Friday 19 August 2016

Façades, Excuses, Sociopathy and Hogwash



No claim has been made that Seán Manchester is blocked from commenting on the ASSAP's Facebook page. To do so, however, would oblige him to become a member of that group and join the antipathetic ranks of Anthony Hogg, Trystan Lewis Swale, Erin Chapman, Redmond McWilliams and David Farrant et al, trolls every one of them ... not company Seán Manchester would especially care to be in. Moreover, the ASSAP group is fundamentally a place where cynics, sceptics and the scientifically-minded all meet to try and ridicule and debunk the paranormal when not providing a platform for the likes of Farrant who gives anything he is associated with a very bad name.

How many façades can Anthony Hogg hide behind? He has claimed in the past to be a Christian, albeit a "non-conformist," an amateur vampirologist, and an impartial researcher. He is none of those things, as it soon became clear when he began stalking and trolling Seán Manchester, who is a devout Christian, over a decade ago and took to recruiting all manner of ne'er-do-wells from the dark side in that process. Hogg is Facebook friends with Farrant's son, Jamie, Farrant's lieutenant, John Pope, who engaged in a series of Crowley-like attempts to summon a demon, and innumerable dabblers in the black arts. Seán Manchester observed about Hogg some years back:

"Anthony Hogg evinces exceptionally unChristian behaviour, eg profane and sacrilegious utterances against an ordained and consecrated Christian. There is hardly a day that passes where Hogg is not trolling and posting harassing comments about me somewhere on the internet. This self-proclaimed Christian's cyber-friends are either immersed in witchcraft and/or diabolism, or boast about their atheism. Constantly critical of me because I am a Traditionalist Bishop, Hogg [began his online presence under his real name] wearing a demonic 'devil' mask to hide his face and identity." 

Hogg came out of the closet in August 2014 when he began using his true likeness for the first time, realising self-publicity is pointless unless he basks in it and everyone is aware of who he is. Hogg offers all manner of excuses for his appalling behaviour, but none of them wash. He has had his account suspended many times by Facebook, and has been banned by a plethora of FB groups.

This is the man who accuses Seán Manchester of being a sociopath. (A sociopath is someone with a personality disorder manifesting in extreme antisocial attitudes and behaviour). Hogg is an unemployed man who lives in Melbourne, Australia, who has been stalking and harassing Seán Manchester ever since he was expelled from a forum a decade ago for refusing to stop posting about David Farrant whom the membership wanted to hear no more about. Hogg immediately began to attack Seán Manchester following this expulsion and started opening numerous forums, blogs, boards and websites with a common aim. One of the titles he uses for some of these vehicles is lifted from the headline of a news feature about Seán Manchester in the Hampstead & Highgate Express, 27 February 1970. His theme is always the same and he appears to many as a totally manic individual who is obsessed with Seán Manchester and events that occurred on the other side of the world long before before the Australian troll was born. Hogg is someone totally outside the four and a half decades' old Highgate Vampire saga who decided to insinuate himself into latter-day arguments long after the history itself had reached a satisfactory conclusion.

His attitude towards Farrant is perhaps more understandable, but he willingly allows himself to be manipulated and uses Farrant's propaganda as if it was his own. In being manipulated by Farrant, Hogg posts libellous material about Seán Manchester which is equal to anything the Farrant coterie resorted to at the height of their malice. In fact, Hogg frequently uses antipathetic sources such as the grotesque Don Ecker (an American friend and ally of Farrant) and seems to take immense pleasure regurgitating Farrant's unsubstantiated garbage, even to the extent of adopting a forename Farrant has erroneously employed when referring to Seán Manchester. There is something deeply disturbing about Anthony Hogg who is patently a stalker with malicious intent and clearly someone with deep psychological issues, possibly a narcissistic personality disorder, ie an inflated sense of self-importance, need for admiration, extreme self-involvement, and lack of empathy for others.

Anthony Hogg has adopted a variety of pseudonyms in the past, but these days is arrogant enough to use his real name, while running various sock-puppet, fake accounts along with two or three in his real name on Facebook. This allows him to spy on anyone who has blocked him, and there are quite a number who have blocked him. Hogg goes to considerable lengths to protect his own whereabouts to prevent prosecution for stalking, harassment, inciting hatred and goodness knows what else. He has adopted a variety of pseudonyms in the past, including The Inquisitive One, The Overseer, Amateur Vampirolgist and tnuocalucard ("Count Dracula" spelt backwards). He has published an address in full (offered for people wanting to receive signed copies of Seán Manchester's books) along with a  stream of vitriolic incitements against the person with whom the address is associated. These days he is arrogant enough to use his real name, but is still extremely careful not to have his address and precise whereabouts divulged in order to prevent an investigation into his harassment.

A typical example of the exceptionally offensive manner in which the self-styled "Christian" Hogg hypocritically and abusively refers to Seán Manchester comes from one of his disabled blogs:

"I'm not going to disclose the identity of this potty prelate, wanker, total cock and blatant hypocrite. On an unrelated note, in the lead up to my blog's closure, I was subjected to repeated DMCA takedown notices issued by Sean Manchester."

Unsurprisingly, the blog on which Anthony Hogg posted his foul-mouthed outburst was suspended. Within days, however, he had transferred his profanity, word for word, to yet another blog.

What was that about being a sociopath? Hogg ticks all the boxes. And that's not Hogwash.


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