April 15, 2011 @ 11:40 a.m.
--In my opinion, Crystal Mangum is mostly out of her mind. I don't think that someone who's been through what she's been through ought to be charged with murder. I doubt that she can handle normal life for the time being, and I think that that's probably been true of her at least since the time of the Duke case if not before then. If she was raped by members of that team, that event and all that followed it could not possibly have helped her mental state or given her any reason to feel that the world was not a completely hostile place.
I think that Crystal Mangum should be placed in some kind of psychiatric prison for a couple of years; some place where she can really get help. Nobody with her background could have withstood what happened to her; unfortunately, people with her background often end up being strippers and criminals. However, it's not often that anybody with any kind of background gets the kind of publicity that she got during and after the Duke case; that had to have been crushing.
I will say this again; she had no motive at all to lie about the Duke lacrosse players. Whatever her mental state or education at that time, it is impossible that she didn't understand that trying to prosecute those men would be a horrible ordeal for her. Everyone who has had the kind of life that she had up until the Duke case knows what happens when a person of her status in society claims that people who have the status in society that the Duke students had did what she said they did.
(April 18, 2011 @ 1:51 p.m. I have removed some of what I originally wrote here. I am still going to assert that someone making a factual error, no matter how large the error was, is no reason or excuse for anyone to use that person's error to sexually harass him or her.)
Copyright L. Kochman April 15, 2011 @ 12:07 p.m.
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April 15, 2011 @ 12:07+ p.m.
--The Department of Labor was still awful yesterday. There were still "Caution: Wet Floor" signs left all over the place, leaning against the glass front door and the slatted sides of the staircases where you couldn't miss them. That was the case all day, and it was the case this morning, also.
I asked one of the custodians when I saw her if they always leave them out like that; she said that yes, they do. I know that that's not true, because the first few times I went into that building, the signs weren't there. I also know from my own considerable experience in customer service that even the most humble of establishments always has a supply closet where things such as "Wet Floor" signs are kept when they are not needed to warn people about a floor that has just been mopped.
That building has other state government offices in it. One of them is the Agency of Human Services and Economic Services. That front door has a small poster that has a picture of a woman blowing her nose into a tissue. It says "STOP! Do you have the flu or symptoms of the flu?" etc...
I don't know who was behind my back at the DOL yesterday, saying something about "safety and cleanliness." As far I know, just a female DOL employee and another female patron of the place were there at that time, other than me.
Copyright L. Kochman April 15, 2011 @12:26 p.m.
@ 5:30 p.m.
Also; if I've been making a lot of accuracy errors lately, or haven't been able to do as much as I'd like as quickly as I'd like, it's most likely because I haven't gotten much sleep since I got here. In the hospital I was finally able to use radio headphones with the sound turned off to block out the overnight staff hacking up lungs outside my door all night, so for the final weeks that I was there I was able to sleep through the night.
Now, I've been going through the same thing at the shelter, and the manager and staff refuse to deal with it; in fact, some of the staff even encourage it and gang up on me with the other residents.
It's very unpleasant; I still don't feel humiliated, ashamed, or anything else, but it's very annoying, time-consuming, and tiring.
April 18, 2011 @ 8:34 a.m.
I just took out some of what I had originally written here.
Copyright L. Kochman, April 18, 2011 @ 8:35 a.m.
--In my opinion, Crystal Mangum is mostly out of her mind. I don't think that someone who's been through what she's been through ought to be charged with murder. I doubt that she can handle normal life for the time being, and I think that that's probably been true of her at least since the time of the Duke case if not before then. If she was raped by members of that team, that event and all that followed it could not possibly have helped her mental state or given her any reason to feel that the world was not a completely hostile place.
I think that Crystal Mangum should be placed in some kind of psychiatric prison for a couple of years; some place where she can really get help. Nobody with her background could have withstood what happened to her; unfortunately, people with her background often end up being strippers and criminals. However, it's not often that anybody with any kind of background gets the kind of publicity that she got during and after the Duke case; that had to have been crushing.
I will say this again; she had no motive at all to lie about the Duke lacrosse players. Whatever her mental state or education at that time, it is impossible that she didn't understand that trying to prosecute those men would be a horrible ordeal for her. Everyone who has had the kind of life that she had up until the Duke case knows what happens when a person of her status in society claims that people who have the status in society that the Duke students had did what she said they did.
(April 18, 2011 @ 1:51 p.m. I have removed some of what I originally wrote here. I am still going to assert that someone making a factual error, no matter how large the error was, is no reason or excuse for anyone to use that person's error to sexually harass him or her.)
Copyright L. Kochman April 15, 2011 @ 12:07 p.m.
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April 15, 2011 @ 12:07+ p.m.
--The Department of Labor was still awful yesterday. There were still "Caution: Wet Floor" signs left all over the place, leaning against the glass front door and the slatted sides of the staircases where you couldn't miss them. That was the case all day, and it was the case this morning, also.
I asked one of the custodians when I saw her if they always leave them out like that; she said that yes, they do. I know that that's not true, because the first few times I went into that building, the signs weren't there. I also know from my own considerable experience in customer service that even the most humble of establishments always has a supply closet where things such as "Wet Floor" signs are kept when they are not needed to warn people about a floor that has just been mopped.
That building has other state government offices in it. One of them is the Agency of Human Services and Economic Services. That front door has a small poster that has a picture of a woman blowing her nose into a tissue. It says "STOP! Do you have the flu or symptoms of the flu?" etc...
I don't know who was behind my back at the DOL yesterday, saying something about "safety and cleanliness." As far I know, just a female DOL employee and another female patron of the place were there at that time, other than me.
Copyright L. Kochman April 15, 2011 @12:26 p.m.
@ 5:30 p.m.
Also; if I've been making a lot of accuracy errors lately, or haven't been able to do as much as I'd like as quickly as I'd like, it's most likely because I haven't gotten much sleep since I got here. In the hospital I was finally able to use radio headphones with the sound turned off to block out the overnight staff hacking up lungs outside my door all night, so for the final weeks that I was there I was able to sleep through the night.
Now, I've been going through the same thing at the shelter, and the manager and staff refuse to deal with it; in fact, some of the staff even encourage it and gang up on me with the other residents.
It's very unpleasant; I still don't feel humiliated, ashamed, or anything else, but it's very annoying, time-consuming, and tiring.
April 18, 2011 @ 8:34 a.m.
I just took out some of what I had originally written here.
Copyright L. Kochman, April 18, 2011 @ 8:35 a.m.