MarchMadnessPartDeux 

 

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Introduction/Definition/etc

 

MarchMadnessPartDeux

 

 

Given the MetroAccess and Metro issues,

and recurring theme of the seasonal insanity

during the Spring (meteorological spring was March 1)

can we have some planned insanity instead

of likely "death by cop"/security guards?

 

20100305 7.44 am Jerry

 

 

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So after spending hours waiting in the wind and cold at the

courthouse doing some paperwork, officers / sherriffs

were polite and kind, what appeared to be people

released (people w/o jackets??) from jail/ detention center

on Thursdays making room for the Friday and Saturday/

weekendrush of new entries/ convicts, come to

DC (would have been a good biking day???)

to hear about Pentagon shootings,

which is getting a little more out of hand...

 

I'm not one to advocate violence.

Someone has a beef with Defense,

with the Holocaust Museum, and

why take it out on the guards?

"Death by cop"/ security / fed

protective services, whatever,

what the F**** is the point?

 

Get help people!

I would have taken my self out

over a decade ago, and decided

not to, and life got better, not great,

stuff still sucks, I can't get rid of the

pain of my father passing badly

this week, but I'm not taking it out

on security people, probably paid

badly, and doing their duty/ jobs,

[un?]like the hospital workers who

did not show up at the DC hospital

where 22 were fired for not risking

their lives coming in during the

winter storms...

 

March 4, years ago, we (OOOFC/

OOOFxCo) had a consumer conference

at the local Latter Day Saints (aka Mormon)

Ward building which became the starting

point for the two other consumer run

drop in centers (though Reston seems

to have been starting before that,

OurPlaceFC -> CWC people met

during lunch and started/ forming/

reforming/ worked on it.  Others were

made aware of the consumer drop

in movement and other consumer driven initiatives

from speakers coming in round the area...

 

Anyway, some madness (March Madness

is a basketball tournament/ competition

like the playoffs...  Or whatever, i'm not that

much into sports spectating, so can't really

get a good analogy...

 

I can however, having been stranded by

MetroRail coming back when the above

ground stations were closed and

people not taken out of the rail system

in a graceful shutdown, and ending

up stranded (again) with station manager

saying I should have known (MetroAccess

was "suspended" and only life saving

trips performed 8a - 12 noon, but

other systems were running for a long

time after, I'm just coming back into

town from hospital visit (Dad),

got a Red Line Train, the last,

and then stuck at L'Enfant

Plaza, left to talk with others on the

platform try sharing a cab to Crystal

City, the guy with some money,

gets a hotel room where we thought

there might have been cabs waiting

(no luck, like fly trap paper, going to a

hotel, selling him a $200 room, I can't

afford that, and walk the 395 bridge with

feet that still hurt year+ later after

a taxi MetroAccess sends runs over

my feet, and taxi driver wants me

to stand up and pretend it didn't happen,

I'm going to a homeless center (Lamb Ctr)

and so I'm not human enough, and

he lies saying I didn't pay the $2.50 fare,

to the officer which sides with the driver

(insurance and/or race related?)

later police station personnel on a visit

to get the report, feet still damage,

have to get to the station, but they discount

my experience (and no real report

made, guess "serve and protect" only goes

as far as the white picket fences of the

rich people???)...

 

So what does this have to do with

March Madness and the illusion to

S.H. Cho?   I get frustrated,

have lost my father this week,

people treating me like shit,

repeatedly and systematically,

organizationally (NVRPO NL #2.pdf

being another insult to the years of

consumer efforts, no credit given the people

who made it possible, Shawn not

listed on the Trillium /PW Drop In Center,

PRS Aspergers activities and LMEC

calendars are the only real content,

and http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/csb/region/

has nothing to do with the original

$3.02 milllion dollars, RRWG not even

mentioned, and the newsletter/ website

stolen, along with the hopes and dreams

of people, some no longer with us, died,

and disappointed, but we still pay a Ph.D.

not selected by the people and

hurting people that have little to no

services, so go figure why stuff like

this happens...)

 

Let me repeat, I'm not violent...

I'm sick and disabled, and the services

and people who should be helping,

don't help me, they hurt me,

but I'm not repeating that cycle

of emotional violence, economic

discrimination, etc upon others,

and if you can't see that, get

some perspective from others,

and chill out people...  Spring,

or what people normally think of

as Spring is almost here, trees,

birds, bees (aka

http://search.cpan.org/~mschwern/Sex-0.69/Sex.pm),

flowers, (taxes, well, can't do

much about that... there is a bad joke

about death and taxes in here somewhere)

but better days may well be ahead,

so don't do something stupid and

kill people who probably

haven't done anything to you...

 

Not that violence hasn't gone 

the other way (Nov 13 shooting/

killing an unarmed former special

forces unarmed man, shot

through a car window, only reported

issue as a complaint about picking

flowers, police cremate the body

and send the bill to the estate...

see Washington Post round that time...)

And $1.5 million dollars settled for a human life

(23? yo woman named McIntosh?)

killed by a police officer blowing through

a stop to a shoplifting call,..

 

It seems like open season on MH/

crazies, and the new attorney

general's bias against MH/MI

may be part of the reason,

would not get to court, given

the new administration's

Red State mentality/

"mentalism"...

 

But I rant.  This is how I deal

with my frustrations now.

Lawyers may be a better

way of dealing with stuff,

than violence.  ObamaCare

and other disappointments

abound as people probably

get foreclosed, dying (my father

could have learned/ I could have

learned about hospice ahead of

time, but somehow a nurse and docs

on ICU are dealing with death

instead of messing up the house,

and memories of a likely unhappy

marriage (some domestic abuse likely,

given my experiences witnessed...)

But "until death do us part" does

not mean you can kill your spouse,

humiliate, ridicule, bicker,

nag to death, etc,

gay or straight (DC Homosexuals

marrying, etc).

 

It's a strange, strange world,

in a strange, strange land (Heinlein?),

but that doesn't suspend all normal

laws/ rules/ kindnesses...

 

 

 

 

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