tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post5680294530411890435..comments2024-02-16T11:41:37.696-05:00Comments on Todd Seavey: Iggy's Karaoke, Pagan's Tapdancing, Seavey's IslandTodd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-16684598165313974782008-04-09T10:59:00.000-04:002008-04-09T10:59:00.000-04:00Ramirez Sliwinski said she saw two boys climbing a...<i>Ramirez Sliwinski said she saw two boys climbing a tree next door to her home about 1 p.m. Saturday and asked them to stop. The mother of one of the boys called police after Ramirez Sliwinski referred to the children, ages 8 and 9, as monkeys.<br><br>Ramirez Sliwinski, who is Hispanic, was issued a citation alleging that she violated a village ordinance prohibiting disorderly conduct. The ordinance bans conduct that disturbs or alarms people, and one of the boys told police he was scared by Ramirez Sliwinski’s comment, Police Cmdr. Michael Kilbourne said.<br><br>The citation carries a fine of $75.<br><br>“She was not arrested. She was not fingerprinted. It is a local ordinance violation,” Kilbourne said.<br><br>The mother told police her son and a friend were playing in a tree in front of their house in the 0-99 block of Sparrow Road when Ramirez Sliwinski came outside and told them to quit playing in the tree like monkeys, Kilbourne said.<br><br>Ramirez Sliwinski, who has been an opponent of efforts by some on the Village Board to crack down on illegal immigrants, said she meant no racial undertones by her comment.<br><br>She said the parents were outside, but she intervened because she was concerned about the boys’ safety and because the small magnolia tree was being damaged.<br><br>“I went over to the kids and told them to get out of the tree,” Ramirez Sliwinski said.<br><br>The father of one of the boys told her it was none of her business, she said, and “I calmly said the tree is not there for them to be climbing in there like monkeys.”<br><br>There has been friction between Ramirez Sliwinski and her neighbors in the past. She said she has told them to turn down loud music and has instructed them on how to properly use the village’s new garbage bins.<br><br>Ramirez Sliwinski said she intends to contest the citation in an effort to force the neighbors to talk to her.<br><br>“I have to do what I have to do to protect myself,” she said. “I have to fight this ticket.”<br><br>Ramirez Sliwinski said the citation and the ongoing turmoil on the Village Board have made it unlikely that she will run for re-election next year when her term expires.<br></i><br><br><a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-carpenter-trustee-both-08apr08,0,568283.story" rel="nofollow">Context here.</a>ughnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-19519357489638318132008-04-09T10:44:00.000-04:002008-04-09T10:44:00.000-04:00I thought it was the Sixth Dimension that he was k...I thought it was the Sixth Dimension that he was king of. In any case, Forbidden Zone is probably the strangest movie I’ve ever seen too. <br><br>Oh, and I saw it about two weeks ago.marcia Bnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-10131672292545663772008-04-09T08:34:00.000-04:002008-04-09T08:34:00.000-04:00I calmly said the tree is not there for them to be...<i>I calmly said the tree is not there for them to be climbing in there like monkeys.</i><br><br>Oh for pete’s sake. I linked to the article expecting an actual likening of the kids to monkeys because they were black. She was likening them to monkeys because they were clambering around in a tree. Yeah, I suppose it wasn’t the best choice of words, but I’m sure she would have used the same language no matter what color the kids were.<br><br>And, of course, the fact that they ticketed her is ludicrous, even if it had been an actual racist remark. “[T]he ordinance bans conduct that disturbs or alarms people.” That’s a little open ended, ain’t it? I’m disturbed and alarmed by things I see every day on the streets of NYC, not to mention some of the thoughts uttered by my good friends. Hell, I disturb and alarm myself every once in a while.<br><br>But there’s so much that’s ludicrous these days — a good deal of it a lot worse than this (not to mitigate the blantant affront to free speech) — that it’s hard to be surprised anymore.<br><br>Depressing as it is, I’m not holding my breath for a reversal from our path towards a total police state.Dylannoreply@blogger.com