[Imc-sydney] [Imc-sydney-content] Gerard Crewdson email: on blaming the victims of harassment and intimidation and not the perpetrator

Tue Jul 1 05:08:08 UTC 2008

Dear Stacy,

Mr Crewdson's requests do APPEAR reasonable but he is not in a normal state of mind at all. He is the absolute master of appearing reasonable - he is very cunning.
I have done nothing to him.
I have not defamed him and I have not slandered him.
There are no defamatory statements that I have seen.
In fact I am the one with the problem as he has sent dozens of quite evil and threatening emails
to my other address. He seems to have stopped since I threatened to apply for a restraining order
however while we haven't seen him on Sydney Indy for a while, he started attacking me there and publicly
naming me (with my real name!) which could cause me to lose my employment. He knows this, and that is why he did it. He imagines I have done 'something' to him and I have not.

I did not open a can of worms. I did nothing to Crewdson - he suddenly started harassing me because of his 
illness. I let him stay rent free in my garage for 2 years and cared for him during that time, as he cannot take
care of himself and keep himself clean.

As a solicitor, are you going to say to a victim of, for example, domestic violence "You opened this can of worms -
now you deal with it"? I hope not.

If he writes ONE MORE COMPLAINT ABOUT ME, JUST ONE, I am going ahead with a restraining order, and that is how I will deal with it. I will be making an appointment with the chamber magistrate very fast.

Once this person gets into his head to obsess about someone who has done nothing to deserve it, it can take
years to stop him. He is wanting to be the centre of attention again, as he was during his 10 years of legal action against the state government.

I have told him not to contact me - I have warned him that he must not - and if I encourage him by contacting him first, then that will go against me as far as getting the restraining order.

Perhaps you can tell me, now that his email is in the system, if he is now on the mailing list and receiving this email also.

Pyewacket

Hi pyewacket,

I asked you earlier if you could deal with this person, since you seem to know more about it than anyone else.  You did not respond.  Mr. Crewdson's requests seem reasonable to me.  We have hidden defamatory statements before.  Since the battle has been won, can we not remove the defamatory statements and deal with the problem?

It is not so easy to come up with a policy for dealing with the mentally ill.  I know because I tried when Mr. McLoughlin was personally attacking me.  

It looks as though Mr. Crewdson is not going to go away by simply ignoring him.  

I'm happy that sydney indy has helped you, but you can't just take the good and ignore the bad.  You opened this can of worms, now you need to deal with it.  

Stacy

> From: pyewacketcat at hotmail.com
> To: imc-sydney-content at indymedia.org.au
> Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:15:33 +0000
> Subject: [Imc-sydney-content] Gerard Crewdson email
> 
> 
> 
> I see this email made it through the barrier and is now searchable on the net even though I requested that it remain hidden.
> This could cause huge problems for persons who are in the employ of the State Government whose names
> cannot be associated with Sydney Indymedia.
> 
> A person mentioned in this email has recently been subjected to an inquiry into whether they were at all associated with Sydney Indy, which they were forced to deny, or find themselves unemployed. This inquiry lasted a year during which time the person was not permitted to work, and was set up by the N.S.W. government and its legal officers. 
> 
> Eventually the inquiry came to an end and the person who instigated it was sacked:
> 
> 
> http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/teachers-pest-top-health-official-sacked/2008/06/16/1213468331474.html
> 
> There will be an application for a restraining order against Gerard Crewdson if he continues to harass and attempt to intimidate people.
> 
> He is mentally ill, and is mimicking the actions of the state government which claimed the said person was the author of all articles on Sydney Indymedia including those by Tom McLoughlin, who wrote the government a letter denying this, and others such as Jo Hewitt, Lesley, Takver and many others.
> 
> I request that no-one respond to his ridiculous rantings and that I be permitted to hide anything further that he writes.
> 
> There needs to be a policy for dealing with people with mental illnesses who make attacks on Sydney Indy or its contributors.
> 
> Pye
> 
> 
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