ANONYMOUS COMPLAINT 5/9/2013

Update 5/16/13 On 5/09/13, I made a comment online in the comments section underneath an article concerning Hernando County Animal Control, that appeared in Hernando Today. I posted 2 links from this page including the link to my story. In my comment, I wrote that the entire county was corrupt, and that they routinely hire people who have no compassion and who are only there to follow orders. Apparently this was enough to piss someone off.

On Tuesday, 5/14/13, at around 4:30 PM, a Sheriff's car appeared at my gate. The deputy stated that he was responding to an anonymous complaint and needed to perform a welfare check on both my son and my animals. The complaint said there there were 60 cats and 50 dogs, and there were feces on both the front and back porches which were a danger to my son. It had been made on the 9th, the same day my comment had been posted on Hernando Today.

The deputy had originally come by after the complaint had been made online at the sheriff's tip site, but we had not been at home.

Of course, nothing even close to that number of animals was found on my property by the deputy, nor were any feces found on the porches, which made him right away realize that the call was likely a hoax of some sort. In retrospect, I am grateful for his understanding. At the time, however, I was completely freaked out as his visit dredged up every single feeling of peril that I had experienced in 2009 all in the blink of an eye. I suppose that this was the entire reason why the complaint had been made in the first place; to put me in my place and destroy any feelings of safety that myself and my family may have foolishly been enjoying for the past 3 years.

The next day I noticed that my comment had been removed from Hernando Today. When I phoned them I was told by the editor that if he had removed my comment, there would still be a copy of it in the system, it would just be hidden from public view....but it was not there at all.

In the analytics for my blog, I could clearly see that my page had received a good number of hits on the 9th.

Who did this? What are you people in Hernando County so scared of that you have to bully and censor people, even to the point where it seems reasonable to break the law by making false complaints? It IS a crime, you know, and as usual, you have always been the only ones committing the crimes, haven't you?

On the pages of this blog I have written the truth...but I guess as Jack Nicholson once pointed out, "You can't handle the truth!"