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May 4, 2011
Here’s a good use for the Internet; I can tell everybody in town that I have a cold. I asked the pharmacist about being contagious and was told “Everybody gives everybody colds.” I would have stayed in, but the shelter has a new rule that nobody can stay in for any reason. I have yet to stay in even once when nobody else was; the rule was put in place the day before I got sick, so it wasn’t my behavior that triggered it.
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May 4, 2011
If there’s anyone who’s been wondering how extensive the government’s involvement in pedophilia and the degradation of women is, please look at the “Vermont Emergency Management” 2011 calendar for Vermont.
It starts off with a message from Barbara Farr, the VEM Director. She says:
“As I write this message in September for the 2011 calendar year, I am happy to report that Vermont has had no major disasters or emergencies so far in 2010 that have risen to the level that we would need federal assistance through a Presidential Declaration.
But as past events have shown us, that is no reason to become complacent. In 2008, Vermont had four declarations due to flooding, a tornado, damaging storms, and an ice storm—a new record. Two years is a long time for a lull, so Vermont could be due for another disaster.”
She continues for a few more paragraphs. On the same page there’s a picture of her with “Emergency Manager of the Year, Newport Police Chief J. Paul Duquette.”
Every page shows the seal of the “Department of Public Safety: Vermont Emergency Management.”
The cover photo of the calendar shows a “Flooded Road,” according to the apt caption.
Here’s a short index of the contents of the calendar:
2010 December: “Before a Disaster”
2011 January: “Beware of thin ice”—picture of a car half-submerged in Lake Champlain
2011 February: “Evacuation Procedure: This road in Lyndonville was closed after a heavy rain of October of 2010.” October and February are very different months in Vermont, so I’m not sure why a picture from October was considered relevant in February. In the picture, there’s also a sign that says “Road closed: High Water.”
2011 March: “Before, during and after floods.” Picture of a bridge over a high river.
2011 April: “Drying out your home after a flood” Picture of houses with waters rushing by.
2011 May: “Beaver dams”
2011 June: “Tornados”
2011 July: “Stay cool, stay safe” Picture of 2 little kids in their bathing suits on the beach, one in water up to her shins. The caption says “Two young children beat the heat with a dip at the Alburg Dunes State Park”
2011 August: “After a storm, record damage thoroughly”
2011 September: “September is National Preparedness Month” Picture of soldiers. Caption: “In 2010, the state of Vermont took part in its largest ever catastrophic exercise. The scenario included some 750 players around the state responding to a scene very similar to the 1938 hurricane. The resulting floods, power outages, chemical spills, and other simulated incidents tested Vermont’s emergency system, pushing it to its limits. Below are just a few of the agencies that took part.”
2011 October: “Lightning Safety:” Picture of docked boats on the water. Caption “A storm approaching Mallets Bay in Colchester.”
2011 November: “Stay safe (rest of the quote is lost due to my atrocious handwriting which I used to copy what was written)”. Picture-- firefighters on the roof of a burning house.
2011 December: “Caring for your pets in the cold” Picture—dog in the snow. Caption: “Dogs like Lucy love the outdoors during the winter months and get inside when it gets too cold. Pet owners should take precautions during the cold months to protect their animals.” The photo is attributed to Kevin Austin.
At the end: “Get involved in emergency management:”
“Vermont CERT: Community Emergency Response Team:”
“As part of the President’s Homeland Security Plan, Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program has been and continues to be formed in cities, towns, counties and other localities across America. CERT operates under the Citizens Corps Council plan that brings together community first responders, firefighters, law enforcement, EMS, emergency managers, and the volunteer community to involve all citizens in emergency preparedness, mitigation, response, crime prevention, and emergency medical training.”
There’s more, including the United Way’s 211 number.
May 4, 2011
The shelter is going to help me get an apartment; I get a job, and the shelter pays for my first month’s rent so that I can move out.
Unfortunately, the calendar I just described is on the wall in the TV room at the shelter. There’s also a calendar in the office that has a picture of dolphins leaping through water on it.
Yesterday, I had to stop back at the shelter to tell the manager my plans for my stay. She seemed supportive; she also let me use the phone to try to call doctors’ offices and drove me to the hospital when nobody else could see me. While I was waiting to use the phone, the office assistant came out of the office and made conversation with someone else who was in the room by saying “The river is low today; it’s been gushing lately.”
