Gun Barrel City's name might be its commercial salvation; Cedar Creek Lake could become weapons mecca?

GUN BARREL CITY -- It's doubtful civic leaders foresaw the future when they named their new town four decades ago, but current leaders are making the most of it now.

The City Council passed a resolution on April 23 supporting the right of all heads-of-households to own a gun. Mayor Paul Eaton said the council was not urging everyone to buy a gun, but it wanted to raise awareness about the issue and support the Second Amendment. Afterwards, Eaton posed for pictures in front of the city's logo -- a pair of crossed pistols -- for the local media.

As everyone left the council meeting room, City Manager Gerry Boren was overhead telling Eaton, "It will go viral now." And he was right. The Dallas media picked it up within a week, and now Eaton is getting calls from radio stations all over the country wanting to interview him.

As it turns out, the council indeed had a lot more on its mind than just raising public awareness, and it could turn out to be a pretty savvy business move on the part of city officials.

Boren said this week he is courting the weapons and ammunition industry, touting Gun Barrel City as an idea location for factories and retail centers. It's a move that coincides with the efforts of Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who is sending letters to the firearms industry telling it Texas would be proud to make a home for them if the gun control debate in other states is making them uncomfortable.

At the recent National Rifle Association convention in Houston, the governor made sure everyone knew he was there and supportive of them.

A representative of the Economic Development & Tourism division of the Office of the Governor met with the city's Economic Development Corp. this week to explain how the governor could help them attract new business.

With lots of land left undeveloped in the area and many commercial locations vacant, civic leaders see this move as an opportunity for needed growth, Boren said.

Boren said public opinion among residents seems to be about 70 percent in favor of the what city officials are doing.

Former Canadian Mountie on blog rampage in defense of wacky wife; bloggers threaten to send derogatory messages to The Rare Reporter's Facebook friends

HOUSTON -- Just when I think it can't get any stranger in the Blogosphere, it of course does do exactly that.

In my ongoing coverage of several blogs and bloggers during the last year, I have encountered some of the most peculiar people in the virtual world imaginable. Not the least of which is a Houston woman named Yappy who immigrated to the U.S. from Canada with her husband for him to work at an oil company. We will call him Mr. Yappy because that is how he referred to himself in his latest letter addressed to me.

Mr. Yappy reportedly is a former Canadian Mountie, and he likes to boast about his former military experience and his physical size. The letter posted on a blog that came to my attention this morning is at least the second communication I've had from him. This one didn't mention how big and strong he was, possibly because I previously pointed out to him that it sounded like he was threatening me.

The bottom line is that Mr. Yappy thinks I am out-of-line for defending myself against his wife's vicious attacks on my character that she posts on JoeyIsALittleKid.blogspot.com, which I've written about quite a bit. Yesterday, I updated a story about a lawsuit involving the blog's author, and it set off another round of verbal shots from the blog's virtual clubhouse. Mr. Yappy's letter subsequently was posted on the same blog.

During the past year or so Mrs. Yappy has accused me of driving my "longtime lover" to commit suicide after she apparently learned that I had found a close friend of mine of more than 40 years dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, of defending child molesters because of what I wrote about the trial of a blogger who was convicted of child sexual assault, of possibly being a child molester myself, of being an alcoholic, of being a "pathetic lonely old man" and just about every other insult you can imagine.

During our first encounter, her anti-gay rants such as "fruitcake" against me caused the blog hosting company Wordpress to shut down the blog. Later the blog author relaunched on Google, and they've apparently managed to train Yappy not to use anti-gay slurs. But they still enjoy making sly references about my sexual orientation.

I freely admit to losing my cool several times, and that I indeed did tell her off. She thinks I'm sick? I think she's sicker. So there you have it.

This is the most recent letter Mr. Yappy directed to me after Mrs. Yappy called me a "sicko," and I blasted back.:

"Mr. Webb, how awful your life must be. You must be so full of rage and anger to repeatedly attack people like Yappy in order to make yourself feel better. Must hurt so bad to look in the mirror and not see who you want everyone else to see when they look at you.

Reading the continuous garbage you post reminds me of a sadistic sociopath who goes out in a rage and attacks decent people in hopes that when they have reached their limit, they will strike back. Then you blame them for attacking you.

You are the complete opposite of Yappy (--I agree and thank God--), and I should know because I have lived with her for over 20 years. She is a beautiful person inside and out and has a heart of gold. She will not sit quietly and let the likes of you hurt and abuse her or other people. That's only one attribute that makes her beautiful.

