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BOSTON, July 12, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – A homosexual activist and registered sex offender has slapped a pro-family organization in Massachusetts with a $1 million lawsuit – and is pursuing criminal charges against its president – for posting a letter the activist sent to various media and reportedly encouraged them to publicize.

Adam Flanders had previously secured a restraining order against MassResistance President Brian Camenker, although Camenker says he has “never had any contact with the man” nor ever visited Flanders’ home city of Belfast, Maine.

In a new lawsuit filed on June 29 against MassResistance as a whole as well as Camenker personally, the 25-year-old is seeking $500,000 for “emotional distress and suffering, as well as past and future damage” to his career, and another $500,000 “to further discourage hate crimes and other forms of harassment and stalking motivated by prejudice against gay and lesbian citizens.” Flanders claims the alleged harassment constitutes a “serious assault on a protected class and a minority based on Plaintiff’s sexual orientation.”

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Flanders says a legal complaint is necessary, because “bigoted and discriminatory individuals” subject innocent LGBT activists to “cyber-bullying” and “stalking.”

Flanders also says he has already made “criminal complaints to police,” and claims that the Belfast Chief of Police actually encouraged him to file the suit against Camenker, writing

Belfast PD and the District Attorney are currently investigating the case to see if the Defendant Brian Camenker has violated the Protection from Harassment Order and/or committed new crimes pursuant to Maine Statute. The Belfast Chief of Police recommended that the Plaintiff sue Brian Camenker and MassResistance for defamation, while they attempt to find some way to criminally charge Brian Camenker.

“This is a complete abuse of process, just like the restraining order,” Brian Camenker of MassResistance told LifeSiteNews.com. 

Camenker said that in January 2007, Flanders distributed a letter to local media exposing the activities of the Rockland, Maine-based homosexual organization known as OUT! … As I Want to Be. The letter stated adult members of the organization were often intoxicated, propositioned or fondled minors, and turned a blind eye to pedophilia in the organization’s ranks. 

Flanders was charged with the sexual abuse of a minor in August, 2006 and is registered as a sex offender in the state of Maine. According to his profile on the sex offender registry, his victim was 14 or 15 years old at the time.

Flanders’ signed affidavit claims that Belfast Chief of Police Michael McFadden told him that conviction is “very minor,” and the “equivalent to stealing a candy bar.”

Sometime after that incident, Camenker said Flanders had a change of heart and demanded all media outlets remove his letter. Living up to its name, MassResistance refused. Flanders then contacted the company that hosted MassResistance’s website, the Kentucky-based HostExcellence.

“Flanders listed the company owner’s full name, his home address, and his business address,” giving him 24 hours to remove the site, MassResistance wrote in a statement e-mailed to LifeSiteNews.com. Flanders then “threatened that he would begin various immediate legal actions against the owner personally, saying he was ‘personally culpable’ and would be seeking ‘personal damages’ from him.”

HostExcellence complied. MassResistance’s website went down for a few days without notice and is now hosted by another company.

Flanders now calls his authorship of the letter into question, saying it was “allegedly written by” him and that MassResistance “failed to verify the authenticity of the letter.” However, Flanders’ signatures on the legal complaint and the 2007 letter appear to be identical.

WND.com posted two articles last month about the Flanders imbroglio. Both had been taken down within two days. Now Camenker faces civil and perhaps criminal charges.

“If this one guy is able to pull this off and silence me, that’s going to become the norm all across the country,” Camenker told LifeSiteNews. “All of the gay blogs are watching this. We’ve got to find a lawyer, and we’ve got to stop this thing.”

The tactics used against MassResistance parallel a broader strategy on the Left known as SWATing, in which radical activists call phony reports in to local police stations in an effort to have the blogger’s home raided by the SWAT team. 

Last January, a left-wing activist called police posing as Patrick Frey, the proprietor of Patterico’s Pontifications, a right-leaning legal blog. “I just shot her, my wife,” he said. Police responded in the middle of the night and handcuffed Frey until they discovered his wife was safe and very much alive.

Sheriff’s deputies pulled up to the home of Erick Erickson of RedState.com in May, saying they had gotten a report of an accidental shooting in his home.” Erickson, who had received threats in the days before the false report, warned his local police to be on the lookout for such a call.

Pastor Scott Lively faced a lawsuit accusing him of “crimes against humanity” for emphasizing therapy for Ugandan homosexuals. The lawsuit was filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), a George Soros-funded Marxist group that regularly defends terrorists and their American enablers.

Sarah Palin has said “those responsible for this SWAT-ing must be held accountable by the law.”

U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss, R-GA, has asked Eric Holder’s Justice Department to investigate the wave of false reports.

Camenker warns such harassment techniques are not confined to bloggers or those involved in the pro-life, pro-family movement. “This could happen to anybody,” he said, “unless the conservative movement starts to wake up and take this seriously.”

Contact:
Attorney General William J. Schneider of Maine
The Contact form here may be used.
(207) 626-8800
6 State House Station
Augusta, ME 04333