If you follow the liberal versus conservative politics of Facebook, you might have heard of the debacle that went on between Senior Airman Brian Kolfage and Janet Vrotsos. Its a very long and very complicated story, of which I found myself embedded in, that has been mentioned by several online media outlets, and started a whirlwind of Facebook battles that resulted in my being sued unsuccessfully.

Unfortunately, very few came to Jan’s defense, while the spin machine of the conservative right pummeled her name and reputation without a shred of ethics, fact checking or dignity. She had no connections to help clear her name, and the liberal left was too cowardly and afraid to stand up for her, due to the eagerness of the Teahaudists to target and dox those who tried. Brian himself ended up admitting that Jan had nothing to do with the incident, and instead blamed it all on ‘trolls’.



The conclusions I come to in this article are the result of being an almost lone soldier who was present from the beginning to the end, and are backed by screencaps and relationships with people connected to the event. I welcome any rebuttals or additions from any and all parties, which I will gladly post verbatim.

To most people the story is simple; A woman named Janet Vrotsos (or someone pretending to be her) went to the Senior Airman Brian Kolfage page and posted this:



Kolfage, enraged, started a campaign against this person, outing her personal information and rallying his fans to engage, contact and harass her, as well as her IBEW Union Local, of which she was retired from.



The meme and the post Jan allegedly put up went viral, was picked up by Politichicks, Pat Dollard, and many others, and conservative patriots rallied to Brian’s side, jumping the likes on his page by 15,000 in a few short weeks; Brian had what appeared to be a legitimate call to internet arms, and Jan Vrotsos was about to feel the wrath of that call. The image Brian created featuring all of Jans contact info was spread all over Facebook and right wing extremist forums and websites. Facebook alone showed the image to have been shared over 12,000 TIMES.



Within hours Jan began receiving nasty messages, including death threats, by phone, Facebook PM’s and email. The only problem was, Jan had no idea what this was all about. When she learned about the post she allegedly made, she contacted the police, thinking her computer or account had been hacked, and to report the death threats.

She hired a computer expert who came to the conclusion that the post did not come from her, nor did it come from her Facebook account. Jan was innocent in all this. After months of death threats and harassment against Jan, Brian Kolfage was forced to admit that Jan wasn’t the person responsible, and he posted his retraction…but only if all Facebook profiles and pages criticizing him over his actions ceased to comment or post anymore. A “cease fire”, if you will, that was arranged by a third party between the warring factions.

Brian in essence said that both he and Jan were used by trolls in some game they were playing to mess with someone based on a difference in opinion about politics.

That remains Brian’s position, and that’s where the public knowledge of the story typically ends…It was all a big misunderstanding, sorry…Let’s all just move on…

Louie: Fastest Gun in Town

But I think we need to tell this story. We need to show how destructive the internet can be. These online campaigns where peoples personal lives are used as fodder, where personal information is posted and spread as a form of intimidation and cyber terrorism…this has to have a spotlight shined on it, and we the people are going to have to step up and govern ourselves. Because what I learned through all of this is, the internet is very much the wild wild west.

<<<<Luckily, for Jan Vrotsos and others…I’m the fastest gun in town, baby.

So let’s go back to the very beginning. Before I do, I want to point out that Brian Kolfage has on many occasions declared himself to be the only admin on his page. He and he alone is responsible for it’s content, and while there has been speculation and what many consider proof that other members of his family are involved in this, the responsibility lies with the guy who clicks ‘post’ and makes the ultimate decisions of what does and does not appear on his page and is done in his name. There will be references to Brian Kolfage Sr, Brian Jr’s father, but again, ultimately the responsibility for the content of a page self dedicated to a public figure lies with the sole admin in my opinion.



***THE FEUD***

Conservative and liberal Facebook pages often get into one on one battles. This particular battle that ended in the Jan Vrotsos incident began with a feud between a satirical Facebook page called ‘Republican Family Values’ (RFV), and the Facebook page named after its owner, Senior Airman Brian Kolfage (Though after the online scuffle, now goes by Freedom Daily with Brian Kolfage).

