Provocative.

Back in 2009, I was writing about an evil California Court Commissioner, Alan Friedenthal (deceased). Al was married to another commissioner, Steff Padilla. Steff commonly complained about me in court hearings on other non-related cases, I’m told, and on Facebook.

An Arkansas Attorney, Walter Riddick (deceased) wrote a similar reply on Steff Padilla’s Facebook to the Twitter posts of Attorney John M. Pierce. Only Mr. Riddick was making a threat toward me and my colleagues.

Walter Riddick offered “arranging something permanently disabling” as an option against me. Mr. Pierce seemed to threaten to attack judges by destroying careers and making it his “mission in life” to make sure those he disagreed with “live in infamy”.

Mr. Riddick was a total stranger to me and I had not stepped foot in Arkansas at that point. One of my readers sent a screenshot of Steff’s page to me.

Mr. Riddick’s Profile Picture had him dressed in army garb and holding a weapon. (I wrote an email to a reader-friend-colleague in 2009 that said the gun picture was replaced by a “hippy” picture.)

There was a Walter G. Riddick who was a Justice on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals from 1941 to 1953. Maybe Walter Riddick’s grand-daddy.

Maybe that was a connection that caused the unexplainable bias against me by Arkansas Circuit Court Judge Susan Weaver. Weaver and Riddick have opposing political and legal views, but there is something about Old Arkansas Lineage that seems to help people cross the aisle when it comes to forming prejudices and alliances.

I reported the Padilla-Riddick apparent threat to the FBI. There was no action taken of which I am aware.

Journalists’ lives must not matter. Just Judges’ Lives Matter.

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