This is the true issue, and it’s a point that I think LHoD and spoke are completely missing as they hash through the particulars of SM’s and TD’s actions.
And then she says to the rest of the customers, “Oh, by the way, I can’t use the store’s PA system to tell you this guy’s full name and address, but here are some flyers I had made with that information.”
Yes, pardon me. If all the alleged pedophiles leave this board I will not shed one. fucking. tear.
(Or isn’t that what you meant?)
Another mostly ignored point. Go to the cops with a suspicion? A-OK.
Got to LJ with a suspicion? Not OK.
Wrong–my example contained nothing of the sort, because in the example, everyone could see the guy and identify him on the street. I already accounted for the identifying of the accused. But if you’d like, you can add to it Theresa’s going back inside and saying to the shocked masses, “Joe Carlucci, everyone, convicted sex offender, look it up!” I’d still not have a problem with it.
As to those of you who, with varying degrees of intelligence or lack thereof, questioned my use of the word “credibly,” I mean of course credibly to me. If you don’t find it credible, that’s your monkey, and I encourage you to protest by withholding your membership fees. I don’t mean that snarkily; I really do encourage such a protest.
Daniel
Well, here’s another possible scenario for those who don’t think she did anything wrong.
Just suppose some yobbos looking for a bit of fun saw TD’s post on LJ. And just suppose they went round to the former member’s address [which she supplied]
and kicked the shit out of him based on her allegations - leaving him permanently disabled.
And just suppose that, afterwards, an official investigation found her accusations to be totally unfounded.
Would you still be here trying to make the case that TD didn’t do anything wrong by putting her selfrighteous little post on LJ? Would her little group of admirers still be cheering her on?? There’s a good reason why these things should be left to the authorities - it protects the safety of all parties concerned.
What do you know that we don’t? What was at all “credible” about TD’s public disclosure of an alleged issue?
I haven’t heard anything more about this. Is this true? Is the Reader so dependent on volunteer help for a paying service that they won’t discipline an admin properly for fear of losing services?
Or what if the police were already watching him or laying a trap for him? Tuba gave the suspect a good heads up that he wasn’t being careful enough.
Or if she did try the police first and they brushed her off, why did they do that?
Like I said upthread emarkp, a rare jewel.
To me, that’s a call to vigilante justice, and Theresa is culpable. YMMV.
Disingenuous bullshit. First of all, there is zero indication that the registered sex offender we’re discussing (not alleged sex offender, but convicted sex offender) had any means of locating or harming the victim.
And why did it take until page nine of this thread for you to express the slightest concern for the prospective victim? Somehow, I think the victim has not been foremost in your thoughts. All I’ve seen from you up to this point is your concern for the poor oppressed registered sex offender.
I’m concerned for everyone in this situation, spoke-. Sorry if I feel that vigilantism is not appropriate, even for icky sex offenders. (If you’d read the LJ community, you’d see that I told Stagemanager to shut the fuck up. I’m NOT on his side, and I’m sick of people accusing those of us who have a problem with Tuba’s actions of being pedophile appologists.)
Fuck you.
Then isn’t the “I did it to protect the board” reasoning bullshit as well? I mean, if there’s no indication he could actually locate or harm anyone…
What “victim”? Oh, you mean the, **potential, unsubstantiated ** one?
MMDV :).
Daniel
Could it be because the alleged victim was never even identified, while the alleged criminal was publicly identified, thanks to TD’s vigilantism.
Even a convicted sex offender, after he’s served his sentence, is entitled to put his life back together, if he doesn’t reoffend, without having to live in fear.
Based on the word of someone whose integrity is, based on other actions of hers, quite questionable.
That has to be horse shit. If it wasn’t, the never would’ve demoted a mod or admin before.
And why the hell do people here think that we’re defending SM? This has fuck-all to do with him, and everything to do with the fact that TubaDiva is a heavy-handed, impulsive, judgmental, unethical egotist.
Furthermore, this is still contrary to the point, regardless of whether a victim exists or not.
There was no vigilantism. Nobody went to his house and beat him up. Nobody sent unwanted cookies to him through the mail. Nobody called his house and made death threats.
Vigilantism involves illegal activity. There was no vigilantism.
Okay, now you’ve moved past bitchy and straight on into ironic.
Daniel