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

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 and will take any attention they can get, even if the attention is negative. Ignoring them usually doesn't make 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 for a bully 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 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 until 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 ages, but I was stunned the first time she betrayed me. Today, it was just as galling, but it doesn't hurt. She is just 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 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 two 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 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.

Harassing Blog Comments Faked By Thomas Churchwell Today

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.

Thomas Churchwell Threatens Lies To Yahoo About Scarlett

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

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?

Susan Newton, Stop Your Libel

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

To Churchwell's Psychiatrist

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

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 egocentric. 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. 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 seems to think 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. Some of you may remember that Churchwell's first blog was called 'The Haters.' Who were these so-called haters? He had a list of bloggers' names. Most of them were bloggers on 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 posted a single shred of proof.

In addition to falsely portraying himself as a victim, Churchwell likes to say he is being stalked. There is a grain of hilarity in that one, when you consider stalking victims generally are famous, beautiful, accomplished, or possess some other quality perceived by a stalker as enviable. 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. In his marginal mind, all he could do was kill him. Churchwell is a stalker on the blogosphere. Since he began stalking me two years ago, he has bragged about calling every gallery in my town, and the Chamber of Commerce, in an effort 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. Yes, he actually posted the threat on his blog. In the disturbing post where he bragged about blinding the man he called 'Gumby', he threatened me: "I am coming to stop you." Of course, I reported his threat to the Police. "Oh, he lives in that building for nutsos," the detective sighed. Churchwell has written reams of lies about my two phone calls to the custodians of that building, who unfortunately couldn't help me and his other victims, because they had their hands full trying to deal with the disruption he was causing there.

As I stated above, Churchwell likes to rant about imaginary attacks on his family. 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 seems to hate the world. He has the mindset of a thug.

Why hasn't Google shut down his blogs? Given the awful truth that Google hosts blogsites penned by terrorists, they couldn't care less about shutting down woman hating 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. Many female bloggers already have given up blogging because of these losers.