If you missed Part 1, find it here.

Despite me believing that those in Knysna using deceptive social media profiles for political and personal interests should be punished, it makes sense to seek a solution where possible.

It was difficult for me to offer such to Dr Martin Young, a man who has applied to be a Democratic Alliance (DA) candidate for the forthcoming local elections. Difficult because he has said absolutely hideous things whilst growing into one of the main propagandists against me. He, and those he hangs out with online, post nastiness and lies about me on a daily basis.

It’s no surprise that I failed. It’s no surprise that Young doesn’t want peace. Nevertheless, i tried.

Young’s responses are incredibly disturbing and empty of facts. He threatens me, he threatens local businesses. He claims to be part of a shadowy group of people out to have me jailed. He speaks as if he’s their leader but there are too many cooks in that soup for me to be convinced of it.

Whatever the truth, I consider it part of the conspiracy that has been against me since i started asking the Democratic Alliance (DA) questions that they refused to answer because, I believe, it implicates many of our town’s leaders in maladministration and corruption.

I ask readers to consider whether Young speaks for you and Knysna.. and to ask yourself if this is the type of DA leader you wish for? If you subscribe to any of the pages of the Knysna League of Cyberstalkers (let’s label them what they are), ask yourself if this attitude is what you wish to be associated with?

This is a continuation of Part 1 (which you should read first). The indented emails are Young’s…

From: Mike Hampton
To: Dr Martin Young
Sent: 24 March 2016 10:15
Subject: Attention Martin Young: stop your unfounded defamation campaign

This a request for you to:

1. Stop approaching businesses in an attempt to get them to join you in your crusade against me.

2. To delete all threads referring to me on your Facebook pages. That would include shutting down Hampton Factor and Protecting Brand Knysna. I don’t have to pick and choose because they are all geared towards discrediting me, often with the most hateful and insulting speech.

If you want to serve Knysna, you should do so through good example, not a campaign based on your hate.

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From: Dr Martin Young
To: Mike Hampton

Attention Hampton

I am an activist.  I do what is necessary for our town.

I have discovered your weaknesses and what drives you. I will not stop until your sick campaign against Knysna’s people comes to an end.

You will be surprised to know how many businesses want you gone from Knysna. We will be tapping into that desire to fund the legal costs of countering any challenge you bring.

You will do jail time in this town. It’s not a threat, just a statement of fact, based on your own actions.  And you will have no one else to blame but yourself.

I, unlike you, have 17 years of being a good example in serving this town, with an emphatic record.

You have been a dismal failure in doing anything concrete for Knysna.

I feel sorry for you, because I know that you cannot see it in yourself.

So bring it on, bully boy. Help me teach you a lesson. I’ve faced far bigger and scarier adversaries than you and have yet to lose.

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From: Mike Hampton
To: Dr Martin Young

You said, “Surprise, surprise, just the man I’m talking about,” when i walked into [business name removed] at 11.40am today. Considering my earlier email, the timing would be comical if the matter weren’t so serious.

Before you noticed me, i’d been standing behind you, listening to you defame me, asking the poor bar lady to get the business to stand against me, along with the other businesses you had already collected to do so.

To your credit, you never tried to lie about what you were doing. It would have been disingenuous if you had as it correlates with your actions on the grossly misnamed Protecting Brand Knysna.

It’s would be a sad indictment if the DA accepted your application.

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From: Dr Martin Young
To: Mike Hampton

Oh they’ll come around, believe me. I’m betting money and business survival comes long before any sense of friendship you can offer them. They just need to understand what drives you to do what you do, and what it costs them. The moment it is out there that [business name removed] supports you and enables you there is bound to be a consequence to their business. It’s not the kind of negative image a business wants in Knysna.

I have no need to lie anywhere or under any situation and certainly will not start now.

PBK [Protecting Brand Knysna] will continue and will have a strong influence on making your life harder, by giving fair comment on your activities, and allowing debate where you allow none.

So it is going to get much harder for you to do what you do here. And you make a big mistake if you think it is only me – the number of activists dedicated to seeing you stop your nonsense is growing by the week.

As for your views on my capabilities and the DA I don’t care the slightest bit what you think. I’m determined that you will be a spent force if and by the time I get to serve this town in another capacity. Notice is served.

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From: Dr Martin Young
To: Mike Hampton

FYI.

Get one of these or equivalent and perhaps I’ll reconsider your value to this town.

[he attached a certificate of service that he received from Knysna Rotary]

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From: Mike Hampton
To: Dr Martin Young

I already know that you’re arrogant. You don’t need to prove it to me.

What i need if for you to be fair and decent person of reason.

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From: Dr Martin Young
To: Mike Hampton

I request you to stop abusing Knysna’s democratically elected leaders on your Facebook page and on your websites. Your efforts have shown no conclusive evidence of wrongdoing and have severely damaged Knysna’s image at ongoing considerable financial cost to the town.

There is enough evidence of your non compliance with the court orders against you in three cases to see you do jail time.

I am prepared to make an effort to see that this does not happen on five conditions.

1. You permanently delete your website Knysna Keep and all its online records
2. You permanently delete your Facebook page Love Knysna
3. You end your senseless and wasteful campaign against elected Knysna leaders and suitably appointed Knysna officials
4. Any future web presence you decide to have never includes Knysna by name in the title and is open to public comment and interaction
5. You agree to have counseling for Narcissistic Personality Disorder – we will make an effort to see that the costs thereof are covered by interested individuals.

You have 72 hours to comply with the first two requests, failing which my team’s efforts to see you imprisoned as soon as possible will intensify.

