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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Mary Ann on July 11, 2020, 05:05:53 PM
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Star Member Generic Other (26,302 posts)
I was the victim of a hate crime last Thursday
Last edited Sat Jul 11, 2020, 04:35 PM - Edit history (1)
Because my neighbors are inconsiderate Trumpers, I don’t interact with them other than an occasional wave and not even that after they put a Franklin Graham poster in their front yard advertising his appearance last year. They also tore down my sign on a telephone pole on the other side of my house facing me. They probably were the ones who tried to kick over my art installation "4th of Trump" of caged migrant children last 4th of July. These actions said all I ever wanted to know about them.
They rent out their house to college students, and they also rent the garage as well which wasn't even legal until recently. They usually don't do this when they are living in the home themselves. I have been wondering of late if the garage was occupied again as the lights are on late at night. Someone comes in the side gate after midnight as well. At first, I thought it was an animal. Then, I wondered if someone was casing the house. I even put a lock on my gate just in case. And actually worried about their property, wondering if I should say something as watchful neighbors should.
I had thought it odd the man moved his power tools and his motorcycle into the side yard, covering it with a tarp, just to rev the motor twice a day and also to run the power tools, especially when he had a large driveway and double car garage with workshop in the back enclosed by his fence, but I simply closed the window when he sawed so it would be quieter in my space. I assumed the noise would be temporary.
Having never really paid attention, I still knew his buddy came to the front gate every morning. I could hear their voices, but I never looked out knowing it was just the neighbor. No cause for alarm. Today, my window is wide open. I hear the gate open, hear the greetings being shared, so I look casually out the window and freeze!
My flag-waving neighbor is a Nazi.
From where I sit in my office upstairs working, I see his covered old man's uncool hog motorcycle with saddlebags and seats that make it look like a Highway patrolman's ride next to my side of the house, where he revs it twice a day to warm it up as he has every day during COVID because we are on lockdown in a state where mask-wearing is mandated. I have heard the sounds he made all last summer planing pickets for a fence he made, a planter box, and other projects which annoyed me but not enough to complain. Suddenly out of nowhere today though, I hear the sound of voices laughing, and he thanks his buddy for keeping us all safe. The American flag flaps in the breeze framing this scene for me.
I sit by the window typing and working because my street is a COVID soup of unmasked joggers, dog walkers, college students...no one wears a mask even when mandated. 100s walk past every day. Double that number drive past. The window is my safe place. I have sat here since February. Typing, singing, drawing, painting, napping, eating, just staring out.
And now this neighbor has invited an unmasked man who comes in the yard in a bulletproof flack jacket, fluorescent green, Seahawk colors. He's packing a sidearm! A Glock not twenty feet from my window!! His jacket says PASTOR on the back in huge huge letters, and he has a long thin blonde Duck Dynasty ponytail. I just then realize he is probably the man living in the garage, that he makes the noise I hear out the window at the gate in the morning and late at night, that he is why M-80s exploded like an attack on Ft. Lewis on the 4th of July. Vigilante hillbilly George Zimmerman has come in from patrolling my block to protect my neighbors from people of color like me -- an Asian woman who must be a threat to him because he is so afraid.
I LOSE my shit as they say. I call them "hypocritical small dick *****ass NAZI chickenshit fake Christians." Then, I start screaming Bible verses. My dad always made me study my Bible, and we all know the Devil can quote scripture with the best of them. Ask any Republican fundie. I am furious. "Chickenshit NAZIs."
I imagined hosting a BLM protest rally in front of my house. The people from CHOP. All masked. All carrying Skittles. All waving signs. All camping in my yard.
My peace-loving friends calmed me down. You know who you are, but I am a social justice warrior ready to fight. And I will be painting a BLM sign on the side of my house facing the neighbor's window.
I refuse to live in fear.
Starting tomorrow I will be folding cranes and hanging them on my trees and bushes. For George Floyd. For Trayvon Martin. For Emmett Till. For me.
