Ghosts of the Past

Those of you who have been around this place for a while will recall Dickie Doubleday. You will recall that he spent a period of time in 2012 harassing bloggers who advocated freedom to smoke. I was probably  collateral damage  as smoking isn’t my shtick. I do, however, support the freedom to live life as one sees fit providing it doesn’t harm others. As smokers don’t harm others, I support their desire to be left to do their thing.

Dickie didn’t like this one bit. He was one of those nasty little drones who is a single-issue obsessive. There followed a campaign to silence dissenting voices. The activities involved posting comments using another person’s on-line persona in an attempt to discredit them. On one occasion, he simply copied and posted “fuck”  and “cunt” multiple times. Captain Ranty told me he deleted 150 of these in the space of an hour one morning.

This behaviour was not legitimate disagreement, it  was a sustained campaign of disruption designed to shut down those blogs that Dickie had taken against.

All of that was three years ago and DD apparently went quiet. There was a brief period where he  tried to out me by posting details of an erstwhile client long with my real name in the comments sections of a number of blogs, but these were summarily deleted. Then, nothing much. This was, in part, because he was systematically banned and deleted. He reappeared over at Dicolese’s blog among others under the moniker Rickie. He behaved himself somewhat this  time around. After all, the disruption simply meant his platform was removed. A trawl through D’s back catalogue will see long screeds posting nonsense about Dick Puddlecote, Simon Clark or Frank Davis among others. Anyone reading the source material and comparing it with Rickie’s barely literate rants will see for themselves that it really is delusional nonsense. Not only that, we can see that DD and Rickie really are the same person, despite claims to the contrary. We all write with a voice and these two have exactly the same voice – syntax and all.

Anyway, it all started to get interesting when one of D’s anonymous visitors called him. Oh, my, dear old Rickie’s love of freedom of speech returned to normal – i.e. he doesn’t. Certainly his good humour (reserved for insulting  Simon Clark and DP) deserted him. For him, freedom of speech is a one-way street. Anyone who dares to challenge him is treated to an example of a mighty thin skin.

The peach, though, is this:

Longrider I have requested you stop making these accusations ever so nicely for sometime now.
That’s not worked has it.
I will find out who your employer is and I will contact them and simply inform them of your blog.
I am reluctant to do this but i will not beg you anymore to stop accusations.
Its your doing cunt.

Given  that I haven’t accused him of anything that is untrue, what’s the problem? Besides, don’t we value freedom of speech and debate? Clearly not. But this individual is so dense he cannot see that he is illustrating the very point people were making. And it got better:

Longrider….I will honour my promise of your website only to be pointed out with no bad intent whatsoever.
However I will not tolerate further accusations from now and follow up emails will point to this thread.
I am hoping this one time only will be enough to make you stop making false allegations against me.
Rickie

The idiocy is strong with this one. The doing of it is the bad intent, of course. There is only one purpose for doing this and it is to lose me my job. Why else would he want to do it? But, if you read here and even if you read the thread at D’s, you will see the term “self-employed” being used.

Many years ago, I was a driving instructor. I was out one day with a student on the way to the test centre. We’d stopped briefly when a local householder came out to harangue us about using “his street”. My response then was as it always was – we were in a road legal vehicle conducting legitimate business on a public highway. It was a polite way of telling him to piss off. Later, he phoned my employer. I answered the phone. When he realised his mistake, he complained about my attitude. My parting remark was to advise that as I didn’t like his, we were quits.

Rickie, despite it being pointed out to him that I am my employer is going to find out who it is and point out my blog – which is here, in  plain sight, and tell my employer who owns it.

Er…

This one could run and run…

Update:

Well, as predicted. When accused of harassing, intimidating and blackmailing people, how does our keyboard warrior react?

Longrider you are still bullying me and spreading lies, I have made it quite clear there will be consequences of you repeating this shite.

If you were to offer an apology I will not carry out my promise. I want this trolling of me to stop…this gesture of goodwill will end.

I will give you till this saturday morning 10.00am to come to your senses and backdown, until then I will do a daily reveal on this blog of who you are and where you work and other details and the action I will take as promised.

1ST reveal….Longrider works and lives near Bristol.

I have struggled to find this information but with a tip-off from “j”,I am now certain of my facts….I will not post specific details as you will have to discuss the matter with your backroom team and get advice.

I will stand up to bullying do not be in any doubt of that.

Rickie

That’s right, with  another threat…

Watch this space, it can only get more entertaining.

Update:

So when faced with a point blank refusal to cooperate with his blackmail attempts, Rickie Dickie backs down. He does so with a long attempt at face-saving. He didn’t have much choice, really. Sooner  or later he was going to have to admit that his imaginary friend who tipped him off wasn’t very good at intelligence after all (not actually existing was probably a hindrance). That’s the problem with blackmail attempts. If  the victim stands firm, what can they do? Carry out  their threat, I  suppose, but what was that threat? To reveal who I am? But I am not hiding. To tell my clients? The only one he managed to discover is well aware, so, what? That I swear? Wow! All of my clients have heard me swearing. So what?

Apparently, according to this deluded loon, the fact that I haven’t sworn on here since  the 3rd of January (a whole two days…) is evidence of something or other. Well, fuck me sideways. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t. I publish this blog on the open web. It has swear words in it. If I was afraid of people finding out that I swear, I wouldn’t do it.

Rickie, aka Dickie Doubleday, has managed to demonstrate in bundles, everything I have said about him. The man is a pathetic loser, a troll – in the mythological sense here – and a nasty bully who will resort to blackmail if he thinks he can get away with it and when he can’t resorts to bluster. What a vile little shit he is.

And it goes on. Every riposte sees more bluster, more insane conspiracy theories.  Apparently, I have back-room bods advising me (yeah, me  neither). Apparently, the fact that I haven’t sworn in the last couple of days is suggestive that I am scared or something. This guy really is something to behold. The gift that keeps on giving.

However, we are in wind-down now. He tried the intimidation and blackmail route and this didn’t work. Given that he has nothing with which to hurt me, bluster is now his  only option. Meanwhile, we watch the cognitive dissonance unfold.