The more of his emails I read, the more I wonder why Thomas Retzlaff isn’t back in prison.
emails courtesy Bullyville.com
Email from James Smith dated August 28, 2013 sent to private investigator Philip Klein, who was working with Attorney John Morgan and a few victims of the revenge porn site www.texxxan.com.
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From: James Smith [mailto:james.smith871003@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 10:33 PM
To: Philip Klein
Subject: Re: Cease Contact
If you had bothered to listen to the interview I gave to ABC news you would have understood the relationship that I have with Texxxan, and the other sites I run with my daughter, and this Hunter kid. Its the same thing I said when I was on Sky TV and for BBC One and several others. Hunter got paid to do what he is allegedly doing. And you would know why and how all of this got started up and why it is being done.
I do not give two shits about some under aged girls and their naked pictures on the interwebs. That is between them and their parents and the boys they gave the pics to in the first place.
No, I have not been served. Service of process consists of the placement of citation and the petition into the hands / possession of the defendant. So until somebody gets in a jeep and drives east about 65 miles outside of Windhoek, and places papers in my hand or nails them to the front door, I haven’t been served.
And regarding any alleged under age pics, self-made child porn is still child porn. So if some girls are stupid enough to go on the record and admit to the production and distribution of child pornography, more power to them. Good for them and for all the other girls just like them! I am not their mommy or daddy. So if they want to take naked pics of themselves and send them to some boys, and those boys want to post them on the interwebs, its not my problem. That’s a YP, not an MP. I never saw any pics of an under aged person on that website. Nor was I ever made aware of any.
I know all about you and Morgan from reading Operation Kleinwatch. I am not the one who made promises to all those girls that you knew you guys could not keep. You guys are the ones that will be left facing an angry mob – and looking stupid to the national media – when your lawsuit gets kicked. Just like your Google lawsuit, this, too, shall end.
You think that this is all about hatred towards women, and its not. It’s strictly about money. Money from PPC & CPM advertising networks, the banner ads, pop ups, and all that other annoying internet shit. (FYI – As I mentioned before in NUMEROUS interviews, I never once offered to remove any posts / pics for money. Some body else took it upon themselves to do that stupid scheme (allegedly), and they can suffer whatever consequences come from that. I would not do it simply because I would never offer to do something like that. Once something is up, it stays up and that’s that. Sucks to be you. But, again, that is a YP, not an MP.) All this stuff is is an interesting sideline that my daughter first got involved in several years ago. My day job is something completely different and unrelated.
I do not care about any of those people who got posted.
Cheers–
James
Email from James Smith dated August 29, 2013 sent to private investigator Philip Klein, who was working with Attorney John Morgan and a few victims of the revenge porn site www.texxxan.com.
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From: James Smith [mailto:james.smith871003@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 3:57 PM
To: Philip Klein
Subject: Re: Cease Contact
Anderson Cooper said basically the same thing to me during our interview (as your No. 2 above). But I will tell you as I told him: I did not get into the revenge porn business to be outed. I chose to keep myself anonymous. I don’t take “selfies”, I don’t use social media. I don’t do any of this crap that the current generation of nitwits engages in.
I have ZERO obligation to reveal myself to the public at large in the context of this matter. I choose to keep my private life private.
Now when it comes to my day job, I am totally not anonymous. In the part of the world that I live in, I am quite well known within my professional field. I maintain an Open Door policy for all employees and everyone in HR knows it. The legal field in the international energy exploitation business is very small as only a limited number of people can play at this level.
It is my firm belief that this generation of kids will be the most easily blackmailed generation in the history of the world. I doubt if there will be a single one of them who has not taken a compromising photo at one point or another that could be used against them personally or professionally by some enemy.
On the other hand, if every one has Weiner pics on Twitter, et al, then how interesting or shocking is a Weiner pic?
IN any event, reading Operation Kleinwatch is quite entertaining. I am hoping that they will add something about this lawsuit to the site. Those girls were told a bunch of lies by you guys and I think the public should know it.
Cheers–
James
Email from James Smith dated September 2, 2013 sent to private investigator Philip Klein, who was working with Attorney John Morgan and a few victims of the revenge porn site www.texxxan.com.
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From: James Smith [mailto:james.smith871003@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, September 02, 2013 1:14 AM
To: Philip Klein
Subject: Re: Cease Contact
Why are the gutless people? It seems from your past conduct that ANYONE who disagrees with you or oppose you is “gutless” in your opinion.
