ALERT! (5/31/10): In addition to "Indrid Kuld", Jason Christopher Hughes aka Michael Rudra Nath is currently using the following additional assumed names on Facebook for the purposes of harassment: "Indrid Cold", "Don Tripontode", "Wolf Solent". If someone going by any of these names attempts to friend you on Facebook, be very cautious!

UPDATE, May 2010:

Another long-term stalking victim of Michael Rudra Nath is Rachel Haywire (aka "Acidexia") The Extinct Marsupial has impersonated Benjamin deWalt of Terrorfakt in order to post threatening messages to Rachel in deWalt's name on 4chan. He's made a variety of the usual disgusting accusation, and has attempted to bring his campaign against her onto Facebook, using the name "Indrid Kuld". If someone by this name attempts to add you as a friend on Facebook, be extremely cautious!

As a result of the attempted stalking on Facebook, we're seeing significantly more traffic here. If you have information on the whereabouts the Michael Rudra Nath aka Jason Christopher Hughes, please contact us.

QUESTIONS TO ASK:

If I'm guilty, as Jason Christopher Hughes/Manuel Luis Arsupial/Michael Rudra Nath claims, of "criminal blackmail"—not to mention the other various felonies he likes to charge me with anywhere he can manage to get away with doing so anonymously on the web—I continue to wonder a few things.

Why is it that he's hiding, and I'm not? Why is he using such a variety of sock puppets, all of them untraceable, rather than growing a spine, standing up and identifying himself? Why isn't he presenting his "evidence" on a web page, or in a blog, rather than posting hundreds of anonymous comments?

As he notes, I don't even hide my home address on my web site registrations, and I've lived in the same place for a couple of decades. I've worked at the same place for nine years. Given that I'm not difficult to locate, either personally or professionally, why hasn't Mr. Hughes filed a report with either his own local police department or mine? Why hasn't he gotten a restraining order? I've even provided him with the phone number of the Santa Cruz County Sheriffs. Has he used it? No.

"VictoryGrey" writes, in response to Mr. Nath's accusations, "i've investigated the blogger links you posted and can only come to the conclusion that it is you harassing Lefty, not the other way around."

The fact is that Mr. Hughes is himself a stalker, harasser and identity thief, and one who's been at this sort of thing going back a number of years now. Back in the '90s, he stalked a woman who spurned him after a few dates for years, all over USENET, spreading the same flavor of nutty defamation against her as he does against me. He's been harassing me, and others, in this fashion for years now.