Open Thread Wednesday

What drivel….no wonder every moral bankrupt and crimal type feels he can come to the Heights and do anything he wants. Just look at who are setting the outward image of the Heights.

Change the spokesmen and you’ll change for the saner, the image. And the image you allow various types to project of where you live, DOES have serious street consequences!!!

Watch who you allow to represent your vital interests folks….

I greatly doubt either you or Archie could be described as being knowledgeable of anything except in the case of Archie being prone to falsehoods and distorting my record and genuine beliefs…..none of which is important or likely for anyone to seriously react to…..but still, it shows he intellectual bankruptcy generally present today…..

We WERE discussing an important subject. Allowing this kind of street behavior ALWAYS has very serious consequences (shortly) down the road….anyone like this, along with those who allow his activities, are sendinng a powerful message to FAR WORSE types that it is just fine to come here and do anything they want…..

The Jesuit principle should apply here; if you want a stable state of social order, you have to stop wrongdoing at the FIRST instance Not when it has grown to a wildfire….with the very serious dangers that represents.

STC is correct that continuous pressure to decrease the current total rodeo currently above us is necessary. But all the standard critics of
the scene fall short in that they default into the behavior of general broad complaint even when a extremely inviting nerve center is fully available on which we could use our energies FAR more effectively on.

Why? Because its the amount of downside for the powers that be of their abuse to you, largely controls how much abuse they feel they can inflict or..how much they have to STP thier behavior. This is conflict dynamics 101 kiddies…..

You’ll notice that all the anti helicopter advocates very carefully avoid the entire subject of the AMOUNT of noise and discomfort is.being caused by….Federal activities. Why aren’t any of the advocates probing why are the most disruptive effects (forget noise, having your apartment vibrated at dinnertime and at 2AM!!!) give every indication of being Federal Government in origin. (Hey, if the downlinks are all on federal frequencies, why isn’t that a fit issue to be examined?) Well, not with current gaggle of ineffective noise sources on this subject…..

Let me be ‘,honest and unbiased’ enough to ask a very basic question:

If a white man decided to go to Sands and Navy street and insult the females there, what would be the “community response”…..

Everybody reading this knows very well what would quickly happen…

I see, so because were a well behaved white community we get to be abused…(and this is just fine with everyone ” in authority” from elected officials to Mr Peepers and the BHA)…..and you wonder why fights are breaking out nation wide…just wait a little kiddos….

True. I used to like it when Homer would occasionally have themed open threads – on Heights restaurants, Brooklyn Bridge Park, etc. It helped focus the conversation (in addition to the main Wednesday thread).

Same rules as in the kid playgrounds: no admittance, unless child in tow.

The beggar who hangs out on the west side of Henry midway between Clark and Love Lane has a more expensive smartphone than I do.

At least he’s not like the guy who used to scream at people on Montague.

You mean the signs on the bins at Key Foods are lies??

Something to the effect of “recycle the unnecessarily large quantity of plastic bags we use to bag your groceries here”

Consider this a cyber pee on you leg.

Yes It would be very helpful if people would donate their excess bags to the “cause”, While the bags don’t technically get “recycled” they do get a second use before going to the landfill.

Only if you give me a belly scratch.

I shouldn’t answer this but yes, you CAN generalize about the cultural and heritage character of this neighborhood. In this situation I would want to properly look into the matter before assigning any blame whatsoever. However the issue others raise IS valid generally: No woman should EVER be targeted in the manner discribed.

But when the person who even allegedly targeting someone is of a dissimilar background, it of course adds an new and ugly element which both intensifies, amplifies and exacerbates what is worst about the even alleged event.

And its, again, the old story:

No one from the Heights is going into any surrounding community and victimizing anyone. But for the last 50 years, we have had a conga line of every criminal and threatening/degenerate type imaginable doing everything to attack and endanger this community.
Who can say this is wrong; how many Heights residents are going over the Red Hook or Farragut projects and robbing or threatening anyone. The abuse has for the last half century or more BEEN IN ONE DIRECTION…always INCOMING.

“I shouldn’t answer this…”

Then don’t.

Look, what you’re going on and on about is unproductive. Once you have an informed and accurate assessment of the problem other than frothing at the mouth at the idea of someone sitting on the sidewalk asking for money and occasionally saying rude things to people, why don’t you come up with a viable solution and then try to act upon it, and leave the blog out of it?

I contributed my opinion, that the man seems to have a psychological illness, my sentiment that I hope he gets help, and my lamentation that I don’t believe he will. That’s the end of it. I’m not chastising anyone for their views or inactions. Your conduct suggests to me that you are also affected by mental illness, and trust me, I am VERY slow to make such assessments over the Internet.

I don’t know what his situation is but I saw him there too, same schtick about the shoes. Later saw him get into a cab.