I was going to just let things slide, but as Mr. Pardoe has
now taken this escapade into a gleeful search for publicity and is playing the
victim card when it’s not warranted, I’ve decided to set a few things straight.
I do this because a lot of the story you all got told, he got wrong. I don’t
know if he just made mistakes, or if he’s lying to try to inflate the support
he gets as a “victim” of an “attack.” I cannot say many things because of a
protective order that he now has against me, but I can still share a lot of the
truth, since he seems so invested in sharing the truth. I’ll start with the
protective order itself.
Mr. Pardoe
filed for a temporary protective order based on several communications which were
not threats. Mr. Pardoe also sent me a cease-and-desist letter threatening legal
action for “defaming” him. At this point in time, I retained a lawyer and
through that lawyer we entered into a preliminary agreement whereby I would
grant Mr. Pardoe the protective order (as I don’t want to speak to him
directly, don’t want to see him, and indeed don’t actually know where he lives)
in exchange for him dropping his outlandish legal claims of defamation. After
we entered into the first part of this agreement, the granting of the protective
order, he backed out and began publicly spreading the fantastical tale that he
now has on his blog. In short, he reneged on his word, and I’m stuck with a
protective order because of it. Now, let’s get down to the content of his grand
exposition.
Let’s
start with the big one: no threat was ever communicated to Mr. Pardoe. He claims
to be in fear for his life, but he had to actually hunt for material that even
comes close to the definition of threatening. The closest thing he has is a
statement made that I wished to shoot him. I wish for a lot of things, they don’t
constitute threats. The statement was made, for one, while I was inebriated,
and secondly, was not even made to Mr. Pardoe himself. The statement was
actually made to a Mr. Craig Reed, who surreptitiously passed the communication
on to Mr. Pardoe in a vile breach of confidence. The comment was never intended for Mr. Pardoe’s ears, and as
such, was not meant to instill fear in him. At no time did I intend to instill
fear in Mr. Pardoe or his family.
The second
closest thing to a “threat” that Mr. Pardoe claims is a video. I linked this
video to Mr. Pardoe in the comments of his blog. The video is not a threat, it is
an anti-Trump music video that contains some disturbing images. That’s all. A
link posted on his blog comments, which he never even allowed to be published.
If viewing videos with somewhat violent imagery caused him to fear for his
life, I can hardly be faulted for this.
Those are
the closest things he even gets to an actual threat. There were no threats
made. He was never threatened in any way. He may have hid in fear, but that is
not my problem, nor was it ever my intent.
Second, he
claims that this was part of a campaign to “cancel” him. He makes claims that I
tried to have podcasters remove their shows with him. These claims are false,
and he has no evidence. None of the podcasters that I contacted and spoke to in
regards to Mr. Pardoe can provide any evidence that I asked them to take down
his appearances on their shows, as I never communicated a desire for them to do
so. Where he got this idea, I have no idea. He is either mistaken or lying. He
claims that I tried to get CGL to stop publishing him. This is false. I
communicated several times with members of the CGL staff regarding Mr. Pardoe’s
egregious political views, but at no time did I try to get any of his
publications cancelled. There is no evidence to the contrary. My communications
were to inquire as to if there were any way to support Battletech while
minimizing any support for Mr. Pardoe and his offensive belief system.
Third: He
claims this insane volume of threatening material that made him cower in fear.
I don’t know where he is getting this, as there was very little volume directed
at him personally. There were perhaps a dozen comments on his blog over the
course of 6 or more months, which he, as the blog administrator, chose not to
publish. There were a grand total of maybe 2 or 3 e-mails sent to his publicly
listed contact e-mail attempting to reach out an olive branch, which were
ignored. The only volume of anti-Pardoe material was either public via Twitter,
or directed at third parties, who dutifully reported these things to him as his
supplicants. That's it. That's the entirety of this "huge" conspiracy against him.
Fourth: He
brings the identity of someone, “J” into the picture, and gets most of the
facts wrong. I have some insight into J and his position, as well as his permission
to set things straight here at this time. J is in fact a person with thoughts
and feelings just like you or I, but Mr. Pardoe gets most of his details wrong.
I do not know if this is the result of shoddy work on the part of the police,
who he claims to be working with, of private investigators that he may have
hired (and think about that, the man was so sensitive about criticism that he
seems to have hired investigators to snoop into the lives of his detractors) or
of slipshod research on his own part. So let’s get the facts straight. J does,
in fact have a criminal record for "Terroristic Threats" in the commonwealth of
Pennsylvania. What is not shown in this, is that the plea agreement into which
J entered was for a covid-related mental health episode where J, having lost
his job, made statements of suicidal ideation in a performative manner in order
to show the people he felt responsible for his plight the depth of his despair.
J has sought and received treatment, and is currently a happy and productive
member of society. Mr. Pardoe also claims that J “lives in his grandfather’s
house”. Both of J’s grandfathers are deceased many years ago, one lying buried
in the United Kingdom, and the other buried on the eastern shore of Maryland,
nowhere near where J resides.
I hope
this gives you all a little better insight into the facts of things, and that
you adjust your view of Mr. Pardoe and his outrageous attempts to play the
victim. Do not fall for the lies of his victimhood. Any fear for his life was a
result of his own paranoia, not any threats or actions by me or any other
person. He will try to milk this for all it’s worth.