Reflecting on My Aggressive Internet Behavior Due to Recent Criticism

As my three readers will know, I have for some time been accused, and especially recently, of being aggressive in my Internet activity.  Tony Carr, and a long time admirer of mine posting anonymously, have called into question my brutal honesty (they don't characterize it as honesty of course).  Tony wrote in the comments section the other day:

But as Anonymous points out, your vibe isn't debate or disagreement. Your vibe is hate. You are loose with serious words, which undercuts your whole shtick as a guy who is all about the seriousness of words. You slap labels on people cheaply, you reason inductively, and you disrespect and trash others by default.

What my "anonymous" follower certainly knows (he used the name "John Richards" back in the day and even contacted my mother-in-law at one point in his online tomfoolery), and as perhaps Tony knows as well, is that one of my "targets" was a fellow from Bainbridge Island where I had a run in with a politician and his leftist mob of Antifa nut jobs.  My anonymous follower was sure to like posts from Clarence Moriwaki (as did Dan Tarleton who even gave him money in our litigation) and I spent tens of thousands of dollars of my own money on social media getting the word out about this vile politician and his mob.  Moriwaki's right hand man in his PR effort against me was a guy named, Houston Wade.  Houston Wade was truly despicable in a crowd of the truly despicable.  He showed up to court to support his politician friend against me and was very active online spreading the most awful lies about me.

I have spent more time on Houston Wade than anybody else online.  Nobody else has even come close.

I have been active online and off, seeking to address the threat he posed to the community with my harsh words and my inability to build consensus.  StopClarenceMoriwaki.Com was one such avenue that my anonymous follower is very familiar with.  I was so active, so extraordinarily dedicated to exposing Wade, that of course I have been routinely charged with being cRaZy and all the rest.  Who makes multiple videos about an individual like that?  Who makes all those memes?  Holy God, who makes an online video game about his subject?!  Beyond how abnormal such efforts are, who has the time?  Who makes a website like HoustonWadeLies.Com?

I have incessantly accused Houston Wade of intense projection, staggering dishonesty, a willingness to lie, advocating violence, warned of his obsession with mixing sexuality and violence in his imagery, using homosexuality as an insult despite claiming to be ultra "woke," and documented his frequent celebrations of death for anybody he disagreed with politically who met their demise.  Houston Wade regularly mocked me online when his politician friend was using the courts against me, telling me how I was going to go to prison and there receive the unwanted male attention that so many prison movies have made infamous.  I was also attacked by his supporters and mob members mercilessly.  Death threats, multiple false police reports claiming I had broken into homes, and the most vile defamatory comments were made about me online.  My mother's online obituary featured a comment, falsely asserting it was from me, which described incredible indecency between a mother and son.  On her obituary just after she passed away.  I was alerted to that post by my grieving father.  Houston Wade regularly made false comments online about her death and my role.

As in any contest for a worthy cause, there will be wounds and scars, even in digital combat and the contest of words.  At least if you pick up a worthy cause.  If you pick your battles, which is to say you actually pick battles.  Nothing worth doing is easy.  Or popular.  Except criticizing the man who is in the ring taking the blows, that's easy enough and popular.

After I beat Clarence Moriwaki (a current Bainbridge Island City Council member) in court, badly, I was involved in efforts concerning Houston Wade behind the scenes as well as online.  I was quick to report on his loss in court for defaming a neighbor in the absolute worst way, and broadcasting his bankruptcy that resulted, to his audience of potential victims.  Wade brought me up in his court proceedings regularly in his many irrelevancies.  He blamed me for some of his woes.  I won't say that he was incorrect.  Be that as it may or may not be, I tried to reach any of his potential victims to let them know the character of the person they were dealing with and I enjoyed a large amount of success much to his dismay.  Houston spent considerable time banning and censoring me from any community, starting with the "Bainbridge Island Open Community" Facebook group, and then reporting my posts in other areas, doing the thing that all frauds and liars do.  He was unsuccessful, however, and soon I no longer had to inform folks about him as there was an army of people doing it who had seen the information I provided.  In his podcast, he made it very clear how my ceaseless efforts caused him real torment.  

In the video above, in addition to demonstrating the real pain I caused him, Houston Wade also makes the false claim that I am friends with child molesters (a claim that has him nearly one million dollars in debt after a court ruling and led to him declaring bankruptcy) and talks about my obsession with him and begs his audience to block me.  I would recommend readers watch this video before continuing to read below to really understand the full force of agony my words have caused some individuals.  At 13:27 Wade discusses his stalker (referring to me) and says:

It is exhausting, the thing is I know I'm not alone, because I know he has dozens of victims, so we all talk with each other and share and treasure each other's support because this guy is unending, he'll make websites about you, he'll make videos about you...

But to see the real, purposeful, pain on his face you have to watch the video.  You can see it's real.

As far as words go, it's really extreme stuff.  It's the OODA Loop applied to social media.  I admit it.  My words have been issued not just harshly, and truthfully, but also with the hope of causing pain by exposing the character of my subject.  Does that make me a monster?  Am I the asshole and curmudgeon and prick that Tony Carr says I am because of how I conduct myself with words online?  Who spends so much time "attacking" another person online, anyway?  Trolls do from what I'm told.  And "stalkers" of course.  Houston Wade refers to me regularly as his "stalker" for expressing views about him he doesn't approve of, and doing it so frequently.  His Twitter account lists his location as "in Rick Rynearson's head" yet he has made it very clear that I am front and center inside his.  Who does that?  Is this the vibe of hate that Tony Carr referenced?  Am I the "serial stalker" who moves from target to target that Houston claims that I am?  So many people take issue with my aggressive speech...

So, I chose to go inside my own cranium, and have reflected on recent criticism of my online activity, and I think I will likely cease my intense online activity against Houston Wade.

Not because there is any real merit in these criticisms of my speech, but rather because Houston Wade has just been arrested and charged for trying to do things to an eleven year old that shouldn't be imagined let alone attempted.  Be forewarned when reading the details of the charging document I just linked, it's not a pleasant read.  And we all know some folks who really don't like words when they're not pleasant.

Cheers.