What a way to start a day

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Having a blog has its disadvantages. This morning I woke to find that some monster called jezreelite (if it is; had I done what it has done, not that I would dream of it, I would have used a sockpuppet) had slimed all over my blog, leaving poisonous and insulting answers all over my posts. The level of repulsiveness of this creature may be gauged by two of its comments. In the post about abortion, headnoises (I think it was her, and at any rate she would not be ashamed of it) had asked what could possibly be worse than being dead. jezreelite's attempt at an answer was to post photos of three deformed babies. So being ugly or disabled is worse than being dead. So I, who am ugly, and my brother, who is disabled, ought not to have been allowed to live - for that reason and that reason alone. What a piece of work. And in the post where I raged about terrorists abusing innocent Down's Syndrome cases (do you see a trend developping here?) for mass murder, the creature concluded that I hate Muslims and "sand n******" - yes, the N-word. The creature went as far back as the post on the movie "300", where, not finding anything it could object to, it objected to the fact that I had dedicated so much time to an unimportant film! (Of course, my problem was with Frank Miller's immense cultural influence and its Fascist overtones, but never mind.)

Of course the filth is now banned, and any future post that even looks like it is from it will be deleted on the spot. But what a Hell of a way to start a day.

Comments

screencap of some of the creature's comments

[fpb.livejournal.com]

http://s12.photobucket.com/albums/a234/FabioPBarbieri/?action=view¤t=jezreelscreencap.jpg

[curia-regis.livejournal.com]

Doesn't this (http://fpb.livejournal.com/285103.html?thread=2134191#t2134191) kind of look like it's at least from somebody with a similar username?

I never get trolls. That's probably a good thing, but still!

[curia-regis.livejournal.com]

Oh, looking at your screencap, it is the same person.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Yes, I got the screen name wrong. I will now proceed to correct it.

And I should change my screen name to troll_magnet.

[curia-regis.livejournal.com]

Well you could! It isn't actually a registed LJ username. :p

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Well, the journal already is headed as "reflexions of a stormy petrel". That certainly seems to indicate turbulence ahead.

(Just you wait till I finally post about the Second Amendment....)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

:-D ... that's funny.

[eliskimo.livejournal.com]

Hm. Looks like she only set up the account 3 days ago and went looking for trouble. Interestingly her only public post reads "Go Away" (slightly less politely).

Huh. That's all I have to say about that.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

So. I'd guessed right, hadn't I?

Update

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Sockpuppet had the nerve to call me a "coward" and to claim to start a debate on its LJ - some debate, since its user info page does not list a single friend. I can never get enough of Sophocles' quotation that of all the wonders on the face of the Earth, the most astonishing one is Man.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I would guess that this person was first offended by my post about abortion as a crime - which I admit was fighting talk, and meant to be; and, having a narrow and prejudiced view of anti-abortion campaigners, went looking for reasons to support said view. Since in fact I do not fit that stereotype, it was inevitable that my views should be distorted and misrepresented. I imagine that the worst disappointment was to find, reading the 300 post, that I was an articulate and fierce enemy of Fascism, and knew quite a lot about it.

But there is something that underlies that. The post where it all began basically made the point that, if abortion is wrong, then it is no defence to say that it should be safe. The issue then becomes, is it wrong, or is it not? One or two people tried to answer in various ways - prylliepwns, for instance, with the widespread and not indefensible view that only those who have to endure a pregnancy ought to be able to decide on the matter. This is an arguable position, but arguable is exactly what it is - it can be argued, morally and rationally, for and against. jezreelite, on the other hand, posted three disgusting pictures. The appeal, that is, was not to the mind or even to the heart, but to the senses: the point of revolting (or supposedly revolting) pictures of babies, if unaccompanied by actual descriptions of really hopeless conditions that would make life not worth living, simply intend to hit at the gut level. That is how this person thinks, or rather feels. Disgust is a reason in itself. Life, it claims, can be so disgusting that it would be better not to have to live it. And someone who reacts on such a visceral level, without argument or principle, is not well positioned to argue properly or take in opponents' views. Disgust or approval is all it has to offer.

