"Free James Fairbanks" vigilante group goes into hiding hours after admitting phone call with James Fairbanks

Now that Laura Smith had to admit that admitted murderer James Fairbanks had indeed gotten a phone call from Laura Smith, Laura Smith has set her group to private. Of course, I saved all the vigilante threats that Smith and her cohorts made before she privatized her site. It is too late. This group has been proven to be a danger to society.

Apparently, Laura Smith made a post that was quickly taken down that made some people conclude she confessed to being more connected to the murder than she let on. Now the Free James Fairbanks vigilante group is not accessible at all. Every action taken continues to prove my point.

As an aside, I see the mentally deficient Fake-"Sex Offender News" blog by the loser from North GA with multiple personalities somehow believes James Fairbanks, who freely ADMITTED to murder, should not be called a murderer because he has not had his day in court, yet is still freely proclaiming I'm guilty of two crimes I did not commit-- rape (was never even charged with rape), and theft (well, I have not had my day in court but it will be tossed out once someone takes like 30 seconds to see the guy in the video is a 60 year old Cuban guy). Hypocrisy much, "Lucky Larry"?

Did an online Facebook group stalking a registered person lead to the registrant's murder? There's evidence of a connection.

I registered person was murdered at his home by a vigilante thug last weekend. As state numerous times, vigilantes have often abused the registry to attack those on this government blacklist.

It is also a known problem that Facebook has a vigilante problem. In fact, Facebook was took to task last year for allowing harassment and death threats against registered persons and those accused of sex offenses as part of their official terms of service.

For the sake of information, the group I feel is most likely connected to the Omaha murder is THIS GROUP (which cannot even spell the word "Predator") and THIS WACKO.

I've taken the liberty of forwarding this info to the Omaha PD. I'd quite frankly be shocked if the vigilante THUG is not connected to the murder. I have to ask how this crazy lady knew about the murder so fast if she was not tipped off, BTW.

https://www.ketv.com/article/anonymous-e-mailer-claims-to-have-killed-convicted-sex-offender-found-shot-dead-in-omaha/32587366

Anonymous e-mailer claims to have killed convicted sex offender found shot dead in Omaha

OMAHA, Neb. —
Omaha police confirm they're investigating the death of a convicted sex offender as a homicide.

An anonymous e-mailer claims to be the killer.

Mattieo Condoluci was found dead near 43rd and Pinkney Saturday night after a report of a shooting.

The address matches the address Condoluci provided on the Nebraska sex offender registry. He was convicted in Sarpy County 13 years ago of sexual assault of a child.

KETV NewsWatch 7 and other media outlets received an email from someone claiming to have killed Condoluci.

The person, who did not give a name, said they saw the man outside with children present, and playground equipment in his backyard. The e-mailer said they agonized over the situation for days, but eventually said they couldn't 'in good conscience allow Condoluci to do it to anyone else' while the emailer had a means to stop him.

KETV NewsWatch 7 took the information to Omaha police.

Investigators confirm they are looking into the authenticity of the email while they continue to look at Condoluci's death as a homicide.

PART 2 --

As an addendum to this post, Omaha police actually arrested someone for this brutal murder. Of course, this wacko is already stating online her intent to come to the killer's defense --

One final note, I had emailed Omaha World-Herald's Nancy Gaarder, who had written about this story. She was the ONLY media outlet I reached out to. I made no mention of emailing the media anywhere. Yet this morning, crazy lady "Laura Smith" posted the comment below. Gaarder denies forwarding my email, but considering I made NO mention of emailing the media anywhere, it seems hard to believe that crazy lady found out about the email from my public posts since I mentioned NOTHING about emailing the media. So apparently, the Omaha World-Herald cannot be trusted, either.

For now, police have not released full details about the killer, but it seems that Laura Smith wants to interfere in the trial at the very least.

Perhaps she can take the time before trial to learn how to spell. When you type, "Your an idiot", you only make yourself look stupid since you confused YOUR with YOU'RE. And there is no I in "Predator." YOU'RE AN IDIOT, Laura Smith.

Speaking of Omaha World-Herald, they reported on 5/19/20, "Smith said it was that publicity that helped her find Condoluci, and about four years ago she started a Facebook page about him and titled it: Matt Condoluci (preditor) (sic)

Smith's Facebook page caught the eye of the individual who claims to have killed Condoluci. The email received by The World-Herald includes this passage:

"One kids mother had created a predator facebook page about him trying to warn people about him. Her son had been assaulted by him when he was 5 and the damage he did led the poor guy to die of a drug overdose years later and his mom directly blamed that incident on him."

