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Re: Banned from Kickstarter for Being a Stalking Victim

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Post by chris_wot »

jasonlotito wrote: post #66
chris_wot wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not certain that Hacker News really needs your defense. Let's hear what KickStarter has to say about this. If Daniella Jaeger indeed said "If there is any chance that Rachel will receive spam from a stalker on her project, she should not create one. We simply cannot allow a project to become a forum for rampant spam, as her past project became." then she should apologize and look at the way that the project handl…

> I'm not certain that Hacker News really needs your defense. You're wrong. It does . People need to be told, flat out, the this isn't a board that wants nor appreciates mob-mentality. It promotes reason and rationality. As a long* time member of HN, threads like this are a blight. Not because of the parties involved, but because we are doing things we abhor in others. > Either way, Daniella needs to respond to this…

Kickstarter doesn't agree with your reasoning, as they have just apologized for their response. I think it's reasonable that they were called out on what they stated to Rachel Marone, and they have now apologized.

Both Rachel and Kickstarter have done the right thing here.

Re: Banned from Kickstarter for Being a Stalking Victim

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Post by grannygoodness »

agent409 wrote: post #204
angersock wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(I don't know if you are a sockpuppet, but I do know you clearly haven't been around very long. Don't act surprised at accusations of sockpuppetry.) Frankly, I'm inclined to believe those other people are wrong--as I've sketched out elsewhere, there is quite obviously nothing productive here that we can discuss. We lack useful information, we lack unbiased info, and all we can do is rage for one side or the other whi…

Thank you, this is actually a very finely crafted criticism. I appreciate it greatly. I haven't been around very long here (about 24 hours). My purpose here was to lend credibility to Rachel's claims from my own experience with a mutual cyberstalker and ask for help in the form of feasible advice, recommendations on investigative techniques to help us build our case against him so we can (finally) get the law involve…

agent 409 is the stalker here, you are being lied to.

Open Letter to Reverend Anne L. Schlesinger of LeGrand Methodist Church

Dear Reverend Anne Schlesinger:

This is a difficult matter to bring to your attention. But I do not believe that your husband David N. “Lefty” Schlesinger has made you aware of certain illegal and immoral activities that he is engaging in regards to his pornographic and harassment/stalking websites. I do not know if you are even aware of Lefty’s 16 year career of stalking and harassment, which seems to have begun with his menacing threats and extortion demands on the Waldorf school teacher Kathy Sutphen. I doubt someone of your position in the Church could be aware of such horrendous activities and not stop them immediately and by any means. Currently, Lefty under the name ‘stonemirror’ and in his own civil name is harassing several parties unrelated to me. This in addition to Lefty even of this morning contacting some friends of mine I haven’t even talked to in months and harassing them. Worst of all, Lefty has decided to increase his harassment of my person by purchasing from my ex- partner several home made pornographic photographs over ten years old which he has now illegally published on one of his many harassment websites, http://www.extinct-marsupial.org . Here is a link to the photo in question, one of many:

[as of 2/20 the pornographic material has been temporarily forced offline with the intervention of law enforcement]

This material was never public in any way until your husband David “Lefty” Schlesinger made it public in order to harm and stalk my family. This not only illegal harassment and cyberstalking on Lefty’s part, it is civil court actionable on several counts including willful invasion of privacy and infliction of emotional distress. If you can stop your husband Lefty, perhaps we can avoid involving the police and/or civil attorneys in this matter. David needs your help, his actions are not those of a sane and sober man.

The following WHOIS link has your and David’s home address on it, 499 Balch Way, Ben Lomond, CA. This proves that the site extinct- marsupial.org is the creation of Lefty and Lefty only. Though in fact, Lefty makes it a public boast that he owns this stalking/harassment site with its stolen, unauthorized pornographic photos. http://who.godaddy.com/WhoIs.aspx?domain=extinct- marsupial.org&prog_id=godaddy Lefty also runs other websites devoted to harassing my family such as : http://stonemirror.wordpress.com

Here are other links which document Lefty’s harassment of myself, my extended family, and several other unrelated individuals:

http://lwn.net/Articles/367498/ http://lwn.net/Articles/366559/ http://lxer.com/module/forums/t/30218/ http://boycottnovell.com/2010/01/16/…te-time-lines/ http://linsux.org/blog/sirsane/2010/…advocates-and- homophobia/ http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20559&pa...

