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My Local Domestic Violence Shelter, Quanada, Has Blocked Me on Facebook

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I’m not sure exactly what I did to warrant it, though I’m certain I’ve never ‘harassed’ anyone on their site. My local Domestic Violence shelter is pretty selective about which women’s opinions it wants on its site.  The most I’ve ever done was constructively criticize their position on how they portray Domestic Violence. Often it’s females as victims and males as perpetrators. I’ve been vocal of the way they’ve stereotype and attached gender to Domestic Violence roles. So I do like to occasionally go to their Facebook page and read some of their content to comment. However, the other day was different.

I noticed, initially when I had attempted to comment on one of their articles, and I had no option to reply. It had been months since I had even visited the site. So why had I even been blocked? I haven’t done anything to them, anything that is, except being an open critic of the facility. Even then, it had been over five months since I had even engaged or mentioned their name. So they either targeted me and did it without me knowing, or I’ve been blocked for awhile.

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When I checked to see if I sent them any emails, I found that my outbox was completely empty. I had not sent them anything directly to warrant a block. A matter of fact, I hadn’t sent them anything on their inbox an ALL.

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I wanted to make certain that I was blocked. So I looked through my boyfriend’s account, he was allowed to reply and comment. It seemed that I really was put in a situation where I was targeted and silenced.

The point is, this facility receives public funding and is a non-profit, taxpayer funded organization. Is it even allowed to block one of its critics if they’re not harassing them? If they did not block me for criticizing them, are they allowed to block me for no reason at all? I would say NOT. I know for a fact that part of my own taxes go to this group and I should not be silenced for doing NOTHING wrong.

Whatever I allegedly did, I didn’t even receive a Facebook ban for, that’s how pitiful it probably was.

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The Far Left Is Creeping Up Even On Some of the Most Conservative Campuses

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I was picking up my school books for this fall at the local University known as Quincy University. It is a Catholic Private School, meaning it is probably going to be as conservative and as open-minded as I’m going to find within fifty miles. They are pretty even keeled and very pro-free speech, which some find hard to believe when I tell them this, because they’ve never seen anything beyond their own town. The amount of support it had for Trump was through the roof.

However, even on a campus that’s insulted with a conservative town, the left is working its way into targeting its next generation. Probably right under this towns nose, these books are signs that the left making its way towards mass indoctrinations:

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This would make sense if these were in the school library, but these are books that are in the book store. They were books specifically there to be picked up because they were requested to be used by professors in their classes. I realize today it’s considered a “feminist’s” world, which I don’t agree with, but to have an entire class on it? However, it is a private campus. Yet the second picture is where I get concerned. The fact that this was even on anyones list says that there is a problem, yes there can be a conversation, but to have an entire book for the class? That’s an over reach.

Hate speech is free speech, if you don’t like that speech, then speak your mind. The only way to fight hate speech is with more speech. The moment you start to even think the answer is to close your mouth, our country is dead.

If this is a Catholic Campus, think of how bad a non-religious campus that runs on public funding is. Think of how tied down those students voices are, if this is just a sample of what I’m expecting here.

 

Steve Ybarra’s Story, Domestic Violence

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING CONTENT MAY BE DISTURBING TO SOME

Steve Ybarra is a Mexican-American man in his thirties who is going through a Domestic Violence situation with his ex, Michelle Ybarra. According to documentation through video, pictures, and witness testimony, Steve Ybarra has been a victim of his abuser for the past three years of their marriage. He is currently in the middle of a divorce and is in the middle of a custody battle of their young son, Leo.

Due to the video being so long, I’m writing out Ybarra’s story. You can watch the full video at the Bottom but it is long and the Microphone STINKS!

Ybarra got married to Michelle, who already had a child from a previous relationship. They were married for a little over three years, during at which time, his friend was telling him he was being abused. It took some time for him to believe it, but over a course of years, with consistent fits and bursts of anger he was convinced.

He eventually began documenting her outrageous behavior through time. He would get extreme over reactions. Being that he is five foot eleven and nearly pure muscle, why would he have anything to fear? During their arguments, he said that she would take both the children and leave, no matter what the whether was like. Taking a baby, barely a year old, can be hazardous to their health if not properly heated.  Making things over dramatic, when they clearly didn’t have to be.

