Brian Crow and gang at it again

Brian Crow, K3VR are once again trying to shut down one of Todd Daugherty's Blogs at Blogspot.com. According to this post Daugherty's website is blocked by one of the country's biggest DNS server. According to the post Daugherty's site contain phishing and malware. Daugherty site is an ultralight blog found on blogger.com does not have any phishing or malware on it. The site does contain a status counter so Daugherty can keep tabs on how many people are visiting. Brian Crow and his fellow ham radio operators don't want that counter on there because Daugherty would know their IP addresses when they attack him.
Phishing means "is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication." malware also acts the same way. Status counters which are used on a lot of websites are NOT phishing or malware.
Brian Crow and his friends are doing everything they can to block Daugherty's speech regardless if that speech is threats or protected speech. Brian Crow and his friends stated on Daugherty's blog at one time that "Daugherty doesn't deserve to be on the Internet, and he definitely doesn't deserve to have a ham license." Daugherty ultralight blog is "Protected Speech" It is a well know fact that Brian Crow and his fellow HAM RADIO OPERATORS does not want any speech on the Internet that questions what they are doing. More to the point the United State government is and has allowed this go on for a long time.

N9OGL pleads guilty...Brian Crow K3VR gloats on the internet

Todd Daugherty N9OGL of Taylorville, Illinois plead guilty yesterday through the advisement of his lawyer Scott Sabin. Upon hearing of Daugherty guilty charge, Brian Crow K3VR the man who complained to local police went on the Internet and gloated about Daugherty's guilty verdict, including neo-Nazi website NIM Busters, K1TP'S As The World Turns and claims he going to have it put on Amateur Radio website QRZ.com, Amateur Radio Newsline. His website VE7KFM.com also gloats about Daugherty's conviction claiming he was found guilty. Crow is trying to rally the troops hoping to get restitution, although this had nothing to do with him. Daugherty was charged with harassment via electronic device, a class B misdemeanor after threatening to blow up Consolidated Communications. Daugherty threaten local telephone company Consolidated Communications after Laura Zuhone, an employee from Consolidated Communication posted a comment on his blog, threatening to cut Daugherty's nuts off. Daugherty was charged for making a threat. The question is why wasn't the employee of Consolidated Communications charged??

What this blog is about

What is this blog about
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This blog is about Todd E Daugherty, a ham radio operator and self-proclaimed free speech advocate who was arrested and is on trial by the State of Illinois for "harassment via an electronic device".

The "harassment via electronic device" was due to a vague threat by Daugherty on his blog against Consolidated Communications, a local telephone/ISP in Daugherty home town. The vague comment by Daugherty on his blog was "I don't live to far from Consolidated and one of these night it might burn down." This comment was posted on Daugherty blog after someone from Consolidated Communications threatened Daugherty in the comment section of his blog under the title "Consolidated Communications has a low IQ". The comment was by Laura Zuhone who is the media spokes person for Consolidated Communication . The comment read:

Dear Mr. Daugherty,

Consolidated Communications takes strong exception to the libelous statements on this blog in re the intelligence quotient of our employees and representatives. If the statements are not removed by Jan 1, 2010, our Legal Department will file a law suit against Mr. Todd Daugherty, as well as his legal guardians in Taylorville, IL.

If it were left up to me, I would do the same thing to Mr. Daugherty that he has threatened to do to Federal officers; namely, cut his balls off and let him bleed to death.

Since I'm law abiding, a law suit will have to suffice.

Very truly yours,

Laura ZuHone
Corporate Communications
121 S. 17th Street
Mattoon, IL 61938
1.217.234.5965

The threat "If it were left up to me, I would do the same thing to Mr. Daugherty that he has threatened to do to Federal officers; namely, cut his balls off and let him bleed to death." was of course making reference to Daugherty threatening Riley Hollingworth of the FCC, a threat that was investigated by the FBI and was, according the FBI "done and over with". Is the State of Illinois going after Laura Zuhone for making that threat against Daugherty? NO, it seems the State of Illinois, and the Taylorville Police Department had already decided to go after Todd after all, they had been monitoring his activities for a long time. Daugherty, through a Freedom of Information Act request obtained over 80 pages of information about him through the FCC. on a number of these pages where communications between a ham radio operator named Brian Crow K3VR, the FCC and the Taylorville Police Department. So what was the formal police chief doing?? well according to the FOIA the Taylorville police chief was communication back and forth with a ham operator named Brian Lee Crow K3VR. In a communication that was later sent to the FCC by Crow the following was stated:

From: [Blank]

Sent : Thursday February 07, 2008 1:30 PM

To: Riley Hollingworth

Subject: Re FYI

Good. Will let you know if I hear Todd Daugherty or if he starts posting online again. Here's the info from Taylorville PD. They might know where he's been

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Our police department received your email, dated January 22, 2008. We are familiar with Mr. Daugherty. If you would like to contact us about this , I have included our contact information

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Taylorville Police Department

108 W Vine St.

Taylorville, Il 62568

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Taylorville Police Department

108 W Vine St

Taylorville, Il 62568

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I would like to note that the [Blank] are area's that the FCC blacked out, because of "privacy" however, the truth is more like the FCC didn't want the people who were in their little covert operation to be known. Now you need to stop and think and ask yourself was why was the Taylorville Police Department investigating Daugherty?? This was at the time the FCC was going after Todd for his Part 15 radio station on 13.556 MHz. So why was the police department monitoring his activities?? A follow up the letter followed:

From: [Blank]

Sent: Thursday February 07, 2008 11:46 AM

To: Riley Hollingworth

Subject: Re: FYI

Haven't heard Daugherty and haven't received any report that he has been on the air at all. [Blank] was on 14.275 yesterday, but Daugherty went missing from the air and from the net as of January 27th, four days after the Taylorville PD responded to my email.

