[Lnc-business] Dear Starchild

Daniel Hayes danielehayes at icloud.com
Mon Feb 13 13:20:25 EST 2017


Starchild,

Absolutely not at the moment.  Let's get the website under control first before we even talk about something like that.

Daniel

Sent from my iPhone

> On Feb 13, 2017, at 10:44 AM, Starchild <sfdreamer at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>    Thanks, guys!  I'll have to keep that in mind if I get really hard up... Not that I'm convinced there's a great market for my advice; here on the LNC, it's hard to even give it away sometimes, LOL.   ;-)
> 
>    Regarding columns however, I do think LNC members being able to blog on our website along with staff (of course what we write could likewise be vetted by the Advertising & Publications Review Committee), with LP members allowed to comment on those blog posts, would be a good idea that could draw more traffic to our site, spur greater member participation/engagement, and help spread the libertarian message. Perhaps each LNC member could also have the option to publish an occasional column in LP News, like the chair's column that appears every issue, but less frequently. Anyone else interested in a motion on either or both of these ideas?
> 
> Love & Liberty,
>                                   ((( starchild )))
> At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee
>                                (415) 625-FREE
>                                   @StarchildSF
> 
> 
> P.S. – For those wondering what David and Daniel were referring to, it was a response I wrote to a very long letter that was recently sent to a number of LNC members (perhaps everyone on the committee, I didn't check). Normally when I receive something that's sent to more than two or three LNC members, I will respond and post my response to this list along with the original letter, however I didn't initially do that in this case, because the letter had basically nothing to do with the Libertarian Party and I suspected people would generally not want to read it. When replying, in fact, I "bcc'd" my LNC colleagues, which I normally don't do, lest she hit "reply all" and send us all additional correspondence.  Since it's now been discussed (indirectly) on the list however, I've posted the correspondence at bottom for the sake of transparency – and also in case anyone else reading would like to write back to her with any words of encouragement or other things that I should have said in my reply, but didn't. 
> 
> To put it gently, the writer appears to be experiencing "consensus reality" a bit differently than most of us. But her final line (for those who managed to read that far), also suggested possible suicidal tendencies, which made me feel I should try to provide more than a cursory response. (I haven't heard anything back, although it's only been a couple days.) She did write to us for help, and she does have concerns about government – although I think they may be less well-founded than the usual concerns that libertarians have about government! Not that her letter contains any particular indication that she is a libertarian, just someone who sounds like she could use some help.
> 
> 
>> On Feb 11, 2017, at 4:19 AM, David Demarest wrote:
>> 
>> Starchild,
>> 
>> I second Daniel's motion. Seriously, what a great idea! The next challenge
>> will be to find a media outlet worthy of a 'Dear Starchild' column. Let's
>> tackle that challenge head-on.
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> ~David
>> 
>> Oct 20-22 2017 Omaha Libertarian Strategy Un-Convention
>> 
>> Celebrate Life, Set the Bar High and LIVE FREE
>> 
>> ~David Pratt Demarest
>> LNC Region 6 Representative (IA, IL, MN, MO, ND, NE, WI)
>> Secretary, LPNE State Central Committee
>> Cell:      402-981-6469
>> Home: 402-493-0873
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Lnc-business [mailto:lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org] On Behalf Of
>> Daniel Hayes
>> Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2017 12:06 AM
>> To: lnc-business at hq.lp.org
>> Subject: [Lnc-business] Dear Starchild
>> 
>> Starchild,
>> 
>> You should get a "Dear Starchild" column in one of the remaining print
>> newspapers  around the country. Take this comment entirely at face value .
>> 
>> 
>> Daniel
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
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> 
> 
>>> On Feb 10, 2017, at 7:39 PM, Julie Nguyen wrote:
>>> 
>>> Every day it becomes more lawless. The government became stealer and
>>> robber. Before they had stolen some valueless things like brand new
>>> camera, brand new bed cover sheet set and other secondhand things. Now
>>> I lost three thousand dollars cash. They cannot cheat me to rob my
>>> money anymore, now they rob my money in other way. I may lose more
>>> money and my jewelery. Please stop them. Please help me to find a
>>> civil right attorney who dares to bring this evil to light. I want to
>>> do something to stop this dirty game.
