{"id":27624,"date":"2012-04-25T12:20:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T17:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27624"},"modified":"2012-04-25T12:20:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T17:20:58","slug":"lets-see-if-i-can-follow-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27624","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s See If I Can Follow This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Twin Cities&#8217; leftysphere and mainstream media:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Writing thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of abusive and harassing tweets about people you disagree with, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including over &#8220;work&#8221; hours? \u00a0<strong>Not stalking.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/farm7.staticflickr.com\/6190\/6066246677_487bc76a17_b.jpg\">Claiming<\/a> on a large conversation thread on Twitter that someone has been convicted of driving while intoxicated? \u00a0<strong>Not Stalking<\/strong>. \u00a0(OK, it&#8217;s legally more like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?tag=defamation-law\">defamation<\/a>, but it&#8217;s part of the previous bullet).<\/li>\n<li>Leaving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS470US470&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=George+Hayduke+Mitch+Berg+\">dozens, maybe hundreds, of Google-turds all around the web<\/a> under a transparent sock-puppet ID (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS470US470&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=%22George+Hayduke%22+bachmann+bicycle\">whose source is trivially easy to trace<\/a>), and setting up a sock-puppet website about an embarassing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5125\">incident <\/a>(naturally, with the parts that aren&#8217;t embarassing carefully excised away for the perp&#8217;s enjoyment) under a false but drearily transparent sock-puppet ID, \u00a0with the help of a &#8220;source&#8221; who should have known better (and does, today), and engaging in this behavior <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CCYQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fweinerwatch.blogspot.com%2F2006%2F09%2Fjournalistic-integrity-in-blogosphere.html&amp;ei=LS2YT4vvDqK82wXu3_m2Bw&amp;usg=AFQjCNF40-GWaVVfYi4JLqEHIpB-vuuoGA&amp;sig2=QaiElunh3i_NzaWgbRVNAA\">against many, many people under many, many monkers<\/a> and doing that and much, much more with such demented abandon that when something bad <em>did <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5108#comments\">finally happen<\/a>, he\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/koolaidreport.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/to-ken-weiner.html\">felt the need<\/a> to make sure people knew it really really wasn&#8217;t him who was responsible, this time: \u00a0<strong>Good heavens, no &#8211; not Stalking, silly wingnut.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Going to a public building, with intentions publicly displayed under one&#8217;s own name, with a clearly-stated express intent well within the bounds of free speech, and obeying the rules &#8211; including the ones about &#8220;threatening people&#8221; &#8211; and doing it while carrying a baby and hauling a stroller: \u00a0<strong>&#8220;Stalking&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always tried to treat people the way I&#8217;d like to be treated. \u00a0Seriously, I do &#8211; I mean, a good chunk of the Twin Cities left think that &#8220;Expressing any sort of conservative opinion&#8221; is a form of assault, but beyond that I do try to keep things on the up and up.<\/p>\n<p>But I have had about enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Twin Cities&#8217; leftysphere and mainstream media: Writing thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of abusive and harassing tweets about people you disagree with, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including over &#8220;work&#8221; hours? \u00a0Not stalking. 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