Anne: your husband Lefty has been called out as mentally unbalanced by his own work colleague the internationally regarded Bruce Perens. I believe only you can get him the help he needs, and make him stop this vile and disgusting and illegal activity he is engaged in, driven by his obvious mental illness. Reverend Anne, will you do something to help your husband and also help his stalking victims escape his insane actions? sincerely, The Victims of David “Lefty” Schlesinger aka ‘stonemirror’

Re: Banned from Kickstarter for Being a Stalking Victim

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Post by lucian1900 »

nhangen wrote: post #89

Based on my experiences with Kickstarter, this is not surprising. I don't think anyone can argue that they haven't built a great product, but I've yet to be impressed by the quality of their service and find their 'community at all costs' attitude to be immature. Why can't they just IP ban the stalker? Without all of the details, it's hard to know what's going on here, but the lack of empathy in the response from KS…

The stalker is likely to be using things like Tor, the blocking of which would upset significant legitimate feedback.

Re: Banned from Kickstarter for Being a Stalking Victim

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Post by rbanffy »

agent409 wrote: post #203
saraid216 wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

According to the OP post, the violation was of Community Guidelines. Those can be found here: http://www.kickstarter.com/help/guidelines It was not speculation.

What's your reasoning? Nowhere in the KS guidelines does it say you're not allowed to receive spam, only that you're not allowed to generate spam for your project. Please advise?

You should never engage a troll/netstalker. Ignoring them is the best approach, always. They feed on your engagement and get frustrated and go away looking for other targets if you ignore them.

If they become real-world stalkers, get a restraining order.

Re: Banned from Kickstarter for Being a Stalking Victim

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Post by stonemirror »

I'm writing this largely in response to "jasonlotito", who appears to have a personal investment in this story being a lie. That's not the case, I'm afraid.

I've been harassed for close to ten years myself by this person, who's sent numerous emails to my employers — including Apple and Palm — claiming that I was a pedophile, a Satanist, a drug dealer, a serial killer and a variety of other things. He's sent pornography to members of my family and attempted to impersonate me on Facebook as well.

I had a criminal complaint against him, filed in Merced County, in March 2010. While there are "protocols" for dealing with these sorts of situations, in practice, the police rarely act on them if the situation presents any sort of an actual challenge, in my experience. They're under-staffed and ill-equipped to deal with this sort of thing.

The situation is complicated by the fact that the stalker is a transient who changes his location several times a year, and who's changed his name twice in the past eight years. He uses TOR, public WiFi access, a raft of Hushmail accounts, and other means to make himself more difficult to track down.

I have first-hand knowledge of no fewer than twenty other people who've also been harassed by this person. He's been doing this sort of thing back into the 90s, originally on USENET. He's since moved on to Facebook and Google+, and now Kickstarter.

I maintained a web site at extinct-marsupial.org for a number of years documenting this stalker's activities. I finally took it down last year after my ISP became unwilling to deal with the multiple bogus DMCA complaints that this person supplied them with on a monthly basis.

I'm on Facebook, Google+, Twitter and other places; my personal web site is at shugendo.org. I've been a professional technologist for three decades, and I can confirm that the person harassing Rachel exists, has been harassing her for a number of years, and that law enforcement has proven completely incapable of doing anything about it, for her, for me, or for the other people that this stalker has victimized and continues to victimize.