>>> 
>>> I have been harassed, abused, hurt by the government for long time.
>>> They are pushing me to do and live the way they want. I don’t do and
>>> will never accept it, so they block all ways of my life. I cannot find
>>> justice, no laws support me, all my rights have been trampled. All
>>> people can hurt me, cheat me, insult me and they are not punished by
>>> laws, they are all safe under the government protection. The
>>> harassment keeps increasing with time, now my life is completely
>>> deadlock.
>>> 
>>> First, all people I knew such as neighbors, acquaintances… hinted me
>>> to join some groups of Vietnamese community; contact the family in
>>> Vietnam; sponsor some people from Vietnam to the US…; they directed me
>>> to get along with more other people of Asian races: Chinese, Japanese,
>>> Indian…; they had an attitude of superiority to my life, my personal
>>> things: the clothes I wore, the money I spent, the time I used…; they
>>> questioned me why I did this, why I did not do that… I ignored and
>>> stopped contact them. From then on I had trouble everywhere, at home,
>>> at any business services, at public places… I had to wait for long
>>> time at any business services, and the jobs were not done well, redid
>>> again and again. So I must see people longer and hear what they said.
>>> They set the scene that I must see and have contact with Asian people
>>> at any fields and must do what they hinted. If I did not come to the
>>> right places or the right persons, I had no business services. If I
>>> did not do what they hinted, the harassment would increase.
>>> 
>>> I don’t care about politics. It is not my business if the government
>>> wants to support Asian people to have place in the system. But they
>>> have no rights to force me to follow their way. I will provide the
>>> main information for over ten years from the beginning to present,
>>> from low to high level of harassment.
>>> 
>>> In 2003, I lived in the condominium at 4300 NE, Sunset Blvd F8,
>>> Renton, Washington 98059. I have been bothered by anonymous phone
>>> calls, day and night, every day, just asking some certain names or
>>> impolite talk. I tracked their phone numbers by using the local
>>> telephone company service, but I could not know what they were and
>>> filed a complaint to the Renton police department. They did not take
>>> any actions, and the problem still continued. I called the police few
>>> times later to request their help. They did not say or do anything,
>>> but the phone harassment was ended. I found out from the police that
>>> one phone call was from a Vietnamese man who was my insurance agent,
>>> and he moved to California few months later.
>>> 
>>> Next, a Vietnamese neighbor in unit F1 which was behind the wall of my
>>> bedroom. He bothered me by loud noise, and tried to get my attention
>>> by doing car wash in my parking lot, standing in front of me… Some
>>> strange cars often parked in my parking lot when I got home late in
>>> the evening. They installed a device furtively into the smoke alarm in
>>> my bedroom. It sounded a big noise every two seconds. They did spot
>>> jamming on some TV channel. It was a start time people let me wait
>>> long time at some business services at some locations.
>>> 
>>> One day the food waste disposer did not work. I called many people to
>>> fix it, but all of them refused to do. Later I asked the right man
>>> that they wanted him to do for me, he came quickly.
>>> 
>>> At the same time, I began to receive a lot of junk mails for the
>>> receiver’s name Phong Nguyen. I had lived at this address for several
>>> years before, and had never had any correspondence with that name, and
>>> nobody in my home had that name either. It was a huge amount of junk
>>> mails every day to the day I moved out.
>>> 
>>> In January 2005 I moved to the new house at 2407 Camas Ave NE, Renton,
>>> Washington 98056. The builder, Crescent Home, intended to make a lot
>>> of mistakes. The tiles were not placed correctly, the sink leaked
>>> water, and the nails came out on some areas under the carpet. It was
>>> really painful if someone accidentally stepped on. The builder did not
>>> want to fix the mistakes until I wanted to take the problem to the
>>> third party.
>>> 
>>> At this house on the Camas Ave., I continued to receive junk mails for
>>> the receiver’s name Phong Nguyen with my new address on the junk
>>> mails. One day, I received a cell phone bill from Sprint Company for
>>> Phong Nguyen at my new address on it. I called the Sprint Company.
