Absolutely Scarlett

As I Turn To Go (on Psychopathy and Thomas Churchwell)

2009-07-23T07:50:00.915-04:00

(Royalty Free photo from Gone With The Wind)

A few weeks ago, I was tidying my desk drawer and came across a printout of Thomas Churchwell's Diagnostic Assessment, dated July 16, 2008, and written by his psychiatrist, Dr. Alkesh Patel, ACT Team Psychiatrist for Services For The Underserved. Posted by Churchwell himself on his own blog, it was a stunner. I had forgotten much of the content, including this quote:

"This 44 y/o Caucasian male has a long history of psychosis as well as a history of chemical dependency.... The patient has a history of multiple hospitalizations."

That paragraph clarifies his victimization of me (and others) for three years.

I am a photographer with a background in psychology, so it might be safe to say that Churchwell's latest attack on me, in which he wrote again that I "stole pictures off the Internet," and other crazy lies, suggests another lock-up for him. Cross your fingers.

A couple of weeks after I'd drafted this page, but long before I had finished it, I received the following joke in an email from someone who knows the blog situation well: "What do Tarquin Churchwell and a sperm have in common? Both have about a one in 3 million chance of becoming a human being."

Let's begin. Psychosis is defined by the American Psychiatric Association as the extreme condition of losing touch with reality and good judgment. Symptoms include paranoia, bizarre sexual activity or thoughts, delusional thinking and a compulsion to lie. Examples of Churchwell's psychosis can be found on this site. I know nothing about the chemical dependency referenced above by his psychiatrist.

Although Churchwell has been known to post harmless filler on his blogs, he always returns to the topics that have consumed him for years. On a typical day, he posts lewd pictures of teenagers and professes Elmer Gantry style outrage over lewdness; he claims to be a cyber victim, while victimizing anyone who crosses him; he brags that he once was a pickpocket, and accuses other people of stealing, then boasts about his anti-social experiences, and says Yahoo, MySpace and Google are in cahoots with him, and so on. In his bizarre and contradictory posts, we see that what he says and does are two very different things. Put another way, Thomas Churchwell may be the most blatant liar who ever drew breath.

The most telling thing he does is contradict himself. When you wonder about a contradiction, he will deny ever writing it, though it may literally have been only a day since he wrote it—how could you think he'd ever say that? You're a wacko! He will contradict FACTS. He will lie to you about conversations you had with him. Typically, he writes poison post titles about me that begin with this lie: "SCARLETT CONFESSES" or this: "THE CHURCHWELLS BEAT SCARLETT!" and what follows are more lies. When you catch him in a lie, he will say that you are the one who's lying, making stuff up, and you are a stalker, pornographer, thief and wacko.

Forensic psychologist Dr. Robert Hare, author of Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of Psychopaths Among Us, wrote this about habitual liars, and it fits Churchwell to a T:

"When caught in a lie and challenged, he makes up new lies."

Psychopaths have always existed. Most come from low socio-economic backgrounds, and roughly 90% of all psycopaths are male. They have been studied using various techniques (perhaps the same techniques Churchwell's psychiatrist used to diagnose him), and through the years their problems have been blamed on various causes. But one thing never varies: anti-social types share four common characteristics. They are egocentric, they have no empathy, they are incapable of telling the truth, and they are very manipulative.

Far from being killers, on the whole, psychopaths tend to harm people with malicious lies. They are not always mass murderers, serial killers or poster boys for Norman Bates. Most are just hostile creeps who enjoy making life difficult for others. Competitive to an extreme, they regularly lie and turn ordinary interactions into struggles to the death. Which leads us to what they do that is truly shocking: an ability to focus their undivided attention on other people, until they ruin them. Some clinicians have compared this to the concentration with which a predator stalks his prey. A couple of years ago, Churchwell posted snapshots on a MSN amateur photography site, and when the moderator, a long time photographer, offered him a bit of helpful criticism, Churchwell berated the poor man on his blogs for weeks, calling him a "phony, crappy nobody," among other slurs. Sound familiar? For three years he has been trying to drive me off the Internet with lies that are identical to what he said about the moderator.

As a predictable corollary, anti-social people feel most comfortable with those who they perceive as being one step down from them. They shift their obsessive natures away from defeating people who are trying to get ahead and toward those who they perceive as already having made it. Churchwell is the picture of benevolence when it comes to young girls who will never be professional models, yet when he encounters people who earn their livings as writers, magicians and photographers, he attacks them like a rabid dog. Those people, in his opinion, "need to be taken down a notch." Although his victory dance is often short lived, before he becomes bored again, smearing professional people and beating us to a bloody pulp on the Internet is his definite objective.

In her book Invisible Eden, Maria Flook got this quote from him, and it may be the only completely honest thing that he has ever said: "I love messing up people's heads."

Needless to say, a psychopath's relationships are never normal. Occasionally, he teams up with another disordered individual, if it suits his purposes, but having a psychopath for a partner is like riding in a car with no brakes. It's little wonder these types are drawn to the Internet. They used to sit outside their targets' home—hiding in cars or bushes—waiting to follow them. They used to leave threatening notes on their windshields before slashing their tires. But now they have moved into the 21st century, using modern technology to terrorize their victims. They have an uncanny ability for recognizing nice women and can sniff out potential victims seemingly through their computer screens.

I have written about Churchwell's vindictiveness and how he began to attack me the day after I ended those short-lived phone conversations with him in 2006. What you may not know is that his abrupt change from decent (though odd) treatment on the phone to outright abuse was very shocking and bewildering, and so unlike my normal experience that it was months before I realized that my being nice to him was what triggered his nasty reaction. When I told him to leave me alone, then he went bonkers—just like that, trashing me on his blog with unbelievable lies. When an anti-social type knows that you are nice, he'll suck you dry like Dracula—demand all your time, be more work than a newborn—and test you with tiresome demands and power plays. In his world, sincerity is a weakness and trying to "understand" him is asking to be hurt, so be careful; he will try to hurt you without blinking. He can't, or won't, trust, so he will constantly test you. One example of a test I gladly failed happened when Churchwell pressured me for nude pictures. If you won't submit to the tyranny, then you will be labeled a "moron," "wacko," and "If you liked me, you would do whatever I ask."

Three years have come and gone, and he has spent them ranting obsessively to rationalize his awful treatment of me, heatedly battling the wacko, as he calls me, with name calling and finger-pointing in cruel and vulgar rants. It is also in this vein that he has worked on my readers and tried to destroy my photography career, repeatedly telling the Internet that I have no talent or ethics, and that I'm a "photo thief," and so on.

Here are typical lies that he posted on Google Groups. He listed every blog he could find with his name in it, and then wrote:

"These are hate site (sic) created by a cyber bully who is now writing "Parody" on the blogs in hope to keep them up but they are not parody blogs and she makes sure to get what she writes on Google listing first before writing parody so people will read her hate in Google listing. She has been doing this for 3 years now and she attacks everyone in my family incluing (sic) my mother and my little girl."

First, if he had a dollar for every time he exploited his family in his libel schemes, and this includes his grown daughter, he likely would have enough money by now to get off the government dole. Here was an actual reply to his comment from a poster who wasn't fooled:

"I think this is funny. I also think that you did, in fact, write these blogs and posted them here to get people to read them. I also believe that no one gives a crap about this. No where in there did I see an attack on you or your family."

Many can see through his lies immediately, so why doesn't he stop? An anonymous comment posted on a victim resource site:

"What surprises me is even when the psychopath stalker has been caught out, he still DOES IT! He carries on! It's an obsession! He doesn't stop thinking about himself long enough to realize his victims are smart and can call him on his behavior! The psychopath will still stand there and in plain sight proclaim that "he is the victim." It's a wonder how they can carry on after being exposed, yet we all know it's a compulsion."

I wish that woman the best of luck.

Churchwell seems to think people are too stupid to figure out that he is a pathological liar. Furthermore, he seems to twist the truth just for the fun of putting something over on someone. The lies he tells about women are outright evil, and could be the result of faulty brain wiring, a childhood trauma, or perhaps he was born that way. Whatever the cause, clinical research shows that habitual liars do not suddenly spring into existence in adulthood. The behavior appears in early life.

And what about his victims? Some victims, like the photo site moderator discussed above, or that male writer who he cruelly libeled a drunk, say nothing and just hope that the bully will go away. But sometimes a victim is tempted to give a long explanation to prove the bully's allegations false. I have done that here, of course, and each time I asserted my right not to be libeled, he immediately launched another attack on me. Included was the tactic: "My fans say you are a freak" and "Everyone wants you to go away." This is standard bully-speak and is a variation on: "Nobody reads your blog" and "It must suck to be you."

Don't be fooled into believing what he writes has any validity—it doesn't. In his rants he is actually describing himself. Author Melton said this about projection:

“Keep one simple fact always in mind, regardless of whether he is borderline, narcissistic, psychopathic or sadistic: Whenever he is criticizing characteristics in you, he is making autobiographical statements about himself. Listen closely to the hateful things he says to you about you. You are listening to verbatim descriptions of his character defects. This is extremely important to remember, especially in the midst of verbal attack. These are the only moments when you will hear the truth about the man who lies concealed behind the steel wall of his personality disorder.”

So, Churchwell projects his deviant thoughts and behaviors onto others. In other words, he accuses other people of what he is guilty of himself. Additionally, something should be said about his feigned victimhood. When he starts to think that maybe this time he will be held accountable for his behavior, he turns on the water works. These 'poor me' dramas commonly take the form of self-pity, phony indignation, pretending to be misunderstood ("Me hate women? I love women!"), claiming that he's the one being bullied or harassed or stalked, claiming to be deeply offended, martyrdom ("I wonder how much longer I will live..."), claiming a scary childhood ("I think my father was in the Mafia.."), and even claiming religious persecution, and more dramas ("I am mentally ill..." and "I gave up magic because of Christa Worthington's murder...", "I am the victim of a wacko ..."). All of these tales portray himself as the downtrodden victim rather than the victimizier.

