HELLO GARRETT: Neighborhood Guidelines

Subject:	Re: jimedavery@att.net
From:	James Avery (jimedavery@att.net)
To:	help@nextdoor.com;
Date:	Friday, April 29, 2016 4:47 PM

Hello Garrett,

"A laugh can be a very powerful thing.  Why, sometimes in life, it's the only weapon we have."

~(Who Framed Roger Rabbit)~

I can't help but find this conversation I'm having with a representative of Nextdoor Support... about...Nextdoor.com Neighborhood Guidelines somewhat amusing. 

"Takes one to masturbate, two to procreate, three before anyone, "FUCKED!" "FUCKED!" "FUCKED!"

TAO-g(Simply!Jim)d~OG

You are right about there being a comment of mine that was removed more than once that I continued to re-post.  Also correct that I had used profanity in a few comments that were removed including the one that I continued re-posting.  I'm in agreement with you that these actions of mine were in violation of the Nextdoor's neighborhood guidelines, 

"The mystery to me is not that there are massacre, but, rather, how there aren't 100,000 of them each year."

~(Adam Lanza)~

But this is where our agreement ends. 

Nextdoor  |  APR 22, 2016  |  03:05PM UTC

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Subject: jimedavery@att.net

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APR 22, 2016  |  08:05AM PDT 
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Physical Address (including unit number, city, state, zip): 1840 Mason Mill Road
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Currently believing I have been banned from Nextdoor.com by Neighborhood Lead Patrick Noonon? Did get an email informing me content has been removed; but nothing about no longer being able to log onto Nextdoor.com. Although I'm am aware of violating posting etiquettes repeatedly, it's important that you understand that I only joined Nextdoor.com in the first place after it having been brought to my attention by two of your Nextdoor.com members becoming concerned, even alarmed, at what they were seeing within a flurry of postings by other neighbors of ours also members of your website to a discussion started about me by one of your neighborhood leads against someone yet still to have been invited joining in on these neighborly discussions. PLease keep in mind that I'm living in a neighborhood having many residence associated one way or another with our near-by Emory University. Although not going so far as claiming these neighbors of mine to be bad people, or claiming any of them void of actions able proving them active wise, they are still a cliquich bunch who can be both wise and elitist pricks/cunts!
Anyway, whether you agree to my rights using whatever language I'm feeling appropriate with these neighbors of mine, calling them out on their use of perniciousness and prevarications, just needing to know whether I'm still a member or not; unable logging on for some other reason having nothing to do with your congeniality biased loaded Leads having ?selfless? intentions/plans of their own.. ? 

10 And he called the people to him and said to them, “Hear and understand: 11 it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.” 12 Then the disciples came and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?” 13 He answered, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up. 14 Let them alone; they are blind guides.[c] And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.” 15 But Peter said to him, “Explain the parable to us.” 16 And he said, “Are you also still without understanding? 17 Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled?[d] 18 But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. 19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. 20 These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.”
Having gotten all I'm needing, this little Nextdoor.com posse your Mason Mill Neighborhood Leads having whipped into a frenzy can now have your site back all to themselves. 

It's begining to appear that I've learned how to loop God into a circle and hanging him from around our necks, or maybe it's just mine, like an albatross.

Just another way of saying, "You hypocrites."

Trust me Garrett, all of my comments... were... on topic; about the neighborhoods...altogether.

It’s quite possible that Nextdoor isn’t the right place for you.

Please let me know if you need help with anything else.

Thanks,

Garrett
Nextdoor

As I'm currently believing the neighborhood I'm living extends halfway around the world all four directions to same point "Indian" Ocean; God has got to be the biggest mother fucker of them all.  

"Praise thy Good Lord's next door neighbors and neighborhood leads!

If you got two of the same thing, you only need but one!  Keep...CALM; but...LIVE...the FOUR DIMENSION!"

TAO~g(Clark Howard!Jim,DVM)d~OG

If not, It's quite possible next door isn't the right place for you? 

Full Definition of profane

profanedprofaning

1. transitive verb

2. 1:  to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt :  desecrate
3. 2:  to debase by a wrong, unworthy, or vulgar use

Full Definition of profanity

plural profanities

1. 1a :  the quality or state of being profaneb :  the use of profane language
2. 2a :  profane languageb :  an utterance of profane language

Simple Definition of pernicious: causing great harm or damage often in a way that is not easily seen or noticed

Full Definition of pernicious

1. 1:  highly injurious or destructive :  deadly
2. 2archaic :  wicked

Simple Definition of prevaricate: to avoid telling the truth by not directly answering a question

Full Definition of prevaricate

prevaricatedprevaricating

1. intransitive verb

2. :  to deviate from the truth :  equivocate

Simple Definition of complicity

• : the act of helping to commit a crime or do wrong in some way

Full Definition of complicity

plural complicities

1. 1:  association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act
2. 2:  an instance of complicity

Garrett, just reactivate my Nextdoor account so I can monitor these not so private (at least they weren't up until my account suspended) communications between neighbors of mine actually living next door to me from now on!  There was absolutely no wrong of me responding to chains of postings about me, many of them containing prevarications that two of your leads knew enough to have been able calling them out (flagged) themselves, with posting of my own containing bits of language considered profane by some.  And these deletions are definitely a form of censoring I consider...PERNICIOUSNESS! 

