Commenters Must Now Post ID at LS

Recently we've had one or more strange commenters on this blog who've taken other commenters' names and posted, publicly wished for the death of my small children, and had sexual fantasies about the president that they've attributed to me and others on the blog.

It's somewhat reminiscent of Deborah Frisch, the psychology prof at Arizona State University, who harassed fellow-bloggers for years under various pseudonyms, wishing someone would "JonBenet" (used as a verb) his children, and also attributed bizarre sexual conduct to conservative bloggers. Frisch's remarkable lunacy has now been documented and frames a profile of the extreme left cyberstalker. She has now lost her position at Arizona State University, and has been unemployed for several years, but this only accelerated her belligerence, and subsequent appearance before criminal courts.

Frisch has been arrested and convicted of cyberstalking, a crime which in Oregon is partially defined by the rules governing stalking (c is the most pertinent to our own case, but B is also to be used here, including remarks about individual's sexual preferences, and/or lack of ability to perform, etc.):

Harasses or annoys another person by:
(A) Subjecting such other person to offensive physical contact;
or
(B) Publicly insulting such other person by abusive words or
gestures in a manner intended and likely to provoke a violent
response;
(b) Subjects another to alarm by conveying a false report,
known by the conveyor to be false, concerning death or serious
physical injury to a person, which report reasonably would be
expected to cause alarm; or
(c) Subjects another to alarm by conveying a telephonic { + ,
electronic + } or written threat to inflict serious physical
injury on that person or to commit a felony involving the person
or property of that person or any member of that person's family,
which threat reasonably would be expected to cause alarm.


Since we have indeed been now subjected to several of these (Especially under B and c), we have instituted a new blogger ID program which should be able to help police this site, and keep it relatively safe for users, and to ID any leftist or other perpetrators who use such terroristic tactics in order to silence legal speech by commenters on this site.

There ARE further steps we can take, including making commenters sign up at Google.com, in order to comment. Another step is that we can moderate the comments, and tighten even further the identification necessary to speak. In an age when leftist goons rise up out of the swamps of the night wanting totalitarian control of discourse (this seems to have worsened since we've gotten the new president), I can only say that I will do what I can within the law, and using all the means of the law, to keep this site safe for commenters, and safe for a wide variety of legal discourse.

Anyone who steps out of that sphere (known to all normal and moral beings, but use the above statutes from the Oregon law as guidelines if you're unsure), will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

There are repercussions in the free world for attempting to silence discourse through terror. Deborah Frisch is the first leftist goon to discover this, but I'm almost certain she won't be the last. In general, I would prefer that comments here remain about ideas, and not become personal, or targeted at a specific person, or their sexual preferences, or even their lack of education, imagined or otherwise. Not everyone has had the opportunities we have had to educate ourselves, and I want the relatively uneducated to feel free to speak here. Common sense is something that academics often lack, and can learn from. Conservatives and centrists will also be monitored, but in general, I haven't had any trouble (or as much trouble) from these quarters, nor seen any trouble from those quarters on any of the blogs I've frequented. This doesn't mean that I won't! I would prefer that people who come here think of this as a teetotaler's seminar (I don't drink), rather than as a beer picnic, or free-for-all, in which anything can be vouchsafed, and in which people can and should show up in just any state, saying things about other people's mothers, and children.

Anyone especially who mentions the death of anyone's children here will become subject to full pursuit by the law in the interests of children's safety, the highest value of Luther and Lutherans, if not of Breton and the surrealists. In this matter, we seriously side with the Lutherans. Leave people's children alone.