QAnon trolls threaten California state senator who reformed the state registry

For some reason, people still believe in the 4chan-created crackpot conspiracy QAnon. These QTards still believe in the outlandish, debunked Satanic Panics from the 1980s. 

https://www.newsweek.com/qanon-trolls-sent-death-threats-state-senator-over-sex-offender-bill-1523456

QAnon Trolls Sent Death Threats to State Senator Over Sex Offender Bill

BY DANIEL VILLARREAL ON 8/6/20 AT 8:29 PM EDT

Followers of the pedophile-obsessed QAnon conspiracy theory sent death threats to Democratic California State Senator Scott Wiener after Weiner introduced legislation to reform the state's sex offender registry.

California law allows judges to exclude certain offenders from having their names listed on the registry if they find a valid reason to do so for offenders who have sex with minor ages 15 to 17, according to Mother Jones. The decision to exclude such offenders isn't automatic, it's entirely up to the judge.

But judges only have this discretion if the case involves vaginal intercourse. If the case involves digital penetration, anal or oral sex—sexual methods often practiced by LGBTQ people—the judge must list the offender's full name without exception.

As such, Wiener sought to change the law to give judges similar discretion in cases of non-vaginal sex, treating all sexual acts equally. Some right-wing websites mischaracterized Wiener's legislation, claiming it sought to protect pedophiles by giving offenders complete anonymity.

"You're dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. I'll publicly execute you. I'm gonna embarrass you. Pedophile," one Instagram user wrote.

Another wrote, "I'll come cut your head off and deliver it to your mom if you even considering introducing your 'bill.' Got it?"

Others messages were anti-Semitic or accused Weiner of being a child rapist. Recent legal rulings upholding First Amendment protections for free speech dictate that politicians cannot block users on their social media accounts, leaving Weiner open to an ongoing torrent of hate speech and threats.

Members of QAnon await the arrival of US President Donald Trump for a political rally at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on August 2, 2018.

QAnon conspiracy theorists believe, among many things, that the administration of President Donald Trump will reveal the existence of a top-secret child sex trafficking network run by "deep state" senior Democrats.

QAnon believers have accused Oprah Winfrey, Chrissy Teigen, Hillary Clinton and even the online furniture retailer Wayfair of being part of a shadowy international pedophile ring.

Its believers have a long history of mobilizing against public targets by spreading conspiracies on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, YouTube and other platforms. The group's online activities have also increased since the start of the COVID-19 epidemic, a possible consequence of the upcoming presidential elections and additional time spent at-home as many schools and businesses remain closed.

"Whether its QAnon or Russian troll farms, these are factories of false info designed to undermine democracy and public discourse, and also to send a message to elected officials that if you pursue unpopular progressive change to help marginalized groups like queer kids, 'We're going to target you,'" Weiner told Mother Jones.

Facebook vigilante group used by murderer now stalking registered citizen activists

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1710566045863512/permalink/2522034178050024/

For the past couple days, the Facebook vigilante group formerly known as "Matteio Condoluci (Preditor)", now known as "Free James Fairbanks", has been trolling registered citizen activist groups. I have received two harassing phone calls from this group already. (Note to folks sending harassing messages, I record EVERY call and they are being used as proof that I was right about this group).

Now I have proven to those who doubted me this group is indeed a VIGILANTE group, despite the claims of the sympathetic media. So go ahead and file your "civil suit." You have lied to the media but screenshots are forever.

I've passed along some of this to various law enforcement agents as well as members of the Nebraska Legislature because the registry needs to be taken offline immediately due to the actions of this vigilante group.

Here is just a small sampling of the harassment and threats they have posted:

I think it is hilarious how they try to blame the victim here.

Speaking of trolls, it seems a certain other frequently mentioned group here posted threats as well so the Jacksonville Sheriff was given notice. Funny, last time I even thought of David Troll, he was crying on the TV claiming he was being cyberbullied only to have the media point out his assault arrest. These thugs never learn.

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.

New disgusting wannabe vigilante group desperately tries to bring back the death penalty

Apparently there is yet another scumbag wannabe vigilante group advocating the death penalty for those on the registry. This group is called "Sex offender Updates," and they are trying to push state-sponsored murder of registered citizens. 

