All very typical of the way the gay community in Provincetown and pretty much everywhere else treats me.
Classic rape culture -- only they are very brazen about the way they will do it in public and not care who sees it.
I ought to mention that I am posting this on my site because previous comments I have made in response to that site -- which someone I think pointed me to for a reason, I believe -- have been censored and deleted. Including comments about the Matthew Shepard murder being done by gay crystal meth users, and the 132 percent increase in HIV infection rates that followed the corrupt cover up there being somewhat connected to each other, and connected to the whole culture of viciousness and silence in Provincetown which THIS post is an example of, but which my story is also an example of. Meanwhile, I used to be a member of the Small Property Owners Association, which was an organization of landlords victimized by rent control. Many landlords had horror stories involving their dealings with the city bureaucracy, and never was it the case that they did not support each other and sympathize with each other and never did anyone who was victim of the same system tell someone else who was victim of the same system to just shut up and "this is not about you."
[Editted: just added one more final nasty reply "this thread isn't about you" and it's rude of me to hijack it. I have to note, I have no choice but to speak up in every context I can because of the situation I'm in, which includes the way everyone in the gay community has done nothing but engage in vicious campaigns to retaliate against me from coming forward and have been playing all kinds of head games with me and participating in all kinds of nastiness. Like, if I don't hijack threads or speak up even when others tell me they don't want to hear what I have to say, I'll just have to put up with this kind of abuse forever. So, I really have no choice about it.]
Meanwhile I will post the print screens - just so they can't later on delete everything and then pretend I faked it all.
http://www.pbase.com/damian1974/provincetown_culture_of_shut_up
Kudos & Jeers to Boston Spirit Magazine. New article "Is Provincetown in Political Freefall?" begins: "2 Years Ago Provincetown lost both its Town Manager and Police Chief in a pair of scandals involving corruption and the use of excessive force by the chief." They mention a townie incident where the chief used excessive force, but don't recall many years earlier (2007) both Bryan & I were beaten, imprisoned & falsely arrested there. Those 2 people stood by, the community largely did nothing, yet we got it overturned by the MA high court to try & wake that limp town. It took them 6 years & many more incidents. Still glad we did it & left a community who wanted marriage bad, but forgot basic human rights involving their own. Should have listened (and believed us) back then!http://www.lost45.com/provincetown.html #provincetownfreefall
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John Ciriello Good for you guys! Always just a handful who have the courage to lead!!
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John Hosty You're more a hero now than ever because you've continued to be vocal about what you went through, not for your own gain, but for a better future for all. Well done Barry!
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Clara Helen Gkolias Barry what you and Bryan had gone through you both desrve to be happy and the courage to fight them.
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Jim F. Brinning Well put.
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Damian Schloming Now why is it that no one can comment on what they did to me in Provincetown, and elsewhere? why is it that, I start to tell my story -- and all I get is this silence and refusal to acknowledge that I even told it?https://damian-schloming.squarespace.comHomepage and introduction to the website issues
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John Hosty Probably because this thread is about what happened to Barry, not you. If you want your story heard try being more concise. I've read your posts and you fail to make your point clear at the beginning, and you tend to ramble. Best of wishes to all who suffer at the hands of others.
Damian Schloming you have read my posts? tell me, in which ones are the points not clear at the beginning? And where do I tend to ramble?
Damian Schloming Meanwhile, in a recent conversation with someone at the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, she told me "you are a very articulate person" and that I shouldn't worry about certain proponents of rape culture trying to make me doubt that I articulated things well enough so that others can understand. If anything, I should take such negative aspersions cast on my skills at articulating my story for what they are: political and indicative of an underlying agenda
John Hosty Again, this thread isn't about you.
Damian Schloming I'm skeptical. See I notice how this website is claiming that Lynn woman, town manager, left over this -- except, no, there were crimes the police and town officials of provincetown were involved in against me which were ten times worse than this, far more high profile, and also not spontaneous but pre-meditated. And I made a big fuss and went to an attorney and I suspect they really had no defense for it other than "aw shucks, if only he had been successfully killed we wouldn't have been caught with our pants down like this," in which case, yeah she'd have had to leave over what happened to me, yet would want a big face saving alternative explanation so they could minimize legal liability with respect to me. E.g., what happened here is peanuts compared to what they'd need to pay if I ever successfully sued.