In Japan, the Shinto belief is if you can fold 1000 cranes, you will heal. I hope they are right.
The next day, I posted this:
Sorry, I worried you all. I finally fell asleep this morning, exhausted by my thoughts. I jumped at every shadow and sound before I convinced myself that my ordeal was nothing compared to so many others who stood their ground against HATE.
This morning, when I looked out the window at the man's motorcycle, I noticed why he has been cracking the blinds next to his office window. 20 years, they never opened the blinds. I have three wonderful bay windows with open light in my dining room. To get from my bedroom to the bathroom, I crossed that chain of light. Day and night. No fears. Now, I am afraid that the camera spies on me. Will replace the superfluous door or add a curtain.
Please do not worry unnecessarily. Until then, my only refuge from this neighbor is my upstairs studio/study. And that faces the UPS freshman party house, but they are just noisy, not NAZIs.
I posted to FB where many responded with sympathy and even anger for my sake. Yesterday, the FB page had this response:
Citizen Z says this to me: Ignore them Antfarm. That would be their worst punishment.
Larkworthy: You try being an Asian-American and ignoring my new normal. Please don't trivialize how I am feeling. You have the privilege to ignore a*holes. I don't.
Citizen Z: I’m not trivializing your concerns. These crazy trump people are scary to everyone. But they live for confrontation. What else can you do? They are not going to change their attitude no matter what anyone says to them. I really just saying to avoid them like covid.
Larkworthy: Do you not understand that for POC, your fears are minor? You have the privilege to ignore people who annoy you for being a "libtard," the worst words they can hurl at you. POC die when they stand their ground. They cannot hide. They can't be invisible. If the cops come to my house, I will be the one with a gun to my head, but I also will have documented the truth for all who refuse to see. Don't tell me to live in fear because you are willing to avoid the issue because it does not impact your life.
This also includes LGBTQ, women, the disabled, the elderly, and non-Christians...only straight white rich men get a pass.
To those who unfriended me for calling out unChristian behavior, thanks.
I blocked Citizen Z because he told me to ignore racists.
Addendum: I warned my other neighbors -- the UPS party kids to be on the lookout for the vigilante. They have been marching across the alley from the racists' house singing like a Sunday School Choir:
"ain't no justice anywhere in the world today/ till the judge feel like he wanna play/ ain't no justice round here today..." The youth of tomorrow rock.
I would post in the gungeon, but I trashed them and blocked them years ago. And because they also would not consider this a hate crime.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213735693
Can anyone tell me what the "hate crime" was? Not wearing a mask? I have no idea. I read this fairly quickly, so I may have missed the part where they took her out and beat her while screaming racial epithets at her, but I don't think so.
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And now this neighbor has invited an unmasked man who comes in the yard in a bulletproof flack jacket, fluorescent green, Seahawk colors. He's packing a sidearm! A Glock not twenty feet from my window!!
:rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213735693
Can anyone tell me what the "hate crime" was? Not wearing a mask? I have no idea. I read this fairly quickly, so I may have missed the part where they took her out and beat her while screaming racial epithets at her, but I don't think so.
What I got from that family-sized word salad is that DU-member Generic Other hates her neighbors - all of them, but her next door neighbor especially - and didn't like that one has a Harley and a gun. So she screamed unprovoked obscenities at him.
Which, after she moved on, probably provoked amusement for the neighbors. What a nutcake!
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TL:DR
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I think they need to get a rubber room ready for her at the local nut house. :thatsright: :mental: :mental: :mental: :mental: :mental: :mental: :mental:
I think she is beyond crazy,
The window is my safe place. I have sat here since February. Typing, singing, drawing, painting, napping, eating, just staring out.
She sounds like something out of a horror movie. :thatsright: Just staring out!! , That's a little scary. :o
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Jesus Christ, that was a whole lotta words saying a whole lotta nothing.
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Jesus Christ, that was a whole lotta words saying a whole lotta nothing.
You said it better than I ever could. I was thinking that is 5 minutes of my life I will never get back.
H5!
