July 18, 2011
The one time that I mentioned on my blog that I had met some police officers in a crisis moment and that they hadn’t been too bad, the Gannett-owned Times Argus ran a story the next day saying that the police weren’t being disciplined enough.
When I say that those police officers were nice to me; they could have been a lot nicer and refused to give me any kind of "Do Not Trespass" order. At the time, I thought it was nice that they didn't arrest me, but that's because my thinking had already been distorted by having spent months in the hospital where I was both being harassed and in physical danger all the time.
I am being provoked, stalked and abused all the time, by large organizations, even if not every second by individuals whom I meet in person. For that abuse to go on day after day, and for me to be expected to put up with it and never try to confront people, and to always handle those situations gracefully; everything that has happened has been unreasonable, and that lack of reason did NOT originate from me. It is misogyny, it is corruption, it is wrong. There shouldn't even have been a thought of my being arrested on that day; I didn't hurt anyone, I didn't damage any property or even attempt to do so, I didn't threaten anyone, and everyone knew that I had been getting deliberately abused.
While the police weren't as unfair as they could have been on that day, none of it ever should have happened at all.
In any case, most of the time, I don’t feel free to mention the nice things that people do, for fear that they will get harassed. There are times when people are nice; that’s happened over the past year and a half, also, but I feel as if saying anything about that leads to those people being immediately scrutinized and hassled by the big harassers.
I definitely feel that way about people who aren’t famous and who could get hassled by the big harassers without me or anyone else ever knowing about it because even if they got hassled and wrote about it on a blog nobody would ever see it, and about people who are broke or who have no other supports.
Copyright L. Kochman July 18, 2011 @ 12:45 p.m.
The one time that I mentioned on my blog that I had met some police officers in a crisis moment and that they hadn’t been too bad, the Gannett-owned Times Argus ran a story the next day saying that the police weren’t being disciplined enough.
When I say that those police officers were nice to me; they could have been a lot nicer and refused to give me any kind of "Do Not Trespass" order. At the time, I thought it was nice that they didn't arrest me, but that's because my thinking had already been distorted by having spent months in the hospital where I was both being harassed and in physical danger all the time.
I am being provoked, stalked and abused all the time, by large organizations, even if not every second by individuals whom I meet in person. For that abuse to go on day after day, and for me to be expected to put up with it and never try to confront people, and to always handle those situations gracefully; everything that has happened has been unreasonable, and that lack of reason did NOT originate from me. It is misogyny, it is corruption, it is wrong. There shouldn't even have been a thought of my being arrested on that day; I didn't hurt anyone, I didn't damage any property or even attempt to do so, I didn't threaten anyone, and everyone knew that I had been getting deliberately abused.
While the police weren't as unfair as they could have been on that day, none of it ever should have happened at all.
In any case, most of the time, I don’t feel free to mention the nice things that people do, for fear that they will get harassed. There are times when people are nice; that’s happened over the past year and a half, also, but I feel as if saying anything about that leads to those people being immediately scrutinized and hassled by the big harassers.
I definitely feel that way about people who aren’t famous and who could get hassled by the big harassers without me or anyone else ever knowing about it because even if they got hassled and wrote about it on a blog nobody would ever see it, and about people who are broke or who have no other supports.
Copyright L. Kochman July 18, 2011 @ 12:45 p.m.