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Recent email back and forth with Jerry Weinstock, M.D., Psychiatry, of Key West:
He wrote:
SLOAN it was a different world then —stop the train-for me -I want to go
back -.if —-I can find the way ——be cautious ///// but enjoy life -Seize the DAY-Jerry
it all goes by fast -I know,,, Jerry
(Sloan you have talent—fate has not been too kind )
I replied:
I’m tempted to say something irreverent, but I have heard not to tempt fate, and since I forgot how to time travel, I’ll just continue seizing what I can of each day … Isn’t there a Latin phrase for that? Carpe diem? Wasn’t that the theme of “Dead Poets Society”? Although perhaps going about it more comme un loup (Francois for stealthy, like a wolf) might cause me to live a bit longer than the present style …
Jerry wrote:
yes, absolutely—- said first by Robin Williams who seized the day
and committed suicide.—-life can be ridiculous —-Jerry
I replied:
I wonder was was chewing on Robin, that he did that?
Jerry wrote:
SLOAN: Poor Robin -his comedy was more than likely a cover-up ;
repetitious as it may be —-I repeat life is difficult !!
I had nature when in a crisis—-which was not infrequent—growing up -“a long time ago.. ;”
lakes, streams and prairies and woods-favorite wonderful
unpolluted places —solitude and beauty —and the museums if it was too cold or rainy.
6 students over the past year committed suicide at the Univ. of Pennsylvania…
it all is very sad including Robin and others we know well-or knew well.
with sincerity—-Jerry
(in college a great girlfriend—a classmate -a science major !!!)
(she also spoke french—-her family were artists and musicians.)
I was lucky !!
I replied this morning:
It could have been cover up, but what? Maybe we’ll never know. I found myself wondering yesterday, after reading yours, that maybe Robin really was an ET (“Mork and Mindy” TV series), and he never did really adjust to being on this planet. I wonder if I ever will adjust to being here?
Yesterday when we visited in the jail, Kari suggested I hold myself out as a consultant, for hire. I said I had put that out from time to time before, and nothing came of it, other than one fellow asked me to edit his manuscript ripping up a few prominent people in Marathon and the local sheriff department, and the more I worked on the manuscript, the more I saw he had nearly gotten nine people killed, counting himself, to be able to write that story, and he was going to try to make money from it, and I had to have it out with him over that, even though what he told about the other people might well have been true, and then I was no longer on his payroll.
It is true, though, I have ways of looking at situations, it doesn’t matter what the subject matter is, which are different and could be useful, if applied to any situation. It also is true, my experience is people don’t want to pay for my views of their situations. I’ll put that up again today at goodmorningkeywest.com.
Kari and I both still feel there is more to the capture of the local Islamic wannabe terrorist than the newspapers and the FBI and people down here think there is. Putting stuff onto Facebook like that fellow did is guaranteed to attract law enforcement. What puzzles me is, why Facebook let it stay up? Nobody reading Facebook reported it to Facebook? I can’t find it on Facebook now.
Last night at KOTS [the city’s homeless shelter], its manager Mike Tolbert, who is a friend of mine, showed me a fellow cleaning up the bathrooms about 10 p.m. Mike said that happened every night. I said, if so, why didn’t he tell me that 2 months or so ago, when I was banned from KOTS for a week, for peeing outside at night because the bathrooms were filthy and I didn’t want to track the filth into the dormitory where I and other men were sleeping? Mike said he didn’t tell me back then because he was really pissed off at what I had done. I asked how long that had the night cleaning up been going on? Mike said since last December. I said the way I took him not telling me until last night was it wasn’t happening when I was kicked out of KOTS. Otherwise, he would have told me then that the bathrooms were being cleaned up at night. I said the monitor who kicked me out that night told me the bathrooms were cleaned up good every morning, but he didn’t say anything about the bathrooms being cleaned at night, because he didn’t know that was happening. Mike said the monitor didn’t know because he came in at 11:30 p.m., after the bathrooms were cleaned up. The bathrooms were not being cleaned at night back then. I saw that when I went into them to pee, before turning in around 10-11 p.m. I talked with a KOTS regular this morning, whom I know well. He said there had been times when the bathrooms were cleaned up at night, and there had been times when it did not happen. Whatever, the bathrooms were cleaned up last night, I saw it happen. I’m glad they are doing that; once a day would not be enough.
I remember when the bathrooms at Higgs Beach were only cleaned up once a day; they were a health hazard. Now they are cleaned 3 times a day, last I heard. I had something to do with that change. What do you figure I should have been paid for bringing it off? Right, I didn’t hold my breath.
I get to KOTS around 7:30 or 8 p.m., shower, then sit down and watch whatever movie is on, then whatever next movie comes on, overhearing conversations in which I have no interest, often sounding like the people talking are on some chemical or have brain damage from being on some chemical. What a way to live.
