Strushie the Cat – Why It Matters July 31, 2017
Posted by voolavex in despicable, freedom, Pets, Social Issues.Tags: cats, crossbow, felony, Franklin Hotel, Internet, malice aforethought, Media, Secret Service, stalking, strushie
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On April 26, 2017 – Strushie the cat – a fixture at the Franklin Hotel in South Beach, Miami, Florida was killed intentionally by an employee. There is not term for this crime. I suspect the reason is because under various circumstance animals can be killed for reasons for which we arrest humans who kill humans. It is however a felony. I would say generally if an annoying animal makes their home on your property and you object – calling animal control would seem the best choice. Strushie and his several alleycat mates had been living in the Florida sunshine and being fed on the premises for years. Strushie often sat in the lobby and was welcomed by staff and tourists alike.He was well liked and gentle.
The Franklin – touted as one of Miami’s South Beach landmarks of the Art Deco period was recently sold. The cats went along in the deal. The people still fed them and smiled at them and liked them. Just an added perk to this small, boutique hotel with security ; cameras and lights and location in a sweet South Beach spot. I wonder how business is under the new ownership?
I wonder more though, why Strushie was singled out; and he was. An aggressive employee decided – perhaps on his own – or perhaps at the behest of the new owners that Strushie was annoying. I have heard conflicting reports. But on or about April 26, 2017 Strushie was stalked by determined man armed with small crossbow, who cornered him and shot two arrows through his head. The injuries did not kill Strushie who ran away and was discovered, rushed to vet and died despite valiant efforts to save his life. He was shot with malice aforethought with a very lethal weapon at close-range then hidden in a room the killer appeared to occupy in the Franklin. Did I mention his name? Georgios Lollias – one of the Franklin’s valued staff.
The crime was covered up with denials from the Franklin’s owner and excuses that the cameras were down that day and no one saw anything. Strushie, ironically, got the Kitty Genovese treatment. But animal lovers are a very devoted lot. Very devoted. And one such person started a Care2.org petition to get justice for Strushie online And she did. Pressure from the public, animal groups, outraged citizens and foreigners made such a hue and cry (and in these days of social media – hueing and crying has become a daily devotion) that investigators from local law enforcement and the City of Miami began to seek the monster who committed this crime. And the U.S.Secret Service entered the fray because it wanted to retrieve the data from the cameras not working that day. The crime had been captured in full color and in graphic detail. An arrest followed. A hearing date is being set in August. Two months from the killing Strushie the Cat Day in Miami was officially declared in Miami on July 26, 2017.
WHY DOES THIS MATTER? Because we are learning and observing the basest side of the Mr. or Mrs. Average American citizen – what they can do and even better, it becomes a guide to show how them they can do it. I suspect Strushies occur every single day in this country alone. And with the Internet, the Fount of all Knowledge (and free to all) you have all the secrets Including animal cruelty. Or how to build a bomb or sarin gas and of course how to make cute stuff with bleach bottles. Google it. Strushie was not hit by a car or disease ridden. He was part of a community that valued him enough to let him live his life unfettered. Why does this matter? Because we are all entitled to live without fear of monsters and hit men and danger and the chance to enrich our own communities. Yet if the killing of a defenseless and harmless cat is done so easily and then covered up – the next kill or injustice or atrocity just becomes easier and more justifiable. This is a lesson. This is why we should not have to fight to enjoy or cringe for any reason, color, faith, age or fur. It creates a domino effect. We are seeing now.
We are all Strushies. We matter. I think this is something we all MUST remember.
My Own Personal Holocaust Denier July 9, 2017
Posted by voolavex in Anti-Semitism, Holocaust deniers, Israel, Jews, Jews, Nazis, Social Issues.4 comments
Recently, I learned that a person, married into my family ( and we are all very estranged) is a Holocaust denier. At the time I found out (quite by accident) I actually thought I would vomit. I shook. I knew this person was opinionated and narrow-minded but this is one that never even occurred to me. Coincidentally, I had just recently seen “Denial” (read the book quite a few years ago) and “Remember”; both of which impressed me and both of which presented aspects of this hideous event in detail. Each was excellent. I should add I am a Jew. although quite secular and I am very pro-Israel – but this is not really the point when it comes to this event. Is it?
Holocaust denial is a crime in many countries – for its ugliness but also for its enormous lie. It did happen and it has been proven to have happened and continues to be written about and substantiated repeatedly as fact. I have read extensively on subject from my teens.
It is a felony in many countries to express Holocaust denial and people go to jail. I imagine this is a case for many who run into one. They can try to call them out to those in authority and it is very tempting. I shall leave it at that.
It actually doesn’t make much sense for Jew Haters to deny it. In the process of their hate, it should be something they cherish. After all if you hate Jews, the death of millions should fill you with delight. For some reason those bigots don’t express this. They have decided that the Jews made it up for sympathy? Profit? Publicity? I have no idea what they think. But when it hits close to ones own life – in any way – it baffles and disgusts. Not enough to debate or argue the point with the bigot -that’s a losing proposition. Deniers are cemented to the denial. And I find them sickening. Period. I don’t want to know them. But it is important to know who they are.
But here is a far more provoking question. How would one even go about creating such a hoax? The Nazis who created the factual Holocaust eventually got what they deserved at the war’s end. Those who tried to deny it or escape the legal system hid. And what a life that must have been! Determined men, like Wiesenthal and his dedicated seekers pursued them relentlessly. They routed out so many and were so diligent – a Nazi criminal on the lam must have been a nervous wreck (just like the Jews and others they sought, found and murdered). But think about the idea of a hoax itself. What would have inspired anyone to imagine this horror and supply specious evidence to prove it? How could be done? There was no social media or iPhones to create rumors or photoshopped evidence and who would have volunteered to take on the role of a skeletal, tortured victim or a corpse? The denier’s usual comeback is that the numbers were inflated. That it was not possible for such a thing to have been carried out on anything (that sort of insults their heroes) but a small scale and it was therefore okay for something of this nature to take place – but not the way the attention starved bleeding hearts claimed. But the facts betray the denial. Not just anguished survivors told their stories; educated, erudite and relentless men – not wanting to simply take a survivors word did the research. They made it their business to dig deeply into the material that existed and supported the facts.
David Irving was one notorious man who insisted it was a hoax. He was revealed in British court to be a liar and a bigot. Neo Nazis, who should be proud of their clever and inspiring German forebears , should embrace it as a stellar accomplishment. Which makes the deniers an even more deluded crowd. They can’t have it both ways. On the one hand these race-pure monsters did a very substantial job of making the Reich Judenfrei and at the same time, the deniers want it be a mythic hoax created by Jews to exaggerate exactly what? Do they think the Reich did a monumental job or did they get blindsided by the Jews who made it up; this very act they love the Nazis for doing. Which is it?
My recently discovered denier insists that the latter is true and the “Jews” made it much worse than it was – but how could even one murdered person, murdered for their race alone be okay? A town of Jews or the starvation of a Jew (or a homosexual, or Rom or impaired person?) is okay? What they would like us to believe is that it was an okay thing to murder Jews, but the ones who survived spun it to be a crime against humanity. That damaged humans who escaped, invented their own history to match that of other survivors. That Jews share a cosmic consciousness that psychically collaborated to tell the same story when questioned? Seriously? That we all think alike and remember the same things that, in their minds, didn’t happen?
This apparently is what my own personal denier believes. This is what made me shake and fight nausea.
No, I did not say the name or the relationship. It is enough for me to know and it is enough for that person to know I know. And now you know. If you know me you may wonder and may even realize. But I now know and that is more than I ever wanted.
Voolavex 