On or about December 26th, 2013, Brian Kolfage Sr. posted a meme on the RFV page depicting Obama’s face on a Koolaid pitcher with the caption “Keep Drinking the Koolaid.” Brian Kolfage Sr. accused RFV of trolling Brian’s page. RFV had never heard of Brian Kolfage. They put his name in the Facebook search box and found his page, which looked like standard right wing conspiratorial nonsense.

RFV photoshopped Brian Sr’s head onto a Koolaid pitcher as a response to Brian Sr’s picture. Brian Sr again accused RFV of trolling Brian Jr’s page. They were not. RFV took Junior’s Facebook banner picture, of which he touts himself as a “public figure”, appended it to the Senior/Koolaid photo and added speech bubbles, with Junior saying “Daddy, a Facebook page is being mean to me”, and Senior responding “No problem son, Daddy KoolAid to the rescue” and posted on the RFV page. The meme enraged Kolfage Jr. and Sr. for reasons no one has ever known or found out.



At the time, RFV still had no idea who Junior was. It was nothing more than a hasty and childish response to Brian Sr.’s annoying presence. Things escalated after the meme was reported and Facebook did not remove it, because it violated nothing.

And because Brian’s fanbase did not provide the bloodlust he expected of them, he tweaked the meme a tad…by blurring out the speech bubbles, as well as the face of his wife and child, as if to imply he never wanted their faces to be seen (despite the dozens and dozens of family photos on his Facebook page). Now, the public was steered toward the assumption that the meme was disgusting, vulgar and inappropriate, and that it targeted his wife and child. The speech was described as “vile” by Brian Kolfage.



RFV at the time was not aware of how their harmless little response to Daddy Kolfage’s post was being portrayed and presented by an enemy they never thought they had.

On or about 12/27 – 12/28, RFV got a PM from a “Ben OverLue” saying “I know who you are, you 61 year old cunt.” We now know that Ben Overlue was a Daddy Kolfage sock puppet, as the letters BGKSR were the URL for the profile.

The 61 year old that this ‘Ben Overlue’ was referring to was Jan Vrotsos…a retired cancer patient. Because of a brewing feud between two politically opposite Facebook pages, fueled mostly by only one hyper sensitive party, a 61 year old woman had been implicated as an administrator for RFV, and was about to be subjected to harassment and ridicule the likes of which nobody should have to go through, even if they are guilty of a differing political opinion, or even strong tasteless language.

Unbeknownst to RFV, Jan Vrotsos or anyone, a Booze o’ Clock investigation that would make even the Keystone Cops scratch their heads had just concluded, and turned its semen stained report into Brian Kolfages facebook page.

Now, before we get into this, Brian Kolfage had already fingered Jeff Pickens as the admin of RFV, and he was correct. Pickens did not hide this. However, Brian proceeded to post Pickens home address and phone number, multiple times, to his 10’s of thousands of fans. He also incorrectly fingered Matt Desmond, the owner of Addicting Info. Not only is this information incorrect, but he got Desmonds name wrong, as well as his information. Which means some poor bastard was probably getting phone calls, and had no idea what was going on. This would not be the first, nor the last time Brian Kolfages page would post the incorrect contact information of his targets.





***The Trap***

To find out who the admin of RFV was, Team Kolfage began Operation Retard, using a fake RFV page they made to illicit responses from people and try to gather information about them. Jan had been following a story about a little girl who died of cancer, and posted her condolences to the family on a post shared by the real RFV. The Fake RFV responded to her post and others, with coarse language and insults, to illicit a response.



Here is the one and only mistake Jan made. After reporting the post to Facebook, she went to the fake RFV page and posted “I have reported you to facebook, stay off my page.” She was, of course, referring to her personal timeline.

This was taken by Team Kolfage to be proof somehow that Jan Vrotsos was the admin of RFV. The logic behind this conclusion is absent. To come to this conclusion, they posted deplorable things on a story about a little girl who died of cancer, a DAY AFTER she had died.

The Fake RFV page admitted to how the trap was set, and this colorful image/meme was posted on Brian Kolfages page, celebrating the act, as well as screencaps of his fathers troll account PM’s to the real RFV page.



Many would say there’s no way to know who actually ran the fake RFV page. The meme clearly states that the page was removed from Facebook, and that only an admin from the real page could have accomplished this, but this is false.

Outside of the fact a page could be suspended or taken down due to…oh, I don’t know…threatening people on a post about a recently deceased child…the fake RFV page was never removed. It had simply changed it’s name to “Returned Fire.”