You call her abusive yet your verbal attacks wreak of abuse. Go away and live your pathetic life, look for others to bash and abuse. Find another punching bag because your attacks on Yappy must end, yet you have no spine and morals so expecting you to change is hopeless.

Yappy doesn't need to be defended, she can handle herself quite well, but take it for what it's worth, this husband and ex-military MAN will always have her back.

-Mr. Yappy"

As though that wasn't enough to wake up to, another blog poster had named about two dozen of my Facebook friends and urged everyone to send them derogatory messages about me saying that I enjoy attacking victims of child sexual abuse. I'm not sure exactly what to make of that tactic, but if anyone receives one of those messages I would sure like to see it. If anyone wants to defriend me in advance, I understand. I already deleted one of the people on the list because I know he can't handle it. These are not nice people by any stretch of the imagination, which is quickly obvious from what they write on the blog.

In the meantime, here is a little music show to go along with this read:

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Texas libel plaintiff settles with Google, he vows to pursue 'scumbag' John Does

DALLAS -- A Texas man who filed a defamation suit against Google and three John Doe defendants has settled with Google, but the anonymous bloggers, whom he referred to as "scumbags," still must answer for their actions, he said.

John Margetis and Google lawyer Charles Babcock signed an Agreed Order Granting Dismissal With Prejudice of all claims against Google, Inc. on April 3. The order, signed by Judge Ken Molberg of 95th District Court, does not dismiss any claims against the John Doe defendants, Margetis noted.

"There will be justice," Margetis said in a brief telephone interview today. "I promise you that."

The order notes that Margetis and Google will each pay for their own legal fees in connection with the lawsuit.

Meanwhile, Ginger Snap, one of the bloggers targeted by Margetis, proclaimed victory on the blog JoeyIsALittleKid.blogspot.com. Ginger Snap said, "...,Margetis was awarded jack, together with squat with the words in all caps WITH PREJUDICE. And no, that's not the kind of prejudice you can play your gay card on....it means don't you ever waddle up these court steps again with such a pointless, frivolous waste of time."

Among the claims in the lawsuit, Ginger Snap had accused Margetis of being the homosexual lover of former Ellis County Observer blog author Joey G. Dauben, who is now serving a felony prison sentence for sexual assault of a child and for fraudulent use of identifying information in a story he wrote on his blog. Both Margetis and Dauben, who once were associates but reportedly now are enemies, denied any such romantic relationship ever took place.

Curtis Butler, who is also a former associate of Dauben's and apparently had a falling out with him as well, claims that he originally raised the question about the nature of the relationship between Dauben and Margetis.

Ginger Snap denied every accusing them of being in a homosexual relationship, saying the post only raised the question if they were homosexual lovers.

Ginger Snap posts critical stories about people on almost a daily basis. A loyal band of anonymous followers join in the criticism in the comments section almost around the clock. Many people describe the posts and comments as vicious attacks on their character. The most recent target, Bill Windsor of Lawless America, has filed a lawsuit against one of the blog followers that reportedly includes 1,000 John Doe defendants.

For related stories see: http://therarereporter.blogspot.com/2013/03/google-defamation-suit-not-anonymous.html , http://therarereporter.blogspot.com/2013/03/google-seeks-dismissal-of-defamation.html  and http://therarereporter.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-texas-man-who-recently-filed.html

The other two John Doe defendants, OReader and Ollie Reader, which are reportedly the same person, took the blog JoeyIsStillALittleKid.blogspot.com, down after the lawsuit was filed in February. Ginger Snap said the author of that blog took it down voluntarily and could restart it at will.

Ginger Snap said the lawsuit had only succeeded in producing documents about Margetis' history that entertained the blog followers.

The Dallas District Clerk's office shows the case has been closed so a new lawsuit would need to be filed to pursue the John Doe defendants. One of the items Margetis sought in the lawsuit was the identities of the anonymous bloggers.

Murder mystery terrifying small Texas town ends with married couple's surprising arrest; bonds total $33 million

KAUFMAN, TX -- For two terrifying months in early 2013 as they witnessed a murderous crime wave targeting top law enforcement officials, residents of Kaufman County kept asking each other, "Why here, of all places?"