There’s just no reason for me to be getting abused; there never has been a good reason for it. Certainly at the shelter, I am polite, I cause no hassles on my own initiative, I show up when I’m supposed to show up and I leave when I’m supposed to leave. I made no fuss yesterday about the new rule that nobody ever gets to stay in for any reason, although I wasn’t and still am not feeling great and really could have used a day or two of rest. I’ve worked hard to resolve issues fairly with other residents and even staff who wanted to abuse me.
In addition to that; if someone has a problem with something I’ve said or done, sexual harassment isn’t the way to address the problem. That’s been a major source of concern for me about this entire situation; it seems to me that attacking women by gender is something that the harassers are trying to implement into society as a norm, regardless of what the women are being criticized for doing or saying.
The derogatory names and references are bad enough when they are being directed at women about their love lives; when those names and references start getting directed at women who speak up about things that have absolutely nothing to do with sex at all, that is something which goes far beyond male and female relations on a personal level. It is systematic abuse of women; it is discrimination and it is male dominance.
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May 4, 2011
I think that now would be a good time for me to mention that many of the people whom I have met and have had sustained interactions with have backed off and/or are even friendly to me, if guarded. I think that where the guardedness comes from depends on the person; some people may believe in stigmatizing women, even thought they’ve had no reason to believe from my interactions with them that anything that’s being said about me is true. Others may just be wary because I’ve been under attack from a lot of powerful people.
For the most part, I haven’t been hassled as much on the street by adults as was happening when I first moved here. The incident with the boys the other night was disturbing, but when I first got here, young men were walking by me in pairs or groups and at least one of them would often cough loudly with his head turned toward me as I passed by them. (May 5, 2011: I have removed the sentence that I originally wrote here. L.K. @ 4:46 p.m.)
Yesterday, there was nowhere for me to go but the emergency room at the hospital. I wasn’t sick enough to need an emergency room, but there isn’t a walk-in clinic in town that takes my state health insurance. When I walked into the lobby, it was an obstacle course of wet floor signs on the completely dry floor. There was even a wet floor sign on the carpet. (Here, I’m closing my eyes in disgust and resignation for the inevitable jokes. Could you just….not make them? Is there ANY chance of that? Is there A joke you could skip? Tra la la, just skip that joke, skip right past it. Skip skip.)
The wet floor signs were even strewn across completely dry floor in the tiny office between the admissions desk and the emergency room. There was one right in the middle of the floor so that everyone who worked there had to make a detour and walk around it to get from the emergency room to the lobby.
I have to question the logic in that; those people are willing to reduce the quality of care that they give everyone who goes to the emergency room by putting wet floor signs all over the place and in such a way that they slow their own ability to get from one place to another and risk tripping themselves and their patients.
I got put in a room, and when the doctor walked in, it seemed from the way he looked at me as if he were wondering if I was going to be extremely flirty.
Within a few minutes, we were more or less talking normally. I don’t have a flirty manner most of the time, and I’m certainly used to talking to doctors from having been both a patient and a pharmacy technician.
It seems as if maybe the government/media/corporate/celebrity/etc. harassers are hoping that if they repeat themselves enough, every intelligent thing I do or say to counteract their behavior will be overpowered by their incessant chants. It’s interesting how they’ve been doing that for more than a year and it hasn’t worked yet. I’m still waiting for the intelligent, intelligible counter-arguments to everything I’ve said about why what’s happening is wrong; is anybody working on those?
Has anyone noticed, also, how many mistakes I make and yet I’m still not beaten by this situation? Doesn’t it seem logical that the reason for that is that my overall arguments and ideas make more sense than the opposing side’s ideas do? The general principles of what I’ve been saying hold true; they are sounder ideas than the opposing beliefs. That’s why the principles hold up even when I defend them imperfectly.
The situations in which people’s behavior hasn’t substantially changed tend to be those in which there hasn’t been much direct interaction between me and those people. The staff at the shelter who persist in being cruel to me are mostly those who haven’t directly interacted with me on a regular basis. Unfortunately for the situation, the library is another place where people can be around each other without interacting much.
Apparently, in order to work at the town library, you have to be both female and at least 45 years old. I’m not ageist, but it seems to me that perhaps the library is. Also; why don’t any men work there?
