The current free ebook is located at this link:
http://haggishell.com/ridgeproject.pdf

For details about the ebook, click here.

130117.3. This is a set of three letters that I sent on Thursday 130117 to ICAA, the International Coalition for Autism and All Abilities. To visit the group, use this link:

http://icaaonline.org/

The two PDF documents mentioned in the letters contain material that existing blog readers have seen before. However, if you're a new reader, they may be worth a look. The download links are as follows:

OldCoder_130117.pdf: A seven-page PDF with a few short creative pieces. These are mostly extemporaneous songs from IRC.

Masked_Lua_150602.pdf: Two of the Masked Lua stories. These are “as told to OldCoder” pieces that are intended for use in the book at the heart of the Kiraly Cases.

To: EJ, ICAA Volunteer

Thanks for writing back. This is one of three letters. You should receive links in another letter and a few creative pieces in a third.

I see that you're a volunteer. Explain how that works sometime. I did volunteer work with autistic kids many years ago but I've had no connection with autism groups in recent years. I volunteered for Services For Brain Injury until the legal cases hit.

Moving on, everything that I'll say is verifiable and I've started to move case documents and voicemail transcripts etc. online. Opposing counsel, Michael Bonetto of Hoge Fenton, has made takedown demands based on California Evidence Code 1152 and on intellectual property rights. Neither applies. Therefore eventually all of the case materials are going to be online and everybody will be able to read them.

This is good because the situation isn't likely to stand up to publicity. I live hundreds of miles from my father and thousands of miles from one brother. I've never made a single unlawful threat against either of them. But they're using CLETS to put me into a violence database. Based on a website about cases that have no other basis than the website. I'll be heard eventually. But my father is going to hurt me first.

If it goes on I'll lose my apartment after 25 years. It's enough. A lifetime is long enough.

You said: “Seems to me that would be a violation of some of your constitutional rights. Do you feel like your lawyer is looking out for your interests and your rights?”

My attorney is doing what he can.

In theory, it's a pure First Amendment issue. In practice, I'm told, there's a fair chance that I'll be placed in a violence database based primarily on the fact that I have a website which discusses the Kiraly cases at all.

There are no specific allegations against me that I'm aware of except for the false statement that I made 70 non-consensual calls back in 2011. My father was violent when he was younger. He used to shake with rage, literally shake. And Thomas, my brother and the Vice President of Humana, used to threaten to put bullets into my skull. Neither of them is dangerous decades later. But the idea that they'll put me into a violence database based on the website is staggering.

Once I'm in the database, I've been informed, my father may attempt to engineer an arrest using one of several different approaches. The primary goal, at this point, is to shut down not only my book but my site and any attempts to talk to third parties. You can read the actual paperwork that they sent about third parties on my sites.

You said, “You can write to us and talk to us any time. I would advise you to take care of yourself and make sure to visit a doctor about the swelling and weight loss.”

There's an article about the medical care issue on my blog. Includes a photo of my arm. Some people think it's scurvy when I show them in person. Not clear, though. The weight issue is stranger. I've been told I look both good and bad right now.

I can't afford regular medical care. Rent will be an issue in the future. Everything needs to go to fight my family. And I lost the new job because of these cases. The legal costs are already more than the hand surgeon was supposed to cost. These people have taken away my hand. If that sounds dramatic, have anybody in my area look at my hand.

It's difficult to understand how all of this is possible.

You said, “Where are your websites with your writing on them? I would love to be able to check them out. I love to read and many of our members enjoy writing.”

I've sent you a number of links in a separate letter. Please tell me if the links arrived. I know it's silly but I worry about filters. I'll send some of the writing in a third letter.

You said, “You said you feel that others' perception of you is “That I am all things terrible”.”

That is not true in many cases. Though I have no friends in real life that I can see regularly, I am starting to make some. I also have phone friends who consider me helpful. And people in IRC have been very kind this past year. I think I would not have made it without them.

You said, “What was the job you were doing that you had to quit? You may be able to go back and ask them if you can work part of the time from home, and part of the time at the workplace.”