Re: Banned from Kickstarter for Being a Stalking Victim

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Post by grannygoodness »

mcantelon wrote: post #207
agent409 wrote: post #205

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was a site for this: http://extinct-marsupial.org/ However, the guy running it got tired of the constant harassment, bogus DMCA takedown requests, and DoS attacks. You can see all kinds of references to the site in the google cache and other places. That was our main d0x site. Unfortunately it appears our friendly neighborhood stalker was able to get Wayback to exclude the whole site, so we don't have a copy on…

Too bad it's down. This guy seems remarkably thorough. Does he come from money? I'm just wondering how he gets the time to do this as it seems like it would take a lot of work.

http://techrights.org/2010/02/19/defamed-by-access-employee/

Open Letter to Reverend Anne L. Schlesinger of LeGrand Methodist Church

Dear Reverend Anne Schlesinger:

This is a difficult matter to bring to your attention. But I do not believe that your husband David N. “Lefty” Schlesinger has made you aware of certain illegal and immoral activities that he is engaging in regards to his pornographic and harassment/stalking websites. I do not know if you are even aware of Lefty’s 16 year career of stalking and harassment, which seems to have begun with his menacing threats and extortion demands on the Waldorf school teacher Kathy Sutphen. I doubt someone of your position in the Church could be aware of such horrendous activities and not stop them immediately and by any means. Currently, Lefty under the name ‘stonemirror’ and in his own civil name is harassing several parties unrelated to me. This in addition to Lefty even of this morning contacting some friends of mine I haven’t even talked to in months and harassing them. Worst of all, Lefty has decided to increase his harassment of my person by purchasing from my ex- partner several home made pornographic photographs over ten years old which he has now illegally published on one of his many harassment websites, http://www.extinct-marsupial.org . Here is a link to the photo in question, one of many:

[as of 2/20 the pornographic material has been temporarily forced offline with the intervention of law enforcement]

This material was never public in any way until your husband David “Lefty” Schlesinger made it public in order to harm and stalk my family. This not only illegal harassment and cyberstalking on Lefty’s part, it is civil court actionable on several counts including willful invasion of privacy and infliction of emotional distress. If you can stop your husband Lefty, perhaps we can avoid involving the police and/or civil attorneys in this matter. David needs your help, his actions are not those of a sane and sober man.

The following WHOIS link has your and David’s home address on it, 499 Balch Way, Ben Lomond, CA. This proves that the site extinct- marsupial.org is the creation of Lefty and Lefty only. Though in fact, Lefty makes it a public boast that he owns this stalking/harassment site with its stolen, unauthorized pornographic photos. http://who.godaddy.com/WhoIs.aspx?domain=extinct- marsupial.org&prog_id=godaddy Lefty also runs other websites devoted to harassing my family such as : http://stonemirror.wordpress.com

Here are other links which document Lefty’s harassment of myself, my extended family, and several other unrelated individuals:

http://lwn.net/Articles/367498/ http://lwn.net/Articles/366559/ http://lxer.com/module/forums/t/30218/ http://boycottnovell.com/2010/01/16/…te-time-lines/ http://linsux.org/blog/sirsane/2010/…advocates-and- homophobia/ http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20559&pa...

Anne: your husband Lefty has been called out as mentally unbalanced by his own work colleague the internationally regarded Bruce Perens. I believe only you can get him the help he needs, and make him stop this vile and disgusting and illegal activity he is engaged in, driven by his obvious mental illness. Reverend Anne, will you do something to help your husband and also help his stalking victims escape his insane actions? sincerely, The Victims of David “Lefty” Schlesinger aka ‘stonemirror’

Re: Banned from Kickstarter for Being a Stalking Victim

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Post by grannygoodness »

agent409 wrote: post #179

I am also a victim of this guy. He harassed me off and on for years. He turned on me after I told him "no" when he asked me to do a favor for him I didn't feel comfortable doing. That was all it took to find myself on his shitlist. While we were "friends" I got to listen to him brag about all the horrible things he'd done to people, mostly women he dated, after they decided to tell him "no" or kick him out of their l…

Open Letter to Reverend Anne L. Schlesinger of LeGrand Methodist Church

Dear Reverend Anne Schlesinger:

