Muscle Shoals area vigilante thugs from "Shoalanda Speaks" and "Pen-N-Sword" threaten to "put an end" to Anti-Registry activist Derek Logue

For a few months in 2010, I lived in Colbert County, Alabama. Visiting Muscle Shoals and the surrounding communities Tuscumbia, Sheffield, and Florence is like stepping in a time warp. Just about every stereotype about those living in the deep south are true and can be found alive and well in Colbert County. These are the folks that like to sin on Saturday and shout Praise Jesus on Sunday. If you want to get an idea about how people think down there, just read this Times Daily opinion post. A large portion of the population there behave this way.

I never liked that place but I wanted to be closer to loved ones, so I moved there for a time. Those who've known me a long time knows I had a difficult second half of the year after my mother passed away.

But even before my mother passed away, a local crime blog calling itself "Shoalanda Speaks" (running on Google Blogspot) posted an article bashing my activism. That's nothing new; I've been called many things over the years from a gay bashing right winger to a card carrying member of the Communist Conspiracy and everything in between. But Shoalnda Speaks angered me in a way few has because they went after my ex-wife, someone who had NOTHING to do with my activism efforts to reform the government registry blacklist. Even after I moved to Ohio in 2011, Shoalanda Speaks continues to obsess over me. I have my own tag on her page and everything.

There is also a second local area crime blog called Pen-N-Sword. They also run Facebook pages under the same name as well as pages like Colbert County Corruption. They are typical trashy local crime bloggers with little education. (For example, the idiot who wrote the recent hit piece on me apparently things deposed is not a word.) They had no problems in the past using information from people like recidivist Clay Keys, either.

I live in a society that believes that telling someone to educate themselves from somewhere other than an SVU rerun is hate speech, where posting a parody song is seen as a death threat, and where posting criticism of a public figure is considered an "attack".

In light of this, what would these people think if someone posted online they want to "put an end" to them? Well, both Shoalanda Speaks and Pen-N-Sword have posted online their desire to "Put an end" to me. (Actually, Pen-n-Sword is one of Shoalanda's side projects, just like how I run multiple blogs, and the Pen-N-Sword writer, "Killen Kate", is the same loser who has been stalking me for years. Shoalanda pretends to have a larger fan base but in reality, she is just one or two people pretending to be a larger group of people.)

I have forwarded these remarks to the appropriate authorities, for what it is worth. But vigilante groups are arrogant because they know law enforcement are not enforcing laws against harassing registered persons.

The Nebraska registry states the following:

"Sex offender registry information shall not be used to retaliate against the registrants, their families, or their employers in any way. Vandalism, verbal or written threats of harm are illegal and will result in arrest and prosecution."

There is a reason these groups hide their identities. If what they were doing was heroic, then there would be no need to hide their identies. The bloggers at Shoalanda Speaks and at Pen-N-Sword KNOW they are engaging in criminal activity. That is another reason the registry should not exist.

(As an aside, the idiot at Pen and Sword apparently does not think deposed is an actual word. Deposed has two meanings. In court, it means to give testimony, but the more common meaning outside of court is "remove from office suddenly and forcefully." Alabama ranks 49th in education and the Pen and Sword blog merely reinforces the view that Alabama is full of uneducated hillbillies.