Monday, January 5, 2009

In response to Computer Rage Neighbor vs Neighbor in Website Battle

In response to Computer Rage Neighbor vs Neighbor in Website Battle


This title is misleading. The word rage implies violence and violence couldn’t be further from the truth. The intent of the neighbors and those that post at the website is to have their issue resolved. Unfortunately Abbe Smith, part of the register staff seems to have missed that in her civic courses. In a time when violence has escalated to a point of war, neighbors placing distressing calls to their police stations and making comments on websites where their issues can be resolved was misattributed and mislabeled as “computer rage”.

In civilized societies we say things before we act. We try to resolve things in a way that all parties feel that their issues have been taken into account. Instead of considering why a group of neighbors would ban together against another neighbor, Abbe Smith completely sides with Fitzmaurice, by portraying him as the victim. For example; Abbe Smith quotes Fitzmaurice “They blind-sided me big time,” .

To completely understand the nature of the dispute, may not be possible with the lack of evidence and biased points of view that Fitzmaurices or the disgruntled neighbors have. In fact the only way that it can be resolved is by physical evidence. By physical evidence I mean are there any merits to the complaints that were alleged against Fitzmaurice? So the first question that we must ask is whether or not there is any physical evidence made by these anonymous ‘cyber neighbor’ posters. Miss Abbe Smith stated and I quote ‘outburst from the woman occurred on the same day that one of Fitzmaurice’s vehicles on the property, a black Chevy Blazer, was towed away because it was not properly registered. Several neighbors’ complaints posted on seeclickfix.com about unregistered vehicles resulted in the city taking action in the matter. As it turns out, residents in West Haven are allowed to have one unregistered vehicle on their property..” According to the New Haven Register; “The Fitzmaurices had two and so decided to “scrap” one so they could be in compliance.” Clearly the neighbors had cause for complaint, otherwise Fitzmaurice would not have had to scrap one of his vehicles.

How many cars does Fitzmaurice have in his possession? There were at least two unregistered vehicles. The victim Fitzmaurice had to scrap one of them so they could be in compliance with West Haven law. We the community feel that this is unjust, why? Why should West Haevn limit the amount of unregistered cars that should be on any bodies property? The civil law of West Haven is victimizing Fitzmaurice for having too many unregistered cars. Those ‘angry’ cyber neighbors are victimizing Fitzmaurice by asking him to be in compliance with West Haven law. What we need, is to petition lawmakers to make an exception so that Fitzmaurice can have more then one unregistered vehicle on his property in addition to his registered vehicles. Never mind the parking inconveniences that are created by Fitzmaurices multiple cars, the important thing is that he not be a victim. The fact, that Fitzmaurice had to ‘scrap’ one of his vehicles, is Orwellian. How dare we ask our neighbors to comply with the law. Again, we need to petition city hall to make the Fitzmaurice Unregistered vehicle act, allowing some people to have an unlimited amount of cars on the street. Only then can justice be served. I say, that instead of scrapping his black chevy blazer it is the law that should be scrapped.

Fitzmaurice has endured a lot since moving in to the house last April. The neighbors repeated calls to the police are no indicator of their frustration or their civic duty to help enforce the law. The repeated calls of the neighbors is clearly a demonstration of ; ‘cyber rage’.

According to Abbe Smith a brilliant reporter, she inadvertently forgot to mention that there were police reports associated with the Fiztmaurice household. Which would support the claims of the ‘angry cyber neighbors’. Here are the police report numbers so that any interested party can verify the validity of our claims. For the sake of fair and honest reporting I hope that the New Haven Register will allow the "cyber neighbors" to voice their opinion on the front page of their paper without being blindsided.

‘With all the fighting that goes on these days and wars in other countries, it’s time to stop throwing stones across the street’ With all the fighting that goes on, it’s time that we start reporting facts, and not opinions that can be supported with actual evidence. As stated above we have police report numbers, which were listed on seeclickfix. http://www.seeclickfix.com/issues/1039. We can provide ample photographic evidence, if need be.
Sincerely
Cyber Neighbors