Last week, as I was finishing my new zine KILLERS OF CASCADIA, City Council member, Gwen Jones, gave me the funniest visual I’ve seen in quite some time, especially considering I had just written about Ted Kaczynski’s interest in “learned helplessness”, a theory that posits if you torture a dog long enough it stops fighting back.
Not only was Jones walking her dog across the bridge that burns doggy feet, her dog had a MUZZLE on. How perfect is that?
Before I get to the public comment I gave to the Police Commission just an hour ago, here’s a picture of the local resource guide I picked up before entering the conference room. Notice anything?
This image encapsulates, almost better than Gwen Jones walking a muzzled dog, how the illusion of Missoula being a caring, liberal community is a complete fiction that requires deceptive control of what people see in order to maintain the illusion. For those who read my coverage of the man who disrupted the NO KINGS protest, you can literally see in the above image where the fresh paint covered up the graffiti.
That coverage included my criticism of law enforcement allowing an intoxicated man to access the stage and steal the microphone before being removed from the stage where he was then allowed to continue his disruptive behavior after crossing the bridge and conspicuously defacing the Hip Strip wall that proudly displays the decree BELIEVE WOMEN, like women are incapable of deceptively exploiting legal processes for their own vindictive gain.
I was going to reference this incident in my comment, but I took too long telling the Commission how I did my best to help law enforcement catch a homeless killer during the summer of 2014 after explaining to them how my religious group, the Lady of Perpetual Paradox, is being targeted in a manner that makes me less confident that local law enforcement knows about and/or gives a shit about the Constitution.
If law enforcement needs MORE context about my long struggle with NOT having Constitutional protection, here’s the apology letter Gwen Jones was forced to give me by HR when her lapse in judgement caused her to momentarily forget about my right to criticize her sidewalk plan with a poem:
This anti-Constitutional harassment from a board-member of the non-profit I was working at at the time helped me to see this town and the people running it for what it is, so thank you Gwen. Also, it was so nice of the Chief of Police, Mike Colyer, to say hi to me by name. I hope he was listening closely to the pre-recorded banter in the conference room about Butte and the family that owns the Town Pump because my coverage of THAT town, like alleged drug dealing at the Fuel Fitness there, and the relationship between Town Pump and the LifeGuard Group, is pretty interesting, if I say so myself.
Thanks for reading!
“…like women are incapable of deceptively exploiting legal processes for their own vindictive gain.”
“…my religious group, the Lady of Perpetual Paradox…”
You are in fine form today Travis! I think my church may be, Our Lady of Avoidable Misery.
Gwen is like the little bully girl in the schoolyard pulling the strings of Missoula funding. She is always right, and everyone else should just shut up and do what she says. Nick Checota should give her a percentage for all the money he has been given. I’ll just pay my taxes and shut up Gwen.