Posted on 07/08/2005 4:32:30 AM PDT by RoyalsFan
WilliamPitt (1000+ posts) Fri Jul-08-05 01:52 PM
Original message
Say hello to a bottomless rage
Edited on Fri Jul-08-05 01:56 PM by WilliamPitt
The cork is out of the bottle, and I am putting a few people on notice. You know who you are, you know what you did, and a good man has gone down in no small part because of you.
Throwing sand into the gears of the PayPal donations blew Andy off the surgery rotation, casusing him to have to wait a lot longer for his operation.
Spewing the claim time and again that the whole sickness was a fraud, very publicly and on as many blogs and boards as you could find, robbed Andy of the hope and will he needed to overcome this thing.
I think you fuckers should be forced to dig his grave. I think you should be buried with him.
I kept my mouth shut about you these last weeks because every time I said something about you or to you, you got a stiffy from the attention and ramped up your viciousness again. That's over with now.
I am going to make you famous in all the worst kinds of ways. I know your names, I know your addresses, I know your IP numbers, I have screen shots and copies of every vile statement and threat you ever made. I know everything I need to know. Get ready for the ram.
You are graveyard rats. I am going to grind you under my bootheel, scrape you off with a blade, and feed you to my cat.
One note to my fellow DUers: Leave off attacking the mods and admins at that "other" site. They were as disgusted by this as we were, but were hamstrung by the rules of their board which they take as seriously as the admins and mods here. They allowed me to post the documentary evidence over there, in no small part because they wanted the ugliness to stop. You may disagree with them, but they are good people.
They are not the ones who are on my list of things to do. Those on the list know who they are. Bad days are ahead for them. I promise.
We mourn for the next few days. We sing the songs of our friend.
And then we work.
I would like to know more about the story. What is the nature of this website? It was referenced in the Seattle Weekly. The diabolical actions of those who impeded this man's health care through fabricated fraud should be called upon for account. A functional healthy society calls for truth and justice as to what has transpired in such instance. The perpetrators of the actual fraud should be tried, no lame excuses for their actions. It is time the truly just in our society come forward forcefully and bring those who are the actual sociopathic evil doers to justice. This is an example of the many tests our country will face as a result of the past few years to regain the confidence of many in its viability which is so much the integrity of our justice system. In this case a man has died.
welcome to FR....
What a disgraceful, hate-filled, threatening, swearing message you posted.
I sense that you are going to be a kitty scratching post.
"What is the nature of this website?"
"We're working to roll back decades of governmental largesse, to root out political fraud and corruption, and to champion causes which further conservatism in America.
That would be me.
That would be you...what? You confused me.
Post #46 - I think a troll surfed in.
Isn't that the truth? I wonder how old these brilliant linguists are?
Those are actually the jumbled keystrokes of something called william pitt....a prolific DUmpster contributor if I'm not mistaken.
I notice you and I just joined today.
And we both have no about page.
Let me write yours for you.
membername : 18c6
occupation : troll soon to be zotted
Btw: what have you ingested lately or can you help people figure out what you are rambling about?
Better yet....I'll just say bye!!!! before the viking kitties come for you.
I am going to make you famous in all the worst kinds of ways. I know your names, I know your addresses, I know your IP numbers, I have screen shots and copies of every vile statement and threat you ever made. I know everything I need to know. Get ready for the ram.
Oh please. I'm sorry your friend died Pitt, but get a life and stop making threats you know you can't follow up on.
I am starting to get confused now....I hope you did figure out that the post in # 42 are the words of William Pitt and not me. Maybe I should have identified it better.
He DID Die, and a service was held July 16th according to this article from the Seattle Weekly......
July 13 - 19, 2005
A Fight to the End
Voting-rights activist Andy Stephenson, 43, dies.
by George Howland Jr.
Andy Stephenson in March 2004.
(Karen Steichen)
Voting-rights activist Andy Stephenson was so full of life it seems impossible that he is dead. Surrounded by his life partner, Ted Edmondson, and members of his family, Stephenson passed away on Thursday, July 7, at Seattle's Virginia Mason Medical Center. The Seattle resident was 43.
Walter Andrew Stephenson was born in El Paso, Texas. He worked as a telemarketer and was a Subway shop owner before he became concerned about issues surrounding electronic voting and ballot security in 2004. He quickly decided to run as a Democratic candidate for Washington secretary of state opposing Republican incumbent Sam Reed, on a platform calling for a voter-verified paper ballot. But Stephenson dropped out of the race to work full time with prominent election-integrity advocate Bev Harris of Renton, who leads Black Box Voting (www.blackboxvoting.org). The two activists later parted on bad terms, but Stephenson's work with Black Box Voting raised his national profile, and after he left the organization he continued grassroots lobbying with a loosely affiliated network of like-minded people over the Internet.
In person, Stephenson was a red-headed, crackerjack live wire, full of ideas and energy, chasing after every hint of impropriety by election administrators and the corporations that make voting software and hardware. During an interview, he would simultaneously smoke cigarettes, drink coffee, take phone calls, assign tasks to volunteers, condemn elected officials, and rail against Election Systems & Software, Diebold, and other voting-equipment corporations. He was a heartfelt advocate for his cause and didn't shy from confrontation with government officials and corporate officers. His passion and affability attracted a following here and on the World Wide Web, particularly among the frequenters of the progressive Web site Democratic Underground (www.democraticunderground.com).
Stephenson became ill in January, and months of treatment followed. In April, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Like the fighter he was, Stephenson was determined to beat the disease and decided to have surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. But he was out of work and without insurance, and Hopkins requires payment in full for out-of-state, uninsured patients. So Stephenson's online community raised $50,000 for him over the Internet. San Francisco's Elisabeth Ferrari led the effort, raising the money in just 12 days. It was a tribute to his political work and another demonstration of the power of the Internet. But it also spawned a bizarre Web campaign that accused Stephenson of faking his illness to scam money (see "Cancerous Campaign," July 6). In response, a page (homepage.mac.com/benburch/Andy) was created to document his treatment.
Reaction to Stephenson's death by his Internet friends was swift. Wrote Will Pitt, in a post on Democratic Underground directed at Stephenson's accusers: "I am going to make you famous in all the worst kinds of ways. I know your names, I know your addresses, I know your IP numbers, I have screen shots and copies of every vile statement and threat you ever made. I know everything I need to know. Get ready for the ram."
Stephenson's health took a turn for the worse on Wednesday June 22, when he was admitted to Virginia Mason Medical Center with post-surgery complications. When I visited him the next day, he was still in battle mode—against his cancer and on behalf of voter rights. Over the next two weeks, his condition steadily declined. After a series of strokes, he died.
Stephenson is survived by Edmondson; his mother, Dorothy M. Stephenson; two sisters, Charlene Johns and George Ann Pye; and an extended family in Texas. He is also grieved for by friends and comrades on the Internet. Wrote Ferrari: "I'm crying like a damned fountain, but he's free now."
A memorial service will be held at Town Hall in Seattle at 1119 Eighth Ave., on Saturday, July 16, at 2 p.m.
see post 55
"I read this earlier today. I went to the newspapers in WA and could not find anything about his death."
I think he was more a DU hero then a big noise in Washington State.
hmmm... interesting.
Hi Cronos.
I've got to get some sleep but I'll probably get down to some investigatin' again in the AM.
Death to all Muslims.....smoke em....crush their women and steal their livestock.....throw em to the lions!!!!!
LOL!!!
Is it just Cronos or do you have any AKA?
LOL!!
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