It was a startup project. The person involved dropped me when the cases started in June last year. I didn't blame him. This was a second chance. There won't be a third one.

You said, “I guess I need to understand more about your individual situation before I can offer sound advice or appropriate feedback. It sounds like you have a lot of talent and you want to connect with people.”

My situation is covered in the Story section of my blog. What I'm hoping to do is build associations to the point that people will look at what is happening. I can't continue the way things are. When I look at myself I see things happening that shouldn't be happening.

Regards, Robert Kiraly; OldCoder and BoldCoder

To: EJ, ICAA Volunteer

Dear EJ or ICAA: I've sent a long letter separately about the legal cases. I'll send my links in this one. Please notify me if you do not receive the long letter. You'll find poetry on two of the sites, the technical one and the weblog. The weblog is the one they wish to put me in the violence database for.

My technical site: http://oldcoder.org/

My LinkedIn: http://linkedin.oldcoder.org/

My blog about the legal cases: http://christfollower.me/

That is also available at: http://haggishell.com/

My GitHub repos are at: https://github.com/OldCoder

My Minetest page: http://minetest.org/

Regards, Robert Kiraly; OldCoder and BoldCoder

To: EJ, ICAA Volunteer

This is the third of three letters. I've attached two PDF documents:

(a) OldCoder_130117.pdf: A seven-page PDF with a few short creative pieces. These are mostly extemporaneous songs from IRC.

(b) Masked_Lua_150602.pdf: Two of the Masked Lua stories. These are “as told to OldCoder” pieces that are intended for use in the book. The one that my father will put me in the violence database for. It is not clear how any of this is happening.

You should now have a second long letter about the legal situation, a short letter with a number of links related to me, and this letter with the two PDF documents.

I appreciate the time spent communicating with me. I'm experiencing some distress and I'm not sure what to do. What I believe I'd like to do is to find a way to get more people to look at the situation. It isn't right. I don't belong in the violence database. I'd like to find a job. And I don't wish to lose my apartment after 25 years.

Regards, Robert Kiraly; OldCoder and BoldCoder

130116.1. I was a bit tired on Wednesday. I don't recall much about events other than what's recorded below.

I drank some diet cola and fake orange juice. I also drank another small bottle of liquid salsa.

The “shock” thing hit a few times. Mild and only for a few minutes at a time.

I went to Chilis in the early evening to drink diet cola. I met Josef there, the person who wrote me the nice letter earlier. We talked about the Kiraly Cases, looking for work, and other issues.

Josef said that I looked very thin compared to the last time he saw me. Face, hands, everything. He added that the small swellings looked like scurvy to him.

Blue Dream had had some Linux distro problems recently. We straightened out the most important issues today. As a related note, he's switched from Ubuntu to Mint and seems happy with Mint.

I realized today that I was upset about needing to give up a job last night. I told at least a couple of people that I was grieving about that. I think it's the right word for my feelings.

130116.2. Here's a partial list of parties that I communicated with today. Every communication was lawful and appropriate.

I didn't save a complete list and I don't presently recall significant details beyond what is presented here. Additionally, this is an informal record and there may be errors.

Some communications were highly preliminary and may not lead anywhere. But I do plan to talk to a significant number of people over the years about a variety of lawful and appropriate subjects. It is my feeling that I'll be able to make progress in different areas over time.

There may not be many groups or individuals added for a while. There's other stuff to deal with first.

1. ICAA, the International Coalition for Autism and All Abilities. I was invited to write to them about the Kiraly Cases.

2. Department of Justice (if I understand correctly). Specifically, Maria Cranston, the CLETS Executive Secretary. She was cordial. She and I may talk further if her schedule permits. A voicemail message that I left Ms. Cranston is posted separately.

3. Office of Assemblyman Richard Gordon. Specifically, Margot Grant, Press Secretary, was most helpful. She felt that I was communicating well. Actually, everybody that I asked today about that point said I was doing O.K. At any rate, Ms. Grant and I may work on some legislative issues related to CLETS over time.

4. Child Abuse Prevention Council of Santa Barbara. Specifically, Barbara Finch, KIDS Network Manager. Pleasant woman. She referred me to Deborah Holmes at Calm4Kids. Ms. Holmes was unavailable today but I may talk to her later on.