Here is another one: "I'LL KEEP WRITING ABOUT SCARLETT UNTIL SHE STOPS ATTACKING ME AND MY FAMILY AND GOES AWAY." Translation: Every time Scarlett exposes me as a liar, I will get even!

Those of us who have had an experience with psychopaths know that their language is two-dimensional. They are, as someone once said, as "deep as a thimble." An analogy is given by Dr. Hare of a psychopath as a color blind person who has learned how to function in the world by certain strategies. He may tell you that he "stopped at a red light," but what he really means is that he knew the light at the top means "stop," so he stopped. He calls it the "red" light like everyone else, but he has no experience of what "red" looks like. Psychopaths use words about emotions the same way people who are color blind use words about colors they cannot perceive. They not only learn how to use the words, and repeat the same words over and over, they also learn to pantomime the feeling. But they never HAVE the feeling.

As for his feigned victimhood, experts say that thoughts of persecution often combine with delusions of grandeur: defined as the gross exaggeration of one's own importance, abilities or talents. Delusions abound in Churchwell's writings and can be found in numerous posts in which he claims to be a "witch" (perhaps meaning warlock?), as well as a psychic, successful photographer and famous retired magician, who used to know and date celebrities like Brooke Shields. Delusional types believe they are special, unique, or famous, or that they know someone who is famous. Churchwell is just as eager to fantasize that he was a member of "the press" who photographed a Catholic Cardinal, as he is to fantasize that he was pals with the notorious wife slasher O.J. Simpson!

Read what others say about Churchwell's occult delusions on this thread.

Regarding his failure to lead a productive life, anti-socials rarely hold a job for long. Churchwell's old girlfriend from twenty years ago reports that he couldn't even keep a Santa Claus job in a department store for more than a day. According to her, he lost his marbles after he and other store employees were filmed for a holiday segment that was to air on a local TV channel. The camera crew got only one distant shot of Churchwell, and no one recognized him on TV. The next day, feeling slighted, he refused to get out of bed. It was much the same story in 1996 when he was hired as a 'table-hopper' magician in a bar and "worked" briefly as a pickpocket in a strip club.

In Invisible Eden, Maria Flook wrote about that time in his life: "T.C. was no longer a rising star but was more like a disabled satellite orbiting the same seedy wee-hour solar system, night after night."

Normal people work for a goal, even if the goal is only a paycheck. Normal people measure things by how much they have to spend (in time, work, energy) to get the desired results. Anti-social people might work for a goal, too, but it's a different goal: they want power, authority, adulation. Yet, they don't understand how people achieve these things; they think it's all arbitrary, it's all appearances, it's all who you know. They often try to attach themselves to those who already have what they want, as Churchwell did with two magicians.

To read what magicians really think of him, go here and here.

And go here to read an entry about him on the Urban Dictionary website, by one of the magicians he ripped off.

Was he ever invested in magic? Well, he never paid attention to things like ethics and honing his craft, preferring instead to leech off, or demean, those who were successful. Anti-social types feel entitled to whatever they can take. They expect special indulgences, and they also feel entitled to use people. The idea of working for a paycheck, of competing in the work place with other men, and with women, is anathema to Churchwell. Of course, he has no time to earn a living anyway, since he is hard at work being a cyber bully and stalker.

Ironically, people like Churchwell actually receive a disability check from the government so that they are able to spend their entire day attacking people on the Internet. Several years ago Churchwell apparently qualified for disability checks by satisfying the diagnostic criteria for manic depression, according to him. This means that he may have qualified under any of the eight mental disorders listed on the Social Security website; personality disorders are included. In order for a claimant to receive benefits, psychiatrists state the patient can no longer perform his past work, or any type of work, that he has repeated episodes of decompensation (mind deterioration), and ongoing difficulties in maintaining social functioning. Manic depression, also called bipolar disorder, is characterized by mood changes that swing from depression to mania, with periods of normalcy between the two extremes. There are many online articles explaining the "mood cycling" involved in this disorder, and the differences between a mood disorder and a personality disorder. One of the hallmarks of manic depression is guilt. As most of us know, guilt is a feeling of responsibility or remorse for something wrong we have done. It is our conscience judging us for our actions and thoughts. In people who are bipolar, guilt feelings seem to come from nowhere, and when bipolar people hurt others, they are remorseful. But Churchwell never demonstrates remorse for anything. If he is bipolar, then surely this is only one of his problems, and it is his anti-social personality disorder that is mainly responsible for the misery he has caused on the blogs. I will close the paragraph by adding this. I loved a wonderful man who suffered with manic depression. Believe me. He was nothing like Thomas Churchwell.

If someone you know is a psychopath, watch out. They think the rules don't apply to them, and they will always cause trouble wherever they think they can get away with it, not to mention alienating family, co-workers, clients and friends with their arrogance, lies, and malice. They become enraged over simple disagreements, plus they have evil mouths and will say ANYTHING. If you live or work with them—or find yourself in the same blogosphere with them—expect big trouble sooner or later.

A quote from a satire site, by "Frank the Psychopath":

"I don’t think I feel things the same way you do. It’s like… at my first job. I was stealing maybe a thousand bucks a month from that place. And this kid, he was new, he got wise. And he was going to turn me in, but before he got the chance I went to the manager and pinned the whole thing on him. Kid lost his job, the cops got involved, I don’t know what happened to him. And I guess something like that is supposed to make me feel bad, right? It’s supposed to hurt, right? But instead, it’s like there’s nothing..."

That quote is eerily similar to Churchwell's writings. Anti-socials typically steal, and they know that stealing is wrong, but they never experience feelings of shame, guilt or remorse. They flat out refuse to accept responsibility for their actions and insidiously point fingers at others instead. Dr. Hare describes them as being morally insane.

A recap of excuses they use to avoid responsibility in all situations:

* Justifying: "I CAN'T HELP IT. I'M MENTALLY ILL."

* Blame shifting: "YOU ASKED FOR IT!"

* Play Acting: "I AM A VICTIM!"

* Entitlement: "IF I WANT TO DO IT, I CAN."

* Grandiosity: "I AM SMARTER THAN YOU! YOU ARE A DUMMY!"

* Projection: "YOU ARE A BULLY, STALKER, LIAR, THIEF, WACKO!"

And let's not forget this biggie: Leaving out major sections of any incident and inserting his own loony spin. Rewriting history. As we slosh through Churchwell's cesspool of lies and manufactured excuses, we always come back to what he told Maria Flook in that interview: "I LOVE MESSING UP PEOPLE'S HEADS."

Shouldn't he feel embarrassment and shame for what he has done to me and others? He should, but he has no deep-seated emotions. No empathy, not even a morsel of compassion or concern for other people. Thomas Churchwell is completely amoral, or perhaps, he has the morals of a bright two-year-old. You have heard it said that every magician has a bag full of tricks. Churchwell is a failed magician who has a bag full of lies, and when he becomes bored with one lie, he temporarily tosses it back into his bag and pulls out another. The following are links, in no particular order, to my archive posts setting the record straight about his big bag of lies.

The truth is here:

The child porno writer lie
The phone message lie
The Susan and I are the same person lie
The "I never threatened to kill Scarlett" lie
The hate blogger lie
The nudie pictures lie
The photo thief lie
The photo thief lie redux
The stalker lie
The "Scarlett is attacking my family" lie

If I have forgotten a lie, readers, just read this blog.

H.M. Cleckley writes in The Mask Of Sanity:

"One almost amusing example of how psychopaths lie can be exemplified by a man who's footprint was discovered at the scene of the crime. "No, that's not my foot" he said, even though everyone knew he was lying."

Before writing my first post on this blog, I tried to convince Churchwell to stop telling lies about me by appealing to his better nature. But I found out that appealing to his better nature was about as effective as spitting in the sea. What you see is what you get: he has no better nature. The fundamental problem, again, is that he doesn't feel empathy. He doesn't take other people's feelings into consideration and he overlooks an obvious fact, that people will react when abused or exploited and that most people get REALLY pissed off by being lied to, or lied about.

His deviant history includes posting lewd pictures of underage girls, stealing magic tricks (according to several magic forums), stealing the copyright of my commercial photography in 2007, and boasting that he once was a pickpocket, among other weirdness. Again, these are prime examples of how he projects his own behavior onto others. The pretense that his allegations about me are part of a morality campaign, of all things, is another lie designed to dupe the Internet along with mental health professionals.

Never in my life have I encountered such a damaging person. If I hadn't stopped carrying his libel around with me like suitcases, I probably would have had a nervous breakdown. There was a period of time two years ago when I remember looking in the mirror and feeling like I was the most worthless human being to ever walk the earth. This was after I had lost my parents and was dealing with depression, a result of my mother and father dying within 11 months of each other. Two years before that, I had lost my fiancé tragically. I was vulnerable, in other words. I actually believed, when I met Churchwell on that message board, that my young, 60-year-old parents might have recovered from the heart attack and cancer, if I had just prayed harder and taken care of them 24 hours a day. Believing myself a failure, I was ripe for buying into the awful things Churchwell was saying about me on his hate sites. I think this is part of the hook of being in the same blogosphere with disordered people; victims want to prove that they aren’t the way the hater says they are. I know this was true for me. I would get so close to the proverbial delete button and then he would say something so outrageous that I couldn’t stand to close my blog without defending my character and proving him wrong. Even after I came to terms with my grief and began to rebuild my life, I continued to defend myself against his lies. Defending myself against scurrilous attacks, or dodging them like arrows, had become an unwanted habit.

As readers know, he told you that I was a pornographer, stalker and thief after I had lost sleep, work, and suffered so much from his libel that I ended up in the hospital with pleurisy. Not content with that, he mocked my illness, claimed crazily that I posted he gave me "flu on the Internet" and continued to attack me, even while I was hospitalized. His emotional abuse was (and still is) an attempt to break me down—and make it appear that I am like him. Anti-social types live by the words, "Throw enough mud and some of it will stick."

