Death Threats To A Blogger

Mar 28, 2007

Just read this shocking post about Kathy getting death threats from seemingly known or unknown people. Although I’ve received mean comments at Writing Cave (which of course, I deleted) and even racist comments at this blog (more than a year ago), it was never this bad, as in Kathy’s case. Once I had said something “unacceptable” about a south Indian actor and someone said that death squads would be let lose upon me if I ever wrote like that. I removed the post not because of the threat but because I thought apart from upsetting people the post didn’t solve any purpose.

In Kathy’s case, I think it’s a no-holds-barred conspiracy to disturb her mental equilibrium and they have succeeded by making her cancel her engagements. She’s now at home, scared, locked, and the police is investigating into the matter. It can be taken as business rivalry but then such things should never be taken lightly. Psychopaths are known to first send the threatening signals and then strike — this is how they attain pleasure. I hope the police doesn’t just consider it a cyber crime, it could be much more than that. It’s best that she stays safe.

The comments she has received are in no way simply mischievous actions. They fully tantamount to crime and the culprits should be apprehended as soon as possible. My well wishes are with Kathy and her family.

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3 Responses to “Death Threats To A Blogger”

Tyro
March 31st, 2007 at 4:23 pm
the blogging community is said to have been saturated but has many millions of readers….its a newer source of public opinion…but definitely not insignificant…this is just a start…many more to come in years from where i see
Mark
April 8th, 2007 at 3:06 am
I find it sadly ironic, that you have just now found out about death threats against bloggers. Seems that it only matters when it’s someone who is NOT a right winger. I am not convinced we are hearing the whole story. Why would anyone cancel appeareances because people who she knows are posting hostile posts? It also seems a bit odd that Scobleizer within hours of this being written about was declaring his solidarity and going on hiatus. Sorry but that was childish, and seemed more a PR stunt than anything else.
Amrit
April 9th, 2007 at 9:13 am
Hi Mark. I’m not aware of the Scobleizer incident but I wrote this after reading Kathy’s account on her blog. Talking about someone’s death is I think scary enough prompt someone to cancel prior engagements. And what’s about this “right winger” thing? I remember writing about Iranian bloggers when their government threatened them with persecution and death.