I have never seen these "friends" before. I believe Gregory Wolfe has swapped my actual friends for these friends.
[Greg has edited the above narrative, removing any mention of a child. I restored it.]
My screen shot seems to have been darkened and blurred, when compared to the profile pic (I had blocked this profile, so I looked it up on my ex's computer). Greg often blurs posts I include on my blog, possibly to make them harder to see, so that I have to repost.
As I have mentioned in earlier sections of this post, he hacks into my Facebook app, not into the Facebook website. Please view another Facebook hacking incident in which he placed the FB profile of my friend (who had committed suicide a year earlier) in three different positions in my Facebook friends profile lineup, as a threat to me and a meaningful invitation. He also likes to show me what he's doing, even while trying to hide.
Red-State Freakout
January 9, 2025. On the bottom of the main page above, I republished a post called "Red-State Freakout." When I taught at Boise State ten years ago, my last term was very strange for many reasons. Greg bears some of the responsibility, as this is the term he started hacking me. He was then at his most brutal and nasty--and he knew we had a baby in the house--but I only mention my hacker in passing in the post.
Kills Connections
January 9, 2025. Greg kills connections and friendships. He hammered my close friend Adam Farley, who owns a tree nursery business and was a former student, with spam or worse in 2022, so Adam had no choice but to stop talking to me. And there have been other such moments I haven't written about.
Once, in 2019 I was on a bus from Cincinnati to Harrisburg to see my ex and our son, when I received a glowing message from a guy who loved Down in the River and who had made an appearance in my book. The trouble was, the Messenger note had been written in 2014! It took five years to land in my inbox.
Another time, in 2022, a Facebook friend was singing my praises with my second book, taking photos of himself holding the book as he traveled Europe, and we were getting close. We'd been writing each other for a couple years. Then one day, without any tension between us, he went silent. I believe Greg thought he might write about the book, and so he intervened with one of his electronic assaults.
That's why I believe he cut several of my book listings in Worldcat and removed my Amazon page. The pattern is unmistakable to anyone who is able to study this full story. Some of my assertions might seem unwarranted on their own--or like I blame everything on Greg--but they gain credibility when one sees the many, many similar actions that have happed before.
As M. Scott Peck remarked, the act of killing is usually an act against a person's spirit. The killing of a person's spirit feels, to an evil person, like an exciting renewal, an ecstatic dance. It usually happens behind closed doors--in Greg's case, in his office. Sometimes the attempt to kill a person's spirit is perfectly legal. "Spirit killing" does not exist as a crime, even when a child is involved.
Greg has committed actual crimes, but this killing of the spirit is the thing that brings life to his body. That said, such a nasty business often comes back to haunt the evil person, at least in terms of his reputation. With Greg, that's the only thing that ever mattered to him.
Please Call the FBI
January 17, 2025. Please call the FBI if you have received porn or a hacking episode from this person. Greg instils fear in anyone he visits, so that their impulse to stay quiet is greater than their impulse to find justice. Earlier in this post, I mentioned that I found a fake Facebook page titled Gregory Wolfe, in 2016 or 17, the banner showing a row of shiny penises. The brave person who created that page knew how Greg spends his time. And certainly others know too. Greg is praying to God that this storm will calm soon, so that he can return to terrorizing people with porn, peeking at people's daughters, using images of their small children for his hacking fun, and buttressing his image as a Christian humanist online.
Please give an anonymous call if you know something. Others are involved in this project to expose Gregory Wolfe, not just me. We've all been groped in one way or another, and we're taking a risk. I hope you'll consider standing up to this criminal.
Count Manipulation
January 17, 2025. I have mentioned that Greg alters my Blogger stats often. He sometimes records the visits to my blog as amounting to two or three in one day. Other times, after I send out a GW email to the scholars, he instantly records a visit of 80 or 160. In the latter case, he knows I'll get a lot of visits to my site--especially if my emails are boosted to others--and so he throws out an exaggerated number so I won't know the actual number (the shout-out email to the scholars includes about 100 recipients).
The previous version of this post, "A Christian Leader's Life in Censorship and Porn-Hacking," he recorded at about 400 visits. But the other day I discovered those numbers were changed to about 1400. Maybe he was afraid someone could see the disparity between his count and the actual count, and so he changed it. See the numbers in the fifth visible entry below.
It occurs to me that Count Manipulation is another good title for the many titles I have given Greg, along with Brother Censorship, Father Seems, and the Censorship Publisher. The new title evokes a man in a cape entering a Gothic village by moonlight, prepared to inflict five-hundred secret wounds before sunrise. He has orders from the church, but he's going to do it all for pleasure.
The Culture of the FBI
January 16, 2025. I have mentioned I was pleased that EPD referred my case to the FBI, mostly because the move gave credibility to my claims over the last ten years. But I don't have a lot of trust in the FBI, partly because they are generally low-tech in the Northwest, and therefore distrust anything they can't comprehend or deal with on a traditional level. That's my experience. I believe they are capable in more traditional areas of law enforcement.
Whenever I have spoken to the FBI, they have dismissed my assertions out of hand, often in a snarky manner. One young man on the phone told me, "So what's this guy's motivation?" It's easy to Google Gregory Wolfe and see that he's a Christian leader and a publisher, someone with money and respect. Since my posts about him have been disabled and do not climb on Google, they don't see that my posts--traded around by a few thousand people in his audience--have exposed his dishonest and reprobate behaviors. Greg buttresses his image as a Christian humanist, the man who created Image Journal, a leading journal before he was fired by his all-women staff in 2017.
The FBI people I have spoken to were intake people, and not agents, but it seems possible they reflect the attitudes of their organization.