Here's a link to an article about stress and the immune system.

Before I soldier on with my experiences, I want to share what happened to a friend of mine from the UK. She had been communicating for over a year with a man who lived in Florida, and during the time of their correspondence and phone calls, he seemed so "sweet, caring, and kind." She mentioned how he had grieved over his dead wife, and so on.

This man asked my friend to marry him, and, to top it off, he promised her that he had a terrific job lined up for her in the city where he lived. My friend believed him and came to the United States to meet him.

At their first meeting she mentioned how it was the beginning of the end, and she should have seen it coming. She told him, after they met at the airport, that she needed to make a phone call, but instead of letting her use his cell phone, he coldly told her to use the pay phone. She noticed how this contradicted his warm personality on the phone and in emails. She said she was shocked, but being naive, she married him anyway.

As the weeks went by, things got worse. She found out that he had lied about the terrific job. Next, she began to get phone calls from two women in Canada who told her that her new husband had been inviting them, via online chats, to live with him! My friend was distraught and told these women that he was lying to them. The women didn't believe it (why do women tend to doubt another woman when she is trying to warn them?), so my friend said, "If you want proof that I am married to him, come down here and see for yourselves."

Eventually, she learned from his family that Mr. Wonderful was a pathological liar who had a long history of using women and having his mother cover his tracks. I don't want anyone else to go through what my friend and I experienced. It is my hope that this post will provide a bit of support to others who live, work, or blog with psychopaths. I'm sorry that I cannot also provide a solution, but since a prime characteristic of anti-social people is believing that they are always right, no matter what, they are extremely resistant to change and, unfortunately, tend to get worse as they get older. I know this is true of Churchwell; he is worse now than when he started blogging three years ago. The key, then, is prevention; learning how to recognize losers, before they can damage you. I hope that more women will become informed, so that they will not become victims themselves.

Narcissists are attention seekers. More than anything else, they crave attention. It doesn't matter if the attention is positive or negative, as long as they get attention. Churchwell lives for the "narcissistic hits" (narcissistic supply) that he gets from reading posts about himself, and from the knowledge that others are reading them, too. As Freud said of narcissists, these people act like they're in love with themselves. And they are in love with a fantasy of themselves—or they want you to be in love with their fantasy self; it's hard to tell just what is going on.

Lying is the most common complaint about narcissists. Fishing for pity and expecting everyone to defer to them are other signs of the disorder. Narcissists are quick to blame others when their expectations are not met. They react like hornets to criticism, and if they are rejected, they will vilify the person who rejected them. Thus, Churchwell's attacks on me. Their lack of insight is breathtaking and often leads them to wildly misinterpret others' motives. Churchwell's self-preoccupation has always obstructed his ability to see people as they really are, obstructed even his ability to perceive bloggers as separate people. For years he was convinced that the bully Susan a/k/a SuziQ and I were the same person, even though she and I are obviously nothing alike.

Psychologist Theodore Milton has written about two primary types of narcissists: the elitists, who often become successful leaders in government, and the fanatic type, which probably describes Churchwell. The fanatic narcissist has major paranoid tendencies. When unable to get attention, or massive amounts of praise, he takes on the role of warrior on a grandiose mission, such as his mission to rid the Internet of perceived enemies, claiming that we are all stalkers, thieves and pornographers. Fanatic narcissists can be found among cult leaders, in mental hospitals if their delusions become sustained and extensive, or in prison, if their actions counteract those of society.

Grandiosity can take many forms. Like Narcissus gazing at his reflection in a pool of water, narcissists are obsessed with their looks. One of the first things Churchwell said to me was, "I hate getting old." His bizarre lie that I am old must be a projection of what he sees when looking in a mirror. But male narcissists are more likely to get hung up on the 'specialness' of their work—in Churchwell's case, "work" is his hate blog, which means if he is spewing on his blog, by definition it is more important than someone else's nice blog. Narcissists are envious of others and they have those strange religious ideas, in particular believing that they are God's special favorites. God loves them, so they are exempt from ordinary rules; God tells them they are omnipotent, so they can do anything they feel like. Conveniently, the narcissist's God has strict rules for everyone else! Churchwell's recurring fantasy that he is a Jew, and persecuted, fits with other aspects of his victim fantasy. Always contemptuous of others, he makes insulting, mocking and crude comments about women, as if auditioning for Jerry Springer. A person like this who is quoted in Invisible Eden as comparing a part of a woman's anatomy to a computer trackball, is either a narcissist, emotionally retarded, a loathsome misogynist, or all three.

But I digress. The high that he gets from reading about himself wears off after a few days, or within minutes, and then he must try to provoke another reaction.

I should point out here that many of his attacks on me failed to get a response. In fact, I defended myself against his daily libel in thirty-something posts over the past three years. To some of you, that may seem like thirty-something posts too many, but let me tell you, if your character was being defiled on the Internet every day and your livelihood threatened by a psychopath/narcissist bent on destroying you, then you just might get into the habit of defending yourself occasionally. He recently posted libel about me on some sleazy website that caters to sado-masochists, where, no surprise, he happens to be a member. Of course, the link ended up in the Google blog listings. What he wrote was hideous, yet this was one of many times when I didn't bother to defend myself.

His name calling, in particular, is a sign that I am silently winning one battle, if not the war. He is telling me that I do know what I'm talking about when I describe him as a psychopath.

I take it as backhanded validation when he "critiques" every word of my blog in the nasty style of a psychopath. Further, I understand how Maria Flook may have felt, had she known that Churchwell plagiarized her insightful chapter in Invisible Eden, the one detailing his brief romance with socialite Christa Worthington, six years before she was raped and murdered by her garbage collector. When Churchwell put this chapter on his blog without the author's permission, readers saw that he had scribbled snide comments over the text and all along the margins, obviously hating what Flook had written about him. (You can download the entire text here and read a brief biography of the author here.) He has spent years trashing her. Paradoxically, he pimps her book, his obvious purpose being to lure people to his blog with tabloid style headlines: "YES, I WAS THE BOYFRIEND OF CHRISTA WORTHINGTON IN INVISIBLE EDEN!" On other sites, he makes disgusting comments such as this: "IN INVISIBLE EDEN I AM PEPPERED THROUGH THE WHOLE BOOK AND HAVE MY OWN CHAPTER ON PAGE 288 CALLED "THE AMAZING TARQUIN." Since he desperately wants to be famous, or infamous, he is not above exploiting his short-lived relationship with a woman who was brutally murdered. Yet, to those of us who have read the book, he comes across as a seedy bar magician, a moocher, unstable, and a source of comic relief for the sometimes meaningful relationships that filled Christa Worthington's short life. Flook aptly described Churchwell's personality as "exibitionistic." Interestingly, she relates in her book that he sent her numerous "heated emails that were incendiary, sensational and always wacky." Sound familiar? Now that I have reposted a tiny portion of his bona fide, genuine psychiatric diagnostic assessment, he will step up his attacks on me, just as he did to Maria Flook and others.

Michael O'Keefe, lead prosecutor in the Worthington case, described Churchwell as a "nutcase." There you have it.

One guideline for dealing with this type of person is: don't respond, don't interact and don't engage. Of course, as I stated above, this is not as easy as it sounds. From my own experience I know it is natural to want to defend yourself and set the record straight. But I have learned that trying to reason with a psychopath is like trying to reason with a toddler. Toddlers act out for only a brief period, after which they are on the road to becoming grown ups, whereas anti-socials never grow up. Churchwell's response, upon reading this post, will be more name calling; so immature and childish, as to be beyond the belief of any adult.

But this is not merely the case of a bully who is unbelievably crude, immature and mean. People who spend their lives verbally attacking others are afflicted with a form of sadism. They find joy in hurting people. They are psychopaths.

Churchwell's lust for causing pain is evident in what he posts on his hate sites. In addition, he irritates innocent people by flooding a group with nasty character assasinations on completely neutral sites. A few months ago he spewed malicious lies about me on the ABC news network political blog! He spewed more libel in a 'personals' ad in my hometown newspaper (another attempt to ruin my photography business), and again on a website for artists. Since it is unlikely that any rational person would be favorably impressed or influenced upon reading flaming comments posted under the guise of "warning" strangers about some unknown woman, it is obvious that his goal is to find excitement from being a sadistic pest.

My other blog, which was not about him, is closed now due to his daily harassment. It is a fact that he has written hundreds of abusive comments on my blogs, including death threats. As a result, I had to close the comment section on both blogs.

Some of his threats are posted on this site. Here is one:

"SOMEONE ASKED ME WHAT I WOULD DO IF I FOUND OUT WHERE SHE LIVED. MY RESPONSE IS: I WOULD SHOOT HER 1OOO TIMES. EVEN AFTER SHE WAS DEAD I WOULD CONTINUE TO SHOOT."

Disturbing, isn't it? I have always known that either he would eventually stop, or I would have to close my blogs, unless I was willing to tolerate the abuse forever. Since he doesn't view people as human beings, but as objects to be used for his entertainment, he will never allow me to blog in peace. Instead, he would continue to close his daily tirades with this: "YOUR MOVE, DUMMY!" or "GOTCHA!" It is as if he is permanently condemned to "mess up people's heads" using a juvenile dictionary.

I have never been able to escape him. I broke off those short-lived conversations with him 3 years ago (fortunately, we never met), but he still harasses me, still copies my posts and alters them, still plays that meaningless phone message, demonstrating over and over that he is a stalker, still tries to ruin my photography career, and threatens my life. Are you sitting down? A few weeks ago, I received an email inviting me to join him for online chats! His behavior is truly psychotic. I haven't talked much about his stalking in this post, but it has been ongoing for three years now, and seems to be neverending.