>>> People did not want to talk to me, they let me wait for long time then
>>> disconnected the line. I had to call many times until they talked to
>>> me. I warned them that nobody in this house knew Phong Nguyen, if I
>>> still received the bill for Phong Nguyen at my address, I would file a
>>> complaint to the District Attorney. After that they stopped the mail
>>> harassment.
>>> 
>>> Cheating and delaying had been increased to new level.
>>> 
>>> The technician from ADT monitor security protection did not come to
>>> install the system. At the end of the day we had to call them to
>>> reschedule to another day while they requested us had to be home at
>>> that time, if not, we had to pay for that fault. Then the technician
>>> did not do a good job, redid again.
>>> 
>>> Other business services did the same.
>>> 
>>> At this new address. The Vietnamese man next door bothered me
>>> terribly. Besides making noise he always stayed before me to do
>>> provocative actions every time I came out. To avoid having trouble
>>> with the neighbor, I moved to another place after less than two years
>>> living there.
>>> 
>>> I moved to the new house at 4005 NE 21st Street, Renton, Washington
>>> 98056 in October 2006. The builder, American Classic, did the same
>>> like the other builder: The sink leaked water, the power system did
>>> not work well… The technician kept coming back many times, and the
>>> mistakes still remained to the day I moved out.
>>> 
>>> At this location, after installing the alarm system in the house, the
>>> Pinnacle Security technician told me that I had to call the Indian
>>> guy’s cell phone one a month, so he would come to check the system, it
>>> was a requirement (there were two guys at that time). I canceled the
>>> service immediately, and the main device immediately sounded noisily,
>>> a big noise every two seconds even I had taken it off the wall and
>>> thrown out of the house.
>>> 
>>> The Asian neighbors in the front and in the back of the house did the
>>> same like the other neighbors. They tried to catch me every time I
>>> came out to get my attention on them.
>>> 
>>> They installed some devices furtively again into each smoke alarm in
>>> the house. They sounded a big noise every two seconds. I had to
>>> disconnect the power line to all of them.
>>> 
>>> ·         A & E Factory Service – North West Service District: 4786
>>> First Ave. S, Seattle, Washington 98134; phone: 800-905-9505
>>> 
>>> After two years living on the 21st Street, they damaged the dishwasher
>>> when nobody was home. I called A & E Factory Service many times, and
>>> fought with people on the phone because it costed my money and time,
>>> but the dishwasher never got done. Their technician came to my house
>>> many times, they pretended to repair it, after they left the
>>> dishwasher remained not working. Each time I called, they gave
>>> appointment after five days or over. One time, just a few minutes
>>> after the technician left, the dishwasher got fire. I had to call the
>>> fire department. It was repaired a year later after I had sent out all
>>> of the harassment to a lot of people.
>>> 
>>> They kept damaging something in the house after the other things had
>>> been fixed, so if something was not a major part, I had to bear with
>>> it.
>>> 
>>> ·         Qwest Services: Home telephone, cell phone, internet,
>>> digital TV (Direct TV): P.O. Box 2678, Omaha, NE 68103; phone:
>>> 800-244-1111
>>> 
>>>       *Home telephone: After I had moved into the new house on the
>>> 21st Street for few months, the home telephone line did not work. I
>>> had to pay for the technician of Qwest to come in to fix it. From then
>>> on the phone line was controlled. If I called law offices, the
>>> American Civil Liberties Union or other people to get legal help, the
>>> phone line was very noisy, or I could not hear people who were on the
>>> phone line with me.
>>> 
>>>       *Internet: It could stop working at any time, especially when I
>>> searched for legal service. One time I had to call the Qwest Internet
>>> 24 Hours Service for the whole night because they hung up or did not
>>> answer the phone.
>>> 
>>>       *Cell phone: Qwest and Verizon Wireless cheated me by informed
>>> me that Qwest and Verizon Wireless worked together, I could renew the
>>> contract either with Qwest or Verizon Wireless, and the fee would be
>>> the same. I renewed with Verizon Wireless, then the fee was higher
>>> than it had been. I canceled the service and agreed to pay one hundred
>>> seventy five dollars for early end contracted, but again the amount
>>> was higher than that. I did not pay, and they put my account in
>>> collection.