They hit rock bottom at one point, they became homeless and were allegedly living in a hotel where Ybarra decided to take their son and move in with a friend in Quincy Illinois. Michelle filed for divorce and claimed he was cheating on her. In her statement she claimed that he was prostituting himself, he allows his son to play with guns, she isn’t comfortable with him being around his father, and that there are pictures pinned to the court document of pictures he sent to her via text message.

MICHELLE’S Court Statement

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Picture Attached To Michelle’s Court Statement Allegedly Received Via Text Without Her Present

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It was revealed that Michelle was lying, and not only did she not receive the pictures via text message, but the content didn’t come from a picture at all. The picture that was included was an edited screen shot of a video clip. There were no guns included in the clip and they were merely parts of guns. Michelle claimed to have disapproved of her son playing with the gun parts, but conveniently failed to mention she had cropped herself out of the photo she had provided as evidence. Notice, in the following picture the open screen marked “properties” the date of ‘5/31/2018’, Steve left June 11, 2018. The woman in the picture, is none other than Michelle Ybarra.

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Tampering with evidence is obstruction of Justice and is FELONY in Illinois!

Steve also held three jobs in Quincy at the time of his alleged prostitution. Two of them, at night and another at all hours, giving him no real opportunity. Just a thought, you can’t claim someone is cheating on you, then claim they’re out prostituting themselves, people who cheat have money already and people who prostitute don’t need three jobs.

Michelle is psychologically disturbed:

 

 

 

Verbally Abusive to Children

 

 

 

 

Racially Discriminatory (you have to turn this one up it’s hard to hear)

 

 

 

 

Then Turns to Physical Assault

 

 

 

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Why does this matter? He’s big enough to defend himself!

She BROKE THE LAW! She needs to be PUNISHED he should be treated with just as much respect as any other victim of abuse; he respected her in the fact that he didn’t knock her out.

 

(This is VERY low, the microphone is VERY poor sorry)

Illinois Governor Candidate Running on Anti-Parental Alienation

You probably haven’t heard of him yet, but there is a Libertarian Candidate running for Governor who is a victim of Illinois’ disgusting child support courts. Not only would he be willing to work with Trump, but he’s felt the searing pain of losing a child to the political machine known as the Illinois Family Court System.

Before you start to think that all family courts are just as revoltingly biased, know that Illinois’ courts will more than likely land you in a homeless shelter. Imagine paying 40-50% of your paycheck to your ex. An ex that is now holding your child hostage and refusing to let you see them, whether or not you cough up the money. Go ahead and stroll down to the police station to report them denying your rights to see your own child…  you’ll either get laughed at or told they can’t help you. Illinois’ system isn’t just extortion like other states, it’s flat out involuntary servitude… with interest. Good luck in trying to get your payments reduced, you either pay up, get your driver’s license taken away, or go to jail.

This is exactly what happened to the candidate Kash Jackson when his pay was cut. He spent twenty years in the military, with high clearance, and afterwards couldn’t afford his payments. He was sent to jail for contempt, a deadbeat? I’d like to see you pay a couple thousand dollars a month to someone who won’t allow you to see your mutual child. He’s been asked about it, and his answer is nearly always the same.

 

The Democrats are so focused of illegal alien children getting separated, that they forget they themselves are condoning the separation of families through the court process. Many times, these children are separated all the way until adulthood.

This isn’t the only policy he’s running on, he vows to get rid of government pensions. Some may say that this is wrong, everyone deserves to have a pension right? You know how Illinois government officials cut off funds to things you care about to give themselves raises? That’s what they’re doing, they’re raising taxes or cutting funding so they can afford to pay their own pensions. Pensions that in many cases, they don’t rightfully deserve. He’s also appointing an ACTUAL accountant to the position of Comptroller, Claire Ball . Something that hasn’t happened in Illinois’ history!

I once thought that voting Republican in Illinois would be a good thing, however, the most recent Republican Governor acts more like a Democrat than a Republican. He made this State a ‘Sanctuary’ State. Voting for Republican isn’t the way to go, we must vote for the best possible candidate in a swamp filled with swamp monsters.

Let’s knock the Blue out of Illinois, Vote Kash Jackson for Governor of Illinois.

Quincy Tea Party Gives Neutral Platform to Libertarian Candidates

This past Saturday, I went to a luncheon partially hosted by Quincy Tea Party. The Quincy Tea Party does not endorse any candidates but does believe in giving all candidates a public platform to voice their ideas. I listened to Libertarian candidate, Kash Jackson‘s positions on many things, got to speak with him one on one, and found out why he got started in politics.

