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05/09/09
Move on, paranoid narcisstic nutcases.
05/08/09
One was a secretary at my office in Washington D.C. who followed me to Boston when I went to law school in Boston and she completely terrorized me night and day always trying to find excuses to see me. (For example she would tell me that she had spent weeks knitting me a sweater for my birthday, and when I told her to just leave it for me in the lobby she'd complain it could get lost so she had to give it to me in person and on and on.) When I graduated from school I told her I was returning to D.C. when I was really moving to L.A.
Everything was calm until a few months into my job in L.A. I got a phone call and she was at the other end of the line and she screamed "I found you! I found you!" (with crazy music playing in the background). She must have called every law firm in every major city in America to find me (this was before googling was available). Strangely she never followed me to L.A. I honestly think she probably ended up in the looney bin.
The other two stalkers stayed away as soon as I got court orders.
I think people like me who are overly polite or too good looking attract these sorts. What I learned is you need to be firm with them up front. Give them an inch and they'll take a mile!
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(the "crazy music" she was playing was Hector Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique which would drive anyone crazy if you hear it more than a few times!)
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I'm so sorry you had to go through something like that, how horrible.
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Probably just a crazy coincidence. She was a classical music buff.
She used to wear this button on her lapel that said "I'm Naughty Not Nice". She even wore it in the office. Not sure why that didn't get her in trouble.
She was from Malaysia and might have been sent home when her green card ran out. Fortunatley for me I'm not planning any trips to Kuala Lumpur anytime soon!
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I'm a music major, that is why I get to know fun facts about misogynistic composers.
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He may have killed her anyway, but I just don't understand the mentality that both assumes that and then comes to the conclusion that we therefore may as well make all the tools a criminal could want as easily attainable as possible. Shouldn't we be doing the opposite?
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Thats true. What concerns me is these pschyos who want to go out with a bang by taking down a lot of people in a public setting. They seem particularly drawn to schools. Fortunately after that incident in Virignia most schools including Yale where my daughter is attending have a system in place to quickly shut down campus and warn students. New Haven is pretty dangerous. Yale students have been victims of random shootings.
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This kind of thing is incomprehensible. Inconceivable. Yet there is the picture of a vibrant, radiant, smiling young woman who will never know another summer's day. And it hurts -- it hurts the heart to think that such evil roams among us, unseen and unbidden.
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That's all I've got.
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Lt.Gen Romeo Dallaire, who was the UN commander in Rwanda during the genocide, made an excellent point in his book that I've repeated many times since I read it. We need to stop fighting the terrorists and the killers and start fighting WHY they become terrorists and killers. We need to stop the breeding of such hatred.
05/08/09
In modern day, the Republicans demonize gays to rally their base...2004 is a perfect example as the Republicans put anti-gay marriage referendums on many state ballots with the hope of getting homophobic people to the polls...
I think that many of the religious right Republicans would have been just like the Nazi's with respect to gays in that they'd love to round them up and send them to reversion camps
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Footnote: as I write this, what should be playing on my Shuffle? Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World." If only.
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We need:
1. Rapid, inexpensive DNA testing to become commonplace.
2. Federal money supporting state legislation (not federal laws) for:
A. More aggressive prosecution of violent crimes
B. A double-blind (a simple "flag") notification system that forces those who have psychiatric histories and those who have prior histories of initiating violence and harassment to go through a qualification process.
3. Stricter regulations for distributors and dealers in terms of sale tracking & background checks, with regular audits.
4. Aggressive PR campaign that makes American adults aware of gun statistics.
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