In addition to putting new books on display all the time about fish, bridges, and so on, several of the librarians have made a point since I’ve been going to the library of loudly making comments from across the room. I have done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to provoke their behavior toward me; it all originates with them. Yesterday, I was not especially near the librarian’s desk, had my back turned to them while minding my own business, and I heard one of them say “ocean” to the other one. I turned around and said “What was that?” One of the librarians said “She was saying something to me.” I said “It was loud.” She said, admonishingly and untruthfully, “No, it wasn’t.”
I wasn’t there for very long then; I had just stopped in for a minute. Later in the day, after I’d been there for a couple of hours and was about to leave, I noticed that there was a new poster saying something about “the sea” on the bulletin board by the stairway that leads to the children’s library, and that the back entrance had a new poster up advertising another community activity. It was something about “jail,” but it was all in pastels. There was no doubt that it was meant to be offensive to me.
Pedophiles. PEDOPHILES!! What right do pedophiles have to threaten me or taunt me with jail.
Then I went to the front door and read the new, large poster there. I’ve taken out the names of the authors so that they don’t get any more publicity from me. Here’s what the poster said:
“Summer 2011: Authors as the (---------) Library:
June 8: The Complete Kitchen Garden
June 15: Mariner: A Captain’s Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy Seals, and My Dangerous Days at Sea
June 22: Mark Twain: A Life
June 29: Young Adult Novelist: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vols I & II
July 6: Cheesemaker: In a Cheesemaker’s Kitchen
July 13: Breathless
July 20: The Abacus and the Cross
July 27: Firefighter: The First that Changed Everything
August 3: American Elf
August 10: Sports Writer: 50 Years of Excitement: A History of (the local car racetrack)
August 17: The Way Things Work
The poster says that the series has been “Sponsored by the (this town’s) Learning For Life Committee” and also that it has been “Funded by the Friends of the (library’s name) Library.”
Of all of the things that I’ve been accused of, there is NO LIE which is more undeserved than that I am a traitor to my country.
Also, if I were a parent, I wouldn’t allow my child in that library alone for the duration. How long the duration is going to be is anybody’s guess.
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One thing that I’ve been feeling guilty about is that I haven’t been able to deal with some of the other substantial issues that I had set out for myself to talk about. It’s not just that I couldn’t handle talking about more issues because what I’ve been going through has been serious enough; it’s the fact that the issues are new to me and talking about them isn’t second nature now the way that talking about the harassment and pedophilia is.
It absolutely matters who’s in charge in Libya. You can’t just abandon people to dictators when those people are making a committed effort to free themselves.
Sometimes I would ask my father a question, and, knowing himself, he would ask me if I wanted the short or the long version of his answer.
I’ve been thinking about an essay for a long time, and I guess I just need to give the short version of it:
It seems to me that all forms of oppression are attractive to those who like to oppress. Whether it’s Libya or any other country fighting for its freedom, women who know that they are equal to men and who won’t willingly accept being treated otherwise, children who deserve to grow to healthy adulthood without being molested, raped, killed or corrupted; all of those things go against the grain for people who want to keep the world revolving around a few men and the women who are willing to get what they can get in a world that revolves that way.
Copyright L. Kochman May 4, 2011
First published @ 10:10 a.m. and then re-published @ 11:00 a.m. due to technical difficulties
May 4, 2011
The Times Argus and the Burlington Free Press continue to be more degrading and less recognizant of the worth of my written work on these issues than most of the larger, out-of-state, more generally respected newspapers are, even when those more respected newspapers are continuing to abuse me themselves.
I think that might be part of what contributes to some of the continuing abuse of me by locals; people who only ever look at the Times Argus and the Burlington Free Press might not be getting the big picture.
I might not be able to get the big picture myself as much as I was for a while; I ripped the posters off the back and front entrances of the library where I saw them yesterday. I couldn’t help it with the first one; I might have been able to stop myself from going around to the front entrance to get rid of the poster that was trying to call me a traitor to my country.
In the harsh, sober light of day, I’m considering calling it “Removal of harassing and corruptive material,” in the moments when I’m not worrying about getting arrested and wishing I had kept my temper.
I’d rather not be kept out of the library for having done it; some of the primary staff there have been insufferable and have only stepped up their abuse this week, even with everything I wrote about the state’s involvement in promoting pedophilia.
There’s an exhibit on the second floor, in some glass-fronted cabinets. It was there the first time I walked into the library. It says “A Life In Stone.”
Copyright L. Kochman May 4, 2011 @ 11:18 a.m.