While Laura Smith denies knowing who killed Condoluci, the killer himself admitted to being influenced by the Facebook page. There's just no way these two did not talk. Hopefully, Omaha PD will press Fairbanks on his involvement with Laura Smith. I have my suspicions that Laura Smith influence Fairbanks in more ways than merely having a vigilante page.

ADDENDUM 2 -- Laura Smith ids trying to raise funds for this vigilante thug. She's now proclaiming that this murderer is now a "victim" of the registrant he murdered in cold blood.

DETAILS ABOUT THE KILLER, ACCORDING TO THE OMAHA WORLD-HERALD

1. Suffered from mental illness; received about $1000 in counseling fees he never paid
2. Lacked a criminal record, but had TWO restraining orders filed by his ex-wife in 2016 and 2018
3. Easily influenced by shit he read on the internet.

While the World-Herald wants readers to sympathize with this killer, at the end of the day, this man is a criminal and should NEVER be free.

I've also contacted GoFundMe, where there are roughly a half-dozen active fundraisers for James Fairbanks. And the vigilante group run by Laura Smith has changed their name to "Free James Fairbanks." She also took down the personal attacks against me since some threats against me were made today and I have forwarded those messages to the Omaha prosecutor's office.

Another vigilante group, "Backwoods Predator Hunters". Facebook is becoming a vigilante's playground.

Yet another group of Online Vigilantes. Not surprisingly, one of their logos has ties to hate groups, too. Cody Harris, who created the group, wears more Confederate battle flag junk in his videos and on a related Facebook page, "Backwoods Livin."

I've stated here in the past the Facebook encourages vigilante violence, and last year, Facebook made headlines for officially allowing death threats against registered persons or those accused of sexual offenses in their terms of service. When viewing this Backwoods Predator Hunters page, Facebook recommended many other online vigilante groups.

http://www.emissourian.com/local_news/crime/washington-man-confronts-suspected-sexual-predators---posts-encounters/article_50c5d0b4-2e59-11ea-b66b-d33ec4f5ba00.html

Washington Man Confronts Suspected Sexual Predators - Posts Encounters Online
By Gregg Jones, Missourian Staff Writer 21 hrs ago

Cody Harris, founder of Backwoods Predator Hunters, said he and his group partners are trying to make the community safer.

That’s why the group has outed suspected sex offenders, and then shamed then online.

Harris’ most recent encounter with a suspected predator was posted Dec. 28 on his Backwoods Predator Hunters page.

He said he spoke with a man, who thought he was meeting a 15-year-old girl, and who was already wanted by police.

“At least these guys are getting exposure,” said Harris, 28. “This guy had been to prison and police have a better idea where he is with me on his tail.

“I have helped (police) out using my own time and I am not getting in their way.”

The Missourian is not releasing the names of the people who Harris encounters because they have not been charge for the incidents.

Harris has been in contact with about eight people in as many months that he has been posting to the Backwoods Predator Hunters page.

In another recent sting involving Harris, posted Dec. 7, a Washington man thought he was contacting a 15-year-old. In actuality, the person he was messaging, the decoy, was an adult, according to Harris.

A video on the Backwoods Predator Hunters page shows Harris confronting the man at a Washington restaurant. Harris said he has given all of the evidence from the encounter to the Washington police and the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office in case charges could be filed.

But state statutes dictate how sexual predators can be prosecuted, specifically during a sting operation.

Harris noted that he would like to see the suspected offenders held accountable for their actions, but his work still is important even though it has not yet yielded charges.

“I hope there are charges,” he said. “The best thing to do, other than get him charged, is expose him to the community.”

Harris noted that he has spoken to family members of the Washington man who were thankful for the information he provided.

“I had a meeting with his ex-wife’s family,” he said. “They had no idea — he never acted weird or different around children.”

Harris, a Washington native, said he got into tracking and encountering suspected sexual predators to bring more awareness to the dangers lurking online.

“A lot of this is to raise awareness,” he said. “These guys are all over. I want to make a difference in my community. To protect my kids and other kids in the community.”

Harris added that he works with two decoys to expose suspected predators.

“We all do it together — I could not do it without them,” he said. “If we continue to keep pushing, maybe we will make a difference. We have to try.”

