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Originally Posted by graciegirl
No one has ever ridiculed or denigrated Taltarzac in my hearing or vision.
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That's good to hear. I just have memories of when I was trying to push this 224 613 Project among lawyers on Findlaw (around May 2001 and forward) and really got skewered even though at the very first start of it the Findlaw Sysop said Findlaw was the perfect place for it. I attracted an especially nasty anonymous troll who turned out to be someone I was trying to help by going to many of the law libraries in the Tampa Bay area trying to find cases for his white collar criminal defense in Chesterfield County, VA. He admitted playing me for a fool for years by having a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde personality. He was one of the most vicious trolls I have ever come across on any message board. He was a contributing factor in the suicide of a beautiful black woman who was trying to get the police to treat her mental illness seriously. This Military serviceman in TN-KY went on Findlaw to try to get help with getting his girlfriend help. I do know something about that subject given my own history of fighting attacks on my credibility by calling me mentally ill rather than addressing my concerns. A very dirty trick but it is used quite more often than people think. Anyway, the troll started making many of these attacks telling the military service officer to not take anything I said seriously because I had a mental illness. I do not and never did. But the military officer ditched Findlaw because of the running battle I had with this troll. In the meantime, this soldier's beautiful black girlfriend-- who had seen her mother killed in front of her years before-- drove her car onto oncoming traffic near a KY-TN military base. I looked it up after the soldier came back onto Findlaw to tell us what had happened to his girlfriend. The cops had refused to get her into treatment as she often appeared just fine.
I was kind of ashamed of Findlaw for not stopping this troll's antics which went on for years.
What you post online does often echo in real life.
I did not know who the troll was for a while after that but when I found out I did contact both the Chesterfield County VA police as well as the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office who still put out the First Amendment line except there are somethings and actions that should never be allowed on any message board.
After that I did start bugging my FL Senators and FL Representative about this. They seemed genuinely concerned.
I am just a little touchy when I see someone going after my credibility by using the mental illness tactic. It does work rather well.
Some of the documents from that KY-TN soldier might be on my Taltarzac725 Photobucket array or at least some that show why I am so troubled when someone attacks someone else's credibility by saying they are mentally ill. This was a favorite tactic of totalitarian regimes in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and Communist China.
It is also extremely poor logic of attacking the person making the statement rather than examining what he or she said or wrote.
ad hominem fallacy - The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com
Fallacy: Ad Hominem