What century is this?

Apr 17, 2010 22:52

Sonoma County CA separates elderly gay couple and sells their home without their consent

Frankly, I find it terrifying that things like this can still happen.

I'd comment more, but I'm too full of rage to really form coherent sentences right now. I'll just say this: This is the 21st century, and things like this shouldn't happen. But they do ( Read more... )

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peekaydee April 18 2010, 04:55:57 UTC
I FUCKING HATE EVERYTHING

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yuuago April 18 2010, 04:56:48 UTC
That about sums up my thoughts at the moment, yes.

Thank you for putting it so concisely.

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anasyrma April 18 2010, 04:57:13 UTC
The only memento Clay has is a photo album that Harold painstakingly put together for Clay during the last three months of his life.

jesus this still gets me

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yuuago April 18 2010, 04:58:11 UTC
Yeah.

It's just---

Fuck.

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anasyrma April 18 2010, 05:03:17 UTC
Also, please write a letter to the local paper, the Press Democrat (owned by The New York Times) asking them to do some investigative reporting on the Greene v. County of Sonoma case. So far they have ignored the story.

Hopefully enough people do this. Trying to write one now lkajsd...

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yuuago April 18 2010, 05:04:13 UTC
Yeah. I'll be doing it too. Er, when I'm more coherent. So probably tomorrow morning.

Hopefully something more will come up, something more that people will be able to do about it.

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puella_nerdii April 18 2010, 05:02:00 UTC
Jesus fucking Christ I am so far beyond DISGUSTED and ANGRY that I just --

Oh god.

I fucking -- I just fucking hate people sometimes. That's all I can say, because I am literally CHOKED WITH RAGE.

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yuuago April 18 2010, 05:03:16 UTC
Yeah.

I think I'm starting to slip out of the "rage" stage and more into the "I want to cry" stage. Fucking hell, what is wrong with people?

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mossnotfungus April 18 2010, 05:04:52 UTC
I'm just so shell shocked that something like this can happen here in California. This is such a serious wake up call.

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yuuago April 18 2010, 05:06:43 UTC
To be honest, I'm not surprised. Fucked up shit can happen even where you wouldn't expect it.

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mossnotfungus April 18 2010, 05:10:33 UTC
God I really hope this makes people angry and fight for change. There's no excuse for shit like this anymore.

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noonish April 18 2010, 05:06:24 UTC
ontd_political says to link their post:

http://community.livejournal.com/ontd_political/5949233.html

and the article

and send it to

letters@pressdemocrat.com

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yuuago April 18 2010, 05:07:19 UTC
Thank you, Noon, for that ginormous text.

/adds to main entry

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noonish April 18 2010, 05:07:36 UTC
you're welcome bb

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