There are over 200+ separate comments for the newest post about you on that website. So they are all wrong and only you are right? What is it that they are supposed to be worried about losing? Seems that they won the lawsuit you filed.
Still waiting for the knock on my door. I guess you and Morgan are full of hot air.
Email from James Smith dated September 4, 2013 sent to private investigator Philip Klein, who was working with Attorney John Morgan and a few victims of the revenge porn site www.texxxan.com.
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From: James Smith [mailto:james.smith871003@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2013 4:20 PM
To: Philip Klein
Subject: Re: Cease Contact
There is no requirement that someone must sign their name to something or otherwise disclose disclose their private information. Many of America’s founding fathers posted comments anonymously or via pseudonyms. There is a very long history of doing so. Anonymous speech is protected by the Constitution. When guys like you find themselves on the losing end of the arguments, you often resort to the cry that your critics are gutless or cowards for being anonymous. You people just use that as a red herring to try to distract others from the fact that you are losing the debate.
The fact that there are HUNDREDS of people saying that you and Morgan both suck should give you a clue that you guys probably do suck, and suck pretty hard.
Email from James Smith dated September 28, 2013 sent to Attorney John Morgan, who was representing a few victims of the revenge porn site www.texxxan.com.
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From: James Smith [mailto:james.smith871003@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2013 10:48 PM
To: jmorgan
Subject: Texxxan.com
Say fag, I’m still here and still unserved with process.
You’d better hit the books and get cracking this weekend. Your brief in the GoDaddy appeal is due Oct. 1st, and that’s only a couple short days away when your extension of time to file it runs out, bitch.
Poor little revenge porn girls. boo hoo.
Cheers–
James Smith
Email from James Smith dated October 10, 2013 sent to Adam Steinbaugh. A blogger who reports on and exposes revenge porn website owners.
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From: James Smith
Date: Thursday, October 10, 2013
Subject: Texxxan.com
To: Adam Steinbaugh
I don’t know how these idiots got my info. As I just mentioned to you in a email that probably crossed this one, I’d never heard of them before until the lawsuit was filed and I started getting emails and such from the media.
But take some time to read the email that I just sent you and that should give you some food for thought about how all this revenge porn stuff just got started. Morgan is looking at this as a cash windfall for him.
Morgan is making his case up out of smoke & mirrors. He has been trying to use me as a co-conspirator in his worldwide publicity hunt and PR blitz. He needs someone like me to get on the TV with me so we can make “compelling television”. The news organizations want conflict and drama and arguments. Without me being there, he’s go nothing. All he’s go his himself and Holly and the other girl putting on fake tears and being all dramatic. He needs me to jazz it up and to play the role of the heel (to use a WWF term).
Don’t you get it? You and those girls and the politicians are all being used by Morgan and Klein just so they can make money off of this “revenge porn” crap. But he can’t do it without a heel. Thus, he got me to fill that role.
Cheers–
James Smith
Email from James Smith dated October 10, 2013 sent to Adam Steinbaugh. A blogger who reports on and exposes revenge porn website owners.
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From: James Smith
Date: Thursday, October 10, 2013
Subject: Texxxan.com
To: Adam Steinbaugh
Right. Secret reasons. That sounds really credible. I would like to point out that I was the one outed here.
Never once did I reach out to any media outlet regarding this. For three+ years I’ve never made one comment on this topic anywhere. Yet Morgan and Klein were the ones handing out my personal contact information to every media outlet on the globe. I got emails and Skypes from (to mention just a tiny few) CNN, ABC News, NBC, BBC, the Guardian, the NY Times, the S. China Morning Daily, Sky News, even fucking Dr. Phil contacted me!
Morgan was the one running around beating the drum on this nonsense. He was the one getting all those people to contact me. It has been him from the get-go, not me! He is the one who filed this John Doe lawsuit against me. Not I. I had nothing to do with it.
I’d been doing this stuff in the background quietly for years. I’m not some idiot like Nik Richie or Craig Brittain or that moron Hunter Moore running around wanting to be interviewed and all that crap. I don’t need the headaches.
That should be your proof right there. I have not sought out any publicity or any of that stuff. Morgan was the one who put my name out there and gave everyone my email address. But for his actions, you never would have heard of me or from me. i just made the Twitter account as a way of dealing with ALL the god damn interview requests and requests for comments. I get DOZENS upon DOZENS of emails each day from all over the world. I can’t even use my Skype anymore hardly cuz every time I get on, I get people trying to add me and message me and pop ups.