As for the belief held by many of his victims that another hospitalization is likely for him, anti-social types are difficult to treat. In his mind, he is not doing anything wrong; if there's a problem, it's your problem, not his. Furthermore, as Dr. Hare points out, all they do in therapy is learn more about human nature, and then use this knowledge to further plunder humanity. Therapy works only when someone wants to change and, though psychopaths and narcissists hate their real selves, they don't want to change—they want the world to change. Short of nonstop hospitalization, or neurosurgery, there seems to be no effective (and legal) way to protect society from these people. They typically do not stop their destructive behavior until they are either dead or in jail.

Thomas Churchwell's violence towards me takes the form of verbal assault, which survivors of abuse will tell you is every bit as emotionally damaging as being beaten by an abuser's fists. When he does it again, I won't defend myself. When it comes to words, this loser will always win in his mind. He has no insight, which makes any effort to confront him on a blog completely useless. Moreover, all the name calling and allegations that he makes about me and other people are actually true confessions and revelations about himself. He is a great big projection machine. I will ignore it. If you are a blogger and the victim of a psychopathic bully or narcissist, I hope you will do the same, out of respect not only for your readers, but also for your own well being.

For a change of pace, my blog recap with photos is on this page.

Tomorrow Is Another blog? Not with Cyber Bullies around, you know

2009-05-29T17:25:00.614-04:00

Several weeks ago, I closed my other blog. The URL and front page are still up, so that the two cyber bullies can't swipe it—one of them has a habit of grabbing discarded URLs. I am posting the blog's final entry here as well.

(May 15, 2009) This is an unpleasant topic, and I am going to spend as little time on it as possible.

A friend of mine started a blog a few years ago, and was attacked by a bully in her first week. His vicious comments shook her up so badly that she closed the blog down. In her case, it was a drive-by bully, the kind of nastiness that she described as a zoo animal screeching at anyone walking by its cage. Random meanness. I wholly respected my friend's decision to quit, but I also believed (then) that you DON'T STOP blogging because of a cyber bully.

Bullies are unhappy, bored, disturbed, or just plain mean enough to want to take it out on someone else. They are looking for a diversion from their own misery. They will take any attention they can get, even if the attention is negative. Ignoring them rarely makes them go away.

For three years I have been stalked by two persistent bullies. One is a woman, and she is obsessed with the other bully. Aware of his enormous hatred for me, she is not above using dirty tricks to get his attention. She writes emails to him in my name and posts blog comments in my name, and ADMITS it. She goads him into attacking me. But what makes her a bit unusual is that she can switch allegiances in the blink of an eye. Just as she is capable of attacking me, she is every bit as capable of attacking him. If this description of her sounds like a contradiction, she is that. You never know where you stand with Susan.

You might be new here and thinking: Oh, boy, two women are having a cat fight! Wrong. Anyone who has read the blogs knows that I have never been a combative blogger. Susan, on the other hand, lives to fight. If you go to gretawire.blogs.foxnews.com, you will see her malicious comments, posted under the aliases Suzi, Sammie, Deb, Kay and Jane, and many other names. She regularly slams the women posters on that site for no reason. Greta Susteren, who is the site's adminstrator, has called her a "miserable person".

Susan and the other (main) bully, Thomas Churchwell, don't have paying jobs, but both are hard at work every day slurring the reputations of good people. Today, having nothing better to do, Susan found a post on some blog and accused me of plagiarizing it. She flooded my inbox with vindictive emails, sent copies of her emails to Bully No. 1, and even wrote that my dog doesn't exist.

To understand why she became unhinged again, you have to know what happened yesterday. I stumbled upon a Tweet of hers, via a link to my blog that I saw on my site meter. When I clicked on the page, I saw this:

Enjoying Churchwell's photos.
12:42 PM Apr 4th from web

Later, Susan tried to pass off her Tweet as "sarcasm." Yet, to anyone who can read English, or is familiar with the long time cat and mouse games played by her and Churchwell, the phrase "enjoying churchwell's photos" had to be a compliment. I think she was embarrassed and pissed that I saw it, figuring I never would, since I don't twitter, or maybe she just forgot it was on her page.

And her accusation one day later that I plagiarized a blog post? See the paragraph above.

On two separate occasions she has attacked me. Outrageous, mean and vile attacks, considering that I did NOTHING to warrant them, never said one negative thing about her before she launched her first attack on me. That attack took mean to a whole new level. It was just breathtakingly mean. I was in fact going through a difficult time, and she made me feel like shit.

I have known of Susan's love-hate obsession for Churchwell for a long time, but I was stunned the first time she betrayed me. Today, it was just as galling, but it doesn't hurt. She is going to attack anyone who mentions her fixation for Churchwell. As a bully she is not as obvious as he is, but she may be more diabolical, because she has written about a million emails and made about a million phone calls pretending to be my friend.

Susan is a bully and a betrayer, not a friend. And frankly, I don't give a flying rat's ass about her opinion, or Churchwell's.

Last December I tried to go my merry way. I wanted to have a nice blog. But I didn't want to ruffle the main bully's feathers by doing too much more than trying to keep up the blog. So, I wrote just a few defense posts on my other site, foolishly thinking this would stop his libel. Meanwhile, I continued to blog here, until he started attacking me here also, which he has done with stunning regularity. Yet, I mostly left it alone, and asked the friends I emailed to leave it alone. I even was cordial when Susan commented on my site. Her double face was galling.

To sum up this post so far: Today, Bully No. 1 moved back a tier, and Bully No. 2 moved forward.

Just how long can an average person take abuse from a cyber bully? My friend, who closed her blog, couldn't take it for more than a week. Sadly, when children and teens can't take it anymore, a few will commit suicide. Churchwell started attacking me in 2006. Bullies generally target females who are nice. When I wrote my first defense post, he stepped up his attacks. I got so sick after that I ended up in a hospital with pleurisy. Those attacks easily could have KILLED me.

As for the other unsavory aspects of blogging: petty jealousies, cat fights, symbiosis and the rest, I never wanted any of it. If a site I read has some melodrama brewing, I go on to the next feed. When Bully No. 1 put his dirty footprints all over my comment section, I sent his abuse to its own site. You didn't find melodrama happening on this site, because I simply didn't want it.

I'm so freaking done. I'm tired of taking the high road and being libeled by bullies. I'm tired of betrayals. By chasing Churchwell for three years, Susan has done more harm to female cyber victims than she will ever understand. I'm tired of Churchwell lying to ensure that people don't like me.

I think right now that there are some really bad people who blog. BAD, ugly sad people. People who are miserable and want to shift the blame off their own sad little lives onto others. People who live to bully.

Go away, you sad, mean people. And please, don't ever bother me again. I don't want to know you, I don't want your emails, and I don't want to even know you're alive.

To others reading this post, if I have another blog, it will be PRIVATE. This means you will have a user name and password to read it. If you are unable to substantiate who you are, or refuse to do so, I won't add you, even if your name is Donald, and your address is Trump Tower. Believe me. You will not be reading another blog of mine if you think it's okay to be pals with a cyber bully.

Finally, to the REAL PEOPLE and FRIENDS who took the time to read my blogs, I sincerely thank you for showing up.

Many Women Are Stalked

2009-05-28T16:26:00.005-04:00

This is the face of a victim. To read her story, click here.

Three Years Later...Churchwell Still Spewing Lies About Old Phone Message

2009-04-08T19:54:00.397-04:00

Update! So much for giving it the old college try. Last week, I closed the comment section on this blog, hoping that would end Thomas Churchwell's stalking. It didn't. He just took his stalking show on the road to my other blog.

You can read some of his abuse here.

Today, he went back to Gretawire to post more of the same, evidently wanting readers of that blog to know that being a liar, stalker and cyber bully are the only things he knows how to do.

Is there anyone left in blogland who doesn't know that Thomas Churchwell is a stalker? He proved he is a stalker by playing that old phone message on the Internet for three years. What kind of person does something like that? A normal man doesn't write grotesque sexual lies about a woman and broadcast her phone message on the Internet. A normal man doesn't rape a woman's soul by posting her pictures, after she has asked him to stop. Has he no shame? What does his psychiatrist make of his behavior?

As for the libel he posted on GW today, it was flagged, which automatically threw any replies into 'comment moderation.' Here was one reply:

"The wonderful Scarlett spent a couple of weeks chatting on the Internet with this creep back in 2006. When she realized he was a liar, she ended the chats. But Churchwell wasn't about to let her go. The next day, he started attacking her on his blog. He has never stopped.

To read more about his stalking, go here.

Scarlett is not his only victim. There have been others, but Scarlett received the brunt of his abuse, because she had conversations with him.

As for that old phone message that the hate hobbyist keeps posting links to on Greta's blog, does he think people are too stupid to comprehend what Scarlett was saying? Really? Here is the gist: Scarlett was upset because Churchwell had been saying that she was Susan. Susan (Suzi) was writing a nasty blog about him at the time (incidentally, it was the first blog written about him) and Scarlett had nothing to do with it. She didn't like being accused of writing Susan's nasty blog.

He cut off the end of the message, when she said, "You should check yourself into a hospital." You can hear the first syllable of "hospital"; the rest of the word was snipped. But even though he snipped it (and will snip the entire sentence, after reading this), he left his cackle. Here was a woman who clearly was upset, but was trying to help him, and he was laughing at her!

Then, he began to stalk her, while telling all of blogland that she was stalking him! If you have read Churchwell's appalling, blabber-mouth account of his life, then you know that no woman would stalk Thomas Churchwell!

He has played her phone message on the Internet for 3 years. That's a long time to obsess over a woman who wants nothing to do with him. What does this say about him? It says he is a bully and a stalker."

That comment didn't make it into GW due to Churchwell's comment geting flagged. I wrote this post to set the record straight.

For more truth, go here: http://churchwelldumpingground.com/

In Loony Land

2009-04-07T06:55:00.033-04:00

Sometimes, it's better to laugh than to cry...

