Your colleagues, Mr. Kevin Gregory and Mr. Kevin Rader, for example, seemed to think it was important for them to determine whether or not I was engaging in solitary sexual practices. In order to do that, of course, they needed to be able to observe me while I was sleeping at night.
That was hardly journalism.
Mr. Rader, Mr. Gregory, Mr. Ed Sorensen, Pat Carlini, and the others who were involved in harassing me were in fact involved another "ism"--voyeurism.
Voyeurism is a criminal offense.
Also there's another issue, because when a person is being harassed electronically and reports that fact, the person might be suspected of experiencing delusions.
In my case, to defend myself against the idea that I was experiencing delusions, I made a tape recording of some of the abusive chatter. Perhaps I didn't need to worry about that precaution. I was later astonished to learn that some of the TV personalities and TV "executives" implicated didn't feel any need at all to apologize for or deny the sort of behavior I've been describing.
Gregory, Rader, and Carlini seemed to feel that they were a superior breed and entitled to do whatever they wanted. The boss at Channel 13, Mr. Michael Fiorile, also seems to have trouble telling the difference between journalism and voyeurism. Mr. Fiorile is what might be described as "a borderline gangster type." He likes to push around those he regards as unimportant.
With the local commercial TV stations preying on members of the viewing public in that fashion, it's not surprising that those stations are tending to become more and more fortress-like. I think it's all rather stupid. In the long run, no one is apt to be a winner.
You yourself seem to have some knowledge of these matters, and I heard your voice in interactive mode one night a couple of years ago while I was trying to sleep in my apartment.
According to a report on your former station delivered by Martha Weaver in May 2003, a person named Michael McCormick had then recently been arrested for stalking Lynn St. James and for boasting of having "killed" a hundred or two hundred people. Some months later, a young man who seemed to answer to the same name of "Michael McCormick" materialized in my building in the unit adjoining mine.
My work with Glaser's idea had also involved Navistar, which was founded by the famous McCormick family of Chicago. A fateful 1973 submission by me to Navistar was part of the Cold War events alluded to above. All that is described in more detail in my autobiographical notes on my web site. And you can view (A) the front page of my 1973 submission and (B) a letter from Navistar attesting to its authenticity by clicking below:
A http://www.oocities.org/gahnsd/PROSPECTUS.gif
B http://www.oocities.org/gahnsd/MENCK.gif
I don't know for sure that I have all facts regarding Michael McCormick organized correctly, partly because "McCormick" isn't an unusual name. I'm not absolutely sure of who I was dealing with. That has been true in many of my dealings with Navistar. But I speculate that when Mr. McCormick said that he'd "killed" a lot of people, he might have meant that he and/or his associates had harassed them to the point where they went over the edge and did something rash or self-destructive. That would have put them out of whatever ephemeral action Mr. McCormick or his friends were interested in at a given time.
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