Coincidence, or something more? Why are many online vigilantes believers of Right-Wing conspiracies?

Why are so many vigilante groups adherents adherents of insane online conspiracies such as Q/ PizzaGate? It isn't limited to extreme right-wingers, either; there are some left-leaning conspiracy nuts out there too. But it seems most of the vigilantes AZU members post here are right wing nuts.

(Left wing nuts aren'r immune to this, either. See BLM/ Cancel culture activists bash a registrant by CLICKING HERE)

Ed Bowman of Muscle Shoals, AL is "A Dangerous Kind of Stupid"

As a former resident of the Shosls area, I do take the battle there over stymieing efforts to help Registered Persons reintegrate into society.

A few months ago, justy before the COVID-19 shutdowns began, the Colbert County AL commision tried pushing local legislation to prevent halfways houses from opening in the area if they are going to help a person convicted of a sex offense. In response, the OnceFalle Facebook page was flooded with derogatory responses from Ed Bowman, which were promptly deleted and Bowman was immediately banned.

Bowman is the type of idiot you'd expect to find in a backwards community like Muscle Shoals (the same place where arson suspect "Shoalanda Speaks" resides). The screenshots from Ed Bowman's FB page are all recent stuff. He's an extreme right-winger and conspiracy theorist who supports the confederacy legacy of the South (it is funny how many Americans want to fly the flag of traitors and losers of a war against America.) This idiot also tried connecting the COVID-19 issue to Jeffrey Epstein.

Sadly, this extremist nutjob is actually taken seriously by people of the Shoals, but that's what happend when you live in an isolated, poor community in a state that consistently ranks at the bottom of education rankings.

(As an aside, I've noticed so many vigilantes are also die-hard Trump supporters and believers in insane conspiracies like Q)

https://shoalstatler.blogspot.com/2018/03/edward-bowman-dangerous-kind-of-stupid.html

Edward Bowman: A Dangerous Kind of Stupid

Right now, lads and lassies, I'm glad I live in Lauderdale County and not in Colbert where the likes of Edward (Ed) Bowman live. Bowman never met a conspiracy he didn't like. He even supports forgoing vaccines so your child can die a horrible death. Nice, huh? Bowman claims vaccines contain tissue of aborted fetuses. IQ of 12 or less, Mr. Bowman?

Anyone out there really think Bowman found out about the controversial re-entry ministry by himself? If you do, you should think again. Bowman has a bone to pick with the Colbert County sheriff, and it would be interesting to know just what it is and who put him up to it.

He doesn't like county commissioner David Black either. Most people don't, but Bowman's views stem from Black being homosexual. Dunno if he is or not, but that's beside the point. He could be Steve Douglas and I wouldn't vote for him. Bowman needs to stick to the facts.

Now Bowman has allied himself with the crazy Witt couple. Need I say more? If Ed Bowman tells you something is white, you pretty well know it's going to be black before you ever see it.

The Tatler

Who is obsessed with who? "Shoalanda Speaks", "Lucky Larry" and a "suspicious fire"

For over ten years, a shitty crime blogger going by the screen name Shoalanda Speaks is obsessed with Derek W. Logue of OnceFallen. She's recently made friends with another troll who currently uses the screen names "Lucky Larry" or "Larry Lynch" (not his real name, but a name stolen from a man of a similar name in Elijay, GA, nearby where the fake Larry Lynch's IP address has been traced back; he sometimes goes by "Val Parkworst", a parody of long-dead vigilante Valerie "Valigator" Parkhurst). This "Licky Larry" character has been posting for at least three full years, if not longer. Both are obsessed with Derek Logue. It is funny they have claimed it is the other way around, but both continuously write aout Derek, steal his pictures and have posted pictures of Derek AND of his friends and family, post disparaging blogs about him, and have even tried interfering in court cases and attempting to incite violebnce against him. Who is obsessed with who?

One of the many harassing posts we at AZU continuously block from Shoalanda Speaks and"Lucky Larry", here using the Val persona. 

