It is said that ignorance of the law is no excuse; were you or I to fail to see a sign announcing a lower speed limit and get a ticket for speeding, no court would accept our excuse. Yet disingenuous, sold-out scientists are allowed to spread their lies unimpeded. How can we claim to abide by the rule of law when there is such a double standard?
I reposted an article about lead on FB and some of my personal experiences, and they deleted it.
I got very ill with lead and mercury from a former coal yard next to a Reading Rail and Coal rail track in Philadelphia, which is now SEPTA station R7. The site’s history includes a leaking underground gas tank for the coal trucks.
I had just bought my first house and it was adjacent to this lot. I was new to Philadelphia. New to what a brownfield was and very very new to city corruption. The mix of corruption, lead, mercury, dust, vapors, and retaliation against me for trying to expose the problems. I did expose a lot, and the more I sought evidence, the more crime and corruption I discovered. So, retaliation got worse, and I ended up unable to live in my house, work, and constantly on the move trying to survive while very ill. Three doctors demanded I be removed from the house, but the city refused to help and instead spread rumors that I was crazy ( mercury does kinda make you crazy-but no- I was ill, not crazy). They sent the psyche truck a few times but never caught me. I was called a refugee because I had a home but could not live in it. I moved from place to place, trying to stay safe and try to manage the lead and mercury symptoms.
They used political abuse of psychiatry in so many ways. Now, one of the main culprits who did this to me ( and who was also the one who pitched the project to Planning) - he now wants to run for the next District Attorney. That can not happen. Over the years, I have come to know many "regular people whistleblowers,” and one of the main retaliation tactics is political abuse of psychiatry- especially of women. This is such a traumatic threat, and every whistleblower I have met has serious PTSD.
About 7 or 8 people died because the city would not listen to me. I tried everything to warn them of the dangers. The first one drowned because of a flood caused by the project next to my former house. They built on a source spring of the Wingohocking river. I found the stream maps at the start of the problems and recognized the flood danger of building on that site right away. I took the maps to city people- zoning and planning - and told them, and they said there was no problem. But then, a few years later, a retired water engineer pointed right to that site and said that was why there was that flood and the daughter of a police officer died in it.
Then 7 ( maybe 6) people died on June 5, 2013 in the Market Street demolition disaster. I had been at so many meetings - right from the start of my problems- which included demolition violations and cracks in my house- that is how the problems for me started.
So, I found out everything I could about safe demolition, including health hazards. The Baltimore Demolition Protocols—for safety and health—and John Hopkins were part of that study. That demolition protocol was first introduced to the City’s planners, zoning, and L&I in 2006 at a meeting I attended with them in the Northern Liberties neighborhood. In that study, they say that no Demolition should ever happen with people in the adjacent building. Then the same Baltimore Demolition Protocols was introduce once more by Vernice Travis Miller at an all-day workshop presented by the Public Interest Law Center in Philadelphia. October 6th, 2011 at the Arch St. Meeting House, Philadelphia. It was the same Protocols that were presented in June 2006.
The Deputy Mayor Alan Greenburger was at the meeting for the presentation on demolition by Vernice Travis Miller. Alan Greenberger was one of the main people I would contact about the problems at my house, and he would never help. He was an architect and big in City Planning. I have the court reporter transcripts of the whole day. But then on the day of June 5, 2013, I saw the news about the demo tragedy on Market Street and later that day or within days, I saw Alan Greenburger standing with Mayor Nutter telling the world on national TV that they did not know much about demolition. I went into such deep shock.
I had just moved back to my home state with the help of my father-in Feb 2013. ( he died in 2019) I am now 70 years old and still suffering from PTSD and some symptoms of lead and mercury. I had to go into day programs for severe PTSD for a couple of weeks twice while in Philadelphia. After the deaths at Market Street, I had to go into the hospital for PTSD again. My mind kept thinking I had not done enough to prevent those deaths, but I knew that was the trauma talking. I did everything I could, but these politicians refused to listen and continued their crimes. I couldn’t believe the mayor and Alan Greenburger were lying like that.
Then I found the weeks of email correspondence that Alan Greenburger had with the Salvation Army, and never once did he stop the demolition and make sure no one was in any building adjacent to active demolition. I could not believe it, but I did believe it because I had learned from the way they treated me for years that these people did not care about human life at all and did everything they could to cover up their crimes.
Simpson, the brother of one of the young women who died at Market Street, contacted me because somehow he knew I had been dealing with the city for years. But I was in such shock that I could say nothing except that I knew there was asbestos in the dust even though the city had said there wasn’t. So, the only thing I could say was to get an independent asbestos inspector and have the site tested. And within days, there was a news article that wondered why there was an independent investigation and that, yes, indeed, there was asbestos.
Then I watched City Hall have its kangaroo court and watched Councilwoman Cindy Bass of my old neighborhood pretend she did not know about the history of demolition problems. She did know. I was in her district. They all lie and send the wrong people to jail. Seth Williams - the former DA who went to jail knew. He admitted to being best friends with the 2 who set up the project, Derek Green and Vernon Price, and Seth Williams covered up all the environmental and other crimes that were done to me and destroyed my health and life.
After I left, several big articles about how lead was starting to surface in the neighborhoods. And although I tried to get attention and help for what happened to me -by sending stacks of evidence to the current DA Larry Krasner - more than once, and to the former Mayor Kenny - who was the very first person I went to for help in 2006 when he was a Council Person who was supposedly concerned about quality of life. Now Philadelphia has Mayor Cherrelle Parker, who was at the 1st public meeting where I introduced the problems, and she walked away.