Sincerely yours,

TAO~g(Simply!Jim)d~OG

Wednesday, April 27, 2016 2:04 AM, Nextdoor Support <help@nextdoor.com> wrote:

James Avery Subject: jimedavery@att.net APR 26, 2016  |  11:04PM PDT Garrett replied: Hi James, Your access was taken away for one reason and that was because you violated theNeighborhood Guidelines multiple times. There was a comment of yours that was removed more than once and you continued to post it. You used profanity in a few comments that were removed. And many of your comments were also not on topic or about the neighborhood altogether. All of those are violations of the guidelines. It’s quite possible that Nextdoor isn’t the right place for you. Please let me know if you need help with anything else. Thanks, Garrett Nextdoor APR 26, 2016  |  10:52PM PDT  James Hello Garrett, Thanks for emailing me back. I have read this email having sent you over and over and over again, and still, I''m flumoxed as to why you are not really sure what the email was about? "I've been protesting religious issues for the past six years with signs place in my front yard along with a large cross nailed to a tree having three sock monkeys positioned in the see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil position hanging by their necks. Everyone continues believing this is racially motivated, when in fact, it is not. And I have told many people walking the sidewalks front of my house, including the police the several times they have been called out to my place, the meaning behind these monkeys hanging by their necks. They generally mean being of sound mind, body, and action. They can also mean looking the other way, refusing to acknowledge, feigning ignorance. When combining the two perspectives into a single narrative, they end up canceling each other out. You might as well hang them.  And my neighborhood is proving this to be, unfortunately, true. Impossible having a truly genuine discussion having positive results, long term, about anything because of everyone tag teaming the two perspectives off each other; too easily having ones language censored/ negative postings flagged and deleted. And I'm suspecting just a select few in complicity with our neighborhood leads. Have another signs that says, GOD HAS GOT TO BE THE B*GG*ST M*TH*R F*CK*R OF THEM ALL~(!?!)~ which is just a different way of describing "GOD" as having omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, omnibenevolent qualities which most people of faith do not even understand."~(James E. Avery, DVM)~ "Your account was placed in suspended status for multiple violations of the Neighborhood Guidelines."~(Garrett)~ Okay, maybe I should have started off with an email  to Nextdoor Support inquiring as to why I wasn't able logging onto my Nextdoor.com account?  After all, there are reasons other than "mulitple" violations of "neighborhood" guidelines, possible, rendering someone unable logging onto their Nextdoor.com account? "Well I joined Nextdoor only because of a neighbor informing me of a thread started by one of our leads allowing neighbor to complain about my signs. And I should have every right calling out the many who did take advantage of this thread complaining about my signs for their prevarications and perniciousness using whatever language I"m feeling necessary as I had given the lead herself an opportunity discussing my signs with me before she starting this thread without giving me the opportunity being a part of this discussion herself." ~(James E. Avery, DVM)~ "We received multiple reports on Wednesday from your neighbors about your post and successive comments." ~(Garret)~ I'm not sure I'm understanding you here Garrett?  Personally, I'm not surprised that you did receive multiple reports on Wednesday from my neighbors..? "I've been protesting religious issues for the past six years with signs place in my front yard along with a large cross nailed to a tree having three sock monkeys positioned in the see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil positions hanging by their necks. Everyone continues believing this is racially motivated, when in fact, it is not. And I have told many people walking the sidewalks front of my house, including the police the several times they have been called out to my place, the meaning behind these monkeys hanging by their necks.~(James E. Avery, DVM)~ "We received multiple reports on Wednesday from your neighbors about your post and successive comments." ~(Garret)~ I'm not sure I'm understanding you at all here Garrett?  Personally, I'm not surprised that you did receive multiple reports on Wednesday from my neighbors about my post and successive comments..? "I've been protesting religious issues for the past six years with signs place in my front yard along with a large cross nailed to a tree having three sock monkeys positioned in the see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil position hanging by their necks. Everyone continues believing this is racially motivated, when in fact, it is not. And I have told many people walking the sidewalks front of my house, including the police the several times they have been called out to my place, the meaning behind these monkeys hanging by their necks. They generally mean being of sound mind, body, and action. They can also mean looking the other way, refusing to acknowledge, feigning ignorance. When combining the two perspectives into a single narrative, they end up canceling each other out. You might as well hang them.  And my neighborhood is proving this to be, unfortunately, true. Impossible having a truly genuine discussion having positive results, long term, about anything because of everyone tag teaming the two perspectives off each other; too easily having ones language censored/ negative postings flagged and deleted. And I'm suspecting just a select few in complicity with our neighborhood leads. Have another signs that says, GOD HAS GOT TO BE THE B*GG*ST M*TH*R F*CK*R OF THEM ALL~(!?!)