In 2010, "Shoalanda Speaks" posted her first blog post about Derek Logue, posting a picture of him from his 1996 wedding announcement (causing emotional distress to Derek's ex-wife, who is in no way connected to the Anti-Registry Movement) and made the following veiled threat --

"Logue would like us to believe that he and others like him are changed. What his writings actually do is portray such a twisted individual that we can't blame those who live nearby this Sheffield "activist" for wanting rid of him. We hope that everyone from Turtle Point Village to Manning Homes, from Wilson Lake Shores to Little Guatemala in Russellville, teach their children about sexual predators. After all, they don't wear it stamped on their foreheads...but they should." She also posted a link to the defunct Wikisposure, who took down their website after being repeatedly sued for slander. 

The Sheffield police took a report but did not follow up on this threat because cops don't care about investigating crimes against Registered Persons. It is the complete and utter failure by the Sheffield PD to investigate Shoalanda that has empowered this dubious crime blog to continue posting lies as well as threats. A crime blogger who fails to do her research is worthless as a crime blogger, but that's why she's a crime blogger, not a criminal investigator. She could not "finish" her investigation because she discovered the things she wanted to believe about Derek Logue came from a blog that was shut down after being sued for posting lies about those they targeted, including Derek. Well, that and her only other resource was Clay "T-Sand" Keys, a recidivist currently serving 15 years in a FloriDUH state prison. (Shoalanda has continuous misrepresented Derek Logue as a "child rapist" because she info came from said blog rather than admit she was wrong.)

In the pasty ten years, Shoalanda Speaks has featured Derek Logue nearly two dozen times while Logue has not even lived in the Shoals area in a decade. 

Of course, since she has little to fear from the local inept backwater police of the Shoals area, so she's made other veiled threats, including those written by the guy pretending to be "Larry Lynch." One recent example was the "Pen-N-Sword" blogpost (another shitshow by Shoalanda and her new girlfriend "Lucky Larry") in which they suggested "putting an end to Derek Logue.

Interesting, both Shoalanda and Larry Lynch (who runs a fake blog called "Sex Offender News", a name he stole from a regular poster at FAC) both started talking about the fire, calling it "suspicious" while implying Logue was somehow the cause of the fire. It is funny how Trollanda like to claimshe only posts factual information but lies to her readers that Logue planned on moving to Muscle Shoals, a shithole of a city where no self-respecting human being would ever choose to move willingly. 

But now that suspicion has been turned around on Shoalanda and Larry Lynch, two people who were calling, texting, and emailing threats and harassment against Derek Logue, they're going on the defensive.

What is also interesting is they were quick to rejoice the moment the news came out about the fire. The timing is not coincidental and should be seen as suspicious on the part of these vigilante groups. It is known that some criminals like to admire their crimes, and Shoalanda Speaks/ "Lucky Larry" are behaving as some arsonists do. 

Now, if you've noticed that "Lauren Book", the Florida State Senator, is listed in the tag line, it is because the person who calls himself "Larry Lynch" has gone by a number of names -- "Killen Kate" on Pen-n-Sword, Barry Williams on Broward County crime blogs, and "Garl Pinkerton" on Twitter (among others. This is important news because it was this "Garl Pinkerton" alias that contacted Logue in July 2017 about Senator Book's bogus SLAPP Suit within hours of Book filing the paperwork:

To me, this implies that Senator Lauren Book and "Larry Lynch" and his two dozen aliases know each other. How else would he have known about a SLAPP Suit filed 1100 miles from Derek Logue's home? Speaking of that SLAPP Suit, the trolls are upset that Senator Book's SLAPP Suit was stricken down as a blatant violation of constitutional rights. 

Up until this point, there has been no punishment gor two stalkers who have created phony reports on a Registered Citizen activist for years. They've threatened family members, including an ex-wife Logue has not even communicated with for a decade and has no involvement whatsoever with the Anti-Registry Movement.

Jessie Lessley the arsonist, presumably
a big fan of Shoalanda Speaks

So this "Lucky Larry" is seemingly connected to both Shoalanda Speaks and Senator Book, two people who have harbored publioc ill-will towards Logue and have used the registry as a tool for harassment in violation of the law, meaning both have engaged in criminal activity. 