>>> 
>>>        *Television: They sometimes changed the programs on TV to let
>>> me see something about what they wanted me to do.
>>> 
>>> ·         Medical Doctor: David Santos: was at 9412 SW 43rd Street,
>>> Suite 110, Renton, Washington 98058; phone: 425-227-400. Now at 12301
>>> NE 10st St, Suite 101A, Bellevue, Washington 98005; phone:
>>> 425-549-2129
>>> 
>>> Doctor Santos did the noise surgery for me for medical reason in
>>> October 2005. Few days after the surgery my nose was bled a lot, I had
>>> to go to the emergency room at night.
>>> 
>>> In October 2009 I paid him four thousand two hundred dollars for
>>> cosmetic surgery to take the fat on the upper and lower eyes. He did
>>> twice.
>>> 
>>> The first time, he did not take the stitch on my eyes after the
>>> surgery, the receptionist told me to go to the emergency room. I paid
>>> one hundred dollars, but the doctor at the emergency room at Valley
>>> Medical Center Hospital in Renton did not take the stitch out and told
>>> me to go back doctor Santos. Next day I paid another one hundred
>>> dollars for another doctor at another clinic to take the stitch out.
>>> 
>>> The second time, doctor Santos did the surgery again on my right eye
>>> in February 2009, and the eye bled.
>>> 
>>> The fact was he did not do the job. He did not take the fat on the
>>> upper and lower eyes on both surgeries, and he left two scars on my
>>> right eye.
>>> 
>>> ·         Dentists:
>>> 
>>>        *Anna A. Danieli, Patrick L. McKenzie: 1900 S Puget Drive,
>>> Suite 102, Renton, Washington 98055; phone: 425-228-1521
>>> 
>>>        *David Ford: 601 S Carr Road, Suite 400, Renton, Washington
>>> 98055; phone: 425-277-0125
>>> 
>>>         *Andrew Johnson: 601 S Carr Road, Suite 350, Renton,
>>> Washington 98055; phone: 425- 277-3368
>>> 
>>> All these dentists cheated and hurt me to extract a wrong tooth and
>>> dentist David Ford extracted it. Anna Danieli and Patrick McKenzie
>>> tried to cheat me to get more money later.
>>> 
>>> Dentists Patrick McKenzie and Anna Danieli were husband and wife. They
>>> let the guy who cleaned my teeth tell me that my tooth needed to be
>>> extracted. Then all above dentists said the same, and David Ford
>>> extracted it. After the tooth extraction, on my last visit for teeth
>>> cleaning, they let a strange Vietnamese woman whom I had never seen
>>> before clean my teeth very perfunctorily and this woman decided my
>>> five teeth needed filling. She said because she was able to see by her
>>> eyes, so I should not doubt it. Then she let a Korean man (I did not
>>> know who this guy was) check my teeth very perfunctorily. The man
>>> offered to do an implant surgery for a new tooth to replace the
>>> extracting tooth. He said the surgery would be done at Anna Danieli’s
>>> office, and it would be a lower cost than at other professional place.
>>> I never let it happen.
>>> 
>>> They advised and extracted the wrong tooth, it was not necessary
>>> extracted. This dental office had no license to perform implant
>>> surgery. The Vietnamese woman had no right to decide what the teeth
>>> needed. Later other dentist told me that the Korean guy was a student
>>> not graduated yet.
>>> 
>>> I did not have a dental insurance. I paid off at every office visit
>>> for any services: Extraction, cleaning, teeth filling… they gave me a
>>> receipt like a receipt of a small store. It was a piece of paper with
>>> only the number I had paid, no any words at all.
>>> 
>>> ·         Medical Doctor: Michael S. Solomon: Eye Center at Valley
>>> Medical Center at 3915 Talbot Road, Suite 100, Renton, Washington
>>> 98055; phone: 425-656-5345
>>> 
>>> This office refused to make early appointment when I needed urgent
>>> care for eyes infection. They forced me to go to the emergency room
>>> first, but the doctor at the emergency room at Valley Medical Center
>>> Hospital in Renton did not do any treatment, and told me to go back to
>>> the doctor at the Eye Center after I had paid one hundred dollars. On
>>> my last visit at this office they let a Korean guy that I did not know
>>> who he was to exam my eyes.
