By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)
July 12, 2020
I’m 49, and I’ve lived in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for my entire life.
Technically, the neighborhood is divided into two sections, Squirrel Hill North, and Squirrel Hill South.
I live in Squirrel Hill South.
But realistically, most people never make the distinction between North and South. I myself had lived here for decades before I even became aware of it.
Anyway, the website nextdoor.com invited me to join. Then they deleted all three threads that I started.
In my mailbox (my actual mail box with paper letters), there was a letter with my name on it, from the Squirrel Hill South message board from nextdoor.com, inviting me to join.
So I joined.
And they deleted all three threads that I started.
The first thread that I started was about how hypocrite Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf violated his own COVID-19 lockdown by going to a Black Lives Matter protest.
This was my source:
Why did Pa. Gov. Tom Wolf join a protest with hundreds of people, breaking the rules in a yellow-phase county?
The second thread that I started was about how the Pittsburgh public schools never should have been shut down for COVID-19. I cited these three sources:
Risk of coronavirus spreading in schools is ‘extremely low’ study finds
Denmark, Finland say they saw no increase in coronavirus after schools re-opened
Reopening schools in Denmark did not worsen outbreak, data shows
The third thread that I started was about a Black Lives Matter protest that had taken place in Pittsburgh that same day.
For a while, I had a separate window open for each of the three threads, and I was reading other people’s comments, and responding to them.
Then I noticed that both of the first two threads had been deleted.
Fearing that the third thread had also been deleted, I copied my original post and saved it to a text file.
At that time, the thread was still intact. But several hours later, it had in fact been deleted, just like the other two.
In that third thread, some people agreed with me.
Some people said I had raised some good points, without necessarily agreeing or disagreeing with me.
And some people falsely said my comment was “racist.”
My comment was not racist.
Instead, my comment simply consisted of saying things that were true, and citing links to sources to verify my claims.
So, here is the full text of my post on Black Lives Matter, which I posted at the Squirrel Hill South section of nextdoor.com, and which was later deleted:
July 11, 2020: Black Lives Matter protest in Pittsburgh.
Here’s a video of today’s Black Lives Matter protest in Pittsburgh:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/protesters-confront-pittsburgh-police-riot-235000923.html
The woman in today’s video criticizes capitalism. I’m not surprised. Here’s a video of the founder of Black Lives Matter saying “We are trained Marxists.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EvOyW5vIdg
The woman in today’s video also talks about slavery. I wonder if she knows that Democrats are the party of slavery. I wonder if she knows that the first Republican president was the one who freed the slaves.
She also refers to someone getting shot three times. I think she’s referring to Antwon Rose Jr.
Rose was not exactly “unarmed,” as his defenders claim.
Just a few minutes before Rose was shot, he was in a car that was used to carry out a drive by shooting.
Rose had gunshot residue on his hands.
He had an empty 9-mm gun magazine in his pocket.
His DNA was found on a 9-mm gun that was in the car.
Rose had allegedly stolen a gun during an armed robbery earlier that day.
Sources:
https://www.wtae.com/article/juvenile-suspect-arrested-north-braddock-drive-by-shooting-antwon-rose/21947389#
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2019/03/01/Michael-Rosfeld-Antown-Rose-shooting-east-pittsburgh-drive-by-victim-tells-police/stories/201903010161
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/us/antwon-rose-police-killing-protests.html
https://abcnews.go.com/US/police-officer-charged-fatal-shooting-unarmed-east-pittsburgh/story?id=56196640
https://triblive.com/local/pittsburgh-allegheny/witnesses-rosfeld-was-crying-shaking-panicking-distraught-after-shooting-rose/
https://www.wpxi.com/news/officer-trial/judge-rules-on-what-can-cannot-be-discussed-in-michael-rosfeld-trial/931688661/
Also, the Black Lives Matter website says they want to get rid of the traditional nuclear family structure. They talk about black mothers, but they don’t say anything about black fathers.
https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/
Also, there has never been a nationwide BLM protest against any of the 93% of black murder victims who were killed by other blacks. BLM doesn’t seem to care about those black lives.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/feds-49-of-murder-victims-are-black-men/
July 12, 2020. Tags: 9-mm gun, Antwon Rose Jr., Black lives matter, Coronavirus, COVID-19, drive by shooting, magazine, Next door, Nextdoor, nextdoor.com, Pittsburgh, Racism, Squirrel Hill, Squirrel Hill South. Black lives matter, COVID-19, Pittsburgh, Racism, Squirrel Hill. .
https://www.foxnews.com/us/pittsburgh-synagogue-shooter-tended-to-by-jewish-doctors-and-nurses-officials-say
Pittsburgh synagogue shooter tended to by Jewish doctors and nurses, officials say
October 29, 2018
PITTSBURGH — Jewish doctors and nurses at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh put their personal feelings aside to help save the life of the man who allegedly claimed he wanted to “kill all the Jews” as he opened fire at a synagogue and murdered 11 worshipers.
Robert Bowers, 46, was shot multiple times himself and taken to AGH. In addition to killing eight men and three women, he wounded six other people, including four police officers, before surrendering Saturday.
“He was taken to my hospital and he’s shouting, ‘I want to kill all the Jews’,” Dr. Jeffrey Cohen, president of Allegheny General Hospital and a member of the Tree of Life Synagogue, told ABC. “The first three people who took care of him were Jewish.”
Another nurse, whose father is a rabbi, “came in from a mass casualty drill and took care of this gentleman.”
