The Common Denominator in Ron Collins' Woes

Ron Collins seemed surprised when the members of the Black Dragon Fighting Society stepped aside and let him make the choice to fight Don Roley or not. Collins acted very brave as long as they were between him and Roley. He made a big show of moving toward Roley when he knew they were there to hold him back. But when the choice was his to fight or not, he fled and claimed that he would rather sue Roley and many others instead.

So what has happened with this lawsuit? The answer is, nothing really.

As Collins tells it, first he will sue the prosecutors that sent him to jail and to a mental hospital. He claims to want 25 million dollars. That will clear his name and prove that he is not insane and all his legal troubles are the result of a conspiracy against him by the police, a local motorcycle gang and perhaps the emperor of Japan. The child pornography arrest, the dropped charges for terroristic threats, and all his other charges and legal hassles are all bogus according to him -- and that will be proved, he says, when he gets his day in court and clears his name. He seems to ask people to put off judgement on him based on his many arrests (and on the significant time he has spent in jail and in William Sharpe mental hospital) until things are settled in this first lawsuit.

Then he claims that he will sue others who have exposed him on the internet, including Roley.

One would think that anyone who thought a lawsuit would clear his name would work hard on it. Indeed, Collins has used the excuse that he was too busy working industriously on his legal case to follow through with his own numerous fight challenges. But no one has been served with any papers at all. Not a single person. He went to the trouble of filing some papers, and gleefully put them up on a blog to show he was pursuing the lawsuit. But after that, nothing at all has happened.

As noted, Collins is a bully and a coward. He has tried to use threats to cause his victims to worry since direct action by him would be useless. His threatening of Roley’s family is an example, but he has also tried to use the threat of a lawsuit to achieve the same aims. He talks and talks about a lawsuit, reminding people that they can expect to be in court, but he never goes through with any action.

No lawyer will take his case, not even the most sleazy ambulance chaser. He claims to be representing himself. That is telling in many ways. For one, it shows he has no case to speak of. Some of the worst lawyers will take any case with any chance of success and then try to negotiate a settlement instead of taking it to a court of law. That even the most money hungry lawyer would refuse this case means it has no merit at all and would be just a waste of time.

Also, it means that Collins is not eager to get the case in a court of law. He has been talking about lawsuits for years, and nothing has been done to move things to where the issues can be settled. That is because Collins must know that he has no case. A defeat in a courtroom would put the final nail in the coffin of his claims that he was set up -- that he isn’t an insane petty criminal, honest.

As long as the court case is somewhere in the future, there is no final decision as to whether he was set up by a cabal of conspirators. With no resolution to this neverending threat of a lawsuit, this conspiracy (which exists only in his mind) can remain his excuse for anything he does not do and everything he fails in doing. It is therefore in Collins’ interest to keep talking about the lawsuit, but never take action on it.

At this point, the only question is what excuse Collins will use once it is clear that there will be no lawsuit. Will he keep trying to say it is coming? Or will he make an excuse as to why he had to drop the idea altogether?

In any case, one can be sure that Collins will continue to use the excuse of being busy with the lawsuit when he wants to duck something. Nothing will ever enter a courtroom to be tried. This whole, sad fantasy will simply become yet another in a string of failures. These failures characterize Collins' life. He lives in a fantasy world in which he is a "sensei" and some kind of ninja master, a person of power and authority. The sad reality that he is a poverty-stricken, couch-surfing loser is something he will spend the rest of his life trying to avoid thinking about. Collins is, sadly, the common denominator in all his problems, and he will never be able to run away from this fact no matter how hard he tries.