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Cyber Stalker May Be Lurking -

It appears that trouble may not yet be over for Rick, who ended the Stuck on the Palmetto Blog recently, because he may have picked up a cyber-stalker along the way.

If you've been reading this blog for any length of time, you know that I have blogged several Cyber Stalker cases here; for example: a young woman attached herself to blogger Rachel North in England.

What I am concerned about is the phenomenon of Spiral Thinking. Once the situation develops thusly, it seems impossible to mollify the stalker. And it is my impression, accumulated over the course of time, that stalking cases, including the cyber variety, do not usually end felicitously; most seem to end tragically.

Remember the case of the woman who was stalking TV star David Letterman? She came to believe that she had a personal relationship with him and then actually moved into his home. She ended up dead. Rachel North's cyber stalker was, I believe, sent to prison.

Rick's cyber stalker does not live in South Florida. He claims to live in New Jersey. There is no evident reason why he would ever come into contact with Rick in the ordinary course of events. But since Rick ended SotP, the cyber stalker has industriously busied himself in his attempts to sow discord between Rick and Alex, as well as among the other bloggers in South Florida.

Once the SotP blog ended, that should have been the end of whatever gripe he had about Rick. Instead, he has only stepped up his enmity by menacing Rick and taunting him. And he's a control freak, too.

"it contains the seed of his anti-Cuban obsession"

I never noticed that Rick had an "obsession" with Cubans. This reminds me of the woman who was stalking Letterman who believed she had a personal relationship with him. Most of the entries posted on SotP were about diverse topics, as I recall.

This is getting creepier and creepier as time goes on. Perhaps you naively believe that if you just ignore someone like this, he will drop his prosecution and forget about it. But they usually don't.

I can only hope the cyber stalker is still in sufficient control of his faculties to stop what he's doing and walk away from further engagement before this situation ends badly.

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