This is a difficult matter to bring to your attention. But I do not believe that your husband David N. “Lefty” Schlesinger has made you aware of certain illegal and immoral activities that he is engaging in regards to his pornographic and harassment/stalking websites. I do not know if you are even aware of Lefty’s 16 year career of stalking and harassment, which seems to have begun with his menacing threats and extortion demands on the Waldorf school teacher Kathy Sutphen. I doubt someone of your position in the Church could be aware of such horrendous activities and not stop them immediately and by any means. Currently, Lefty under the name ‘stonemirror’ and in his own civil name is harassing several parties unrelated to me. This in addition to Lefty even of this morning contacting some friends of mine I haven’t even talked to in months and harassing them. Worst of all, Lefty has decided to increase his harassment of my person by purchasing from my ex- partner several home made pornographic photographs over ten years old which he has now illegally published on one of his many harassment websites, http://www.extinct-marsupial.org . Here is a link to the photo in question, one of many:

[as of 2/20 the pornographic material has been temporarily forced offline with the intervention of law enforcement]

This material was never public in any way until your husband David “Lefty” Schlesinger made it public in order to harm and stalk my family. This not only illegal harassment and cyberstalking on Lefty’s part, it is civil court actionable on several counts including willful invasion of privacy and infliction of emotional distress. If you can stop your husband Lefty, perhaps we can avoid involving the police and/or civil attorneys in this matter. David needs your help, his actions are not those of a sane and sober man.

The following WHOIS link has your and David’s home address on it, 499 Balch Way, Ben Lomond, CA. This proves that the site extinct- marsupial.org is the creation of Lefty and Lefty only. Though in fact, Lefty makes it a public boast that he owns this stalking/harassment site with its stolen, unauthorized pornographic photos. http://who.godaddy.com/WhoIs.aspx?domain=extinct- marsupial.org&prog_id=godaddy Lefty also runs other websites devoted to harassing my family such as : http://stonemirror.wordpress.com

Here are other links which document Lefty’s harassment of myself, my extended family, and several other unrelated individuals:

http://lwn.net/Articles/367498/ http://lwn.net/Articles/366559/ http://lxer.com/module/forums/t/30218/ http://boycottnovell.com/2010/01/16/…te-time-lines/ http://linsux.org/blog/sirsane/2010/…advocates-and- homophobia/ http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20559&pa...

Anne: your husband Lefty has been called out as mentally unbalanced by his own work colleague the internationally regarded Bruce Perens. I believe only you can get him the help he needs, and make him stop this vile and disgusting and illegal activity he is engaged in, driven by his obvious mental illness. Reverend Anne, will you do something to help your husband and also help his stalking victims escape his insane actions? sincerely, The Victims of David “Lefty” Schlesinger aka ‘stonemirror’

Re: Banned from Kickstarter for Being a Stalking Victim

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Post by grannygoodness »

agent409 wrote: post #181
pault wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

After doing a bit of googling, I believe what we have here is a set of borderline personalities that are unfortunately drawn together. They have plenty of outlets for their antics; we shouldn't be indulging them here.

I am also a victim of this guy. He harassed me off and on for years. He turned on me after I told him "no" when he asked me to do a favor for him I didn't feel comfortable doing. That was all it took to find myself on his shitlist. While we were "friends" I got to listen to him brag about all the horrible things he'd done to people, mostly women he dated, after they decided to tell him "no" or kick him out of their l…

The identity of the above poster is one Travis Wichert, employee of liquidweb.com in East Lansing, MI. Travis has significant mental health issues.

Re: Banned from Kickstarter for Being a Stalking Victim

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Post by grannygoodness »

agent409 wrote: post #190
antidaily wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like a fucking idiot. Which doesn't mean she deserves to be harassed. But WTF @ that comment! Who would want to give someone who talks like that any of their money?

Not sure if it helps your perspective or not, but the quoted material was written by our stalker rather than Rachel. He has many accounts on social networking sites and manufactures credibility by replying to his own posts with links to posts on other sites (usually ones he's written). He's been doing this for a long time. Even I have a hard time sorting out the sock puppets from the non-sock puppets sometimes. He's…

These crazed lies and made up quotations come to you from one Travis Wichert, employee of liquidweb.com who allow him to use company resources and servers to spread libel and defamation and to harass, stalk, etc on company time. Liquidweb.com Official Endorser of Domestic Harassment since hiring Travis Wichert, a pathetic tool who graduated from DeVrye Technical "School"
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