Moon Phase = heading toward
waning gibbous | Weather = 60 and a bit cloudy | Current reading = The Artist's Way - Julia Cameron
Week 4!
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Quote:"Well, I know that chivalry is dead but how about a little common courtesy?"
-Amanda, "Highlander: The Raven"
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December 6, 1998
I did a real brilliant thing - here it is, 3 a.m. and I just finished eating Szechuan Chicken...you'd think that I knew better...
Tonight, one of my ICQ contacts told more about the situation that she's found herself in this week - someone she met in a chat room and became friends with is now stalking her. It began when she trusted him after getting to know him for a while - she gave him the passwords to her website after he convinced her that it was easier for him to just program the webpages himself instead of teaching her html programming, like he originally offered. She also gave him her phone number because she thought that his daughter wanted to personally thank her for some things that were written. Pretty soon, he had her home address as well.
She also stopped going into her usual chats because he would find her and start disrupting everything with his tirades. Yes, he turned violent. She went back after a while to the chats because she had heard that he had gotten married...but it was all a charade. Now he has spammed her guestbook with nasty photos of violent sexual acts (some say that they are faked photos - in any case, they are still gruesome); called her at home and threatened her both by mail and phone. She has contacted his web provider and was actually told that nothing could truly be done about the guy because the provider is a business and couldn't be turning away customers.
Shit like this really makes me mad. Angry. Downright pissed. Here this woman is - her life has been threatened repeatedly and they don't want to turn away a customer. I really wish I could clean people like that out of the gene pool. Stringing them up by the balls is too good for them and it would be over entirely too quickly. See if you can figure out why (but then again, in a strange way - it *would* effectively take them out of the gene pool, wouldn't it??).
I am divided as to what I wish I could do - physically protect this woman, who I'd like to call a close friend someday and hunt down this piece of trash and deal with him. I know that vigilantes are outlawed...but I can dream.
Sweet Epona - now I'm in warrior mode...I need to do what I can - looks like it's time for those protection spells and Momma Silver's justice spells...
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