Purdue and Party Politics, Part V - The Encore

In my Purdue and Party Politics, Part V blog entry, I talked about how Tom McDermott Jr., Mayor of Hammond and political science adjunct instructor extraordinaire at Purdue Calumet (an honor bestowed on him by the philosopher/king of Lake County) -- at about this time last year, criminally mis-identifying himself as a former student, was making false criminal allegations of sexual harassment against me both on my blog as well as on The Times newspaper electronic bulletin board. 

I also indicated that I sent all my documentation regarding these false allegations against me to Purdue University (West Lafayette) and on August 20, 2007, received notification that Purdue could not substantiate any problem.  I then consequently informed Purdue University, "So I was quite intrigued when, on August 22, 2007, I received the following comment on my blog: 'Nice try Maurice . . .better luck next time....maybe West lafayette [sic] would have been a better venue for you.  Have a nice semester, and don't forget to check the IP address."  (View here on blog.) 

Purdue, with all of its computer geniuses, could not determine that this IP -- or any other IP address -- spewing criminally false allegations and anti-Semitic comments, came from a government body, the City Government of Hammond, run by the political science adjunct instructor extraordinaire and close friend of the Lake County philosopher/king (aka Chancellor Cohen).  But I digress.

Now, thanks to a comment I received in response to that blog posting, I was able to obtain further documentation, which continues to point in the direction of Tom McDermott Jr.  I went to the website of ARIN, which was mentioned in that comment, and indeed the 12.37.22.34 IP address does belong to the City of Hammond (ARIN_IP_verification.mht). 

I told you that the comments from 12.37.22.34 makes for interesting reading, so I thought I'd take some time to review one of those comments because real life is constantly more amusing than fiction.  You just can't make this stuff up. 

On Wednesday, October 10, 2007, I received the following comment on my blog, which is NOT from IP 12.37.22.34 (view here; if you do not go directly to the comment, you will go to the blog entry to which the comment is attached).

Eating lunch the other day I noticed a McDermott billboard. It is funny how boldly the mayor reminds viewers of this sign how much he values the "right" priorities and underlines the word "right" in the statement. It is such a great hidden message to all the Republicans how the alleged Democrat still finds his roots in the Republican ideals. One must admit that the man has a good McMarketing scheme. Seems like the statement can also read "The Republican priorities" which seems so odd considering he is a Democrat. Perhaps he will give secret decoder rings out during his next campaign so we can read between the lines and translate the double speak of his McStatements and McActions.

So, on Thursday, October 11, 2007, I was highly amused to see the following comment (see here; if you do not go directly to the comment, you will go to the blog entry to which the comment is attached) from, with an extremely high degree of probability, Tom McDermott Jr!  Remember this comment comes from IP address 12.37.22.34. 

I also saw the McDermott billboard the other day, and I loved it. He's a good looking man, and I love what he is doing for Hammond. I am voting for him, and so is my husband and sister (who also thinks he's great).

BTW, I think you are a jackass Maurice. The only reason I read your blog is to laugh at your follies. You and I know each other from way back, and I know who you really are! You should move to another part of the state, where your P.H.D. will impress people, until they get to know you!

If it has not yet sunk in -- when it does sink in -- prepare to laugh and laugh and laugh.  That's right -- the illustrious Mayor of Hammond -- while falsely posting as a "Working Hammond Mother" called himself "a good looking man."  Wow.  I'm all for self-esteem, but, seriously, folks, pretending to be someone else and calling yourself "good looking" is way beyond any sense of healthy self-esteem.  It took me a full five minutes to quit laughing.  Can you say: m-e-n-t-a-l   c-a-s-e?

As for the "jackass" comments and reading my blogs just to laugh -- maybe I should post how many times the IP address 12.37.22.34 checks out my blog page. 

Anyone who has come in contact with McDermott Jr. (including Kevin Smith and Robert Cantrell) knows that he is a mental enigma.  Am I the only one willing to say so in public? Oh that's right, others are too afraid because they don't want anonymous "former students" falsely accusing them -- on The Times newspaper electronic bulletin boards and elsewhere -- of sexual harassment. And they certainly don't want other such drivel coming their way -- like "Jon Silverman" who would never think of derisively referring to me as "moshe", preferring "Eisentarded" instead (a comment also from IP 12.37.22.34).

When Baby Mac finishes reading this (and then puts on the firefighter gear he has in his office), he will call the philosopher/king and tell him it wasn't him, he is innocent, it must have been someone in his office with access to his password.  He may even say it was the Hammond Police Department (you know they have access to everything), or Hinojosa's daughter who worked for him (he trusted her immensely but --golly-- maybe he shouldn't have), or it was the IT (information technology) guys paying him back for forcing them to fix computers so he could blackmail other employees, or maybe it was one of his advisers off their meds.  Anyone but him!!!

But all the evidence points to him.  And the philosopher/king and his "bosses" at Purdue know it as well. 

Comments

[David]

This may be in the wrong column. In regards to Chancellor Cohen and his writings. Have any of you read anything written by Cohen? There is a little Marxist (Karl not Groucho) feel to his article "Abortion and the Quality of LIfe." I may be wrong so if you have read that and can tell me that I am seeing something (a particular school of thought, or??) else, then great. I want to pick up his writings on equality for children to see if that flavor comes out in that.

[C]

Pretty crazy stuff.

It's just another example of what happens when there is no check on political power.

Power causes people to do strange things to keep their grip on that power.

It doesn't matter which party it is -- people given ultimate power will tend to abuse that power unless there are external restraints.

The only antidote to this fundamental human flaw is a strong two party system that provides accountability.

Unfortunately, there is no opposition party in Lake County that is able to provide the fundamental check of political accountability that is clearly needed in this case.

[NOT voting for Babymac]

"maybe I should post how many times the IP address 12.37.22.34 checks out my blog page."
I think you should! After all we, the taxpayers, are paying this liar to abuse the public trust, lie, smear a professor, make threatening phone calls to Councilmen and other individuals whom oppose him, teach on the taxpayer dime, play the role of Lewinsky to Cohen, and a plethora of other things that I do not need to repeat over, and over, and OVER again! As an aside, I LOVE the fact that his minion, Folwer, is 'hosting' a debate is his own private home--away from the voters and probably created the questions for McCriminal while he, McCriminal, was playing Lewinsky to Fowler as well! What is is common with corruption and control freak: they're BOTH spelled McDermott! Keep raising hell Maurice, we--the taxpayers--need open government and you are EXACTLY the one who shows us who is controlling whom!