Facebook Page

Before he formed the group, Harris would post on a Facebook page called “BackWoods LIVIN,” which is still in operation. It was on that page that he recently encountered a man who allegedly had been stalking and harassing multiple women.

Harris noted that there had not been allegations about the man being a sexual predator, but he still wanted to talk to him.

“I had gotten 50 to 100 messages about him from people in the community,” he said. “Women were saying he was coming to bus stops where they waited for children, their businesses … all of it was bad stuff.

“There was nothing positive to say about this man.”

Harris confronted him at his the man’s home, but to no avail. He said he would try again to confront him, this time in public.

According to Harris, some in the local law enforcement agencies have given their support for his work. He noted that for extra precaution he wears body armor in case the encounter becomes dangerous.

Legislation

In order for the work of Harris, and others like him, to result in charges there may need to be changes to state law.

Harris stated he is reaching out to legislators to discuss ways to change statutes that will allow more flexibility for groups exposing predators.

“That is what we are working toward now,” he said. “I am in the process of getting a hold of them and setting up a meeting.”

State law requires an actual victim, not a decoy, for a crime to have been committed. However, there is an exception for law enforcement officers who portray minors.

RSMO 566.151 states that anyone age 21 or over who “persuades, solicits, coaxes, entices or lures” a child less than 15 years old “for the purpose of engaging in sexual conduct” is breaking state law.

However, the statute continues, that the case still can be prosecuted if the “other person was a peace (police) officer masquerading as a minor.”

Like we didn't already know this; Online Vigilantes are motivated by Facebook likes

Somehow the media seems surprised by this fact.

Facebook protects many of these Facebook groups while banning registered persons from having accounts.

https://www.itv.com/news/2019-05-11/paedophile-hunters-are-destroying-families-in-the-name-of-facebook-likes/

ITV REPORT  11 May 2019 at 12:00am
Paedophile hunters are destroying families ‘in the name of Facebook likes’

Family lives are being obliterated in the name of “Facebook likes”, a police chief who leads the country’s response to child sexual abuse said in a blistering attack on so-called paedophile hunters.

Simon Bailey emphatically ruled out working with vigilante groups, saying they take “completely unnecessary risks” and can slow down police investigators.

Evidence from paedophile hunters is increasingly being used to prosecute offenders, but police are divided on the issue, and some fear the groups’ tactics could impede their own work.

 A brawl that erupted at a shopping centre after a vigilante group of ‘paedophile hunters’ confronted a man

It marks a shift from comments reported by the BBC in September 2017 when Mr Bailey was quoted as saying that working with vigilantes was something to potentially consider.

Mr Bailey, chief constable of Norfolk Police, said: “I can’t deny they’ve led to convictions, but they’ve also led to people being blackmailed, people being subject of GBH (grievous bodily harm), the wrong people being accused, people committing suicide as a result of interventions, family lives being completely destroyed, in the name of what? Facebook likes.”

David Baker, who was confronted by the group Southampton Trap after allegedly arranging to meet a 14-year-old child in a supermarket car park, took his own life a few days later.

The 43-year-old gardener from Hampshire was arrested by police, questioned and released under investigation in October 2017.

The coroner at his inquest ruled that social media posts by the vigilante group were a “causative factor” in his suicide.

'I can't imagine viewing those images again': Sex offender tells ITV News of rehabilitation therapy
Paedophile jailed after sending explicit messages to vigilantes posing as 13-year-old girl

Online groups’ activities have split opinion in policing circles, with some chiefs warning of “significant risks” that arise from paedophile hunters’ tactics.

These can include posing as children online to lure in suspects and set up real-world encounters in order to expose them.

Some police fear that the groups’ actions could interfere with surveillance operations, while the evidence they gather may not be of a high enough standard to use for prosecution.

Former police chief Jim Gamble told the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in early 2018 that masquerading as a child online should become a criminal offence to deter vigilante stings.

But Paddy Tipping, the police and crime commissioner for Nottinghamshire, told a police and crime panel in April last year that police in his area should try to form “better relationships” with vigilante groups.

Figures obtained by the BBC showed that evidence from paedophile hunters was used to charge suspects on at least 150 occasions in 2017.

Mr Bailey said a colleague had described to him how one referral from a group can take a working day to investigate, time that could have been spent identifying half a dozen offenders.

He added: “So many of these groups’ drivers are about seeking infamy through the number of hits they get, the number of likes they get, the number of people that view their live streams.