Cohen was one of the first people on the scene. He lives in the neighborhood and heard gunfire from his house.
“I was standing there…and you could start hearing very quickly what was going on,” he said.
Just like the first responders who rushed into danger, Cohen credits his doctors, nurses and staff for stepping up.
“We are here to take care of sick people. We’re not here to judge you. We’re not here to ask ‘Do you have insurance or do you not have insurance?’ We’re here to take care of people who need our help,” he said.
Cohen says he and Bowers had a brief conversation at the hospital.
“When I stopped in, I asked him how he was doing. Was he in pain? And he said, ‘No. He was fine,’” Cohen said.
Cohen says Bowers then asked him who he was.
“I said I’m Dr. Cohen, president of the hospital. Then I turned around and left,” he said. “The FBI agent who was guarding him said, ‘I don’t know if I could have done that.’ And I said, ‘If you were in my shoes, I’m sure you could.’”
Bowers was discharged from the hospital Monday morning and arrived at the federal courthouse in downtown Pittsburgh around noon.
He faces 11 counts of criminal homicide, six counts of aggravated assault and 13 counts of ethnic intimidation in addition to federal counts that include weapons offenses and hate crime charges. Federal prosecutors are expected to seek the death penalty against him.
October 30, 2018. Tags: Jews, Judaism, Kindness, Pittsburgh, Religion, shooting, Squirrel Hill, Synagogue, Tree of Life, Violent crime. Guns, Health care, Kindness, Pittsburgh, Religion, Squirrel Hill, Violent crime. .
On the same day that a scumbag shot and killed 11 innocent people at a synagogue in Squirrel Hill, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a different scumbag tried to carry out a mass shooting at a McDonald’s in Birmingham, Alabama. But he was stopped by a good guy with a gun. The only person who died was the bad guy.
Here’s another similar comparison:
In January 2015 in France, in response to cartoons that made fun of the Islamic prophet Mohammed, Islamic terrorists shot and killed 12 people. The police who were sent to stop them were unable to do so, because the police were unarmed.
France’s extensive gun control laws did not stop the bad guys from getting guns. But the country’s extreme anti-gun mentality did prevent the police – the police of all people – from having guns.
Four months later, Islamic terrorists tried to carry out a mass shooting at a draw Mohammed cartoon contest in Texas. However, law abiding gun owners stopped the terrorists. The only people who got killed were the terrorists.
And here’s another comparison:
When Barack Obama was an Illinois state Senator, he voted against allowing people in their own homes to use guns to protect themselves and their families from rapists and murderers.
However, as President, Obama allowed one of his Secret Service agents to shoot an armed man who was outside the White House.
Meanwhile, even the most anti-gun liberals have not called for Obama to be prosecuted for being an accessory to the murder of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.
Likewise, even the most anti-gun liberals have not called for an end to armed Secret Service agents protecting ex-President Obama 24 hours a day.
Everyone is against murder.
Why are some liberals against self defense?
And why do these liberals who oppose self defense make an exception when the person being protected is a liberal politician?
October 29, 2018. Tags: Barack Obama, Guns, Islamic terrorism, Obama, Pittsburgh, Politics, shooting, Squirrel Hill, Synagogue, Tree of Life, Violent crime. Barack Obama, Guns, Islamic terrorism, Pittsburgh, Squirrel Hill, Violent crime. .
This morning, when I was in my apartment (which does not face the street) and I heard a very long succession of sirens from emergency vehicles going by, I suspected that something really horrible had happened, and the only possibility that entered my mind was either a bombing or a mass shooting at one of the nearby synagogues.
With large crowds of people, including large numbers of women and children, all together in an enclosed space, I’d thought for years that something like this could happen. But I never thought it would happen.
They still haven’t published the victims’ names, pending notification of their families.
I’m 47, and I’ve lived in Squirrel Hill my entire life. I’m hoping for at least another 47 years in this neighborhood. It’s too bad some scumbag deprived at least 11 of my neighbors from living out their lives. I don’t understand why anyone would do this.
The latest updates can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_synagogue_shooting
October 27, 2018. Tags: Anti-Semitism, Antisemitism, Guns, Jews, Judaism, mass shooting, Murder, Or L'Simcha, Pittsburgh, Religion, Robert Bowers, shooting, Squirrel Hill, Synagogue, Tree of Life, Violent crime. Guns, Pittsburgh, Religion, Squirrel Hill, Violent crime. .
I live in Pennsylvania, where it’s very easy to get a gun.
My neighborhood of Squirrel Hill, in Pittsburgh, has 26,000 people.
In the last 10 years, there has been only one murder in my neighborhood. This gives it an annual murder rate of 0.4 per 100,000 people. If my neighborhood was its own country, it would have the sixth lowest murder rate of any country in the world.
That one murder consisted of a burglar bludgeoning a 90-year-old homeowner to death. He was convicted after just 14 months, and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The burglar was from another neighborhood.
Lest anyone think it is a rich, exclusive neighborhood, the rent for my one bedroom apartment is only $725 a month, and there are quite a few vacancies in my building every summer, as many of the tenants are graduate students from all over the world, who only live here for a few years.
Anyway, I think it’s interesting that in my neighborhood of 26,000 people, where it’s very easy to get a gun, there have been exactly zero gun murders in the past decade.
October 27, 2015. Tags: Gun rights, Guns, Guns, Murder, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Politics, Squirrel Hill. Guns, Pittsburgh, Politics, Squirrel Hill. .
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