other people call Ms. Rachel "Marone" Mendelson THE STALKER!

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> Mar 22, 2009
> Prometheus Burning threatens legal action against me for
"stalking"
> I hate that I need to share this with everyone but I feel that my
> legal safety might be in danger and am making this post to ask for
> advice. I am currently scared out of my mind.
>
> Remember the band that called me a "lonely wannabe poser with no
> musical skill" and a "hypocritical talentless hack" after staging
> public drama with me for publicity? The band that harassed me to
> the point where I actually had to call my sick mother for help? My
> mother was conservative enough to file a DMCA charge against this
> band for posting a private email of mine to the public. While I
did
> not want this private email posted and felt an extreme sense of
> violation I strongly disapproved of my mother's actions regarding
> the DMCA. (an organization which I utterly despise) In the end my
> mother was in critical medical condition and was simply trying to
> get this band to leave me alone- yet when she brought the DMCA
into
> this I was furious.
>
> I recently emailed the band and apologized for the actions of my
> mother. I mentioned that I liked their music and that I would like
> to put the past behind us. I used to be on good terms with this
> band. I was a constant promoter of their music and spun them
> consistently as a DJ in NYC when nobody else had heard of them. We
> had mutual friends and (as far as I saw it) absolutely no reason
to
> perpetuate any conflict between us. I planned to support them on
> tour along with Caustic and The Gothsicles in Atlanta. I figured
> that it would be a great time.
>
> Until they told me the following on a public forum:
>
> "We have saved every email and message you have sent to Nikki. We
> have saved every message, bulletin, etc. you have posted that
> mentions us and we have saved every post you ever made on these
> forums and others that mention us. Your stalker behavior is well
> documented by us and by our lawyer. We have not taken the steps to
> get a PFA against you as of yet, but we have more than enough
> documentation to do so when we feel it necessary." -Prometheus
> Burning
>
> Just wow. I don't appreciate people making false accusations about
> me and I certainly don't appreciate being threatened with a lawyer
> for a crime that I did not commit. Most importantly though: do
they
> have any idea what stalking actually is? As someone who has been
> stalked before (and I'm not just talking about ex-boyfriends
> failing to leave me alone but an actual sociopath making constant
> threats against the lives of me and the people dear to me) I am
> strongly offended by the way this band has used the term
"stalking"
> to refer to my attempt at a peaceful resolution. Stalking is not a
> joke. If you have ever been stalked before you know what it's like
> to beg for your stalker to leave you alone only to be told not to
> further engage him. If you have ever been stalked before you know
> what it's like to walk into a public place in fear of your life.
If
> you have ever been stalked before you know that horrible sinking
> feeling you get when your stalker contacts you. It is not a
> pleasant feeling. (to say the least)
>
> Stalking is not something to fuck around with. Accusing someone of
> stalking is a lot like accusing someone of domestic abuse. If this
> person didn't stalk or abuse you then you are minimizing the
> struggles of thousands of individuals who are stalked and abused.
> Many of these people have emailed me in tears to confide. Yet now
> this band is claiming that I am stalking them. What can I do? I'm
> being threatened with legal action for a crime that I did not
> commit. A crime that I myself have been a target of.
>
> At least there is some comic relief to this story. I was trying to
> understand the motivation behind all of their harassment. At first
> I didn't pay any attention to the messages I was getting from
> friends who were telling me this band was now ripping off my vocal
> style. I honestly didn't give a fuck because I had other things to
> focus on. Yet when they started threatening legal action against
me
> for "stalking" I went to their myspace page. Behold.
>
> Did they rip off my vocals? I want to say no because my delivery
is
> a lot more punk rock but I couldn't help noticing that the lead
> singer was now using my same vocal patterns, screaming/talking
> style, word emphasis, etc. in their songs. This was not what was
> most surprising to me though. What was surprising to me was that
> these pseudo-occult types who were avid readers of Acidexia in its
> blog form and readers of Generation Hex (the Disinformation chaos
> magick anthology that you can find my writing in) were using every
> concept I'd written about in Acidexia and Generation Hex for their
> band.
>
> Their "influences" are as follows:
>
> Self Destructive Behavior
> Sensory Deprivation
> Transhumanism
> Chaos Magick
> Traumatic Childhood Experiences
> Abusive Relationships
> Bi-Polar Depression
> Insomnia
> Aleister Crowley
> Panic Disorder
> Vivid Dreaming and Nightmares
> Clive Barker
> The Black Arts
> Robert Anton Wilson
> Discordia
> Genesis P Orridge
> Timothy Leary
> HR Giger
> Tentacle Rape
> Smoking crack while worshiping the Dark Lord
>
> With the exception of the tentacle rape and smoking crack it was
> pretty much a word-for-word summary of Acidexia. Their lyrics
> followed a similar rip-off mentality. Mother of Abominations? I
was
> writing about that when I was 17. The darker side of chaos
magick?
> Nope, never been there before! At this point it was just getting
> hilarious and I started to see what was actually going on. This
> band was trying to run me out by accusing me of "stalking" them so
> people wouldn't see that they'd been ripping off my ideas with
> their new album. Well here's some news for the entire occult
> community: their new album is everything that I wrote about in
> Acidexia before I even started Experiment Haywire.
>
> I'm also curious how much they actually know about chaos magick.
> I'm not sure wearing a TOPY necklace counts as much of anything
but
> I could be wrong. This band wanted attention through having drama
> with someone who wasn't well liked in the industrial scene. Now
> they've got it. Again. I am sure they will enjoy the occult
> attention too. Quit watering down chaos magick with your tribute
to
> 90's industrial. It's not good for the new paradigm.
>
> If anyone has any legal advice for me it would be much
appreciated.
> I apologize for having to post this but I'm not sure what else to
> do. I am seriously freaking out.
>
> Thanks for listening,
> Rachel Haywire