The Death Threat Problem - And resolution.

From 1977 to a recent year, I provided help and support, as well as
advocacy to clients and care providers involved with some state child
protections agencies.

These are things I've mentioned on these newsgroups many times over the
course of my posting here.

During that time I, as one might expect, found myself faced with
occasional adversaries from both sides. I'm not known for backing down.


I was instrumental, for instance in the firing of a some CPS employees.
I was both a major claimant and witness for the state in the
termination and permanent disbarment from state government employment
for life for a management level employee. We won, he lost. even CPS
employees were glad to see him go.

That particular one, because of his prior work with criminals as a
probation officer had access to those same people in asking them to act
criminally in his behalf...and did so to myself and others involved in
his case. Property damage, dead animals on the doorstep (that is a
death threat in criminal circles) and similar actions took place in his
behalf over the six months of the investigation, and from time to time
over the years afterward.

He threatened injury and death to myself and family members as well as
to others involved in his dismissal in private conversations with me.

His promise was that we would never be able to stop looking over our
shoulder no matter how many years had passed. I believe him.

From among clients whose relatives I helped gain custody of children
out of stranger foster care I also received threats. Usually people
criminally involved hence capable of escalating to follow through.
There was occasional harassment from that quarter.

When I began posting to this and other ngs my wife and children
requested I not post under my common given name known to those people
above, but use a pseudonym to protect her and others in my family. My
children had received harassing threats during the more serious of
state actions, the hearings resulting in his being denied any future
government employment, against the manager I mentioned before.

Hence I maintain my anonymity for myself and my family, some of whom
are public people and vulnerable, by the use of the nym, Pohaku Kane. A
name I'm known by on the other side of the Pacific Rim.

After posting here for some time I came into conflict, apparently, with
some posters, and interestingly references were made to me NOT by my
name here, but by my off line real world name, and by references to
circumstances that indicated I was being watched by posters, or
associates of theirs. And, a reconnect with some of those adversaries
from the past.

References to actual real world events, such as naming certain places I
was on certain dates for certain occasions strongly supported my
suspicions they were serious threats. And a link to the thug CPS
manager was established by one individual on a newsgroup.

As one might imagine, all such incidents and information on the people
involved were collected, and placed both with my attorney and state
police in respective states.

Where the individuals, (two of them) made direct threats to me by
e-mail against my self and family, those were reported to the
respective states of residence law enforcement. Those reports, which I
recently followed up to review the status of, are still on file and
active.

I am not going to be intimidated by nor curtail my activities here in
the face of such threats, so be warned if you the reader are one of
these that wish to play with either my, or my family member's identity
in the real world, you place yourself at considerable risk with law
enforcement. And that is regardless of how much or little you are
involved with the parties in these threats. If it can be used to
locate me or mine, it is a threat of harm.

I take such actions, as do law enforcement authorities I've talked with
in three states, as direct threats of harm. Very seriously.

And I consider you a thug associate, very possibly, of those that would
possibly follow through on threats. So does law enforcement.

If you wish to initiate harassment of this kind I'll be happy to have
my attorney contact you and advise you of the risks you are taking and
the civil and criminal charges that could ensue, with a cc to your
state authorities. Others that have tried it have had such
correspondance and are no longer posting. At least not under their
original names.

This correspondance has been reviewed by my attorney.

In anticipation of you using your best judgement, have a nice day.

Kane