Deb Frisch, The Meltdown

Wow, this just keeps going. Deb Frisch, the college professor turned internet stalker has no gotten arrested for stalking.

The saga of Deborah Frisch, long-time comment troll and all-around kook, took another troubling, but not exactly unforeseeable turn in the last 48 hours. As far as we know, she is now the first troll of the political blogosphere to face criminal charges relating to such activity. On August 21 she was arraigned in an Oregon courtroom on charges of stalking and telephone harassment (PDF). The docket can be found at the link preceding, but is captured below for your viewing pleasure:

According to Don’t Hire Deb, a blog devoted to documenting Frisch’s outrageous behavior while depriving her own site of traffic, Frisch posted either $4,000 bail or $400 to a bondsman, and must reappear in court on September 25th. As is speculated in DHD comments and elsewhere, this likely stems not from Frisch’s well-publicized Jeff Goldstein-related misadventures (to the best of our knowledge she’s never called him) but rather similar interactions with former colleagues at University of Oregon (where she was denied tenure in 1994 and served as an adjunct until July 2001) including calling, emailing, and a quickly-removed post to her blog. 

There is a huge amount of information in the post at Blog PI (including a lot of links I removed from this post). Don't miss the comments. This is one disturbed unit.

(Earlier posts in the Frisch saga here, here, here, here, here and here.

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  By Pixie Pug, Wednesday, 23 August , 2006 @ 5:08 pm

  You might want to link to http://www.don‘thiredeb.blogspot.com
  They are the ones that have been watching Dr. Demented since July.
  Also, one of the VBSers opened http://www.dfrisch.blogspot.com as a challenge to Deb when she banned his comments.

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