James Smith is my real name and this is my personal account that I have had for years and years. So it has been very disruptive to be getting all this stuff in my In Box day after day.
Again, but for the actions of John Morgan and his side-kick Philip Klein you never would have gotten my contact information and none of these media outlets would have ever known I existed.
Cheers—
James Smith
Email from James Smith dated October 24, 2013 sent to Adam Steinbaugh. A blogger who reports on and exposes revenge porn website owners.
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From: James Smith
Date: Friday, October 24, 2013
Subject:
To: Adam Steinbaugh
Think twice, funny guy, about what you post. You are reachable, your whereabouts known, and you have a lot more to lose. I am not the guy who posted a comment on your site on a months old thread about Brittain. Taking investigative tips from Klein & Morgan will only cause you personal problems that you don’t need.
You always seem quick to shoot your mouth off and make snap judgments and comments on topics that later turn out to be wrong. Sometimes it is best to leave certain things unsaid, especially when you cannot be 110% certain in your theories. Klein, Morgan, and the rest don’t care. If you screw up, its not their ass on the line. They are 1000s of miles away from you and they are already settled in their careers / lives. You are just trying to start yours. They will let you take the heat and sit on the sidelines laughing.
In their rush to grab headlines for themselves they have thrown around a lot of accusations that turned out not to be true, and its gotten a lot of people pissed off.
To quote Heisenberg, “if you don’t know who I am, then maybe your best course would be to tread lightly.” There are many levels of meaning to that statement. I suggest you take it to heart, Adam.
Cheers– James Smith
Email from James Smith dated October 24, 2013 sent to Adam Steinbaugh. A blogger who reports on and exposes revenge porn website owners.
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From: James Smith
Date: Friday, October 24, 2013
Subject:
To: Adam Steinbaugh
I apologize then. I don’t have anything to do with Is Any One Up or Down or whatever the fuck they go by now, or that idiot Hunter Moore or that other idiot in Arizona who wants to run for governor and be a revenge porn king, but I thought you were accusing me.
You sit there and you treat this whole subject as some kind of joke. You line yourself up next to a serial child abusing, headline grabbing, ethically “challenged” (to say the least) lawyer and his cretin PI side-kick. You are who you associate with. This whole thing started when John Morgan decided to horribly take advantage of some girls who didn’t know any better. What their boyfriends did by posting their pictures was mean. It’s not something that I would personally do, but I can understand why they did it. But what Morgan did is unconscionable. He knew going into this that he didn’t have a leg to stand on in court. He did it for his benefit, not theirs. And now these girls are suffering for it. And then you have these other girls who are purposefully turning themselves into professional victims, running around crying about how their life was totally ruined cuz some random people might have seen their tits. But now they need money so they start a bogus non-profit and they solicit donations and get free plane tickets all over the place.
The WHOLE reason why I got involved in this to begin with, agreeing to all the TV and news interviews, was to show the hypocrisy of their position and to show the world that their answer to Free Speech was the suppression of speech. I also have consistently pointed out that the only person responsible for them being in their predicaments was themselves! Sending random guys naked photos is NEVER a good idea – especially in this day & age where nude pics on the internet is such a well known phenomenon, and that no one should be surprised or upset when it happens to them because it’s happened to everyone else before them.
That is why I got involved in all the interviews and public speaking about this. I don’t give a shit about the Texxxan site. All that shit has pretty much gotten reposted elsewhere within weeks of the site being closed down. And their lawsuit doesn’t scare me one bit ’cause it’s got no legs. Its about these man hating fema-nazis who wanna be professional victims. Just pretend for a moment that we live in a Bizarro World and somehow GoDaddy loses. What would be the consequences for the interwebs then do you think, Adam? (Here’s an idea, how about doing an article about that and you try to envision what the fallout would be cuz such a decision would not only affect revenge porn, but any other disagreeable website (such as yours! lol).)
As far as your “assumptions” are concerned, I don’t know what you have been assuming. You’ve been wrong about so many of your assumptions before, so why stop now? Cherry picking words out of context cannot some how magically warp the author’s intent into something it isn’t.
And, of course, there is the fact that the term “threat” is very vague and ambiguous. There can be economic threats, physical threats,financial threats, legal threats, reputation threats, family threats, professional threats, health threats, conditional threats, unconditional threats – all kinds of threats. We live in a crazy world filed with all kinds of predictable and unpredictable events.
