The proffered agreement that she's talking about had nothing to do with removing the hidden, illegal cameras from the apartment or my not having to leave the apartment when the cameras are removed. It was about my having to leave, and being given until the end of May to do so, contingent upon my agreeing to remove from the Internet everything that I have said or written about what has happened at the apartment. I said I wouldn't do that, and that's why the case is going to court.
What she's going to do tomorrow is portray me as being too crazy to live at that apartment building; that's what "you clearly are uncomfortable living at the community" means. I'll be portrayed as the mentally ill, homeless freak who was generously given an affordable housing unit in an otherwise unaffordable apartment building. Neither that building not any other unaffordable apartment building would be accepting Section 8 tenants or other people from my tax bracket if there weren't a law that some of their units have to be affordable. I'm sure that there is no tenant of any affordable unit in any otherwise unaffordable building that is treated like everyone else in the building, no matter what those tenants do.
There will be total denial of the cameras being in the apartment, or even of the possibility that I'm telling the truth that there are cameras in the apartment. What the lawyer will say is that the police found no evidence of the cameras after conducting an investigation of the apartment, which ironically, the police were recorded by the hidden cameras as failing to find. Someone out there is laughing.
Although I have never identified the apartment building by name in public, the lawyer will say that my publications about being victimized by voyeurism in my own home since I moved to the apartment in March 2016 are "interfering with the property management." There will be no acknowledgement that the voyeurism or the retaliatory eviction in response to my objection to the voyeurism have interfered with my life.
There will be no acknowledgement that anyone who reads my blog for a while will realize that a lot of people know who I am and that it's more probable than not that someone who works for the property management installed the illegal, hidden cameras in the apartment as soon as he knew I'd be living there, because the conglomerate has told the public to do that to me for years.
The only part of my blog that the lawyer will acknowledge as having traction in reality is the part that exposes her client's criminal treatment of me, and she's going to ask the judge to make me remove those discussions from the Internet; everything else, and everything else about me on the Internet, the lawyer for the property management will exploit to say that I'm crazy.
I know that's what's going to happen, because that's what happened in 2014, when I was called a crazy liar and evicted for objecting to the hidden, illegal cameras in the apartment that I had from March 2013 to February 2014. I was evicted into the snow in 2014. The lawyers for that property management didn't ask the judge to tell me to remove discussions of them and of their client's behavior from the Internet, but they did portray everything that I said about them and their client as the result of mental illness, and as if I had no right to free speech.
About a week and a half ago, I had a phone conversation with one of the police officers who searched my apartment for the cameras and didn't find them. What he said about the cameras was "We believe you; we just can't find the evidence." It seems that the police department is not going to take any additional steps to stop the crime of voyeurism that's being committed against me in my own home, or do anything else to help me produce evidence that would stop my losing the apartment.
If I am evicted from this apartment, I will lose the Section 8 voucher and be indefinitely homeless.
Even if I am not evicted, but am forced to sign an agreement that makes me leave the apartment in a few months; I was homeless from 2011 to 2013 and then homeless again from 2014 to 2016. It is very difficult to obtain an apartment when you are poor, and a few months isn't going to be enough time. Also, if the voyeurism isn't stopped this time, there's nothing to stop it from happening to me again. I have already been victimized by voyeurism almost everywhere that I have lived since 2011.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, March 1, 2017 @ 8:24 p.m.