There had been only one unsolved murder in the small agricultural county to the best of Sheriff David Byrnes' and everyone else's recollection prior to 2013. Byrnes had held the job for a dozen years so that was saying a lot. Seeing the top prosecutor of the district attorney's office gunned down in the courthouse parking lot on Jan. 31 and the district attorney and his wife slain in their home on Easter weekend  put everyone on guard for their lives.

The most logical scenario seemed to be that the culprits could be members of a white supremacist prison gang known as the Aryan Brotherhood because both District Attorney Scott McLelland and his top prosecutor Mark Hasse had helped bring two leaders of the group to justice in late 2012. The Texas Department of Public Safety had issued a warning afterwards that the group had threatened revenge on a variety of local, state and federal law enforcement agencies.

The other seemingly most logical explanation was that drug war violence was spreading from Mexico. Drug trafficking was on the rise in all of East Texas -- especially in the Cedar Creek Lake area -- and it certainly seemed possible to some observers.

But whomever the enemy might be, it was obvious that war had been declared on Kaufman County's law enforcement officials. Hasse, 57, McLelland, 62, and his wife, Cynthia, 65, had already perished in unimaginable violence in the conflict, and a reward for information had reached $200,000 after Gov. Rick Perry attended the memorial service for the McLellands.

Although everything about the gruesome murders seemed to point to an organized crime hit, Kaufman County residents were in for the shock of their lives when the mystery finally was solved. It was true that war had been declared, but it turned out to be a war waged by what appeared to be an ordinary married couple -- not a team of of career criminals.

When witnesses reported seeing a masked gunman in black tactical gear kill Hasse with multiple shots and another masked person driving the getaway car, law enforcement officials quickly questioned former Justice of the Peace Eric Williams. Both McLelland and Hasse participated in his successful prosecution about a year earlier for theft of county property that led to the loss of his job, his law license and a two-year probated sentence. Still, few people thought that would drive him to murder, particularly since he he had just been granted the right to appeal the verdict in a new trial.

They questioned Williams again after discovering McLelland and his wife dead on March 30, but Williams had an alibi. As during the first murder, he claimed to have been at home with his wife, Kim Williams, a former nurse who was disabled by crippling arthritis.

There is no certainty the war might have continued with more deaths, but the plot unraveled when a friend of Williams' told law enforcement officials he had rented a storage unit for Williams prior to the murders in Seagoville, about 30 miles away. The resulting search of the storage unit became the "watershed moment" in the investigation, Sheriff Byrnes said.

Inside the storage unit investigators found guns, ammunition, law enforcement uniforms and a car. A search of Williams' house and his in-laws' house revealed computer records allegedly tying him to electronic threats made against the district attorney's office. While he was jailed on charges of making threats and held on $3 million bond, investigators questioned his wife, who relatively quickly revealed all she knew about the murders, according to investigators.

Kim Williams allegedly told the investigators that she drove the getaway car in the Hasse killing, and that she went along for the ride in the McLellands' murders. She allegedly sat in the car while her husband shot McLelland's wife once and  him about 20 times. She also allegedly helped plan the murders.

On April 18, Sheriff Byrnes held a press release, announcing to a much-relieved public that the crime wave was over. Flanked by local, state and federal law enforcement officials, he faced a bevy of cameras and reporters from all over East Texas and Dallas-Fort Worth.

When Byrnes was asked to assess the motive for the killings, the sheriff hesitated for a moment. "I don't know that I can assess the motive," Byrnes said. "It's kind of mind boggling to me that anyone could go out and shoot three innocent people."

Eric Williams, 46, who once was a reserve officer for the sheriff, and his wife, Kim, also 46, now sit in the Kaufman County Detention Center, being held on bonds of $23 million and $10 million each respectively. It is unlikely they will ever enjoy freedom again, and prosecutors are expected to seek the death penalty. A public defender has been appointed to manage Eric Williams' defense, and the appointment of an attorney for his wife is pending. A change of venue hearing for the trial is also anticipated if one should occur, rather than guilty pleas.

Although law enforcement officials say they always had Williams on their "radar" and everyone whispered about him being questioned, it apparently still came as a something of a surprise for most people that the need for revenge could burn so intensely in the hearts and minds of what seemed like an unlikely murderous duo.

LGBT leaders share candid stories about their successes

One of the more interesting aspects of the book “Out & Equal at Work: From Closet to Corner Office” for me turned out to be that I would learn the coming out stories of several people I know professionally.

