Getting bent: the sordid practice of badge bending in the Vallejo, CA “Badge of Honor” club

Police who themselves are gang members are a large part of the problem known as “gang stalking.” and their practices–including extra-judicial homicides–are getting a makeover. But rooting them out won’t be pretty, because the problem is policing itself. America’s police institutions are at war, with each other.

From OpenVallejo, a story about “the badge of honor“:

Vallejo police bend badges to mark fatal shootings

They call it, “The Badge of Honor.” For a generation, a secretive clique within the Vallejo Police Department has commemorated fatal shootings with beers, backyard barbecues, and by bending the points of their badges each time they kill in the line of duty, an investigation by Open Vallejo has found. The custom was so exclusive, some officers involved in fatal shootings were never told of its existence. 

But senior law enforcement and government officials say everything changed when a police captain tried to end the practice following the fatal shooting of 20-year-old Willie McCoy in February 2019. Over the next six months, the tradition became known at the highest levels of Vallejo city government and the district attorney’s office. 

The captain who pushed for an investigation, John Whitney, would soon be out of a job. A former SWAT team commander with two master’s degrees, Whitney says he was forced out of the department after raising concerns about the badge-bending tradition and other misconduct. He filed a retaliation claim against the city in March. 

“The community we serve will lose faith in us,” Whitney told Open Vallejo. “This practice needs to end.” 

‘Kind of like a notch on the bedpost’

While reporting this story, Open Vallejo received a series of threatening emails from an anonymous account using the name, “Tariq Aziz.” Law enforcement sources believe the author is a high-ranking Vallejo official with knowledge of the badge-bending tradition. This is consistent with Open Vallejo’s analysis of the emails and other evidence. 

Read it: The Kings of Garbage, by Mark Ames

Good Reads: Below, the classic story of how a race supremacist hate group known as the Anti Defamation League (ADL) spied on and sold out activists in the early 1990’s, setting the stage for today’s modern surveillance capitalism, and the modern western police state. In lawsuits, and other media narratives, we discovered that this organization spied on, stalked, and harassed over 12000 activists, then sold or leveraged their data to other spy agencies and police around the world. This was then a relatively small operation which pales in comparison to the surveillance state that we see today–and that this spy operation was merely the precursor of what these same bad actors had planned, and was soon to come post 911, as a total surveillance state was birthed upon previously democratic societies.

While many gang stalking targets flail to identify who their stalkers are, and cast blame at any of the many alphabet agencies (FBI/DEA/DHS/CIA/DIA/DOD/AFOSI/NCIS etc.), in a process of “Type 1 and 2 errors of reference,” some sketchy psychologists* and especially those who claim to be “authorities” in this area, use these simple “naming errors” as proof of “delusions in gang stalking.” But in fact, while counterintelligence stalking, police gang stalking, and community policing all fall under a spy agency created rubrik of “investigation,” know as intelligence led policing, its really just spying by another name.

And yes, it is agency affiliated most of the time, and because of the “hide the ball” nature of domestic spying, there are many non-governmental organizations that routinely spy on and harass targets too. Of these many other scumbag organizations that practice gang stalking, the Anti Defamation League and its hydra of related organizations (like the pure scumbag conceived and typical cowardly online smear site Canary Mission) –are noted by many Jews as a race supremacist group similar to the Ku Klux Klan but with different religion.

Mark Ames is one of many Jews who were spied on by these people, and I direct my reader to enjoy this piece of work, one of the better pieces about the ADL Spying Scandal out there that hasn’t been web-scrubbed or de-platformed yet at the request of these notorious cyber-stalkers. It was published in the now defunct Pacific Standard, now owned by Grist media.

I myself encountered their easy to recognize version** of stalking and attempts to recruit me to their form of hate many years ago, and will write more about that at a later date, but for now, I direct the readers to watch every case in the news where some seemingly random stranger perpetrates a mass shooting, and then, the ADL tries to run CYA in the media afterwards, because these cases are very likely precipitated by ADL harassment.

Is there a case in the news that claims a random shooter, or “radical Muslim,” or a butter knife wielding car crasher, or “incel” hates the Jews? Start here below to meet a hate that’s even older than that, because its very likely that those guys were stalked by these guys, long before they went crazy with a butter knife at an intersection:

The Kings of Garbage, or, The ADL Spied on Me and All I Got Was This Lousy Index Card

In 1993 the Anti-Defamation League was accused of espionage, illegal surveillance, theft, and the treasonous sale of classified information to a foreign government. I was one of their victims.Mark AmesUpdated:May 3, 2017Original:Mar 10, 2014

Last year marked the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Anti-Defamation League and the B’nai B’rith. The theme of the celebration was “Imagine a World Without Hate.”

A Creative Definition of Anti-Semitism

2013 also marked the 20th anniversary of another key episode in ADL history, but it’s not the sort of milestone National Director Abe Foxman will want you to remember. In 1993 it was alleged that the League had been involved in a grotesque rap sheet of covert activities, including espionage, illegal surveillance, theft, and the treasonous sale of classified information to a foreign government. It’s a hell of a tale, and not just for its cartoonish cast of characters: a corrupt police officer, a bungling “fact finder,” and a McCarthyite from Indianapolis.

I have no choice but to remember the story. In 1993 I received a letter in the mail. It informed me that I was the victim of an illegal spy ring involving members of the ADL and a San Francisco Police Department intelligence detective called Tom Gerard. The letter came with an index card that included my full name, driver’s license, the license-plate number on my shitty old Subaru hatchback, and the Mission District addresses of my apartment and the leftie bookstore where I worked, near Guerrero and 20th Street. My file had been marked “Pinko,” one of five categories that the ADL spymaster used to flag the group’s targets….