>>> 
>>> ·         Valley Medical Center, Cascade Primary Care: 4033 Talbot
>>> Road, Suite 570, Renton, Washington 98055; phone: 425-656-5400
>>> 
>>> This office did not do the right thing under the laws. When I had
>>> stomach pain, they refused to make early appointment.
>>> 
>>> ·         Don Ramey: UW Extension (University of Washington),
>>> Associate Director: 4311 11th Ave. NE, Seattle, Washington 98105;
>>> phone: 206-897-8939, 800-506-1325
>>> 
>>> After graduated from the University of Washington, I wanted to
>>> continue my education at the UW Extension. I came to this office many
>>> times, lots of people who worked at this place did not give me clear
>>> information about how to apply, requirement… They referred me to Don
>>> Ramey. I could only contact him by email. Through several emails, I
>>> got nothing, no information was given.
>>> 
>>> ·         King County Library Connection at South Center: 1115 South
>>> Center Mall, Tukwila, Washington 98188; phone: 206-242-6044 (inside
>>> Westfield Shopping Town South Center, East Entrance)
>>> 
>>> Because the internet stopped working when I searched legal service, I
>>> had to go to the public library. At this place people did not let me
>>> use a computer. They said all computers had been booked. I asked for
>>> the proof of reservation, they did not have it, then they let me use
>>> one.
>>> 
>>> ·         Mercedes-Benz of Bellevue: 11950 Bellevue Redmond Road,
>>> Bellevue, Washington 98005; phone: 425-455-8535
>>> 
>>> I bought a brand new Mercedes car here in 2005, and they installed a
>>> distance control device furtively into my car to let me have trouble
>>> few years later. When I brought my car there for oil change, they kept
>>> the car till the next day, and let me use their car. They asked my
>>> credit card and said no charge, just kept the information in case of
>>> something wrong. But later I found that they took money from the
>>> credit card while I paid cash for the service. I happened twice. They
>>> also did not complete the oil change process on my vehicle, they did
>>> not change the filter. On the last visit, a woman worked there, the
>>> last visit, a woman worked there, Sheryl Parkins, gave a fee for the
>>> service which was higher than the real cost around two hundred
>>> dollars. When I asked her to write down on the paper, she wrote
>>> differently.
>>> 
>>> The harassment increased to higher level. All people I met hinted me
>>> to sponsor people from Vietnam to the US, reminded me to contact the
>>> family in Vietnam… I had to bear the harassment everywhere, at
>>> restaurants, at the bank, public parks, any shops, and supermarkets…
>>> People worked in the South Center Mall, Northgate Mall, Bellevue Mall
>>> at the cosmetic department did not sell me the products. I had to
>>> contact Asian people at any business, if not, I had no business
>>> services. Once I met Asian people, I had to see them long time to hear
>>> what they said. It became that I spent time longer for each visit and
>>> came back as much as they could make. I did not dare to come to any
>>> dentists or medical doctors. I had a large limit of necessary in life.
>>> I could not get any lawyers to protect my rights, all of them refused
>>> to take the case, even people in the ACLU cooperated with the
>>> government to hurt me.
>>> 
>>> ·         American Civil Liberties Union of Washington State – Legal
>>> department ACLU of Washington: 705 Second Avenue #310, Seattle,
>>> Washington 98104; phone: 206-624-2184, 206-624-2180
>>> 
>>> In 2009, I sent the information to the ACLU in Seattle, Washington,
>>> and spoke with a woman on the phone probably a lawyer. She said the
>>> same like other people had said, I should go to some Asian groups to
>>> get help or go to a psychologist for my emotion, because I did not
>>> want to contact the family in Vietnam. I refused to do it, and asked
>>> her to protect my rights. She refused to take the case. One dentist
>>> did the same, he introduced me to see Asian people and advised me to
>>> see a psychologist. I told him I need a lawyer, not a psychologist.