First off why was Riley Hollingworth interested in what Daugherty said on the Internet?? The FCC doesn't have jurisdiction over the Internet, neither does the Taylorville police department. There is also a question of a First Amendment issue, remember this was before Daugherty ever made a threat. So why was they interested in what Daugherty was doing? Now your probably think well, it was his threats. But Daugherty didn't start threatening until the FCC sent Daugherty the LAST warning letter. Daugherty then threatened according to some, Riley Hollingworth.

This "threat" toward Riley was a comment Daugherty posted on his blog which said "Someone should cut Riley nuts off so he can bleed to death". Daugherty so-called "threat" was after Riley sent Daugherty two warning letter based on comment Daugherty posted on the web, about running high power on 13.556, 6950, 88.9 FM and on the CB band. Daugherty was only heard on 13.556 MHz. and his signal was very weak, suggestion he wasn't running the power he claimed. The FCC never checked the field strength nor did they inspect his station. When the FBI came to Daugherty house to investigate Daugherty threat toward Riley, they informed Daugherty that the FCC HAD to inspect the station and or check the field strength. Daugherty also informed the FBI that Brian Crow and other ham radio operators had him kicked off his ISP and was unable to finish his schooling at the local college, because he classes were online and thanks to these "hams" Daugherty had to stop his education. The FBI asked Daugherty what was he studying and Daugherty responded computer science and with a minor in art. He then stated to the FBI that he was at the time thinking of switching to art instead. That's when the FBI agent asked to see Daugherty art work.

Daugherty posted on his blog that the FBI came and talked to him and wanted to see his art. Brian Crow K3VR posted on his site ve7kfm.com that "According to Daugherty the FBI searched his hard drive for child porn sent to him by a Canada ham radio operator", None of that ever happen.

Daugherty, who is a strong supporter of the Japanese anime community and is know for his promoting and support of it, was attacked by Brian Crow and his friends because Daugherty supported along with anime it's sub-genre including Lolicon. According to Brian Crow, his friends and Daugherty's lawyer this material is something that NOT "mainstream" to society, despite the fact the Anime including it's sub-genre is a multi-BILLION dollar industry. Not to defined it, but ask yourselves, if it's not "mainstream to society", then why is it a multi-BILLION dollar industry? people who make that comment don't understand that the vast majority of Japanese anime that their kids see on TV (Poke'mon, Bakugan, ect) is only 1 to 2% of the anime that is out there. The vast majority of anime that is in the market is on DVD due to it's content. Even the shows that are aired on TV is sanitized and some content is removed, due to various themes (too violate, sex, drug usage etc) .

When Japanese anime characters pull down their eye lid and stick out their tongue, that Japanese anime for "Fuck you". Anime characters who get bloody noses means they are thinking dirty thoughts. The "mainstream" may not know that, but the vast majority of anime fans do. Daugherty defended anime, including it sub-genre not for what they expressing, but as a art form on how they were drawn. American animators and cartoonist draw two way, they either create the character to be "cartoonish" or they create the character to "realistic". Cartoonish would be Peter Griffin from Family Guy, Garfield, and so on. Realistic is like Batman, Superman, etc. Realistic means they try to make them look real, a cross between cartoons, and drawing real human bodies with detail on shadow, muscles, and skin texture. Anime is totally different and breaks away from this. Anime characters were cartoonish, yet at the same time unlike American style of drawing added the basics of realism, without the massive overtone that American artist try to do. Now many would say Daugherty could go protect that art without the sub-genre like lolicon, but by doing so, it creates censorship, something Daugherty was strongly against. if you censor lolicon, what would be next? until one day, they will have a national book burning day, where the self-righteous would burn books they thought were too dangerous, too questionable, or immoral. Daugherty is very anti-Censorship, in fact Daugherty is known to be a member in the Comic Book Defense League, a group located out of New York that protects comic book creators and artist with legal help.

What happened to Daugherty was nothing more then a group of ham radio operators that didn't like his speech, and instead of ignoring his speech, they provoked him and harassed. As Brian Crow K3VR recently stated "If Todd thinks this is over he wrong, [referring to Daugherty misdemeanor] this is just the beginning." Brian Crow and his friends had gotten to the point where they are nothing more then cyberstalkers, who have a deep rooted grudge against Daugherty. Daugherty can walk away from this...but it seems this is the only the beginning because Brian Crow and his friends will not let go. I set this website up to make people aware of what was going on, and get support for Todd E Daugherty of Taylorville Illinois who is being stalked and harassed by these individuals. These individuals on a discussion board have even threaten to kill Todd Daugherty while he is at work on the parking lot of Wal-mart ... and the State of Illinois is after him?? Brian Crow and his followers will continue to harass Daugherty until someone gets hurt or worse killed. Daugherty isn't the problem, Ham radio operators who don't know when to let go of an issue IS the problem.

PLEASE SUPPORT TODD DAUGHERTY AGAINST THESE CYBERSTALKERS