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Could anyone figure what the heck it was that indicated to her that they were nazis and what they did that constituted a hate crime? Revving the motorcycle might be annoying but I don't think it rises to the level of a hate crime so she must be referring to something else. The laughing or one of them having a ponytail maybe?
I sit by the window typing and working because my street is a COVID soup of unmasked joggers, dog walkers, college students...no one wears a mask even when mandated. 100s walk past every day. Double that number drive past. The window is my safe place. I have sat here since February. Typing, singing, drawing, painting, napping, eating, just staring out.
Cuckoo cuckoo.
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I read the whole word salad, I never did find what the 'Hate crime' was supposed to be.
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I read the whole word salad, I never did find what the 'Hate crime' was supposed to be.
Maybe that's in episode 2?
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The bigger the bouncy the more Trump will win by.
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Linda's street:
1517 N Alder St
Pierce County, WA, that hotbed of white supremacy.
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Generic Other <-------------------- loon
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She added photos.
(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/4d/df/d8/4ddfd8416986afe7961c63cb2e9460e6.jpg)
Who wears a day-glow flack [sic] vest?
Citizen Z says this to me: Ignore them Antfarm. That would be their worst punishment.
Larkworthy: You try being an Asian-American and ignoring my new normal. Please don't trivialize how I am feeling. You have the privilege to ignore a*holes. I don't.
Citizen Z: I’m not trivializing your concerns. These crazy trump people are scary to everyone. But they live for confrontation. What else can you do? They are not going to change their attitude no matter what anyone says to them. I really just saying to avoid them like covid.
Larkworthy: Do you not understand that for POC, your fears are minor? You have the privilege to ignore people who annoy you for being a "libtard," the worst words they can hurl at you. POC die when they stand their ground. They cannot hide. They can't be invisible. If the cops come to my house, I will be the one with a gun to my head, but I also will have documented the truth for all who refuse to see. Don't tell me to live in fear because you are willing to avoid the issue because it does not impact your life.
This also includes LGBTQ, women, the disabled, the elderly, and non-Christians...only straight white rich men get a pass.
To those who unfriended me for calling out unChristian behavior, thanks.
I blocked Citizen Z because he told me to ignore racists.
Addendum: I warned my other neighbors -- the UPS party kids to be on the lookout for the vigilante. They have been marching across the alley from the racists' house singing like a Sunday School Choir:
"ain't no justice anywhere in the world today/ till the judge feel like he wanna play/ ain't no justice round here today..." The youth of tomorrow rock.
I would post in the gungeon, but I trashed them and blocked them years ago. And because they also would not consider this a hate crime.
A future Jussie Smollet in the making.
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Could anyone figure what the heck it was that indicated to her that they were nazis and what they did that constituted a hate crime? Revving the motorcycle might be annoying but I don't think it rises to the level of a hate crime so she must be referring to something else. The laughing or one of them having a ponytail maybe?
Cuckoo cuckoo.
I believe it was the assault Glock that triggered her.
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Linda's street:
1517 N Alder St
Pierce County, WA, that hotbed of white supremacy.
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A block from the United Methodist Church's University of Puget Sound in Tacoma? :rotf:
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I believe it was the assault Glock that triggered her.
:hi5: earned and issued!
She added photos.
(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/4d/df/d8/4ddfd8416986afe7961c63cb2e9460e6.jpg)
Who wears a day-glow flack [sic] vest?
A future Jussie Smollet in the making.
The vest looks more like a insulated hunting vest - insulated for warmth, day-glow for safety. Given WA climate, warmth at a shooting range could be a consideration.
A false police call would be about her speed. I doubt she has the friends or intelligence to try Smollett's stunt (which wasn't all that intelligent).
