my profile, in-depth
Nov. 25th, 2007 08:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lahermite(i will be giving more depth to my profile by doing posts for each thing i wrote there. i will then link from my profile to each post.)
broken
**my brother, kevin, died on the 13th of february 1998. he was 21. his story in depth is here: http://www.plea4justice.homestead.com/facts.html basically, he got into a roadside fight on his way home from ybor city, tampa, florida. he was beaten and pushed in front of a semi. florida highway patrol covered up his murder, and still to this day, despite volumes of overwhelming evidence, deny any acts of wrong-doing on the part of the people he was with or their officers. 911 calls that night place him in the road, the extremely busy 4-lane interstate 275, spanning twelve minutes. imagine standing in the middle of four lanes of speeding traffic for twelve minutes. my parents have had to investigate his death, including looking at all the evidence, which included detailed photographs of him dead, his brains all over the road. this cover-up goes all the way up through florida highway patrol, the florida department of law enforcement, the state attorney's office, and the governors office, including jeb bush and charlie crist. there is a petition at the website, please sign it. if nothing else, it gives my parents hope that someone somewhere remembers and believes in truth and justice.
**my husband, logan, died in the early hours of the 20th of february 2005. despite his bleeding out twice, ambulance workers managed to "bring him back", so that he could lie awaiting death in the hospital until i had life support turned off on the 23rd of february 2005. he was 24.
**millions of (non-human) animals daily are subjected to torture so that (mostly rich white) human animals can perpetuate a way of life that is destroying the planet.
**millions of (mostly brown) humans suffer starvation and disease because (mostly rich white) other humans have mansions, cars, hot running water on demand, golf courses, tvs, etc etc etc etc
**a system based on oppression and cruelty means that children the world over suffer rape and beatings and degradation routinely. many of them die after years of abuse.
**millions of migratory animals arrive after journeys of thousands of miles to find their breeding grounds gone, turned into super wal-marts or fossil fuel extraction sites, or housing developments for yet more humans. these animals, exhausted, then die because they have nowhere else to go
**millions of species are dying because their habitat is being swallowed up by development and human-caused climate change
**85% of the worlds forests are gone
and on and on and on. it doesn't stop. the list is endless. i'm aware, i'm awake. i feel the pain of the planet. i am broken. and some things broke just can't be fixed.
broken
**my brother, kevin, died on the 13th of february 1998. he was 21. his story in depth is here: http://www.plea4justice.homestead.com/facts.html basically, he got into a roadside fight on his way home from ybor city, tampa, florida. he was beaten and pushed in front of a semi. florida highway patrol covered up his murder, and still to this day, despite volumes of overwhelming evidence, deny any acts of wrong-doing on the part of the people he was with or their officers. 911 calls that night place him in the road, the extremely busy 4-lane interstate 275, spanning twelve minutes. imagine standing in the middle of four lanes of speeding traffic for twelve minutes. my parents have had to investigate his death, including looking at all the evidence, which included detailed photographs of him dead, his brains all over the road. this cover-up goes all the way up through florida highway patrol, the florida department of law enforcement, the state attorney's office, and the governors office, including jeb bush and charlie crist. there is a petition at the website, please sign it. if nothing else, it gives my parents hope that someone somewhere remembers and believes in truth and justice.
**my husband, logan, died in the early hours of the 20th of february 2005. despite his bleeding out twice, ambulance workers managed to "bring him back", so that he could lie awaiting death in the hospital until i had life support turned off on the 23rd of february 2005. he was 24.
**millions of (non-human) animals daily are subjected to torture so that (mostly rich white) human animals can perpetuate a way of life that is destroying the planet.
**millions of (mostly brown) humans suffer starvation and disease because (mostly rich white) other humans have mansions, cars, hot running water on demand, golf courses, tvs, etc etc etc etc
**a system based on oppression and cruelty means that children the world over suffer rape and beatings and degradation routinely. many of them die after years of abuse.
**millions of migratory animals arrive after journeys of thousands of miles to find their breeding grounds gone, turned into super wal-marts or fossil fuel extraction sites, or housing developments for yet more humans. these animals, exhausted, then die because they have nowhere else to go
**millions of species are dying because their habitat is being swallowed up by development and human-caused climate change
**85% of the worlds forests are gone
and on and on and on. it doesn't stop. the list is endless. i'm aware, i'm awake. i feel the pain of the planet. i am broken. and some things broke just can't be fixed.