For instance take Louise Young, whom I’ve known for decades in Dallas through her involvement in LGBT political and community activism since the late 1970s. I’ve interviewed Young and her longtime and only partner Vivienne Armstrong many times over the years, but I really never knew anything much about their personal histories.

It was surprising to learn that Young, who always seemed to have it all together professionally, experienced her own problems with anti-LGBT discrimination early in her career. It had always been her goal to graduate from and teach at East Central State College Campus in Ada, OK, but after a brief stint on the faculty staff the university informed her during a sabbatical in Colorado where she finished her dissertation that she should not return.

The college administration told Young the college enrollment did not support her continued employment, but the real story turned out to be that a student had observed Young and Armstrong, who had been enrolled in the college’s four-year nursing program, in an Oklahoma City gay bar. One might wonder why the student was in the bar, but regardless it ended Young’s career at the college.

Not long afterwards, Armstrong experienced discrimination herself when a former employer refused to allow her to be reinstated for a job because they learned she was in a lesbian relationship with Young. To put it mildly, the love Young and Armstrong felt for each other caused them serious career problems in the mid-1970s, but they stayed together.

At about that point, the couple moved to Dallas, and their experiences prompted them to get involved in the LGBT rights movement.  It was a pivotal moment for them and for Dallas’ LGBT community, which has become a vibrant force in LGBT activism in the nearly 40 years that have now passed.

Young and Armstrong publicly advocated for equal rights for LGBT people and often found themselves the subject of media reporters. This time though, Young’s employer, Texas Instruments, embraced the cause with her. In 1993, Young and another gay employee formed an employee resource group for LGBT people. 

When Raytheon bought out the defense sector of Texas Instruments where Young worked, the company added a nondiscrimination policy covering sexual orientation. In 2002 it added domestic partner benefits.

In 2008, the college that forty years earlier had shunned Young, contacted her and asked to meet with the couple for making a donation to the school. Young related her story to the official, but she decided to “bury the hatchet.” They decided to form the “Louise Young Diversity Lecture Series,” and her first speech was ”Homosexuality: Why Talk About It?”

Young’s story is inspiring, and it is comforting to know that others who went on to achieve so much went through some of the same trials as the rest of us. All of the personal stories in the book come from people  who excelled in their fields and helped make like better for the whole LGBT community.

 As a retired journalist, there is not much I can do to change the direction of my career to greater success, but it makes me realize what I do to today on my blog writing about LGBT issues is useful and can help younger LGBT people. Just spreading the word about this book so younger people can take advantage of what they can learn from the 40 chapters of it is a useful endeavor.

And I’m sure there are ways that other older LGBT people can contribute to the advancement of the LGBT culture. It’s never too late to get involved.

Kaufman County DA, wife murdered; link to execution of assistant 2 months ago feared by many

KAUFMAN, TX -- The greatest fear among employees in the Kaufman County Courthouse became a reality as word of  the murder of District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife spread Saturday night, March 30.

Law enforcement officers found McLelland, pictured above, and his wife dead from gunshot wounds in their home near Forney. The couple's door originally was reported to have been kicked in, leading investigators to fear they had been executed in similar fashion to the shooting two months ago of an assistant district attorney who worked in McLelland's office.

Subsequent media reports indicated law enforcement officials found no sign of forced entry, but all reports indicate the door to the house was not locked. The couple appeared to have been dead for about 24 hours.

Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse was gunned down in the employee parking lot of Kaufman County on Jan. 31 as he walked to his office early in the morning. McLelland had made numerous public statements about his determination to find Hasse's killers and prosecute them.

The Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, a violent white supremacist group became the main focus of a multi-agency investigation that drew a small army of law enforcement officials to the rural area. A command post was set up by the FBI, the Texas Rangers and other law enforcement agencies in Kaufman to investigate leads.

Evan Ebel, a member of a prison group who is suspected of murdering Tom Clements, the head of Colorado's Prison System, was killed in a shootout in Wise County with a sheriff's deputy about a week ago.  His appearance in Texas puzzled law enforcement agencies.

A press conference was held Sunday, March 31, by Kaufman County Sheriff David Byrnes, but it appeared to raise more questions than it did answers. Byrnes remained tight-lipped about any evidence found at the scene, what law enforcement officers think happened and whether a link between Hasse's and McLelland's murders is suspected.

The purpose of the press conference appeared to be the reassurance of the county's 40,000 residents that public officials and other county employees would be protected. The courthouse will open Monday morning, April 1 as usual, but the District Attorney's Office will be closed to the public, and there will be increased security visible.

