Malicious Intent: Evil Happens II

I wrote a blog about a month ago about the cyber-stalking/harassment that I have been dealing with for the past year. Since then the harassment, at least on this blog, has stopped* – which is all I really wanted – and I was hopeful that I could just let the rest of it go. However, something new has come to light and I’ve decided to talk about it here simply to illustrate what can happen -- what unintended consequences can occur -- when evil people with malicious intent perpetrate their destructive behavior.

I have always been aware of the defamatory nature of the message board I refer to as Nativecesspool because of its vile content. I have never been a member of it, never posted on it, and largely avoided it other than to save the threads for the purposes of documentation. My thinking has been that anyone who knows me knows what vile nastiness is encouraged on that board, and anyone who doesn’t know me will have to make their own decisions.

However, one of the vilest of the posters on that board – hiding behind a veil of anonymity as committed cowards always do – copied some 25 pages of their filth into the body of an email that was then sent to the general email address of an organization that I am actively involved with. Included was a message naming me as someone who was passing myself off as the “head” of the organization and that I "needed to be stopped". Now, what makes this action particularly despicable is that the person did this not knowing where that email would go.

The email is received by a lovely, sweet woman who makes sure anything important is taken care of. She is a kind, gentle mother and grandmother who knows nothing about the ugliness of internet trolls. When she received the email, a couple weeks before Christmas, she was utterly and completely shocked by it. She had never read the sorts of things that were copied into it nor seen photos like the ones included (the "c-word" is one of their favorite names for me). She said she started crying when she read it and, because she didn’t know what to do, printed it out, and locked it in the bottom drawer of her desk. She told me she couldn’t sleep for a week thinking about how awful it was, and she was afraid to tell anyone about it. She thought I didn't know about this board and was afraid to hurt my feelings.

She waited until after Christmas – she said she didn’t want to ruin anyone’s holidays – and then, after much agonizing, she shared it with a Director of the organization, a woman who is a good friend of mine. The Director read it and, she too, had no idea how to react but didn’t want to hurt me, also thinking I knew nothing about this message board. She was particularly upset because, in the pages and pages of text included, there were outrageously ugly comments made about several people within the community she knows well. One of those named, in a malicious and slanderous association to me, is a wonderful dancer who is a friend of hers. She said she was “nauseated” by what she read and that it made her “question her faith in human decency”.

Yesterday, she decided to tell me about it. When I told her that I not only knew all about that board but had been documenting the entire situation for several months she was relieved but horrified that this was being done to me. We talked about and I told her that I would leave it to her discretion to decide if she wanted to show the email to anyone else. When she told me the email address of the sender – clearthinking@mail.com – I recognized it immediately.

The reason I am writing about this is because I want people to know how harmful evil people can be to those who are totally innocent. Whatever my imagined crimes against this person are is one thing – that’s not the point – the point is because of an intrinsically hateful nature this person inflicted a great deal of pain and heartache on two lovely women who did nothing to deserve it -- and that is more reprehensible than anything that has been done to me.

I have spoken with both of these ladies and told them the whole story. They know who the criminals are and what I have been doing about it. I hope they are able to forget about it and about the ugliness they have been exposed to because of it. The tragic thing about those who would do evil is that, in their rage to maliciously wound, they don’t care who they hurt in the process.

Again, let me repeat CYBER-STALKING AND HARASSMENT IS A CRIME. The people who practice it are criminals. They do not care who they harm – they are terrorists. If you know of people who abuse the internet to cause harm, please, at the very least, do not engage with them. Help stop this kind of terrorism. Report them if you can, document them when it is possible, and do nothing to encourage them.

* Since I wrote this blog the IPs of the two most persistent harassers have been blocked. In the month of January the IP belonging to "WER" / Scott has made 191 visits to this blog and has attempted to log on 29 times since being banned. The IP belonging to "vrwc" / Eric has made 166 visits to this blog and has attempted to log on over 30 times. They continue to post vile commentary in their cesspool on a regular basis.

Previous Posts for Reference:
• Evil Happens
• "Hate-Fans"

Thanks for reading.

I am closing this post to Comments as I have no desire to add fuel to anyone's fire. My comments are offered as public information only. If anyone wants to give me their opinions/observations on this they are cordially invited to email their comments to: inquiry@parlezmoipress.com. Thanks for understanding.