Natwatching
We all know that is is silly season - but this is ridicilous...
On 23/08/05, Nat Watch natwatch@gmail.com wrote:
We take no prisoners. All we ask of you is that you write us some articles and send us some photo's. You have until the end of the day to send in your first drafts.
Then we might stop emailing you at work.
From: Nat Watch natwatch@gmail.com
Subject: Re: hi
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 17:20:48 +0100
Clock's ticking...
On 23/08/05, [Natwatch2 fan] wrote:
If you cause any personal hassle to me, rest assured that I will be showing off these emails which show your aggressive threatening bullying behaviour.
Perhaps you should call it quits now.
I hear of a website called http://natwatchwatch.blogspot.com/ that would be very happy to receive such emails of you displaying behaviour that you so readily judge in others.
You gonna call it quits, or what?
From: Nat Watch natwatch@gmail.com
Subject: Re: hi
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:43:50 +0100
There are three things you've neglected to mention: a) You don't know who we are, and neither does anyone else. b) Our jobs are not at stake. c) We're not ashamed of anything we've said in these emails, we'll happily forward the full transcripts to Martin Shipton of the Western Mail. [Sentence removed] We don't want your articles, we just throught we'd offer you a way out, since you seem so reluctant, we'll have to consider our next move... If we've got "nothing" on you. Why do you seem so eager to call it "quits"?
On 24/08/05, [Natwatch2 fan] wrote:
[Three sentences removed] My job is not at stake. My bosses are too busy and too wise to listen to a malicious spineless anonymous coward like you. You would achieve nothing. You really do have an inflated view of your own self-importance. You have no status at all as you are nothing but an anonymous coward, threatening people behind a mask. Why don't you reveal yourself, coward? Shame on you. You are not in any position to be judging the behaviour of others.
When I say quits, I mean I want to be left alone. I don't appreciate threats from anyone. I particularly don't appreciate threats from an anonymous spinless coward. If you continue with your threats I will go to the police. Now don't you contact me ever again or give me any further hassle.
Got that?
From: Nat Watch natwatch@gmail.com
Subject: Re: hi Date:
Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:38:20 +0100
We merely asked if you would like to write us articles and become one of our correspondents. You are a very useful contact. In time, we may feel able to reveal our identtity to you. We have gone to painstaking lenghts to remain annonymous, our website is virtually untraceable. Surely it must be quite obvious to you why (and it's got nothing to do with you). If not, then fine. We won't contact your bosses because we have better things to do. We don't really want you to lose your job, becuase you're not really a proper Nat. If we don't hear from you again within 24 hours, we will delete the conversation from our email account. If, on the other hand, you are still intersted in contributing, please let us know. NW
--- [Natwatch2 fan] wrote:
Right now I'm seriously considering getting the police involved. You have really pissed me off in a big way. You have absolutely no right to be demanding anything from me or threatening to cause me personal hassle in any way, especially from behind a position of anonymity. I don't see your behaviour being that different to someone sending anonymous threatening letters through my front door.
So give it a rest, you anonymous coward.
I was curious who was behind natwatch, so I sent a few emails to them saying I found their website entertaining (I do!) then I said I had a few juicy stories I'd like to send them (a lie!) but that I didn't like sending anything to people who did not identify themselves. So I had a few email exchanges, a bit of banter really, nothing too serious.
The person refused to identify himself/herself and became increasingly rude. I made the schoolboy error of replying to the natwatch person during my lunch break at work (I work for a local authority). The natwatch person must have been able to receive my IP address as he emailed me saying that someone in my job should be spending my time doing work. I replied saying I was on my lunchbreak. Then the Natwatch person emailed back demanding I tell them the story otherwise they would contact my line manager and and grass me up. I wrote an email back asking them not to threaten me and discuss the issue like adults. I pointed out to natwatch, to clear things up, that I didn't actually have any inside stories about the going on at my workplace at all, and that my story involved things I have heard outside work.
Then the natwatch person said I had one hour to respond with a decent story otherwise he would (i) contact my line manager and chief executive of the council about my emails (ii) take me down like Aled cottle (the guy who found himself on the front page of the Daily Post for sending an anti-British email to natwatch). Then natwatch kept on sending me emails saying things like still waiting, the clock is ticking to put pressure on me to deliver a story, a story I didn't have as it was playing a prank. After I got home I wrote a few emails to natwatch asking him/her to uphold decent British values and apologise for the threatening behaviour. I have not received a reply from natwatch since.
It seems whoever behind natwatch is a complete coward, totally unwilling to reveal his/her identity and political allegiance. This person is all too willing to attack the behaviour of nationalists in Wales, yet this person is not exactly upholding good decent British standards of personal conduct himself/herself with the cowardly behaviour of threatening to cause personal harm to the character of an individual like me who had done nothing wrong except pretend to have a story as bait to get this person to reveal himself/herself.