August 2, 2011
2. Newblog2011: 08/02/11 Did Gannett news service and the Burlington Free Press use illegal Internet hacking to show support for the fact that I got pushed by a former Marine’s girlfriend at the shelter, in anticipation that I would publish an essay about the incident?
It's been a couple of days that I've been working on the essay that I put today on my blog page 1. Newblog2011: 08/02/11 The Good Samaritan Shelter, Barre VT/A correction regarding its involvement with the United Way/Abuse at the shelter.
Yesterday, on August 1, 2011, I wrote much of the first part of the essay, describing some of the harassment as endorsed by the shelter and about having been pushed by the former Marine’s girlfriend. I hadn't written anything about having gotten help from the police or the ultimatum having been issued at the shelter, or anything else except that a staffperson had watched a resident threaten me and done nothing and then had watched her push me and still done nothing except threaten both of us with the police. I hadn't written about the other things because they hadn't happened yet; I went to the police and had the conversation with the assistant director a few hours after I wrote the first part of the essay and had saved it in my e-mail.
I didn’t publish the essay anywhere public yesterday; I only saved it in my e-mail.
I’ve said before that I know that a lot of people and organizations have hacked all of my online accounts and that they watch everything I do online.
Today, the largest article on the front page of the Gannett-owned Burlington Free Press is about Vermont’s Minor League baseball team, the Vermont Lake Monsters, and the team showing its support for the military.
The article begins with a large title that says:
“Serving in his own way”
Below that, there’s a picture with a caption that says:
“Vermont Lake Monster Ryan Hughes raises a POW/MIA flag with veteran Ralph “Lefty” Guilette of Essex at Centennial Field on Monday”
The picture shows two men, one in a baseball cap and a shirt with what looks like a number “4” on the back. The other man is wearing a baseball cap and a green shirt.
They’re raising an American flag and a POW-MIA flag together. In the background is something that says “ews” and a banner with an ad for the Sports & Fitness Edge.
There’s another title for the same article below the picture’s caption that says:
“Lake Monster buys POW-MIA flag to wave over Centennial Field.”
There’s a quote along the side that says:
“To me, it is paying homage to the guys that shed their blood. They gave up their everyday freedoms, and everybody overlooks that.”
The quote is attributed to Ryan Hughes, Lake Monsters’ pitcher.
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Next I've put the part of the essay that I had written by yesterday afternoon and saved in my e-mail. My e-mail says that it was saved August 1, 2011 @ 2:32 p.m.. On the front page of today's Burlington Free Press, from August 2, 2011, you can see how the Gannett-owned newspaper responded to the essay that I had saved in my own e-mail, without having published it or sent it as an e-mail to anyone.
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From what I saved to my e-mail, August 1, 2011:
August 1, 2011
The Good Samaritan Shelter, Barre VT
Saturday night when I got back to the shelter, there were several cans of Skintimate brand “Raspberry Rain” shaving cream distributed throughout the 2 bathrooms and the basement shower room. The upstairs bathroom also had several packets of rainbow-colored, individual tissue packets.
Perhaps it had been there before, but there was a strand of pearls in the top desk-shelf of one of the desks in the staff office.
When a lot of people were in the common area, one of the residents started talking about yogurt, and how someone had taken one of the yogurts he’d left in the fridge. Another resident, a female one, said to him “It’s too bad, because it’s one of the only things you can eat, isn’t it?” Then the male resident said, loudly, “ Lena , it wouldn’t be you (who took my yogurt), would it?” I said “No,” because it hadn’t been.
There was some very loud coughing, notably by the ex-Marine.
That night, things got really terrible. It was the second night in a row that the Marine’s girlfriend (or wife, I still don’t know which) did the “loud, fake cough-wait for a reaction-loud, fake cough if there is no reaction-wait for a reaction-loud, fake cough—“ routine. After several minutes of it, I finally got upset. I tried to explain to her that sleep is one of the things that’s the most difficult to get in the shelter. It all got bad quickly; she called me a bitch and told me to get down out of my bunk bed so that she could beat me up, she called me a chicken because I didn’t do that. We called each other stupid for a few minutes, until I said “I’m going to talk to staff” and left the room.
The overnight staffperson was already in the doorway of his room. I told him that the female resident had been doing the loud, fake coughing and I asked him to speak to her. He said “I can’t talk to her; there’s nothing I can do.”