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Generic Other (26,306 posts)
18. Yes these are sad and terrible times
I am done. I feel I said my piece. I stood my damn ground as bravely as I was able. If others can do this across America, I have to step up too. They faced way worse. I read the transcript of GeorgE Floyd's arrest. I get chills when I think of it. Triggered by the memory of reading it out loud to my friend. I channeled the dying man's words and it went through me like a ghost spirit. I never had such a strange out-of-body experience. I was already very sleepy when I saw the transcript at 1 am or so, and began to read thinking it would be 1/2 a page. It was 7-8 I think. When he invoked the memory of his dead mother as I was reading, when he begged for his life, I fell into a trance-like state (sleep deprivation caused). My friend kind of woke me up, said I was reading one word at a time so slow after that that he grew alarmed, said I slumped over the keyboard. He touched my shoulder, and I started reading faster again. I have been haunted ever since. I experienced his death in a sense. It was so jarring. I dreamed of his death, and when I awoke in the morning, I said, George Floyd spoke to me last night.
Not exactly an explainable experience. I didn't march, protest or risk my body for the first time in my life. But I awake now, knowing that COVID is a shit poor excuse not to speak out against this injustice. I am also one the gov of Texas said should just die for being old. No. "I will not go gentle into that good night."
Generic Other is seriously weird.
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Generic Other is seriously weird.
She's a few neurons short of all there.
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George Floyd spoke to me last night.
"I dindu nuffin. Now gimme yo money, whitey!"
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PADDED ROOM FOR ONE AT THE KOOKY RANCH COMING UP.
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I didn't make it past the "4th of Trump" caged migrant children art installation.
You've got to be shitting me. That is seriously crazy. :mental:
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Could anyone figure what the heck it was that indicated to her that they were nazis and what they did that constituted a hate crime? Revving the motorcycle might be annoying but I don't think it rises to the level of a hate crime so she must be referring to something else. The laughing or one of them having a ponytail maybe?
Cuckoo cuckoo.
They MIGHT have philosophies the DUmmie disagrees with. That is a hate crime and proof they are Nazis.
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I read the whole word salad, I never did find what the 'Hate crime' was supposed to be.
Thats simple, being happy, displaying the flag and liking Trump. To a leftist thats World ending. :-)
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I read the whole word salad, I never did find what the 'Hate crime' was supposed to be.
It must be in there somewhere. All the DUpipo ageee that she was a victim.
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That was just a long, rambling rant with no point.
Nowhere in there did I see anything that would amount to a "Hate crime," nor anything that would suggest the neighbor was a Nazi.
However, here are some things I DID see and pick up on:
1. There's no way a flak jacket would be fluorescent green.
2. " that he is why M-80s exploded like an attack on Ft. Lewis on the 4th of July."
I seriously doubt they were M- 80s. While not completely banned in the US, M-80's are so heavily regulated (They contain more than 50 milligrams of pyrotechnic flash powder, and thus exceed the legal maximum limit on consumer- grade fireworks that can be available for general public sale) that they can only be legally acquired if the purchaser has a special license issued by the ATF.
3. As you guys have noted, she just comes across as a complete nutcase. Between randomly shrieking at her neighbors, the disturbing description of her dependence on her window (It does indeed sound like something out of a horror film; I can just picture soft, spooky music playing as she stares out the window at people passing and slowly slips further into madness), and that follow- up post in which she said she was kind of channeling the spirit of George Floyd, she SERIOUSLY needs help.
4. "Starting tomorrow I will be folding cranes and hanging them on my trees and bushes. For George Floyd. For Trayvon Martin. For Emmett Till. For me."
That REALLY got to me. I said this on the site years ago back when I was just "movie buff," but it bears repeating: Attempting to compare Trayvon Martin to Emmett Till is despicable, and an insult to Emmett Till's memory. I've prepared a little compare/ contrast (Mostly contrast) exercise to demonstrate this.
First, let's look at the deaths:
Emmett Till was a nice enough 14 year old kid from the North visiting his cousin in Mississippi who was forcibly taken from his cousin's house and brutally murdered (With an emphasis on "Brutally"; the Before and After pictures of Emmett would turn some people's hair white) by a pair of genuine racists simply for jokingly flirting with a white woman who he didn't know was married. It was a hideous, savage act of cowardice and hate.
