Threatening Comments on Atheist Editorials

[Kylyssa]

So today I got notification telling me of the new comments on my Associated Content articles.  Two of the comments were stalker level.

Bob wrote:
I have to admit the you make a good case for me to just do "what I feel" with no fear of repercussion. Since now we both agree that God is not here to punish the wicked or tell us what to do I must confess that the things I am going to do now are rape,robbery,murder and bigotry. These are the things that I find exciting... so with no fear of repose let the games begin! Where do you live sweetie?

That was on my editorial entitled Do People Become Atheists so They Can Act Immorally?

Bob also had something to say on my editorial, Does Life Have Meaning Without God?

Bob wrote:
Assuming your world view is correct then you can sit there and indulge in your "love", while I on the other hand indulge my life's ambitions of rape, robbery, and persecution. Since there is no God to tell us what is right and what is wrong, then I suppose we get to decide for ourselves, and I think I'm gonna take a ride on your back little girl. Who's gonna stop me now that God is dead... and your weak pathetic cry for love goes on deaf ears. Get ready for some pain ^*&%$!

I've gotten lots of the generic "I hope you die" and "Burn in Hell" and "expletive, expletive" sort of comments which I've dealt with by simply deleting them.  This somehow feels different, like I should do something about it.  What do you think?  Am I just being oversensitive on the rape threat issue?

[Will]

Jeez, that Bob guy's quite a moron. You can be arrested for making physical threats on the internet.

God may not be here to "punish the wicked", but the police seem to be quite good at it. If you feel you're in danger, please call the police.

[Whitney]

Does AC record the identity of people who leave comments?  I would contact both AC and the police (I think internet is FBI jurisdiction).  It's probably not a serious threat but this person needs to be caught before it does become serious.

Double check that you are not easy to locate if someone were to take all the information you have provided on the internet...just to be on the safe side.

[Kylyssa]

Does AC record the identity of people who leave comments?  I would contact both AC and the police (I think internet is FBI jurisdiction).  It's probably not a serious threat but this person needs to be caught before it does become serious.

Double check that you are not easy to locate if someone were to take all the information you have provided on the internet...just to be on the safe side.

They probably do record IP addresses.  I contacted both AC's help and legal departments and I'm awaiting their reply.

I shouldn't be too easy to locate but I'll be cautious anyway.  I write under a pen name but it is an "open" pen name, my real name isn't secret, it's just boring.

The thing that concerns me is that I've had a local stalker on one occasion in this city and more than once when I lived elsewhere.  They never caught my most recent local stalker, she just switched to stalking my neighbor and then stopped.

This person is probably not actually going to take any actions but it's better to be safe.  I've been the target of religiously motivated violence before and I have no desire to repeat the experience.

[LoneMateria]

Stay safe.  Morons like this end up getting caught and facing the consequences of their actions.  Their god won't keep them out of jail.  I wouldn't respond or anything to it, just need to acknowledge that there are sick fucks who think the punishment of hell (eternal torture) isn't enough and want to mentally enact some warped justice to gain gods favor by harassing others and threatening them here on the earth.  That person probably has a myriad of mental illnesses that are compounded by his fantasy adventure land and needs serious psychiatric help.  I hope they catch that fuck on a stick Bob and you need to stay safe Kylyssa.

[Renegnicat]

Get the authorities involved. Please.

[curiosityandthecat]

Don't you just love it when a religidiot gets it in his or her head that they're coming up with something original and witty and utterly impossible to refute, when in reality they're just rehashing the same old failed arguments and looking like a moron at the same time? I know I do.

[Ellainix]

Just file a police report. Make him the statistic, not you.

[Ninteen45]

That kid Won't do shit.

I've provoked hundreds of people worse than him, and I've yet had anyone come to my house.

He's just a really good troll.

[Kylyssa]

Well, he didn't do anything.  But the fact is, once you have an Internet stalker who hunts you down and tries to do something nasty to you, you become a bit sensitive to this kind of thing.

[Ninteen45]

Gimmie his IP, I'll show him scary.

[Squid]

I find the "no morality without god" thing so incredibly annoying and also a display of intellectual anorexia so many people suffer from...

[karadan]

Sheesh. What an asshole. Have you had a response from AC yet Kylyssa?
This douche needs to know what real repercussion feels like.