After my case was referred to the FBI, I spoke to another intake person there. He looked it up said, again in a sarcastic and noisy manner, "What's EPD sending this stuff for?" They had seen my blog posts before, but not the recent death posts regarding children.
Maybe the child-related material got their attention, but since Gregory Wolfe is an oblique harasser, and not one to say "I'm going to kill you" etc., maybe my blog posts lack the kind of traditional obviousness the FBI requires. But I don't know what's going on at there regarding this case.
Later, when I applied for a restraining order with Judge McAlpin in Eugene and he accused me of "Obsession," he also said, "This has nothing to do with Gregory Wolfe." I was mystified that he would make such a sweeping remark, apparently based on a quickly formed perception. Did he know about Gregory Wolfe, or simply look him up online and see that he has money? An Oxford graduate who spends his time sending dick pics and child death images! We'd need a Patricia Highsmith to write that novel, and an eccentric FBI agent to sign on.
In a previous restraining order--with Judge Carlson--I had mentioned that I have a mild case of bipolar disorder that I remedy with medication. I don't have manic attacks. I wanted to mention this on the earlier restraining order request because Greg and at least one of his friends have used this against me. Many artists have had bipolar, some far worse than mine, including Virginia Woolf, though lithium didn't exist at that time.
It's possible that McAlpin saw my previous restraining order request and concluded that I'm nuts, never mind that my published books have been well-reviewed nationally and I'm a committed father. But I didn't advertise those accomplishments. A year ago I removed all photos of my son from social media, in case Greg has any Dark Webs friends who might check him out.
As Judge McAlpin hired a PR firm to help him get a seat on the bench, he might sympathize more with a wealthy man who is also attentive to his image. They both want respect, favorable public notice, and high success. That doesn't make McAlpin corrupt, but he and Greg appear to share a similar striving.
This is an old American story. People with money have an aura that protects them, even if they are underground criminals like Gregory Wolfe--until a note is found that says, "I'm going to kill you," or an IP address, or some other calling card.
Greg's power is shrinking, but he controls Google and disables posts about him, fighting like a devil to regain control. I noticed recently that he pulled down the notice on Google that he was fired for sexual harassment, in case anyone is looking at him. At the same time, he has folded up his usual bloated and self-loving advertisements on his Google pages, as if hoping that a humble posture will weather the storm. He shrinks up in this manner when he's navigating a controversy. He did the same in 2017 after he was fired at Image.
Greg has learned to use hacking as a tool of enormous power--and he uses his education and accomplishments as shields. Since he's a malignant narcissist, he feels justified to do whatever it takes to protect himself. Also, he simply gets a rush from hacking me and others who might write about me--or about him--because he likes to own and break people. With this double motivation, he protects his brand, such as it is, and gets to enjoy the fun of ruining various people as if they are avatars in a video game.
I have mentioned that Greg has sent me child porn disguised as adult material. This action shows what a scum we are dealing with. I believe he did it foreseeing a possible escalation to law enforcement. I don't know if I ended up on some list somewhere. I know that Greg hoped I would.
Nor do I know if there is some deeper connection to law enforcement that Greg has that would offer him protection beside his money and position. I suspect that he simply looks like money, and law enforcement tend to lay back until there is clear cause--or fail to give such a criminal a second glance.
Whatever happens, Greg's legacy will be his hacking endeavors.
The Censor Hesitates
January 14, 2025. I removed yesterday's complaint that Greg had locked up my Submittable, since he finally restored access to my submissions. It had been locked and grayed, on every page--all access pages denied. Then my submissions and downloads returned. Greg has one vulnerable spot in his strongman approach as a hacker: censorship. He will sometimes back away from it.
Four months ago I couldn't locate the cover letter I used to submit The Lord's Hacker. There was nothing clickable on the front page of Submittable, nothing in messages although I had exchanged messages with the publisher, and nothing clickable in Forms. The cover letter had also vanished from my desktop. But after I complained about it, the cover letter appeared on Submittable.
Something in Greg resists his own impulse to censor. I don't want to get too excited about these crumbs--I still don't know if editors are seeing my version of my submitted stories--but I want to acknowledge it anyway. That said, he's not going to stop.
Suspicious Silence at Amazon
January 11, 2024. Yesterday my publisher told me that she emailed a ticket to Amazon Central to fix my Amazon page and got back to them three times, but no one got back to her, over two weeks. Amazon Central is very good about getting back to writers--and even better at getting back to publishers. My publisher believed this was unusual, too.
Since I know Greg views and deletes my emails--and gets into my associates' emails and deletes those too sometimes--I suspect Greg killed my publisher's emails to Amazon. After all, he has a strong motive to limit the publication of a book that exposes him. I believe he removed my Amazon page for this reason, and it's certain he will employ his hacking skills to harm the reach of The Lord's Hacker. He has earned my title for him--the censorship publisher.
Gun Photo
January 9, 2025. Twice this week, Monday and Tuesday, I opened my phone to find this photo of a gun opened to view. It's a photo I had taken at the Pioneer Museum in Eugene the previous week, part of a display about a female sheriff who experienced sexism at her job in the 70s. But it was the gun Greg cared about--an image that was another useful death threat.
News of Greg's hacking has spread everywhere, and he is livid, out for blood. For the first time, his hacking has hurt him instead of helped. But his narcissistic ego is too large for him to give it up. He will punish all involved. He has instant access to anyone's computer and can easily review their emails and documents.
Greg has often sent me my own photos in his campaign of fear and harassment--image placements that are hard to prosecute, as they aren't posted or published. But Greg has posted many other fearful images in public view, though generally ambiguous. None of them contain any notes from Greg, saying, "Hi, I'm Gregory Wolfe!" or "Here's my IP!" No kidding. Advanced hackers don't leave calling cards. That's why they are left alone.