“My mission is to safeguard children. There’s a world of difference.”

The chief constable said there has never been so much commentary and awareness around child abuse, but urged vigilantes to leave it “to the experts”.

He warned: “Never before have the chances of being caught been so high.

“And for people that are doing it, they will be going to bed every night, I hope, fearing the knock on the door in the morning.”

Last updated Sat 11 May 2019

FACEBOOK POLICY ALLOWS DEATH THREATS AGAINST REGISTERED CITIZENS (In fact, it seems to encourage them)

In light of the New York Times story that came in my newsfeed [“Facebook, Free Expression and the Power of a Leak”], I decided to explore the issue of Facebook little further. The New York Times piqued my interest by adding a link to an article from The Guardian newspaper [Revealed: Facebook's internal rulebook on sex, terrorism and violence]. Through this article, I was able to find that The Guardian has published the rulebook for determining what constitutes a “credible threat of violence” on Facebook [Facebook's manual on credible threats of violence].

This policy information is important to know because FB is filled with vigilante groups, many of them have been featured on this particular blog over the years, including vigilante biker gangs, online hate groups, and individuals organizing to cause harm to registered citizens. However, it is apparent from the leaked reports that only a small number of individuals are actually protected by Facebook. In fact, only a handful of people are considered “vulnerable persons” that are protected from speech a moderator might consider a “credible threat of violence.”

Vulnerable persons include: heads of state, next in line for head of state, candidates for head of state, specific law enforcement officers, witnesses and informants, people with a history of assassination attempts, people listed as targets on hit lists created by banned dangerous organizations, activists, journalists, homeless people, foreigners, Zionists, and in the Philippines, drug users and dealers.

According to the Facebook manual, posting “someone shoot Trump” should be removed, but telling people to “kick a person with red hair” or “snap a bitch’s neck, make sure to apply all your pressure to the middle of her throat” is completely allowed. Also, based credible threat of violence is expected to include an “achievable time.” Plus, statements that include “next time I see you,” “sooner or later,” or specific time frames should also be removed, but we know that’s rarely the case. In addition, certain groups could be considered vulnerable by region. Facebook warns moderators to also eliminate threats against vulnerable targets, outing affiliation, singling out targets, aggregating targets, and calling for street justice depending on the region. Also, accompanying a threat with a picture of a firearm supposedly violence Facebook policy as well.

Perhaps the most damning evidence of all that Facebook allows vigilante violence to be advocated on their website is in the section of “non-credible threats.” Included in this list of non-credible threats is, “advocating for capital were cruel and unusual punishment for crimes Facebook recognizes.” Next to this statement is a text bubble saying “hang child molesters.” They use another example of non-credible threats of violence on the next page, with another text bubble saying, “Pedophiles are going to experience the electric chair! They deserve it anyway!!”

Since this is directly from Facebook’s hidden policy on removing credible threats of violence, the strong implication here is that Facebook advocates violence against registered citizens because they don’t consider us a vulnerable class of people. To use threats against registered citizens as an example of what is allowed on Facebook shows the indifference that Facebook employees have against many other unpopular groups of people as well. This should be a huge cause of alarm for those of us in the anti-registry movement who rely on Facebook for expressing their First Amendment rights.

I personally believe that the only way this is going to change is through a lawsuit. For far too long, Facebook has been deleting the accounts of registered citizens while allowing hate groups like those profiled on AZUnites to proliferate, recruit, and continue to operate online. There’s no telling how many vigilante attacks have occurred because of this. And, in light of the recent Packingham case, the rights of registered citizens should be taken more seriously by Facebook, who should already have a great responsibility of protecting the rights of all of its users. More and more, news media outlets are turning to Facebook only commenting as the way to share ideas among viewers. Even my recent interview with Ashleigh Banfield was a Facebook only comment section. Thus, like it or not, the ability to respond to, to advocate, or to express a dissenting opinion requires a Facebook account in many instances. And registered citizen should be able to express their viewpoints without fear of reprisal from online vigilante thugs. The question is, who has the resources and is willing to take on this challenge?

If anyone is willing to accept my challenge, I am more than happy to share the information that I have gathered over the years as part of any litigation against Facebook. I have taken it upon myself to collect as much information as possible on numerous vigilante groups across the country. Obviously, much of that information can be found on this blog, but much of it I have not posted publicly because many were direct threats against me. Thus, in the event somebody actually sues Facebook, feel free to contact me at iamthefallen1@yahoo.com.