5. Children's Health Council (Palo Alto)

6. Kids in Common (San Jose)

7. Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth (San Francisco, I think)

8. Action Alliance for Children (Berkeley)

9. InnVision (San Jose, I think)

10. Children's Health Council (Palo Alto)

130116.3. I was invited to write to ICAA, the International Coalition for Autism and All Abilities, so I did. Here's the letter that I sent tonight.

Some important clarifications:

a. I *do* have people to talk to. The letter isn't clear about that. I meant below that I've got nobody who can help with the Kiraly Cases except my attorney.

b. If I understand correctly, my attorney has offered to give my abuser all that he wants, except CLETS, relative to the original orders. We're certainly not going to give James Kiraly prior restraint on consensual communications with third parties. That is, of course, what he actually wants.

c. I'm more tired than usual tonight. Therefore I ask people to excuse the tone of the letter. I'm just... tired of this.

ICAA: I was invited to write. Thank you.

I'm BoldCoder in Twitter. OldCoder elsewhere. I have sites that will speak for me. My LinkedIn covers my professional history. I worked hard for many years.

I'd like to request help. Just the chance to speak with people. Please. There is nobody to talk to except my attorney and he is expensive.

I'm in an odd situation. It goes back 13 months. Actually, more than 50 years. I was diagnosed as neurologically different about 45 years ago. No specific name just that. A doctor wrote things similar when I became adult. I never pursued it. Regardless I'm most likely autistic past the usual range. Cambridge test results are past the end of the scale.

It may not be autism per se. It is certainly something parallel. Though no formal evaluation one autism foundation head said she could see me compensating quite clearly. I'm doing it right now as I write this to you. I'm getting better. I was called a warm person by the head of a church just a few days ago. I'm also considered amazingly patient.

My life was different. I've lived in my apartment about 25 years. I don't think I've ever had a visitor except staff and roughly two visits from my mother. Nobody else that I remember has ever come in except to move or repair things.

My father was abusive. I tried to reestablish relationships for years. Thought it was working. In December 2011 I was told to end contact. After a day of confusion I largely complied. My mother came to see me a month later. I never again received a request to end communication from anybody.

The problem was that I wanted to write a book about relationships. That was seen as a serious issue. In Spring 2012 I phoned a church with my mother's permission. I asked Pastor Ron about Christ Followers. We had a nice discussion. I also called Service Core For Retired Executives and asked them about the nature of their project. This was my father's group.

My father became enraged. He feared that I would mention the abuse to people. He called people and said “don't be afraid to give me something to prosecute Bob”. He also started to suggest mental illness. He said “present a united front against Bob” as well.

I talked to the police. Then I sent my father postcards that the police approved. The postcards said “you cannot stop the book”.

My father told my brother Thomas not to speak with me. Thomas stopped taking my calls. I left Thomas a message saying “we need at least to discuss our grandfather's books”. The man was a religious writer. I wanted Thomas to have the books after my death so they'd be safe.

My brother Kenneth designed the Amazon Kindle. I taught him to code. I taught him to drive a car. He lived with me rent-free. I smashed my hand as a boy to protect Kenneth from James. I tried to call Kenneth. He didn't take my calls at all.

I left additional voicemail messages that I'm not ashamed of. The transcripts will all be posted on my sites over time. In a typical message, actually one that was intended to be goodbye forever, I said “God Bless You for all you've done to help me”.

Yes, it was mockery.

The only inappropriate message I recall was this. I left my father a message that said “You can't hurt me any longer, Jimmie. Wife beater. Child abuser.” It was not actually inappropriate because he did do those things. But he filed for CLETS a few days later.

CLETS is an action where all the legal safeguards are down. It is supposed to be about violent danger and threats. My father has fought since then to put me in a violent offender database. But there are not even specific allegations against me.

There are suggestions that I hacked Amazon, hacked my father, and hacked Kenneth. Thomas says the gift of the religious books was an attempt to harm his livelihood. There are suggestions that I've ignored requests not to communicate. That I am all things terrible. And yet there are no specific allegations that I can find.

