Once again, chronic complainer Blaine Pardoe is out with
another smear piece on me in which he lies and tries to get everyone to
empathize with how hard it is to be an old white man in America. I mean, just
ask him. When you’re an aging white boomer, people say mean things about you to
your friends online, and the only thing you can do about it is hire a private
detective to stalk and smear that person in order to sell your reboot of the
Turner Diaries. What is our country coming to?!
In his
latest attempt at a hatchet job, Blaine continues to spin the false narrative
that I tried to get his books “delisted” with his publisher.
This is blatantly false. At no time have I, or anyone else to my knowledge, advocated for the removal or
censorship of Mr. Pardoe’s books. To do so would cut a vast swatch out of the BattleTech
canon for absolutely no reason. I don’t want to get rid of Mr. Pardoe’s past
work, and I have never advocated for that to Catalyst Games or anyone else.
In fact,
prior to his hiring of a creeper squad to doxx me on the
internet, I did not even advocate for discontinuing his participation in contributing
to the BattleTech line. All I wanted was for him to actually answer for and
explain his vile views and keep them out of BattleTech. But of course, anyone
who says a cross word to Mr. Pardoe is promptly blocked. After that, he sends
his “legion of fans” (as he calls them) out to give those people grief, employing all manner of
alt-right skullduggery in an effort to harass and smear such people into
silence.
Mr.
Pardoe continues to abuse his position and fame to punch down at anyone who
dares question his problematic worldview, which continues to get more bizarre by
the day. He is spiraling into the morass of right wing hate that encompasses anti-democratic
principles, racist undertones and beliefs, misogynistic language, and
transphobic tropes.
The only
one trying to “silence” anyone is him. Upon hearing that I said a mean thing
about him to one of his friends, he engaged in an operation to uncover my
personal details and information in an attempt to spread misinformation about
me and discredit me in the public view. Furthermore, he knew that he had the
advantage that wealth and power afford him in our legal system, so he filed a bogus
restraining order complaint against me. For those of you who do not know how
this works, all Blaine had to do was go to his local courthouse and claim I
said something mean about him. In order to fight this, my only option would be
to retain a lawyer (at a cost of thousands of dollars) and travel two states
away to appear in court in less than two weeks to contest this claim. Unable to do
that, I had to work within my means to defend myself as Mr. Pardoe continued to
attack.
In
addition to his filing for a PFA for me saying a mean thing about him, he
furthermore retained a law firm to serve me with cease-and-desist notices about
saying anything negative about Mr. Pardoe. In effect, he was threatening to sue
me for saying mean things about him on the internet, knowing that he has money
to spend on lawyers and wagering that I do not. In the civil court system, it
doesn’t matter so much who is right and wrong, it matters who has the money to
continue the fight longer.
During
this period, a “process server”, who may or may not have been aligned with
the private detectives that he had already set upon me to question my friends
and associates, forced their way into my home wearing tactical gear in an
attempt to seem like he was some kind of actual law enforcement officer, serving
me with papers, demanding that I sign them and release all manner of personal
information to him and continually threatening me with “prison time”. Thankfully,
I was able to think straight and overcome these strong-arm tactics and get this
person to leave by threatening to call actual law enforcement regarding
their improper behavior.
At this
point, I realized that I had no choice but to spend money that I didn’t have to
protect myself from unlawful imprisonment and ruin. It had gotten so bad that I
had to hire a lawyer that I couldn’t afford just to make sure that I was doing
everything properly and not risk summary judgment against me in a court two
states away. Finally, with the help of an attorney, I was able to negotiate
a settlement whereby I did not contest Mr. Pardoe’s request for a PFA (As I have
no desire to meet him or contact him personally by any means anyway) and he
would cease his baseless attempts to bury me financially in legal fees with his
silly cease and desist orders.
Thankfully
this ended the period of litigious harassment, but it has not ended Mr. Pardoe’s
schemes to besmirch my reputation at every chance he gets, in order to sell
more copies of his Turner Diaries reboot trash novel. He pumps out occasional
hit-pieces whining about how hard it is for him to live in a world where he is
threatened and fearful, when in reality, he is the one who has set fearful
practices in motion against me, all in the name of getting me to be quiet. He
constantly threatens me with claims that “law enforcement” is watching me, which,
if you know the state of law enforcement in this country, is a scary thing in
and of itself. He wants me to be quiet and wants you to buy his books to support his
state of largesse, living the life of a conspiracy theorist as our democracy
smolders around us.
Pardoe
plays the victim, but I am the one who has been stalked by private detectives,
had a “process server” impersonating law enforcement barge into my home in an
attempt to intimidate me, and been threatened with financial ruin and even
imprisonment through abuse of the legal system. Do not believe his lies. Just
say no to complain Pardoe!
I will never buy a product or product line he is involved with, again. Not doing it. I'm done. I am sick of him and his army of alt-right leg humpers.
ReplyDeleteThank you. But I would urge you to continue to support the Battletech line, there are lots of great people working hard there to create great products, do not tar them all with the same brush as Mr. Pardoe.
Delete...yeah not putting a single penny to Pardoe's BT content ever
ReplyDeleteI assume this is reply to his delirious post on a far right blog site? Urgh ��
Yes, he continues to smear me and threaten me with comments that "law enforcement is watching" me and spread lies about my character on right wing trash blogs, all in an attempt to promote his silly book.
DeleteWhat a wangrod! I'm sorry you're still beating your head against the wall with this guy. While I'll continue to support BattleTech products, I'll keep avoiding his work as I've been doing over the last few years.
ReplyDeleteI do hope you continue writing BattleTech fiction, regardless of whether or not it's in an official capacity. I'll go out of my way to support you and your work every time!
Keep your head up Faith.
Thank you for you words of support!
DeleteThis guy has seriously lost it. I wish you all the best for the future.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your support. It's nice to know the whole fandom hasn't gone insane.
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