👁️‍🗨️ Harassment, Bullying and Intimidation

Seriously people! What the ever-lovin' fuck is wrong with you!?!

If you thought I was finished with being harassed about my opposition to the streetcar project, you would wrong (you can read about the first part of the nonsense here). 

Nope, not done. Even after all that nonsense with stealing signs and being on the news, someone had to step up the harassment. 

Yup. I got doxxed by Ryan Gravel. Yup, the guy that wrote the famous term paper to reuse an abandoned rail bed for a mixed use and transit corridor. If you are unfamiliar with the term doxxing, let me enlighten you (to be honest, I didn't know what it was until it happened to me last week). 

Now, let me state that I think that the initial idea to reuse the rail bed for alternative transit was a great idea. We need transit in Atlanta. Badly. However, THIS plan will NOT remove cars from the road. Before they start doing stuff intown, we need a comprehensive transit network that goes out to the suburbs. Why, you ask? Take a look around any intown neighbor on the weekends and you'll see move Cobb, DeKalb, Gwinnett, etc. Those outnumber the Fulton Cty tags by far. And why are those people coming to town? A lot of them come to be on the Beltline. 

Our lovely, now a beautiful linear park on the rail bed. It's crowded on the weekends. I personally won't go on it on the weekends because of the cyclists and scooters going too fast and all the people. I DO walk a portion of it everyday since that is how I get to work. 

And speak of the devil, I saw my doxxer this morning as I walked to work. I did not engage with him (although I did consider it). And if he wanted to give me crap about living in an expensive house, dude lives in an expensive house in my 'hood too. As if the price of house had anything to do with the price of bananas (forgive the strange reference to something my mom used to say). For the record, the value of my home has tripled in the past ten years and I couldn't afford to buy it now.

So, back to the doxxing. Here I was minding my own business on a Monday morning and getting on with life when I get an email saying how sorry the leader of the opposition is about Ryan doxxing me. 

Excuse me? (after I look up doxxing).

Then I go online and there it is, big as day. 

It's on Twitter and Instagram. My home address. Well, ok, I think, fine. 

Then I read the comments. 

Holy hell! 

Quite a few people called me all kind of names because their leaders have done it. I'm talking about Ryan and Matthew Rao since their comments in this and other online forums have clearly indicated they approve of 💩 like this. Bullying, harassment and intimidation, plain and simple. 

Several people called him out for posting the details about the location of my home. Yup. That was the thing that went too far. 🐪

And then there were a few that made downright scary comments. 🫣

Bad enough for me to make sure my security cameras were fully charged and all the doors / windows locked securely (I did have a nightmare that week about someone breaking in and yelling at me about the streetcar). 

The man doesn't know me. He doesn't know what my objections are and apparently doesn't care to have a respectful discussion. He just wants to be a bully (and if you ever met him, and I have, he is kinda an arrogant 🫏). 

And if he thought this would intimidate me and remove my signs, guess again buddy. 

I did a little more research to see what I could do to protect myself. 

Report the bullying to Twitter and Instagram. ✔️
Surprisingly, Twitter removed the post and Instagram ignored repeated requests. 

And I made sure to take screen shots before reporting. 

Next up, report to the appropriate authorities because, upon further research, I discovered the doxxing is a FEDERAL CRIME. Yes, as in a misdemeanor. 

That means I filed a report with:

• Atlanta Police Department
• Georgia Bureau of Investigation 
• Federal Bureau of Investigation 

And if you think that is overkill, let me explain that is what was clearly communicated online as the correct steps to take. And if some crazy shows up at my home, burns it down or injuries me or my kitties, then Ryan is liable. 

Bullying, harassment and intimidation isn't cool. Ever.