The comments by Jan and others, as well as a statement from the real RFV page, remained intact on the Returned Fire page for over a year and a half. As of today, however, I cannot find the page. I suspect that due to some litigation ending, whoever ran it may have decided to take it down. Or perhaps the name changed again.

It would have been easy to sever connections to the entire incident, but unfortunately, Brian assumed total credit for “The Trap” in the graphic he created to celebrate their findings. I believe Brian had nothing to do with it, actually. I think some very eager and shitty people did the deed, and passed on their “findings” to Brian.

Using the phrase “we” and referencing his child, as well as using PM’s from his fathers troll account makes it easy to pit the entire thing on Brian Kolfage. But I have told him already, any time he is ready to sit in the hot seat and give up the people responsible, I’m all ears. Why do these people deserve anonymity and protection, after what Jan Vrotsos wound up enduring?

“Janet was busted in an elaborate trap to which she fell into and released her real name to us, which I provided screenshots for.” Brian Kolfage, sole admin of the Facebook page ‘Senior Airman Brian Kolfage’, had openly admitted responsibility not only for the outing of Jan Vrotsos’ personal information, but for the trolling of a story about a family tragedy. All of this is because a photo of his 4 month old was used in a harmless, unoffensive meme.

The picture used by RFV was a public post on Brian’s page, an admitted public figure, making it public domain. RFV did nothing to alter the photo in any way other than to add G rated text, and in no way endangered the child any more than Brian himself did when he posted the picture to begin with. RFV even removed the picture as a peace offering within a few days, but that didn’t stop anything.

I must also say…it was extremely hypocritical for Brian to cry about the incident. Because before that meme, Brian’s page was responsible for posting the addresses and phone numbers of many people. People with children. What RFV did was harmless. What Brian had made a practice of on his page for several months leading up to it was illegal, dangerous, and destructive.

In fact, this practice of his had actually gotten his page shut down by Facebook in August of 2013.

Having figured out, or so he thought, that Jan was the admin of Republican Family Values, Brian upped his game against her with the next step in his plan, a step that would change the life of an innocent woman forever.



***The Hate Post***

Shortly after this information about Jan was accepted and Team Kolfage was convinced she was their nemesis, Brian posted a screencap of the alleged comment made on his wall, supposedly from Jan, for his fans to see. It went viral immediately, partly due to Brian’s direct relationship with Jeff Rainforth, a racist and radical extremist writer for the equally racist and extremist Pat Dollard.



I’ve already laid out in the beginning of the article how all of this happened, how Jan went through hell, and how in the end it was determined that Brian had to retract his statement and admit that Jan wasn’t responsible for a thing.

This portion of the story and the ‘apology’ issued by Kolfage is what really enrages people who have followed it, because none of it adds up.

Brian is running with the angle that Jan’s account must have been ‘spoofed’…Trolls must have been following the story and they’re the ones who posted that hate message on his wall. Never mind the fact Jan wasn’t a name on anybody’s lips until “The Trap.” Or that the “hate post” and “the trap” weren’t even 24 hours apart.

It’s very important to remember that Brian had stated many times that the message was in fact on his wall, and as sole admin only he could have deleted it. Brian has also stated that he had authenticated the message and that he had obtained verification that it came from Jan’s account. According to Jeff Rainforth’s tweets, while Brian was providing him directly with information for the first biased hit piece on Jan Vrotsos, he personally verified this claim. What Brian never provided to the public was the email notification of the post. Even when a post has been deleted, an email notification will still contain the image.

And here is the biggest problem. A problem that has never been solved. The screencap of the “hate post” allegedly left by Jan or her clone is a photoshop.



Yes, the post was manufactured. Why then, did Brian state that it was on his wall? At first glance, the post looks authentic. I was fooled, everyone was fooled…at first. But let’s say you were, oh, I don’t know, an expert in digital forensics that has been using Photoshop professionally for 10 years?



