who knows what further abuse you might subject them to personally!
HOW DARE YOU BE SO ARROGANT, RUDE AND PRESUMPTUOUS?


In view of the foregoing, I am focusing my
investigation toward the domain, the registrant and the ISP.

You are hereby demanded to cease all of your perverted postings, slander, and mud slinging immediately!
I am sorry, but I had to take a few moments to address myself to Mr. Peck, as he will be reading this message, in order to give him one last chance at repentance before we take this issue to its next level, which will be the worldwide media, the preparation of press kits, etc., etc..
As I said, this is weighing heavily upon my soul, and we need to have closure of this immediately, or we will next be contacting all media.
We appeal to you to mediate in this sordid affair, and to also report the suspicious activities and egregious behavior of James Peck to the appropriate regulatory authorities in your state, before reporters show up at both of your offices demanding answers in this matter.
We pray that God will give you enlightenment, grace, and wisdom in this serious matter that neither one of us enjoys.
As stated, it is our Church policy not to publicize names, so I simply sign this as:

Pastor General, Restoration Church of God

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