NOTE THIS POST HAS BEEN AMENDED TO COMPLY WITH A COMPLAINT FROM ROB GROCE THAT THE ORIGINAL TEXT INCLUDED 83 WORDS TAKEN FROM A POST HE HAD MADE. THOSE WORDS HAVE BEEN REMOVED WITH MY APOLOGIES.
MR. GROCE ALSO CLAIMED THAT THE IMAGE OF A GUN CAME FROM ART HE HAD PAID FOR. THE GUN HAS HAS BEEN CHANGED AND THE GRAPHIC IS REDRAWN..
THE ORIGINAL POST CAN BE SEEN AT THIS LINK. 
Find Your Local KKK
I know I am a bore for writing so much about South Carolina. There are probably worst places to live, places with more racism, more KKK activity, more anti labor laws, more gun culture, etc. But somehow stuff like this keep showing up ..
While the FBI tells us that violet crime is on the decline , South Carolina remains a national leader in the idea being that guns keep ya safe and all. Guns raffles even play a prominent role in their state wide elections. As 24/7 Wall St. notes, the home of the Confederacy remains the sixth most dangerous place in the US.
“Despite the national improvement in crime rates — as well as significant improvements in some of the most dangerous states — a number of states were much more dangerous than the rest of the nation. In fact, South Carolina and Delaware had among the largest decreases in violent crime and still had some of the highest violent crime rates in 2013.”
The most dangerous states, ranked by number of violent crimes per 100,000 population, are:
Let me explain why this red text is here.
EXTORTION:
Yesterday I got an email threatening to sue me if I did not send the author, a “Rob Groce,” $200.
Mr. Groce asserted that I had “plagiarized” a post he had composed for another site.
I had, in fact, found a site with quotes from the FBI and from the 24/7 Wall Street site. Mr. Groce had written a short post that had these quotes. Inadvertently I had included 84 of his words along with the quotes. I also used a graphic that contained a US map and the FBI logo .. all pubic domain.
I called Mr. Groce to see how my error could be resolved, He was very aggressive, repeating the threat of what would happen if I did not pay him $200. He made more threats .. including threats to defame me at the UW and to professional societies unless I sent him $200.
I became suspicious that more was happening when these threats included assertions that I am suffering from some sort of psychiatric disorder. These assertions were rather specific and were backed up when Mr. Croce claimed that he had a masters degree form “LSU-FS”. I asked what the FS was but he would not answer (LSU has branch campuses in Shreveport, Alexandria, Eunice and New Orleans.) I also looked him up on Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=23444881&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=VPt8&locale=en_US&srchid=299938721423524011555&srchindex=2&srchtotal=10&trk=vsrp_people_res_name&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A299938721423524011555%2CVSRPtargetId%3A23444881%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary). Assuming this is the same person, the profile does not describe any expertise in psycholcogy. Who knows?
I do not know where Mr., Groce got his purported expertise but the words were similar to those used to by my brother in law, William Quick. Dr. Quick has an MD and is boarded in endocrinology. For whatever reason, Bill hates me. Moreover, Bill he has made a clinical diagnosis that I am mentally ill and used his MD to urge my employer ot have me removed. It is odd that the same ideas, incuding threats to inform the UW of my purported illness, would occur to Mr. Groce when I refused to pay him his $200.
I asked MR. Groce if he knew William Quick since they both live a few miles apart outside Charleston SC. Mr. Groce got angry and denied knowing Bill. I did offer to provide Bill’s contact information.
Mr. Groce then said he was recording the conversation. I informed him that was illegal unless I agreed but he persisted and then hung up when I refused to agree to a recording.
So Mr. Groce (pronounce Gross he says) replied today: Let me begin with notification that this email violates my oft-repeated instruction that you cease all contact to me by email. Your stream of multiple emails last night, and over two and a half hours, contained statements of harassment and threat, which I noted in the Cease & Desist with which I replied today, which you confirmed receiving, and which contained that specific instruction, which you acknowledged noting. Since you have chose to violate that specific request, let me reiterate that in today’s unsolicited telephone call did I state that I would accept no other calls from you, either. Should you again violate my instruction, I will have no choice but to pursue applicable claims for that offense, as well.
Regarding your claims of “threats of defamation”:
Such claim on your part is openly false. As I stated in my C&D, I find any incidence of plagiarism by a college professor in particular to be greatly offensive, and due to my scholarly background and that of my family would I feel compelled to notify appropriate authorities “solely for the benefit of those entities and organizations, the impact of their work, and their declared goals of ethics and legal operation.” As a member of similar organizations myself, I am sworn to uphold such professional standards. Moreover, neither the filing of a valid complaint nor telling the truth constitutes defamation. A much more valid example of defamation would be found on your website, though, which currently reads “extortion” as a title above another segment of the page that includes additional bizarre claims that mention me by name. (I have retained copies of that, as well, and in both digital reproduction of its appearance and its page-source coding.) Add in your current barrage against me through social media, and my claims of defamation from you against me are of solid foundation.
Regarding your claims that I “refused to help identify” your plagiarism:
I identified it in my original notification to you; I identified it in my C&D; I went over it with you word-for-word when we spoke by telephone, with each of us viewing the website of relativity at the same time. And multiple times. As a result, not only is this claim false, but it’s the complete opposite of what’s taken place. In fact, your conversation on this subject today seemed to relapse in multiple cycles, each time taking the same paths and results, but which only compelled you to again attempt to restart those cycles all over again.
I also deny this sudden “(I) may be involved in a criminal action” accusation you now make; for you to insinuate such with no foundation is yet another error on your part. Since you have now introduced such bizarre and defamatory claim through this recorded medium, I can only feel compelled to see that questioned in a formal legal environment.
That you are now including this and other negative, defamatory, and incorrect information about me on social media, which I have also retained in digital imaging, is crossing the line. I will not tolerate your abusive harassment any longer, especially since you only issue it due to an error of legal, ethical, professional, and moral varieties on your part.
I am glad that you have included an attorney in this communication; please recall my reply to the first of your long stream of harassing and threatening emails, in which did I suggest you discontinue such messages and instead consult an attorney. That you apparently didn’t tell him much about this situation prior to this latest email (which, let me repeat, has been issued despite my repeated statements that such communication from you would not be welcome) stands apparent, however, and indicates that you have included him too late for your benefit, as well.
Mr. Flig, when you have license in South Carolina, or when your client/friend has retained another attorney who is, be sure to let me know. For your perusal is my C&D attached.
I will close by repeating to Dr. Schwartz that he may not contact me again directly, not by email or telephone or other means aside from certified mail from Mr. Flig or another legal representative, with exception to that which I would receive secondarily as notice of the payment which I am legally, morally, and ethically due. Should he refuse that simple and generous offer, then I have no choice but to proceed with my original claim, and after the expiration of the time period I proposed. I will also feel compelled to add additional charges, however, due to your recent, unethical, unprofessional, and law-violating response recently added to your website.