Do I believe the fire was suspicious? Yes, because vigilantes have engaged in arson, like the Lessleys, a family called out for harassing a local Registrant in Alabama back in 2017. 

To be fair, we at AZU understand that people like Shoalanda Speaks are uneducated and easily mislead. While Shoalanda Speaks rails on Logue living in rural Nebraska, yet Alabama consistently ranks at the bottom of US educational styatem lists. US News and World Report lists Alabama as 50th (dead last) in education in America. (Incidentally, Nebraska ranks in the Top 10.) The only good thing about Alabama is leaving. The Shoals has NOTHING to offer anyone. Thwey're so desperate to get people to move there, they are paying people up to $10k to relocate to that isolated backwater cesspool. 

Shoalanda is a product of a failed education system. Many of her readers are just as dumb:

Do I think Shoalanda Speaks and/or fake Lucky Larry committed arson? I'd say that is a maybe. They were awfullyquick to spread the news, so perhaps that is evidence of their involvement, even if it is merely indirect involvement. They think they are untouchable, but Senator Book thought the same thing until she lost her SLAPP Suit. 

People like "Lucky Larry" or "Shoalanda Speaks" think trash-talking is scaring us into submission. It is not. They love to think we fear them. We don't. Better people than they have tried silencing this movement and have failed. Harassment does not work. The laws are slowly changing. Muscle Shoals, as isolated as it is, cannot avoid the coming change. There IS Anti-Registry activism alive everywhere, even in a remote place like Muscle Shoals, AL. Deal with it. 

It is 2020 and Zach Sweers is still a douchebag with a punchable face. Also, harassment is still illegal

So Zach Sweers decided to call me out of the blue using a fake number. Apparently, he does not seem to understand calling someone to annoy them is against the law.

Sweers has already been warned not to continue harassing people but the douchebag with the punchable face doesn't seem to listen.

Word to the wise, Zach, take the prosecutor's advice and piss off. You've already been sued twice and I've already beaten a state senator in court.

https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2019/06/prosecutor-warning-to-video-vigilante-still-stands-from-2016.html

Prosecutor: Warning to video vigilante still stands from 2016
Updated Jun 12, 2019; Posted Jun 12, 2019
By John Tunison | jtunison@mlive.com

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- In 2016, a then 23-year-old Zach Sweers was advised by authorities to stop doing “sting” operations on men who responded to his online persona as an underage teen girl.

He did, at least judging by his social media pages at the time. Two men he caught on video had sued him.

Now three years later, he’s back to posting videos akin to the popular “To Catch A Predator” show.

The actions of viral video vigilantes put the public in danger, according to law enforcement.

Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker learned two week ago that Sweers had begun posting new videos to his Anxiety War web site.

In some, they show him confronting men who came to see him, thinking he was the teen girl they chatted with online. In one, he picks up a man’s dropped car keys and wrestles with the man over them.

Becker on Wednesday, June 12 joined the state Attorney General’s office and state police in warning against such video vigilantism.

“It’s dangerous to himself and it’s dangerous to the public,” Becker said.

In 2016 it was Becker’s then-boss, retired Kent County Prosecutor William Forsyth, who issued a plea for Sweers to stop and told him that prosecutors would no longer look into cases he investigated.

Becker said Forsyth’s message still applies today.

“We’re not going to work with him. We want nothing to do with him,” Becker said.

He said Sweers’ motive for the videos, in his opinion, is self-serving.

Sweers appears to have started posting new videos in early April. The introduction to the first video starts with the words “Anxiety War 2.0” and “I’m Back.”

Kent County Prosecutor William Forsyth wrote a May 4 letter to Zach Sweers

He responded to an email for comment Wednesday, but only to say that he planned to issue a video response to the Attorney General’s warning.

“There is so much more to all of this...," he wrote.

In 2016, prosecutors did charge seven men with accosting a child for immoral purposes based on initial evidence-gathering by Sweers. Those videos already had been made when police learned of them, and they soon asked him to stop.

Two of the men he captured on video ended up suing him and Sweers settled those cases. No details about the settlement were released.