If I may quote the admirable Mr. Richard Littlejohn, "You couldn't make it up." Rachel of North London, of whom I have written far too much and would not wish to add to the pile but that I want to share the laughter, is now frantic with fear and loathing over the activities of "fjl", a blogger who is obviously mentally ill and who has taken a dislike to 'our Rachel' (can't think why!) and bombarded her and her friends and associates with a thousand and one e-mails of varying degrees of hysteria. Rachel's response is nearly as hysterical with long posts in which key phrases are printed in colour (green ink?) and with a font size of 24+! Rachel reported 'fjl' to the police, er, the same police she castigates for failing to stop the London bombings, and eventually 'fjl' was convicted in her absence but has now done a 'runner' and is on the 'Wanted List'. Rachel, of course, is the lady who elbowed her way forcibly to the front of the public, and publicity seeking, platform of those who are agitating for an enquiry into the supposed failings of our security services. She is, therefor, in much the same predicament as Col. H. Jones of Falklands fame who personally led his men into a charge against enemy machine-guns but who was not, I suspect, much surprised by the resulting hail of bullets that came his way! But our Rachel is not made of such stern stuff. She is more like Violet Elizabeth Bott who "squeemed and squeemed until she was sick" whilst carefully pointing us all in the direction of her increasing media exposure complete with attractive photographs of, well, Rachel - natch!
Now, a whole posse of liberal bloggers, consisting of the dim, the dumb and the downright dotty, have been formed to maintain a 24-hour watch on all Internet cafes, plus the district of North Oxford, in the hope of catching the fleet-footed 'fjl'. They have even issued 'Wanted' posters with the unfortunate woman's photo plastered on it! Warning: If you are female, blond, middle-aged and overweight don't go anywhere near those locations lest a lynch gang of the liberati pounce on you and beat you with rolled up copies of The Guardian! If you are under the misapprehension that this wretched woman has committed attempted murder or something equally serious, let me assure you that her only crime is to bombard Rachel and friends with slanderous e-mails. A crime, definitely, but not perhaps on a par with those social workers who treated the police as the enemy and refused to inform them of their suspicions concerning sundry child-minders who then went on to slaughter the children in their 'care'. A suggestion by the government that it should be a duty of state employees to tell the police of any suspicions they might have concerning the violent potential of people they come across in their work has met with howls of outrage from the very same liberati who are now organising a nation-wide woman-hunt for 'fjl'.
I leave you with this thought: supposing a Tory politician complained about the fact that he was being 'e-stalked' and 'e-harrassed' by some Left-wing nutter, how many of those who have rushed to Rachel's 'fink-a-rat' lynch mob would support him? Quite so!
Lefties? Seems to be a fairly broad range of the political spectrum getting involved in this one. Not that I agree entirely with the crimewatch bit. I don't think the woman in question deserves the fame or attention. As someone said, 'Plod will get her soon enough'
Tell me David. You must get a fair amount of hate mail. I mean, you're as big an attention seeker as Rachel is...... Do you think a whole year of it, day in, day out is enough for it to send you a little mad with worry?
I have my suspicions.........
Posted by: The iLL Man | Sunday, 27 May 2007 at 21:30
That is beyond the pale.
For someone who is tough on crime why are you blaming the victim?
Dave have a word with yourself using Rachel North as a means for a rant against liberals and lefties. Do you have no shame?
Posted by: ZinZin | Sunday, 27 May 2007 at 21:44
'Ill Man', "your eyes are dim they cannot see", I must assume, because nowhere did I describe the 'blog mob' as "Lefties". Instead I called them "liberals". The former are not necessarily the latter!
It is your privilege to call me "an attention-seeker" but so far I have not pushed myself to the front of a public platform and advanced my media career by supporting a political agenda.
'Zinzin', you are, according to your own account, a man of delicate sensibilities. There's nothing wrong in that, I wish I had a bit more of it myself, but it behoves you to take care when entering a rough-house like this site. I tend not to take prisoners, but then again, I never complain if anyone takes a swing at me - provided they don't litter the page with unecessary obscenities. I have said it before but it bears repeating, if you mount a political platform don't complain about the rotten veg that hits you!
Posted by: David Duff | Sunday, 27 May 2007 at 22:46
I have said it before but it bears repeating, if you mount a political platform don't complain about the rotten veg that hits you!
Dave don't compare a cyber-stalker who has waged a one year hate campaign to having rotten fruit and veg thrown at you. Its an insult to our collective intelligence.
You don't like Rachel, fine, but don't go looking for piss-poor reasons to have a pop at her. Another thing don't you think your giving her too much credibility. She is just a blogger not a threat to national security.
Posted by: ZinZin | Sunday, 27 May 2007 at 23:19
Hmm! That's interesting. I used 'Leftie' when all you mentioned was 'Liberal'. It's ok, I'm only playing my own word association game.........Or maybe I'm so used to you bandying the term 'leftie' about that I couldn't quite believe you'd found a new epithet to play with ;)
Ah well, liberal and proud of it............
Posted by: The iLL Man | Monday, 28 May 2007 at 02:19
And there, yet again, 'Zinzin', you miss the point with unerring inaccuracy! She is not "just a blogger". She leads a political campaign, in furtherence of which, she hob-nobs with ministers and senior police officers and writes articles in the mainline press. That is a political platform and whilst I defend her right to mount it, I defend my right to throw rotten tomatos at her!
As to her tormenter, I hope she is caught and treated (although I doubt the efficacy of any treatment she is likely to receive from 'Murder Inc.', or the NHS, as we call it), I was only amused at the sight and sound of militant liberal bloggers forming a posse and riding out to the nearest Internet cafe to lay an ambush.
'Ill Man', I fear that Diana is over-tiring you! I carefully wrote 'liberals' with a small 'l', thus excusing those totalitarians in the 'il-Lib-non-Dem' party. Also you may be pleased to hear that I have invented a new classification of "Left Left" to guard against confusion with the 'Right Left' who should not to be confused with the 'Cameroon Left' even if they are the same thing. See, it's all about branding!
Posted by: David Duff | Monday, 28 May 2007 at 08:46
A 7/7 survivors group who you claimed were a threat to national security.
OTT.
Posted by: ZinZin | Monday, 28 May 2007 at 12:39
No, 'Zinzin', I was not over the top but spot on. If you try and drag MI5 and SB operatives and their chiefs away from the job in hand to face yet *another* enquiry which will change absolutely nothing whilst the terrorists carry on with their war, that is a danger to national security, or to put it another way, it places you, me and our fellow subjects at even greater risk as we go about our daily business. That, in a nutshell, is why I despise Rachel of North London and all her works. The additional fact that she is also carving a place for herself in the media world is just that little added extra that induces my nausea!
Posted by: David Duff | Monday, 28 May 2007 at 17:27
Dave. I came here from Alex's http://www.abandonallfear.co.uk/blog/
I see that in the eyes of the neolynch mob, you are magically growing a prominent wart! Soon you will be on the run. Godspeed my son. Godspeed. On your flight for survival, be sure to avoid the straw men and bumfluff that will litter your path in the hope of triping you up.
Posted by: lwtc247 | Wednesday, 30 May 2007 at 13:53
I was brought here by a morbid curiosity to see what someone had against a person who reached out to the world quite by accident and who has not been pushing herself forward. I wish I hadn't bothered.
Your kind of hate-peddling is rather rich
Do unto others as you would have them do to you.
Posted by: Henry North London | Friday, 27 July 2007 at 18:49