At the moment, it is unclear who runs this shitty website. One of the cardinal rules for being an online wannabe vigilante, after all, is to hide in an anonymous hole like a coward. And any organization citing any of the other groups listed here, like Absolute Zero United or Evil Unveiled, is obviously an invalid resource. And guess what? Their address, Sex Offender Updates, 4733 Torrance Blvd., Suite 712, Torrance, CA 90503-4100, is a private PO Box rental company. 

Where the money goes: The "headquarters" of SexoffenderUpdates.com

Among their goals:

• Keep the public updated about the sex offenders in their area
• Create community networks of concerned, passionate and active citizens
• ​Advocate for tough, appropriate laws governing sex crimes and offenders
• ​Oppose efforts by sex offenders and their advocates to weaken laws and eliminate sex offender registries

To that effort, they lie about recidivism rates using the same tired myths that I have debunked years ago, 

So anyways, this group wants to repeal the US Supreme Court decision of Kennedy v. Louisiana, allowing execution of people convicted of sex crimes. Thankfully this has only gotten 178 shares. So much for this being unanimous. The only thing I can agree on is that Justice Kennedy used faulty reasoning by relying on what he felt was a "general consensus," but unlike Sex Offender Updates, I feel the problem was Kennedy relied on the consensus rather than the Constitution. 

To my knowledge, this Sex Offender Updates site isn't actively targeting anyone for now (though they have a few anti-RSOL articles up that are basically copy-paste jobs of old Evil Unveiled and AZU bullshit). However, I must raise awareness on this site because they are promoting violence against registered citizens:

Russell Speigel is "innocent until proven guilty," but the guilt is written on his face, in a way

CROSS-POSTED FROM THE SHIITAKE AWARDS

So everyone who is arrested is innocent until proven guilty. However, Russell Speigel of Cottage Grove, WI, has guilt written, or rather, "burned," onto his face. If there was ever a time to use the old adage, "play with fire and you'll get burned," now is that time. If he keeps this up, he might be up for a Darwin Award rather than a Shiitake.

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/crime_and_courts/article_083d6199-5d56-5147-8a5e-db19123cbcec.html

Cottage Grove man arrested on suspicion of burning house intended for sex offender

2/24/15, By Nico Savidge, Wisconsin State Journal

Dane County authorities arrested a town of Cottage Grove man they say set fire to a house Sunday night in a vigilante effort to keep a sex offender from moving in there.

Russell A. Speigle, 50, was arrested on a tentative charge of arson for the fire, which destroyed a home at 4721 Gaston Circle in the town of Cottage Grove, Sheriff Dave Mahoney said Tuesday.

Investigators are now trying to determine if Speigle was responsible for another fire that damaged the same house in December, Mahoney said.

They are also looking for some pieces of evidence that could connect Speigle to the fire, the Sheriff’s Office said.

The home was to house 40-year-old Harold Nyberg as part of a supervised sex offender release program, over vocal opposition from the man’s neighbors — Speigle among them, Mahoney said.

The first fire, on Dec. 8, caused $90,000 worth of damage, the Sheriff’s Office said. The home was repaired after that blaze and was considered a total loss after Sunday’s fire.

Speigle lived “only doors away” from the Gaston Circle home, Mahoney said, and had attended a notification meeting the Sheriff’s Office held last week to tell neighborhood residents about Nyberg.

“Like many, (Speigle) voiced his displeasure” that Nyberg was coming to the area, Mahoneysaid.

An article about the notification meeting from The Herald-Independent quoted Speigle saying the neighborhood was “upset and on guard” with Nyberg set to move in.

Nyberg was convicted in 1994 of second-degree child sexual assault and was later committed as a sexually violent person to a secure treatment center in Mauston, according to courtrecords.

Despite objections from Speigle and other neighbors, some of whom are now pushing the Cottage Grove Town Board to adopt an ordinance barring sex offenders on supervised release from living there, Nyberg was set to move to the home within a fewweeks.

“The place to carry out those kinds of actions is at the public notification meeting, so that we can address those concerns,” Mahoney said. “What is unacceptable is acts of vigilantism such as this.”

Investigators talked with Speigle at his home soon after the second fire, Mahoney said, and could see that he had recently suffered burns.

Speigle’s booking photo from the Dane County Jail shows what appear to be burns across much of his face.

Mahoney did not say why investigators didn’t arrest Speigle that night, but the Sheriff’s Office said authorities learned he had left Cottage Grove soon after talking with detectives.

