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ALERT!
Watchdog readers beware. Watchdog has just received an email [unrelated to the event about to be shared] which mentioned a despicable criminal act has been committed on the property of one of the Directors for our Board. It may be a random act against no one in particular and time will tell if more of the same begins to occur. It is common knowledge a different part of the subdivision has had a few criminal incidents of late as well. No community is immune from criminal activity but when it is one's own it is far and away more personal. Please keep your eyes and ears open to anything/one who is not generally part of your neighborhood environment and report suspicious behaviors.
If this was a deliberate act against this particular person because of their current status in the community, this is totally UNACCEPTABLE. Having served in that seat for a few years and being the recipient of death threats, assaults and verbal and email criminal acts the Watchdog can attest there is NO JUSTIFICATION for any such activities against someone regardless whether they are a friend or not; regardless if you support the person or not; regardless of whether you agree with the person or not. NONE WHATSOEVER. While these people wield a certain power in their directorship they are still volunteers and while many may question motive, impugn motive, the Watchdog included, it is not OKAY to turn any of that against the individual Director in any way criminal.
The Watchdog dealt with this sort of personal attack for several years by collecting evidence, witness testimony, pictures and voice mails and filed a police report simply to have a record of it in case it escalated to an actual physical event. A direct request not to be pursued by the police was made; merely to file the report. The body of evidence together with written concern for personal welfare was sufficient to cause a case to be opened and filed. It never abated. For the full 4 years there was non stop assault in one way or another which tends to make one very empathetic when it is done to another.
Please bear in mind; the directors are here to 'serve' the Membership; the least the Membership can do in this instance is to 'protect' the directors as good citizens. If you live near one, or more, please keep an eye out that no criminal activity be committed against them. Watchdog benefited greatly by having friends who lived nearby and reported when things happened or witnessed an incident.
Watchdog is hoping it is a random act and the offender will be immediately discovered. Hawaiian Shores Community is better than any one person committing a criminal act against another member/director in the community.
Again, please be observant and notice things; report what you believe to be suspicious.
Yes, I received a call this morning from our board president about this terrible act of vandalism. All HSCA members must stand together to condemn this outrage against one of our own.
ReplyDeleteAs the day matured and began its waning phase and the news and speculation began to filter through there has been a couple of thoughts that have bubbled up. First, as stated in the beginning of this article, this may have been a random act. Second, I was reminded today that the same sort of vandalism appearing on the member's property was like that which was done at the Honu Street facility to our signs, not once, but twice! Though there is a distance between the two sites -- and time as well -- a case could be made the 'artist' vandal may have decided to move on to residential targets.
ReplyDeleteAlso, other points of commonality have come up that divorces out the likelihood of this being personally focused to the director; or, if it was it was done by someone close enough to the director they would know her living arrangements.
I agree, doesn't make a difference who did it or why -- fact is it was done and it was a violation of the Member's property. Hopefully, anyone with genuine facts - not the speculation that is quickly emerging as impugned motivation yet again -- will let the police know so the offender will be stopped before anyone else suffers the same.