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A pattern of harassment, intimidation,
and obsession
US Government employee (and prominent homosexual
activist) at center of controversy.
It started out
with a series of regular emails the Article 8 office, sent from an
unknown "Gaston28@aol.com" last winter. In the spring,
they started going to Amy at the office. This person had gone to the trouble of finding out where Amy
lived -- he often taunted her with her address and phone number -- and also
described her children. Over time, the emails seemed to get more threatening.
As you read this, you will see the dark underbelly of homosexual behavior
and the inner rage that's often intertwined with it. (In addition,
this guy and his "husband" (a lawyer) who are behind the blog, and
apparently behind the emails and possibly a lot of other things, claim to be just another normal, well-adjusted couple. Well, not
exactly.)
Weird, depraved stuff:
Here are excerpts of just some of the emails
from
"Gaston28@aol.com"
sent to Amy at the Article 8 office
earlier this year:
...Yes, it's true, heterosexual people made me and my husband. So as long as you
keep breeding you'll keep making us.
As for counseling, sweetheart, I have an MBA, have a very high up job in the
Government, yes, the United States Government. My husband is a lawyer, we ARE
well off because we worked hard in school and at our jobs.
. . .I shutter [sic] to thing that our lives are not as exciting as yours. We
don't spend our free time trying to put people down or taking away other
people's rights. Unfortunately, because of people like you we have to become
politically active since you want to do the same thing Hitler did, exterminate
us, take away our rights and persecute us. You are just like the Nazis and you
will not go unnoticed. I will always be there with my camera and copies of
documents that you hand out or put up on your website. History will not be kind
to you or your family, think of that legacy.
[Sent Amy link to web article:
"Female Teacher Admits Sex With Four Children"]
...
Hey Amy, it looks like your sister. Another Good
heterosexual.
Subject: You Ignorant Bigot
... You are seriously mentally ill. Your two children should be taken away from
you before they end up in jail.
Amy, are you afraid that one of your two children might be gay? What would you
do? Throw them out of the house? Strip them of all love? (although I must admit,
if you were my mother I'd rather be homeless!) You are an evil woman doing
terrible hateful things to children because you do realize that lesbians and gay
people have children, whether you like it or not they are there and you are
trying to destroy these families. Why do you hate families with children? We all
want to know.
...Yep, you really showed how much of a bigot you really are and it's captured on
video. You will be aligned with the prejudice that went on during the 70's when
southie didn't want the blacks in their schools. You should be proud.
... Unfortunately, your two children will bear the emotional scar that you have
burdened them with. Oh the harm you are causing them, they should be taken away
from your for preaching such hate to young minds. You are no different from the
KKK and the Nazi's. You are in good company.
[Includes Amy's home address and phone number]
You know you people are really disgusting. . .. Why is Amy hiding behind Article
8 and Massresistance? We know where she lives and we are planning a picket line
outside her house. I wonder if her neighbors know what kind of a bigot she is?
We are going to use the same tactics that the abortion protesters use on the
doctors. You made this issue personal when it has nothing at all to do with you
or Amy. But it affects us, you are trying to take away our rights. Well it isn't
going to work. Our marriages are legal whether you like it or not and more and
more of us are getting married. Deal with the reality. Bigots like you are
becoming extinct. Think the Mass Family institute even wants to be a part of
you? They think you're crazy too. EVeryone thinks you're nuts except Alan Keyes
and that divorcee who got out of the CWA. You all are nut jobs.
...You people are so pathetic. You try and make it seem like people really care
about you. We care about the harm you are doing to children and adults alike.
... Amy is no such person. .. . I can almost bet that her son is gay. I saw the
pictures at [son's college] and he doesn't look to masculine to me is that what
she is afraid of? I hope she still loves her son when he does come out. I really
think she should be taking more care of her husband and daughter than trying to
split apart my family. When you really look at it, you are about hate and
censorship.
At one point, Amy discussed emails up with a Harvard-trained psychologist
specializing in anger management. He said he was "most concerned," and what
especially struck him was the focus on Amy's son in one of the emails.
In July, Amy's credit card number was stolen and weird things were
charged over the Internet and sent to her home (more an act of harassment than
anything else, it seemed)!
Mass. Attorney General's Office refuses to act
Last spring, after calling various law enforcement agencies about these
email, Amy was told to go to the Massachusetts Attorney General's office.
