Open Thread Wednesday

For the third time in as many weeks. We were roused from sleep by fire trucks in the middle of the night on Willow Street. These fancy tricked out townhouses have fire alarms that falsely send trucks screaming over. These richy rich types should have to pay a huge fine for these false alarms. Why should our tax dollars be wasted on such nonsense. How about 10k to start with. Our firemen dont need to be wasting time on this crap. These same disgusting people have turned our quiet streets into construction war zones. You really never see the residents. Just the nonstop brigade of service men, gardners and the like.

We should do away with the fire department! How dare they disturb our sleep with their really loud sirens! How stupid that the FD responds to all alarms, real and false! We should let a few of those places burn down, just to show their owners who’s in charge! We’re mad as heck and we’re not gonna take this any more!

On the other hand…

(And I note that Rich Guy has the courage to post under his own name.)

And if you think those are loud, wait until the renovation of the Towers Hotel starts…

A troll by any other name…

Don’t often find myself agreeing with Jeffrey but I’m also fed up with the new entitled crowd that is slowly taking over the Heights. I know the response will be something like … “get used to it”, but it’s really disheartening to watch our neighborhood torn up by their thoughtless self interest.

Jack the Horse Tavern… I’m thinking of going tomorrow night for the first time in maybe 3 years. I used to be a regular back in 2009 but it’s been awhile.

Any recent experiences? According to Yelp the service has become decidedly uneven but I’m more concerned about the food. What do people think?

Well, the central reality of the Heights today is that many of the key older elite, many of which were strongly connected with key London Banks, have either died off or to a much extent live at multiple locations. So the central drive mechanism of what made the Heights what it was, made it necessary that officialdom could not allow things to go past a certain point, has crashed. Now you only have the stragglers of the upper house of the casino and what remains of the once huge Heights gifted community. So what you now have an invasion of ultra rich and upper level income yuppies, both of which have no understanding of the real consequences of policy making by well, Regina Myers types…..

I realize this was the focus of a article and posted comments, but the terrible assault and humiliation of a woman by a pack of animals at State St remain a subject of profound and powerful concern of many I meet in recent days. Given that we have had repeated very serious violent crimes in the last few years, many by roving groups of youths often joined with young adults, it’s time to institute a fund to prompt people to come forward with the kind of vital information to identify and bring to justice those responsible. These funds have been a big factor nation wide in stopping repeated violent crimes especially against women.

Here’s the rule:

“Posting under more than two usernames repeatedly will lead to your comments automatically being placed into moderation…..”

It’s because YOU brutalize everyone here with your bias tone, paranoia and nonsensical conspiracies.

I brutalize people?!? Ye God’s, this is a classic moment even in the BH (large) partial madhouse. Comments like this, folks, is exactly why you can’t take a big portion of what goes on in blogland seriously….but let’s get back to the central issue, do you feel that what occured in this gang attack on this woman and the probability that the will get away Scott free, er do you think that’s serious and what do You propose we do about it as a community?

Honestly, while it was an unfortunate event I don’t think it requires any further action unless someone has additional information to report. However, In the last few weeks many people have been randomly mass murdered by perpetrators closely matching your demographic… That’s much more of a concern.

Does Jeffrey Smith deny that he is a white supremacist? Does Jeffrey Smith deny that he is a neonazi? Does Jeffrey Smith believe in the superiority of one phenotype/ethnicity of human beings over all others?

If not, these views would make you, Jeffrey Smith, a much bigger concern to the residents of this neighborhood (or any other) than this particular incident of crime which merely fits into a larger unfortunate pattern that can be tied to any number of contemporary urban socioeconomic phenomena specific to New York City and is therefore best addressed at that level—as opposed to, say, a roving patrol of one or two cranky old men who definitely do not carry mobile phones.

I will happily tell you whether I am female or male only once you have taken the opportunity to confirm or deny the descriptions of your views we are trying to ascertain. (This will hopefully also put an end to any misconceptions of you we may hold that color our reactions to your commentary.)

I will add that my questions are indeed pertinent to neighborhood issues because, as Arch suggested, the notion of whether we are sharif our neighborhood with someone who wants some of us dead or otherwise marginalized on the basis of the arbitrary characteristics of our birth is of immense concern, at least as pressing as the violent incident you mentioned.

No, we equate your suspected ideology with at least six million murders between 1933 and 1945 alone (including the murders of my own ancestors). Please set the record straight for us about whether our suspicions are correct; I for one don’t want to misunderstand you. I think that would be unfair.

Listen, Jeff, if you had just come on here years ago and only talked about car paint and rockabilly, then yeah we could all be vigilante buddies and fight crime together.

But instead you’ve been open about your role in distributing white nationalist propaganda to children, and you’ve made rather overt statements suggesting that orders of human beings exist in a natural hierarchy. I’m sorry but those views are incompatible with the moral authority you’d need to come righteously or cleanly to any crime scenario in modern day USA.

Not all my views reflect popular opinion either, but like the vast majority of the world I openly and happily accept the overwhelming evidence we’ve had from both science and history that the value of human life cannot be ascribed to the arbitrary circumstances of one’s birth or genetics. If you think you’d be capable of civilly discussing this in person, let me know, and perhaps we can do so over coffee sometime. Until then, unfortunately, your views WILL be met with the revulsion and hostility they appropriately deserve.

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