Investigators with the Sheriff’s Office and the state Department of Justice continued building a case against Speigle, tracked him to a relative’s home in Muscoda and arrested him there Monday, Mahoney said.

Speigle was treated and released from the UW Hospital burn unit, then booked into the jail Tuesday afternoon, the Sheriff’s Office said.

At a news conference Tuesday, Mahoney declined to say whether authorities suspect anyone other than Speigle may have been involved in the arson, or if Speigle has been cooperating with investigators.

Mahoney stressed that Sunday’s blaze put firefighters and first responders in danger, and said the “most alarming” aspect of Speigle’s actions was that he set fire to a home so close to where he lived.

“Not only did the actions of Mr. Speigle endanger public safety professionals, it endangered his own neighbors,” Mahoney said.

As they continue their investigations, Mahoney said authorities are looking for two gas canisters they believe Speigle used in the Sunday night fire.

Mahoney said investigators could see Speigle holding the red, plastic jugs Sunday night in images taken from a camera near the home that burned.

Authorities suspect the cans may have been dumped somewhere between Cottage Grove and Muscoda, and asked anyone who might have seen them to call the state arson tip line at 800-362-3005 or the Sheriff’s Office tip line at 608-284-6900.

The people's voice is angry: Outcry over sex offender's release fires up social media — but when does the fire get out of control?

So when do those idiotic rants from online vigilantes cross the line? Apparently, they can say a LOT before they are taken sriously.

http://muscatinejournal.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/the-people-s-voice-is-angry-outcry-over-sex-offender/article_b2d3dfad-e4ac-57f2-b7ba-57597935dc7b.html

The people's voice is angry: Outcry over sex offender's release fires up social media — but when does the fire get out of control?

By Sarah Tisinger

MUSCATINE, Iowa — When a 23-year-old Muscatine man convicted of lascivious acts with a child was released from prison after serving  four years of a 15-year sentence, the People of Muscatine exploded.

The outrage began after a July 30 post that appeared on the People of Muscatine Facebook page began taking on a life of its own. The post by the page's administrator was asking about the release of Robert A. Howard from prison. Howard was sentenced to prison in 2010 after being found guilty of sexually abusing his girlfriend's baby son.

It didn't take long before responses to the post included death threats, graphic descriptions of bodily mutilation, and even jokes about Howard's arrest. The anger wasn't directed entirely at Howard. One post said that the child's mother should be "stomped." Another person, who posted a defense of Howard, was the target of outrage: "I guess Jessica needs to have her baby molested by this [man] to feel different."

The original post, and others after it, generated several hundred comments, nearly 50,000 views, and attracted the attention of  KWQC-TV, who reported on Howard's release under the headline, "Child sex offender released early from prison."

What got lost in the public's outcry was the fact that Howard's release wasn't really early. He was released exactly when the law allowed.

The case began in 2010 when Howard, then 19, was charged with second-degree sexual abuse and child endangerment following a confession in which he admitted sexually abusing his girlfriend's 17-month-old boy.

He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to prison on the charges. The charges were punishable by up to 30 years in prison and he was not eligible for parole until he served at least 17 1/2 of those years.

However, Howard appealed the charges and the case eventually ended up in the Iowa Supreme Court, where the judges granted him a new trial because, according to court documents, "The Detective promised leniency for a confession, which was admitted during trial. The State failed to establish Howard was not prejudiced by the erroneous admission of his confession. Accordingly, the error was not harmless, and Howard is entitled to a new trial on the charge of child endangerment."

During the new trial, Howard pleaded guilty to the amended charges of lascivious acts with a child and child endangerment causing injury. He was sentenced to up to 15 years in prison. He served four of those years at the Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility, a medium security institution designed for the treatment of men with character disorders, substance offenses, and sexual offenders.

Muscatine County Attorney Alan Ostergren said that Howard was not released early but received credit for time served after his arrest in January 2010, and also received earned time, as per Iowa code. 

"He will have essentially served the maximum time allowed under the rules for credit for earned time — 1.1 days of credit for every day served. He will be on supervised release for the remainder of his life. He will also have to register as a sex offender," said Ostergren.

Ardyth Orr, captain with the Muscatine Sheriff's Office, has handled county sex offender cases since 2009 and said that as far as prison time goes, Howard spent more time than most. 

