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Because I'm very, very aggressively seeking Chicago mayor's phone's records through FOIA. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hgG79eIr8MbkjYrCvcTRN8n876KL8

by bpchaps 10y ago

Because I'm very, very aggressively seeking Chicago mayor's phone's records through FOIA. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hgG79eIr8MbkjYrCvcTRN8n876KL8aXYYu5it8Lg0g8 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hgG79eIr8MbkjYrCvcTR...

studentrob 10y ago
Why not tell your pyschiatrist that you'd like to discuss the details of why you feel that way? I gather you are looking for someone who will believe you, and without evidence, nobody is likely to believe you, leading you on a deeper and deeper quest for something that passes as real evidence. That sounds super tough. Take care, good luck
- bpchaps 10y ago
  (unstructured dump) I have, and his assessment is that it's basically stress driving something similar to paranoia. Talking about it with friends and posting on places like HN helps, though. It's kind of a long story why I'm doing a lot of this. After a project I'm (still) working on to analyze parking tickets in Chicago [0], I managed to get invited to Bob Fioretti's [1] office to show them what I found. They really, really liked what I had to show. When I brought up proof of [2] from a FOIA request that they could have used in their campaign, they told me to never mention it again and never contacted me back. It was very odd and gave me a very negative vibe. To make matters worse, they began using parking tickets as a large part of their campaign - without me. A friend suggested that maybe Rahm was involved with Fioretti, which led to an initial request for the mayor's phone records was submitted. The weekend before the election, Fioretti dropped out and gave his support to Rahm, so the negative vibes were possibly accurate. The initial reason for the request isn't as important to me anymore, though. These days, the strong lack of privacy reciprocation and negative comments such as, "You're naive to think you can do this.", "Stop stalking the mayor." (my family), "You're crazy", "Nothing will come out of this", etc drives me to continue. It's incredibly frustrating, but when I finally got the phone records, a huge weight was lifted, as it showed that those negative comments were largely unjustified. That said, a lot of people do believe me and do want to help me out. I expect to have a story published in the next month or so thanks to those people. Thanks for the support. :) [0] proof of concept: https://plot.ly/~red-bin/6.embed https://plot.ly/~red-bin/6.embed [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fioretti https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fioretti [2] https://thamovement1.blogspot.com/2015/02/is-willie-wilson-financing-dock-walls.html https://thamovement1.blogspot.com/2015/02/is-willie-wilson-f...
oh_sigh 10y ago
Okay...and?
- bpchaps 10y ago
  Wow, uh. Want me to spoon feed you reasons? I'm kicking a bee's nest and finding information through ways that Chicago's mayor's office very clearly didn't think was possible. There is very interesting information in there, and their year and a half long resistance (still ongoing) only makes me think there's more to be found. If one person is angry enough at me for doing this work, then that's all it takes to put me in a dangerous position. Considering how corrupt Illinois and Chicago are, it wouldn't a stretch of the imagination to think that it's possible. The paranoia has nothing to do with "conspiracies", but everything to do with single individuals who don't want to be called out. Over a week, three very, very strange things happened, and I've only mentioned one online. I've talked to my psychiatrist about it. He agrees that what I'm feeling isn't irrational paranoia. Edit: it's also worth noting that nobody else has been able to get this before, and for good reason.
  - cpr 10y ago
    I think you'd find if you dig into any of the corrupt "Clinton crowd" like Rahm too deeply you'd certainly get kickback. Many of the Clinton camp followers have died in suspicious circumstances over the past few decades when they were being dragged into court, etc. This isn't paranoia, it's noting things that have clearly happened (though not reported in mainstream media, who are clearly not interested in digging into this stuff for obvious reasons).
    - bpchaps 10y ago
      In an odd way, thank you. This is a very difficult subject to discuss and it's very useful to read confirmations of these thoughts. I had a conversation with a hired-gun researcher to find information on politicians to help others win elections, etc. He told me that nobody within their right journalistic mind would use FOIA to any large extent just because of the time it takes. Besides the potential dangers involved, the time-to-request-fulfilment is one of the larger reasons I'm doing this sort of work. If journalists aren't able to easily gather information within the public domain, then there are clear issues that need to be resolved.