As I was objecting to his statement that there was nothing he could do, the female resident walked out of the room and over to where the staffperson and I were standing. She said that she couldn’t help the coughing, that she’s sick. I said “That’s not true.” She said “There are other people here who deliberately cough, but I don’t.” I said “You know that you’re doing it on purpose.”
She told me “You’re lucky that I’m not kicking your ass right now.”
She and the staffperson and I were standing within a 3-foot radius. I looked at him and said “She’s threatening me. You need to put a stop to this.”
He hemmed and hawed some more, and then the female resident pushed me.
It wasn’t some little push; she turned her body completely toward me, put her hands on my shoulders and pushed me. It was a “start a fight” push, where the person being pushed is supposed to push back as a preliminary to actual fighting.
I didn’t push her back; I stepped back and absorbed the impact of her push. Then I stopped stepping backward, with her a few inches"
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August 2, 2011
I wasn't planning to write more about the Burlington Free Press today, since, as usual, I never really have enough time to do everything I'd like to do. However, I did notice as I was about to log off the Internet that the article next to the article entitled "Serving in his own way" on the front page of today's Burlington Free Press is as follows:
The title is:
"Suspect's 'I did it' not enough"
The caption below the title says:
"Man acquitted in 2002 killing of pizza worker tells police he shot the victim"
The article is by Mike Donoghue, Free Press Staff Writer.
The first paragraph of the article says:
"A central Vermont man who was acquitted of a murder charge in the fatal 2002 shooting of a co-worker outside a pizza restauruan in Waitsfield called police and confessed to the crime last month--but there's nothing state authorities say they can do about it."
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August 2, 2011
I highlighted the last few words of the last sentence in the previous paragraph. I also have now highlighted the sentence in my e-mail to myself from August 1, 2011 that has similar wording in the previous section, and which I think is perhaps another clue about how Gannett approaches Internet privacy, and a few other issues, too.
2. Newblog2011: 08/02/11 Did Gannett news service and the Burlington Free Press use illegal Internet hacking to show support for the fact that I got pushed by a former Marine’s girlfriend at the shelter, in anticipation that I would publish an essay about the incident?
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman August 2, 2011 @ 6:11 p.m./addition @ 6:12 p.m./edit @ 6:14 p.m./edit @ 6:18 p.m.
2. Newblog2011: 08/02/11 Did Gannett news service and the Burlington Free Press use illegal Internet hacking to show support for the fact that I got pushed by a former Marine’s girlfriend at the shelter, in anticipation that I would publish an essay about the incident?
It's been a couple of days that I've been working on the essay that I put today on my blog page 1. Newblog2011: 08/02/11 The Good Samaritan Shelter, Barre VT/A correction regarding its involvement with the United Way/Abuse at the shelter.
Yesterday, on August 1, 2011, I wrote much of the first part of the essay, describing some of the harassment as endorsed by the shelter and about having been pushed by the former Marine’s girlfriend. I hadn't written anything about having gotten help from the police or the ultimatum having been issued at the shelter, or anything else except that a staffperson had watched a resident threaten me and done nothing and then had watched her push me and still done nothing except threaten both of us with the police. I hadn't written about the other things because they hadn't happened yet; I went to the police and had the conversation with the assistant director a few hours after I wrote the first part of the essay and had saved it in my e-mail.
I didn’t publish the essay anywhere public yesterday; I only saved it in my e-mail.
I’ve said before that I know that a lot of people and organizations have hacked all of my online accounts and that they watch everything I do online.
Today, the largest article on the front page of the Gannett-owned Burlington Free Press is about Vermont’s Minor League baseball team, the Vermont Lake Monsters, and the team showing its support for the military.
The article begins with a large title that says:
“Serving in his own way”
Below that, there’s a picture with a caption that says:
“Vermont Lake Monster Ryan Hughes raises a POW/MIA flag with veteran Ralph “Lefty” Guilette of Essex at Centennial Field on Monday”
The picture shows two men, one in a baseball cap and a shirt with what looks like a number “4” on the back. The other man is wearing a baseball cap and a green shirt.
They’re raising an American flag and a POW-MIA flag together. In the background is something that says “ews” and a banner with an ad for the Sports & Fitness Edge.
There’s another title for the same article below the picture’s caption that says:
“Lake Monster buys POW-MIA flag to wave over Centennial Field.”
There’s a quote along the side that says:
“To me, it is paying homage to the guys that shed their blood. They gave up their everyday freedoms, and everybody overlooks that.”