We have other plans to achieve the first two points with you doing jail time but hope and trust you will see the value in seizing this opportunity while you still can.

Yours sincerely

Martin Young

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From: Mike Hampton
To: Dr Martin Young

You do not own brand “Knysna”.

You do not represent Knysna.

You do not represent anyone i’ve been in court with.

Threatening me with jail is heinous and reprehensible.

You have never presented any information to counter any of my articles, in particular my submission to Parliament. You talk and type a lot but without substance.

You practice as a medical doctor, not a psychiatrist. You have never had a conversation with me let alone an assessment.

What kind of doctor are you if you don’t believe in the doctor’s motto of “do no harm”? What kind of doctor would use their medical page to attack me? What kind of doctor would seek to damage my charitable work; my kids project and the free advertising i give local businesses?

Not a healthy one.

Your cyberstalking campaign is unfounded and disgusting. You, Mark Allan and Martin Hatchuel seem to be nasty peas in a dirty pod, destructive for the sake of self-interest and political interest – facts are absent, your lies abound.

It’s worrying that you’re friends with DA politicians. It’s even more worrying that the DA hasn’t stopped you and your conspirators (not a warm “team” at all) from staining their image. That you’ve applied to be a leader of our town is disturbing on a much darker level.

The only positive is that your actions are revealing who you are. Online, you and your “team” are damaging the public’s opinion of you. Mark Allan doesn’t care; he takes joy in it no matter which way he goes. But you, Martin Hatchuel, Mark Beard, Angie Manser, Ashley Barnes and Gustav Malan live here. Due to pending cases, i leave out the names of our politicians who should be included too. But all of you are ensuring that the public will never look at you the same way again.

Regards your crusade to have businesses attack me, you’re illogically approaching them blindly, failing to realise that i’ve been a patron of some and have given many free advertising for over 6 years. You have no relationship with some of the businesses you’re trying to get to join your crusade against me. They call me and tell me about the nutty guy who spoke badly about me. That you put them in a uncomfortable position makes them most uncomfortable with you, not me.

Mark my words, your “Consequences – Just Ahead” sign on Twitter will prove prophetic, not for me but for you and your team of cyberstalkers.

Stop being an obsessive bully.

PLEASE TAKE A DEEP BREATH. Take several…

…way up the pros and cons. Be rational. Consider my words and your actions instead of just reacting. Share this with your cohorts. Act together, removing all posts against me, refusing to participate negatively on Knysna Knews or the DA’s FB pages, deleting Hampton Factor, deleting Protecting Brand Knysna, deleting AngryMikeH. Then each issue a brief but sincere public apology.

If you can’t do that for our town then at least do it for self-interest.

I will re-post the apologies once and, if you all do so, i’ll write a collective article to bring this matter to a close. Thereafter, i won’t mention you again. You won’t mention me again. If we unfortunately find ourselves caught up in court cases of others, we address it minimalistically, with simple facts and no emotion. Overall, we don’t seek conflict.

If we do, it will make Knysna less messy, more able to focus on issues instead of personalities gone wild. Our town needs less ego, gossip and negative entertainment. It needs more focus on construction and working together as our tough times likely get tougher.

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From: Dr Martin Young
To: Mike Hampton

Thanks but no thanks.

Well then, jail is more than likely your next Knysna destination.

You need it. You deserve it. And you’ve earned it. Consequences!!!!

I am not practicing as a doctor in this instance, but as an activist who truly loves this town.

As for your diagnosis it is clearly apparent by your actions and writings. No consultation required.

We will see who is still active and happy in Knysna after this is over. That is all I have to say to you.

[unfortunately, his last sentence wasn’t true]

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From: Dr Martin Young
To: Mike Hampton

I was wrong.

I do have something more to say to you.

You seem not to realize that you are in no position to negotiate. I’m surprised you even tried. We hold all the cards, and have all the power to make your life really and truly miserable. I am more determined and more persistent than anyone you have ever opened your mouth against. I remind you that you started this.

I think that you should reconsider my offer. You have less than 48 hours to do so.

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From: Mike Hampton
To: Dr Martin Young

It is unfortunate that you always have more to say.

Do you have a messiah complex or are you able to define who “we” is?

You’re twisting words again. There was no “negotiation”. I offered you a solution and you rejected it. We know where we stand.

As for your 48hr ultimatum, exactly what is supposed to happen at Monday at 8.31pm? Does your threat extend beyond the comfort of your armchair nastiness and political ambitions?

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From: Dr Martin Young
To: Mike Hampton

The warrants of arrest are already issued Mike. We will choose exactly when to use them.

Any time, any place, you have no idea.

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From: Mike Hampton
To: Dr Martin Young

You failing to answer the questions = zero credibility.

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From: Dr Martin Young
To: Mike Hampton

Oh alright then.

‘We’ are an open consortium of all the people in Knysna you have ever dared to attack, now come together to make sure you pay handsomely for your activities. You’ve never known when to stop, nor when is enough.

In addition are wealthy businessmen and women who see the damage you are doing and are prepared to pay to see it stopped.

No names. You’ll probably never know.

Feel better now?

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From: Mike Hampton
To: Dr Martin Young

At the very least, you’ve made it clear that it’s a conspiracy of nonsense and cowardice.

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From: Dr Martin Young
To: Mike Hampton

It’s very serious. No nonsense to it.

You’ve no one to blame but yourself.

So, Knysna, what do you think? Is aspirant DA candidate Dr Martin Young the guardian angel of Knysna or just another political devil?