As I sit here getting ready for bed at around 01.15 I am watching on my Sat TV about yet another mass shooting in the U.S. at a military facility. With regards to the Heisenberg quote, I take it to heart in my dealings with people. I get LOTS of hate mail. I mostly ignore it. But sometimes I am tempted to react and start writing something nasty or stupid back. But then I remember Heisenberg.
See, I don’t know who the other person is on the other side of the email. He could be a very violent and impulsive person who owns several guns and isn’t afraid to use them, and who could careless about consequences. He might be hearing voices or otherwise off his meds. Or he could be some random stereotypical basement dweller who is totally harmless, and who takes out his rage on his keyboard.
But I don’t know.
Just because the angry guy can’t get at me personally (because I live very far away and there is no paper trail leading to me, just to dead ends or fake IPs / fake persons), doesn’t mean he isn’t going to take it out on someone else he can get to who could be completely innocent.
So I tread lightly.
Didn’t that Hunter Moore guy get stabbed in his home driveway by an angry / crazy person not to long ago?
And you are even more known than Hunter. You live a very open life with your home address and work /family information displayed to all the world (or otherwise easily found). If someone wants to sue you, they can get to you. And if someone off their meds starts hearing voices, same thing. Because I don’t know which person I could be dealing with, I tread lightly. But that’s just me. You can be however you want to.
Now Im off to bed cuz I gots to work for The Man come mornin’ time!
Email from James Smith dated October 24, 2013 sent to Adam Steinbaugh. A blogger who reports on and exposes revenge porn website owners.
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From: James Smith
Date: Friday, October 24, 2013
Subject:
To: Adam Steinbaugh
And why would you think that i would want to cause you personal harm? As a perfect case in point, and what I meant but I guess you didn’t see, is that I see your “arguments” going on with Chance Trahan. The guy obviously has a screw loose. He also professes to owning a bunch of guns, is a racist, and expresses thoughts about unpredictable violence. Yet you keep throwing rocks at the dude and doing other other things to aggravate the situation like your personal attacks against people involved in all this revenge porn nonsense.
You don’t know anything about this guy or whats going on in his life or what thoughts are in his head. From a quick Google maps check, it looks like he lives about five hours from Tempe-Phoenix to your exact front door. So here are are, pissing off a lunatic racist gun owner who lives a few hours from your home. In what world do you live in where that is a good idea? Seriously, dude.
Email from James Smith dated October 24, 2013 sent to Adam Steinbaugh. A blogger who reports on and exposes revenge porn website owners.
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From: James Smith
Date: Friday, October 24, 2013
Subject:
To: Adam Steinbaugh
Yeah, i do want to go to bed. But now you got me into a twitter argument and I can’t gets to sleeps!! lol Which I guess goes to show that maybe I’m one of those people who should be on their meds or something, eh?
Email from James Smith dated November 15, 2013 sent to Adam Steinbaugh. A blogger who reports on and exposes revenge porn website owners.
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From: James Smith
Date: Friday, November 15, 2013
Subject:
To: Adam Steinbaugh
You obviously think you know who I am. But you truly do not. You will not ever find a single scrap of paper with my name on it. Attorney John Morgan, Klein, and some of your twitter friends have claimed to know my name. They have even offered up several different names of different people at different times that they claimed were me. Yet you do not know me or anything about me. I have no social media, FB or anything else (but this one twitter account I use). If you google me, other people who share my name come up as it is a common name. There are no photos of me online anywhere. Just because other people may share my views on this issue does not mean that we are all one person. Just like people speculate about the many sox that this Bullyville guy uses to argue with himself, Cpt Obvious, or others. — And despite the tweets that people have directed to me, I’ve never once had dick to say to Bullyville or anything about what he does. He is a nonentity to me.
I see your emails. You think you know who I am, and you’re totally wrong. I haven’t lived in Texas in over eight years, and I have not lived in the US for the past 2 1/2 yrs. My only connection to the state is my daughter when she goes to SMU in Dallas recently and some commercial property I own in Ft. Worth so I can still claim TX for income tax purposes (TX has no state income tax. While my employer is based overseas, I have to file US federal income tax and TX has no state income tax.)