City Commissioner Tony Yaniz, who wants all “bums” out of Key West and the homeless shelter on Rockland Key, really ought to sleep a week of nights at KOTS, to really get to know the people who “live” there. Perhaps that would change Tony’s thinking. But then, perhaps it would take him being broke and homeless and living at KOTS full time to change his thinking. And perhaps not even that would change his thinking.
Tony now has an opponent in his city commissioner race. A former local judge about whom I have heard some good things in the past. A former judge, thus a lawyer, might be a breath of fresh air in that city commission seat; and in the city commission seat being given up by Mark Rossi. Attorney Sam Kaufman seeks that seat. Might be a good thing for the city commission to listen to lawyers other than its own in-house law firm. But then, my experience with city commissions is they didn’t listen to this once lawyer, except when I told them I would put them into federal court, if their police kept arresting homeless people for sleeping outside at night, and they believed me, and that’s why they built KOTS.
Sloan
Jerry wrote:
Good for you, Sloan — heroic you are
homelessness —many of the people have been victims of
predatory schemes -like pure Chapman the target of fraudulent
criminal despicable bankers and finance people—a friend lives across the
street from him on Chapman lane.—
Now drilling in the big cypress swamp and the everglades absolutely infuriates me;
what evil criminal inhuman primates.—yes. we are on a lunatic frenzy -Robin may have been from elsewhere——living on this planet may not be too much longer for my grandchild—-awful
Kari sounds like she is hanging in—all of the next generation a different world -all beauty and naturalness burned out. I am in a terrible mood at the moment —- i have to take some anti-migraine
meds… we will fight ———Jerry
Here’s today’s (newest) Citizen article on the wannabe Islamic terrorist:
Friday, July 31, 2015
Supervisor: Suspect talked about guns, police
BY ADAM LINHARDT Citizen Staff
alinhardt@keysnews.com
The Stock Island man accused of planning to detonate a bomb at a Key West beach spoke often about guns, his issues with law enforcement over speeding tickets and had direct access to secure areas at Key West International Airport, according to one of his former supervisors.
Harlem Suarez, 23, also known by his Internet alias Almlak Benitez, faces life in prison if convicted of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction against a person or property. Suarez was arrested Monday by FBI agents after Suarez took an inert bomb he believed to be explosive from an undercover informant, according to court records.
Suarez worked at Key West International Airport from December 2013 to March 2015 for Envoy Air Inc., a subsidiary of American Airlines, American Airlines spokesman Ross Feinstein confirmed in an email to The Citizen. The FBI began investigating Suarez a month later, after receiving information from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office that he was posting violent Islamic State rhetoric on Facebook.
The government does not allege Suarez was planning an attack at an airport or while in the air, according to the most recent complaint filed against Suarez. He had yet to be indicted as of Thursday.
His job included loading and unloading baggage, removing trash from airplanes and checking-in customers at the front desk, among other duties, said Ted Lund, who was one of his supervisors until Lund left in October 2014.
Lund worked as a sports reporter at The Citizen in the late 1990s as well as for other media companies in the Florida Keys. He is now a freelance writer and lives in Central Florida. He also remains employed as a charter fishing guide.
Lund overheard Suarez last summer asking another person how to get a gun on a plane, which led the other person to explain that all firearms have to be checked, placed in special travel cases and declared at the front desk. Suarez’s questions led Lund to believe Suarez meant boarding a plane with a firearm.
“This is something that anyone who works at an airport should know,” Lund said, who added that he reported the conversation to a company general manager. “Anyone who checks in passengers would know that.”
What became of that conversation, if anything, could not be verified. The FBI has declined to comment since Suarez’s arrest on Monday.
Lund said Suarez spoke often about guns in general and that he often complained about police, mostly in terms of his myriad speeding tickets. Clerk of Court records show numerous traffic-related citations dating to 2011.
“He was always talking about cops,” Lund said. “Saying things like, ‘They’re always messing with me over speeding’ on his motorcycle. That sort of thing.”
Suarez struck Lund as a “wanna-be gangster” who seemed mentally slow in some areas, he said, but added he wasn’t sure how much of that to attribute to the fact that English is Suarez’s second language.
Lund never heard Suarez speak about Islam or fundamental terrorism while both were employed at the airport.
Feinstein declined to state anything further about Suarez’s employment, calling it a personnel matter, but it is Lund’s understanding that Suarez was fired in March — a month before the FBI began surveillance on him — after he deployed an emergency inflatable aircraft slide while he was cleaning a plane, Lund said.
Monroe County Airports Director Don DeGraw could not confirm that was the reason Suarez left, but he recalled the incident occurred while the plane was empty of passengers and that no one was injured. Typically, such incidents in which there are no injuries are handled by the airlines, DeGraw said.
Suarez attended Key West High School but did not graduate, said his attorney, Richard Della Fera of Fort Lauderdale. Suarez was employed as a restaurant worker in Key West when he was arrested, Della Fera said.
Della Fera described Suarez as a troubled young man and the son of a hard-working cab driver father and hotel housekeeper mother who came to the United States from Cuba in 2004.