>>> 
>>> No laws protected my rights, I had to protect myself. So I stopped
>>> contact with Asian people whom I had known before. If I had to go
>>> somewhere, I refused to deal with Asian people. Then they raised the
>>> harassment to higher level.
>>> 
>>> In the beginning of 2010 to the time I sold my car in 2012 when
>>> started driving my car on the road, on the freeway, a lot of cars ran
>>> around me. They ran slowly and did not let me get out. They sometimes
>>> suddenly jumped into my car, but I could move away to avoid accident.
>>> I had to make my way to get out of them, and they used the police to
>>> give me many tickets because of not giving signal to change lane…
>>> 
>>> If I did not go to gas stations having Asian people worked there,
>>> people in other places did not sell the gas or a lot of vehicles
>>> blocked the line. In February 2011, it snowed a little bit. I had been
>>> able to drive on heavier snow even with an older inexpensive car. But
>>> on that night, only a few blocks to get home, the car could not move
>>> while the engine still running. They let a black man pretended to help
>>> me. He said I could not drive, he would take me home, and come back
>>> the next day to bring me back to my car. I let him do it, and he came
>>> back the next evening and said that he wanted to be my friend. I
>>> refused. Later many black people ran around to remind me about that
>>> guy. I was stupid to throw away his phone number, if not I would post
>>> here for people to check.
>>> 
>>> I ordered food to go to avoid harassment at restaurants. They wanted
>>> me to go to restaurants in Renton, I did not, I ran far away to
>>> Seattle to buy food. People there often made wrong food which was not
>>> the one I ordered, and I knew only when I got home that some parts of
>>> food were missing or not good. They always let me wait long time,
>>> thirty minutes to one hour, if I did not ask, it may be longer while
>>> all of the restaurants were small, and there were only ten customers
>>> or less. Lots of Asian people always surrounded me at any restaurants
>>> and spoke loudly to remind me what they wanted me to do.
>>> 
>>> In February 2011, two days after the car problem with the black guy, I
>>> got food at a restaurant, people let me wait forty five minutes, I
>>> requested them to do earlier, and they refused to sell food to me. I
>>> called out that the government ordered them to harass me. The Seattle
>>> police came to arrest me. They put me in jail for two nights. A woman
>>> said she was a lawyer, she read a false police report about the length
>>> of the time I had had to wait and what had been happening on that
>>> night, and offered me to choose a treatment for mental health; they
>>> were dreamers! My boyfriend hired a lawyer in Tacoma, Washington. His
>>> name was John J. Meske. He suggested to my boyfriend that I would
>>> admit that I had taken additive drugs, so it caused me to do that;
>>> they dreamed again! When I saw him I told him the story. He said that
>>> he only took care this criminal case. (It was a criminal complaint for
>>> criminal trespass on the first degree, and the plaintiff was the city
>>> of Seattle, Washington). I told him that I would tell at the court
>>> what the government had harassed me, abused my rights. He said that I
>>> did not have any evidences to prove it, and the judge would put me in
>>> mental health. I said if I could find justice for myself, I would kill
>>> myself, I would never let the lawyer ask the judge for mercy or admit
>>> guilt while people forced me to do that. Then the lawyer said that the
>>> prosecutor would not appear at the court room to prosecute me. I came
>>> to the court twice. The first time, the lawyer asked the judge to
>>> delay the trial. The second time, the judge dismissed the case because
>>> the owner of the restaurant signed some paper to cancel the complaint.
>>> 
>>> They arranged lots of people in Renton to harass me and broke a lot of
>>> things in my house. So I moved away to Archstone Water Place Apartment
>>> in Woodinville, Washington in April 2011. The employees there reminded
>>> me a little bit about Asian people, and Asian people who were living
>>> around tried to catch me to get my attention on them. Some items in
>>> the unit were damaged on the first day moved in, I ignored all. After
>>> three months I moved again.
>>> 
>>> In July 2011, I moved to Morning Run Apartment in Monroe, Washington.
