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Just word about @Timcast and @AdamCrigler.

I have no idea what& #39;s happening.

But I need to issue a warning:

If all this is about some kind of threat, the people making the threats need to back off right away.
Here& #39;s how the world works:

When you do favors for extremely...capable people, and you do them quietly and free of charge, you know what they say?

"If we can ever help you, just ask."

I help people who I like.
We live in a unique era.

The most capable people have a personal hatred of terrorism.

And making threats is terrorism.

Me simply writing this thread is enough.

Now the very capable people know what& #39;s up.
Another One-Punch Charlie.

The fight was over in 24 seconds.

Insane to provoke people whose background is totally unknown to you.

I get death threats.

They always stop.

When I was doing my favors, I gave certain people access to my computer in perpetuity.
I volunteered it.

We& #39;re talking the highest possible stakes here, so the capable people can& #39;t be too careful.

I never knew who the capable people are, in the sense that no names or real email addresses were given to me.

But I was vetted. In person.
Four friendly guys who stopped in their SUV to talk to me as I took my nightly walk.

I immediately knew who they were.

All they did was ask questions. All four kept their hands in sight, but casually.

I wasn& #39;t afraid.
At one point, the front-seat passenger offered me a a cigarette.

All five of us lit up and continued chatting.

When the cigarette was done, I stubbed it out and said, "That& #39;s the first cigarette I& #39;ve had in 20 years."
"You quit smoking 20 years ago?" the driver asked.

"Yes."

"Then why did you accept a cigarette?"

"When am I ever going to have another opportunity like this?" I asked.

They all looked at each other and then screamed with laughter.

That was the end of the vetting.
When I get death threats by email, they& #39;re always followed by an apology.

"I don& #39;t ever do things like that," the emailer says.

Isn& #39;t that interesting?

My stalkers all go away.

I had a stalker from more than a decade ago. She went after me for almost three years.
Everywhere I went, she& #39;d find me and dox me.

She& #39;d hired a private detective to find out everything she could. It started after I turned down her offer to have a virtual sexual relationship.

So finally I found her. It took me several months.
I analyzed her speech patterns and identified several unique phrases she used.

When I Googled them, they& #39;d always come back to one person.

She had 42 online identities. I was able to narrow her location down to Washington state, and then I got help from a hacker.
She got me the real IP address despite my stalker using anonymizing software.

With the IP address, I narrowed it down to only two small towns. With everything the stalker had told me about herself, I was able to locate her place of employment.
By checking all the online communications of the employees, I identified her by her speech patterns.

She had a unique name. There were only two women in the US with that name, and one lived in New York state.

This woman was the daughter a famous person.
She& #39;d been institutionalized, and I& #39;d figured out that she was working as a high-priced hooker.

She was quite beautiful at the time.

So I found her email address and told her I& #39;d identified her, and I was going to tell her father.
She sent back a hysterical, incoherent response.

It was almost as long as a book.

In it she denied everything.

Then she quit her job and disappeared.

Today there& #39;s only one woman in the US with that name.

No idea what THAT means.
But the stalking stopped.

I found a con man who had avoided detection for 20 years.

He& #39;d cleaned me out, so I wrote about him.

What he& #39;d done to me was so egregious that his sister sent me his home address.

This was in the Obama years, so the FBI wasn& #39;t interested.
As luck would have it, the con man had ripped off a guy in Montana who& #39;d written about the Cuban Missile Crisis.

This guy had been looking for the con man for two years.

My call went through an exchange instead of directly to him, and he used a voice attenuator.
He sounded like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N5l0sgPP5k">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Oops!

I wasn& #39;t clear.

I got a message on my answering machine asking me to call Deep Voice& #39;s number.

I have an unlisted number. Funny, that!

The message was a computer-generated female voice.
So Deep Voice asked me if I knew anything about the con man.

"I have his home address," I said.

There was a pause, and then Deep Voice made a kind of shuddering, groaning sound. Of ecstasy.

"Are you going to give it to me?" he asked.

I did.
"I& #39;m gonna pay him a visit," Deep Voice said.

Then he said the scariest thing I& #39;ve ever heard in my life.

"You want in on this?"

I politely thanked him and demurred.

Deep Voice signed off, and I never heard from him again.
About two weeks later, the con man& #39;s sister emailed me and said her brother had called her and told her he was out of the conning business forever.

"Did you do something to him?" she asked.

"Not me," I wrote back.

But I& #39;m sure the con man now uses orthopedic shoes.
My accidental adopted son can find anyone in the world.

He knows how to get real IP addresses no problem.

He& #39;s the reason I started doing favors for capable people.

When they told me that they could handle everything now, I left the favor-doing business.
But REAL friendships are forever.

Don& #39;t make threats. This thread has taken everything out of my hands.

If you& #39;re making threats, I wish you well.

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ADDENDUM:

I forgot the Nazi!

He& #39;d never been photographed. People were terrified of him because he& #39;d harass people for decades.

I mentioned him in passing, and he began harassing me.

He told me a death squad was on its way, and he& #39;d send daily updates on his progress.
He published anti-Jewish ebooks on Amazon under my name.

He said he& #39;d done a lot of other stuff, but I didn& #39;t care. Being a hermit means most things can& #39;t have an impact on you.

I knew his real name, but he& #39;d hidden himself too well.
In one of his gloating messages mocking me for being a nobody, he said that his books were popular in Russia.

He used 25 aliases, but the one one he used as an author was "Gregory Douglas."

So I transliterated it into Russian:

Грегори Дуглас
Then I Googled it and found him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvlY_YnG1fw">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
The idiot allowed them to film his house street address.

I sent the video link to every single person he& #39;d ever harassed, and his life imploded.

His publishing company collapsed, his business collapsed, and he was hit with civil and criminal charges up the wazoo.
See, he didn& #39;t know my capabilities.

Do you know what "force multipliers" are?

Special-operations troops attached to regular armed forces to make those forces vastly more capable.

I was pretty capable before, but NOW?

All I have to do is write threads.

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