After some discussion, these emails were all forwarded to Denise Barton, a staff attorney who
runs the "computer crimes" division at the Attorney General's office. Barton at
first acknowledged that these threatening emails were probably criminal acts. But
it seemed clear to us that when she realized who WE were, and possibly that the perpetrator was a gay activist,
Barton became very difficult and condescending.
(It shouldn't surprise you, since one of Attorney General Tom Reilly's top staff
members, Assistant Attorney General Robert Quinan, is very active in the Mass.
Lesbian and Gay Bar Association, co-wrote a paper on "gay students' rights", and
was recently featured in the newspaper for marrying. . .another man!)
With tremendous difficulty, we finally got Barton to subpoena AOL and get the
name and address of Gaston28@aol.com. (AOL protects harassers, unless you get a
subpoena. They're actually proud of that.) We thought we were on the way to
justice. But Barton would not cooperate with Amy at all. No charges were
filed, and she would not divulge the man's identity so our we could at least get
a civil restraining order. Barton now said that the man was simply
"exercising his free speech rights."
Instead of taking any kind of substantial action, Barton told us she had a state
trooper "visit" him and "warn" him. And
Barton refused to reopen the investigation after the July credit card theft.
A new on-line identity for Gaston28?
But right after this visit from the state trooper and "warning"
-- guess what happened? Gaston28 disappeared and immediately GayBoyScout@aol.com appeared (who we've now
identified, along with his "wedding" picture), with a new "MassResistanceWatch"
blog.
And, curiously, this new blog had exact same writing style as Gaston28, and even the
exact same topic preoccupations. And it ranted about the same things, attacking Amy in the same way.
(Lately, the blog has branched out to attacking Brian Camenker, Article 8,
and David Parker,
as well as Amy, but it is still mostly devoted to obsessively dealing with Amy.)
The "MassResistanceWatch" blog is truly sick and creepy. It's hard to imagine
someone putting that much time and effort, day after day, to write about the
same one or two people. And more than that, the rage and emotion that this guy
directs to his "subjects", and the lies and twists that he invents for his
stories, reflect a very, very obsessed, disturbed individual.
"GayBoyScout" -- author of MassResistance Watch blog -- reveals himself.
At one point we finally connected the dots. The homosexual newspaper "Bay
Windows" published a "wedding photo" that answered all the questions. Amy
published the photo (though not identifying him as the MassResistanceWatch
author) on her blog, and soon afterwards GayBoyScout -- a.k.a.
BostonBud --- a.k.a. Emanuel "Buddy" Souza of Boston -- admitted that he'd been
"outed", so to speak.
It wasn't hard to guess. Gaston himself had said in an email to Article 8 that he works for
the federal government in a high position. At that same time, our blog
statistics showed that someone from the Environmental Protection Agency had been
going to the MassResistance blog often.
BostonBud/GayBoyScout often mentioned he was "married" to "Patrick on his blog.
The "wedding" was between Buddy Souza and Patrick Bennison.
Bay Windows "wedding" picture of Buddy Souza (left) and
his
new "husband" Patrick Bennison, June 4.
Here's the
link to the Bay Windows article on the "wedding" (above).
And here's the
"MassEquality" writeup of the "marriage" that was given to every
Massachusetts legislator this past summer, to help lobby to preserve "equal"
homosexual marriage rights.
And read more about Buddy Souza's activities at his workplace, the
Environmental Protection Agency (Boston office) including contact info:
http://www.epa.gov/region1/eco/ri/protectdw.html
Protecting our drinking water!!
Buddy's written up in the "Newsletter of federal GLBT Employees of the Federal Govt"
-- yes, they've got their own official newsletter. Note on page 3 -- Buddy is contact person for a "Pride Event" run by Gail Horowitz and
Ellen Wade (of
Goodridge fame) of Wade &
Horowitz LLC on "estate planning for singles & non-trad'l couples/families"
http://fedglobe.org/news/June2001_3-0.pdf
Contact person "Office for Civil Rights" connection, See p 3, 6 & 7.
Contact for presentations on:
"GLBT
PRIDE" , "That's a Family", and "Leveling the Playing Field: Sports & Sexual
Orientation".
Back to square one -- for now. AG's office now refuses to even discuss
it with us.
But she has reviewed the break in, and the credit card fraud, and has
decided that since those are not the type of cases the AG investigates, she
does not think it appropriate to have a sit down.
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