A friend of mine, Jonathan Wolf, just turned on me. Attacked my character, accused and intimated I was engaging in conspiracy and immoral acts, and was in general barky and babyish. If we had done a logic dance-off at any point, first graders would’ve laughed at the way he was thinking. Right after we hadn’t seen each other in awhile, he told me I had 3 minutes before I was going to be messed with majorly. He caught me by surprise. I was like OK OK, YO– so that doesn’t work for me. So he gives me 10 minutes. Then he gives me 3 again. Then 30, In two plus hours, I was castigated, accused, and had to endure an assertive rudeness. All while I was forced to do a lot of hard work. In the rain, which came down in pails. At the time, I tried to restrict myself to comments about how rude he was being; I lost it a little here and there, mostly about the rudeness itself. 

With most friends, that means a pause in their usual routine of hanging out and playing pool. But our friendship began from our work relationship at encampments that he’s scattering. He is the police officer in charge on site; I represent the campers and their needs.

If it goes well with Jonathan, we are clear and helpful for the suffering people we impose upon. They get the time they need to move, and the police help with the this-and-that people need, like storage and transportation and phone calls. Other government agencies are involved healthily. If it goes poorly, as it did yesterday, many ill events can occur for others.

So when he turned on me yesterday, it hurt my feelings, and scared me for my friends. It wasn’t just toward me; Jonathan Wolf turned his back on others he formerly treated with dignity and respect.

I want my friend Jonathan Wolf back: his politeness, his politesse, his clarity and consistency. I don’t care what he’s done. It’s true that he destroyed all worldly goods of at least 4 people, and destroyed many other’s people goods partially on September 28, 2018. I’m sorry that I was obligated to say to you in public that we hold the police severally and individually liable when such acts are perpetrated, and I’m sorry that I have to repeat it occasionally. You don’t have to take it so seriously. As you said, people “threaten” you like that all the time. Why let it affect our relationship? I didn’t mean anything by it; we just need you to stop that blatant disrespect for private property and due process, whether or not your bosses have figured out how stupid and dishonest it is.

We have a good relationship still, as far as I’m concerned. I don’t take the things you told me yesterday seriously. Governments and their idiots come and go. I know you to be a good man, and temperate.

For the sake of the poor whom we both serve, please accord us the dignity and respect our humanity deserves. We will be better able to get the basic life services we need, and you will do your master’s bidding with far more safety and far less pain. Yesterday, we were the enemy; while we worked, scattered from unused public land, you and yours stood a few yards distant for hours, in clumps, catching up and relaxing. Tomorrow, be our friend again; help us again.