Picture this:
A total stranger decides to start ‘investigating’ you. You tell them you don’t wish to participate but they insist that they have a right to intrude in your life. They send you questions about things in your personal life, about your business, about your wife, about your children, about tragedies that have happened to you. They mock the death of your friends and family members.
You continue not to participate or engage them but their questions become more bizarre, personal, and desperate as time goes on. They tell you that if you don’t answer their questions, they are going to contact the authorities and then they proceed to do just that. They let you and the world know that they have contacted the police, the district attorney, the FBI, child protective services and more. If you have a conversation with someone, they jump in and wave their accusations in front of that person’s face.
Picture this happening on a daily basis, for months.
This is what Bill Schmalfeldt has done to me and my family. By his own admission, it’s a form of revenge for my writing.
And since filing criminal charges against Bill Schmalfeldt for harassment a few days ago, I’ve actively set out to correct the vast number of lies that Bill Schmalfeldt has been telling about me and my family.
Bill Schmalfeldt says I’m writing about him. I am not.
I am not writing about his family or his life or wife or children or his work history or conflicts he’s had in the past or his sex life or financial status or anything at all about him that doesn’t relate to one and only one topic — things he has written or said about me and my family.
I am writing about me.
I am setting the record straight. I am countering the outright lies of Bill Schmalfeldt about me, my life, my wife, my kids, my family, my friends.
I am the victim of harassment. Bill Schmalfeldt wants to blame the victim. As always, he wants intimidate me into silence. He’s currently threatening to sue my employer.
I just want Bill Schmalfeldt to do what I have asked him to do numerous times and that he refuses to do — leave me alone. Don’t email me. Don’t call me. Don’t contact me directly in any way.
I have the right not to be harassed. I have the right to correct lies that people are telling about me.
I choose to exercise those rights and Bill Schmalfeldt doesn’t like it one damn bit.
So answering slander and correcting lies some lunatic is telling is now ‘writing about him’.
Let us know how the criminal charges are proceeding. Like Kimberlin, let’s watch education unfold about how quickly lawfare becomes decidedly unfun once you target someone who knows what they’re doing.
Great job Lee, keeping the harassment Conservatives have been receiving from the left, in the news and the courts. One thing they can’t stand is having a light shown on their evil intent. They are like a bunch of Cockroaches when the light is turned on.
You just insulted cockroaches…BIG TIME!
LG is so cute when he tries to interpret law, with all his cries of paragraph C’s and paragraph D’s and gets it flat out wrong top to bottom. He sounded so insistent I just had to go look it up myself. Man is he in for a surprise. Of course I guess it’s entorely possible he imagines himself authorized under the law for those provisions. I think when he comes to court he’ll have to pull the full “woe is me” routine to try and squeak. I predict an 85% chance of wheelchairs.
Since the only reliable way to get a message to him since he has me blocked and he is definitely stalking you, I fear I must tread on your comments screen a tad: “Hey Parky, You block me every chance you get within minutes. Any chance you can unblock me so I can watch your antics in real time. They promise to be golden and its just not the same in a search result. I promise to limit the snark as much as I possibly can, unless you unleash a real corker.
I’ve had people in Anonymous do exactly this same thing to me for years because I’ve blogged about them critically. Just keep documenting and documenting. Put one foot in front of the other, and keep documenting. And if you have an ID, file charges. That helps create a paper trail and it helps mitigate the harassment, hopefully.