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, "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.