The quote is attributed to Ryan Hughes, Lake Monsters’ pitcher.
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Next I've put the part of the essay that I had written by yesterday afternoon and saved in my e-mail. My e-mail says that it was saved August 1, 2011 @ 2:32 p.m.. On the front page of today's Burlington Free Press, from August 2, 2011, you can see how the Gannett-owned newspaper responded to the essay that I had saved in my own e-mail, without having published it or sent it as an e-mail to anyone.
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From what I saved to my e-mail, August 1, 2011:
August 1, 2011
The Good Samaritan Shelter, Barre VT
Saturday night when I got back to the shelter, there were several cans of Skintimate brand “Raspberry Rain” shaving cream distributed throughout the 2 bathrooms and the basement shower room. The upstairs bathroom also had several packets of rainbow-colored, individual tissue packets.
Perhaps it had been there before, but there was a strand of pearls in the top desk-shelf of one of the desks in the staff office.
When a lot of people were in the common area, one of the residents started talking about yogurt, and how someone had taken one of the yogurts he’d left in the fridge. Another resident, a female one, said to him “It’s too bad, because it’s one of the only things you can eat, isn’t it?” Then the male resident said, loudly, “ Lena , it wouldn’t be you (who took my yogurt), would it?” I said “No,” because it hadn’t been.
There was some very loud coughing, notably by the ex-Marine.
That night, things got really terrible. It was the second night in a row that the Marine’s girlfriend (or wife, I still don’t know which) did the “loud, fake cough-wait for a reaction-loud, fake cough if there is no reaction-wait for a reaction-loud, fake cough—“ routine. After several minutes of it, I finally got upset. I tried to explain to her that sleep is one of the things that’s the most difficult to get in the shelter. It all got bad quickly; she called me a bitch and told me to get down out of my bunk bed so that she could beat me up, she called me a chicken because I didn’t do that. We called each other stupid for a few minutes, until I said “I’m going to talk to staff” and left the room.
The overnight staffperson was already in the doorway of his room. I told him that the female resident had been doing the loud, fake coughing and I asked him to speak to her. He said “I can’t talk to her; there’s nothing I can do.”
As I was objecting to his statement that there was nothing he could do, the female resident walked out of the room and over to where the staffperson and I were standing. She said that she couldn’t help the coughing, that she’s sick. I said “That’s not true.” She said “There are other people here who deliberately cough, but I don’t.” I said “You know that you’re doing it on purpose.”
She told me “You’re lucky that I’m not kicking your ass right now.”
She and the staffperson and I were standing within a 3-foot radius. I looked at him and said “She’s threatening me. You need to put a stop to this.”
He hemmed and hawed some more, and then the female resident pushed me.
It wasn’t some little push; she turned her body completely toward me, put her hands on my shoulders and pushed me. It was a “start a fight” push, where the person being pushed is supposed to push back as a preliminary to actual fighting.
I didn’t push her back; I stepped back and absorbed the impact of her push. Then I stopped stepping backward, with her a few inches"
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August 2, 2011
I wasn't planning to write more about the Burlington Free Press today, since, as usual, I never really have enough time to do everything I'd like to do. However, I did notice as I was about to log off the Internet that the article next to the article entitled "Serving in his own way" on the front page of today's Burlington Free Press is as follows:
The title is:
"Suspect's 'I did it' not enough"
The caption below the title says:
"Man acquitted in 2002 killing of pizza worker tells police he shot the victim"
The article is by Mike Donoghue, Free Press Staff Writer.
The first paragraph of the article says:
"A central Vermont man who was acquitted of a murder charge in the fatal 2002 shooting of a co-worker outside a pizza restauruan in Waitsfield called police and confessed to the crime last month--but there's nothing state authorities say they can do about it."
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August 2, 2011
I highlighted the last few words of the last sentence in the previous paragraph. I also have now highlighted the sentence in my e-mail to myself from August 1, 2011 that has similar wording in the previous section, and which I think is perhaps another clue about how Gannett approaches Internet privacy, and a few other issues, too.
2. Newblog2011: 08/02/11 Did Gannett news service and the Burlington Free Press use illegal Internet hacking to show support for the fact that I got pushed by a former Marine’s girlfriend at the shelter, in anticipation that I would publish an essay about the incident?
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman August 2, 2011 @ 6:11 p.m./addition @ 6:12 p.m./edit @ 6:14 p.m./edit @ 6:18 p.m.