Nor, despite what you tweeted, do I send out death threats. I made ONE simple observation to you in a private email not a tweet and that was it, and it was in reference to that lunatic in Arizona who you kept throwing rocks at. And you know that it is a true observation. There are a LOT of crazy, violent people in this world who don’t play by your rules, Adam. You are a trust fund baby and you think the world runs a certain way. Except a lot of people don’t play by your rules. They have their own rules, or they just ignore the rules and don’t give a shit. But even crazy people will react to what you say or do to them. Like that Alec Baldwin stalker who just got 7 months in Rikers. You think she gives a shit about cops or court orders or going to jail? My bet is that as soon as she is released, she’ll go get a gun. You mark my words. And there are MILLIONS of people just like her. Your friend and hero at Bullyville has done far more for Hunter Moore’s cause then anyone else on the planet!
You have decided to link yourself to attorney John Morgan. Yet now we see that he is being investigated by a Special Prosecutor for aggravated perjury and witness tampering, along with Philip Klein.
http://setinvestigates.com/mdetail.asp?hn=setinvestigates&cs=&l=special-prosecutor-investigating-alleged-perjury-witness-intimidation-by-a-p467-1.htm
I’ve not once claimed to be a “good person”. Morgan and his revenge porn crowd try to claim the moral high ground, yet they are just as dirty as the Hunter Moore’s of this world. But at least Hunter Moore is honest about himself to others.
Lastly, I know you have been attempting to reach the head Admin for MyEx.com to get him to comment about his $500 take down fee. I doubt he’ll respond. I think it is a despicable practice and I am very much against it. At the end of Texxxan.com it came to be that Hunter Taylor tried to pull the same stunt. I spoke out against it when I was asked about it on the TV shows. That shit isn’t ever going to come down. Once its on the interwebs, it is there forever. At least be honest about it. My running a website that hosts nude pics of girls is one thing. They took those pics of their own free choice and I am not the one who hurt them or broke their heart. But lying and stealing their money is something else entirely.
Cheers–
James Smith
ps On the subject of death threats, I personally think that Bullyville’s claim of death threats is BS. I wouldn’t put it past him to have posted it himself just to stir the pot. He uses so many soxs its hard to tell. Or someone could have posted it just to get him to involve law enforcement. Anyone who were to get charged would be able to use the criminal courts to issue subpoenas and such to Twitter to unmask Cpt Obvious, Bullyville, you and the others who play that doxing game. Either way I could care less.
Email sent from “James Smith” <james.smith871003@gmail.com> dated November 26, 2013 sent to Adam Steinbaugh. A blogger who reports on and exposes revenge porn website owners.
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From: James Smith
Date: Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Subject:
To: Adam Steinbaugh
Dear Sir,
I means EXACTLY what I said. Do you not understand plain English?
When you idiots dox the wrong person or post bogus information you lose ALL credibility. I warned you of this several weeks ago, Adam. You have absolutely no information to link that person to any type of involvement in revenge porn or to link him to me. I read your emails. Thus, you failed.
I, on the other hand, have absolute proof positive that James McGibney and his wife are behind the revenge porn sites Bullyville & Cheaterville. And I have absolute proof that you are working with him and that other guy who goes by the name Captain Obvious. So when you are squared off against someone in a duel, and your first shot misses, that means the other guy gets a free shot at you, right?
I happen to work for a large multi-national company overseas, as I mentioned to you before. As such, my HR Dept. has access to the LexisNexis Accurint LE Plus and ChoicePoint CLEAR databases so as to fulfill all of our Govt contracts and regulatory requirements. So if I were to say look up an Adam Steinbaugh or a James McGibney, I would have access to a whole host of valuable personal, financial, and legal information. What kind of car they drive, who they bank with, where they have lived at for the past 20 yrs. (and who with), credit reports, traffic and arrest info, property transactions, civil cases, any kind of hunting, fishing or drivers licenses, or trade licenses, and just pages and pages worth of stuff. But not just on them, but on each of their family members, too! And the family members of those family members.
Yeah, it would be a gross violation of my company’s policy. But with hundreds of such requests being made each and every day, I’m pretty sure it could be done without notice. Especially if I’m totally cheating on my wife by sleeping with a clerk in the HR Dept. who worships the ground I walk upon.
And if that information on all those people found its way to a document hosting site, well, that would be just too bad, wouldn’t it? But then again, you guys started this game first. So how would Mrs. McGibney feel to find her personal details doxed or her family members doxed? Or Mr. & Mrs. Steinbaugh? You think they all want to be involved in you guys’ game of doxing people and ordering twitter followers to “destroy their lives” like Bullyville and Cpt Obvious always call for?
