”Violent crime is at its lowest ever" because of non-reported violent crimes and hate crimes & CA
("Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”—MLK)
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Ms. Johnson;
I was compelled to defer resending this while my GMail account was frozen again in the last 24 hours. Solitude is a good thing after someone points a gun in your face. One that looked like this but was a lighter tan shade, and had red in it, too; however, I don't mean Horace Bowe's toy guns.
It is a weapon I will not soon forget. Nor your collective silence.
Last night (now, four nights ago), "Violent crime is at its lowest ever, " wrote Heather Cox Richardson, in speaking about President Biden’s tenure. Not against Jews.
Tonight's debate will be telling: to see if President Biden highlights the antisemitism you and your colleagues disregard. I doubt he will. Tonight will be telling for all of our futures.
The low ebb has not been reached against Jews. You know this.
We both know that NYPD9 does not care (see photos below), and DCPIs Sheppard and Gerber are more concerned with the influence of your ex-officio Strategic Director Vournas and her husband (a retired GP of a private equity firm) and Director Lacovara (also a retired GP of a private equity firm) than an old poor Jew who cannot afford to hire private representation to review your two contradictory lease proposals or to help get an OOP against Mr.Bowe. The Reform leadership will do nothing either because no one wants to embarrass the Tischs, your new donors, and I refuse to contact Tom. On both issues, my next step will need to involve third parties which defeats my determination to have an independent life free from lawyers motivated by billable hours, with no incentive to get to the truth.
This is Community Access' official policy on antisemitism as of June 3rd, four days before Horace Bowe accosted me, which I had requested after reporting four incidents of antisemitism, directly to you. As Chief Operating Officer, you speak for the Company, the Board of Directors, and the Board of Trustees. You copied case managers and all of Property Management. This was your official personal guidance they were publicly instructed to use for their clients, including Horace Bowe.
Am I mistaken? Has your guidance changed? Has your counsel, or outside counsel advised you to change it? Are you going to either give the hate crime evidence to the DA, or the DOJ?
Yet still, you, CA officers, and your Board have no hate crime speech policy or position on antisemitism. Curiously, no doubt a coincidence, your most significant historical contributor, and also the husband of your strategic director also believes CA should be silent on antisemitism:
Then this:
One might believe, there has been no communication between you and your non-board member contributors on this issue, but such a coincidence.
I apologize for wasting your collective time. I prefer to be devoting my time to finishing the Final Draft of my novel, to writing poems for submission to literary magazines; however, my creative flow somehow gets interrupted the past few days with Horace Bowe loitering in front of the building, waiting for me to be unleashed from my "attack Golden Retriever"
All CA has to do is deliver the Incident Report to the DA, leading to a "full stay away OOP" and state:
"Anti-Semitism is on the rise in America, but not in our properties where we have a zero tolerance for speech or acts of hatred toward Jews by staff or clients."
This single sentence paraphrases Elie Wiesel’s definition of antisemitism, not the IHRA definition, because as a non-profit with Federal, and NYS support, and NYC contracts; Jewish Directors, and "Trustees, "you ought to hold yourselves to a higher standard, though you seem to disregard the teaching of the man you most quote and admire.
I am certain that CA has helped clients seek an OOP in the past, just not Jewish clients.
Past and present silence on antisemitism empowered the June 7th attack on me. Not facilitating an OOP for me makes recurrence a certainty.
Yet still, you, CA officers, and your Board have no hate crime speech policy or position on antisemitism. None are covered in your extant policy. Past and present silence on antisemitism empowered the June 7th attack on me. Not facilitating an OOP for me makes recurrence a certainty.
It will repeat without a “full stay away” OOP.
If I "rat out"HB to NYPD9, the negative consequences to me magnify exponentially, for little likely benefit from a precinct that reportedly manages their statistics for promotions, tolerates officers slipping their credit cards into doors (pictured below), and never has reported assaults on Service Dog handlers.
You have gambled that I will either accept your offer to vacate, sign your possibly fraudulent lease offer (see the partial evidence I presented to your staff today), or, Mr. Bowe or his posse of antisemites, could acquire weapons with firing pins, or silence envelopes me.