John Hosty Again, this thread is NOT about you. It is rude of you to try to hijack it and make it about yourself. This is my last response to you.
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Barry Scott Damian: I have gladly left ONE of your comments up each time you have posted...but people leave groups when you continue to post and repost and repost. One is enough. Thank you.
Damian Schloming last time you censored my comments you censored comments of people who were in support of me, or were sympathetic
Damian Schloming I need to point out you were the victim of a one time crime I was the victim of a series of heinous crimes that were repeated and happened over and over again for years -- and going public about my story and posting about it over and over and over again is part of what has caused the crimes to stop and harassment to slowly but surely go away. Indeed, I wouldn't be alive if I hadn't started doing this so you can express however much annoyance over it as you like -- but you are talking to someone who was backed into a corner
Damian Schloming Well, in my last conversation with Bob Dorreh - the only post you deleted was the one in which I said that the series of crimes committed against me were ones instigated by and arranged for by Harvard -- where I was a student. So in other words, this is all about protecting Harvard's reputation and they think they can pull strings to get people to behave nastily to others -- and then, when the shit hits the fan, they want to wash their hands of the matter and cover up what THEY did.
Damian Schloming at other people's expense. -- because if they, Harvard, engage in truly sick crimes and instigate a campaign of hate against a gay man -- they think they have the right to cover it up and make others take the fall instead.
Damian Schloming I think it's critically important that it be understood the way a powerful institution like Harvard can arrange to use its contacts and power with police to intimidate the gay community and force them to participate in hate crimes against other members of the gay community -- and to do it all on behalf of large corporations lavishing Harvard with money. And then, on top of it, try to cover it all up in a very cowardly way by accusing all involved of just doing it to themselves -- something I have to note is RAMPANT in the black community as well, where corporations ALSO make huge profits off the exploitation of blacks too.
Damian Schloming Meanwhile, I think it is my duty to ask a question: is more hate really the best tactic, is inflicting more hate the best tactic for those who think they are entitled to get away with hate crimes they committed in the past -- because they were self serving and being bribed by powerful people connected to Harvard University?
Damian Schloming It says something about the utter bankruptcy and utter hypocrisy of the progressive gay elite that they would first participate in a bunch of disgusting hate crimes against someone -- on behalf of Harvard University and other powerful big whigs -- and then they don't have the decency to apologize but, instead, they think they have the right to pull all sorts of strings and engage in all sorts of viciousness, nastiness, and more hate and more abuse -- just to dissuade the victim from bringing them to justice?
Damian Schloming But what I am shocked about is there is zero room in the gay community for an ounce of kindness. It's all about hate, threats, intimidation, nastiness, viciousness, campaigns of social ostracism, vicious head games, psychological abuse -- and the only outcome is: "we are going to keep abusing you because this is how we intend to get away with it."
Damian Schloming In other words, you have a right to commit hate. You have a right to do the things that would be decried elsewhere as hate crimes. And in support of your right to get away with it -- you think you can abuse and torment someone for years and years and years on end. In support of your right to commit hate. What would Matthew Shepard's mother say?
Damian Schloming It's obvious, Matthew Shepard's murder was the tail end of a series of abusive incidents committed on him by progressive gays which include gang rape -- and this same community convinced his mother that if she wanted her other son to remain alive and unharmed, she had to go along with an utter crock of a cover up
And here is one version of the post -- where my comments about Harvard were taken out. However I am having to write this for the second time because my initial blurb here seems to have disappeared. Where I was saying that I don't think progressive gays deserve to get off the hook. If they are going to call themselves the "gay community," they don't need to involve themselves in crimes against a fellow gay man designed to help Harvard or the Catholic Church cover things up. If they, the gay community, want to call themselves a "community of love," they should act like one. Rather than go expect that they should have the right to profit off of committing hate crimes against fellow gays which are to the benefit of institutions like Harvard, the Catholic Church, and associated big whigs, and then when the victim ends up alive and angry, they want to go try to play the victim themselves and say any and all complaints by the victim are indicative of hate on his part -- and proof he deserves it. Meanwhile, they know nothing other than to engage in Stalinist tactics and more abuse and more hate against someone they've victimized in heinous ways -- all as retaliation against him for exposing them.
