There’s a neat trick that former County Attorney, Kirsten Pabst, developed after Jon Krakauer ripped the veil off the narrative control surrounding campus rape culture in Missoula. It’s the same trick my ex-wife used when she got caught violating the parenting plan we had agreed to during our divorce. Here’s the trick: if you’re being accused of something that you’re guilty of, and the heat is on, simply become a victim and deflect that unwanted attention elsewhere.
If you didn’t know that cops and county attorneys are the pitiful victims of their oh-so-difficult jobs, the beta-male who voters chose to replace Pabst—County Attorney, Matt Jennings—reminded the few dozen people who read local news articles that he’s carrying on his predecessors legacy of strategic victimhood by deploying the phrase VICARIOUS TRAUMA, which acts like a transformative magic spell when amplified by local media.
After playing the victim cards for the mentally ill and admitting that “The way we’re running our system with the mentally ill and criminal justice is the most expensive and least effective way we can possibly design,” Matt Jennings and the rest of the Criminal Justice Oversight Council shifted the focus to themselves:
The council also focused on vicarious trauma impacting criminal justice workers. Andrew Laue, founder of Active Resiliency, described efforts to train and support workers repeatedly exposed to traumatic events, noting such initiatives have expanded statewide and regionally. Lt. Eric Gilbertson from the Lewis and Clark County Sheriff’s Office shared the relentless emotional toll law enforcement officers face, describing a tiring shift that involved multiple traumatic incidents.
As a former service provider who once worked quite closely with local law enforcement, and who dealt more in-depth with addicts and very mentally disturbed people than most regular citizens (thus accumulating my own “vicarious trauma”), my opinion is the system is NOT capable of reforming itself, and I will offer myself and my experiences as the best example of how disingenuous these criminal justice cogs truly are.
My own “vicarious trauma” was never taken into consideration by the County and City attorney’s office as they acted an unwell person’s claims to stack charges of violating a restraining order against me for doing what I had been previously doing, which was appearing in person to local council meetings after making a documentary about Tax Increment Financing and pissing off many, many people with influence in this town. The first charge was such a complete joke that it was ultimately dropped, but it created the foundation for adding MORE criminal charges, making the threat of a possible felony charge quite intimidating if I didn’t accept a plea deal.
I’m not the only political subversive our poor, traumatized authorities are going after. Brandon Bryant, a veteran with his own demons, is once again facing serious criminal charges (watch the video at the link) after an altercation someone else started inside a bar, and which four cops finished outside when Bryant—a DISABLED vet—didn’t put his scary stick down quick enough. If FOUR cops with guns and tasers are, like that Lewis and Clark Sheriff Deputy, so burdened with crippling vicarious trauma, then maybe the should STOP being cops. I definitely don’t think it’s helping society to keep these traumatized, mentally ill cops behind a protective wall of qualified immunity.
Another example of a clearly mentally distressed Mineral County Sheriff Deputy was sent to me recently because I covered this same joker’s behavior in a previous post. Mineral County, like Missoula County, is lucky to have a judge like Shane Vannatta, because he likes to protect these jokers while coming down HARD on a threat like me, someone who has to be legally restricted from writing about United Way for six months to teach me a lesson.
People who don’t understand how the reality-protection-racket works usually find out pretty quickly when they challenge it, even slightly, like that former Chamber of Commerce director who made the mistake of speaking up critically about “urban camping”. What happened to him? He disappeared from his job after less than a year (a story I broke before the Missoulian) and the replacement showed this community exactly how that came to be, in my humble opinion, when he went along with crediting United Way’s Susan Hay Patrick for running the best Missoula non-profit.
Well, if I was the one giving out awards, I think the chamber director, Chad Bauer, might be in the running for the CUCK CHAIR prize (though I’m sure there are some attorneys for the city/county who would give him stiff competition). I’ll also note that there’s a funny irony here when you know about Chad Bauer’s work history with trash removal services in Missoula, and the controversy with non-narrative-control-sanctioned trash removal efforts that Susan Hay Patrick has worked so hard to demonize over the years. A man was even ARRESTED for disturbing piles of homeless trash along West Broadway!
Here’s how the United Way bootlicker claimed to want to help the community in his previous stint with the Chamber of Commerce:
Chad Bauer, a municipal manager at Republic Services, has again taken the reins as the Missoula Chamber of Commerce’s chairman.
Bauer became involved with the board of directors a few years ago and is happy to have the opportunity to contribute to the organization’s goal of uplifting local businesses, he said.
“For me, it’s all helping the business community in Missoula succeed and be able to move forward and have a good opportunity to succeed,” Bauer said.
In his role at Republic Services, he does a lot of work with federal, state and local government resources, he said. This has helped him build many relationships as businesses work to push through the COVID pandemic.
To wrap up this post I’d like to highlight one area where the reality-protection-racket is focusing its attention, and that’s the West Broadway River Corridor Project, an interesting piece of narrative framing because it doesn’t necessarily jive with the messaging I challenged in December of 2020 that homeless numbers were going DOWN before the pandemic.
Here are the screenshots from the plan I find relevant:
Later today Sandra Vasecka will be presiding over her last Public Safety Committee meeting and I’m going to do my best to make my public comment representative of the progress I feel I’m making in dealing with very real anger about very real situations that indicate a very real and very concerning pattern of corruption too deep to keep pounding away at in the same manner I’ve been doing since the lawfare campaign against me.
The political removal of Sandra Vasecka and Danaiel Carlino should show anyone paying attention what the “horseshoe” of City Councilors really thinks about entertaining a diversity of thought when it comes to how they are choosing to transform Missoula into a total money-whore for tourism while the actual livability for regular people erodes a little more with every passing month.
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