That is not the point here, neither in my resignation or my blog post. Something being controversial does not mean it's ok to be a dick to the people pushing for it, which is the core of what I'm trying to say.
Given they're active on the list in question and while the content crossed a line, the style was not out of character, nor was it later claimed to have been posted by somebody else, so I think we can rule this out.
Why not publish the offending emails? As it is, those who threatened you face no repercussions. Their tactic worked, and they have every incentive to visit abuse upon others in the future.
Edit: Thank you. I was under the impression that the emails were addressed specifically to you, not a mailing list.
They're on debian-devel, and I'm sure the hivemind fill find them quickly enough, but sure: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/05/msg00585.html (and yes, they got pushback, but it took approximately that much until people said WTF).
Thorsten has always been a jerk. I don't think systemd is a new trigger, but it's interesting to see him show up (though I'm not surprised). He used to haunt the OpenBSD lists a decade ago, but was basically sent packing after all his "contributions" were rejected.
Huh? The Norwegian police is still a police force (so they're naturally going to be slightly corrupt regarding the behavior of themselves/other police), and occasionally racist/evil - but they're actually pretty good compared to the police forces almost anywhere else in the world.
I don't see how being a white male in Norway would impact your criminal complaint in any negative way AT ALL.
(CTTE being another abbreviation)