Trayvon Martin, in contrast, was a 17 year old thug who had an obsession with violence and particularly MMA fighting, was a drug addict and likely a burglar, and was killed quickly in self- defense by a mixed- race man (And one who had previously been known for counseling and mentoring black youths in the area and for raising public awareness/ outrage over the beating of a black homeless man in the area at the hands of a white cop's son that was largely being ignored until he got involved) who Trayvon was trying to beat to death, and who had first tried screaming for help and only shot Trayvon when it became clear nobody was going to come and help him in time. On top of that, Zimmerman didn't even realize Trayvon was dead until afterwards when the police first talked to him about it. This means he was not deliberately shooting to kill. This attitude provides a great contrast to Trayvon, who was heard loudly shouting "YOU'RE GONNA DIE TONIGHT, B&&CH!" while attacking Zimmerman.
Next, let's look at the trials:
When Emmett Till's murderers went on trial, their defense attorney relied on a flat- out ridiculous argument: He claimed that Emmett Till was in fact still alive! He claimed (All without a shred of real evidence) that the mutilated corpse seen by morticians and Till's mother really belonged to someone else, and that the real Emmett Till was hiding out in Chicago. In spite of how ludicrous this argument was, the killers were acquitted by an all- white jury after less than an hour of deliberation (The jurors apparently even had enough time for a soda break before announcing their verdict). Almost immediately after being acquitted, knowing that they were protected by the Double Jeopardy Clause, the two scumbags bragged in magazine interviews that they did indeed kill Emmett to make an example of him.
When George Zimmerman went on trial, his defense attorney used eyewitness testimony, medical records, and other valid evidence to clearly prove that Martin attacked first and Zimmerman shot him in self- defense. The prosecution, in contrast, used piss- poor arguments based largely on shallow emotional appeals and the testimony of a single witness whose credibility was called into serious question during the cross- examination. Unsurprisingly, Zimmerman was acquitted after the jury deliberated for over 16 hours. To the best of my knowledge, Zimmerman's account of the incident post- acquittal has not changed a single word from what it was before.
Lastly, let's look at the aftermaths:
Emmett Till's murderers were left alone, and both died at ripe old ages (Though unless they repented of what they did, they are currently experiencing the full penalty of their actions in Hell).
For three years after the shooting, George Zimmerman was investigated for civil rights violations by Obama's "Justice" Department out of pure spite before the DOJ finally had to back off due to lack of evidence. He and his family are being deluged with death threats from angry black supremacists, and he was wounded in a murder attempt in 2014 by a nutcase named Matthew Apperson.
Again I say, to compare Trayvon Martin to Emmett Till is despicable, and an insult to Till's memory. Shame on her for even trying to imply that comparison.
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Thanks, Movie Buff. There was a lot of monkey business going on with the George Zimmerman trial. I think there is a movie coming out. (Or maybe it's already out.) Jack Cashill has written about it. Apparently, they substituted one Diamond Eugene for another. There was no one that was a fair trial. Just glad the outcome was justice for Zimmerman.
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Adult social services should be called out to check on this one. At bare minimum, the bottles of piss should be emptied out
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:hi5: earned and issued!
The vest looks more like a insulated hunting vest - insulated for warmth, day-glow for safety. Given WA climate, warmth at a shooting range could be a consideration.
A false police call would be about her speed. I doubt she has the friends or intelligence to try Smollett's stunt (which wasn't all that intelligent).
I've seen vests like that before, that is the kind of vest (nazi flak jacket, rather) that the adult volunteers wear that serve as crossing guards around the school by my house.
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In my youth we would get a hold of M80s from Mexico. One time we blew up a steel cased trunk about 1.5 X 3 X 2 feet in dimensions. It blew that case up in the air about 30 feet high. The old hippie communist would have known if it was an M80. The whole neighborhood would have known it.
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Star Member Generic Other (26,302 posts)
I was the victim of a hate crime last Thursday
You are the nutty neighbor that the kids egg and tee-pee every Halloween.