October 29, 2010 @ 1:15 a.m.
--Internet harassment
--Results of my blogs being shut down for 2 days
--Candidates from various parties want to be part of the harassment to get endorsements, win elections and get movie deals.
I am now able to log into my Weebly account, my Friendster account, my MyTripJournal account and the PhotoBlog account that I created when I was denied access to those first three accounts a couple of days ago.
However, all of the services above except for Friendster have pictures and phrases on their official websites that are meant to be harassing.
I also am still getting the same message from Hushmail that I started getting a few days ago, which is that my computer has been blocked from accessing Hushmail.
It may be that occasionally I am insensitive to what specific people have gone through; however, what I’m going through is 10 million times worse than what any of those people are going through. I’m the one being bullied, and I’m the one who’s been getting slandered for 2 years.
If there were times over the past year on the Internet when I was really angry, it’s because I was getting slandered all the time, by one person or entity after another. Everyone has had a motive for being awful, and very little if any of it has been my fault.
I’ve been ripped off, I’ve been lied about, I’ve been ridiculed; that was all happening long before anyone started calling me vagina names, hacking my online and bank accounts, or threatening me.
I’m the one whose life and future have been getting threatened. There’s no reason for any of what’s been happening to be happening, and none of it would have gotten this bad or still be happening if the U.S. government hadn't been promoting the harassment since the summer of 2010.
--Internet harassment
--Results of my blogs being shut down for 2 days
--Candidates from various parties want to be part of the harassment to get endorsements, win elections and get movie deals.
I am now able to log into my Weebly account, my Friendster account, my MyTripJournal account and the PhotoBlog account that I created when I was denied access to those first three accounts a couple of days ago.
However, all of the services above except for Friendster have pictures and phrases on their official websites that are meant to be harassing.
I also am still getting the same message from Hushmail that I started getting a few days ago, which is that my computer has been blocked from accessing Hushmail.
It may be that occasionally I am insensitive to what specific people have gone through; however, what I’m going through is 10 million times worse than what any of those people are going through. I’m the one being bullied, and I’m the one who’s been getting slandered for 2 years.
If there were times over the past year on the Internet when I was really angry, it’s because I was getting slandered all the time, by one person or entity after another. Everyone has had a motive for being awful, and very little if any of it has been my fault.
I’ve been ripped off, I’ve been lied about, I’ve been ridiculed; that was all happening long before anyone started calling me vagina names, hacking my online and bank accounts, or threatening me.
I’m the one whose life and future have been getting threatened. There’s no reason for any of what’s been happening to be happening, and none of it would have gotten this bad or still be happening if the U.S. government hadn't been promoting the harassment since the summer of 2010.
Harassment by Weebly.
The Pumpkin Carving Contest appeared on the Weebly website a few days before Weebly locked me out of my blog.
The “Fail Whale” pumpkin is again a vagina reference; I guess this one is extra explicit because it's marine life and also because the whale is spouting fluid.
WordPress destroyed my blog on its service several weeks ago. It looks as if Weebly was planning to destroy my blog on Weebly for days before it happened, and that’s why it put up the WordPress pumpkin along with the “Fail Whale” pumpkin and other harassment.
WordPress had many harassing references on its homepage before it destroyed my blog. One thing it still has in the corner of its page is a phrase that says “Code Is Poetry,” which means that WordPress is in favor of all of the harassment of me, is in favor of "Code" being used to harass, threaten and endorse stalking of me.
I don’t deserve what’s going on, and it sets a dangerous precedent for what can and will happen to other people.
The “Fail Whale” pumpkin is again a vagina reference; I guess this one is extra explicit because it's marine life and also because the whale is spouting fluid.
WordPress destroyed my blog on its service several weeks ago. It looks as if Weebly was planning to destroy my blog on Weebly for days before it happened, and that’s why it put up the WordPress pumpkin along with the “Fail Whale” pumpkin and other harassment.
WordPress had many harassing references on its homepage before it destroyed my blog. One thing it still has in the corner of its page is a phrase that says “Code Is Poetry,” which means that WordPress is in favor of all of the harassment of me, is in favor of "Code" being used to harass, threaten and endorse stalking of me.
I don’t deserve what’s going on, and it sets a dangerous precedent for what can and will happen to other people.
Harassment by WordPress
Although I’m now again able to log back into my newblog2010 blog on MyTripJournal.com, the website for MyTripJournal.com still has pictures up that are meant to be harassing.