~ which is just a different way of describing "GOD" as having omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, omnibenevolent qualities which most people of faith do not even understand.  Well I joined Nextdoor only because of a neighbor informing me of a thread started by one of our leads allowing neighbor to complain about my signs. And I should have every right calling out the many who did take advantage of this thread complaining about my signs for their prevarications and perniciousness using whatever language I"m feeling necessary as I had given the lead herself an opportunity discussing my signs with me before she starting this thread without giving me the opportunity being a part of this discussion herself."~(James E. Avery, DVM)~ "Your account was placed in suspended status for multiple violations of the Neighborhood Guidelines."~(Garrett)~ What are you sugggesting here Garrett?  If unable conforming to a behavior acceptable to Nextdoor.com member, that I should consider moving to a different neighborhood having member living under neighborhood guidelines more complementary? I've been protesting religious issues for the past six years with signs place in my front yard along with a large cross nailed to a tree having three sock monkeys positioned in the see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil position hanging by their necks. Everyone continues believing this is racially motivated, when in fact, it is not. And I have told many people walking the sidewalks front of my house, including the police the several times they have been called out to my place, the meaning behind these monkeys hanging by their necks. They generally mean being of sound mind, body, and action. They can also mean looking the other way, refusing to acknowledge, feigning ignorance. When combining the two perspectives into a single narrative, they end up canceling each other out. You might as well hang them.  And my neighborhood is proving this to be, unfortunately, true. Impossible having a truly genuine discussion having positive results, long term, about anything because of everyone tag teaming the two perspectives off each other; too easily having ones language censored/ negative postings flagged and deleted. And I'm suspecting just a select few in complicity with our neighborhood leads. Have another signs that says, GOD HAS GOT TO BE THE B*GG*ST M*TH*R F*CK*R OF THEM ALL~(!?!)~ which is just a different way of describing "GOD" as having omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, omnibenevolent qualities which most people of faith do not even understand. Well I joined Nextdoor only because of a neighbor informing me of a thread started by one of our leads allowing neighbor to complain about my signs. And I should have every right calling out the many who did take advantage of this thread complaining about my signs for their prevarications and perniciousness using whatever language I"m feeling necessary as I had given the lead herself an opportunity discussing my signs with me before she starting this thread without giving me the opportunity being a part of this discussion herself. This is manipulation and deception eliminating consent. A form of censoring! ~(James E. Avery, DVM)~ How about Garrett's neighborhood?  Next door!  Nextdoor.com Neighborhood Guidelines enforceable or not...yet? "Please let me know if you have any questions." ~(Garrett)~ LOL Garrett, I consider myself a Progressive who's learning what works and what doesn't work by being "confrontational". That's not a dirty word either, and I take pride in knowing the difference. Trust me Garrett, when you take on God, you are taking on everyone's dirty little secrets.  Maybe you have secrets of your own;  the real reason, maybe, why unable understanding what my email/complaint was about? Tell you what, since I could ask for and still problably not receive any more details about these multiple complaints (about a neighbor having lived this neighborhood long before Nextdoor.com moving in with their Neighborhood Guidelines) by multiple neighbors (???born here???from where moved here???why here???why not now staying here???)... Tell you what,  since I don't even know if you've seen and read all of any of these postings, commentings, replyings of mine and not just knee-jerk reacting to words arbitrarily chosen to be slang/vulgar the  same these neighbors of mind refusing exercising their option "muting" any postings/comments by me... Tell you what, saving them the trouble complaining/troubling you again,  who about just reactivating by account just so I can monitor these conversations if I promise not to comment/reply to any posting by these Nextdoor neighbors of mine or start any discussions with any these Nextdoor.com neighbors of mine or private message any Nexdoor.com neighbors or mine even answer to private message received from Nextdoor.com neighbors of mine.... Why not? Just walk next door from now on with any future need confronting  these Nextdoor.com neighbors of mine! "IT"S NOT GOSSIP IF TRUE." Inappropriate Signage at Mason Mill Residence21 Mar Mary Hinkel from Mason Mill If anyone is disturbed by the aesthetic nuisance, danger to motorists and pedestrians, and potential devaluing of surrounding property caused by the signage at 1840 Mason Mill Rd, please contact Officer Gordon (desk: 404/687-3753; cell: 404/456-7325) of DeKalb Code Enforcement.Shared with Mason Mill in GeneralTHANKED! 