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2008-07-17 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Anonymoose 2008-07-17 13:35|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 You'd like to think this was bullshit. But I doubt it is.

Posted by tu3031 2008-07-17 14:11|| 2008-07-17 14:11|| Front Page Top

#2 No, I'd say it's quite accurate. From the abusive shelter to the police holding a blind woman at gunpoint in front of her kids.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-07-17 14:46|| 2008-07-17 14:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Is Janet Reno now running the Bellingham WA PD?

Posted by Uncle Phester 2008-07-17 14:51|| 2008-07-17 14:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Read the entire details. The worst happened after she was 'exited'.

16. The police officer came in with her hand on her gun, pulled my kids out of their beds, in the middle of a Washington downpour at 9 PM at night. When I asked for a supervisor she told me to wait out in the rain in the gutter on the side of the street when I pointed out there was no sidewalk. She allowed the shelter workers to keep my insulin, my food, money orders bought to order new birth records with the sealed name and, worst of all, my blind cane.

17. The officer said although I had not violated any shelter rules, had no write ups, posed no danger to myself or other clients, and my children were in bed, the shelter was exiting me because I was "unhappy" with their services and they did not want to be sued!

18. They ransacked my room and put my things into big black trash bags while my kids stood there crying. The shelter workers then said if I continued to ask for a police sergeant they would not even help me with a motel.

19. They knew they are the only shelter in Bellingham city limits and that a few hours in a motel would leave me nowhere to go. They refused to allow me to call the APS case worker so she could come to the motel and help me learn safely how to navigate the property. They were placing me in a motel on a busy highway with no access to safely cross for food and no way to get my daughter to school (remember they forced her into public school and took her homeschool materials to keep us from watching rap videos).

20. After spending several days in the motel with no insulin, no antibiotics for the infection I got in my hand when I cut it while being forced to sort open sharp tin cans and glass for recycling. That was my chore in the shelter and they said refusing it was refusing to empower myself and live on my own! They made me walk to urgent care and pay for the visit and my own medication to treat the cut and infection. I was forced to return to an area where the abuser had found me before and my new and old name would be cross referenced. Although the police apologized, once they entered the new and old names into NCIC to run me for warrants, the names are forever cross referenced, they offered to give me a letter if I wanted to pay for another court hearing and somehow get my kids to understand why their names had to be changed again. My son was two and already having trouble with the change his father is not violent and had consented to the name change to keep his child safe while he was deployed with the military.

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-07-17 15:52|| 2008-07-17 15:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Another example of liberal fascism in another of its multifarious forms. Someone should write a book ...

Posted by xbalanke 2008-07-17 18:16|| 2008-07-17 18:16|| Front Page Top

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