A deputy sheriff reportedly protected McLelland at home for about a month after Hasse's murder, but that security had ceased at the time of the District Attorney's murder over the weekend.

A Dallas Morning News reporter told CNN News during an interview that her law enforcement sources told her shell casings found at the scene indicate an assualtr rife was used in the murders. Surveillance cameras at the McLelland home may reveal more information about the assailants, she said.

The reward for information leading to the indictment and conviction of Hasse's killers has risen to $130,000 since his killing, but no arrests have resulted. Hasse's crime scene differed from that of the McLelland's because the killers apparently picked up the shell casings.

In the wake of Hasse's murder and the massive investigation, Kaufman County officials resurrected plans to build a new criminal justice system that would provide better protection for employees.

On the day of the 57-year-old Hasse's death, the Federal Bureau of Investigation of Houston released a statement announcing the guilty please of two members of the white supremacist organization. Hasse was gunned down by two masked suspects who apparently easily escaped from the small town.

At the end of the statement the FBI credited a multi-agency task force for securing indictments in October 2012 against 34 ABT members that included the Kaufman County District Attorney's Office. In 2012 the Texas Department of Public Safety issued an alert that the ABT had vowed to retaliate against the 20 federal, state and local law enforcement agencies that helped secure the indictments in Houston.

The Southern Poverty Law Center of Montgomery, AL, which monitors the activities of hate groups, has branded the ABT as "particularly violent."

The other agencies named in the FBI statement were the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; the Drug Enforcement Administration; FBI; U.S. Marshals Service; Federal Bureau of Prisons; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations, Texas Rangers, Texas Department of Public Safety; Montgomery County, Texas Sheriff's Office, Houston Police Department Gang Division; Texas Department of Criminal Justice Office of Inspector General; Harris County, Texas Sheriff's Department; Tarrant County, Texas Sheriff's Department; Atascosa County, Texas Sheriff's Office; Orange County, Texas Sheriff's Office; Waller County, Texas Sheriff's Office; Fort Worth, Texas Police Department; Alvin, Texas Police Department; Carrolton, Texas Police Department; Montgomery County, Texas District Attorney's Office and Atascosa County, Texas District Attorney's Office.

The Aryan Brotherhood is a 50-year-old large, nationwide prison gang that is "infamous for its violence and its sprawling empire," according to the law center in Montgomery, AL. Members usually join the white supremacist group in prison, and they continue their involvement for life outside of prison walls as well. Leaders of the groups often direct activities from their prison cells.

The ABT is known to be involved in drug trafficking, and it cooperates with Mexican cartels, despite the intolerance the prison group's members harbor against ethnic groups.

Google defamation suit not anonymous blogger's first time at rodeo; California woman sought, received relief in courts

DALLAS -- It's not the first time for an anonymous blogger named in an ongoing defamation suit against Google to be involved in a legal action alleging libel.

A California woman filed a lawsuit last year alleging that a Collin County, Texas, woman defamed her and her fiancee by anonymously posting that they "aided child molesters," "supported pedophiles" and "attacked victims of alleged child molesters." The lawsuit, "Lorraine Schaffer Haake v. Megan Van Zelfden and John Doe Defendants 1-10," claimed that Van Zelfden, posting anonymously, libeled her on the Texas blog, EllisCountyObserverSucks, and in the comments section of JoeyIsALittleKid.wordpress.com.

JoeyIsALittleKid.blogspot.com, which is authored by an anonymous blogger named Ginger Snap, who claims to be a man, is now identified in a defamation lawsuit filed in Dallas County styled John Margetis v. Google, Alfred Davis and Defendants John Does 1-3.  http://therarereporter.blogspot.com/2013/03/google-seeks-dismissal-of-defamation.html

The case, which was filed in 95th Judicial District Court, is now under review by the judge who is considering several motions filed by the plaintiff and Google. One of Margetis' requests of  the court in the lawsuit is to learn the identity of the anonymous bloggers from Google.

Haake said the attack especially posed a danger to her fiancee, with whom she lives, because he was involved in a child custody battle that had reached the appellate level. It could have caused him to lose his child, she said.

The "hateful, false remarks" apparently arose because they appeared on a radio show hosted last year by Joey Dauben, publisher of the blog EllisCountyObserver.com, Haake said. The couple had only known Dauben about three weeks, and they had no idea he would be indicted for sexual assault of a minor and later convicted, she said.