I heard him speaking with the media, flat-out bringing the issues of the Family court system to light. I am happy to know that there is an advocate for all parents who get alienated from their children. Who also get a bad rap when the state of Illinois is leaching the money out of good parents and labeling them deadbeats when they can’t afford the payments. The fact that this man started his political career because the court systems opened his eyes, makes me relate to him.

Claire Ball, the libertarian running for Illinois’ Comptroller, is an actual accountant. I got to speak with her and our political views match up for the most part. She has a masters in accounting. It was said at the meeting that not one person in Illinois who has held the position of comptroller has been an actual accountant. Which is disturbing considering they’re the ones working with the states’ money. Money that we, the taxpayers, provide.

WGEM reported on the incident but cut MUCH of the Kash interview out! I overheard what he was saying, since I was the woman right behind him in the interview. I listened to him, he came off like just a regular guy, it was great. I personally believe he is one of the best candidate for the job.

God Help Illinois

 

Quincy Coroner Under Investigation

After submitting his resignation, Jim Keller (Quincy Illinois’ coroner), it was found that he was under investigation. Keller’s excuse for his resignation was to “spend more time with family”, what’s not told by the local newspaper “The Herald Whig” was that his wife was one of his own employees. This fact makes you wonder, what in the world is going on here?

Yet, Keller’s wife wasn’t just an average subordinate, she had the next highest position as chief deputy coroner. The title of coroner is a taxpayer funded position, meaning cronyism and nepotism was involved in an official county function. Which you would think is a malicious manipulation of power.

“(Elected officials) get to run the office the way they want,” he said. “If it was an appointed position, it would be totally different. As long as the money is budgeted, (elected officials) are free to hire basically whoever they want.”

Budgeted? There should be oversight on the way these budgets are handled. This in particular, I would call an over reach. This fine detail also has another consequence, if brought before a court neither could be forced to testify against the other. This means anything they would have said to one another, even on a professional level, they wouldn’t have to reveal the other’s conversation. If they were to have done anything illegal within the coroner’s position, they would be insulated from having to reveal it to a court. Due to the top two positions being husband and wife, they can legally refuse to come forward with any illegal activity.

Doesn’t this sound a little suspicious? It’s coincidental that the nature of the investigation is not being revealed and a special prosecutor has already been called to take the case. One woman I personally know claims to have worked with him before and he was a “Very nice man”. Just because someone is a nice person doesn’t mean they aren’t totally corrupt.

Adams County Coroner Under Investigation for Drug Dealing!

A few days ago I wrote an article about how the Coroner retiring early with the reasoning of “Spending more time with family” was suspicious of being nothing more than an excuse to cover up something bigger. My reasoning for this was due to his wife working with him, holding a number two status in the office. Before I could publish it this new information came out.

Turns out I was RIGHT, according to WGEM, local court documents have shown that Jim Keller is under investigation for “unlawful delivery of a controlled substance”

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Outgoing Adams County Coroner Jim Keller is under investigation for Official Misconduct/Unlawful Delivery of a Controlled Substance.

Court documents reveal that Adams County State’s Attorney Gary Farha requested a special prosecutor to investigate the case on June 21.

“The prosecution of the defendant by the State’s Attorney’s Office could be a conflict of interest for the office, or alternatively, could create the appearance of an impropriety,” stated court documents. “It is in the interest of justice that a Special Prosecutor be appointed to avoid any such appearance.”

Keller announced his resignation on June 20 and was to go into effect July 10.

Keller might be spending time in prison instead of with his family.

Thousands March in Chicago for Illegal Immigrants: What about Chicagoans?

Chicagoans have been cursed with thousands of shootings a year and the death toll being just as high. Families have been torn apart thanks to a justice system that has a finger on one of Justice’s scales. Lady justice, when it comes to Chicago has been peeking under her blindfold. On Saturday, June 30th 2018, thousands marched to protest something. Can you guess what that is? After what I’ve just told you, you’d think it’d be the gang violence that’s happening in the city at this very moment!