18 REPLY 40You, Patrick, Alice, and 15 others thanked Mary Amy Swartz from Mason Mill21 Mar I have to assume that you are referring to the man dressed as a mouse twirling flags like he's performing for the commuters. Every night between ~5-7:30. Who knows how long he'll stay out now with daylights saving time. Bizarre. I've seen cops talking with him several timesThanked! FlagYou thanked Amy M Ayres Gardner from Mason Mill22 Mar I have wondered why nothing could done about this person, who appears to be mentally disturbed. I find his signs to be horribly offensive, as do many visitors to our home. It has grown worse and worse with each passing year since he first started this public meltdown. One of our repair people actually tried to talk to him to understand what his display was all about and he came up with some jumbled thing about a grievance against an Emory official. My repair guy said it made no sense to him and appeared completely unrelated to many of the political signs in his yard.Thanked! FlagYou thanked M Ayres Bobby Rasulnia from Mason Mill22 Mar My house is on the market, and several potential buyers cancelled showings due to the "crazy neighbor". He is more than a public nuisance, he is affecting our property values. I urge neighbors to complain to Dekalb County Code Enforcement.Thanked! FlagYou, Patrick, Bruce, and 1 other thanked Bobby Staci Ollar from Mason Mill22 Mar I used to take Mason Mill to get home every evening when I picked up the kids from school. A few times, due to traffic, we had the unfortunate opportunity to be stopped in front of his house. My children started reading out loud the offensive gibberish on his signs. Many of his signs are vulgar and use totally inappropriate launguage. Now I take an alternate, much longer route home to avoid my kids being subject to his lunacy. I understand he's on his own property but his language is ridiculous. And his signs and messages make absolutely no sense. I remember years ago a house on North Druid Hills Rd with a naked manakin on the roof with some offensive writing on the house and something about freedom of speech. I believe they took him to court and he ended up having to remove the manakin and paint over the writings. I will be definitely be making a call.Thanked! FlagYou, Patrick, and Alice thanked Staci Jon Carr from Mason Mill22 Mar The "Sign Guy" obviously seems to be a troubled person. However the Constitution of the United States does allow individuals to express themselves within broad limits even if it bothers other people. Yelling "fire" in a crowded movie theater is not protected speech. I examined his "sign collection" this morning and one of the signs had the phrase "MOTHER FU (star star) ER" plainly visible from the street. I am glad that I do not have to explain the signs to my grandchildren, but the legality of this and other signs is unclear. Sign Guy's behavior needs to be brought to the attention to Dekalb County to at least determine if he is crossing the legal line with his displays. And ... there is the very scary argument that while he is playing with his signs and waving his flags at least we know where he is and what he is doing. If his current behavior is curtailed, it is unlikely that the underlying problem will disappear and who knows how it will manifest itself.Thanked! FlagYou and Vivi thanked Jon Chris Condon from Mason Mill22 Mar Has anyone ever talked to him about his signs. Does anyone know his story ? His signs make no sense at all.Thanked! FlagYou thanked Chris Nancy Sokolove from Mason Mill22 Mar Jon, I hear and understand what you're saying (and I know many of us have had this conversation before.) But, my 7 year old is just (finally!) beginning to learn how to read and since we live on McConnell, and come home at the height of the Mason Mill back up, I'm just waiting for that magic moment when he asks "What does F*ck You mean?". :-( Also a while back, at an off-peak moment I was driving by and an African American guy stopped his car in the middle of the road - right there - and got out to try to figure out why there were monkeys hanging from the tree. So, yeah. Of course that guy shouldn't have stopped his car where he did...But also, do we want our neighborhood to look like we are some racist enclave even though allegedly wackadoodle guy is "protesting" the treatment of monkeys at Emory?Thanked! FlagYou and Bobby thanked Nancy Amy Swartz from Mason Mill22 Mar He came to my yard sale a few yrs ago and just started talking. I asked him a few questions about the monkeys and the Easter chick on the swing wearing pearls... He started "trying" to explain and it made no sense to me. He did tell me something about a disagreement with Emory and there being a lawsuit. None of it had anything to do with the biblical quotes. He told me he used to be a vet and he also told me a few personal things about himself that were shocking, because it's everything he seems to be protesting against. The dressing up like Mickey mouse waving flags are probably harmless but the monkeys hung by the neck and the cutouts of dead bodies on the ground are disturbingThanked! FlagYou, Bobby, and Chris thanked Amy Bobby Rasulnia from Mason Mill22 Mar If you want to read his bio and view his signs, go to his blog at minusfleshequalswaterandspirits.blogspot.comThanked! FlagYou and Chris thanked Bobby David Marier from Mason Mill22 Mar Jim Ed, as he likes to be called is a non-threatening individual who does have some personal issues. He attended St Mark UMC for a while, he was somewhat of a nuisance there and eventually we had a letter prepared and presented to him; asking him to not attend church services, Sunday School or other church activities. He has obliged. Regarding his signs in his yard, this has been going on for several years now, in fact this is the second (that I know of) thread regarding this topic. Have you all forgotten the constitution and bill of rights? First Amendment???? With the exception of profanity, he has every right to post any sign he wants. Several of you have started using alternate routes, good choice. In all reality, I think Jim Ed just likes to talk to people, granted he has a strange way of getting attention, but he does as he sees fit. I may not agree with what he has to say, but I defend his right to say whatever he wants to.Thanked! FlagYou, Joy, Leigh, and 2 others thanked David Amy Swartz from Mason Mill22 Mar I think it is the whole spectacle that is disturbing. He's had signs and blow up figures up for quite some time but this " nightly show" is relatively new.Thanked! FlagYou, Bobby, and Paula thanked Amy David Marier from Mason