Tina Kells
20 hours ago

Hi Mary,

I understand there were some difficulties between you and staff while I was away and after reviewing the various forum posts I have decided to contact you directly. It think it is time that we clarify a few things regarding your persistent complaints and accusations. First and foremost there is NO security breach at NowPublic and I ask that you stop stating publicly that there is, this is simply untrue and your accusation is unfounded.

I know you feel very strongly that you are being attacked by cyberstalkers but I can assure you that no person or entity has infiltrated NowPublic simply to attack and monitor you. If you are being harassed online it is has nothing to do with our site infrastructure. I suggest you have your computer(s) checked and cleaned and contact your ISP. Any difficulties you experience are not due to a security breech on our end. For the most part your publishing issues have been traced to user error and have been easy to fix on our end. Your NowPublic account is not, and never has been, hacked by cyberstalkers.

In the past I have had to ask you to stop attacking, accusing and verbally assaulting staff, both in private messages and in public forum posts. I was shocked to see that you not only continued these attacks but escalated them last week. I am speaking specifically of your accusation that Amy was in any way racist toward you. This is perhaps the most outrageous of the many unfounded accusations you have directed toward the site and its staff. Once again I ask that you refrain from personal attacks, which are a direct violation of our terms and conditions, and address staff with respect. I know for a fact that Amy has on many occasions gone out of her way to assist you, one may even say she has gone above and beyond, and the racist accusation made by you is in no way backed up by the historical facts of your interactions with her. I strongly feel you owe her a public apology.

I have always found your strong sense of social justice to be among your best qualities but it seems that you have little regard for the manner in which you treat the staff and editors at NowPublic. Your hostile and accusatory behavior must stop immediately, it is counter productive to the community and unfair to staff. It is very clear that you do not at all appreciate the huge amoung of help you have been given in the past and I find it very hard to justify asking staff to continue to subject themselves to your hostile allegations. If you can not address staff in a productive and respectful manner your account will be suspended and may be permanently closed.

I ask that you treat staff the way you would like to be treated. If this is not possible we will need to reconsider your involvement with our community. I am sorry it has come to this but your recent behavior can not go unaddressed.

Please consider this a formal warning.

Tina Kells
News Director

RESPONSE BY MARY NEAL

Re: Recent Events

I choose to end this discussion. I do not want my posts deleted or destroyed. Period. If you have no security breach, then tell your staff to cease and desist immediately, please. If you delete anything, then send me a copy. In much less time than it took for you to email me on this matter, you can use the highlight/ copy/ paste and put whatever data you plan to delete in an email to me and mail me a hardcopy. Otherwise, we have a problem.

CLARIFICATION BY MARY NEAL

Re: Recent Events

A LEGAL PROBLEM - I want to make that very clear. The fact that you are on record as telling me to input my data directly into NP creates a contract for safeguarding same. Ask your lawyers.

Furthermore, in view of the recent admission that the interference and deletions I experience have originated at NowPublic and were not resulting from cyberstalkers from OUTSIDE the network, I have already reduced my input at this site and am in the process of making other arrangements for my writing. So be patient. Tell whoever is interested.

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As my justice articles gain popularity, the attacks against my free press rights grow stronger.  News of my mentally and physically brother's secret jail death was omitted from mainstream news, but citizens media like Care2 News Network, OpEdNews, IndyMedia, and NowPublic.com published same.  My advocacy to improve the justice system is under fierce attack, including personal endangerment.

Since I experience much interference at Care2, also, below are the tag lines for this submission, and I entered same as a group discussion at AI, Against Human Stupidity, AIMI, and Beginner Writers here at Care2.  Taglines are:

censorship freedomofspeech billofrights firstamendment cyberstalking wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com USDOJ maryneal freedomofpress nowpublic.com prisontorture constitutionofusa, *group:hs*, *group:aimi*, *group:minorityrights*

Mary Neal
Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill