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my female temperament is obvious.
What the hell is a "female temperament?" What does that even mean? TJW says stuff like this a lot. I swear the people who talk most about how gender is a screwed-up concept (e.g. a lot of transgender and wannabe transgender people ) are more essentialist than practically anyone else.
I don't know many females who constantly threaten violence and martial arts and shit against anyone who tells them to calm down.
Funny, lots of trooooons do that shit, though.
What the hell is a "female temperament?" What does that even mean? TJW says stuff like this a lot. I swear the people who talk most about how gender is a screwed-up concept (e.g. a lot of transgender and wannabe transgender people ) are more essentialist than practically anyone else.
Oh man, from 10:00 to 10:15 is awesome. Just watching his face while his brain tries to work
I haven't finished the whole hour long video yet but he's mad and reading comments from various people here, like @ActualKiwi and still displaying his hateboner for me and @yawning sneasel. There's also a reference to a weed deal more at the beginning of the video and he sings a bunch of Jewish songs really fucking badly. He sings at least 3 of them.
The rest of the video apparently is Tommy talking about Trump, Brexit and Hillary and saying that she'll be indicted before the convention lol.
All the true and honest ladies use the term 'snapper'
Super KewlIt's a deal.
But new Tommay vid. It's a longer one but he gets really salty at the 6 minute mark and doesn't stop.
what's the point of posting all this shit?Super Kewl
U.S. Code › Title 18 › Part I › Chapter 96 › § 1962
18 U.S. Code § 1962 - Prohibited activities
Current through Pub. L. 114-38. (See Public Laws for the current Congress.)
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(a) It shall be unlawful for any person who has received any income derived, directly or indirectly, from a pattern of racketeering activity or through collection of an unlawful debt in which such person has participated as a principal within the meaning of section 2, title 18, United States Code, to use or invest, directly or indirectly, any part of such income, or the proceeds of such income, in acquisition of any interest in, or the establishment or operation of, any enterprise which is engaged in, or the activities of which affect, interstate or foreign commerce. A purchase of securities on the open market for purposes of investment, and without the intention of controlling or participating in the control of the issuer, or of assisting another to do so, shall not be unlawful under this subsection if the securities of the issuer held by the purchaser, the members of his immediate family, and his or their accomplices in any pattern or racketeering activity or the collection of an unlawful debt after such purchase do not amount in the aggregate to one percent of the outstanding securities of any one class, and do not confer, either in law or in fact, the power to elect one or more directors of the issuer.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any person through a pattern of racketeering activity or through collection of an unlawful debt to acquire or maintain, directly or indirectly, any interest in or control of any enterprise which is engaged in, or the activities of which affect, interstate or foreign commerce.
(c) It shall be unlawful for any person employed by or associated with any enterprise engaged in, or the activities of which affect, interstate or foreign commerce, to conduct or participate, directly or indirectly, in the conduct of such enterprise’s affairs through a pattern of racketeering activity or collection of unlawful debt.
(d) It shall be unlawful for any person to conspire to violate any of the provisions of subsection (a), (b), or (c) of this section.
(Added Pub. L. 91–452, title IX, § 901(a), Oct. 15, 1970, 84 Stat. 942; amended Pub. L. 100–690, title VII, § 7033, Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4398.)
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False light -- Misappropriation -- Right of publicity
False light
False light invasion of privacy occurs when information is published about a person that is false or places the person in a false light, is highly offensive to a reasonable person, and is published with knowledge or in reckless disregard of whether the information was false or would place the person in a false light.
Although this tort is similar to defamation, it is not the same. The report need not be defamatory to be actionable as false light. This type of invasion of privacy tends to occur when a writer condenses or fictionalizes a story, or uses stock footage to illustrate a news story.
False light includes embellishment (the addition of false material to a story, which places someone in a false light), distortion (the arrangement of materials or photographs to give a false impression) and fictionalization (references to real people in fictitious articles or the inclusion in works of fiction of disguised characters that represent real people). Some courts may consider works of fiction constitutionally protected expressions even if they contain characters that resemble, or clearly were based on, identifiable individuals known by the author or creator.12
Misappropriation
The use of a person’s name or likeness for commercial purposes without consent is misappropriation. The law protects an individual from being exploited by others for their exclusive benefit. A person’s entire name need not be used. If the person could reasonably be identified, the misappropriation claim probably will be valid.13
However, incidental references to real people in books, films, plays, musicals or other works, whether fact or fiction, generally are not misappropriations.14 Moreover, use of a photograph to illustrate a newsworthy story is not misappropriation. Even if a photo is used to sell a magazine on a newsstand, courts usually will not consider that use a trade or commercial purpose. The line between news and commercial use is not always clear, however, and even photographs used to illustrate an article may create liability for misappropriation if the article has an overriding commercial purpose.15
Right of publicity
Some states recognize a right of publicity, which protects a celebrity’s commercial interest in the exploitation of his or her name or likeness. In some jurisdictions, this right may descend to heirs or be assigned to others after the person’s death.
Use of a famous person’s name or likeness, without consent, to sell a product is usually misappropriation. However, other unauthorized uses of celebrities’ images may violate their publicity rights.
Model Christie Brinkley, for example, successfully sued to stop the unauthorized use of her picture on posters that hung in retail stores but did not advertise any product.16 Thus, trading on a celebrity’s fame and popularity even for noncommercial purposes, including public relations campaigns or other promotions, is an unauthorized use of the famous person’s name or likeness that could violate his or her right of publicity.
Notes:
12. See, e.g., Polydoros v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., 965 P.2d 724 (Cal. 199, aff’g 79 Cal. Rptr. 2d 207 (Cal. Ct. App. 1997).
13. See, e.g., Wendt v. Host International, 125 F.3d 806 (9th Cir. 1997) (holding that actors from television series could sue owner of airport bars featuring robots displaying likenesses to their characters from the series).
14. Benavidez v. Anheuser-Busch, Inc., 873 F.2d 102 (5th Cir. 1989).
15. See Hoffman v. Capital Cities/ABC, Inc., 33 F. Supp. 2d 867 (C.D. Cal. 1999) (ordering magazine to pay $1.5 million in actual damages for publishing actor’s electronically altered photograph as part of an article on new spring fashions and authorizing punitive damages in addition to actual damages), rev’d, 255 F.3d 1180 (9th Cir. 2001); see also Solano v. Playgirl, Inc., 292 F.3d 1078 (9th Cir. 2002), cert. denied, 537 U.S. 1029 (2002).
16. Brinkley v. Casablancas, 438 N.Y.S.2d 1004 (N.Y. App. Div. 1981).
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A.R.S. § 13-2923. Stalking; classification; definitions. (2012)
A. A person commits stalking if the person intentionally or knowingly engages in a course of conduct that is directed toward another person and if that conduct either:
1. Would cause a reasonable person to fear for the person's safety or the safety of that person's immediate family member and that person in fact fears for the person's safety or the safety of that person's immediate family member.
2. Would cause a reasonable person to fear death of that person or that person's immediate family member and that person in fact fears death of that person or that person's immediate family member.
B. Stalking under subsection A, paragraph 1 of this section is a class 5 felony. Stalking under subsection A, paragraph 2 is a class 3 felony.
C. For the purposes of this section:
1. "Course of conduct:"
(a) Means any of the following:
(i) Maintaining visual or physical proximity to a specific person or directing verbal, written, or other threats, whether express or implied, to a specific person on two or more occasions over a period of time, however short.
(ii) Using any electronic, digital or global positioning system device to surveil a specific person or a specific person's internet or wireless activity continuously for 12 hours or more or on two or more occasions over a period of time, however short, without authorization.
(b) Does not include constitutionally protected activity or other activity authorized by law, the other person, the other person's authorized representative or if the other person is a minor, the minor's parent or guardian.
2. "Immediate family member" means a spouse, parent, child or sibling or any other person who regularly resides in a person's household or resided in a person's household within the past six months.
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13-2006. Criminal impersonation; classification
A. A person commits criminal impersonation by:
1. Assuming a false identity with the intent to defraud another; or
2. Pretending to be a representative of some person or organization with the intent to defraud; or
3. Pretending to be, or assuming a false identity of, an employee or a representative of some person or organization with the intent to induce another person to provide or allow access to property. This paragraph does not apply to peace officers in the performance of their duties.
B. Criminal impersonation is a class 6 felony.
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tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress has four elements: (1) the defendant must act intentionally or recklessly; (2) the defendant's conduct must be extreme and outrageous; and (3) the conduct must be the cause (4) of severe emotional distress.
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You are aware none of this applies here.Super Kewl
U.S. Code › Title 18 › Part I › Chapter 96 › § 1962
18 U.S. Code § 1962 - Prohibited activities
Current through Pub. L. 114-38. (See Public Laws for the current Congress.)
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(a) It shall be unlawful for any person who has received any income derived, directly or indirectly, from a pattern of racketeering activity or through collection of an unlawful debt in which such person has participated as a principal within the meaning of section 2, title 18, United States Code, to use or invest, directly or indirectly, any part of such income, or the proceeds of such income, in acquisition of any interest in, or the establishment or operation of, any enterprise which is engaged in, or the activities of which affect, interstate or foreign commerce. A purchase of securities on the open market for purposes of investment, and without the intention of controlling or participating in the control of the issuer, or of assisting another to do so, shall not be unlawful under this subsection if the securities of the issuer held by the purchaser, the members of his immediate family, and his or their accomplices in any pattern or racketeering activity or the collection of an unlawful debt after such purchase do not amount in the aggregate to one percent of the outstanding securities of any one class, and do not confer, either in law or in fact, the power to elect one or more directors of the issuer.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any person through a pattern of racketeering activity or through collection of an unlawful debt to acquire or maintain, directly or indirectly, any interest in or control of any enterprise which is engaged in, or the activities of which affect, interstate or foreign commerce.
(c) It shall be unlawful for any person employed by or associated with any enterprise engaged in, or the activities of which affect, interstate or foreign commerce, to conduct or participate, directly or indirectly, in the conduct of such enterprise’s affairs through a pattern of racketeering activity or collection of unlawful debt.
(d) It shall be unlawful for any person to conspire to violate any of the provisions of subsection (a), (b), or (c) of this section.
(Added Pub. L. 91–452, title IX, § 901(a), Oct. 15, 1970, 84 Stat. 942; amended Pub. L. 100–690, title VII, § 7033, Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4398.)
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False light -- Misappropriation -- Right of publicity
False light
False light invasion of privacy occurs when information is published about a person that is false or places the person in a false light, is highly offensive to a reasonable person, and is published with knowledge or in reckless disregard of whether the information was false or would place the person in a false light.
Although this tort is similar to defamation, it is not the same. The report need not be defamatory to be actionable as false light. This type of invasion of privacy tends to occur when a writer condenses or fictionalizes a story, or uses stock footage to illustrate a news story.
False light includes embellishment (the addition of false material to a story, which places someone in a false light), distortion (the arrangement of materials or photographs to give a false impression) and fictionalization (references to real people in fictitious articles or the inclusion in works of fiction of disguised characters that represent real people). Some courts may consider works of fiction constitutionally protected expressions even if they contain characters that resemble, or clearly were based on, identifiable individuals known by the author or creator.12
Misappropriation
The use of a person’s name or likeness for commercial purposes without consent is misappropriation. The law protects an individual from being exploited by others for their exclusive benefit. A person’s entire name need not be used. If the person could reasonably be identified, the misappropriation claim probably will be valid.13
However, incidental references to real people in books, films, plays, musicals or other works, whether fact or fiction, generally are not misappropriations.14 Moreover, use of a photograph to illustrate a newsworthy story is not misappropriation. Even if a photo is used to sell a magazine on a newsstand, courts usually will not consider that use a trade or commercial purpose. The line between news and commercial use is not always clear, however, and even photographs used to illustrate an article may create liability for misappropriation if the article has an overriding commercial purpose.15
Right of publicity
Some states recognize a right of publicity, which protects a celebrity’s commercial interest in the exploitation of his or her name or likeness. In some jurisdictions, this right may descend to heirs or be assigned to others after the person’s death.
Use of a famous person’s name or likeness, without consent, to sell a product is usually misappropriation. However, other unauthorized uses of celebrities’ images may violate their publicity rights.
Model Christie Brinkley, for example, successfully sued to stop the unauthorized use of her picture on posters that hung in retail stores but did not advertise any product.16 Thus, trading on a celebrity’s fame and popularity even for noncommercial purposes, including public relations campaigns or other promotions, is an unauthorized use of the famous person’s name or likeness that could violate his or her right of publicity.
Notes:
12. See, e.g., Polydoros v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., 965 P.2d 724 (Cal. 199, aff’g 79 Cal. Rptr. 2d 207 (Cal. Ct. App. 1997).
13. See, e.g., Wendt v. Host International, 125 F.3d 806 (9th Cir. 1997) (holding that actors from television series could sue owner of airport bars featuring robots displaying likenesses to their characters from the series).
14. Benavidez v. Anheuser-Busch, Inc., 873 F.2d 102 (5th Cir. 1989).
15. See Hoffman v. Capital Cities/ABC, Inc., 33 F. Supp. 2d 867 (C.D. Cal. 1999) (ordering magazine to pay $1.5 million in actual damages for publishing actor’s electronically altered photograph as part of an article on new spring fashions and authorizing punitive damages in addition to actual damages), rev’d, 255 F.3d 1180 (9th Cir. 2001); see also Solano v. Playgirl, Inc., 292 F.3d 1078 (9th Cir. 2002), cert. denied, 537 U.S. 1029 (2002).
16. Brinkley v. Casablancas, 438 N.Y.S.2d 1004 (N.Y. App. Div. 1981).
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A.R.S. § 13-2923. Stalking; classification; definitions. (2012)
A. A person commits stalking if the person intentionally or knowingly engages in a course of conduct that is directed toward another person and if that conduct either:
1. Would cause a reasonable person to fear for the person's safety or the safety of that person's immediate family member and that person in fact fears for the person's safety or the safety of that person's immediate family member.
2. Would cause a reasonable person to fear death of that person or that person's immediate family member and that person in fact fears death of that person or that person's immediate family member.
B. Stalking under subsection A, paragraph 1 of this section is a class 5 felony. Stalking under subsection A, paragraph 2 is a class 3 felony.
C. For the purposes of this section:
1. "Course of conduct:"
(a) Means any of the following:
(i) Maintaining visual or physical proximity to a specific person or directing verbal, written, or other threats, whether express or implied, to a specific person on two or more occasions over a period of time, however short.
(ii) Using any electronic, digital or global positioning system device to surveil a specific person or a specific person's internet or wireless activity continuously for 12 hours or more or on two or more occasions over a period of time, however short, without authorization.
(b) Does not include constitutionally protected activity or other activity authorized by law, the other person, the other person's authorized representative or if the other person is a minor, the minor's parent or guardian.
2. "Immediate family member" means a spouse, parent, child or sibling or any other person who regularly resides in a person's household or resided in a person's household within the past six months.
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13-2006. Criminal impersonation; classification
A. A person commits criminal impersonation by:
1. Assuming a false identity with the intent to defraud another; or
2. Pretending to be a representative of some person or organization with the intent to defraud; or
3. Pretending to be, or assuming a false identity of, an employee or a representative of some person or organization with the intent to induce another person to provide or allow access to property. This paragraph does not apply to peace officers in the performance of their duties.
B. Criminal impersonation is a class 6 felony.
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tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress has four elements: (1) the defendant must act intentionally or recklessly; (2) the defendant's conduct must be extreme and outrageous; and (3) the conduct must be the cause (4) of severe emotional distress.
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TL;DR.Super Kewl
U.S. Code › Title 18 › Part I › Chapter 96 › § 1962
18 U.S. Code § 1962 - Prohibited activities
Current through Pub. L. 114-38. (See Public Laws for the current Congress.)
US Code
Notes
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(a) It shall be unlawful for any person who has received any income derived, directly or indirectly, from a pattern of racketeering activity or through collection of an unlawful debt in which such person has participated as a principal within the meaning of section 2, title 18, United States Code, to use or invest, directly or indirectly, any part of such income, or the proceeds of such income, in acquisition of any interest in, or the establishment or operation of, any enterprise which is engaged in, or the activities of which affect, interstate or foreign commerce. A purchase of securities on the open market for purposes of investment, and without the intention of controlling or participating in the control of the issuer, or of assisting another to do so, shall not be unlawful under this subsection if the securities of the issuer held by the purchaser, the members of his immediate family, and his or their accomplices in any pattern or racketeering activity or the collection of an unlawful debt after such purchase do not amount in the aggregate to one percent of the outstanding securities of any one class, and do not confer, either in law or in fact, the power to elect one or more directors of the issuer.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any person through a pattern of racketeering activity or through collection of an unlawful debt to acquire or maintain, directly or indirectly, any interest in or control of any enterprise which is engaged in, or the activities of which affect, interstate or foreign commerce.
(c) It shall be unlawful for any person employed by or associated with any enterprise engaged in, or the activities of which affect, interstate or foreign commerce, to conduct or participate, directly or indirectly, in the conduct of such enterprise’s affairs through a pattern of racketeering activity or collection of unlawful debt.
(d) It shall be unlawful for any person to conspire to violate any of the provisions of subsection (a), (b), or (c) of this section.
(Added Pub. L. 91–452, title IX, § 901(a), Oct. 15, 1970, 84 Stat. 942; amended Pub. L. 100–690, title VII, § 7033, Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4398.)
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False light -- Misappropriation -- Right of publicity
False light
False light invasion of privacy occurs when information is published about a person that is false or places the person in a false light, is highly offensive to a reasonable person, and is published with knowledge or in reckless disregard of whether the information was false or would place the person in a false light.
Although this tort is similar to defamation, it is not the same. The report need not be defamatory to be actionable as false light. This type of invasion of privacy tends to occur when a writer condenses or fictionalizes a story, or uses stock footage to illustrate a news story.
False light includes embellishment (the addition of false material to a story, which places someone in a false light), distortion (the arrangement of materials or photographs to give a false impression) and fictionalization (references to real people in fictitious articles or the inclusion in works of fiction of disguised characters that represent real people). Some courts may consider works of fiction constitutionally protected expressions even if they contain characters that resemble, or clearly were based on, identifiable individuals known by the author or creator.12
Misappropriation
The use of a person’s name or likeness for commercial purposes without consent is misappropriation. The law protects an individual from being exploited by others for their exclusive benefit. A person’s entire name need not be used. If the person could reasonably be identified, the misappropriation claim probably will be valid.13
However, incidental references to real people in books, films, plays, musicals or other works, whether fact or fiction, generally are not misappropriations.14 Moreover, use of a photograph to illustrate a newsworthy story is not misappropriation. Even if a photo is used to sell a magazine on a newsstand, courts usually will not consider that use a trade or commercial purpose. The line between news and commercial use is not always clear, however, and even photographs used to illustrate an article may create liability for misappropriation if the article has an overriding commercial purpose.15
Right of publicity
Some states recognize a right of publicity, which protects a celebrity’s commercial interest in the exploitation of his or her name or likeness. In some jurisdictions, this right may descend to heirs or be assigned to others after the person’s death.
Use of a famous person’s name or likeness, without consent, to sell a product is usually misappropriation. However, other unauthorized uses of celebrities’ images may violate their publicity rights.
Model Christie Brinkley, for example, successfully sued to stop the unauthorized use of her picture on posters that hung in retail stores but did not advertise any product.16 Thus, trading on a celebrity’s fame and popularity even for noncommercial purposes, including public relations campaigns or other promotions, is an unauthorized use of the famous person’s name or likeness that could violate his or her right of publicity.
Notes:
12. See, e.g., Polydoros v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., 965 P.2d 724 (Cal. 199, aff’g 79 Cal. Rptr. 2d 207 (Cal. Ct. App. 1997).
13. See, e.g., Wendt v. Host International, 125 F.3d 806 (9th Cir. 1997) (holding that actors from television series could sue owner of airport bars featuring robots displaying likenesses to their characters from the series).
14. Benavidez v. Anheuser-Busch, Inc., 873 F.2d 102 (5th Cir. 1989).
15. See Hoffman v. Capital Cities/ABC, Inc., 33 F. Supp. 2d 867 (C.D. Cal. 1999) (ordering magazine to pay $1.5 million in actual damages for publishing actor’s electronically altered photograph as part of an article on new spring fashions and authorizing punitive damages in addition to actual damages), rev’d, 255 F.3d 1180 (9th Cir. 2001); see also Solano v. Playgirl, Inc., 292 F.3d 1078 (9th Cir. 2002), cert. denied, 537 U.S. 1029 (2002).
16. Brinkley v. Casablancas, 438 N.Y.S.2d 1004 (N.Y. App. Div. 1981).
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A.R.S. § 13-2923. Stalking; classification; definitions. (2012)
A. A person commits stalking if the person intentionally or knowingly engages in a course of conduct that is directed toward another person and if that conduct either:
1. Would cause a reasonable person to fear for the person's safety or the safety of that person's immediate family member and that person in fact fears for the person's safety or the safety of that person's immediate family member.