Mill22 Mar No, it isn't. I live on Vistavia Circle and have seen him for many months now doing the same thing.Thanked! FlagYou thanked David Amy Swartz from Mason Mill23 Mar Ok. When I said new, I meant 6-7 months. I've lived on the area for 20+ yrs.Thanked! FlagYou thanked Amy Diane Benjamin from Mason Mill24 Mar I now think of the spectacle as performance art. Bad performance art, but certainly speech protected by the Bill of Rights. If he is really trying to "epater la bourgeousie," he is succeeding. It may be consoling to know that he takes off his masks and stops whirling his flags if people walk their dogs on the sidewalk so that he does not frighten the dogs. Not that I am inviting him home for tea . . .Thanked! FlagYou, Patrick, and Leigh thanked Diane Bobby Rasulnia from Mason Mill25 Mar If he lived next door to you, i doubt you would be so glib to call it performance art. He is a neighborhood nuisance.Thanked! FlagYou, Patrick, and Staci thanked Bobby Jonathan Dubin from Mason Mill26 Mar I can't see anyone defending this guy with the constitution for free speech. His foul language is just wrong. Families with young children live and travel through here there is no defense for subjecting them to obscene displays. Mental issues does not excuse bad behavior either.Thanked! FlagYou, Bobby, Noelle, and 1 other thanked Jonathan Nancy Sokolove from Mason Mill26 Mar I have noticed that in the last week or so, the signs are creeping down the hill little by little, against the wood fence of the house on the corner of Vistavia and Mason Mill. Although I certainly don't know the line between the properties, I'm assuming that since it's along the fence that he has gone over that property line. I was able to take a photo yesterday to document this.Thanked! FlagYou, Patrick, and Bobby thanked Nancy Bobby Rasulnia from Mason Mill26 Mar One night a few years ago, he pointed a red laser light on our chests while we were sitting in our back yard from his bedroom window. Another time he came to our house banging on the front door holding three rubber ducks asking us to help him join the trinity with the elderly neighbors across the street. That elderly couple obtained a restraining order and eventually moved away due to his stalking behavior. The next time our neighbors defend his insanity with freedom of speech, we want them to talk with those who are most affected by it. This is not a freedom of speech issue people. It's a safety issue, an aesthetic nuisance, and a detriment to property values. U can not infringe upon another persons rights by exercising your rights. The explicit tone of his "message" and the use of profanity is obviously and clearly hate speech. As a society and a neighborhood we cannot tolerate his hate speech and asthetic nuisance any longer.Thanked! FlagYou, Patrick, Nancy, and 1 other thanked Bobby David Marier from Mason Mill27 Mar If it wasn't a right to free speech, why hasn't anything been done before?Thanked! FlagYou thanked David Bobby Rasulnia from Mason Mill27 Mar Good question David. Bottom line, the neighborhood has been complicit around this issue by perpetuating the idea that this is freedom of speech and performance art issue. We have tried since 2011 to galvanize the neighborhood with minimal results. In 2012, our household, the elderly couple forced to leave due to his stalking behavior, and the former president of the mason mill civic association (John Bugge) took him to court. He was fined $1500 for code violations and later charged with violation to a restraining order. In addition he has been banned from the church on Emory campus, your church, banned from going on to the Emory campus due to hate speech toward the Emory president, DEA agents have swarmed his house, and homeland security paid a visit. Jim Ed has continued to push limits with his illegal behavior and hate speech to the point where the community and neighborhood now accepts it as his legal right to freedom of speech and "performance art". We have an opportunity to work with the county to end it. It's time to take our neighborhood back by stopping this nuisance.Thanked! FlagYou, Dorothy, Nancy, and 1 other thanked Bobby Ron Mihelic from Mason Mill27 Mar I think a petition is appropriate. I think between everyone who is concerned about this we probably have some resources to help us word it appropriately. I believe the code enforcement officers would offer help. As for those crying "free speech" as property owners we also have rights. If he is bringing down property values and causing a hazerdous driving situation ( I have almost run into people stopping to read his signs) then we should be able to curtail this.Thanked! FlagYou and Bobby thanked Ron Mary Hinkel from Mason Mill27 Mar Bobby, I take issue with your comment that the neighborhood has been complicit around this issue. Neighborhood associations have no legal standing in Georgia; they can only support those who do - the property owners surrounding Jim Ed. As you state, the civic association appeared with you in court, and that is, until now, the last time that I know of that we were asked to be involved. Unfortunately, that did not stop Jim Ed's behavior. I also spent an hour and a half talking to Jim Ed in January 2015 to try and understand how we could resolve this matter. And, we have welcomed him to neighborhood picnics, hoping that it would help for him to get to know us and we to know him, thereby leading to changes in his behavior. As many of you know, it is hard to follow his logic and even harder to persuade him to consider the community's concerns. He told me he considers himself the Lorax (character out of Dr. Seuss) responding to all the trees being cut down on your property. (While the tree removal may have been done in compliance with DeKalb regulations (?), he was/is angry about this.) That may have sparked his public displays, but I'm sure there other reasons he continues to make them. For example, his anger toward St. Mark's and Emory. (They seem able to obtain restraining