Sunday, February 21, 2021

Caso Lever S01E07: Meet The Cyberbullies

In the latter part of 2019 Carmen Solares de Lever made use of a dedicated Instagram account (@carmenvsb) to blare out to the whole world just how much she detests us. 

As the days went by, some of them featuring a little sequence of new posts of a spiteful nature usually backed up by some truly perverse hashtags, I became the principal target of this torrent. 

I supposed at the time that this was an attempt to get a rise out of me and that the best approach would be to simply ignore. Pissing into the wind and all that. 

And yet there can be no denying that aspects of this cyber-grudge were genuinely unsettling. Someone I had barely exchanged words with was engaged in an obsessive, abhorrent and actually quite feverish smear campaign against me and my family.  

And bear in mind that at this stage I had forgiven Mrs Lever for reporting me to the police for attacking her when I was not even in the country, and had every reasonable expectation that she would understand what a near miss that had been for her, and would thus do everything possible to avoid further conflict. 

And yet, just to be sure, the judge had made her sign a conciliation agreement in which she promised to maintain peaceful relations in future and rein in her husband and staff as well. 


Here are some of the key take outs from this stream of social media malice...

  • I have no talent; neither as a photographer nor as a writer. (Subjective, that one, I know.)
  • My clothes — and hat in particular — smell, and I do not bathe. (Less so.)
  • I am a 'fake entrepreneur'; indeed my whole life is one big fraud (We sold our company for a small fortune over two decades ago. I am no longer really any sort of entrepreneur, fake or otherwise. Anyway, under whose criteria?) 
  • I have no genitals, a negative sperm count and am otherwise infertile: ‘Microphallus Rosbif’. (Objectively false.)
  • If I could have children, they'd be inbred retards, and so the universe has done the gene pool a big favour. (Intelligence, or the lack of it, is up to 73% heritable.)
  • I am married to a "psycho hose beast" (Just horrid.)
  • The pair of us resemble a couple of concupiscent apes (Ditto, and could easily be deemed racist.)
  • I suffer from penis envy (In fact I have never really envied any other human being for any reason, let alone for the size of their sexual organs.)
  • I am a homosexual. (And this would bother her why, exactly?) 
  • I am a nerd. (Are we still in secondary school?) 
  • I am a sociopath
  • I have very British teeth (That one, at least, is broadly true. Ever since I have had any gnashers at all, they have been looked after by the same dentist as HM The Queen and most of the rest of the Royal Family.) *
  • I am a bitter old man that nobody will miss when he’s dead (We shall have to see, won't we?)

Context is everything. That last gem was posted around the time her husband made an explicit death threat against me. 

In one month alone there were 45 individual put downs of this nature. There was no other content at all on this feed. I have archived every post. 

Who really has the time in their life for so much hate? 

There was clearly a quantity of online research involved. 

On some levels it's truly pathetic, yet on others extremely disturbing.

I suppose there are many of us that post something on social media at some point that we later regret, perhaps because we were a bit tipsy or just not in a particularly good place at the time, but two or three times a day, and for months?  

Much of it could be characterised as on the bleeding edge of racial and gender abuse, along with other forms of discrimination (relating to my own nationality, for example). In short, a cacophony of belittlement geared to demean and destroy, and not just psychologically.

This pathological nastiness went on until the very day that Lever himself received his denuncia for gender abuse against V. That put a cork in it. 

At first only two specific posts which might further incriminate Lever were removed, almost certainly because their content tallied rather inconveniently with the declarations already made by my wife at the Fiscalía de Mujeres and INACIF and detailed in the denuncia he had received. 

For example, the text alongside one of these posts almost perfectly matched the account given of the demeaning misogynistic poem that Jason Wade Lever had recited to my wife on March 5, 2018 and which she had detailed to investigators. (Third one down, below.)

A bit later on Carmen Violeta Solares de Lever deactivated her entire Instagram account.

We always suspected that they were both behind this ciberacoso for several reasons, such as the fact that the content was in English and made use of certain modismos that Lever himself would be more likely to use, the original profile picture showed the happy couple together, smirking, and the hashtags reflected some very male sexual obsessions, a notion that was later supported by the psychologist who later interviewed me on this very topic at the MP.

Deleting the account definitively might have given them a degree of deniability — the old 'I woz hacked' ploy — but it was subsequently resurrected not long afterwards as the social media front end of Roadkill Grill, the Levers' erstwhile business here in La Antigua — complete with all the followers that had been acquired almost entirely on the back of degrading content directed at us. (The clue here was that the indexation on Google was identical and META later confirmed the ruse to me.)

It was at that moment in November 2019 that I made contact with META regarding a formal complaint. I had ignored the daily drivel as it was delivered, but there was something about the notion of their use of a platform carefully nurtured via hateful content to promote a shabby restaurant that really — and I mean, really — irked me.

Whatever one thinks of this, there are few things lower than an attempt to profit on the back of defamation and hate. 

I do have to hand it to them though, this first example below is doing some fairly heavy lifting in as much that it manages to insult both of us, simultaneously and yet with a degree of differentiation. 











* Though I have not seen my dentist since my last visit to the UK, so my teeth could well be going a bit Prince Andrew. 






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