May 4, 2011
Here’s a good use for the Internet; I can tell everybody in town that I have a cold. I asked the pharmacist about being contagious and was told “Everybody gives everybody colds.” I would have stayed in, but the shelter has a new rule that nobody can stay in for any reason. I have yet to stay in even once when nobody else was; the rule was put in place the day before I got sick, so it wasn’t my behavior that triggered it.
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May 4, 2011
If there’s anyone who’s been wondering how extensive the government’s involvement in pedophilia and the degradation of women is, please look at the “Vermont Emergency Management” 2011 calendar for Vermont.
It starts off with a message from Barbara Farr, the VEM Director. She says:
“As I write this message in September for the 2011 calendar year, I am happy to report that Vermont has had no major disasters or emergencies so far in 2010 that have risen to the level that we would need federal assistance through a Presidential Declaration.
But as past events have shown us, that is no reason to become complacent. In 2008, Vermont had four declarations due to flooding, a tornado, damaging storms, and an ice storm—a new record. Two years is a long time for a lull, so Vermont could be due for another disaster.”
She continues for a few more paragraphs. On the same page there’s a picture of her with “Emergency Manager of the Year, Newport Police Chief J. Paul Duquette.”
Every page shows the seal of the “Department of Public Safety: Vermont Emergency Management.”
The cover photo of the calendar shows a “Flooded Road,” according to the apt caption.
Here’s a short index of the contents of the calendar:
2010 December: “Before a Disaster”
2011 January: “Beware of thin ice”—picture of a car half-submerged in Lake Champlain
2011 February: “Evacuation Procedure: This road in Lyndonville was closed after a heavy rain of October of 2010.” October and February are very different months in Vermont, so I’m not sure why a picture from October was considered relevant in February. In the picture, there’s also a sign that says “Road closed: High Water.”
2011 March: “Before, during and after floods.” Picture of a bridge over a high river.
2011 April: “Drying out your home after a flood” Picture of houses with waters rushing by.
2011 May: “Beaver dams”
2011 June: “Tornados”
2011 July: “Stay cool, stay safe” Picture of 2 little kids in their bathing suits on the beach, one in water up to her shins. The caption says “Two young children beat the heat with a dip at the Alburg Dunes State Park”
2011 August: “After a storm, record damage thoroughly”
2011 September: “September is National Preparedness Month” Picture of soldiers. Caption: “In 2010, the state of Vermont took part in its largest ever catastrophic exercise. The scenario included some 750 players around the state responding to a scene very similar to the 1938 hurricane. The resulting floods, power outages, chemical spills, and other simulated incidents tested Vermont’s emergency system, pushing it to its limits. Below are just a few of the agencies that took part.”
2011 October: “Lightning Safety:” Picture of docked boats on the water. Caption “A storm approaching Mallets Bay in Colchester.”
2011 November: “Stay safe (rest of the quote is lost due to my atrocious handwriting which I used to copy what was written)”. Picture-- firefighters on the roof of a burning house.
2011 December: “Caring for your pets in the cold” Picture—dog in the snow. Caption: “Dogs like Lucy love the outdoors during the winter months and get inside when it gets too cold. Pet owners should take precautions during the cold months to protect their animals.” The photo is attributed to Kevin Austin.
At the end: “Get involved in emergency management:”
“Vermont CERT: Community Emergency Response Team:”
“As part of the President’s Homeland Security Plan, Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program has been and continues to be formed in cities, towns, counties and other localities across America. CERT operates under the Citizens Corps Council plan that brings together community first responders, firefighters, law enforcement, EMS, emergency managers, and the volunteer community to involve all citizens in emergency preparedness, mitigation, response, crime prevention, and emergency medical training.”
There’s more, including the United Way’s 211 number.
May 4, 2011
The shelter is going to help me get an apartment; I get a job, and the shelter pays for my first month’s rent so that I can move out.
Unfortunately, the calendar I just described is on the wall in the TV room at the shelter. There’s also a calendar in the office that has a picture of dolphins leaping through water on it.
Yesterday, I had to stop back at the shelter to tell the manager my plans for my stay. She seemed supportive; she also let me use the phone to try to call doctors’ offices and drove me to the hospital when nobody else could see me. While I was waiting to use the phone, the office assistant came out of the office and made conversation with someone else who was in the room by saying “The river is low today; it’s been gushing lately.”