You fools doxed the wrong guy with no proof that he is the one involved in revenge porn or that I am him. And, for the record, I am not him and he has no involvement with me. But no one can doubt that you are involved with it or that McGibney is or that you are involved with each other.
Its just after 10 pm here so I am going to get something to eat and take a nap before I have to come back in and answer some emails and BS before the US offices close at 5 pm local.
But you think about that, Adam. You doxed the wrong guy and sooner or later he is going to find out what you idiots did (assuming he googles himself with any regularity) and he’s gonna know who did it and he’s gonna come looking for answers. And you guys might not like it or how he goes about it. There are a lot of crazy, irrational people in the world.
Cheers–
James Smith
Email sent from “James Smith” <james.smith871003@gmail.com> on December 11, 2013 to James McGibney, Founder & CEO of BullyVille through the www.bullyville.com “contact us” page.
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From: info@bullyville.com [mailto:info@bullyville.com] On Behalf Of James Smith
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 11:55 AM
To: info@bullyville.com
Subject: @MrTeXxXan
Do you wish to talk or do you wish to keep throwing stones at each other 140 characters at a time? I thought you said “I think we need some time away from each other forever.”
JS
@MrTeXxXan
Email sent from “James Smith” <james.smith871003@gmail.com> on December 11, 2013 to James McGibney, Founder & CEO of BullyVille.
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From: legal@bullyville.com [mailto:legal@bullyville.com] On Behalf Of James Smith
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 3:55 PM
To: legal@bullyville.com
Subject: Re: @MrTeXxXan
Dear Sir,
Well your “friend” Captian Obvious seems intent on being the one chucking stones here. Everyone claims that he is you or you are he.
Either way he certainly seems to be spending a lot of time acting on your behalf as to make it no difference.
And since he is you or you are he — or you are working together so closely as it makes no difference — I would accuse you / him of being the one tossing the first stone.
Even now he makes comments on twitter about my email to you. But how could he even know of it unless he is you and you are he, or you are working so closely as it makes no difference?
I don’t make my money off of the internet and I am not interesting enough for anybody to want to Google me. Nor am I a small business man scrambling around trying to make a buck, feeding my family and paying my bills because I’ve got no other source of income. I don’t give two shits about what people think of me. I get paid the same regardless. You, on the other hand, must rely upon your public reputation in order to solicit employment or get funds.
I will also tell you straight up that I did not make that post on your website that you called a death threat. You and Cpt Obvious repeatedly said earlier that Neal Rauhauser did that. That is what all the other websites are saying that you told them as well when I googled the matter.
I am not Neal Rauhauser.
But I did read articles about you in which you talk about “doxing” all of the enemies of Kate Gosselin (a person I totally don’t care about and never watched the show), and about your claim to file a class action lawsuit against everyone. And then I read about the lawsuit that Gosselin did file and your involvement in it, which was dismissed like three months later.
I also read about you calling upon your followers to dox these people you don’t like and to call their family members and employers to harass them.
Let me ask you this, sir: Do you remember this post here that you made?
https://twitter.com/EndRevengePorn/status/311325379258355712
This guy Marco made a perfectly reasonable attempt to disagree with you guys. He was not disrespectful, or obscene, or otherwise mean to you guys. Yet you and Cpt Obvious BOTH attacked him, and outed him, and doxed him, and his email was hacked AND his family members were harassed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then I read about the California couple who got posted on your website as “gay and looking for sex” and them having to pay you $200 to remove the post. Only to have it later magically reappear. And when they sued, you called them names and accused them of “extortion and looking for publicity.”
You claim to only be after bullies whom you claim are “notorious”.
Yet you ‘dox’ at least three people on your site who are nothing, who are people I’ve never heard of before.
So when I came across some comments made by Cpt Obvious and you and made a comment back about how I felt you were wrong or being hypocritical, I got attacked — JUST LIKE MARCO WAS ATTACKED.
Even now I cannot be sure that I am really talking to you or to your alter-ego Captain Obvious since your email is clearly not coming from Las Vegas.
Best regards
Email sent from “James Smith” <james.smith871003@gmail.com> on December 30, 2013 to James McGibney, Founder & CEO of BullyVille
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From: legal@bullyville.com [mailto:legal@bullyville.com] On Behalf Of James Smith
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2013 5:59 PM
To: legal@bullyville.com
Subject: Re: Hello
Dear Sir,
I got your earlier email. Just not sure how to respond, so I didn’t.