by bpchaps 10y ago

studentrob 10y ago

Why not tell your pyschiatrist that you'd like to discuss the details of why you feel that way? I gather you are looking for someone who will believe you, and without evidence, nobody is likely to believe you, leading you on a deeper and deeper quest for something that passes as real evidence. That sounds super tough. Take care, good luck

bpchaps 10y ago
(unstructured dump) I have, and his assessment is that it's basically stress driving something similar to paranoia. Talking about it with friends and posting on places like HN helps, though. It's kind of a long story why I'm doing a lot of this. After a project I'm (still) working on to analyze parking tickets in Chicago [0], I managed to get invited to Bob Fioretti's [1] office to show them what I found. They really, really liked what I had to show. When I brought up proof of [2] from a FOIA request that they could have used in their campaign, they told me to never mention it again and never contacted me back. It was very odd and gave me a very negative vibe. To make matters worse, they began using parking tickets as a large part of their campaign - without me. A friend suggested that maybe Rahm was involved with Fioretti, which led to an initial request for the mayor's phone records was submitted. The weekend before the election, Fioretti dropped out and gave his support to Rahm, so the negative vibes were possibly accurate. The initial reason for the request isn't as important to me anymore, though. These days, the strong lack of privacy reciprocation and negative comments such as, "You're naive to think you can do this.", "Stop stalking the mayor." (my family), "You're crazy", "Nothing will come out of this", etc drives me to continue. It's incredibly frustrating, but when I finally got the phone records, a huge weight was lifted, as it showed that those negative comments were largely unjustified. That said, a lot of people do believe me and do want to help me out. I expect to have a story published in the next month or so thanks to those people. Thanks for the support. :) [0] proof of concept: https://plot.ly/~red-bin/6.embed https://plot.ly/~red-bin/6.embed [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fioretti https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fioretti [2] https://thamovement1.blogspot.com/2015/02/is-willie-wilson-financing-dock-walls.html https://thamovement1.blogspot.com/2015/02/is-willie-wilson-f...

oh_sigh 10y ago

Okay...and?

bpchaps 10y ago
Wow, uh. Want me to spoon feed you reasons? I'm kicking a bee's nest and finding information through ways that Chicago's mayor's office very clearly didn't think was possible. There is very interesting information in there, and their year and a half long resistance (still ongoing) only makes me think there's more to be found. If one person is angry enough at me for doing this work, then that's all it takes to put me in a dangerous position. Considering how corrupt Illinois and Chicago are, it wouldn't a stretch of the imagination to think that it's possible. The paranoia has nothing to do with "conspiracies", but everything to do with single individuals who don't want to be called out. Over a week, three very, very strange things happened, and I've only mentioned one online. I've talked to my psychiatrist about it. He agrees that what I'm feeling isn't irrational paranoia. Edit: it's also worth noting that nobody else has been able to get this before, and for good reason.
- cpr 10y ago
  I think you'd find if you dig into any of the corrupt "Clinton crowd" like Rahm too deeply you'd certainly get kickback. Many of the Clinton camp followers have died in suspicious circumstances over the past few decades when they were being dragged into court, etc. This isn't paranoia, it's noting things that have clearly happened (though not reported in mainstream media, who are clearly not interested in digging into this stuff for obvious reasons).
  - bpchaps 10y ago
    In an odd way, thank you. This is a very difficult subject to discuss and it's very useful to read confirmations of these thoughts. I had a conversation with a hired-gun researcher to find information on politicians to help others win elections, etc. He told me that nobody within their right journalistic mind would use FOIA to any large extent just because of the time it takes. Besides the potential dangers involved, the time-to-request-fulfilment is one of the larger reasons I'm doing this sort of work. If journalists aren't able to easily gather information within the public domain, then there are clear issues that need to be resolved.