FIELDNOTE — OBSTRUCTION AS EVIDENCE
📅 Timeline of Events
July 9, 2025 — I issued a Cease & Desist Notice on Medium naming Joel Johnson’s sockpuppets.
Sept 8, 2025 — Edited to include alias “Thanion.”
Sept 10, 2025 — “Thanion, Ph.D.” comments under the notice → Medium suspends the post as “harassment.”
What was removed? ➡️ A legal record documenting harassment and fraudulent identities.
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⚖️ Legal Frame
Pennsylvania Law
Obstruction of Administration of Law (18 Pa.C.S. §5101) → up to 2 yrs prison.
Tampering with Evidence (18 Pa.C.S. §4910) → up to 2 yrs prison.
Federal Law
18 U.S.C. §1512 — Witness tampering / obstruction → up to 20 yrs.
18 U.S.C. §1519 — Concealment / alteration of records → up to 20 yrs.
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⚠️ Why It Matters
Pattern of Concealment — multiple sockpuppets used to deny authorship.
Platform Manipulation — abuse of Medium moderation to erase a legal notice.
Adverse Inference — courts treat deletion as evidence of guilt.
This is not “mere trolling.” This is obstruction of justice — an aggravating factor that increases sentencing risk and strengthens the case for pre-trial detention.
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🜂 Open Source Justice Principle Takedowns don’t erase evidence — they become evidence.
Every mask, every deletion, every concealment attempt strengthens the forensic record against Joel Johnson and his enterprise of fraud.
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📍 Prepared by Mark Randall Havens, MSc-ISS The Empathic Technologist | Neutralizing Narcissism Project
🜂 For survivors deceived 🜃 For precedent the law is waiting for 🜁 For coherence against the mask
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