I also pointed out (have to recollect what I wrote for the first time, which was really good and now that it's disappeared it is harder for me to write it a second time and make it as good) that, in a way, they might not like it because at one point I had been bullied -- by them and others -- into feeling like I had no choice but to participate in a cover up where the involvement of Harvard and all other large corporate players would be covered up, and we just pretend the gay community of Ptown and Boston did this all on their own, because they were hateful. Well, first of all, if I was so intimidated and brainwashed into feeling like I had no choice but to go along with this, it was gay men who intimidated me and it was the total lack of community among gay people, not being able to find a single gay person who was willing to stand up for me and help me that made me feel no choice but to go along with that -- and, yeah, as long as I agree to such a cover up and fail to mention the role Harvard played, yeah Harvard can go blackmail corporations for what they did as they engage in their enormous fund raising campaign they started right after I emailed all my dirt to them. But, in any case, if the gay community is taken advantage of here, in a way they deserve it because of their commitment to hate, and the fact that absolutely nothing can dissuade them from going down a path that involves just inflicting more and more hate, damage, and abuse against any victim they have once decided to target. If they cannot abandon Stalinist tactics, then they richly deserve it if the rich corporations they did this all on behalf of figure out how to stay out of trouble, and they get prosecuted for the crimes they did to me.
Meanwhile, the reason why this culture is so prevalent in the gay community is because, the way things work, the system is corrupt in such a way so gay perpetrators get off scott free for the types of crimes they committed against me. And anyone who FAILS to or REFUSES to participate in such crimes, or who shows sympathy for a victim and tries to help them, gets persecuted by same individuals and sometimes gets into trouble with the law. And they have gotten themselves stuck in such a pattern as this, and the only way to change the pattern is if some gays who THOUGHT that the best way to stay out of trouble (and get ahead in life) was to participate in heinous crimes against me, trusting that the corrupt system will protect them and reward them for doing so, end up learning the hard way that, no, the best thing is to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. And then other people learn from their example.
This, by the way, is equally true for rape culture in the straight world. Yes it is unfair that some men thought they not only could get away with being serial rapists but thought they HAD to be serial rapists to get ahead in life -- because that's how the system was. But, if this toxic culture is to be stopped, some of these individuals have to get into trouble for what they thought they were going to get away with. And, who cares if it is "unfair."
Meanwhile, no way in hell should the situation be one where they are convinced that simply piling on more and more abuse against a victim IS the way to get away with it -- rather than apologizing and making amends.
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Our latest Attorney General, Maura Healey, was there as well. But she refused to help us take on Provincetown, MA with her 'ol crony, Martha Coakley. We had to win on our own.
>Honored to be invited by Governor Charlie Baker & Former Governor William Weld for the swearing in of our friend, Chief Justice Scott Kafker! Congrats Scott & Lea Anne! Having had our fights with the MA court system, which we rightly won after a lengthy struggle, we are proud to see someone of integrity & intelligence on the court! Still writing my book on the subject. Halfway through!
Barry Scott with Charlie Baker and Bryan Jay Richardson at John Adams Courthouse
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Bob Derrah What is it with Provincetown? The police force, as compared to a city's police force or the State Police, appear to be a pack of testosterone fueled pussies. Why bow to them? They're useless.
Barry Scott They have since gotten rid of their town manager and police chief...as soon as it starting affecting townies rather than lowly second home owners and gay vacationers. Sadly, the gays never expected more from the place.
Damian Schloming Well you know I had problems in provincetown which stem from efforts to cover up rape and other very serious crimes, some which could be described as hate crimes, in Boston. In my case, it's so bad, the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center recently agreed to meet with me (they can't deny I was raped) and then the woman in the hotline says in this threatening voice "I will tell THEM you are coming" and then says "I wish I could do something for you BEFORE the meeting" in a tone of voice that was kind of scary. Sure enough, next time i go mountain climbing I had to turn right back because of a man with a rifle who shot it ten times about a half mile to a mile away from me. And no way was this hunting. And my parents told me, I'd better cancel all meetings with this and other agencies. They are worried I'd be killed and shot if I don't.