You seem to think that I am behind all of your problems, but you know that cannot be for reasons I will outline below.
I took down my Twitter account simply because I got damn sick and tired of all the ridiculous vitriolic comments and craziness associated with you and Cpt O and these Kate Gosselin lunatics!! I went 43 years of my life without a twitter account and I now see I wasn’t missing a damn thing. You cannot carry on any kind of discussion 140 characters at a time, and it is beyond stupid to try to argue with somebody that way.
So I just quit. Besides, it’s not like I was changing anyone’s mind one way or the other.
The reason why Cpt O’s account got banned was because people were sick and tired of all his bullshit and fake doxing and all the other nonsense. It will likely happen again if he doesn’t change his ways.
You talk inyour email about ‘fear’ and ‘high alert’ and ‘peaceful resolution’, but as far as I can see, you and Cpt O have been the only ones spreading such nonsense and causing fear. You make twitter posts about how you are going to “destroy [insert name of person here]” and you speak of hacking into individual’s email accounts and the like and posting photos and emails and text messages and private names or information — and you create a lynch mob mentality.
Then you talk about wanting to contact family members and employers of people whom you dislike (as just one small example here
http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2013/04/kate-gosselin-bullyville-under- scrutiny-for-exposing-haters-iden/).
But then you get all surprised and upset when people react to that?
Just like my previous email to you, when I mentioned to you about how you and Cpt Obvious attacked and doxed a completely innocent young man who just expressed disagreement – respectful disagreement. You don’t think that people who see that are going to react?
Isn’t contacting advertisers, employers, and celebrities the very same tactics that you have used yourself, Mr. McGibney, dozens of times in the past on others? In case you have forgotten, I am sure someone, somewhere as copied the relevant Twitter posts that you have made and news articles in which you have been quoted as advocating such activities. Am I right, or am I right?
You have done a mighty fine job in painting yourself into one hell of a small corner. No legitimate business, celebrity, employer, or advertiser will touch you with a ten foot pole. Even if they were going to ignore the fake college credentials you created for yourself (and you can thank Cpt O for pointing that out to me when he started accusing me of editing your Wikipedia page – I didn’t even know you had a Wikipedia page at the time!!), no employer, celebrity, or advertiser can ignore all the controversy you have caused around yourself with this Bullyville nonsense.
Who the hell wants to be associated with a person who makes a sport of doxing (true, false or otherwise), or so-called “pedo fighting” (or whatever the heck it’s called), and all the other crap that you do? What company will hire a guy involved in such things?
Whether you and Cpt O are truly different people does not make a lick of difference in the eyes of the Twitter-verse. The perception is that you are one and the same, or so closely allied that it makes no difference. Like your mom or dad used to tell you when you were little, “don’t hang out with a bad crowd as their actions are a reflection upon you.”
It’s funny, but as soon as Cpt O created a new account, you posted it on your Twitter feed. Why? Other than pissing off all the Kate Gosselin people, what was the purpose other than to, once again, associate yourself with him and he with you?
You have created a situation for yourself where you are basically unhirable. If you had kept yourself on the ‘down-low’ and not gotten involved with this Bullyville nonsense, not a person in the world would have known about your fake Chadwick University credentials or the fake Harvard claims. There would have been no reason to check.
You obviously went many years without any employer checking. (I wouldn’t be surprised that you even used the Chadwick “degree” to get yourself some promotions points or other benefits while you were in the Marines – which would probably be some kind of felony. And, as an FYI, in many states it is illegal to use an educational credential from an unaccredited (i.e. bogus) university for employment purposes.) But now you’ve got all kinds of people looking at you and your credentials and contacting this employer or that employer and making complaints and expressing concerns. When Cpt O accused me of the Wikipedia I went and looked at it, just like everyone else, and saw what was what. Being accused of trying to edit your own Wikipedia page is like one of the biggest sins a person can commit on the internet! Even I know that, and I don’t have shit to do with Wikipedia. Politicians and business people get fired for getting caught doing that.
It’s like the Number One website in the world, and now Wikipedia admins are locking pages and verifying sources, calling schools, and all that good stuff.
Again, I am not the source of your troubles. These Kate Gosselin people are just irrational! Seriously. I kept getting dozens of DMs from someone named ‘truther’ or whatever and she (I’m guessing it’s a she) kept going on and on about your sister and how she’s really Cpt O and all kinds of crazy stuff. And then 7 or 8 others would jump in saying that BV needed to be shut down. Contacting advertisers and endorsers is just using one of your own tricks against you. But it all got to be so ridiculous and stupid.