I don’t want to tell anybody what to do, but I also don’t want to be bullied. I’m fine with living in obscurity; I’m don’t have as much obscurity as I’d like. But I’m not fine with living in obscurity AND being abused by this many people and in this way.
I have a sense of humor; I think I’m also tolerant and forgiving, but I have limits. Things that impinge upon my safety, my freedom, and access to things that I deserve to have access to reach my limits; I think that what is happening is objectionable.
I don’t want to tell anybody what to do, but I also don’t want to be bullied. I’m fine with living in obscurity; I’m don’t have as much obscurity as I’d like. But I’m not fine with living in obscurity AND being abused by this many people and in this way.
I have a sense of humor; I think I’m also tolerant and forgiving, but I have limits. Things that impinge upon my safety, my freedom, and access to things that I deserve to have access to reach my limits; I think that what is happening is objectionable.
Harassment by MyTripJournal.com
In the past few days, before my access was reinstated and I was unable to log into my Weebly, Friendster or MyTripJournal accounts, I started a new blog on Photoblog. Now Photoblog has harassing references, too, including death threats and bullying.
Harassment by Photoblog.
I've put pertinent information and explanations of the pictures into the captions in the preceding slideshows. I have tried to be careful with the pictures that I've chosen to make them all relevant.
On October 27, 2010, two days after I was locked out of my Weebly and Friendster accounts and one day after I was locked out of my account at MyTripJournal.com, I tried to log into one of my Hushmail accounts and was directed to a message that said that my computer had been blocked from accessing Hushmail. I have more than one Hushmail account because I find them convenient; you don’t have to put your name or any personal information into it, and it gives you an email address that is made up of a number with the word “auto” in front of it.
I didn’t see anything in Hushmail’s Terms of Service that said that it doesn’t allow people to have more than one account, and so I have to think that what happened was that Hushmail became part of the bullying of me in the two days when other Internet providers were blocking my access to my accounts.
I got that message again when I tried to log into 2 separate Hushmail accounts last night.
The message from Hushmail says “The computer you are using has been blocked from our website, possibly due to abuse or spam.”
I AM NOT ABUSING ANYONE AND I HAVE NEVER SENT SPAM TO ANYONE, EVER; I AM THE ONE WHO’S BEEN GETTING ABUSED. FOR ME TO SPEAK UP ABOUT BEING ABUSED ISN’T ABUSE OR HARASSMENT OF OTHER PEOPLE!
I didn’t see anything in Hushmail’s Terms of Service that said that it doesn’t allow people to have more than one account, and so I have to think that what happened was that Hushmail became part of the bullying of me in the two days when other Internet providers were blocking my access to my accounts.
I got that message again when I tried to log into 2 separate Hushmail accounts last night.
The message from Hushmail says “The computer you are using has been blocked from our website, possibly due to abuse or spam.”
I AM NOT ABUSING ANYONE AND I HAVE NEVER SENT SPAM TO ANYONE, EVER; I AM THE ONE WHO’S BEEN GETTING ABUSED. FOR ME TO SPEAK UP ABOUT BEING ABUSED ISN’T ABUSE OR HARASSMENT OF OTHER PEOPLE!
As of October 29, 2010, I'm still locked out of Hushmail since October 27, 2010.
There were definitely people who took advantage of the fact that I got denied access to some of my online accounts for a couple of days. The October 28, 2010 issue of “The Other Paper,” which is the South Burlington Community Newspaper, is no exception.
Please keep in mind as you look at the following pictures that I took of that newspaper that on October 8, 2010, a South Burlington police officer showed up at my house to threaten me; he said that I’d been making harassing phone calls to The Other Paper in the previous week and a half. That was a lie; I hadn’t had any contact with anyone at The Other Paper in a long time, and I definitely hadn’t been harassing even when I did contact that newspaper months ago about its pedophilic and other inappropriate behavior.
Please keep in mind as you look at the following pictures that I took of that newspaper that on October 8, 2010, a South Burlington police officer showed up at my house to threaten me; he said that I’d been making harassing phone calls to The Other Paper in the previous week and a half. That was a lie; I hadn’t had any contact with anyone at The Other Paper in a long time, and I definitely hadn’t been harassing even when I did contact that newspaper months ago about its pedophilic and other inappropriate behavior.
The weekly "Other paper," which is the South Burlington Community Newspaper, on October 28, 2010
In my opinion, the way that The Other Paper looks this week is mostly the fault of the Obama administration and the other political leaders who have endorsed all kinds of dangerous behavior as part of their campaign strategies. It seems to me that the publisher/editor of The Other Paper is disturbed and has been encouraged to act out her problems because of the example that those political leaders have set, and because of the aggression that those leaders have shown toward anyone who opposes their extremely inappropriate and dangerous actions.
