A Self Portrait...

24 November 2013

Sometimes

Quite often I get the distinct feeling that I'm being accused of blackmail.  I know blackmail is a dirty word its also a very serious word.  It says I know something about you that you don't want anyone else to know and if you don't do what I want, often involving large sums of money, I will tell the world.

Blackmail is a dirty and very serious word.  No doubt about it.  In this case if there is doubt its in the use of it in certain situations.   For eg.  Here are a group of people who have assaulted,  hacked, thieved, deleted emails and photographed an innocent person and no they did not do this in one terrible, mistaken night, they did this over a period of years for the fun of it because they thought the offending person was so stupid and ignorant and worse was unaware of their stupidity and ignorance.

Then they found out that the person not only knew but had for years been collecting hard evidence and the deleted emails etc were not as deleted as had been assumed.  The person lets call them by their rightful title: the victim let it be known as soon as the photography was brought to her attention that the game was up, they were caught and retribution was demanded.

The gangs reaction was to make a series of anonymous promises. Yep, the kind that are not worth the paper the gang wouldn't dare print them on. The victim isn't interested in cash, although admittedly cash is always useful.  The victim wants and needs the truth because without it there will never be a time when the victim is not at risk.

The blackmail accusation is yet another example of the way the gang tries to intimidate the victim. In some ways its typical of the kind of domestic abuse where the abuser over time and escalating violence manages to convince the abused that its all their own fault. If only they were not so stupid, ignorant and unable to see how stupid and ignorant they are the abuse would never have happened.


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