After reading some of the posts in this thread, I looked up the posting of the edited article. Judge Smails already had a reputation for regularly posting misinformation, and, as has been said, running and hiding whenever someone called him on it.
Adding made-up quotes and posting them as part of a media story is a new low. That kind of activity can eventually get him sued, except that Stokes no doubt has better things to do than deal with hands-down the most pathetic individual to ever join VN.
If JS ever had an ounce of credibility with anyone on VN, it is gone.
We have had guys try to impress us by lying behind magic phones, so I'd thought we'd seen it all here. It's not a surprise to get UK fans joining to thump their chests while the UK program is at its highest peak since the 90s, and our program is rebuilding. JS was already taking this practice to a new level even before he made the unethical decision to post a made-up quote. Posting an "excerpt" without including a link, something that should never be done, was a dead giveaway. Kudos to Bleeding for doing the research.
Including a link when copying/pasting material isn't just about adding credibility to your post; it's about giving proper credit to the author.
Perhaps JS makes his way through school by stealing the works of others and claiming it as his own.
The last time I saw something this openly dumb was in the 4th grade when a classmate turned in a recent sports column from the local newspaper as his own story on a class assignment. That ridiculous lapse turned out to be an anomaly for him. He picked a good age to have his 'idiot' moment.
I wonder how old JS is. No one knows his true identity, so the deserved embarrassment is limited to a screen name. If I were JS (yuck), I would leave this site forever, join a UK site under a new screen name, soak up UK's season among a crowd of friendlies, return to my real life in the real world, and never plagiarize or libel ever again.