Yes, that’s right…Brian Kolfage has succeeded where nobody else could in proving that the President’s birth certificate is a fake, yet he couldn’t differentiate between a real and a fake Facebook post. Perhaps he was just caught up in it all like everyone else. About a month and a half after the incident, even he began referring to the post as “alleged.” (I personally would like anybody to explain the discrepancies. I have asked repeatedly and always had an open door for anyone to explain it, recreate it..anything at all to get away from the obvious conclusion)

So let’s take a look at this realistically…If that post wasn’t from a spoofed account, but was in fact manufactured, then it couldn’t have been posted on Brian’s wall. It couldn’t have been verified as reported by Jeff Rainforth.

So where did it come from? This is an issue that Brian doesn’t seem to want to address. The answer from a logical standpoint is pretty obvious…It wasn’t posted on his wall, it wasn’t shared by a fan of his page, yet it shows a message directly to Brian’s page from Jan. It wasn’t another admin on his page, since there aren’t any, and it certainly isn’t real.

The one conclusion you can come to is that Brian Kolfage, in an attempt to further discredit and do battle with the page Republican Family Values, set a trap, (in the most despicable manner), wrongfully interpreted the information he collected and constructed the post to garner support from his fans when they didn’t respond as violently as he wanted them to. He used the media to further his ambitions of growing his page by generating a sympathy story for the extremist right wing web to jerk off to(wounded warrior attacked by liberals), and willfully damaged the reputation and interfered in the life of a completely innocent person. A 61 year old cancer patient.

Since Brian posted his retraction, the story has been removed from a couple of sites, including PatDollard.com and Politichicks. Margie Wilson Mars, who had originally posted the story against Jan on Politichicks, tried pressing Brian for the source of the graphics and screen caps, but he stopped responding and never answered her questions. She also claimed that it was made very clear to her by the “owners of Politichicks” that she was not to disparage or lay blame on Brian or his people. You can read her retraction here.



Text from Margies email:



There are many theories as to what happened and what went wrong. I do not believe Brian Kolfage was the sole administrator of his page. He was in his final year of college during the time this incident took place, and he has a family. His page would post throughout a 24 hour period. One theory of mine is that he was told the comment was left and provided a screencap. He may have been told many things by his co-admins.

And he ran with it, because he trusted his co-admins. Maybe they were family members..perhaps his father, who had claimed to be an administrator of the page in August of 2013. When the shit hit the fan, Brian was put in a position to either assume total responsibility, or feed his Daddy and others to a meat grinder.

I can understand the situation. But I can also understand there would be no situation, had the practice of using your popular celebrity Facebook page to target civilians and post their personal contact information for the purpose of stalking and harassment as some kind of punishment not been in full swing. Jan was not the only victim.







Today, Brian Kolfage’s Facebook page is very different. Its name has changed, no longer using his military rank in violation of Joint Ethics Regulations. He no longer appears in military uniform either, for the same reason. A few weeks before he filed his defamation suit against me, he changed his page from “Public Figure” to “News and Publishing.” Obvious reasoning behind this; its harder to claim defamation if you’re a public figure. (Of course, changing his Facebook page did not solve that problem)

No longer are civilians targeted and their dox dropped on his page, either. It is, for the most part, just a conduit to post blogs for his website and drive traffic to his website. And I’d like to think I had mostly everything to do with these changes. 😉

Sticking up for Jan Vrotsos was one giant headache. Mostly because I did it all on my own. The liberal bloggers had cowered in fear. Fear of being doxxed, targeted, and once Brian and his shyster lawyer fired off their publicity stunt of a lawsuit, gobbling up television media as well as online media, a message was sent out to his critics; Talk about me, and I’ll sue you.

***UPDATE***

The arrangement originally made regarding the cease fire back in May of 2014, was that Brian Kolfage would assist in getting as many websites and forums to remove the original claims, blogs and articles regarding Jan Vrotsos. He only succeeded in getting two removed. Thanks to this blog, I have been able to get 4 of these pieces removed on my own in just 2 days. Strange that after almost 2 years, I find myself being able to get these things removed, yet somehow the originator of the claims was just not successful.

I really want to move on with my life, but I find it a tad annoying that I’m still spending hours of my life clearing Jan Vrotsos’s name after all this time. Me and me alone, on top of that.

Perhaps instead of suing me for criticizing him about this entire event, his time would have been best served clearing the name of the senior citizen he trashed. It’s also important to note that the Arizona District Court did in fact enforce a court order demanding Brian Kolfage write out and sign an apology to Jan Vrotsos.

