Since You Brought It Up: I Know Something Of Cyber-Bullying, Ray . . . and Roch

Before we get started, I feed the need to make one thing very clear:  This blog owes its very existence to the "journalists" at the Courier Tribune and the Greensboro News & Record . . . local newspapers so beholding to Randolph & Cone Hospitals for economic support that they could not tell their readers the truth about what those hospitals did to a home-grown Pediatrician in public service. 

So, to coin a phrase, Ray, "I didn't do it.  YOU did."

It's been almost a year since this happened (just something else Ray Criscoe and Chip Womick and J.D. Walker and Mary Anderson, the Courier Tribune's champions of "free-speech", sitting high-and mighty in their bully-pulpit, did not see fit to report) . . . and it's been a very long haul to get from there to here . . . but with the next post, I'm probably going to open Housecalls back up to comments. 

As the real victim of a real cyber-bully and his friends on the Asheboro City Council/at the Randolph County Courthouse, I needed a break and I took it.  ZERO apologies.

(There's a lot the know-it-alls in the Greensboro blogosphere don't know - because for safety reasons, I have not blogged about it.)

Comments will be moderated.  Anons need not apply.  And if you come on board to call me names or threaten me or my livelihood, don't plan on getting posted.  I will, however, log your comments in a folder (as they will come into my Inbox first) and save your IP address . . . and if it becomes a problem again, we shall dance like the Randolph County Stars. 

It will be glorious.

Oh, and next time, I'm calling the Feds as opposed to a Randolph County magistrate . . . as I took everybody's advice (including the Feds) last November, and played by the rules, and gave "the locals" a chance . . . and (big surprise) the locals did what they ALWAYS do if you're not "right people".

I don't check often, but I did notice yesterday that, once again, my blog had recently been removed from the Greensboro aggregator, We101.  I sent an e-mail to Roch Smith, Jr., with whom I have a history.

(My story-of-woe in Asheboro, you see, does not exactly shore up the inherent accountability of all the wonderful things President Obama's new healthcare "reform" measures hold in store for the average wrong person - and in Roch's book-of-blue, I must be marginalized/silenced - as opposed to helped.)

"Where's my blog? ", I asked.

The answer was in my Inbox this morning (of course, I was anticipating it - after leaving a comment on Roch's blog this past weekend - about Jeff Martin's latest brush with the law):

Your blog must allow comments. We101 exists to promote an understanding of the communities in which we live. We believe that a necessary component to this is the ability to engage in conversation as accommodated by blog comments. If your blog does not allow comments, please enable them before submitting your blog to We101. Blogs that do not allow comments will be removed."

I responded this morning:

I saw that coming. You KNOW why comments have been disabled, Roch.

You're all warmth and understanding for a well-known local cyber-bully who calls victims of local government malfeasance (even the ones dying of cancer) horrible names, and/or pelts their blogs/Inbox with insults alleging they're mentally-ill (I guess he wants some company) . . . and who threaten public servants with violence (that's a real hoot . . . because, you know, in your world . . . and in his . . . all firemen are fat lazy slobs and all policeman are corrupt doughnut-eaters).

The victims of you friend's malice - whistle-blowers in the blogosphere to tell the public the truth - cannot rely on law enforcement to protect them (particularly in Randolph County) from the consequences of his online antics . . . or his libel . . . because the law (as usual) is light-years behind what is going on in real life.

They most certainly cannot rely on anyone in the blogosphere to help reign him in - with strong condemnation of his actions. No. You guys pass around secret passwords and laugh at his antics and pontificate about "free speech", even as a good portion of you cannot own your speech by signing your real names.

Meanwhile you IGNORE the plights of the whistle-blowers you invited into the ether.

It's all very high-minded and enlightened.

Before you dumped my blog at We101, did you pause to consider that in the wake of what happened, I have very real safety and security concerns?

Your liberal double-standards betray you, Roch You make me sick. And I can see next Tuesday from my house.

I feel a post coming on.

I hope this post - and all of the future ones I hope to write - contributes to understanding the communities where we live . . . and blog.