There’s just no reason for me to be getting abused; there never has been a good reason for it. Certainly at the shelter, I am polite, I cause no hassles on my own initiative, I show up when I’m supposed to show up and I leave when I’m supposed to leave. I made no fuss yesterday about the new rule that nobody ever gets to stay in for any reason, although I wasn’t and still am not feeling great and really could have used a day or two of rest. I’ve worked hard to resolve issues fairly with other residents and even staff who wanted to abuse me.
In addition to that; if someone has a problem with something I’ve said or done, sexual harassment isn’t the way to address the problem. That’s been a major source of concern for me about this entire situation; it seems to me that attacking women by gender is something that the harassers are trying to implement into society as a norm, regardless of what the women are being criticized for doing or saying.
The derogatory names and references are bad enough when they are being directed at women about their love lives; when those names and references start getting directed at women who speak up about things that have absolutely nothing to do with sex at all, that is something which goes far beyond male and female relations on a personal level. It is systematic abuse of women; it is discrimination and it is male dominance.
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May 4, 2011
I think that now would be a good time for me to mention that many of the people whom I have met and have had sustained interactions with have backed off and/or are even friendly to me, if guarded. I think that where the guardedness comes from depends on the person; some people may believe in stigmatizing women, even thought they’ve had no reason to believe from my interactions with them that anything that’s being said about me is true. Others may just be wary because I’ve been under attack from a lot of powerful people.
For the most part, I haven’t been hassled as much on the street by adults as was happening when I first moved here. The incident with the boys the other night was disturbing, but when I first got here, young men were walking by me in pairs or groups and at least one of them would often cough loudly with his head turned toward me as I passed by them. (May 5, 2011: I have removed the sentence that I originally wrote here. L.K. @ 4:46 p.m.)
Yesterday, there was nowhere for me to go but the emergency room at the hospital. I wasn’t sick enough to need an emergency room, but there isn’t a walk-in clinic in town that takes my state health insurance. When I walked into the lobby, it was an obstacle course of wet floor signs on the completely dry floor. There was even a wet floor sign on the carpet. (Here, I’m closing my eyes in disgust and resignation for the inevitable jokes. Could you just….not make them? Is there ANY chance of that? Is there A joke you could skip? Tra la la, just skip that joke, skip right past it. Skip skip.)
The wet floor signs were even strewn across completely dry floor in the tiny office between the admissions desk and the emergency room. There was one right in the middle of the floor so that everyone who worked there had to make a detour and walk around it to get from the emergency room to the lobby.
I have to question the logic in that; those people are willing to reduce the quality of care that they give everyone who goes to the emergency room by putting wet floor signs all over the place and in such a way that they slow their own ability to get from one place to another and risk tripping themselves and their patients.
I got put in a room, and when the doctor walked in, it seemed from the way he looked at me as if he were wondering if I was going to be extremely flirty.
Within a few minutes, we were more or less talking normally. I don’t have a flirty manner most of the time, and I’m certainly used to talking to doctors from having been both a patient and a pharmacy technician.
It seems as if maybe the government/media/corporate/celebrity/etc. harassers are hoping that if they repeat themselves enough, every intelligent thing I do or say to counteract their behavior will be overpowered by their incessant chants. It’s interesting how they’ve been doing that for more than a year and it hasn’t worked yet. I’m still waiting for the intelligent, intelligible counter-arguments to everything I’ve said about why what’s happening is wrong; is anybody working on those?
Has anyone noticed, also, how many mistakes I make and yet I’m still not beaten by this situation? Doesn’t it seem logical that the reason for that is that my overall arguments and ideas make more sense than the opposing side’s ideas do? The general principles of what I’ve been saying hold true; they are sounder ideas than the opposing beliefs. That’s why the principles hold up even when I defend them imperfectly.
The situations in which people’s behavior hasn’t substantially changed tend to be those in which there hasn’t been much direct interaction between me and those people. The staff at the shelter who persist in being cruel to me are mostly those who haven’t directly interacted with me on a regular basis. Unfortunately for the situation, the library is another place where people can be around each other without interacting much.
Apparently, in order to work at the town library, you have to be both female and at least 45 years old. I’m not ageist, but it seems to me that perhaps the library is. Also; why don’t any men work there?