orders against him, something our neighborhood as a whole cannot do, since he lives here.) Anyway, it is my understanding that code enforcement can't "make" a property owner change his behavior; code enforcement can only continue to cite and fine the property owner to "motivate" him to change behavior. Speaking for the civic association, I would say we don't know how to help here, other than to facilitate the communication process and support property owners in any court hearings that occur. Could you ask the code enforcement officer, and I'll follow up with Comm. Rader and Gannon's offices, to determine what other steps we can/should be taking here? I do think at this hearing we can raise the issues of his use of vulgar, obscene words; the large number of signs cluttering his property; and the placement of signs beyond his property lines on the sidewalk along Mason Mill. And, anyone wishing to take on drafting a petition is welcomed to do that. And/or if there are any lawyers in our midst who have thoughts about what to do here, we'd appreciate hearing from you. It is a complex matter, and I think most of our residents appreciate our difficult, and how unfortunate, this particular situation is. I also know we are all grateful we don't live next door to him, and with that in mind that is one reason I personally want to support Bobby and Charlie and those other residents who do.Thanked! FlagYou, Patrick, Bobby, and 1 other thanked Mary Bobby Rasulnia from Mason Mill27 Mar Thank you Mary. We have absolutely valued your support and that of the civic association in this matter. Our reference to complicit is directed towards those in the neighborhood who view his behavior as a non-issue. We look forward to working with concerned neighbors and the civic association to further elevate this issue. This includes county commissioners office, code enforcement, district attorney, and the legislative representatives you mentioned.Thanked! FlagYou, Patrick, and Mary thanked Bobby Diane Benjamin from Mason Mill27 Mar I am not thrilled with his latest batch of signs which include thinly disguised vulgarities. I wish he would take those down. Next time I see him, I'll ask him to his face to take down those particular signs. Code enforcement may have been to see him yesterday morning. Does anyone know what the results were? Meanwhile, so long as he doesn't trespass on my property, or swear at me or my children, I ignore him.Thanked! FlagYou and Patrick thanked Diane Alice Wright from Mason Mill27 Mar I would be glad to be part of a group meeting with DeKalb police and/or a petition. I like to walk to Toco Hills and used to walk around the huge block that is Mason Mill, Houston Mill, LaVista and N. Druid Hills. But I won't walk past his house when he is outside. I also drive by every day during rush hour and am subjected to the spectacle. He is not easy to ignore.Thanked! FlagYou, Patrick, Bobby, and 2 others thanked Alice David Marier from Mason Mill27 Mar Good luck with all your efforts to shut down Jim Ed. He may be an extreme case, but that is what protects all our rights. As a relatively new member to the neighborhood (8 years) I've heard several rumors. One happens to be how the neighborhood disliked Bobby and Charlie cutting down their trees. Apparently, they did it according to "code" and there was nothing the community could do about it. Jim Ed being particularly upset apparently has held onto a grudge. It was Bobby and Charlie's decision and right to do what they pleased, on their property. Does anyone see a parallel here? With all of the law enforcement, code enforcement, SWAT team and Homeland Security visits that have been to his house, he must not be doing anything illegal or he would be gone by now. As for causing a driving nuisance, he's out there generally during rush hour or 2 or 3. Mason Mill is notorious for getting backed up, if we live here we should all know what to expect. Anybody who slams into a car in front of them deserves the ticket they get.Thanked! FlagYou thanked David Ron Mihelic from Mason Mill28 Mar Since we all believe in rule of law , let's look at the Code..Code states verbatim.. " However, left completely unregulated, the number, size, design charecteristics, and locations of signs in the county can become a threat to public safety as a traffic hazard and a detriment to property values and to the county's general public welfare as well as create an aesthetic nuisance. The county, further, finds that signs have become excessive and that many signs are distracting and dangerous to motorists and pedestrians, are confusing to the public and substantially detract from the beauty and appearance of the county. The county finds there is a substantial need directly related the public health, safety and welfare to comprehensively address these concerns through the following regulations.." So we do have grounds to bring this in front of a judge. Without neighborhood involvement any judge presiding over this case will not understand the scope of the problem. This is a person who is a known and self admitted meth addict. He has been arrested several times (once for exposing himself to traffic). Has been institutionalized more than once. Has several restraining orders against him. Has been videotaped taking his neighbors trash from the curb. The reason why he has a large fence next to his property is because he was caught trespassing in his neighbor's backyard. Surely someone who has all these things happen is not just a misunderstood law abiding citizen who is angry about some trees from 10 years ago.Thanked! FlagYou, Patrick, Bobby, and 3 others thanked Ron Praveen Ghanta from Mason Mill28 Mar All - I distinctly recall this going before the courts a few years ago. The ruling went something like, he has to be outside with his props in order to have 1st Amendment protections and put up whatever he likes. If he is not out there, he has to have a more limited display that conforms to sign ordinances. The issue you may want to