ReligionOfPeace

December 12th 07-July 17th 09

ReligionOfpeace otherwise known as Mike Adam’s created their account December 12th 2007, he was only on Reddit for a short time of 2 years when he staged the death of his alias on July 17th 2009. Despite his short time on reddit ReligionOfPeace and r/jailbait are synonymous with the dark side of the platform and a core part of reddit history. For some background on Mike, he used to live in Bloomfield, NJ with his wife Diane, he has two adult children, Kimberly Scholl and Tim Scholl. After switching from NJ to New York several times he seems to have settled there. He is currently working for EZOPS as a technical writer as of April 2023 after a short period at VIAM & INrhythm. He attended San Diego Miramar collage and gained a bachelor of science at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. In Q&A with crystalwinds, Mike claims to have worked on Aviation maintenance, it’s unconfirmed exactly what his MOS in the military was but he did serve for a minimum of 4 years in 1975-1980. Although ROP claimed to have enlisted in 1987 its unclear if this is true for Mike. According to ROP he chose this username because “Peace is the only thing of value”, religion of peace is also known to refer to Islam, the best theory yet for the meaning of the name Milo is Military liaison intelligence officer. The first comments on his account are seen on a thread on r/conspiracy about government trolls infesting the site, an interesting first choice, he first comments “Okay. Government trolls? How did you identify them? Are they anyone who pokes holes in your comments or laughs at the political/conspiracy crap you post?”, in the same thread he continues “Religion doesn't exist, either. And there was never any catholic conspiracy to dominate the world politically. Nor has any religion such as Islam ever conspired to secretly or overtly kill off their opponents. Just keep sipping that kool-aid, ReligionOfPeace. It's sweet now but it'll kill you in the end. Evil does exist on Reddit, just not to your knowledge”. A strange way to introduce yourself to Reddit but okay, over the next few days he provides deeper insight into his life to answer the question if you died now would you consider your life to be well-lived? he comments “Yes, I would. I'm 79 and ready to go any time. I lived a very eventful life, full of "excitement" in the Chinese meaning of the word. I have seen a great portion of the world, visited many countries in times of trouble and always done what I deemed best whether I was paid or not. I fought to help people be free, stay free, stay alive, to help countries retain the government they wanted and to get rid of ones they didn't. I regret few things that I've done. Most notably, shooting up a truck that was carrying contraband. The situation didn't require it, but I was hungover and it was pissing down rain. I have played some vicious jokes on several people and I shouldn't have as they weren't really deserving of it. I've worked hard to avoid hurting anyone's feelings and never treated anyone any worse than I was willing to be treated in a similar situation. I managed to never shoot anyone I wasn't allowed to. Never shot up an any civilians, even when it would have been easier to take them out, too. I used to wonder what it would be like to come back to the states and live in a pretty suburb someplace and commute a job and do something. But there was always one more fight that needed fighting. Some other thing I considered an injustice. from 1944 until 1987, I probably had no more than 2 years total outside of some fucking war or other, or some security operation. I never made much money, seldom had more than enough to spend a week or two recovering from one thing or another. Medical  bills are a bitch when you're paying your own way. Never run away to join the Navy or the Circus. Trust me, kids, that's not the way to go”. This post is the first in a series of comments in which Milo would include his age, showing the first real cracks in story as he would not only claim to be born in the month of his death but also 9 years younger. His lack of oversight reads like a teenager being caught with a fake ID. As time passes Mike grows more comfortable sharing information as Milo, going into detail on his experience in the service, he’d talk of topics like how to kill a man with piano wire, sex workers he knew from Abidjan, how he lost friends in Rhodesia, that he was an apprentice seaman on a troopship & his experience enlisting at the age of 14. He claims he’s 79 despite the mentioned discrepancies he speaks like a 30 to 50 year old at maximum saying things like “fuck off and die spammer” and “bitch GTFO”. He soon displays his well known traits of dubiously legal porn and a deep hatred of spammers. On May 19th 2009 he was added as a moderator to r/jailbait and it was around this time he began visiting drunken stepfather. As explained on the ‘what is lakecityquietpills?’ page he started that old guys image host and thoughtlessly shared it to Reddit. Over the summer he would post about the image host several times, if you had a problem with an image host, he was in the comments telling you to try lakecityquietpills.com it was also around this time he started r/truejailbait but little details are known about this subreddit, this alongside the contents of r/jailbait I can only assume realised he was in way too deep and gaining attention, this would have hit especially hard after the doxxing of his friend Violentacrez, the only way he could resolve his mistakes at that time was to stage his death and pass on the blame. So that’s exactly what he did, on July 16th 2009, three months after being added to r/jailbait “Milo” would make his last comments, nothing unusual just him complaining about spam, he says he mass reported a bunch of bullshit subreddits but nothing was happening and he was starting to get discouraged. The next day on the 17th of July, Milo’s death is quietly announced in the HTML of lakecityquietpills.com, 13 hours after Milo’s last comment at 1pm a Reddit account by the name of 2-6 is created, they spend 50 minutes on the site before posting “The end of religion of peace, he died today”.

“When you're 79, almost every girl is a young girl. Being old does not mean dead. I still enjoy a cute face and a tight body. I also have the hots for your mom, more like as not.”

“Listen, just because I am old doesn't mean I can't appreciate a cute girl. I'm just enjoying the scenery, not picking the daisies.”

-Mike.

Sources:

Mike’s LinkedIn.

Mike’s Fark.

Mike signing emails as Trent.

Intelligence and peace support operations.

Location of “Milo’s ashes”.