Scene: A street corner somewhere in New Hamphire circa 1920. A youngster of 17 stands under a gas light on a cold, foggy night, blinking at girls passing by. Soon he spots a lone maiden, pretty and quite demure. He blurts that he is looking for a girl to libel. Not knowing what libel is, but terrified nonetheless, the maiden utters a scream and runs away. The youngster's name is Thomas Churchwell. He has strawberry blond hair that he wears in a mullet. He has beady eyes. He is short. Today he was expelled from the tenth grade after a lying frenzy, then he ran away from home. An alert newspaper reporter riding down the street hears the maiden's scream and instantly recognizes Churchwell from his recent mug shot. "Whoa!" the reporter cries. Climbing down from his buggy, he pulls out a sheet of parchment paper from his overcoat, and a quill, then tethers his snow white horse to the gas light pole. He walks over to the youngster.

Reporter: So, Thomas. You were expelled from high school due to a lying frenzy, then you ran away from home. What are you going to do now?

Thomas: I'm going to Loony Land!

The end.

The above "story" is fiction, just like all the posts on Thomas Churchwell's blog. I have never rolled my eyes as much in my life as when I read his latest piece of fiction about me in the Reader.

Setting the record straight:

being

not

he told me that he ejaculated

three times in one day

One thing is not funny at all. Thomas Churchwell is still obsessed and lying about insignificant conversations that happened three fricking years ago. Facts don't change, no matter how long he tries to spin them in Loony Land!

Blog Comments Closing

2009-04-02T23:43:00.044-04:00

As the victim of a stalker, I have read a lot on the subject of cyber stalking. I have learned that experts have differing opinions as to whether it's better to speak out against a stalker's lies, or ignore them completely.

The general consensus is slightly tipped toward silence, the theory being that if you respond to a stalker, he will take it as encouragement; whereas, if you say nothing, he may go away eventually.

I can't fathom Churchwell going away, because stalking is just about the only thing he does each day.

I can't picture him being anything in life but a stalker, although wouldn't it be fantastic if he proved me wrong?

For now, I'm closing the comment section on this blog to give myself some relief from his harassment.

If you care to read the abuse that he has been sending to this blog, here's a link:

http://churchwelldumpingground.blogspot.com/

MANY READ POSTS ABOUT THOMAS CHURCHWELL

2009-03-28T23:00:00.125-04:00

Update! Sometimes, the best response to lunacy is: keep it simple. Here are 'before and after' screenshots of a page in the Google Reader, captured for this blog an hour ago.

The first shot shows a small blue square on the bottom left side of the graph, along with three blue spikes signifying "items posted". There also is a small orange square signifying "items read" but there are no orange spikes. Why? Because "items read" reflects activity only in the Reader. Since I had not "read" any of my items (Google's word for posts) in the Reader prior to making the first screenshot, the first graph doesn't show an orange spike.

You can click on the image to enlarge it:

Moments later, I scrolled through all of my posts in the Reader then clicked on "show details" again, and the result is the shot below. A big orange spike.

So, the graph in the Reader has nothing to do with traffic on my blog. It is not a site meter. Rather, it shows the number of posts that you view in the Reader.

In case the bully accuses me of doctoring these screenshots (like anyone could do that), I invite everyone to go to the Google Reader and do a 'before and after' test of any blog. You will get the same result as the one pictured above.

Random thought: Perhaps the bully is doing what his last girlfriend from 1990 said he did about everything. She said that if he was staring at white, he would call it black. She said he would refuse to drop a rant even in the face of irrefutable proof. Obviously, his personality disorder has worsened since he was with her.

March 29- Stalker Thomas Churchwell sent a comment to my blog tonight, telling me to go to his hate site (like that would ever happen) because he found a graph in Google Reader that shows I have no readers. No readers? The truth is, I have more readers than ever - they are packed into the nose bleed seats now, and this is partly due to Churchwell pimping my blog in nefarious ways all over the Web.

Thomas Churchwell's Hate Comments Went Out For Cigarettes and Never Came Back

2009-03-23T12:09:00.065-04:00

March 23- Over the weekend, a few of us were discussing the hundreds of abusive and threatening blog comments that I have received from Thomas Churchwell over the past month.

Starting today, his comments will be routed to another site and reviewed by someone else.

The site will be a dumping ground.

The link:

http://churchwelldumpingground.blogspot.com/

A Pile Of Evidence

2009-03-13T20:30:00.203-04:00

March 17- This morning, Thomas Churchwell accused me of emailing one of the underage girls who recently posed for lewd pictures in his apartment. Sending the girl a warning might be advisable, given his claim that she is just 16, but I did not email her.

As a person who rejects reality on a daily basis, Thomas Churchwell spends his days writing cruel, jealous lies about other bloggers. When not writing lies and taking snapshots of teenagers in their underpants, he is idle. He has no apparent goal in life other than to type his favorite word "hate" a gazillion times before he dies.

He would have you believe that I am classless, ignorant and criminally-minded like him, but, in fact, I am a nice woman (though not a pushover). I loved a man who struggled with manic depression. I don't hate anyone. I am a college graduate and hold an upper graduate degree in the fine arts. My friends say I'm pretty (though I often don't believe them), I work hard as a photographer and have a relationship with a nice man who has made something of himself. I am repulsed by men who bully women.

Unlike Churchwell, I've never been in jail, or beaten or blinded anyone, or been a mental patient diagnosed by 17 psychiatrists, or had children who I abandoned (he denies the existence of two of his children, yet his ex-girlfriend says there are three); I have never loafed through life attacking innocent people on the Internet. This is Thomas Churchwell's resume, the only one he has.

A man who attacks a woman physically or verbally is a creep. There are no exceptions and no excuses.

In the Google Reader, he posted this today:

"My wordpress blog was successfully hacked and taken over by cyber bully Scarlett S and I reported it last week. She seemed to manage to get in and write horrible things pretending to be me to justify her writing hatred on her site about me and my business."

No wonder people call Thomas Churchwell a nasty liar. First of all, I don't know how to "hack" a blog, and secondly, I haven't been to his awful blogs in more than two years. He threatened to hack MY blog a week ago. That is a fact. Thirdly, he doesn't work. Let's be clear about his Wordpress hate site. He closed it himself after he published his death threats. Now, he is trying to disavow even writing them.

I am going to post one of Thomas Churchwell's recent death threats on my blog. The reason I am putting it here is to assist the police, who are being inundated with links to my blog, according to Churchwell. The mayor of my town, who Churchwell promises to contact soon, will no doubt be interested in his threats, as will the FBI.

He has written literally hundreds, if not thousands, of defamation posts about me. He floods this inbox, and my other inbox, with abuse every day. But death threats are a whole different ball game. I have a pile of his threats from this week alone. A pile of evidence.

You see, I found out that police rarely do anything about a stalker, until he shows up at his victim's home, or kills her. I am not daunted, however, because Thomas Churchwell has been broadcasting his brand of terrorism to the world for years, and sooner or later, he may link my blog to someone who will bring him to justice for threatening my life.

Death threat from his Wordpress site: I would shoot her until the gun was empty Mar 9, 2009 from CHURCHWELL by churchwell

A fan emailed me and ask me what I would do if I found out where she lived. My response is: “I would shoot her 1000 times even after she was dead I would continue to shoot.” March 10, 2009 1:07 PM

Thomas Tarquin Churchwell and Kids

2009-02-24T12:50:00.168-05:00

Attention Greta Wire Readers: I heard that Thomas Churchwell, a stalker on my blog, is saying that the author of my blog is Susan a/k/a Suzi a/k/a SuziQ. That is a stupid lie. My name is Scarlett and I am the only author.

Update: After flooding my inbox with more than 300 lurid comments this week, Thomas Churchwell is trying to dupe the readers of Greta Wire. If readers of that forum can stomach a factual account of his shady doings, they are welcome to read my blog in its entirety.

Thomas Churchwell has spent three years writing malicious lies about me. It started after I befriended him on a message board in 2006 (fortunately, we never met). He seemed to be grieving the murdered socialite Christa Worthington and I felt sorry for him. But after talking with him for about three weeks, I found out that his long ago "romance" with Ms. Worthington had been brief, that she had let him stay in her apartment out of pity, because he had been living in a flophouse, and that it wasn't long before she threw his belongings into the street, sick of his mooching. All of this is documented in Maria Flook's book Invisible Eden. I caught him in other lies. For example, he told me that he was a famous retired magician, when, in fact, he was living in a lock-down building in Queens, his only source of income a small, monthly disability check that pays his rent in that building, and nowhere else, because he savagely beat a man and blinded him, and was declared too anti-social to live on his own. When I discovered the appalling truth about him, I ended our chats, and he began his attacks on me the next day.

This page was started by me as a defense blog against his libel. I also hoped it would serve as a helpful resource for other victims of cyber bullying. I have tried to ignore the hundreds of defamatory posts that Thomas Churchwell has written about me in his relentless attempts to destroy my reputation and photography career, but trying to ignore his abuse has never stopped it. For this reason, I have periodically added posts to this page, and tonight I felt it was necessary to do so again, after he spewed malicious lies about me on Greta's very public blog. Fortunately, I am blessed with a wonderful support system.

Here's something you can take to the bank. My blog has never been written by Susan/Suzi. Along with the obvious fact that her writing style and mine are completely different, there are one or two posts here that are not exactly flattering to her ( I wrote them after SHE libeled me last fall). If you know the combative Susan/Suzi/Sammie/Deb from the Greta Wire blog, then you already know that she has an ego as large as the Internet and would never write anything unflattering about herself.

The following is the post that actually belongs with the above post title. Thomas Churchwell would like to see it slide on down the page.

In a blog post this morning, Churchwell wrote this malicious lie again:

"How funny that this one hater from North Carolina... Her writing about me as a 10 year old having sex with my teacher is writing child porn and just because I know that and I post what she does doesn’t make me a person interested in child porn."

Here are the facts. I never wrote a story about Churchwell having sex with a teacher. Several years ago his old blog fan KMA, who I don't know, wrote a fantasy post on Churchwell's blog that concerned a teacher spanking Churchwell.