Let me ask you this: do you think the kind of person who sends out 70,000+ tweets (regardless of the topic) is a rational person? Or do you think that they are a crazy person with too much time on their hands? That’s who all these Kate Goselin people are. They took a simple idea and decided to run with it.
You can’t reason with them. You can’t discuss things with them. And you can’t ignore them (cuz there is just too many of them).
So I just quit. I quit Twitter and I quit all of their bullshit. Because it is truly a huge waste of time.
Regarding James Duffy, I have no idea why in the world you chose to pick a fight with him. I’ve never heard of him. And that Janelle girl certain does not seem deserving of any kind of support you tried to give her. So why would you involve yourself in her personal life and her situations with that man? Obviously whatever he did, it wasn’t that big of a deal since I can find no record of him ever being prosecuted for anything related to her. Yet this girl has been arrested and convicted numerous times for drugs and burglary and other things.
The same with Neal Rauhauser and all the others that you have ‘doxed’ on your site. Why bother?
And then there is me. You have claimed, at different times, that I am three different people, whom you and/or Cpt O have publically named.
Of course, I can’t be all three. And assuming that I am even one of them (which I deny), that means that you doxed at least two INNOCENT people. But do you care? Innocent people to you are just collateral damage, right? You leap to conclusions and see imagined connections and you start tossing around names without a care as to whether or not someone is innocent.
So look at yourself from the perspective of an HR Dept. looking to screen a potential job candidate. Knowing all of this, and seeing the HUGE shit storm you have created around yourself, and the clearly bogus educational credentials, would you hire you?
And if I am a celebrity wanting to give my name to a person’s cause, would I want my good name linked to James McGibney’s? Do I want my name linked to a person whose activities are going to get hundreds of people angry at me, the movie star? As a big time Hollywood person, my name and association is demanded by dozens of interest groups. So who needs the headaches of being associated with you when there are dozens of other anti-bullying sites and causes I can be a part of that don’t have all this extra baggage.
Or if I am an advertiser wanting to sell my product, would I want it advertised on your website when I have so many, many others to choose from – other websites that aren’t linked to controversy or doxing or the like? I only have a few dollars to spend, so I can’t advertise everywhere. So do I advertise on a website that is HUGELY controversial and where hundreds of angry people are going to call me up bitching about my ads and hating my products? Or do I just go elsewhere and spend my money on someone else’s website?
Celebrities, advertisers, and employers only want to be associated with quality people and quality causes because who they advertise with and who they endorse is a reflection upon them, sir. Look at the recent Duck Dynasty issue and how quick celebrities and advertisers are to jump ship at the slightest hint of controversy.
Like I said above, you have painted yourself into quite a corner. If you are truly interested in a possible resolution, I would suggest that you remove all of your doxing articles on Bullyville. Obviously having Hunter Moore on there is relevant, not to mention entertaining. But so many of the others are not.
Then there is your BullyBlast feature. All that does is give bullies an opportunity to defame and slander others and, potentially, create more victims!
I would suggest that you stick to the basics and what got you to start this site to begin with: telling the stories of victims (WITHOUT naming their alleged accusers), offering support and tools for coping, and showing others that they aren’t alone.
That, right there, is your core product, Mr. McGibney. That is what Bullyville was about – and what it should still be about. It shouldn’t be about doxing people or telling others what to think or how to act, or naming and calling out people whom you think are the Bad Persons, or any of that other negative bullshit. It should be about the victims of bullying and how they’re not victims anymore and how they were able to take charge of their lives and how you can do the same thing, too!
So if you truly want to end this that is what I suggest you do. Get rid of all the negativity and the finger pointing, the naming of names and the doxing, and stick to the positive. Get rid of all that crap, is my suggestion.
Or maybe you should delete Bullyville and all its content, and change your name, and then go and find a legitimate job. And I’m being serious here. Do you honestly think that running a website like this has any kind of long term potential for you and your family?
You are not a complete idiot. There are things that you can do. But at your age, and in this economy, time is running short. It’s not like you come from a very wealthy family where you don’t really have to work unless you feel like it or worry about money.
Anyways, that’s just my two cents. I went on far longer than I originally intended to, and it’s very late at night.
Best regards to you & your family,
James Smith