It is said that ignorance of the law is no excuse; were you or I to fail to see a sign announcing a lower speed limit and get a ticket for speeding, no court would accept our excuse. Yet disingenuous, sold-out scientists are allowed to spread their lies unimpeded. How can we claim to abide by the rule of law when there is such a double standard?
I reposted an article about lead on FB and some of my personal experiences, and they deleted it.
I got very ill with lead and mercury from a former coal yard next to a Reading Rail and Coal rail track in Philadelphia, which is now SEPTA station R7. The site’s history includes a leaking underground gas tank for the coal trucks.
I had just bought my first house and it was adjacent to this lot. I was new to Philadelphia. New to what a brownfield was and very very new to city corruption. The mix of corruption, lead, mercury, dust, vapors, and retaliation against me for trying to expose the problems. I did expose a lot, and the more I sought evidence, the more crime and corruption I discovered. So, retaliation got worse, and I ended up unable to live in my house, work, and constantly on the move trying to survive while very ill. Three doctors demanded I be removed from the house, but the city refused to help and instead spread rumors that I was crazy ( mercury does kinda make you crazy-but no- I was ill, not crazy). They sent the psyche truck a few times but never caught me. I was called a refugee because I had a home but could not live in it. I moved from place to place, trying to stay safe and try to manage the lead and mercury symptoms.
They used political abuse of psychiatry in so many ways. Now, one of the main culprits who did this to me ( and who was also the one who pitched the project to Planning) - he now wants to run for the next District Attorney. That can not happen. Over the years, I have come to know many "regular people whistleblowers,” and one of the main retaliation tactics is political abuse of psychiatry- especially of women. This is such a traumatic threat, and every whistleblower I have met has serious PTSD.
About 7 or 8 people died because the city would not listen to me. I tried everything to warn them of the dangers. The first one drowned because of a flood caused by the project next to my former house. They built on a source spring of the Wingohocking river. I found the stream maps at the start of the problems and recognized the flood danger of building on that site right away. I took the maps to city people- zoning and planning - and told them, and they said there was no problem. But then, a few years later, a retired water engineer pointed right to that site and said that was why there was that flood and the daughter of a police officer died in it.
Then 7 ( maybe 6) people died on June 5, 2013 in the Market Street demolition disaster. I had been at so many meetings - right from the start of my problems- which included demolition violations and cracks in my house- that is how the problems for me started.
So, I found out everything I could about safe demolition, including health hazards. The Baltimore Demolition Protocols—for safety and health—and John Hopkins were part of that study. That demolition protocol was first introduced to the City’s planners, zoning, and L&I in 2006 at a meeting I attended with them in the Northern Liberties neighborhood. In that study, they say that no Demolition should ever happen with people in the adjacent building. Then the same Baltimore Demolition Protocols was introduce once more by Vernice Travis Miller at an all-day workshop presented by the Public Interest Law Center in Philadelphia. October 6th, 2011 at the Arch St. Meeting House, Philadelphia. It was the same Protocols that were presented in June 2006.
The Deputy Mayor Alan Greenburger was at the meeting for the presentation on demolition by Vernice Travis Miller. Alan Greenberger was one of the main people I would contact about the problems at my house, and he would never help. He was an architect and big in City Planning. I have the court reporter transcripts of the whole day. But then on the day of June 5, 2013, I saw the news about the demo tragedy on Market Street and later that day or within days, I saw Alan Greenburger standing with Mayor Nutter telling the world on national TV that they did not know much about demolition. I went into such deep shock.
I had just moved back to my home state with the help of my father-in Feb 2013. ( he died in 2019) I am now 70 years old and still suffering from PTSD and some symptoms of lead and mercury. I had to go into day programs for severe PTSD for a couple of weeks twice while in Philadelphia. After the deaths at Market Street, I had to go into the hospital for PTSD again. My mind kept thinking I had not done enough to prevent those deaths, but I knew that was the trauma talking. I did everything I could, but these politicians refused to listen and continued their crimes. I couldn’t believe the mayor and Alan Greenburger were lying like that.
Then I found the weeks of email correspondence that Alan Greenburger had with the Salvation Army, and never once did he stop the demolition and make sure no one was in any building adjacent to active demolition. I could not believe it, but I did believe it because I had learned from the way they treated me for years that these people did not care about human life at all and did everything they could to cover up their crimes.
Simpson, the brother of one of the young women who died at Market Street, contacted me because somehow he knew I had been dealing with the city for years. But I was in such shock that I could say nothing except that I knew there was asbestos in the dust even though the city had said there wasn’t. So, the only thing I could say was to get an independent asbestos inspector and have the site tested. And within days, there was a news article that wondered why there was an independent investigation and that, yes, indeed, there was asbestos.
Then I watched City Hall have its kangaroo court and watched Councilwoman Cindy Bass of my old neighborhood pretend she did not know about the history of demolition problems. She did know. I was in her district. They all lie and send the wrong people to jail. Seth Williams - the former DA who went to jail knew. He admitted to being best friends with the 2 who set up the project, Derek Green and Vernon Price, and Seth Williams covered up all the environmental and other crimes that were done to me and destroyed my health and life.
After I left, several big articles about how lead was starting to surface in the neighborhoods. And although I tried to get attention and help for what happened to me -by sending stacks of evidence to the current DA Larry Krasner - more than once, and to the former Mayor Kenny - who was the very first person I went to for help in 2006 when he was a Council Person who was supposedly concerned about quality of life. Now Philadelphia has Mayor Cherrelle Parker, who was at the 1st public meeting where I introduced the problems, and she walked away.