| Linda 2004-08-13, 11:11 am |
| Here is an excerpt from Dr. Ehrenfals report on usenet's Stalking Therapists
containing his musings about the PATHOLOGY of these sick, twisted stalking
therapists!
http://www.fireflysun.com/book/SPPstalking.php
"So the next time someone suggests that perhaps we need to kick these fellas
out of Usenet (and into a life of robbing convenience marts), be gently
reminded that the most constructive solution may just be to keep these
self-styled outlaws in their own prison. In a twisted display of self-sabotage,
isn't that exactly what these stalkers, defending their freedom to stalk, have
made of cyberspace's Wild West? Of the world's most unchaperoned party? A
prison? Do they not betray their own awareness of this fact when they find
creative ways of preventing me, who does not post to Usenet, from being able to
safely turn my back on SPP once and for all (without the weekly threat
assessment)? Consider this. While the SPP stalkers attempt to raise money to
file a lawsuit against one "kook" for posting to Usenet, they complain about
how another "kook" (this would be me) hides "behind my walls," and with a
defiant form of wishful thinking, they insist that once my book runs its course
I will return to Usenet to engage them on a daily basis.
As will become clearer the further you delve into this report, it is easier to
fit an elephant through the eye of a needle than to maintain respect for
individuals who feel the need to loiter SPP let alone manufacture hostilities.
No doubt you too will want to grab some of these 'persons' by the shoulders,
burn your solemn gaze straight into their eye, and urge them to find a pool
hall, a local Starbucks, or a Playstation 2. As a high school student I had
more respect for the dead heads who used to smoke a midnight bone or two
outside the 7-11 then some of these 'persons' who assume there will come a time
that I will be unable to find anything better to do than to trade disparaging
lies on a message board. And yet some 'persons' call this a career, or at least
they imply as much when they announce every so often that they are 'retiring
from Usenet.' I'd be very interested to learn just what they think they're
contributing to the gross national product, though not interested enough to put
the question to anyone in SPP. Honestly, if we're going to convene task forces
and committees to consider adding to the DSM diagnostic scheme such topical
disorders as "Road Rage" -- no doubt to provide a simple and single diagnosis
for patients who would otherwise be labeled with about a half dozen other major
disorders -- then we might as well create a similar bypass for those who
frequent certain unmoderated groups on Usenet. But then I suppose no committee
deserves to be saddled with the task of identifying the appropriate class for
the new "Usenet Stalking" diagnosis. I mean, would it be a Mood Disorder? I am
thinking here of SPPs signature combination of psychomotor agitation and mental
retardation, not to mention the manic flight of ideas and pressured utterances
with a vague resemblance to speech. But then with speech that fractured and
profane ("j00 thinks me evuhl, eh XXXXtard") I am required to consider the Tic
Disorders and maybe even Tourette's. (But if involuntary motor production were
criterial, I'd also be forced to consider putting this new diagnosis in the
same category as childhood bedwetting). But when I remind myself that this is
not so much a failure of the motor circuits as of parts of the brain involved
in the making of meaning, it occurs to me that a broader use of the term
fracturing effectively captures their disintegration of personality into
multiple identities, and I think -- hmm -- Dissociative Disorder. Perhaps most
prominent is the rolling into an Internet persona of all those needs and traits
they can't possibly take with them when they leave the house (some of them may
not leave the house very often). But alas, if I settled on any one of the above
mentioned classifications for the proposed disorder, I'd still be neglecting
many other suitable candidates, such as Substance-Induced Disorder. Not only
are some SPP stalwarts card carrying members of the drug culture, but also
their habit of loitering SPP in defiance of "other things to do in life" bares
the earmark of addiction, spurring speculating as to whether the professionals
in question were ever 'about the music, man.' While the SPP clique converges on
a carousing proclamation of how my expatriation from Psychology is
well-deserved, I often wonder how some of these individuals could have been
truly 'called' to Psychology when they feel the need to spend as much time as
they do zinging (and otherwise manufacturing reasons to revile) their neighbor
in Usenet, which brings me to the next candidate: Impulse Control Disorder. SPP
stalkers appear unable to manage one impulse in particular, the impulse to
deceive. In light of the madness with which they manufacture lies about
"kooks," not to mention the deception involved in disguising their own pleas
for love and attention, I should probably not rule out Factitious Disorder and
particularly Munchausen's by Proxy. You know, "Munchausen's by Proxy"?...as
when a mother poisons a young son so that his protracted dependence would make
her feel needed. This disorder provides a striking analogy to the practice
whereby SPP stalkers lacking talent, knowledge, or purpose fabricate the
harmful or eccentric properties of a chosen newcomer, diagnosing him or her as
a "kook," so they feel their harassment of this target can fill their days and
fulfill a necessary service to the public and professional community. And if
you read a little further in this report, that is precisely the justification
they offer for harassing and defaming those they deem "kooks." Now if only they
were able to explain their urge to label people "kooks" in the first place.
But I imagine the reason they want me back in Usenet, even as they cry out in
some strange form of pain for other "kooks" to leave, is that they're well
aware of what participation in SPP does to a person's image and credibility. Oh
sure, this disadvantage is evenly distributed across adversaries in SPP as long
as they both bicker in SPP. But when one party withdraws from SPP, the
disparity becomes all too plain. The SPP stalkers, after driving me from SPP,
figure that my case would be weakened -- and my image tarnished -- if I
participate in one of these endless flame wars. As long as truth and mutual
understanding are beside the real point of as much as one of the parties in a
flame war, the argument is a no-win proposition. Physicists shred less scalp
pondering the origins of the universe than a person could shred trying to trace
the origins of the war between SPP stalkers and a few of their home-grown
"kooks."
Linda
Do NOT tell me persons who have been cyberharasssing me for years by following
me into forum after forum and posting untrue BS about me, aren't
cyberstalking me, unless you are willing to accept my view of you as a sick,
twisted, liar.
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