health598@aol.com (Health598) writes:

> I'm a writer doing an article on the link between depression and shoplifting. Research has found that some honest, upstanding, middle-class people, especially women, sometimes shoplift when they're depressed or when they've suffered some kind of loss in their lives. I want to interview someone who's had such an experience and who has been counseled or treated professionally for it.

> I want to stress anonymity here. Although I'll need to know your name and be able to check your story through police files or your therapist, no one else--except perhaps my editor--will have any idea who you are. Your name, locale, and other identifying characteristics can be changed for your protection. I simply want to hear about this experience from the inside.

> You can e-mail a message, including your telephone number, to James Morgan at BBArnold@aol.com

Holy Fucking Shithead!!!! Blow this project out your ass, will you??

Do you have any fucking idea what anonymity means? It means NO IDENTIFYING INFORMATION OF ANY KIND. You ask for names and phone numbers, and of course you're going to get email addresses, too. You won't tell a soul, except the police, and people's therapists--do you know how most therapists deal with confidentiality?? I seriously doubt it, since you don't know the meaning of it yourself--and oh, yes, maybe your editor will know, but no one else, you promise, you promise, you promise, you idiotic shitbird, and you might even change names and other identifying characteristics after fucking after you've blown it to people who can do serious damage and to others who are under no such compulsion as your so-obviously-false promise to keep anything a god-damned secet???

And what the HELL is going on with your own email setup? You post from one ID, one that doesn't reflect a name of any kind, then ask people to mail to another ID with the name of--not just another person, and certainly not the name you used to sign this outrageous post--it looks like Benedict "I'll never betray anyone or anything, I promise" Arnold. Anonymity in-fucking-deed.

You want to come around and prey on depressed people so you can sell other people's misery and make a fat profit on it?? You are a vulture. I can smell your carrion-breath from here.

I learned to swear like a sailor when I was in the Navy.