The following letter is being vigorously disseminated using several mail and news resources/servers on the world wide web. Please pass the word!

To: Shimadzu Corporation (and all corporate subsidiaries worldwide)
From: the folks at Shimadzu & Kratos Consumer Alerts
Subject: Shimadzu's online efforts to expunge the Alerts homepages (plural)

We have very good reason to conclude that Shimadzu Corporation and it's corporate affiliates/subsidiaries (eg. emphasis on Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Inc) around the world have made intentional, deliberate and willful efforts to advocate the removal of numerous URLs from internet databases which direct and point prospective online visitors to the ugly truth about the other side of Shimadzu. Shimadzu has been losing this online war since early 1997 with very few battle victories to show (yes, we have had our usenet posting privileges revoked but somehow the messages keep getting thru). Some diehard Shimadzu users have even claimed in error that corporate sales have increased in spite of our online pursuits but the Shimadzu Annual Reports don't bear this out. In fact, for the past 6 years, net sales (in US dollars) have never exceeded their reported 1992 highs. What does that tell you? This company is bleeding profusely!

We have documented numerous examples of Shimadzu's outrageous efforts to censure the information appearing on our homepage at http://www.bigfoot.com/~shimadzu-sux. Shimadzu is a company that likes to have it both ways. They like to brainwash their unsuspecting customers while flagrantly violating the rights and freedoms of others. If you choose to due business with this outfit, then this is truly your business but don't say you haven't been warned about these corporate lowlifes. This is a company that lies, denies and cover-ups! Remember, the Japanese perfected these skills in the months leading up to the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. And we know for a fact that company lowlifes working for Shimadzu Scientific (Columbia, MD, USA) still use these same dirty tricks to this very day. The more things change, the more they stay the same! Incredibly, some Shimadzu suckers are under the mistaken guise that Shimadzu has been repeatedly slandered. Then why haven't they sued (they don't think twice about suing their own customers). The sad fact is that Shimadzu runs from the truth because they can't stop it's dissemination!

Recently, we reported a firsthand account of a Shimadzu GC which exploded at a customer site during a training session. You can probably imagine the embarrassment running wild in the Shimadzu organization if word of this disaster leaked out.... well it did! We felt that current users of this Shimadzu technology should know about a potential time-bomb that might be sitting in their labs. As usual, Shimadzu attempted to highlight the whistle-blower in an effort to draw fire from their own incendiary devices. Shimadzu has convinced themselves that this messenger (ie. disgruntled employee) is more important to expose than the message of defective Shimadzu GCs which are prone to blow-up under certain circumstances. Were/are they interested in your personal safety or they more interested in protecting their bottom line? To counter damning reports like this, Shimadzu employs a Corporate Communications Coordinator whose primary job is to twist-n-spin any damaging/embarrassing reports. Prior to our report, Shimadzu never acknowledged this explosive GC problem publicly and we are unaware of any official recalls/warnings advising customers of this disconcerting design flaw. We believe strongly that current/future GC users would want to know of this Shimadzu debacle since these lowlifes cannot be relied upon to deliver the unadulterated truth!

With all of that said, we will remind those American counterparts working/conducting business on behalf of Shimadzu in the United States that Article 1 of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution decrees that: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." The following definition was provided for the benefit of Shimadzu management and their retained legal counsel since they have been violating our US Civil/Constitutional Rights. Someone please tell these corporate trolls that we have an absolute and undeniable right to free speech/press. If Shimadzu et. al. don't like it, then they shouldn't pass GO and they shouldn't collect $200.00 either! Why would you do business with a company that tries to squelch our rights to voice opinions even if they find those viewpoints truthful but unsettling? Put the shoe on the other foot ladies and gentlemen!

Readers perusing this communication should know that no Shimadzu management type has ever challenged the veracity or the truthfulness of the numerous facts promulgated on the Shimadzu Alerts homepage. Since January of 1999, we have even offered to give away up to 10,000 Japanese yen to the first person (including any Shimadzu employees worldwide) whom provides credible and incontrovertible evidence which definitively proves that we have concocted/published any untruths or falsehoods whatsoever about this deceitful organization. Guess what.... we have had NO takers! The truth is very powerful stuff and those Shimadzu managerial figureheads can't stand the heat; hence their behind the scenes efforts to scour/expunge our homepages (plural) from several online databases/forums. Anyone should wonder about a company that engages in this kind of conduct. What are they trying to hide? Since Shimadzu has done it before, they will do it again (they have more than a 50 year history of concealing troubling truths!).

By way of this communication, Shimadzu managerial figureheads/employees worldwide (emphasis on the malcontents in the United States) are hereby ordered to cease and desist in any/all actions intended (directly or indirectly) to censure our ubiquitous online presence on the world wide web. Shimadzu Corporation and it's worldwide affiliates/subsidiaries are to refrain from any further conduct, behavior or actions intended to prevent the free dissemination and undistubed tabulation of our numerous homepages/URLs. If we are forced to take legal action to defend/restore our unabridged rights, Shimadzu should understand that we will petition the courts for all legal costs including actual damages (eg. time and trouble to upload/re-catalog our homepages/URLs) plus attorney fees in addition to punitive and treble damages. It is unfortunate that there is a bellicose outfit like Shimadzu doing business in this world while employing numerous corporate bullies but this is the kind of world we live in. The consuming public is being advised to take your valuable business elsewhere before Shimadzu undertakes an effort to infringe on your rights, privileges and freedoms!

n.b. If you listen to the drivel flowing from Shimadzu, employees openly dismiss any perceived effect of the Shimadzu Alerts homepage on their business activities. Privately though, Shimadzu has been trying to minimize this enduring threat which has had a measurable impact on their bottom line. Otherwise, why do their domestic and foreign corporate IP addresses keep showing up in our server logs and why do they persist with their online efforts to blot our numerous homepages/URLs?

n.b. Shimadzu has been caught once again with their greedy little hands in the cookie jar.... this is a company that specializes in lies, denials and cover-ups worldwide. What a shady way to do business! That's all you need to know!