No! It was children being separated from their families, parents of children who had crossed this border illegally, NOT the citizens that have gotten their children ripped from them. They weren’t protesting the fact that people with unfair sentences have gotten their children separated from them. They haven’t protested the fathers that have been alienated from their families through irrational court rulings. They have barely talked about the parents that have been permanently separated from their children because of gang violence. Gang violence that the city seems negligent to acknowledge. It really makes you wonder… are these people’s heads not screwed on right? Do they not realize that they are putting illegal immigrants first over their own people? It may seem like a selfless act to put yourself first, but it’s a well-known rule that you can’t help anyone until you can help yourself. Something that leftists, just can’t understand.

Logic has been thrown out an airlock in the middle of space somewhere. There is nothing left of it on this planet, except for a small minority. Everyone holds endless knowledge in the palm of their hands, except they do not pursue the knowledge, they expect it to come to them.  It’s disgusting how stupid people have become.

If they did any research they would realize that ICE isn’t the one who is separating the children, border patrol is. In 2009, a policy was put in place that all people who crossed the border, that upon arrest, DNA was to be collected. This was so any crimes committed by an illegal alien that happened to leave their DNA behind could be identified. In an effort to find the children’s parents, DNA was taken from the children as well. Yes, most children are related to the people taking them over the border. However, it’s not an administration policy. The policy implemented was ‘no tolerance’, this doesn’t mean that the policy included separation of families.  In simple terms:

  •      President’s Policy: Every person who crosses the Border Must be Arrested
  •     National Law: Everyone who is arrested has their children separated and taken to DHS or a family member

When a citizen gets arrest, even for a misdemeanor and they have a child with them, the child either has to be taken by a family member or they are sent to DHS. The same thing is happening here. The detail here is ‘upon arrest’, both citizens and non-citizens must abide to this. Since we don’t know the family members of these children, they must automatically be sent to DHS. It makes many citizens, who still have their logic in tact, ask themselves, “why are they so special?”

Until Chicago has washed its’ hands clean of its own atrocities,

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After the Town Hall Meeting

After going to the meeting I have concluded that the city is doing its’ best and if anyone is to blame its the state of Illinois itself.

The state has reduced the price of income tax the town can receive along with the percentage of sales tax they can take in. So in order to compensate for the percentage of tax revenue lost to the state, the town has had to either raise local taxes or cut local funds. All of this, while simultaneously pleasing locals with the work they want done.

There have been more streets repaired and sewage work done in the past five years with the Republican mayor Moore, than in his Democratic predecessor’s term.

Ironically, mayor Moore has less funds to work with than his predecessor as well. I however have concerns, the official website of Quincy have not fixed their glitch when revealing their budget and monthly budget summaries. The links do not resolve anywhere. According to a comment left on the city’s Facebook page, this problem is not new. It has apparently been malfunctioning since before March of 2017.

I do not believe this is intentional, I believe the administration has a lack of communication when it comes to the people. People only stop to look at politics when it starts affecting their own lives. The city needs to start broadcasting their information, having them go to the people instead of the people having to go to them. If they do this, people are less likely to jump to conclusions and understand what’s happening.

These are pictures shown at the conference of what the city is having to fix.

A water main from Quincy installed in 1901 & removed in 2016

A water main installed 1896 & removed 2016

Sink holes created by crumbling sewers- some so old they’re made of brick.

All the pipes were cast iron, which causes rust and leakages. Quincy’s sewer system is over 100 years old and falling apart.

And though I don’t like the thought of losing money at the library, I can’t say that our local government hasn’t thought it through. If we want to help the library and fire stations we have to donate to them and try to find solutions.

City Of Quincy Threatening to Cut Funding to Critical Things

Today I’m going to a town hall meeting at 5:30pm in reaction to the suggestion of cutting funding to critical departments. Fire stations and the library are both under fire for targeted cuts.

This is happening after the mayor and alderman decided to take a trip to Chicago for an unneeded conference. The twelve people spent a total of 17k in taxpayer dollars for rooms and meals at a luxurious Hilton hotel. Other counties spent less than a quarter of that amount total.

Even though these are supposed republicans I feel obligated to call them out on their spending hypocrisy. The conference was a municipality meeting which cost at least 300$ per person for entrance fees.

Was it really necessary to send all 12 people? No it wasn’t. It was a waste of our money. Why waste money on city running advice when the information is based on a city that clearly fails at running itself?

Tonight I will attempt to speak my mind, whether I will get the chance or not is a different story.

Hopefully I’ll be able to capture video.