hangin.\u00a0\u00a0you\u2019re a lyin deceiver fat msn verdad nigglin.\u00a0\u00a0a cult addicted yes man excuse\u00a0maker.\u00a0\u00a0what a life livin the cult lie\u2026kolob waitin ya nutzo<\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
I have to admit that his mention of my granddaughter caught my attention. \u00a0In my judgment, he\u2019s crossed an important line.<\/p>\n
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I\u2019m confident that there\u2019s no indictable crime here, but I\u2019m wondering \u2014 and I\u2019m seriously asking \u2014 whether there\u2019s any kind of recourse available to me. \u00a0If not, as matters currently stand, to the police or legal authorities but to anybody involved with social media. \u00a0I doubt it, but maybe somebody has a better idea about such things. \u00a0Serious responses would be welcomed.<\/p>\n
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My email address \u2014 he already knows it, of course! \u2014 is daniel_peterson@byu.edu.<\/p>\n
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Three times in the past I\u2019ve felt obliged to report threats of violence to the local police. \u00a0(In those cases, I knew that they were coming from a specific person in California, a fixated critic of the Church who is plainly mentally ill; I\u2019m confident that this current case has no connection whatever with those.) \u00a0The police looked at the threats, admitted that they were concerning and bizarre, and jotted down some notes, but said that they could really do nothing about them unless and until an actual crime occurred. \u00a0They could, they explained, contact him and tell him to stop sending such messages, but that might simply inflame him further. \u00a0I replied that I didn\u2019t expect<\/em> that they could do anything. \u00a0I simply wanted the man\u2019s name to be in their records in the event that I were to die soon in a suspicious way.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
I have pretty much the same attitude toward this current case.<\/p>\n
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It does seem to me a form of stalking, and the fact that it\u2019s been going on since at least 4 August 2012 (when he sent me ten such messages, followed by five on the next day) seems to indicate that the author of the notes is both obsessed and unhinged. \u00a0That concerns me at least a little, because sending me hundreds of insulting emails for the better part of a decade may someday seem insufficient to him as a means of expressing his hatred. \u00a0And what then? \u00a0Who knows?<\/p>\n
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I don\u2019t like the mention of my granddaughter.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 I commented yesterday on a fellow \u2014 I\u2019m confident that it\u2019s a male \u2014 who has been sending me short, crude, and insulting anonymous emails for well over six years, sometimes at the rate of several per day: \u00a0 https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2018\/12\/the-odd-couple-part-two.html \u00a0 Apparently, being noticed has inspired him to yet greater efforts because, this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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