Bartram Fartram

As we've said before, it's amazing the plump little nuggets one can randomly find stumbling about HHI's beast of a website. And even though we've had great fun at Bartram's expense regarding his practice of threatening violence toward those he disagrees with, believe it or not, we found yet another example of his self-professed meanliness:

"The media has been - very largely - happy to report Odyssey's case, often quoting verbatim Odyssey's words without due diligence. Who is responsible for that? Not Odyssey, as I see it. It is their job to sell themselves and they have done so with considerable success. So, if it ever comes time to bring out the horse whip, I know who I'll be taking into the yard for some exercise." ~ Horse Master Bartram

Beatings, shootings, horse-whippings -- apparently all in a day's work for the Angry Twit. Smarter people than us have made the appropriate Freudian observations about those who feel the need to constantly tell everyone who will listen how tough they are. Of course, all one has to do is look at a picture of the Hapless Dork to be absolutely stricken with terror by his manly menace. (No, not really; in fact, put some doggie ears on him and you'd have yourself a human facsimile of Disney's Goofy.)

So what's up with this wanker, John Bartram?

He says he stands for what's right in archaeology, and constantly attacks Odyssey about its practice of and credentials in the field, yet he apparently falsely portrayed himself on a number of occasions to certain members of the public as an accredited archaeologist and historian.

Bartram claims to be merely an objective observer about Odyssey, yet devotes virtually the entire HHI website to publishing and spreading lies and mistruths about the company. (This often comes, sadly, at the expense of some HHI member projects that seem fairly interesting.)

He speaks of his disdain for rudeness and bad behaviour, yet sends out two of the most pathetic, vile, stupid human specimens to populate this planet to do his anti-Odyssey bidding. (We've devoted much space to the putrid reputations and actions of Smitty and Doc; check our archives for the dirt.)

Bartram never fails to rip Odyssey for having a profit motive as "treasure hunters" (a term he uses disdainfully), yet in an older version of the HHI website, he peddles media, archaeology and history services for sale, presumably not for charitable purposes, to...wait for it....treasure hunters. (And, as further evidence of his deep hypocrisy, neither he nor his website provides one shred of evidence of their expertise or credentials to offer such services. They also claim numerous "clients," yet no client list or projects summary is to be found.)

We think it's obvious what Bartram and HHI is all about. He can stomp about, arrogantly sniff, threaten violence, lawsuits, and days of reckoning, even raise an offended pinkie in protest, but he can't stop our efforts to bring you the truth about the history poseurs and their lying, misleading claims.

That's a perspective you won't ever find on HHI -- disagreement and dissension are strictly forbidden.