I have seen Mr. Bowe once within 50 feet of me since June 9. I believe you spoke to him after that date. Still, not good enough. I require a full "stay away" OOP because he is a feral recidivist waiting for an opportunity when we are not on camera. He will strike again because he is seething knowing I stood up to him. Hilter hired bullies for his Brown Shirts, then the SS.
Your ultimate gamble is:
no one will miss my absence
I will become afraid and leave.
So, you think doing nothing will corral Horace Bowe's violence in my face: You have your "policy." ("Kill All Jews, Hitler had it right,")followed by a rancid homophobic soliloquy aimed at me, the father of a queer son, the father of another son named after a lost queer friend, and the son of a physician who cared for closeted men in the 80s, some of whom were clergy.
You falsely believe doing nothing is pointing a gun in my face.
Your videos and the Incident Report from your employee attest to my silence while I was leashed to my Service Dog. He pointed toy guns at me and my Service Dog and pulled the triggers. It was a rehearsal.
Your contracts with the NYCDOH are far too important for NYPD and the Mayor to risk, especially now as he is under investigation, the same NYCDOH that issued me the permanent Service Dog Tag pictured below, in the attached letter in 2014.
CA's "policy" of declining to report Bowe's violent hate crimes (for 21 days, protects your financial relationship with NYC. Possibly with NYS, too. I know that.
Plus, if you reported an antisemitic hate crime then Mayor Adams might be even more persuaded that NYPD is an ineffective deterrent. Mayor Adams cannot do that.
Mayor Adams and NYPD chiefs are on record as NYC protects its Jews Community Access is an oasis that protects antisemites and others who threaten Service Dogs and their handlers.
Because you can’t lose your NYC contracts, or be looked at too closely. The Board would be embarrassed. Your "Trustees," really shadow celebrities, however, might support your "policy," but then they are not covered by your D&O insurance, as only Directors have coverage.
I think you call tolerating HB's feral behavior "harm reduction," that is: if he just endangers only one Old Jew, that reduces harm to society, and the Mayor's crime statistics benefit too because violence is contained, and NYC is willing to pay for that.
NYPD9 (there is more):Not DepComm Sheppard:
More.
Doing nothing has been a “win-win” for you. Your “decision tree”looks like this:
Bowe might kill me, and Kear, too, and that will solve all your problems. Your dangerous tree is:
no one will miss my absence
I will become afraid and leave.
All I wanted was a quiet, safe place to write and live my best (autistic) life with my Senior Service Dog.
Decades ago I was informed that an exaggerated sense of justice is an autistic trait. But maybe Horace Bowe is just a simple Brown Shirt/Hamas wannabe. There are so many in so many sizes and shapes. Not just in Charlottesville. There are so many good people in Community Access.
My newly signed lease, when we together repair the errant details, will have a quiet enjoyment clause. I can only hope.
In my novel, a work in progress, there is a tragic, but empathetic, character named "Simon the Digger," with an outsized memory who is homeless, but resourceful, who says to a man trying to help him, digging in the garbage:
" ‘I am not going anywhere but I gotta get going,’ he says to the bent man, who offered him a sandwich.”
He would have done well in a CA apartment, but Simon is a very old Jew, and he was something else long ago, so maybe not.
I feel Simon."Toute vérité n'est pas bonne à dire."
Some truths must be told loudly, but I never raise my voice, even when a real weapon is pointed in my face and I am not referring to Horace's toy guns.
I am referring to your hatred of us. Because your “policy” has not changed since June 3rd, and my assailant still hovers in front of my home. We are both waiting.
To paraphrase Rabbi David Wolpe on Claudine Gay’s congressional testimony,
I feel like a youth soccer dad thinking: ” Take a shot, or pass the ball, even if you miss — just move.”
Not a thought that had to ever pass through my mind raising my father’s grandsons.
Shalom,
(((PhilippeduCol)))
Philippe du Col © 2024
Nota Bene:
1. This is not my final word.
2. “Please remember I offered you the opportunity to make peace, quietly, and you chose poorly. Not as bad as Neville Chamberlain though, as I am just an old poor autistic Jewish guy with a mobility problem. You have the NYCDOH letter that Charles McMellon received ten years ago. Here is another:
3. Why are we revisiting the 2022 electrical equipment (yours) fire in my apartment that I extinguished without NYFD? The email to Drilon on 9.14.22 was opened. You seem very preoccupied with your sole Jew, and I am not flattered.
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