Except for a claim of 70 non-consensual calls in 2011. This is a flat-out lie. My father added up consensual calls including all the calls to him. Those calls were about painting the house and fixing his computer. Every last one was consensual.

I am unemployed and sometimes unable to walk. Wheelchair at times. My savings are drained to fight the legal battle. My attorney has offered to give my father all that he wants except CLETS. But my father insists on putting me, the boy he terrified and battered, into a violence database. My attorney says this may be because he intends to engineer an arrest. To stop my website and prevent me from talking to people. To stop the book that wasn't even going to be bad.

My father's attorney has demanded website takedowns and $5,000 payment for each phone call that I make. Including phone calls to third parties such as you. His document is posted on one of my sites. He also demanded a takedown of that document of course.

My attorney indicates there is no case except primarily for my websites. The other side will paint me as “crazy” for having a blog.

I've mostly stopped eating and lost 65 pounds. There are sometimes swellings on me that I can't identify. I had to give up a new job last night because of these actions. I grieve for the job. I'm close to tears for the first time in a while.

I beg for help. Not charity. I ask for a chance to talk to people. I have websites about the cases and documentation. I don't understand how this is happening.

I am Robert James Kiraly of Silicon Valley. Also known as Robert Crowley and OldCoder (IRC) and BoldCoder (Twitter). Sometimes TiredCoder in IRC. My father is James Francis Kiraly of Pismo Beach. His attorney is Michael Bonetto of Hoge Fenton. One brother is Thomas Evan Kiraly Vice President of Humana Corporation. Another brother is Kenneth Paul Kiraly of the Kindle and Lab126. Our mother, the Christ Follower, is Grace Violet Kmeta.

People can talk to me live in IRC at #kiraly and other channels. But I may be away visiting my attorney in the next few days.

My phone number is REDACTED. I'll send my LinkedIn and technical site and weblog links in different mail if it is all right. The weblog has my poetry and documents from the cases.

130116.4. On Wednesday, I spoke with somebody at the Department of Justice, if I understood things correctly. The CLETS Executive Secretary. I asked her for permission to leave her a voicemail message that summarized things and she granted it.

It ended up being two messages. Here's a rough transcription of the messages. They were transcribed by hand and so may contain errors. No other copy is available unless Michael Bonetto would like to subpoena the Department of Justice.

This is for Ms. Cranston, the CLETS Executive Secretary. Your group focuses on misuse of CLETS machinery as opposed to the details of individual cases. I am an individual case and you have no formal role to play. But if you are interested in CLETS I'd like to discuss an odd story with you or Legislators or Advocates that you may suggest.

In a single sentence, a former abuser is fighting to use CLETS to prevent consensual calls from his partly disabled victim, somebody who lives hundreds of miles away, to news media and offices such as yours. I am the victim and the demands for prior restraint are posted on my website. You may review them. They wanted $5,000 for each phone call similar to this one.

In more detail, I was... I received two CLETS 7 months ago and the interesting part is that there appear to be no specific allegations against me. No violence and not a single unlawful threat is cited. Just things that they've implied. Quite a bit of that.

The best part is that neither plaintiff even asked me not to communicate in 2012. My parents had broken off contact around Christmas 2011 after I had requested assistance with a book. But my mother came to visit me after that.

The second plaintiff, my brother, never even suggested I not call him.

What this is about is a call I made to a third party, a church in Spring 2012. A call to discuss Jesus Christ with my mother's permission. My father was afraid I'd tell the pastor what had happened in the past.

There was one other call like that I made to discuss altruism. That was to a volunteer group. Research for the book.

My father started phoning people asking for some way to prosecute me. He said “don't be afraid ... to give me something ... to prosecute Bob”.

I left him a voicemail message telling him that he couldn't hurt me any longer. He filed for CLETS a few days later.

I also sent postcards which I'm proud of that I vetted with the police. Very politely saying he couldn't stop the book.

My attorney has offered to give the other side what it wants except for CLETS but my father insists on CLETS. I am told that his next step may be to engineer some way to arrest me once I am in the system.