[headnoises.livejournal.com]

More than a few folks have looked at ultrasounds of my sister's first son, who had feet turned up as far as you can turn your hands up against your arms to be "even," and suggested he should have been killed-- thankfully, none suggested this near my adoring sister, nor her husband, nor myself-- at least not in person. Three suggested it on the phone. Two hung up on the following string of "conversation" with my sweet, kind, loving, in-five-years-of-being-a-twit-never-said-boo-sister.

We would gladly do physical harm to any who suggest the death of a lovely, laughing little boy.
http://picasaweb.google.com/headnoises/SqueekerDelux
For pictures.

[dustthouart.livejournal.com]

Troll, nothing. This creature had the best idea I've heard in years. A Harlequin Romance novel about Chavez learning how tiny his britches really are. DO EET.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I have an idea you would probably do eet better. Why not have a go?

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

YUK. Occasionally slime shows up on my journal (probably everyone's). I never comment, just delete.

[atropaxbeladona.livejournal.com]

There's some interesting articles you should read at MSNBC (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23261370) and the New New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/world/middleeast/21iraq.html?ex=1361250000&en=8c331807e26df2d6&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all).

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I read. And your point is?

Some interesting dates...

[fpb.livejournal.com]

The sockpuppetish nature of this "user" is not as obvious as that of jezreelite, but the blog was still established only a few weeks ago, and there is only one post, which is basically an "eff-you" to anyone reading. Fairly clearly this is a shit-stirrer of the same kind as jezreelite, probably the same person. (The IP address is different, but that proves nothing.) I almost feel I could put a name to it.

In spite of what I said, the creature will not, for the present, be banned. Just so that everyone can contemplate what an elaborate job of sockpuppetry has been carried out here. Jesus, don't you people have a life?

[headnoises.livejournal.com]

It was indeed me who stated that "dead" isn't worse than a discomfort while alive. Any who disagree are fully welcome to kill themselves and check, to be sure.

My grandfather was disfigured in adulthood; maimed in accidents; one of his sons, the same, in a vehicle accident with his legs. One of my father's brothers has has MS since long before I was born, and breeds beautiful horses, makes amazing saddles. My godmother, toughest woman I've ever known, had a cleft pallet. My mother has a mutation that makes it so she can't puke. My nephew has two insanely club feet-- a problem easily corrected, yet still used as a reason to abort. My "older" neighbor growing up, who raised huskies for the sheer pleasure of their company, now has a nerve-degenerative disease.

Do you want to tell me that the tough grandfather who made beautiful knives shouldn't live?

That the laughing little boy, who happened to be born with club feet and is now nearly a year ahead in recovery, shouldn't live?

That Uncle Steve, who nerve was quite "right"-- yet has managed to make my aunt very happy, and to turn the childhood of not only his relatives, but all the children in the valley to the better with his wagon-horses and old-fashioned ranch, should have been killed?

That Mrs. Jean B., who married the fatherless sheepherder, whose father was killed by an Indian raid and mother was impoverished by Indian-scalper hunters, should have been killed?(for those who love trivia: the hunters found the right group, as one of them had "scalped" the impressive mustache off of Jean B. Sr., and had it on his belt when killed. In Modoc county, there is still as story that the Church has blood under the carpet from when the bodies were brought in to thaw before burial......)

That the neighbor who my father loves enough to burry two dogs, three cats, a horse and rooster should be killed, because her life isn't worth as much due to her nerves being worn by a disease?

How about my mother? She who destroyed her knees with high school and college sports? Until her operation last year, she was in pain for three solid years-- not alcohol, nor aspirin, nor Ibuprofen could touch her pain. Now she can climb on a horse's back and ride for a day without a twinge.

All those and more are reason that I will defy the death-seakers who will not look there first, themselves.