>>> On the first day, the employees did not give us the key at the office,
>>> told us to wait in front of the apartment. It took so long, we came
>>> back to the office. Then a woman got in with us, she did not want to
>>> leave. She checked and touched every item in the unit. It seemed to be
>>> hours while we rented a truck and had to return it by five o’clock. We
>>> did not care what she did, just carried in our stuff. She came out and
>>> tried to talk, we ignored, she left. She did that because she wanted I
>>> saw again Asian people who were moving into the next apartment and did
>>> not return back yet. The second day, I found that the sink, the
>>> refrigerator, the dishwasher had problem. The Asian technician came
>>> the next day. He kept trying to talk to me. He asked me what was wrong
>>> with the sink and came to the other sink to look. He asked me if I
>>> like the temperature of the refrigerator after he had fixed it. Then
>>> he took off the heater and ask what was wrong with it, but I did not
>>> ask him to do it. After a time he told me he could not repair the
>>> dishwasher, other technician would come tomorrow to do it. Then he
>>> came back to the sink inside the bedroom. Few minutes later he called
>>> me to come inside and said he could not fix it, he did not know what
>>> was wrong with it. I scolded him and the woman from the day before. He
>>> called the police. Two policemen came at the door. I asked them if the
>>> government harassed me and sent them here to threaten me. They said
>>> no, no, they came because the guy called them, and they would leave
>>> for me to do the housework.
>>> 
>>> A next few days I found the sink in the kitchen leaked water. This
>>> time I left the unit during the joke. The technician came several
>>> times for few days, then left a note that they could not fix it. A
>>> woman from the office came to check it, and left some stupid
>>> conclusion, but did not say it would be fixed. Then all of them were
>>> quiet. I did not care. It was their duty and was not my property.
>>> 
>>> They installed some device into smoke alarms again, I took the alarms
>>> off the ceiling. Asian people around the apartment did the same like
>>> the others at other locations. My laptop and internet connection
>>> continued to be controlled. The T-Mobile internet service could stop
>>> working for few days or weeks. Some web sites or webpage could not
>>> open. They frequently posted a big Asian picture to cover the content.
>>> I could not remove it, or if I could remove, it appeared again
>>> immediately.
>>> 
>>> After I had moved in the apartment for a few weeks the black woman in
>>> the upstairs unit started making noise every night in the bed room
>>> area. Lots of residents moved in and out the unit, and they all did
>>> the same, that unit is never empty. It became louder and louder, and
>>> happened in the day too, but every night. On March 21, 2014, it
>>> happened around four o’clock in the morning. I could not bear it any
>>> more, I came out shouting “Fuck the government. Stop harassing”. The
>>> two policemen knocked at the door. I told them that people in the
>>> upstairs unit made noise to harass me, and I wanted the government to
>>> stop harassing. One of them said at once if I was on mental treatment.
>>> I scolded them back, and told them that the government harassed me
>>> very long time, and they might not know the full story, and I let them
>>> read the information in my unit. He read for few minutes, then said
>>> that they (“We”) did not against me, I should trust people… I cut off
>>> to tell him that I did not want to talk to anybody, I wanted a lawyer,
>>> a civil rights lawyer. He said if there was a lawyer, I had to pay for
>>> that, then they left. I sent them an email immediately about all of
>>> the information in case they wanted to bring this case to the court. I
>>> did not scream, yell or be angry during the talk. But I confirm that
>>> being angry is my right. I am not a slave or an animal not to be
>>> allowed to get angry, I don’t let anybody forbid me being angry. Few
>>> days later I found a police report at the front door. It was a false
>>> report to insult me. It described me as a mental woman, continuous
>>> yelling, shouting, angry; and they were good, patient with me,
>>> explained to me, tried to calm me down, and asked if I should be
>>> willing to go to the Triage Center voluntary. At the mendacious
>>> barefaced report, I tried to look for legal help again, but all door
>>> closed at my seeking justice.
>>> 
>>> I could not tell all of the harassment for over ten years. A lot of
>>> people know and joint this dirty game. It is immoral and law
>>> violation. Where is justice?
