The Saga Of The Digital Brownshirts

George over at Seixon has been getting a whole bunch of really bad experiences all having to do the Jason Leopold and Larry Johnson. (I did a little bit of humor about it here). But I don't think George is laughing right now. Frankly, I'd be looking to get a lawyer right now and be looking into suing heck out of Johnson and Leopold. Both have crossed lines, I think, but Johnson is particularly wrong here.

Johnson laced the email, to a personal account of mine which I do not usually give out and which is not available through Google, with personal details about my family and me. Just like Leopold had done, Johnson repeated my mother’s name, my parents’ address, and even my birth month and year. Obviously Johnson thought this would freak me out and scare me into retracting everything. He concluded the email with:

I am willing to accept a written apology and move on. If you refuse to retract your statements about me I am prepared to ratchet this up several levels. I have not spent the last twenty years working with the U.S. military and the intelligence community to accept this kind of nonsense from a wet-nosed 24 year old coward, who is an armchair warrior but does not have the courage to enlist in the military when his country is at war.

Is that a threat, Mr. Johnson? After I responded, he fired back with this:

I know where you are living. You forget that I do work for the European Union and friends in Interpol. I've offered you a mature way to deal with this situation. You're obviously too immature and inexperienced to recognize the offer for what it is. Too bad.

Is Larry Johnson using his law enforcement contacts to dig up information on me to intimidate me into retracting uncomfortable facts about his involvement with peddling false allegations against a commenter at my blog? Sheesh. So who was the one who dug up everything? Was it John Dean? Was it Leopold? Was it Johnson? Obviously Johnson has the most resources to do such things, as he so aptly says himself.

Trying to scare someone by lacing an email filled with personal details about them and their family is a “mature” way of handling business?

About the time someone starts making veiled threats like Johnson has is about the time to get the authorities and the lawyers involved. Those who can, do. Those who are dangerous windbags, threaten.

UPDATE: Allah has the links. Seixon received a death threat overnight.

UPDATE: Typos corrected, Seixon spelled properly now. Thanks Crosspatch.

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  By crosspatch, July 26, 2006 @ 11:42 am

  Minor nit but because of the letters being used, probably better corrected. It’s seixon, not sexion. Found myself making that same typo at first too.

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