Update: I found the post written by KMA. Churchwell posted it on this site. Be warned, if you go there, it's a child porn website. How did I find it so fast? Simple. I typed "kiddie porn + Tarquin Churchwell" in a search bar and it came up on the first page:

(click on image to enlarge)

Curiously, the post has been altered. It now contains the same grammatical errors and misspellings found in Churchwell's disjointed writings. Which suggests that Churchwell altered it himself. It reads like it was written by someone impaired by drugs, alcohol or mental illness. Not my style of writing:

"Upon further investigation into Tarquins (sic) early years it seems his mother was called to the principals (sic) office when Tar was a mere 10yo. (sic) Seems Tar had sex with his 4th grade teacher & was being sent home w/mom. Mom called Dad to come home and handle the uncomfortable challange (sic) of discussing what happened at school. Dad & Tar when (sic) for a ride to talk about what happened. Dad said it was normal to have fantisies (sic) about some of his teachers "but perhaps it was not such a good thing to act them out and maybe we should all just try & put this all ~behind~ us and go home and hopefully he best not do it again." Tar said: "Gee thanks for understanding Dad." And they went home. As they were pulling into the driveway Tar says "Hey Dad, do you think you can give me a ride over to my friend Billys (sic) house?" Whereupon his Dad said "Why son why not take your bike & ride it over there?" To which little Tarquin replies: "Yeah, well I would Dad... But my butt is really hurting." And now Tarquin wants to 'give it back' - what he learned at school - To anyone who crosses him or Ha Ha - "Lies". Where (sic) on to you fella -You are in need of serious help. You know: 'Unresolvedchildhood' (sic) "issues" still linger. The more you dish it out the more we gonna put it wherethe (sic) sun don't shine!"

Now here is Churchwell again, still on the same site, impersonating KMA in a second comment. You can tell he's excited:

"I'm KMA. I own Cape Cod today. A very successfull (sic) online website about Cape Cod. I let people write about anything they want. I write about children sex. I love writing about children having sex. Come to Cape Cod today and read some of my stories."

I never met KMA, but he surely was not an owner of Cape Cod Today. However, Churchwell had a beef with Cape Cod Today, after the editor there shut down his blog for TOS violations. Evidently, he decided to slur KMA and the editor in one swoop.

His post today, along with the altered post on the child porn site, proves that he has been lying all along. Lying about me for attention. Attention Thomas Churchwell shouldn't want, since his writings broadcast to the world that he can't stop fixating on children. Everyone expects him to be classless, ignorant and a hater of women, that's a given. But I would suggest keeping child exploitation and writing about children in a sexual way out of his public displays of hate. To the world, this says that he may be a pedophile.

Hate Blogger THOMAS CHURCHWELL Needs An Intervention

2009-02-12T14:50:00.238-05:00

To his PSYCHIATRIST: I remember you viewed my site last summer. I hope you will do so again.

Your patient's irrational behavior has worsened since he was removed from SUS, and as one of his cyber victims, I have to ask you again to do something about him. I realize personality disorders cannot be cured. There is no medical miracle for Thomas Churchwell's problem, but surely he can be controlled somehow?

Your patient targeted me in 2006 simply because I talked to him on the Internet for two or three weeks. When I realized he was a liar, I ended the conversations, and he began his attacks on me the next day. He seems to think that he is a professional photographer and that I am a fraud when, in fact, it's the other way around. He also thinks that he is entitled to destroy my blog, my photography business, and threaten my life. My immediate request is that you do something about him, be it stronger medication, or putting him to work, so that he doesn't have so many idle hours to act out. You can contact me at bloggingright@yahoo.com.

Thomas Churchwell likes to say that those old parody blogs, published more than a year ago in response to his hate writings about women, are the reason for all of his problems. Don't buy into the BS. Churchwell was attacking bloggers years before the parody blogs were ever published.

As for the other hater, I don't know what part, if any, that Susan played in his post today. She may be too busy disrupting the Greta blog to make trouble for me. But I imagine she is belly laughing over this. She and Churchwell are very much alike, after all. The only real difference between them is education.

To everyone else, please learn from my experience. What happened to me is a lesson to anyone who thinks trust should be handed out on the Internet like candy. I trusted Churchwell and Susan, when I met them online, and look where it got me. Be careful out there.

Harassing Blog Comments Faked By Thomas Churchwell Today

2009-01-25T20:15:00.105-05:00

First, I want to remind readers that I have a new blog. It is about me--not the delusional version of me as concocted by the woman hater. I am blogging there as often as I can, aiming to keep my posts interesting and worth your time. I truly appreciate your support and hope you will visit often!

Here's the link.

That was the good news. The bad news is that Thomas Churchwell, wanting you to know that he is still a bully and stalker, today faked blog comments in my name again on his wordpress site, according to his post in the Google Reader.

I Have A New Blog!

2009-01-20T19:00:00.015-05:00

Ladies and gentlemen, over the weekend I moved many of the posts on this page to a brand new location. The link is at the bottom of the post.

A couple of months ago this blog had an identity crisis, when I wrote a few humorous posts, as an experiment, and the result was a confusing mix of funny posts and serious rebuttals against Thomas Churchwell's libel.

This blog will stay here as a resource and archive. I appreciate most of you who have read my posts. I'm especially thankful to those who have posted comments here.

Link to new site.

Thomas Churchwell Threatens Lies To Yahoo About Scarlett

2009-01-08T22:09:00.079-05:00

Yahoo: if you are reading this post, feel free to review my site in its entirety. Thomas Churchwell sent threats to my blog stating that he is going to "get Yahoo" to ban me from the Internet. Yes, and he even said that Yahoo is conspiring with him.

To the bully: When I reported your copyright theft of my photography to Yahoo (which owns Flickr) in 2007, they told me that they already had 3 complaints about you. That is a fact.

Today you gave yourself away. In the Google Reader I saw that you wrote on your hate site, in reference to your libel about me: "I will be frack..." (must have meant 'frank') "...that I'm having fun." This underscores the disgusting truth about you, that you are a bully writing horrible lies about me for kicks. There is no other reason for what you are doing, and now you have admitted it.

LEAVE THIS BLOG AND DON'T COME BACK.

Stop trying to ruin my photography business and my blog. Leave me alone.

Thomas Churchwell Puts Words In Scarlett's Mouth She Never Said

2009-01-03T07:09:00.242-05:00

Thomas Churchwell, about your recent Wordpress libel posts, stop putting quotation marks around words I didn't say. I NEVER had those conversations that you're posting on your blog. Not with you, or anyone else.

Regarding your allegations that I "stole pictures off the Internet," you know that is a lie.

You know the words "photo theft" mean disregarding a copyright signature or warning about posting a picture—such as the warning I gave you to stop posting my commercial photography in 2007.

The pictures you asked me to find for you had no signatures, no warnings, and no copyrights. Further, I never posted those pictures on any site. You did.

Readers, Thomas Churchwell is psychotic. He put his psychiatrist's evaluation on his own blog last summer.

He has the credibility of a gnat.

Recapping, Churchwell began his attacks on me the day after I ended those short-lived conversations with him in 2006. Being the vengeful type, he published my commercial still-life photograph of a watch and Christmas ornament on at least four websites, including Photobucket, Flickr, LiveJournal and Blogger. Also, he defaced my Christmas photography and published his defiled version alongside my copyrighted original. When I found out, I asked him to remove both images. He refused. He then filed a bogus claim on Photobucket against my copyright, which is a crime, and libeled me all over the Internet as a thief of my own photography.

Recently he admitted on his site that I was the photographer of that image.

Churchwell, you had a "career" as a pickpocket in a strip bar, according to your own posts, and you stole the copyright of my commercial photography. People think you are a LOON.

And stop stalking my site. Seeing you refresh my page dozens of times a day (at all hours) is very odd and makes me wonder if there isn’t something better that you can occupy your time with. Perhaps getting a job?

Loose Ends

2008-12-31T18:07:00.023-05:00

For the most part, I dislike FAQs. They’re generally filled with pointless information such as meticulous lists of the author’s favorite foods, as if anyone cares other than family and friends. However, the difference between the average everyday FAQ and this one is that people actually asked me this stuff. Since today is the last day of 2008, I think it's a good time to tie up loose ends. So, here you go.

1. Why do you write anonymously? I’ll never take anything you say seriously unless you’re willing to put your full name on it.

For all you know, everyone writes anonymously, but you just believe them when they sign their posts ‘Sarah Goodbody.’

For me, the ideas presented are what is important. I couldn't care less what the name is. Besides, with cyber bullies and stalkers prowling the Internet, it's just plain dumb to blog under your real full name.

Artists and authors have been using pen names and pseudonyms for generations now. Baiters like Thomas Tarquin Churchwell should stop acting like this is some odd phenomenon.

Mark Twain. Richard Bachman. Meatloaf. Prince. Madonna. Lemony Snicket. J.K Rowling. Fiona Apple. Nicolas Bourbaki. George Eliot. Irving Berlin. Bono. Cher. Elvis Costello. Mick Jagger. Rudyard Kipling. Spike Lee. Jerry Lewis. George Orwell. Lewis Carroll. Sting.

All these names are either partially accurate or completely fake.

Of course, the fact of the matter is that I have revealed my real first name in this blog's title. Anyone wanting more than that should show me that they can be trusted.

2. What was your motivation for starting this site?

Is there anyone who doesn't know why I started this site? I started it to set the record straight about the malicious lies that Thomas Tarquin Churchwell has been writing about me every day for more than two years.

3. For a long time you didn't allow comments on your site. Why?

Well, I think that’s pretty obvious, don’t you? Every time I allowed comments on my blog, I was bombarded with sick, unprintable anonymous comments written by Thomas Churchwell.

4. Have you become cynical about blogging?

No way!

One of the reasons I felt comfortable meeting other bloggers two years ago, was because I was under the assumption — and this theory required a leap of faith which required that I accept the innate goodness of man — that if an individual could tie words together and make a sentence that communicated a thought, it meant that he had adequate control over his mental faculties, that he was not crazy, or at least not dangerous, or at least medicated enough to be acceptable to society. I was so naive. Now I am wiser, but I still believe that most bloggers are nice people.