>>> 
>>> A lot of people always give good words about justice, human rights,
>>> laws, government… while I, myself, did not do any bad things, but I
>>> cannot live in my own life, I don’t have my own choice, I cannot get
>>> basic rights of a human. I can chew only in one side, I have to endure
>>> my toothache, I have to watch my health to become worse day by day in
>>> silence. I cannot go anywhere without harassment even at home. Nowhere
>>> on this earth is my own peace place.
>>> 
>>> I promise myself that if I cannot find justice, I cannot get back what
>>> I have lost from the vile harassment, I will not talk or have contact
>>> with Asian people in any service, never accept any exchange to get
>>> basic rights and won’t give a chance for people to hurt me again. My
>>> life has to be completely free without any conditions or it is ended
>>> soon in some day.
> 
> 
>> On Feb 10, 2017, at 8:40 PM, Starchild wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Julie,
>> 
>>    Thank you for writing. I am sorry to hear of the bad experiences you've been having. All I can do is offer a few suggestions, which I hope may be of assistance:
>> 
>>    If you are receiving unwanted mail, a good technique is to write on it, "Return To Sender" and drop it in your local mailbox. You can also circle your name on the envelope and draw an arrow to it along with the words "Not At This Address".
>> 
>>    If you receive bills at your address sent to another person, you do not need to waste your time calling the company that sent them – you can just ignore them. Very rarely will anything further happen, and if it does, you'll have an opportunity to deal with it at that time. Companies that want to hear from people about mistakes like this so that they can correct them rather than wasting more of their money sending mail to the wrong homes need to learn to stop wasting people's time by using phone numbers where you have to spend a lot of time waiting on hold before you can speak to anyone.
>> 
>>    My best guess is that it's not the neighbors messing with your smoke detectors in your home, but rather that the batteries in the devices were running low – that often causes them to start beeping periodically. I would either open them and put in new batteries, or just take the batteries out altogether, and the noise will probably stop. Requiring people to have smoke detectors is just another unnecessary government law – the likelihood that one will ever save your life is very low, and if you don't think it's worth the cost and stress of maintaining them, my advice is don't do it.
>> 
>>    In my experience, most people at one time or another, often repeatedly, have problems with products they buy, things being installed incorrectly, medical services they receive not being performed properly, receiving poor service at various businesses and having to wait long amounts of time, getting their computers to work properly (that especially!), etc. 
>> 
>>    Although government policies indirectly contribute to many of these problems, it is very, very rare for government employees to specifically target someone for harassment in the manners you describe. They simply do not have the time and resources to do this, partly because they are busy processing all the paperwork and administrative bullshit that they impose on the rest of us! Much more likely is that you are simply experiencing the normal and unfortunate pains of living in a modern and highly technological society. None of us, sadly, are able to live completely free without any conditions, or even close to it.
>> 
>>    I've certainly dealt with many frustrating things myself, and find the best approach is usually to ignore it or find the humor in it to be able to laugh at the absurdity, and focus on more pleasant things. Breathe deeply. Have a cup of tea. Meditate. Turn off the TV and take a walk. Perhaps try using marijuana – the government now recognizes it as legal in Washington state, and it can be good for helping to relax and relieve stress. It may even help temporarily with your toothache pain, although I do advise seeing a dentist for that. If you don't like the ones you've been seeing, there are plenty of others. You might try Yelp.com and look for dentists in Renton to see which ones have good reviews. If the neighbors annoy you, just wave at them and say "Have a nice day!" and keep going. They will probably soon get tired of it and leave you alone. You have every right to get angry when you want to, but it's usually more fun to remain calm!   :-)
>> 
>>    I can guarantee you that not all Asian people are out to get you or working together in some kind of conspiracy. I've found many people of Asian ethnicity to be friendly, helpful, and kind, along with some who are not so much, just as is true of every other ethnic group. Maybe you yourself are a kind, helpful person of Asian background?
>> 
>>    Besides this advice, I'm afraid the Libertarian Party does not have the resources or expertise to help you, but on behalf of the party I wish you the best and hope you are able to cope with these circumstances and still have a happy life.
>> 
>> Love & Liberty,
>>                                  ((( starchild )))
>> At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee
>> 
>> 
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