[Imc-sydney] [Imc-sydney-content] Not happy
Stacy S
sscheff at hotmail.com
Wed Jul 2 03:18:47 UTC 2008
Look, Sydney Indymedia is supposed to be a resource that is available to as many people as possible. The collective is supposed to be accountable for the management of the site. I feel as though in the process of making the resource available to this one whistleblower, the resource has been taken for granted. Why should we be ordered to take sides in what is obviously a personal dispute? Crewdson was an asset at one stage, but now he's not anymore, so we just slam the door in his face? If Pye is so familiar with this person and intimate with the details of his mental state, then I say Pye should deal with him, rather than ordering others in the collective to fight her fights for her, when we know nothing about it.
All I'm saying is that I refuse to take sides on this. I think Crewdson has as much right to be heard as Pye. If others feel differently, then they need to step up and help out.
stacy
From: diet_simon at bigpond.com
To: pyewacketcat at hotmail.com; sscheff at hotmail.com; imc-sydney-content at indymedia.org.au
Subject: Not happy
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 09:43:08 +1000
I'm not happy with your explanation, Stacy.
If I'm reading Pye right, you ignored a request not to publish, knowing that by
publishing you were endangering her livelihood. That is just too gross for
words.
Diet
----- Original Message -----
From:
Pyewacket Cat
To: Stacy S ; diet
simon ; Content List
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 8:47
AM
Subject: 'Slanderous' content
So he's written dozens, has he? Unfortunately he probably won't
stop either. I wonder if you could forward them to my other address and I will
add them to the evidence for the restraining order if it becomes necessary.
Unfortunately he is rat cunning and capable of reading up on the law and
launching his own court cases against his imagined enemies. Once he becomes
obsessed, he becomes a huge problem to the obsessee. He was considered so
dangerous by staff at the Industrial Commission that every time he came in to
lodge documents they called security. He would then tell people that security
were called to intimidate him because he was a whistleblower.
His
original complaint was that someone used the word 'bullshit' at him in the
Bill Henson thread. He called that 'defamation' and wrote me a friendly email
asking for the Sydney Indy email address and at that stage I thought I'd just
give it to him to make him go away as he hadn't started attacking me yet. Then
he started getting furiously angry at the Bill Henson story and comments and
blaming me for it all. I don't have any interest in art or Bill Henson. Next
he started accusing me of being a supporter of the late John Marsden who was
my second cousin. After that things just escalated.
He also claims he
was 'slandered' by someone complaining that he didn't put full stops in his
comments and they were impossible to read. Then he said he was 'slandered'
again when someone said he'd never written an article for Sydney Indy. He
claimed he wrote 2 articles. He didn't. He handed me some scribbled notes
which were barely readable, no punctuation or grammar, spelling mistakes etc,
and I turned them into 2 articles with great difficulty. He is incapable of
putting up an article as he can't use the internet to that extent. He doesn't
know what 'captcha' means either. He asked me to make him a member of Sydney
Indy 2 years ago so he could put up articles but although I gave him several
lessons in how to log in, he never could.
He complains that I told
someone ELSE (not him, he admits) to 'fuck off' if they didn't like Sydney
Indymedia. He imagines that by telling someone else to fuck off, that is
'slandering' him.
So you can see his idea of 'slander' doesn't fit the
legal definition at all!
If you are going to respond to him, you could
try asking him to send you the URLs of the alleged 'slander' - that should
keep him busy for a while.
Pye
From: sscheff at hotmail.com
To: diet_simon at bigpond.com;
pyewacketcat at hotmail.com; imc-sydney-content at indymedia.org.au
Subject: RE:
[SPAM] [Imc-sydney-content] Gerard Crewdson email: on blaming the victims of
harassment and inti
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 07:17:17 -0700
It would have helped if Pye had explained her history with him, and her plans
for a restraining order earlier.
As far as I could tell, he was just
another character in the long saga of her battle.
He's sent dozens of
emails asking for someone to respond to him about defamation on the
site.
All Pye told me was that he was mentally unstable, so I should
ignore them. I asked her to respond to him earlier, and I got no
reply.
I'm not grinding axes, I'm just trying to deal with what
looked like a legitimate complaint.
There are other inquiries as
well, from other people, that should be responded to.
If
the email from Mr. Crewdson is really that bad, write to Cam and he can remove
it from the public archives.
stacy
From: diet_simon at bigpond.com
To: pyewacketcat at hotmail.com;
sscheff at hotmail.com; imc-sydney-content at indymedia.org.au
Subject: Re:
[SPAM] [Imc-sydney-content] Gerard Crewdson email: on blaming the victims of
harassment and intimidation and not the perpetrator
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008
18:02:12 +1000
Regardless of Gerard Crewdson's state of
mind, if Pye's email was allowed to go public against her wish, threatening
her employment, it is criminal neglect. I am stunned. Are there exes being
ground here or was it a mistake? Diet
----- Original Message -----
From:
Pyewacket Cat
To: Stacy S ; Content List
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 3:08
PM
Subject: [SPAM] [Imc-sydney-content]
Gerard Crewdson email: on blaming the victims of harassment and
intimidation and not the perpetrator
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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