5. Do you think Thomas Churchwell will ever give up bullying?

I think that if he ever faces certain truths about himself, he might stop beating up women on the Internet.

Readers, I hope you will have much fun tonight! See you tomorrow.

Why Do Bullies Hate Women?

2008-12-18T00:05:00.028-05:00

When I came home tonight after attending a dinner party where all the guests seemed normal, I started thinking about that phrase from the play "The Mourning Bride" by William Congreve, an English author of the early eighteenth century. You know the one: "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned." When you think of these few words, you automatically think of a woman who has been jilted by the one she loves and wants to viciously strike back. However, have you ever wondered how a bully responds, if he is the one who is jilted?

This thinking/wondering came about as a result of the cyber bully who trolls my blog and leaves disparaging, rude, libelous, abusive, and threatening comments. Sometimes this type of behavior accelerates into death threats, as it did with me. Most cyber bullies - 90% - are men. So, I started wondering just why do some men hate women to the extent that they'd do this.

I started doing some Googling and discovered, not to my surprise, that there's a lot out there on this topic. Some write about this phenomenon being the result of original sin when Eve took and ate the forbidden fruit and then blamed it on Adam. That fruit, by the way, was a symbol of knowledge, something that Adam couldn't supply. Some actually believe that this story is central to the oppression of women worldwide.

Did you know that the English language has 220 words (almost all derogatory) for a female and only 20 for a male (almost all complimentary). Consider the following: A 'master' exercises authority, whereas a 'mistress' is a so-called kept woman. The term 'sir' retains respect, while 'madam' refers to someone who keeps a brothel. A 'lord of all he surveys' is quite different from a 'lady of the streets', and the meaning of 'he's a professional' is generally understood differently from 'she's a professional'.

Susan Forward, PhD, a leading psychotherapist states: "Once we begin to examine the forces that drive the woman hater, we find that much of his abusive behavior is a cover-up for his anxiety about women. This man needs, as we all do, to feel safe. As adults most men fulfill these yearnings through physical intimacy, emotional sharing and parenting. But the woman hater finds these yearnings terribly frightening. He harbors a hidden belief that if he cares for a woman, she will then have the power to hurt him, to engulf him and to abandon him. Once he has invested her with these awesome and mythical powers, she becomes a fearful figure for him."

She goes on to explain that the woman hater's conflicting emotions of yearning and fear result in behaviors of hostility, aggression, contempt and cruelty. "Early childhood plays a role in contributing to this misogynistic behavior. In an ideal situation, a mother nurtures and is a boy’s primary source of comfort, while fathers help pull the boy away from mother so that he does not become overly dependent on her. If you look closely at the childhood of a woman hater, the father was probably either too passive to pull the boy from the mother, or he was a bully himself, and consequently, the boy had no option but to make his mother the center of his universe."

"Without realizing it, in adult life he transfers this dependency, as well as conflicts and fears that go with it, onto the woman in his life. The woman hater saw his mother as having the power to frustrate him, to withhold love from him, to smother him, to make him feel weak, or to make insatiable demands on him"—and as an adult he views women as having these same powers."

This partly explains why the cyber bully Thomas Churchwell hates women bloggers. The irony is that if he bumped into me on a street, and saw that I am not any of the things he writes about me, but that I am a nice, ordinary girl, he would run away shame-faced. Maybe. Of course, then he wouldn't mind meeting a new online target to assuage his childhood traumas.

I used to feel some sympathy towards this type of man because, no matter what, something terrible happened to him early that skewed his image of women. But now I believe that he doesn't deserve any sympathy except from his psychiatrist.

The Truth About Churchwell's "Photo Thief" Lie

2008-12-15T21:47:00.080-05:00

Calling me a photo thief is an outrageous lie.

I have never stolen "pictures off the Internet". Why do you continue to write this lie? You have been attacking me without cause or provocation for more than two years.

On your blogs you brag that you are a "psycho." You have said more than once that "17 psychiatrists" all agree you're nuts. If this is true, you have no credibility. You can't be mentally ill, and at the same time, expect anyone to believe you, when you call me a photo thief. So, what is the point?

You can ponder that question, or not. As for me, I am blogging on my own blog. You drove me away from a blog I wrote last year. This time, you're not driving me away.

About The Breaking News Blog

2008-11-19T21:15:00.014-05:00

If anyone is interested, here's what I heard about the Breaking News parody blog. Currently it's closed, because someone flagged it as "spam." Which may mean sabotage, a hacker, or an overly zealous bot that goofed? The good news is, Thomas Tarquin Churchwell's phony allegations of the blog being a "hate site" was not the reason.

Now Playing

2008-11-18T21:14:00.001-05:00

Susan Newton, Stop Your Libel

2008-10-06T17:04:00.056-04:00

By Scarlett

Here is the revision of a comment I wrote on the Breaking News blog concerning a crackpot post by Susan Newton of San Rafael, California, with a few added points:

People are not stupid, Susan. They know you are having a major MELTDOWN, because you are afraid that you are losing your slap and slur partner on the blogs. Thomas Churchwell posted that he is going to stop blogging (the Internet should be so lucky) and you have come unglued.

In a pathetic attempt to please him, you have been libeling me a "hatemonger" "Southern bigot" and "alleged" photographer.

First, I don't hate anyone.

Secondly, in your post you launched a despicable attack on my dead father. A total stranger to you and an honorable man.

As for the third slur, I am a professional photographer. This is what I do for a LIVING. Got that?

Finally, you said I "tracked you down" in a hotel two years ago. There is a grain of hilarity in that one, given the unpleasant truth that you are a tracker from way back. Why do you want to believe that women are pursuing you? You posted that phone number on your blog and asked me to call, because you were dying to get the ball rolling on your ridiculing, obsessive chats about Thomas Churchwell.

You were obsessed with Churchwell and obsessed with me. In fact, if I didn't answer my phone, you would keep calling, until I did.

You must be a miserable person. And while I don't care what happens to you, for the sake of innocent people who encounter you on the Internet, especially women, you should resume therapy.

Leave me alone.
October 6, 2008 2:26 PM

Thomas Tarquin Churchwell: Stop. Leave Me Alone

2008-10-01T19:37:00.009-04:00

I do not know Thomas Tarquin Churchwell from Queens, NY and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, except as a bully on the Internet, and stalker of my blog. He enjoys seeing his name splashed across the Internet. I do not. I do not enjoy being cyber bullied, libeled and stalked. I have asked him to stop many times.

Please leave me alone. Go away. Stop blogging lies about me.

LEAVE ME ALONE.

Susan Newton Desperate For Thomas Churchwell's Love, Defames Scarlett

2008-09-30T13:00:00.009-04:00

By Scarlett

I will address the lunatic post Susan Newton wrote this morning, but right now, I have to go to work. I'll set the record straight later.

Screenshot of Fake Comment

2008-08-01T12:41:00.010-04:00

By Scarlett

From the Google Reader, this screenshot was posted by Thomas Churchwell on his blog July 30. An imposter wrote the first comment. The IP address is Susan's.

I never go to his blog.

Fake Comments in Scarlett's Name

2008-07-31T18:03:00.017-04:00

By Scarlett

A screenshot in the Google Reader shows that you, Susan, apparently have been writing blog comments in my name on Thomas Churchwell's blog. I don't know why you're doing this, but please stop.

I never go to his blogs or yours.

To Churchwell's Psychiatrist

2008-07-13T15:05:00.020-04:00

Yesterday, your patient, Thomas Tarquin Churchwell, stated on his blog that he is a "psycho and a liar". Today he repeated his often published lie that I and another blogger have threatened his family. I am sure you would advise me to ignore him, and I am trying. I just thought you should know that he is still writing malicious libel about women, and is still fixated on child pornography. I understand you are monitoring his Internet listings.

Triviality Threatens

2008-05-05T09:48:00.224-04:00

Thomas Churchwell. I just saw that ream of posts you wrote this morning. Your fantastical lie that I am "bullying" your family - who I don't know and couldn't care less about - proves that you really are nuts, if you believe what you wrote.

Your blogs are not only perverse and deeply offensive, they are cruelly selfish. What comes across to strangers is not that I am any of the terrible things you write about me, but that you are a hateful, narcissistic nutcase.

I and other bloggers are the true victims here. We don't have to prove a thing to the likes of you. But maybe it's time for you prove a few things to us.

Let's see your psychiatric report again.

Let's see your prison record, showing the crime for which you were locked up.

Let's see proof that you blinded the man you called Gumby, because if you did that, you are a crumb, for sure.

Original Post:

Thomas Churchwell has said more than once that he knows when something he does is wrong, but he does it anyway. At other times, when he thinks that he may be held accountable for his behavior, he will say he's crazy. He recently wrote that "17 psychiatrists" examined him and failed to agree on exactly what is wrong with him.

Cyber bullies like to portray themselves as downtrodden victims. In fact, Churchwell's first solo blog was titled 'The Haters.' Who were these haters? Oh, he had a list of bloggers' names who had rubbed him the wrong way. Mostly, they were people from Cape Cod Today who had caught him in multiple lies. So, he opened a blog about them, wrote nasty allegations about them, and called them "the haters," yet he never supplied a single shred of proof.

He likes to say he is being stalked. There is a grain of hilarity in that one, when you consider that people who are stalked usually are famous, beautiful, accomplished, or possess some other quality that a stalker perceives as meaning the victim is better than himself. Take the nutcase who stalked and murdered John Lennon. He idolized Lennon for his talent and fame but saw himself as a zero. He wanted to be famous like Lennon. He was jealous of him. In his marginal mind, all he could do was murder him. Churchwell is a stalker on the Internet. Since he started stalking me two years ago, he has bragged about calling every gallery in my town, and the Chamber of Commerce, trying to find out where I live. Last May, he posted a defiled version of a commercial photograph of mine on several websites with the caption: "Do you know the photographer of this crappy photo? Email me." In February of this year, he threatened to show up at my home. He actually posted the threat on his blog! In the post where he bragged about blinding the man he called 'Gumby', he threatened me: "Churchwell is coming to stop you." I reported him to the Police. "Oh, he lives in that building for nutsos," they said. Churchwell has written reams of lies about my two phone calls to the custodians of that building, who unfortunately couldn't help me, or his other victims, because they had their hands full dealing with the disruption he was causing there, plus he had gone on a rent strike.

