September 8, 2011
13. Newblog2011: 09/08/11 Privacy Violations and Even More Abuse
It seems as if some of the same people who think they have the right to do things such as illegally hack and track my food stamps balance also think that they have the right to make accusations against me that I am too thin.
I’ve said, many times, that nobody has the right to track my food stamps purchases, much less to publicize them. Although I’ve declared many times by now that nobody should be reading messages into my purchases, either, I have been self-conscious about buying things with anything but cash for more than a year, since I first realized that my bank account had been hacked by more people than I could possibly know were doing it.
It can take me an hour or more to buy anything at any store, especially as the issues being perpetuated have gotten worse and worse, and the abuse of me has not abated. It was already true that I was at least self-conscious once I realized last year that all the purchases I made electronically were being illegally observed, and it’s also true now with cash purchases, because there are a lot of people in everyday life now who know who I am.
If I’m getting especially thin, it might have something to do with the fact that I don’t just choose to walk everywhere, I HAVE to walk everywhere because I don’t even have a dollar to my name and because it’s such an ordeal to get food everywhere I go that sometimes I can’t deal with it.
Going to the store, I get stalked electronically and sometimes other other than electronically, also. It's not as if strangers in Boston don't follow me around, trying to get close enough to me that they can make disgusting comments into their cellphones from less than a foot away from me, pretending to be talking to or about someone else.
Anywhere that I eat a free meal, there are varying levels of harassment, whether it’s loud or otherwise direct harassment in the form of people rubbing their noses, grunting, coughing, making vomiting sounds, sneezing and/or comments by staff and by other homeless people, Wet Floor signs where there is no wet floor, caution cones, yellow caution tape, or just the food that’s been provided in situations where it’s obvious that harassment was on the minds of the people who made the choices of what to serve all of the homeless and otherwise impoverished people on that day.
Copyright L. Kochman, September 8, 2011 @ 6:40 p.m./last edited @ 6:46 p.m./addition @ 6:47 p.m.
13. Newblog2011: 09/08/11 Privacy Violations and Even More Abuse
It seems as if some of the same people who think they have the right to do things such as illegally hack and track my food stamps balance also think that they have the right to make accusations against me that I am too thin.
I’ve said, many times, that nobody has the right to track my food stamps purchases, much less to publicize them. Although I’ve declared many times by now that nobody should be reading messages into my purchases, either, I have been self-conscious about buying things with anything but cash for more than a year, since I first realized that my bank account had been hacked by more people than I could possibly know were doing it.
It can take me an hour or more to buy anything at any store, especially as the issues being perpetuated have gotten worse and worse, and the abuse of me has not abated. It was already true that I was at least self-conscious once I realized last year that all the purchases I made electronically were being illegally observed, and it’s also true now with cash purchases, because there are a lot of people in everyday life now who know who I am.
If I’m getting especially thin, it might have something to do with the fact that I don’t just choose to walk everywhere, I HAVE to walk everywhere because I don’t even have a dollar to my name and because it’s such an ordeal to get food everywhere I go that sometimes I can’t deal with it.
Going to the store, I get stalked electronically and sometimes other other than electronically, also. It's not as if strangers in Boston don't follow me around, trying to get close enough to me that they can make disgusting comments into their cellphones from less than a foot away from me, pretending to be talking to or about someone else.
Anywhere that I eat a free meal, there are varying levels of harassment, whether it’s loud or otherwise direct harassment in the form of people rubbing their noses, grunting, coughing, making vomiting sounds, sneezing and/or comments by staff and by other homeless people, Wet Floor signs where there is no wet floor, caution cones, yellow caution tape, or just the food that’s been provided in situations where it’s obvious that harassment was on the minds of the people who made the choices of what to serve all of the homeless and otherwise impoverished people on that day.
Copyright L. Kochman, September 8, 2011 @ 6:40 p.m./last edited @ 6:46 p.m./addition @ 6:47 p.m.