Dear Ed,- You forgot to mention congenital Lyme and my false arrest

Dear Ed,- You forgot to mention congenital Lyme and my false arrest

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Subject: Dear Ed,- You forgot to mention congenital Lyme and my false
arrest

Date: Apr 8, 2008 7:21 PM

FALSE ARREST:
http :// www .actionlyme.org/GAUVIN DEATH PENALTY.htm
This is not a "death threat" against Gauvin. It says I reported her
felony
to the USDOJ Criminal Division. I was not allowed a lawyer or even
to speak to
the court. The lawyer I had was Dan Dilzer who was the Republican
Town Committee
Chairman in the Town of Berlin, and he TWICE refuses ALL the evidence
that Gauvin
lied her ugly face off to the Berlin Police.
Dilzer should have his law license removed.
KIDS WITH CONGENITAL LYME:
http :// www .actionlyme.org/Schoen.htm
and Ehrlichosis:
http :// www .actionlyme.org/DIANE EHRLICHIOSIS.htm

Now I can sue you for libel.

We also know that Janice Beers was one of the folks you wiretapped and
stalked.



Thanks,
Kathleen M. Dickson
http :// www .actionlyme.org
PS: It is inadvisable that you try to leave the country, since
governments of many
foreign nations know all about you, especially, um, India. And no
we're not
really interested to know about you're being "hung like a horse" so
you pal Durland Fish ought to give it a rest.



http :// mysite.verizon,net /emcsweegan/LD.html

Lyme disease is a common tick-borne infection that generates an
uncommon amount
of angst, hysteria, and bizarre behavior among people who think they
might have
the infection. The first inkling I had of this psychosocial reaction
to Borrelia
burgdorferi was a phone call from a local veterinarian. She called to
ask about
a meeting I was organizing and, in the course of the conversation, she
mentioned
that she had recently injected herself with a crude canine vaccine
against Lyme
disease. I thought that was a foolish precaution against an infection
that is antibiotic-responsive,
non-fatal, non-communicable, and geographically- and seasonally-
limited.

But then I started to encounter far crazier people.

There was Janice Beers, a lawyer, who ran a Ohio support group for
people who may
or may not have had Lyme disease. Despite the diagnostics and the
assurances of
her two physician sons, she insisted she had Lyme disease. That
singular obsession
seemed to have led her to conspiracy theories about Lyme disease.
Paranoia and
delusion followed. She wrote 30-page tomes about these conspiracy
theories and
her painstakingly gathered evidence of those conspiracies, which she
mailed to me
and numerous other scientists, officials and politicians.
(Fortunately, this was
before the widespread use of blogs and websites so none of her
depressing, disturbed
thoughts are preserved online.) Evidently, the paranoia became
unbearable and she
fled her house, her family, and the state. A call to me from a family
member suggested
she might be headed our way--possibly with a gun--so the local police
were alerted.

She never showed up and has long since disappeared from that patient/
activist fantasy
world called, "Lymeland." Perhaps her physician sons managed to get
her
the psychiatric care she so obviously needed.

Then along came Karen Forschner, another self-appointed activist for
Lyme disease
patients. She started one of the first Lyme disease organizations in
the U.S.,
but her message and her personae quickly inspired some of her early
backers in the
scientific community to abandon her foundation and start their own.
Indeed, I found
her to be one of most deceitful, despicable, deluded people I have
ever had the
misfortune to meet. (And, in 50 years, across 32 states and 26
countries, I've
had plenty of opportunities to meet people. Karen still takes the
prize.)

She wanted cooperation--on her terms--and she didn't want any
questions. I won't
give her the first and asked too many of the second, which led to
angry, threatening
phone calls to my boss and wild accusations on the Internet.
Eventually, she tried
a $2 million lawsuit. That might have worked--bankruptcy has a way of
refocusing
the mind--but for the interventions of the ACLU and the pro bono work
of Morrison
& Foerster. They knew a petty assault on free speech when they saw
one and
really seemed to enjoy crushing this one. (Now I carry $2 million
worth of umbrella
and professional liability insurance.)

