Bounded Atheism

I really don't have to do much to prove that I am being harassed, stalked and attacked.  The evidence is overwhelming.  Unfortunately, this abuse is effecting others as well.  I was just forwarded some disturbing and threatening emails from a friend on Twitter.

In the emails, the person behind the account @FreeAtheism who goes by "Artie" sent three threatening emails exhibiting cyber stalking/bullying & extortion to Catholicgadfly blackmailing him to meet his terms or he will post some image he made recycling the lies "Rosa Rubicondior" and others have posted.  The emails are clearly criminal and I advised Catholicgadfly to report them to his local police.

I also ask my readers and friends to notify Clermont Police.

Clermont Police Department
865 W. Montrose Street
Clermont, FL 34711
c/o Charles Broadway -Police Chief

Phone:
(352) 394-5588

Please provide them with the details of the blackmailing, stalking, slandering and abuse as well as "Artie's" public sites:

http://freeatheism.org/
https://twitter.com/FreeAtheism
http://www.atheistnexus.org/group/freeatheism
https://www.facebook.com/artie.petro.1

This person is obviously not well in the head and if he is capable of blackmailing someone due to his emotional distress, then he is capable of any other harm.  

If you are in Clermont or are a police officer in the area, please do not hesitate to contact me.  I will cooperate with any investigation as I am morally and legally required to do so.  

Here are Florida's laws:

Florida Statutes Chapter 836, Title XLVI

DEFAMATION; LIBEL; THREATENING LETTERS AND SIMILAR OFFENSES

836.05 Threats; extortion.—Whoever, either verbally or by a written or printed communication, maliciously threatens to accuse another of any crime or offense, or by such communication maliciously threatens an injury to the person, property or reputation of another, or maliciously threatens to expose another to disgrace, or to expose any secret affecting another, or to impute any deformity or lack of chastity to another, with intent thereby to extort money or any pecuniary advantage whatsoever, or with intent to compel the person so threatened, or any other person, to do any act or refrain from doing any act against his or her will, shall be guilty of a felony of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.

Florida Statutes Chapter 784, Title XLVI

784.048 Stalking; definitions; penalties.—

(1) As used in this section, the term:

(a) “Harass” means to engage in a course of conduct directed at a specific person which causes substantial emotional distress to that person and serves no legitimate purpose.

(b) “Course of conduct” means a pattern of conduct composed of a series of acts over a period of time, however short, which evidences a continuity of purpose. The term does not include constitutionally protected activity such as picketing or other organized protests.

(c) “Credible threat” means a verbal or nonverbal threat, or a combination of the two, including threats delivered by electronic communication or implied by a pattern of conduct, which places the person who is the target of the threat in reasonable fear for his or her safety or the safety of his or her family members or individuals closely associated with the person, and which is made with the apparent ability to carry out the threat to cause such harm. It is not necessary to prove that the person making the threat had the intent to actually carry out the threat. The present incarceration of the person making the threat is not a bar to prosecution under this section.

(d) “Cyberstalk” means to engage in a course of conduct to communicate, or to cause to be communicated, words, images, or language by or through the use of electronic mail or electronic communication, directed at a specific person, causing substantial emotional distress to that person and serving no legitimate purpose.

(2) A person who willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly follows, harasses, or cyberstalks another person commits the offense of stalking, a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

(3) A person who willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly follows, harasses, or cyberstalks another person and makes a credible threat to that person commits the offense of aggravated stalking, a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.

(4) A person who, after an injunction for protection against repeat violence, sexual violence, or dating violence pursuant to s. 784.046, or an injunction for protection against domestic violence pursuant to s. 741.30, or after any other court-imposed prohibition of conduct toward the subject person or that person’s property, knowingly, willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly follows, harasses, or cyberstalks another person commits the offense of aggravated stalking, a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.

(5) A person who willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly follows, harasses, or cyberstalks a child under 16 years of age commits the offense of aggravated stalking, a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.

(6) A law enforcement officer may arrest, without a warrant, any person that he or she has probable cause to believe has violated this section.