There are other inappropriate things in The Other Paper this week, but I don't have time to go through them all here.
There are other inappropriate things in The Other Paper this week, but I don't have time to go through them all here.
The World Cup Octopus
On October 25, 2010, I was locked out of my Weebly and Friendster accounts.
According to an article on the front page of the Burlington Free Press on October 27, 2010, the World Cup octopus “seemed to be in good shape when he was checked late Monday, but he did not make it through the night.”
Did the people who were taking care of the World Cup octopus kill it when my blogs got suppressed so that they could get publicity? That’s what happened, isn’t it? That's what people who have been saying "The octopus is dead" meant; they meant that my blogs got suppressed, and the octopus which in its entirety was another sexually harassing metaphor for me got killed as a further metaphor for the censorship and for the death threats against me.
According to an article on the front page of the Burlington Free Press on October 27, 2010, the World Cup octopus “seemed to be in good shape when he was checked late Monday, but he did not make it through the night.”
Did the people who were taking care of the World Cup octopus kill it when my blogs got suppressed so that they could get publicity? That’s what happened, isn’t it? That's what people who have been saying "The octopus is dead" meant; they meant that my blogs got suppressed, and the octopus which in its entirety was another sexually harassing metaphor for me got killed as a further metaphor for the censorship and for the death threats against me.
Burlington Free Press, front page story about the death of the World Cup octopus, October 27, 2010
Seven Days newspaper, which always publishes its once-weekly edition on Wednesday, also seemed enthralled by death in its October 27-November 3 2010 issue. It’s true that Halloween will be here in a few days, but the captions on the front page seem to be indicating awareness and happiness over the fact that some of my blogs had been suppressed on Monday.
Also, it seems to me that the ghost looks somewhat like an octopus.
Also, it seems to me that the ghost looks somewhat like an octopus.
Front Page of Seven Days newspaper, October 27-November 3, 2010 edition
On page 2 of Seven Days, there’s a half-page ad for the re-election of Democrat Patrick Leahy to the U.S. Senate. Above that campaign ad, there’s another ad for “Guster,” with “Jukebox The Ghost.”
Seven Days had a lot of harassing ads and stories this week, most likely because my blogs got suppressed for a couple of days. Seven Days is also full of political ads, mostly for Democrats.
The Burlington Free Press, which was published yesterday before I regained access to my blogs, was similarly ugly, and all of the newspapers that I’ve mentioned on this page of my blog were clearly going back in the direction of pedophilia and sexual exploitation of teenagers in addition to all of the harassment and death threats.
I am going to take a minute to say how odd it is to see people acting like this whom I’ve recognized as either public figures or friends and acquaintances of my parents all my life. I’ve been to parties and events where these people were present; up until this situation, to me Sally Fox was a nice woman with whom I had chatted numerous times. I mean that some of these people are people that I know; I know them, I know their kids.
My parents have been playing volleyball in the summer every year with the same group of people, some of whom are involved in this situation. When I was little the group met every weekend. I remember watching them all, thinking how exciting it must be to be a grown-up. Then they were the age I am now.
When it got too dark to play volleyball, they’d go into the house and play charades. That was dramatic for me because I didn’t know any of the things that they were talking about, and sometimes there’d be admiring shouting and laughing when everybody figured out what the charade was. I couldn’t wait to understand what was going on; they all seemed very smart to me.
Even as an adult, if I weren’t living through it, I could never have imagined that something like what has happened in the past several months could ever happen. If I’m still alive in the summer of 2011, it will make the now-annual-only volleyball game very interesting.
Yesterday's Burlington Free Press also had a "Vermont General Election 2010 Statewide Candidate Information Publication." If it weren't already obvious from what Republican candidates have been saying and the ways in which they've been allowing ads and stories to appear around ads and stories about them in the Burlington Free Press that the Republicans want to get the celebrity, media and corporate endorsements and political power that abuse of me has become a pathway to getting, the statements made by people like Len Britton in that publication would make it obvious.
Here's an excerpt from Mr. Britton's self-written statement:
"Protecting Vermont: Environment and Energy Policy Initiatives:
Lake Champlain is Vermont's crown jewel, serving as a key economic and recreational area for the state. It faces environmental threats ranging from invasive species to excessive amounts of phosphorous spurring blue-green algae bloom growth....Although it's good our Congressional delegation is working to fund projects that protect the lake it should not be used as a political football. Download Len Britton's policy initiatives focused on comprehensive Lake Champlain clean-up legislation...."