The suit was tossed out of court. Karen and her foundation have since
dropped off
the map, but there is still plenty of belligerent and disturbing
behavior in Lymeland.

In late 2003, for example, a woman named Kathleen Dickson, started
peppering a Usenet
group with my name, accusing me of all the crimes and misdeeds Karen
Forschner had
previously accused me of committing. I've never met this woman, but
she's
a friend of Karen's and perhaps she felt compelled to carry on the
tradition
of insane behavior in the name of Lyme disease.

Her online rants were briefly interrupted when she was arrested for
doing to a Connecticut
Assistant Attorney General what she was doing to me. She was
forcefully confined,
and presumably medicated, and then given "accelerated rehabilitation."
The rehab didn't take because she's back howling on the Web. To date,
she's
posted my name on Usenet groups some 1,180 times.

Even more disturbing than her regular Usenet nonsense is a messy
website she has
assembled detailing all the related crimes and conspiracies supposedly
perpetrated
by me, my colleagues, the federal government, insurance companies,
Yale University,
her ex-husband and various family members, Jews, the FBI, various Ct.
politicians
and lawyers, and....well, everybody. According to Dickson, everyone
is stupid and
corrupt (except her) and involved in a massive conspiracy about Lyme
disease, vaccines
and bioweapons. Someone with an interest in psychology and a flair
for computer
graphics should try to distill her website and its HTML-linked
accusations down
to a graphic representation of her interlocking and self-reinforcing
delusions.
I'd pay good money to see such a projection of mental illness; It
might even
be a useful diagnostic.

About the same time that Kathleen Dickson was digitally foaming at the
mouth, another
woman appeared online to parrot her accusations about me and Lyme
disease. At first
I didn't think she really existed; I thought she might be an online
alter ego
for Dickson. But Lisa Masterson (aka Elena Cook and
LymeRayja@yahoo.co.uk) is apparently
real, British, middle-aged, and a total wackjob. The mental health
folks in London
appear to have scooped her up at one point. They seem to have had
more success
treating her than the U.S. authorities did treating Kathleen Dickson.
Ms. Masterson/Cook
has since faded from the Internet though her demented rants about Lyme
disease,
stalking, eavesdropping, and bioweapons live on in Google searches.

There is little reprieve from people with Internet connections and
obsessions about
Lyme disease. The latest online conspiracy nut is another middle-aged
woman in
Katonah, New York named Carla Kruytbosch (aka Snappy, Snapcrackle and
Freyfaxi@optonline,net ).
Her particular obsession is that Lyme disease is an engineered
bioweapon that escaped
from Nazi doctors working on New York's Plum Island. Online, she
lists herself
as a professor and has posted several fantastic versions of her Lyme
disease conspiracy
on Wikipedia. (This again shows that Wikipedia's authors are often
fakes and
what they write is usually inaccurate and defamatory.)

According to a blurb from Westchester Community College, she once
taught web design
and computer graphics, has a web consulting business called Freyfaxi
Media, which
does not seem to exist, and a web-based teaching site, www .thenetcollege,com ,
which
does not seem to function. I guess she's too busy trying to rewrite
reality
to do any real work. Or maybe she was kicked in the head too many
times by the
mythical Icelandic horse, Freyfaxi.

What is it about white, upper-middle-class, college-educated, middle-
aged women
that compels them to use a common infectious disease as the vehicle
for their emotional
and psychological problems? Whatever the reasons, it's very likely
that Lyme-obsessed
nuts will continue to appear. Today, the unregulated online culture
of blogs, Usenet
posts, websites, chat rooms, web rings, Wikipedia entries, and support
groups seems
ideally designed to sustain and propagate hysteria, disinformation,
quackery and
hatred.

Someone stop the Internet! I want off!