I am old, tired, unemployed, and partly disabled. I also seem to be significantly autistic or a similar condition. I'm quite intelligent. Perhaps you own an Amazon Kindle. My brother Kenneth is apparently the inventor of the Kindle. I'm the one who taught him to code and gave him his first job.

But I had to give up a job I'd fought for last night because of this situation. Today I learned that my father is planning new measures designed to break me financially and to force me to agree to CLETS.

Broken into two messages at this point

I left a long message a few minutes ago. It was truncated. Here is contact information. That's the missing part.

My name is Robert Kiraly. Spelled K-I-R-A-L-Y. My father is James Kiraly of Pismo Beach, California. His law firm is Hoge Fenton of San Jose. My website is robertkiraly dot com. It can also be reached as haggishell.com and christfollower.me. My phone number is REDACTED. There is presently no voicemail.

I request that people interested in the misuse of CLETS speak with me and refer me to legislators or news media figures who may help.

I want only to be left alone and not hurt by my abuser any longer. I want this to stop. I am not ashamed to say that I am frightened. I had to give up a job last night that I needed. I want the man who hurt me to go away and not hurt me any more.

I say all of this without fear of defamation actions. In fact, these messages will be posted on my site.

130116.5. I received a letter today. It said:

Chilis is one of the places I've been going to buy diet cola. It's a bar. However, to be clear, I haven't had a drop of alcohol since June 2012 despite what the heartless thing that is my mother Grace Kiraly would say.

The “weren't looking very good” part was related both to weight loss and to other things that the Kiralys are doing to me.

Here is the reply that I sent back to my correspondent:

Dear Josef,

You wrote and said, “I haven't seen you at Chilis for some time now. The last time I saw you, you weren't looking very good. So I decided to check if you were ok.”

I appreciate it. Messages like yours make more difference than you know. Without them I could not go on. Please meet me there soon for dinner. I will pay for it.

Write back regardless and confirm this letter was received.

I mostly stopped eating months ago though I hope to resume. Most weeks, I have eaten about two meals a week. I have lost 65 pounds. I believe it is partly physical and partly what is being done to me. My father and childhood abuser, James Kiraly of Pismo Beach, is hurting me. This person is obsessed and he will not stop.

I had a job at last. But last night I was forced to give it up. I must write legal documents instead. It would be difficult to describe my feelings. But I found that you'd written this morning and it helped.

You're looking for a job yourself now, right? Let me help if possible. I have few contacts but I wish to discuss it. You may find me at Chilis some nights where I drink diet cola. Or you may phone me at REDACTED and we can arrange dinner; it will be on me.

Regards, Robert Kiraly (OldCoder)

130116.6. About a week ago it seemed as though I might have landed a job. But this week I learned that Michael Bonetto of Hoge Fenton, James Kiraly of Pismo Beach, and Thomas Kiraly of Humana Corporation are planning things that will go farther than I'd have expected even of my obsessed father and idiot brother.

By idiot brother, I mean Thomas, of course. Kenneth Kiraly, the inventor of the Kindle, is also involved but he is no fool. Or is he?

As a side note to Kenneth Kiraly: Kenny, you're going to need to explain yourself. You know that, right?

And, Kenny, if you decide to file CLETS based on that remark, be sure to include this P.S.: My remark is a casual, lawful, and appropriate statement related to false and fraudulent actions by people who have misrepresented actual events, made imaginary events up out of whole cloth, and/or stated actual lies under oath, who may have committed felonies related to criminal conspiracy, and who have done serious and lasting harm with a lack of good faith and most likely with malicious intent.

Nice folks. We also need to discuss God, Ken. Where do you stand on the responsibilities of Christians in the temporal world? That's one of the questions that I asked Pastor Ron, by the way.

Moving on, I'm forced to focus on legal documents for the moment. Last night I told the person who'd offered me work the situation. He left without a word. I don't know if he'll talk to me again.

I've said before that there are no words to describe how it feels when an abuser knocks his victim to the floor one more time.

To see first-hand what wealth can do.

To be forced to spend thousands of dollars defending against legal attacks when there are not even specific allegations.