As I stated above, Churchwell likes to write about imaginary attacks on his family. But even worse are the posts in which he accuses me and other bloggers of being thieves and pornographers. There is no truth to it, so why doesn't he stop? For one thing, he knows nothing could more damaging than having this type of defamation on the Internet. It's the old Gestapo trick of accusing innocent people of sexual perversion, when they cannot be proved guilty of some other crime. We know why the Nazi did this; they hated Jews. Tarquin Churchwell hates the whole world. He has the mindset of a thug.

So, why hasn't Google shut down his blogs? Given the awful truth that Google hosts blogs penned by international terrorists, they couldn't care less about shutting down homegrown stalkers and bullies. Speaking out is the only thing that might help. Because if no one speaks out, if bloggers continue to look away apathetically like sheep, the day will come when blogland will be run by marauding bullies and other sickos. It's a fact that many female bloggers already have given up blogging because of these losers.

Handcuffs For Thomas Tarquin Churchwell

2008-05-04T13:06:00.028-04:00

So you're threatening to meet with the Carolina police? Do that! They know you've stalked women on blogs for two years and stupidly bragged on your blogs that you tried many times to get my address. They know about your outrageous libel, your sick fantasy posts about a certain minor child, your astonishing death threats against me and others, your mental instability and history of violence. They're waiting for you.

Is He Sick Or Slick?

2008-03-20T19:40:00.028-04:00

Is Thomas Churchwell sick or slick? Is he crazy, or writing vicious posts about me with a wink and a smirk? The answer to this question might be known by his court-appointed psychiatrist. But even if he is nutty as a fruitcake, as he would have us believe in a recent blog post, mental illness does not excuse libel and threats. "I can't help what I do," is a pathetically stupid alibi. If he really cannot control his hateful impulses, he should be locked up and medicated. Otherwise, as long as he remains "free" to smear innocent women on the Internet, it is presumed that he knows what he is doing, and therefore, is accountable for every word he writes.

Let's hope his psychiatrist and guardian will take a look at his blogs.

The Truth About Churchwell's "Child Porno" Lie

2008-03-18T18:41:00.549-04:00

March 18, 2008 (revised): Regarding Churchwell's repugnant "child porno writer" lie, here is exactly what I wrote about him on that long ago satire blog:

"I started masturbating at a very young age, before 5th grade, maybe younger."

He has written reams of lies about that one benign sentence. Of course, he never bothers to quote the sentence in any of his rants. No, he just spends his days in blogland screaming: "Child porno!"

This might be a snoozer, but if you are interested to know the context of that sentence, it came from a post imagining his "back story." In keeping with the tone of my blog, which was satire, I wrote one post describing what he might have been like when he was a kid, teenager and younger man, decades before he became a nightmare on the blogs. Futilely, I was exploring the question: How did Thomas Churchwell become the weirdly sex-obsessed, woman hating cyber bully that he is today?

Here is the entire post, as I originally posted it three years ago:

Fans ask me all the time about my sex life. I started masturbating at a very young age, before 5th grade, maybe younger. I can remember being aroused by fictional characters. Like, sometimes I would fantasize about tying up the tooth fairy and socking her in the mouth. Then for about two years I had dreams about a groundhog. Every February, I got excited when he saw his shadow. I outgrew the woodland creatures thing and developed a thing for fat girls. Huge breasts, underarm rolls and bloated bellies! One of my favorite dreams had a fat supermodel knocking on my window in the middle of the night. We'd take her limo to McDonald's, spend shit loads of money, and stuff ourselves on cheeseburgers till dawn. My last girlfriend was old. I called her Angel. I lived with her for 3 months and that was two months too long! It's been a while since I moved out, but I can't stop thinking about the couple that lived next door. Every Saturday night, I could hear them spank each other. I love being spanked, anywhere, any time. I don't know why, but I am fucking obsessed with having people spank me! I found out today that I like to grab my own ass and spank it when I'm in the shower.

That's it. A silly post that was meant to satirize Churchwell's own loony writings. Clearly, there was nothing in it that a rational person would call "pornographic". If there is anyone who isn't sure what constitutes child pornography, here is a legal definition from criminal-law.com:

"Child pornography is defined under United States law as the visual depiction (images) of minor children under the age of 18 engaging in sex acts."

Churchwell knows that if he quoted that long ago post of mine, and then screamed "Child porno!", I would be vindicated, and he would be laughed off the Internet by his two readers.

Quote from a victim resource site:

"Character assasination is one of the bully's most important techniques. He demonizes his victims. Everyone he attacks "deserves" it. His victims are perverts, liars, thieves, whatever tag he thinks he can make stick. (Actually he does this, whether he thinks it will stick or not). Then he pounds his victims again and again. It doesn't matter that the accusations are not true. It is the technique of repetition, time and again, that works in the bully's mind. And once a victim is on the bully's list, he will attack her relentlessly."

That description fits him to a T, doesn't it?

His ranting about imaginary "child porno" is sick. Some have described it as a pathological fix. Which seems to be the case, because he has accused at least three other bloggers of the same thing! By making these accusations for two years, he has aroused suspicion that he likes child pornography, and could it be that he really does? And that, like a moth to a flame, his obsessive rants reflect an irresistible attraction?

I don't know the answer to that question, but some of you are aware that he visits child porn websites. Here is a link to one site:

Second Life Herald: Virtual Child Porn in Second Life www.secondlifeherald.com/slh/2004/12/virtual_child_p.html

Churchwell posted on the above site as "KMA" (who was a reader on his old blog), but he registered there in his own name, stupidly, and in his own highly recognizable writing style, posted a sex tale about himself as a child. Ironic, huh? In addition, over the past two years he has concocted dozens of sexually sick blogs about me and other women, written two bizarre blogs about Susan's minor son, and sent emails to her, and to me, describing fantasy sex acts with this child. Sounds like more revelations for his psychiatrist.

Update June 1, 2009: Another year has passed, and the bully is still at it. Does anyone else find it disgusting and telling that Thomas Churchwell continues to profess moral outrage over non-existent "child porno" stories, yet brags on his blogs about taking pictures of underage nude girls? A recent image that he posted of a 16-year-old with her finger inserted in a certain part of her body absolutely IS child pornography, as defined by United States law.

Thomas Churchwell Is a Liar and a Loon

2008-02-29T18:05:00.021-05:00

I don't want to address Churchwell, and I know that long time readers of the blogs share my aversion. I am fine, though. This is not like last year, when his vicious blogs made me so ill that I ended up in a hospital with pleurisy. I am stronger this time.

I'll confirm what you already know. Everything Thomas Churchwell writes on the subject of me (and many other people) is libel. There has never been any truth in anything he says.

Thomas Churchwell Lies About "Truce," Defames Photographer

2008-02-27T07:20:00.013-05:00

Thomas Churchwell, you tried to trick me and all of the Internet with your "truce" posts. Please get rid of your "photo thief" blog, your "Churchwell Continues" libel posts on AOL and all your other defamatory posts about me.

What Part of GO AWAY Does He Not Understand?

2008-02-26T17:15:00.027-05:00

It is inevitable that when a person is repeatedly called a "THIEF", she will set the record straight. Thomas Churchwell counted on this, when he wrote that horrible post about me today.

I'm not like The Amazing Tarquin, as he once called himself, with a pseudo-career as a magician and pickpocket. I am not a thief.

He should be more concerned about his recent threats to beat up bloggers, than with his treasure trove of public domain pictures from two years ago.

Your Threat

2008-02-22T11:39:00.016-05:00

Thomas Churchwell, I just read your threat in the listings. Let me make this clear. I'm not sure what you mean by "Churchwell is coming to stop you" and "Here I come" but I only know one way to interpret that, and if you walk into my yard, I will call the police. Got it? You will be arrested for trespassing, and for making threats on the Internet and for some other thing about crossing state lines. It involves the FBI. If you're trying to terrorize me, that, in itself, is a crime.

LEAVE ME ALONE.

You're The One Living In A Mental Home

2008-02-20T09:52:00.056-05:00

Thomas Churchwell, or Tarquin Churchwell, I'm not going to defend myself every time you libel me. You would like that, because you are only happy when you are goading people with lies and getting a reaction.

As you know, I have never posted anything about your daughter, or your parents, and I certainly never threatened them.

You often use your family as props in your libel attacks on bloggers, yet you seem totally unconcerned what your family will think of you, when they see your disgusting blogs. You have no regard for anyone, not even for own your family.

By the way, your phone calls to the galleries in my town, and calling the Chamber of Commerce, along with the other things that you have done to try to find me, IS STALKING. So, stop it.

Leave me alone.

Stop Blaming Me, Tarquin Churchwell

2008-01-27T23:29:00.012-05:00

Blaming me for other blogs is ludicrous. The fact is, you've made so many enemies in your year of blogging, the author of those blogs could be anyone at all. Stop looking for an easy target.

It's Not My IP, Tarquin Churchwell

2007-10-20T16:46:00.003-04:00

By Scarlett

In reference to Tarquin Churchwell's two posts about me this morning, he is mistaken. I did not visit your blogs this morning, Tarquin. I have not read your blogs since April. Secondly, everyone knows you have IP meters. Do you think a person who is up to something sneaky, would go to your blog, then go to another blog bearing your name, then return to the first blog, knowing all the time they were being tracked? You should know that is a ridiculous scenario.

Hope everybody is doing well. Bye Bye!