press is that lately it seems the gallery of imagery has been left out unattended. But if our neighbor is out with his props, he is within his rights.Thanked! FlagYou, Patrick, Bobby, and 1 other thanked Praveen James Avery from Mason Mill29 Mar Oh btw...Supervisor Silver with a crew of Code Emforcers showed up Saturday morning before I had a chance putting my signs up for the day. Sorry! No citation this time around. And also learned that Officer Gordon is no longer assigned this case? Both him and Officer Lorena (the one writing me up first time around) were no longer assigned to this area...? mmmmmmh? Are you guys aware I had gone downtown Decatur December 8th and file a complaint against myself. Personally letting them know that I was in violation of county code ordinances. That I even insisted they make it "high priority" the same as James Wagner's "high priority" complaint. When I didn't hear from them, I went back again December 22nd trying to get a copy of my file. Was told by a Supervisor Adams that they couldn't let me have a copy or even inspect this file until after the case had been closed; but was told a Officer Gordon had been assigned the case. I even explained to Supervisor Adams the reason why I filed the complaint against myself was because I was wanting them to come out and write me up for a citation for having five signs out in my yard (one sign over the four I'm allowed). Why are they waiting several months later as well as responding to someone else complaint. First they ignore my complaint about Mr. Bliss violation of the green laws. Now they have even ignored my complaint against myself. And the fact this action took place right after President James Wagner of Emory University just happened to be taking his vintage automobile for a dirve through our neighborhood one Saturday afternoon as I'm doing my flagging dance and cluelessly stopped and talked with me. Well as usual, I did all the talking. He mostly just tried to get away. LOL Was not even aware that the Emory Police had an active file against me they won't let me inspect either; FOR STALKING JAMES WAGNER! LOL! LOL! LOL! We talked some about how the crime scene figures James Wagner having parked his vintage automobile on top of represented the nine black Methodists killed recently in Charleston, S.C. by a twenty-one year old Confederate flag waving youth. Talked some about how we agreed that we were against the death penalty. Then I brought up the one exception with me; the recent execution of Kelly Gissendaner who was the only woman Georgia had on deathrow. How with her, it was "FRY BABY, FRY!." How it was important to me that the preachers didn't get their confirmation bias. You should have seen James run after I showed him the [SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO PICK THE GUN UP BEFORE YOU CAN PUT THE GUN DOWN] sign next, pointing out to him that standing in front of the [WHITE METHODIST "GOD SPECIALIZES IN HAPPY ENDINGS] sign where two pastors of Glenn Memorial UMC. How he bolted! LOL! LOL! LOL!Edited on 29 MarEditDelete James Avery from Mason Mill30 Mar There are important facts relevant to the issues being discussed about me within this posting. Don't delete it again!! Ronald, I would love very much to see this video of me taking neighbors trash from the curb. Should someone maybe videotape the county picking up garbage from the curb and showing it to you. "It's Charlie's money and he can spend it however he want." ~(Bobby B. Rasulnia)~ And the neigbors between us having cut down all the trees. They had received permission from the county cutting down fourteen tree from this property. The day I made my second call to the county reporting Mr. Bliss had gone beyond fourteen trees and still cutting down more, the county claimed helpless to stop them in spite of the green laws. Before they were done, they had cut down twenty-four trees. Then I just happened to be home that last day they stopped mid-afternoon, then seeing, the foreman getting into the bobcat, driving it up against a tree and spinning the treads out. Backing it up against another tree and then spinning the treads out again. He kept doing this over and over until he had done all the remainig trees left. "I'M INCREASING YOUR PROPERTY VALUE! I"M INCREASING YOUR PROPERTY VALUE! I"M INCREASING YOUR PROPERTY VALUE!" ~(Charles W. Bliss)~ "TREES ARE DANGEROUS! ALMOST DIED BECAUSE OF ONE!" ~(Charles W. BLiss)~ Ronald, use your brain. Why do you think the foreman was doing this? And sure enough they continued cutting down trees after moving in. And since then, top half of three different trees three different storms have broken off onto my property disfiguring my trees and even onto my house crashing the master bedroom ceiling onto my bed. Ronald, use your brain. Are you thinking that I'm no longer being affected by a decision made ten years ago? I don't know about the rest of you, I personally consider our trees to be "FAG ENABLERS' maybe even enabling that mutt of Ronald and Erin. Such a shame a tree missed one. "This is a person who is a known and self admitted meth addict." Ronald, I am a known meth addict because I'm the one who self admitted it. Do I not get any points at all for this. You know what Ronald, I wouldn't mind once, just once, fucking you stupid. Certainly wouldn't take long. You're such a "DOUBLETHINK." I'm telling you guys now, you are not going to be able resolving these issues you are having with me until you are able including me in on the conversations. How about we just have a meeting at the park where each one of you can confront me in person in front of everyone at the same time. At the moment, all you guys are doing is triangulating your congeniality bias off each other. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. I consider myself a progressive and thought I was living in a progressive neighborhood. I'm beginning to see now that I lean so far left in my political views that I make even the progressives and liberals nervous. I'm beginning to feel assured the rare ones driving by giving me big thumbs up along with big smiles yet not stopping and chatting with me are probably conservatives thinking they are the ones encouraging me to keep doing exactly what I'm doing as they sit back and enjoy a show in which they see as a bunch of progressives and liberals going at each others throat. And one thing they have proven to me is that our so called liberals and progressives, at heart, are just as much so hypocrites as they are if not more so. And Ronald, you should really be ashamed of yourself. If that had been one of your dogs I saw having gotten loose that night I rang your doorbell, I would have still tried catching it and returning that dog back to you regardless how I feel about you. I'm certainly not going to hold the dogs responsible for your behavior. However, II will hold your African Grey responsible for your language(thoughts). As repetition is the correct way teaching a parrot to talk, don't be surprised you hear of me screaming at the traffic driving by our homes and not just at you... "GET OFF MY PROPERTY!" "GET OFF MY PROPERTY!" "GET OFF MY PROPERTY!" along with any other conservative doublethink I can come up with... "SOCIALISM EQUALS TAXATION AND TAXATION EQUALS LOSS OF FREEDOM!" "BABY KILLER!" "WELFARE QUEENS!" "HELL I WORKED HARD FOR MY MONEY AND I DESERVE TO KEEP IT!" "HELL I CAN DO CHARITY BETTER THAN THE GOVERNMENT!" "IF WE OUTLAW GUNS, ONLY CRIMINALS WILL HAVE GUNS." "WHAT PART OF ILLEGAL IS IT THAT THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND." as I pretend being your African Grey from my stretch of sidewalk. Hopefully some of our neighbors will be able finding a way laughing with me at our conservatives and not just at you. I mean it now. Don't delete this posting. To do so would be manipulation and deception eliminating consent!Edited on 30 MarEditDelete James Avery from Mason Mill4d ago Although I still have a lot ahead of me I'm wanting to say in response to these posting by others, I thought I would upload this grouping of signs for you guys to try..."getting your heads around" as my mother would say it....in the meantime. The hint is to follow the arrows when reading these signs as a collection.TAO~g(PROJECT EZEKIEL 33)d~OGEditDelete James Avery from Mason Mill3d ago Do I not get any "thanks"?EditDelete James Avery from Mason Mill2d ago Are we at least discussing a possible meeting at the park with all of us present; including me?EditDelete James Avery from Mason Mill2d ago They say it's hard to do the right thing? It's not hard to do the right thing, it's just hard knowing what..IS...the right thing to do? Once you do know, it's...HARD...not to do the right thing? A good man (I WOULD LIKE TO ADD A GOOD WOMAN TO THIS AS WELL) is not without sin. He (they) admits; then expiates. I'm going to throw you guys another bone. What follows is a conversation between me and my mother (whom I'm now refusing any contact with since a confirmation service we attended at Glenn Memorial UMC March 2014 ) that took place a good while back: "Mother, you should have been here to see this. By the time I was done killing that snake (a copperhead), that shovel was...SMOKING!." ~(Simply Jim)~ "I'm surprised you killed it." ~(My Mother)~ "I have cats now...MOTHER! That's like having children. NOW...I understand Lady MacBeth." ~(Simply Jim)~ "Jim, you ever talk to yourself?" ~(My Mother)~ "Talk to my cats..?" ~(Simply Jim)~ It's even gotten around back to me that I'm actually "hitting" Janet Gary that day alone inside Janet Claire Segers Gary's house with Rev. George Robert Gary, Sr. ThD's wife unwelcomed the whole one hour and fifteen minutes Thanksgiving 2010. And I can't help but wonder just what it was their daughter's (Senior Pastor Mt. Zion UMC) husband (with whom she is now co-owner of this house directly across the street from my house) was talking about with our Code Enforcers the morning of Holy Saturday after Supervisor Jerry Silvers and his men having just missed an opportunity writing me up for code violations which I'm understanding could be like $1000.00 per sign over four signs. What is the right thing to do? I'm having to admit... that's a tough one.EditDelete Patrick Noonan from Mason Mill23h ago As one of the neighborhood "Leads" for Mason Mill, I have removed (and will continue to remove) any posts that include copies or transcripts of private communications (i.e. emails) with individual neighbors without their permission. I also will remove posts that include the email or phone information of other parties without their consent.Edited 23h agoThank Flag James Avery from Mason Mill23h ago Oh how convenient of you Patrick to delete the ones questioning your morales when It my understanding that Mary is also a lead and could have deleted her own private communications. At least these private communications were facts as opposed to as well as exposing some the perniciousness and prevarications I'm reading on this site about me; that is, to any that care to see them. Let me ask you this questions since you are so involved with this tree planting project at Thompson Park; how do you feel about this property next to mine, this Hollywood House, being referred to as an "oasis"? It's my thinking that it was already an "oasis" long before any of us even born! Oh! One other thing! Be sure to take the virtual tour of this Hollywood House. I especially like picture number twenty-two. You can see Norman Bates window from here!EditDelete Mary Hinkel from Mason Mill21h ago Jim Ed: I have been out of town and not checking emails, so I appreciate that the other lead for nextdoormasonmill acted to remove my private communication with you.Thank Flag James Avery from Mason Mill20h ago Mary, in your own "Though Artful Dodger Ways" you have been complicit around this issue. Now since you've aready mentioned our meeting within this forum, please, show me how you would rewrite my deleted posting which was calling you o

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