There are allegations. Just not specific. The paperwork seems to discuss two or three instances of hacking, stalking connected to a Happy Birthday call that was arranged in advance by appointment, vaguely described actions by the Pismo Beach police that never happened, a polite call to a church for which my mother gave full permission, and much, much more.

As the kids say, “Oh, noes! Can the threat be contained?”

But it is a Feast of Fantasy. The legal papers are largely “I feel this...” or “I believe that...”. Hundreds of pages of attacks but almost nothing is stated explicitly. So what's left of my life is smashed to pieces and it is difficult to fight back.

There are a few specific allegations. Here's a good one. I offered to give my grandfather's books of religious poetry to Thomas Kiraly, Vice President of Humana Corporation. Thomas characterized this as extortion but did not quite explain what he meant.

Ironically enough, my brother's corporation fights child abuse. More about that another time.

To have had no life and to see one's attempts to rebuild it smashed. To watch every attempt to start over taken away by those full of hatred and denial.

The feelings can't be articulated. However, on a practical level, I can say this much. This matter will not rest — and I mean that in a lawful and appropriate way, Michael Bonetto.

Do you doubt this, young man?

Oh, and by the way, I'm aware that you're planning to cherry pick this lawful and appropriate website in attempts to paint me as “crazy” and “dangerous”. What will you do with this post? Take a pen and circle the words “This matter will not rest” ?

How creative of you. That is not a “threat”, Michael Bonetto. That is a lawful and appropriate promise. Calls to First Amendment advocates and news media resume after I complete new documents.

The documents that I just sacrificed a job for. A job that I needed. As I've said before, “gee, thanks”.

If I lose Long Cause based on actual lies by you personally, perjury by your clients, Abuse of Process, or felony criminal conspiracy on your part, lawful and appropriate calls to First Amendment advocates, child and spousal abuse support groups, reporters, and other individuals and groups working towards positive social goals will continue.

130115.1. Previously, I posted an interesting “stipulation” document that we'd sent to James Kiraly's attorney, Michael Bonetto. Here's a letter about the document. The letter provides additional context and has also gone to Michael:

Click here for letter about stipulation

For the sake of completeness, here's the original document again:

Click here for stipulation document

130115.2. I received the following message today. I'll withhold the nick. There are no edits at all except for a line break added in one place:

This isn't one of the people I write about often though he's been mentioned before. I wanted to say thank you. And that words matter. Words both record and shape feelings. And those matter. Even online.

This person is part of the online world. So he isn't real by some standards. But I'll take one of him, even if briefly, over all the Kiralys.

130115.3. The photo below seems to go with the preceding note. It's George Kerechanko of Paso Robles with a friend of his. They're standing in the front yard of the Kiraly's house in Walnut Creek, California.

George was one of my last remaining blood relatives. Ivan Kmeta, whose books of religious poetry Thomas Kiraly of Humana Corporation has characterized in court papers as a crime, was both my grandfather and George's uncle.

LittleCoder valued George. George won't speak with me now, though. Odd thing is, he won't say so. On the rare occasions that we talk, there's a pretense that everything is well. But I've used legal discovery to find out what the Kerechankos said to the Kiralys.

I understand now that facts don't matter to some people. They work backwards from their feelings. As a note to the Baron, this is what I've meant when I've referred to the concept of the Fur.

130115.4. Thinking about feelings leads me to think about families. And about the Kiralys.

For more than a century, the Kiralys have been about child and spousal abuse, infidelity, a shallow devotion to status, obsession, psychosis, and even suicide. Say, Kenneth Kiraly of Lab126, how much did you know about James Kiraly's side of the family?

I wanted to write about families, Kenny. I'm still going to do so. My perspective is evolving, though. I know what's real and what matters.

Do you?

130115.5. The photo below is simply Kenneth Kiraly, Kindle Inventor, with the older brother who taught him to walk as a baby, to drive a car as a boy, and to code in 'C' as a young man. We'll skip the part about rent free for years tonight.

LittleCoder, the older brother in this photo, really was a geek, wasn't he? But there's nothing wrong with that. Or with being autistic. I wish he'd understood this.