Here We Go Again!

Harrassment Redux - the result of County Mental Health Failure? Hmmmm.

One would think that an arrest earlier this year would teach Tim Puisis a lesson; but, one would be wrong! He is at it again, standing in front of his property at Monroe and Eighth Street, flipping the bird and yelling obscenities at GVSU atudent volunteers at Love Community Garden (see photo,left, of this minor criminal).

This miscreant has driven to the homes of gardeners and shot the finger at them, mouthing foul language...He actually followed one gardener around Muskegon, stalking her for a couple of hours as she attempted to do grocery shopping. Is he nuts? Does he need to be put away in an institution?

The question arises, why wasn't this miscreant and his equally foul-mouthed wife locked up in the first place? Or, at least, the fines should've been so punitive that neither one of them would continue this anti-social, anti-community behavior.

So this silly season starts up again with folks attempting to build community in this sad and sorry place, being subject to sociopathic harrassement and verbal assault. Well, what can one expect? This is the Gaza Strip!

Dysfunction and Disorder Abound - This Ain't Funny McGee!

View From The Gaza Strip-



Well folks, it's been a while. I guess I was fooled by the brief, shining nano-second that appeared to reveal the Nelson Neighborhood was improving...Love Community Garden (bless those folks) was flourishing, despite some minor theft and vandalism. Yes, things were looking up and then Muskegon lived up to it's potential for failure.



The clouds of disaster gathered as police spend their energy creating hassles for a community-based charitable group to hold an event downtown, other city functionaries get concerned about random public art, while thugs gather and arm themselves for a spate of shootings and car-jacking attempts. I had used the term "Gaza Strip" sort of tongue-in-cheek, but now here we are: a breakdown of the Department of Public Safety (there's a satirical name if I ever heard one!) evidenced by stone and rock-throwing at unrecognized cars, a viscious hold up at a charitable poker game and shooting at a vehicle driving through a neighborhood. We are the Gaza Strip!



A large part of this breakdown is due to ineffective policing (primarily a lack of preventative presence), to be sure; but, another powerful component is the lack of cooperation the police recieve from those who they serve. Granted, the cops need top be smarter about protecting the identities of those who overcome their distrust of the police and fear of condemnation from their neighbors who have abandoned their role in the social contract to report and bear witness.

The clouds are now darker with despair and we are awaiting the thunderclap which inevitably follows...We are witness to a breakdown of society...Well, after all, it is the Gaza Strip!

Corporate Crime Costs Ten Times more than street crime!

Corporate Crime Costs Ten Times more than street crime!

Some Good News!

From the crest of the hill in Muskegon's Gaza Strip-

Love Community Garden had an art project that had kids design and paint a door for Habitat for Humanity's "Opening Doors for Home Ownership"project. The theme for the design was "Seeds of Life" and reflected the life-affirming act of planting gardens.

Kudos kids! Well done, Love Community Garden!

Let's hope the city of Muskegon can more actively support the gardener's, and Love Fellowship Baptist Church's efforts to build community here in Nelson Neighborhood.

And neighborhood members: Wake up; find a viable candidate and vote out Clara Shepherd! She serves only herself!

WOSA! Nelson...

The Puisis Blight relocates to Norton Shores!

Another tale from Muskegon's Gaza Strip -

The criminal sociopaths known as Tim, Laura and Kate Puisis may be moving (sorry, Norton Shores; Nelson Neighborhood's loss will be your police problem soon; and what will you do when their arsonist/rapist son is released from incarceration?). But, what lingers are the questions: What took the authorities so long to react? How come when undercover police were in Love Community Garden, Tim Puisis did not act up (he just stood in the shadow of his garage door opening and grinned)?How did he seem to know when the police would be watching or coming for him?

Could it be that a member of Love Community Garden was leaking info to Tim, enabling his vicious assaults on the gardeners and church members to continue for a prolonged time before the police and the County Prosecutor dealt with him? Tim and Laura Puisis are being arraigned in court today; I wonder if this garden Quisling is in court with them as a character witness?

I think it is unconscionable that a garden member, knowing the level of abuse and threats directed at the garden, the gardeners (as well as the Pastor of Love Fellowship Baptist Church), would act in a manner that assisted and enabled the Puisis family in their savagery. I hope this turns out to be not the case...

Nonetheless, even though bad karma does have a way of coming back at the perpetrators of anti-community actions and their enablers I don't think it's time to do the "happy dance" yet!

NNIA Strikes like an Adder Do

From Muskegon's Gaza Strip -

Apparently, on Thursday, the Nelson Neighborhood Improvement Association, which has never show an interest in doing anything in the 87th street area of Nelson neighborhood, got the Nelson School to open up it's doors to a program to provide meals and recreation for kids...On the surface this seems O.K. doesn't it? But remember, you've got Larry Spataro, Dolly Hiptchkin and the more nefarious than you might think Marcia Hovey-Wright involved.

Why open a program of this nature right across the street from Love Fellowship Baptist Church, which houses the original Volunteer Muskegon program (this was because of the unsuitability of drug-infested St. Joe's Park, original NNIA location for the program. You will recall that NNIA withdrew it's offer of $2000.00 when their venue was rejected)? Could it be that NNIA wants Love Fellowship Baptist Church to fail? Could it also be that the stain of NNIA's actions would be negated and Marci Hovey-Wright's record would be cleared in this regard? Hmmm.

That there are now two programs providing meals and recreation for kids for the summer is a good thing in itself. that they are right across the street from one another is, albeit redundant, still a good thing! I simply question the motives of the NNIA board members. Their history merits skepticism...(Remember Larry Spataro's libelous letter regarding the co-ordinator of Love Community Garden and Marcia Hovey -Wright's part in distributing hardcopies of that letter and the vicious lies told by Dolly Hiptchkin).

Watch these people closely; they cannot be trusted!

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