In addition to putting new books on display all the time about fish, bridges, and so on, several of the librarians have made a point since I’ve been going to the library of loudly making comments from across the room. I have done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to provoke their behavior toward me; it all originates with them. Yesterday, I was not especially near the librarian’s desk, had my back turned to them while minding my own business, and I heard one of them say “ocean” to the other one. I turned around and said “What was that?” One of the librarians said “She was saying something to me.” I said “It was loud.” She said, admonishingly and untruthfully, “No, it wasn’t.”
I wasn’t there for very long then; I had just stopped in for a minute. Later in the day, after I’d been there for a couple of hours and was about to leave, I noticed that there was a new poster saying something about “the sea” on the bulletin board by the stairway that leads to the children’s library, and that the back entrance had a new poster up advertising another community activity. It was something about “jail,” but it was all in pastels. There was no doubt that it was meant to be offensive to me.
Pedophiles. PEDOPHILES!! What right do pedophiles have to threaten me or taunt me with jail.
Then I went to the front door and read the new, large poster there. I’ve taken out the names of the authors so that they don’t get any more publicity from me. Here’s what the poster said:
“Summer 2011: Authors as the (---------) Library:
June 8: The Complete Kitchen Garden
June 15: Mariner: A Captain’s Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy Seals, and My Dangerous Days at Sea
June 22: Mark Twain: A Life
June 29: Young Adult Novelist: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vols I & II
July 6: Cheesemaker: In a Cheesemaker’s Kitchen
July 13: Breathless
July 20: The Abacus and the Cross
July 27: Firefighter: The First that Changed Everything
August 3: American Elf
August 10: Sports Writer: 50 Years of Excitement: A History of (the local car racetrack)
August 17: The Way Things Work
The poster says that the series has been “Sponsored by the (this town’s) Learning For Life Committee” and also that it has been “Funded by the Friends of the (library’s name) Library.”
Of all of the things that I’ve been accused of, there is NO LIE which is more undeserved than that I am a traitor to my country.
Also, if I were a parent, I wouldn’t allow my child in that library alone for the duration. How long the duration is going to be is anybody’s guess.
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One thing that I’ve been feeling guilty about is that I haven’t been able to deal with some of the other substantial issues that I had set out for myself to talk about. It’s not just that I couldn’t handle talking about more issues because what I’ve been going through has been serious enough; it’s the fact that the issues are new to me and talking about them isn’t second nature now the way that talking about the harassment and pedophilia is.
It absolutely matters who’s in charge in Libya. You can’t just abandon people to dictators when those people are making a committed effort to free themselves.
Sometimes I would ask my father a question, and, knowing himself, he would ask me if I wanted the short or the long version of his answer.
I’ve been thinking about an essay for a long time, and I guess I just need to give the short version of it:
It seems to me that all forms of oppression are attractive to those who like to oppress. Whether it’s Libya or any other country fighting for its freedom, women who know that they are equal to men and who won’t willingly accept being treated otherwise, children who deserve to grow to healthy adulthood without being molested, raped, killed or corrupted; all of those things go against the grain for people who want to keep the world revolving around a few men and the women who are willing to get what they can get in a world that revolves that way.
Copyright L. Kochman May 4, 2011
First published @ 10:10 a.m. and then re-published @ 11:00 a.m. due to technical difficulties
May 4, 2011
The Times Argus and the Burlington Free Press continue to be more degrading and less recognizant of the worth of my written work on these issues than most of the larger, out-of-state, more generally respected newspapers are, even when those more respected newspapers are continuing to abuse me themselves.
I think that might be part of what contributes to some of the continuing abuse of me by locals; people who only ever look at the Times Argus and the Burlington Free Press might not be getting the big picture.
I might not be able to get the big picture myself as much as I was for a while; I ripped the posters off the back and front entrances of the library where I saw them yesterday. I couldn’t help it with the first one; I might have been able to stop myself from going around to the front entrance to get rid of the poster that was trying to call me a traitor to my country.
In the harsh, sober light of day, I’m considering calling it “Removal of harassing and corruptive material,” in the moments when I’m not worrying about getting arrested and wishing I had kept my temper.
I’d rather not be kept out of the library for having done it; some of the primary staff there have been insufferable and have only stepped up their abuse this week, even with everything I wrote about the state’s involvement in promoting pedophilia.
There’s an exhibit on the second floor, in some glass-fronted cabinets. It was there the first time I walked into the library. It says “A Life In Stone.”
Copyright L. Kochman May 4, 2011 @ 11:18 a.m.