"What we see coming out of the Department of Corrections is that inmates are serving about 10 percent of the time they're sentenced to. I think that's something people don't realize," said Orr, who believes that the prisons are simply full so the DOC is granting earned time. "When you're the victim of any crime you want them to spend incarceration time that they were sentenced; it's very confusing to people."

The fact that Howard served what the law said he had to hasn't caused cooler heads to prevail online though. But, according to Lt. Jeff Jirak of the Muscatine Police Department, while people have to right to say what they want on social media, they should exercise caution.

"In all of our cases, we have to corroborate what people are saying, especially if it's over social media," said Jirak. "It's unlikely we would base a charge solely on what's being said on social media. Anybody can put anything out there; we try to police it the best we can but we have limitations. We certainly are interested in any death threats and assaultive behavior."

When contacted by the Journal for a response to the furor generated over the initial post, the page's administrator did not wish to be quoted for the story by name. But in a July 31 post, he did warn users to watch what they say: "Note: I take no responsibility of what happens from this post. I'm not the person wishing harm on this man. You guys can argue amongst yourselves but please don't make this page the cause of any actions after this posting. Some of you should probably watch what you type here."

Some Facebook users have made posts claiming to have seen Howard in Muscatine, even posting the vehicle description and license plate number of the car he was believed to have been seen in and the restaurants he visited. Howard's most recent registration on the Iowa sex offender registry has him listed as living in Clinton.

However, since the posters were not following Howard and he was in the public view, this behavior isn't legally considered stalking, harassment or defamation of character. 

Orr said sex offenders are still allowed to spend the night in places other than their registered counties. 

"I tell the offenders if they're going to be gone for three or four days, they should report it to me. The law is to report anything longer than five business days," said Orr. "It's best for the offender and for the community. That way everyone is on the same playing field. The crime [Howard] was found guilty of does not have living restrictions. He may have some employment restrictions and can't loiter outside the library or go to the public swimming pool. But he can live right next to any one of those."

As for what the public is allowed to do when it comes to sex offenders? They can remain vigilant and report suspicious activity to the police. They can keep a close watch on their own children and teach them to steer clear of strangers. They can keep tabs on where sex offenders live. But taking the law into their own hands puts them at risk of having the cuffs slapped on those hands.

"As the law reads, there has to be specific examples of harassing the person directly," said Jirak of people's actions toward Howard so far. "I may or may not like what happened to this individual, that's not for me to say, but he has rights now that he's out [of prison]. With those rights, doesn't he have protection from someone threatening his life? Nobody in this country has the legal right to threaten another person's life."

Another day, another call to murder from Valerie Parkhurst

Valerie "Valigator" Parkhust of Davie FL is calling her fellow vigilante wannabes at No Peace For Predators to kill everyone on the registry. She needs her guns confiscated:

Here is the full screenshot from NPFP. These people should seriously be careful about what they say publicly, I might add:

I guess Val must have a new booze supplier, because she's been on a tirade all day long.

Is Valigator obsessed?

I'd say so.

No Peace For Predators suggests using sex offenders for organ harvesting

The douchbag trio of Britt(ney) P. Warden, Peter(less) Mason, and David "The Crybaby" Rowe make up the axis of evil that is No Peace For Predators. They are a waste of humanity in their own right, and have kept a rather low profile since David Rowe was embarrassed by his own local media last summer. So they've been hiding on their own site like the filthy cockroaches they are. That is a good thing, since they constantly fantasize about murder.

Just when you thought their fantasies can't be any more disturbing, now they are having orgasmic thoughts of harvesting organs of sex offenders. The depths of their depravity never cease to amaze me:

On a related topic, I'd love to hear an explanation as to why advocating for the restoration of the former offender is somehow "pouring salt on the wounds of victims." Somehow we've been led to believe the issues of post-conviction laws like residency laws and victim's rights are tied together. THEY ARE NOT tied together. Fuck David Troll and his band of misfits. People like them should be closely monitored, preferably in a therapeutic setting.

More of the same but worth reading

First off, a new article which blasts AZU's idols John Walsh, Mark Lunsford, and Family Watchdog, among others exploiting sex offender panic for money:

http://www.oncefallen.com/bigregistry.html

And, once again, another death comment from an AZU mainstay, ZandJsMom:

http://www.haloscan.com/comments/absolutezero/53945627551504147/?src=hsr#66914