2. Would cause a reasonable person to fear death of that person or that person's immediate family member and that person in fact fears death of that person or that person's immediate family member.
B. Stalking under subsection A, paragraph 1 of this section is a class 5 felony. Stalking under subsection A, paragraph 2 is a class 3 felony.
C. For the purposes of this section:
1. "Course of conduct:"
(a) Means any of the following:
(i) Maintaining visual or physical proximity to a specific person or directing verbal, written, or other threats, whether express or implied, to a specific person on two or more occasions over a period of time, however short.
(ii) Using any electronic, digital or global positioning system device to surveil a specific person or a specific person's internet or wireless activity continuously for 12 hours or more or on two or more occasions over a period of time, however short, without authorization.
(b) Does not include constitutionally protected activity or other activity authorized by law, the other person, the other person's authorized representative or if the other person is a minor, the minor's parent or guardian.
2. "Immediate family member" means a spouse, parent, child or sibling or any other person who regularly resides in a person's household or resided in a person's household within the past six months.
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13-2006. Criminal impersonation; classification
A. A person commits criminal impersonation by:
1. Assuming a false identity with the intent to defraud another; or
2. Pretending to be a representative of some person or organization with the intent to defraud; or
3. Pretending to be, or assuming a false identity of, an employee or a representative of some person or organization with the intent to induce another person to provide or allow access to property. This paragraph does not apply to peace officers in the performance of their duties.
B. Criminal impersonation is a class 6 felony.
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tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress has four elements: (1) the defendant must act intentionally or recklessly; (2) the defendant's conduct must be extreme and outrageous; and (3) the conduct must be the cause (4) of severe emotional distress.
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He's upset because his stuff was posted without his permission. There is no real point.what's the point of posting all this shit?
U.S. Code › Title 18 › Part I › Chapter 96 › § 1962
18 U.S. Code § 1962 - Prohibited activities
Current through Pub. L. 114-38. (See Public Laws for the current Congress.)
tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress has four elements: (1) the defendant must act intentionally or recklessly; (2) the defendant's conduct must be extreme and outrageous; and (3) the conduct must be the cause (4) of severe emotional distress.
I wonder what his best course of legal action may be.I'm not seeing the "laughing at a hilarious exceptional individual" part. I guess they forgot to put that in there.
Lol. Winning an IEED tort is a pipe dream.
Also you've repeatedly said none of this bothers you at all.
I'm still waiting for him to sue @bacterium and me if only to come to Wisconsin and find out he has a $270 fine over his head.I love how the whole section about stalking actual implicates him. He's threatened physical harm to several members and their families.
I'm not seeing the "laughing at a hilarious exceptional individual" part. I guess they forgot to put that in there.
Lol. Winning an IEED tort is a pipe dream.
Also you've repeatedly said none of this bothers you at all.
I wonder what his best course of legal action may be.
Top Rated Amazon Review said:First published in 1889 in France, "The Great Initiates" (TGI) reflects the author's lifelong quest for spiritual truth along the myriad byways of mythology and esoterica. According to the book's introductory biography, the author had experienced a "divine vision" in the cathedral of Strausbourg as a young boy shortly after the death of his mother. Orphaned in his youth, he later dedicated himself to recreating the sacred drama found in the Eleusinian Mysteries of ancient Greece for the purpose of modern consumption. The efforts of this calling, the author was convinced, would rekindle the spiritual awareness of the ancient world in what he considered to be the vacuous materialism of modern society. It was from a subsequent series of "visitations" that the author embarked upon what became a ten-year literary effort, which culminated with his list of the top seven prophets of all time: Rama, Krishna, Hermes, Moses, Orpheus, Pythagoras, and Jesus. The author had been made aware of the common source of spiritual illumination disseminated through these great initiates, whose all-encompassing theme includes such doctrines as reincarnation, panentheism, henotheism, and the "divine spark" within man. However, this prosaic sojourn is launched from the shores of incredulity. Chapter One considers the origins of humanity "according to esoteric traditions" (p. 36). Human civilization first began about five thousand years ago with the red race, having thrived on the "southern continent [i.e., Plato's Atlantis], while all of Europe and part of Asia were still under water" (37). This ill-fated journey forges on, plowing through the rolling waves of implausibility first by redefining mythology, then by rewriting history. Krishna becomes the "first of the Messiahs," the "eldest of the sons of God" (p. 79). Hence, with TGI's treatise on Krishna we see a pattern of messianic similitude emerge through parallel accounts of the Gospels' Virgin Birth (Chapter, the Sermon on the Mount (p. 111-112), the Good Samaritan (p. 112), the miraculous catch of fishes (p. 112), a woman anointing his feet (p. 114), and the triumphal entry into the temple city (p. 115-116). Moreover, Krishna is seen as having volunteered himself to be sacrificed as a reconciliatory offering, allowing his foes to tie him to a tree and pierce him with arrows in the chest. However, as Hindu scriptures have it, Krishna was incarnated as the seventh son of a married couple named Devaki and Vasu-deva, and was killed by a hunter who mistook him for a deer and shot him in the heel with a magic-laced arrow. TGI's normalization efforts continue by making Moses out to be a blood relative of Rameses and an initiate of Osiris (p. 172), whose Egyptian name was Hosarsiph (p. 17
. Upon emerging from a ritual-induced coma to expatiate the murder of an Egyptian guard, the reborn visionary took to the desert with his new name Moses which, according to esoteric wisdom, means "The Saved One" (p. 186). Although TGI does not care to enlighten us as to which language this translation stems from, we know for sure that it was not taken from the Hebrew, in which Moses' name means "drawn out of the water," which is precisely what Pharaoh's daughter had done when she adopted the infant Moses (Exodus 2:10). But never mind that TGI lacks linguistic finesse, for a true understanding of Genesis is at hand. Having been so heavily influenced by Egyptian culture, Moses had originally written Genesis in hieroglyphics, the language of choice for those whose intentions are to embed multiple and hidden meanings into their prose. Alas, all but the "shallowest" of meanings were lost through subsequent translations, and Moses' original intent can now only be meted out with the aid of Kaballistic decoder rings and a little guidance from the learned. On a more tangible note, esoteric history has it that Moses led the Exodus with little resistance during an opportunistic time when Pharaoh Menephtah was predisposed to repelling an advancing Lybian army (p. 204-205). While there is no record of any Menephtah, there was a Pharaoh named Merneptah (1212-1202 B.C.), son of Seti I, who had defeated invaders from the Aegean Sea and had desolated Israel in the process. More down-to-earth historians have it that the Pharaoh of the Exodus was probably either Amunhotep II (ca. 1446 B.C.) or Rameses II (ca. 1290 B.C.). Last but not least, the good ship TGI ventures into stormy waters as it reinvents Jesus to render him worthy of the initiate's crown. The pre-existence of reincarnated souls is promulgated through Jesus by taking John 8:58 out of context (p. 427). It was through membership in the Essene cult that Jesus learned the esoteric teachings of Krishna, Osiris, Orpheus, and Pythagoras during his young adulthood (p. 43
. Forget that no particular reason is given as to why a person brought up in an orthodox Jewish home would not have reviled these pagan teachings, and would have embraced the apocryphal Book of Enoch with great enthusiasm, from which the Essenes drew the knowledge regarding the Son of Man (p. 439). And wouldn't you know it, just as was the fate of Moses' contributions to higher meaning, the deeper esoteric teachings of Jesus were lost to antiquity by the second-century compilers of the Synoptic Gospels. No wonder, then, that much clarification is in order; it seems that the heavenly beings observed by the three apostles during the Transfiguration were not Moses and Elijah as recorded in the Gospels, but the six initiates that had preceded Jesus (p. 473)! Cap these novel concepts with denials of the Virgin Birth, the bodily resurrection, and the Second Coming, and our final destination emerges upon the horizon before us. However, there comes a time when some passengers aboard a ship without sails or a rudder may want to consider abandoning ship and taking their chances in the dinghy, for the captain of this cruise is of the opinion that, in addition to the initiate Jesus, angels have the power to forgive (p. 460). Imagine that.
personally, it really doesn't and it has just served to strengthen my personal networks. the caucus has doubled in size since the attack and the late bloomers have taken a few new birds in and are asserting themselves in their personal circles.I'm not seeing the "laughing at a hilarious exceptional individual" part. I guess they forgot to put that in there.
Lol. Winning an IIED tort is a pipe dream.
Also you've repeatedly said none of this bothers you at all.