Della Fera said he will proceed with mental health evaluations as the case continues in Miami. Suarez remains in federal custody in Miami under no bail. His detention hearing is scheduled for Monday.
A Facebook page set up by Suarez under his alias Benitez was full of angry, violent, pro-jihad rhetoric, according to the government.
Suarez reportedly praised the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) in multiple posts that included his desire to behead Christians, kill police officers and extend the caliphate (a fundamentalist Islamic government) to the Florida Keys and beyond to elsewhere in the U.S.
He claimed to have two handguns and failed in a bid to acquire two AK-47 assault rifles legally purchased via the Internet after he filled out some paperwork incorrectly.
FBI agents had Suarez under surveillance for months and although he solicited a ready-made bomb, there are no indications he ever made one.
alinhardt@keysnews.com
A right-wing Christian Facebook post yesterday broached the Islamic terrorist theme:
The 2nd movie at KOTS last night was about how politicians, science and corporations turned future humanity into low IQ morons, water was abolished and a Gatorade knockoff was used for drinking water and to irrigate crops and kill same.
Here’s Wikipedia’s review. Perhaps Key West and its ocean are headed in much the same direction.
Idiocracy is a 2006 American satirical science fiction comedy film directed by Mike Judge and starring Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, and Terry Crews. The film tells the story of two people who take part in a top-secret military hibernation experiment, only to awaken 500 years later in a dystopian society where advertising, commercialism, and cultural anti-intellectualism have run rampant and that is devoid of intellectual curiosity, social responsibility, and coherent notions of justice and human rights.
The film was not screened for critics, and 20th Century Fox was accused of “abandoning” the film. Dan Mitchell of The New York Times argued that Fox might have avoided promoting a film about low-intelligence dysgenics so as to not offend its viewers or potential advertisers, who were portrayed negatively in the film. Despite its lack of a major theatrical release, the film has achieved a cult following.[2]
A U.S. Army librarian, Corporal Joe Bauers (Luke Wilson), and a prostitute, Rita (Maya Rudolph), are selected for a suspended animation experiment on grounds of ‘average’ appearance, intelligence, behavior, etc. Rita’s pimp “Upgrayedd” (Brad Jordan) has been bribed to allow her to take part. The experiment is forgotten when the officer in charge (Michael McCafferty) is arrested for having started his own prostitution ring under Upgrayedd’s tutelage. Five hundred years later, Joe and Rita’s suspension chambers are unearthed by the collapse of a mountain-sized garbage pile, and Joe’s suspension chamber breaks through the wall of Frito Pendejo’s (Dax Shepard) apartment, whose occupant expels him.
Joe, suspecting hallucination, enters a hospital. The former Washington, D.C. has lost most of its infrastructure, with people living in plastic huts called “domistile”. The human population has become morbidly stupid, speak only low registers of English competently, and are profoundlyanti-intellectual. When Joe is arrested for not having a bar code tattoo to pay for his doctor’s appointment, he realizes the current year and society’s state. At Joe’s trial, Frito, acting as his (grossly incompetent) lawyer, causes him to be sent to prison. Rita returns to her former profession.
Joe is renamed “Not Sure” by a faulty tattooing machine, and takes an I.Q. test before escaping. Once free Joe asks Frito whether a time machine exists to return himself to 2005, and Frito agrees to find one after Joe promises to open a bank account under Frito’s name in Joe’s time, which will be worth billions by 2505. On the way, Joe reunites with Rita, and the three arrive at a gigantic Costco store, where a tattoo scanner identifies Joe as a fugitive. He is taken to the White House, where he is appointed Secretary of the Interior, on the grounds that his I.Q. test identified him as the most intelligent man alive. In a speech, President Camacho (Terry Crews) gives Joe the job of fixing the nation’s food shortages, dust bowls, and crippled economy within a week; whereafter Joe discovers that the nation’s crops are irrigated with a sports drink named “Brawndo”, whose eponymous parent corporation had purchased the FDA, FCC, and USDA. When Joe has it replaced with water, Brawndo’s stock drops to zero, and half the population lose their jobs, causing mass riots. Therefore Joe is sentenced to die in a monster truck demolition derby featuring undefeated “Rehabilitation Officer” Beef Supreme (Andrew Wilson), when Rita discovers that Joe’s reintroduction of water to the soil has prompted vegetation in the fields. Frito shows the crops on the stadium’s display screen, and Camacho gives Joe a full pardon, appointing him Vice President. Joe and Rita find that the time machine Frito named is an inaccurate, history-themed amusement ride. Following Camacho’s term, Joe is elected President. Joe and Rita marry and conceive the world’s three smartest children, while Frito, now Vice President, takes eight wives and fathers 32 of the world’s stupidest children. A post-credits scene shows a third suspension chamber releasing Upgrayedd, intent on tracking Rita down.
Ciao maim,
one of the “bums”
sloanbashinsky@outlook.com