Haake said they became the subject of scorn from a group of people who apparently anonymously bonded on the blog to berate Dauben, who was widely criticized for unfair reporting on his blog. In addition to the libelous remarks, the bloggers even ridiculed her hair color, her fingernail polish, the appearance of her apartment and other personal subjects based on their scrutiny of her Facebook page, she said.

Attempts via messages online to get Van Zelfden and the bloggers to cease and desist the malicious remarks failed, and it resulted in more abuse, Haake said.

"Every time you try to address the defamation, it's a digital free-for-all from Ginger Snap," Haake said in an electronic message interview. "And  as the lies, threats and their reasoning get more and more outlandish, you are accused of several mental problems."

They even accused her of being a "cat woman," she said.

One woman posting on the blog, who goes by the name of Yappy and claims to be a Canadian citizen living in Houston on a work permit with her husband, even threatened to "submit documents to the court to ruin his case," she said. Yappy claimed to be a former child advocacy specialist before she immigrated to the U.S. with her husband who works for an oil company, she said.

"Megan Van Zelfden said if I didn't like it, I could sue her," Haake said. "So I did.

Haake said she felt forced to take legal action, and that it cost her $4,000 just to determine the identity of Megan Van Zelfden so she could sue her. The cost of an attorney to file the case represents about another $6,000 in legal fees, she said.

Haake said that when Van Zelfden shut down the blog EllisCountyObserverSucks.com, she began posting malicious remarks on JoeyIsALittleKid.wordpress.com so she was forced to include that blog and its participants in her lawsuit.

The lawsuit, which was filed Feb. 20, 2012, ended with a default judgment in favor of the plaintiff Dec. 3, 2012. Van Zelfden, who according to court records was evicted from her home in Plano Aug. 6, 2012, never responded to the legal action. The court ordered all of the offensive language removed from the blogs.

When JoeyIsALittleKid.wordpress.com was shut down late last year by that blog hosting company because it was determined to be allowing homophobic hate speech -- according to a subsequent post by Ginger Snap -- Haake said she saw a reprint of the libelous remarks about her and her fiancee. Ginger Snap relaunched the blog on Google's website hosting service, Blogspot.com, and one of his associates, OReader, transferred all of the old files to a new blog called JoeyIsStillALittleKid.blogspot.com.

The blog set up by OReader reprinted all of the hateful rhetoric the court had ordered removed, Haake said. Her Houston lawyer contacted Google asking for the information to be moved, but that apparently never took place, she said.

OReader, who is also named in the Margetis lawsuit for posting the old blog stories that includes multiple references to him, changed the status of the blog to "invited guests only" after the latest lawsuit was filed. The anonymous blogger noted in a telephone call seeking information about the current lawsuit that she used to be involved in an online program called "Perverted Justice" that targeted sex offenders, helping lure them to meetings with what the offenders thought would be minors.

OReader, who said she planned to cease blogging, claimed that the offensive remarks about Margetis would have been removed had he asked her, but Haake noted that's never been the case in the past when she complained to the blog participants.

In his legal documents, Margetis claims he asked Google to remove the posts he found offensive, and the company refused his request. That prompted him to file the lawsuit, he said in the court documents.

Recently, the blog JoeyIsStillALittleKid.blogspot.com became inactive, but JoeyIsALittleKid.blogspot.com continues as before, targeting a group called Lawless America and its founder Bill Windsor. Windsor is threatening to file both criminal complaints against Ginger Snap and the other bloggers.

After Google filed its answer to Margetis' original petition, Ginger Snap apparently took it as a sign of impending success and blogged that the company would be supporting him and the other bloggers. "They've got our clubhouse's back," said the blogger, who has bragged about his ability to keep his identity secret for two years.

Afterwards, Yappy, who claims to have been a child rape victim and appears to be one of the more aggressive participants on the blog, has in recent weeks told The Rare Reporter who complained about unfair, untruthful remarks being made about him on the blog that her research showed that he had driven his "longtime lover" to commit suicide, that he was an alcoholic, that he was a supporter of child molesters and possibly a child molester himself. Ginger Snap and several of the other bloggers told the author of this blog, who found a friend of 40 years dead as a result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound two years ago, that he was a "sad, miserable, pathetic, old man."

Later, as it has become clear the lawsuit filed against Google would not be the slam-dunk success Ginger Snap anticipated, the blog has become eerily quiet.