Damian Schloming Provincetown is actually pretty vicious when it comes to money. I've talked to HIV poz men in ptown in pretty wretched situations, not only used as cash cows for big pharma because the drugs are so expensive, but then they live in special "affordable housing" which is designed to do nothing more than provide cushy jobs for well connected lesbians as "managers." One hiv poz guy I talked to, he was on welfare because it was the only way he could pay for his meds, so he couldn't work or he'd lose his health insurance and get sick, his stipend was $8000 a year and it was so small he could get barely enough for food. As a result there was this "free lunch" program he desperately needed. Well, at his living situation, the affordable housing program run by lesbians, he'd often have appointments and the free lunch that was delivered would often get stolen, and he'd go hungry, and the managers refused to help and eventually called the police on him for complaining, and it got so bad he had to move in with his mother in the end in plymouth. But, yeah, i think one of the big problems is the system in our country involves gay men being used as cash cows, victimized, beaten up, intimidated, and then lesbians are paid off and are controlling enough to monopolize the various government agencies that control things, and they are very thick with one another and care only about money and are ruthless about money, and they use their corrupt ties to one another to essentially engage in all sorts of schemes to wring as much money off of men as they can. And large corporations and drug companies are sponsoring this crime, and the lesbian community has alliances with the drug companies that profit off the spread of HIV. And they are the ones pulling strings with the police.
Bob Derrah You should start your own page Damian
Damian Schloming let's hope the media picks up on my situation
Bob Derrah If it fits their agenda.
Damian Schloming their "agenda?" -- I hear the word "agenda" very often with respect to progressives, but it's often from people who really do think they want to help minorities. But the side of it I have seen is, that's being too kind to them. Their "agenda" is money and only money.
Bob Derrah An agenda is an agenda. Period.
OK now here is another version of the page. Where my comment about lesbians and women being paid off is missing and instead my comment on Harvard is still there. Not sure if this was -- oh yes this was earlier. So my comment about lesbians was made after he said an agenda is an agenda. The Harvard comment was removed by Barry Scott and the later one on lesbians put in its place maybe? Now why is Barry Scott manipulating my comments on his facebook page? I will point out, early on when I started posting on the internet after efforts to work with my attorney seemed not to be getting anywhere fast, I was talking only about feminists and progressive gays and their involvement in the crimes committed against me, and leaving out everything about how Harvard had instigated the whole thing. Of course that was because I was intimidated by Harvard and not by progressive gays or feminists. I was also afraid of talking about the mafia, or saying the word mafia, so I used the word "feminist" in place of the word "mafia" on many occasions at first. It took me a long time before I had the courage to use the word "mafia" or admit that I knew rape victims really DO GET treated badly, but it isn't because police are misogynist, it's because feminists take bribes.
However, it is also true that when talking to Karen Flood of Harvard, I started to express an interest in gender studies and gender issues, and she reacted VERY negatively to it, and was very adament, I should be pursuing men's rights issues only. I remember that conversation because it was almost like a "no you don't get involved in this" and "this is not your issue." And, at that time, I was being very obedient.
Even then I still avoided the Men's Right's site -- A Voice For Men. I didn't trust them. However, I cant remember how it happened but somehow I started getting almost stalked by posters responding to my comments by linking to A Voice For Men on Huffington post, until it got to a point where it was pretty obvious to me, I was being subtly invited to start posting there. Of course, the moment I start posting on A Voice For Men, that gives progressive gays and feminists an excuse to call me a misogynist and stuff like that. But, in a way, that was just a ploy. Indeed, there were lesbians at the real estate office I worked at who also treated me pretty horribly, went out of their way to let me know and understand, they were being paid off with tons of business even while I was being forced to not do any work. There were lots of ways in which they were doing what they could to provoke me into going "anti feminist" on them. So then they could say that's what I was. And blame me.
See, all along, they wanted to bully me, browbeat me, and subject me to campaigns of trolling and intimidation that would encourage me to keep quiet about not only what Harvard did but what feminists and progressive gays did, or at least what feminists in govt bureaucracies and in the Harvard Administration and progressive gays in the community did. But they needed a good excuse to subject me to a barrage of hate -- publicly rather than privately. So they needed me to go "anti-feminist" on them. What's interesting is how, if you look at all the hate that was done privately, it was totally politically incorrect and classic rape apology rape intimidation. The abuse I had undergone that was so much worse than rape also made me sort of think rape was kind of trivial, because it really was nothing compared to other things they had done to me, so the end result is I end up writing posts saying "rape is not bad" and wrote the sort of stuff that caused MRA's to say stuff like "this is terrible for you to be writing this on our site, you make us look so bad."
But I was just writing the "world view" I had been brainwashed and bullied into going along with believing -- I was afraid to state that my beliefs were anything but that because I was afraid the moment I start saying rape is serious, that might cause people to worry I might consider pressing charges, which would result in retaliation against me that I did not want to put up with anymore. So I go convince myself -- actually I convinced myself that all sorts of other things FAR WORSE than rape were actually trivial, or not that big a deal. Or maybe I didn't convince myself but I put on a show of doing that, and that affected my commentary on the MRA site, where Karen Flood and others had pushed me, so then of course I suppose I could be attacked for making those comments which were essentially the "world view" progressive gays and criminal women at the family justice center, rape crisis center, and crooked police had bullied me into. But, I mean, come on. It took me a bit of time to get over all that intimidation and brainwashing, but once I do -- they have no leg to stand on, vis-a-vis continuing to attack me.
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Our latest Attorney General, Maura Healey, was there as well. But she refused to help us take on Provincetown, MA with her 'ol crony, Martha Coakley. We had to win on our own.
>Honored to be invited by Governor Charlie Baker & Former Governor William Weld for the swearing in of our friend, Chief Justice Scott Kafker! Congrats Scott & Lea Anne! Having had our fights with the MA court system, which we rightly won after a lengthy struggle, we are proud to see someone of integrity & intelligence on the court! Still writing my book on the subject. Halfway through!
Barry Scott with Charlie Baker and Bryan Jay Richardson at John Adams Courthouse
Honored to be invited by Governor Charlie Baker & Former Governor William Weld for the swearing in of our friend, Chief Justice Scott Kafker! Congrats Scott & L...
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Bob Derrah What is it with Provincetown? The police force, as compared to a city's police force or the State Police, appear to be a pack of testosterone fueled pussies. Why bow to them? They're useless.
Barry Scott They have since gotten rid of their town manager and police chief...as soon as it starting affecting townies rather than lowly second home owners and gay vacationers. Sadly, the gays never expected more from the place.
Damian Schloming Well you know I had problems in provincetown which stem from efforts to cover up rape and other very serious crimes, some which could be described as hate crimes, in Boston. In my case, it's so bad, the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center recently agreed to meet with me (they can't deny I was raped) and then the woman in the hotline says in this threatening voice "I will tell THEM you are coming" and then says "I wish I could do something for you BEFORE the meeting" in a tone of voice that was kind of scary. Sure enough, next time i go mountain climbing I had to turn right back because of a man with a rifle who shot it ten times about a half mile to a mile away from me. And no way was this hunting. And my parents told me, I'd better cancel all meetings with this and other agencies. They are worried I'd be killed and shot if I don't.
Damian Schloming in my case, it was kind of like the gay community in Boston committed all these serious hate crimes against me because they were doing it as a favor to Harvard, which is where there was wrong doing done that was scandalous and Harvard wanted to cover it up. They made a deal with corporations on wall street where I'd be victimized, it would be covered up, it would look like a catholic church abuse situation and the vatican could be blackmailed. Most of the gay men involved in bad stuff with me at one time or another disclosed to me they were being bribed, often with "better jobs" in return for what they did. but, yeah, so much for the progressive movement. It's all about the supremacy of big business and white powerful straight CEO's. Just a bunch of propaganda that it's about gay liberation. All they care about is using gay men as cash cows for big pharma -- you need to get HIV to help get revenues and profits up for the drug companies. You can read about it here:https://damian-schloming.squarespace.comHomepage and introduction to the website issues
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Bob Derrah You should start your own page Damian
Damian Schloming let's hope the media picks up on my situation
Bob Derrah If it fits their agenda.
Damian Schloming their "agenda?" -- I hear the word "agenda" very often with respect to progressives, but it's often from people who really do think they want to help minorities. But the side of it I have seen is, that's being too kind to them. Their "agenda" is money and only money.
Bob Derrah An agenda is an agenda. Period.