Never in the history of mankind, have we been able to take advantage of the art of communication and leverage it on a very personal level.

Never before, have we, the people, had the power to publish and get our writing, photography, graphics, design, audio or video files distributed and seen by as many people as possible as effortlessly as we can now.

It is a powerful combination – the ability to create and disseminate information and make it available instantaneously to anyone in the world who is seeking it.

And where wrongs need to be righted, we have an unprecedented ability to level the playing field by telling our side of the story.

I am a specialist in Search Engine Relevance and online reputation management and correction — two potent forces that when combined can bring stunning results.

You notice I’ve mentioned Search Engine Relevance, not Search Engine Optimization. What’s the difference? Very simply put, relevancy ranking is the way by which search engines retrieve and rank those digital documents that are most likely to be relevant to the search terms you put in.

Well, well, well. Can’t keep karma down, can you?

I’ve heard from someone very close to our friend, the Las Vegas Review Journal columnist, John L. Smith. Used to be close to him, anyway. Not so much anymore. This person is a female acquaintance who is alleged to be his former girlfriend, and who has sent a couple of very revealing emails to me. Let’s call her “Rachel” for ease of reference.

After spending quite a bit of time with him, Rachel came away feeling the same way about him as I do. To quote her, John L. Smith is “an unscrupulous liar and cheat and one day will get all the payback he deserves.”

Rachel went on to say that Smith would whine about me and say what a thorn in his side I was. (Good! I’m gettin’ to him.) And Rachel also confirmed that Smith was NOT the all-around great guy reporter and father of the year that he wants to try to portray in regards to his public image. (Surprise!)

What I’m asking for here, to me, is sort of a no-brainer, to put it in layman’s terms.

It’s something that attorneys ask for continually from their clients:

Transparency.

Hold nothing back, they’ll tell them. Get all the stuff out on the table that has to be dealt with, as bad as bad is, and we’ll formulate a plan to take care of it. That’s what attorneys want from their clients.

I expect nothing less from them.

Transparency.

I want full disclosure from attorneys. I want to know what they might be hiding away in their past that they don’t want the public to know or talk about. Go ahead and make me sign an NDA (a non-disclosure agreement) about the nasty stuff, and I will. But I want to know the good, the bad and the ugly.

SOMETIMES NOT SAYING ANYTHING IS THE BEST ANSWER.

YOU SEE, SILENCE CAN NEVER BE MISQUOTED.

Priceless stuff.

I USED TO CARE WHAT PEOPLE THOUGHT

UNTIL THE DAY I TRIED

TO PAY MY BILLS

WITH THEIR OPINIONS

I think that says it pretty well, don’t you?

It will truly be a bad day for you if Ricardo Bonvicin, a North Las Vegas cop, gets entangled in your life.

The story referenced in the headline above in this post — “True Survivior” by John L. Smith of the Las Vegas Review Journal — has a lot missing from it.

For example, here are a couple of key items that Bonvicin should have been asked to go over by our intrepid LVRJ fact-finder:
1. Explain your bankruptcy.
2. How did you, Mr. Bonvicin, pay private detective Tom Dillard?

And no mention about the western union money sent to Nicole, my ex.

Bonvicin got money and did not pay his own father in law.

Rick Bonvicin forgot to explain to John L. Smith his own statement, which I recorded. Let’s reflect on Bonvicin’s own words: