Larry C. Johnson - FR Lurker/Stalker?

It was a dark and stormy night. I was sitting back in the Mad Mammoth study, reviewing the latest threads on Free Republic, when my MSN Messenger icon barked that I had an email waiting.

I went to my InBox. What did I find? I had a very angry email from some schnook called 'lcjohnso' taking me to task for some long forgotten post I made on FR. Called me out. Wanted my address. Wanted to visit me with a bunch of his pals "anytime, anyplace", I'm wondering to myself "WTF is this nonsense?"

So I responded in a fairly cavalier manner, basically telling the misfit to pound sand and "get off the computer before your mommy gets home from the store".

I didn't think any more of it.

Until - "bark bark", MSN Icon was informing me of another NEW email!

I go to the InBox. Sure enough, it's this lcjohnso clown again, and that's when I realized it was really the one and only Larry C. Johnson, self-proclaimed expert on "intelligence", "terrorism", and author of that infamous NYT article in the Summer of 2001 claiming that terrorism was a "declining threat".

I poured another glass of Hiram Walker, on the rocks. I wondered what Johnson must be drinking, was it Boone Farm, Thunderbird, or M/D 20-20?

This time, I let him have both barrels and reminded him how pathetic it must be for him, a highly touted "intelligence analyst" to be reduced to trying to intimidate a lowly poster on Free Republic.

I signed off by encouraging him to "get professional help".

Haven't heard from him since, but since my original posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1448731/posts?page=76#76

and

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1448731/posts?page=84#84

have been deleted by the moderator, freepmail me if you'd like the precise details, headers, and email contents.

Mere ignorance is not a sufficient explanation for Mr. Johnson's actions. When merely ignorant people have been proven so sensationally wrong, they tend to try to call as little attention as possible to their defects.

Johnson acts like someone with an agenda, or even someone who had some kind of action going on that he was personally benefiting from in a major way. Nothing else seems to explain his outrage that his jig is up.

Just what was his jig?

I'm developing a new theory about Johnson, he didn't email me to make threats, or to intimidate me, he might have just emailed me because he was three sheets to the wind, an empty bottle of something on the floor, and it suddenly hit him that "waaaaiiitt a dayum minute, whhyyyy I'll just email that smartass mammoth, dont care if it makes him mad or not!! I'll show that disrespectful freep-creep!!! (hic!)"

That was the very first thing I thought when I read the exchange. In fact, this poor schmuck's synapses seemed to be so soaked in alcohol, I swear I could smell Johnny Walker coming out of the fan of my laptop as I was scrolling through his rant. Of course, if I had been definitively exposed as profoundly, and irredeemably, negligent in my chosen field of expertise and, further, had had my professional competency completely discredited in such a spectacularly public fashion as he has, I guess I'd be hittin' the sauce pretty hard myself.I mean, what do you do after literally everyone in the world knows you can't cut it even in the washed-up capacity of "Former Official of the Fill-In-The -Blank Govt Agcy"? Not only is he an ex-intelicrat, he's an ex-intelicrat who everyone now knows in all probability achieved that status for exhibiting a degree of ineptitude that even a gov agency world-famous for tolerating the potted plants on its HR rolls couldn't justify cranking out a monthly paycheck anymore for. And everybody he'll ever meet again at even the C-list parties in DC will inevitably know that he's the notorious "expert" who proclaimed that, in his most carefully measured judgement, terrorists did not pose a threat to America on the eve of 9/11. Man, with kind of street cred he's got now, if the choice is either move to Topeka and start a new career at the DMV or just start drawing disability,sluggin' back the caipirinhas and IM'ing perfect strangers who long ago posted on no-longer-current current event BB's, I dunno. I fear I might have chosen the ol' alcoholic dementia route myself. Pathetic character, this Larry Johnson, really.

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