Mr. Britton goes on to say:
"Health Care: Health care still costs too much and true reform is still needed. The Democrat national health care legislation that passed this year fails to control costs and will lead to reduced coverage for many Americans. The current bills are products of business-as-usual Washington. They're expensive, pork-filled, and they'll make a bad deficit worse..."
Mr. Britton is running against Democrat Patrick Leahy for U.S. Senator from Vermont. You can see also on Mr. Britton's website that he's trying to use the harassment as leverage.
Here's something else Mr. Britton has to say about himself:
"After a successful career as a screenwriter, Len purchased the family business in 2001 and established Britton's Lumber, Hardware and Feed."
On page 5 of the publication, there's a self-written statement by Cris Ericson, who is also running for U.S. Senator, and who lists her party affiliation as "United States Marijuana." In her Biographical Sketch at the top of the page, she says:
"Cris Ericson is still looking for investors for her movie script, "Champ the Lake Champlain Monster," a movie about pirates who come to Vermont and our favorite lake creature, Champ. Cris made two videos for CCTV expressing that (1) we need swimming trails on lakes and ponds, like bike trails, to combat obesity. Swimmers need equal rights to water surface, as compared to boat owners and fishermen; (2)...."
She goes on to say:
"Guttenberg's Bible was printed on Hemp paper....The flagship of America's Navy--the U.S.S. Constitution, had over 90 tons of Hemp rope, rigging and sails......When the Japanese took over the Philippines....during World War II, the United States gave out tons of Hemp seeds to 4 H clubs and farmers throughout the midwest to help with the war effort by creating rope and rigging for the navy."
Here's what Democrat Patrick Leahy has to say in his "Position Statement:"
Nearly all of us in Vermont have been touched in some way by Pat Leahy's work in the U.S. Senate. From helping farmers maintain a working landscape, to helping secure federal contracts for small businesses, to protecting and preserving our lakes and streams, to giving voice to our concerns about abuses of the Bush administration, Pat Leahy has been passionately representing our interests in Washington.
The son of a printer in Montpelier and grandson of Barre granite cutters, Pat Leahy knows how vital small businesses are in bringing jobs to every corner of our state, and to maintaining the rural character that makes Vermont the state that it is. He supported the small business jobs bill that was recently signed into law by President Obama--our small businesses will directly benefit from its tax credits and expanded commercial lending. Leahy also knows that Vermont must be a leader in the "green" revolution, to preserve and protect our environment, lower energy costs, reduce our dependence on foreign oil, and create jobs in this growing area of our economy. He will continue to work to help expand opportunities in this and other sectors of Vermont's economy.
Pat Leahy knows how painful the recession has been on all Vermonters--jobs have been cut, retirements have been lost, and families are having a harder and harder time just making ends meet. To get through this difficult time, he has supported federal efforts to put people back to work, and make sure state and local governments have the money they need to prevent layoffs of public sector workers....
He has fought to protect Vermont's unique environment. From helping communities manage urban runoff into Lake Champlain, to working with farmers to reduce the phosphorus on our rivers and streams, to making sure that private landowners have access to the forestry resources they need to maintain private forests, Pat Leahy has been there with creative solutions to preserve and protect our beautiful landscape.
Pat Leahy has not only stood up in Washington for Vermont's needs, but the Vermont values he brings to the Senate have become much of the nation's conscience....."
Peter Shumlin, Democratic Candidate for Vermont Governor uses the word "leak" as much as he can
October 29, 2010 @ 3:30 p.m.
My computer froze this morning, and I'd been up all night working on this page so I just left it for a while.
My perspective on this situation is, and has been, that calling me things such as "whale" and "leak" and threatening me for refusing to submit to being called those kinds of things is gender discrimination. There's no way that a similarly intense, vicious campaign that revolved around racist insinuations would be tolerated, and it's really shameful that anyone in the Obama administration has been part of what's going on.
Copyright L. Kochman October 29, 2010
My computer froze this morning, and I'd been up all night working on this page so I just left it for a while.
My perspective on this situation is, and has been, that calling me things such as "whale" and "leak" and threatening me for refusing to submit to being called those kinds of things is gender discrimination. There's no way that a similarly intense, vicious campaign that revolved around racist insinuations would be tolerated, and it's really shameful that anyone in the Obama administration has been part of what's going on.
Copyright L. Kochman October 29, 2010