The ADL spy ring also helped trigger the 1987 arrests of eight Los Angeles Muslims—seven Palestinian men and one Kenyan woman—who were falsely accused of supporting terrorism and ordered expelled from the United States. SWAT teams broke into the defendants’ homes, detained them without charge or trial, and subjected the group, known as the “Los Angeles Eight,” to an ordeal that only ended in 2007, when a Los Angeles judge finally dismissed all charges and denounced the case as “a festering wound on the body of respondents and an embarrassment to the rule of law.”

When the Los Angeles Eight were first arrested in 1987, the ADL proudly boasted to reporters of its role in passing intelligence on the group to the authorities. Later, when the case was widely seen as a travesty of justice, the ADL backtracked and claimed they had nothing to do with it.

*the most commonly cited sketchy psychologists who have gone on record claiming that gang stalking complainants are “delusional” are nearly all pro-police, pro-prosecution, and anti-democratic These range from forensic psychologists to cold case investigators, and others employed in the carceral systems of various nations. Here below is a short list of those who are “gang stalking denialists”:

Dr. Lorraine Sheridan notoriously went on record in the New York Times touting her internet famous online poll where she interviewed “the anonymous internet” for data about organized gang stalking, and denying that gang stalking is a social phenomenon, She attempted to discredit those who complain of OGS by stating that “they are likely delusional.” Quite ironically, the same NYT is on record documenting actual complaints of “microwave/noise/health attacks” on US diplomats. Sheridan’s work is not to be taken seriously by any researcher.

-Dr. David V. James of the North London Forensic Service is co-author to the Sheridan internet poll, and one of a long line of political psychologists whose work is used to prop up the police and surveillance state, notoriously a DVIC darling, authoring study after study about stalking. Here he is propping up the complaints of politicians.

Christine Sarteschi is an associate professor of social work and criminology who has a book to sell, she’s a pro-police voice, and gang stalking denialist. She leans right, and is in every way affiliated with actual “gang stalkers” of the type discussed in the Fort Worth Weekly piece called “Gangstalkers.” She is also affiliated with the women’s networks of “domestic violence and family court related gang stalkers,” and is on record with the Canadian Broadcast System(CBC) in a series of disinformation pieces about gang stalking.

Most despicably, she calls gang stalking a “belief system,” as if its some form of religion. Then, note her language here “Their perpetrators are typically perceived to be powerful government or law enforcement officials, who are seeking to destroy the life of the TI , ” and compare that to this recent gang stalking lawsuit filed by the Institute for Justice against the Pasco County Sheriffs office where ACTUAL police and government officials were indeed seeking to destroy the lives of many people, using the bullshit junk science of “predictive policing” and whose victims are indeed discussed as “targeted persons”. Nice how these social workers provide cover for dirty policing, huh?

A world of police informants, rats and snitches: a peek at the sordid practice of entrapment, harassment, and police/agency informants in the gang stalking dialectic

“Judas and the Black Messiah,” a story of rats, snitches, and FBI black ops tells the story of Fred Hampton, a black activists who was not only stalked, by “gangs of police” but murdered in outrageous circumstances. My own father saw the actual door where official narratives said Hampton was firing rounds out of that door, when in fact, my fathers testimony, and that of many others confirmed over the years that not a single bullet was being fired out of that door, and every bullet was going in to that door.

Talk about a great and actual “gang stalking” story, and this is it. Literally, we see the gangs of notoriously racist, corrupt Chicago cops, “bizarre” directed conversations, lots of stalking, and the FBI pulling strings and orchestrating actual assassinations( yeah, I know, tell me again how ‘my time is up’…).

Watching this film wouldn’t be complete without reading the incredible story “The Last Hours of William O’Neal,” from the Chicago Reader. Its the counter-narrative to many gang stalking stories, that of Bill O’Neal, who ratted out Black Panthers Fred Hampton’s and Mark Clark; a snitch on a “police string,” who spent his final hours in my hometown, the first integrated suburb of Chicago, contemplating his own suicide in a bathroom.

From that excellent piece, we can also trace the phony claims of mental illness in a “targeted individual” who had become entrapped between corrupt police on one hand, and a social movement on the other. And we see how the “bizzarre and constant Catch-22s of a targeted individuals life are often misconstrued as “mental illness” or “suicidal ideation,” and so on. We see also, the state patrol of that jurisdiction “coincidentally” right there on the scene as the snitch kills himself. They are never there when you need them, right?

Another Catch-22-by-design, or as CIA financed brain scrubber and doper Gregory Bateson would have us contemplate, maybe “targeted individuals” of “gang stalking” are just in a double bind, like a stupid dolphin. Learned helplessness, and despair, the combined impotence of a two tiered society; the ever-replicating lizard people-like victory of the corruption of American policing meeting CIA ideology at the starting gate of “justice” where everyone is an intelligence “asset” or worse, a disposable like Bill O’Neal.

This is how they do it, generation after generation.

Very few people in truly democratic societies are likely to say that cooperating with law enforcement is a bad thing. The problem is though, that western democracies bear little resemblance to democracies in any way whatsoever, and the “laws” that are “enforced” are not based in anything resembling constitutional due process, or civil rights. There’s lots of enforcing, and what is called “high policing,” and lots of “law,” but little of those rights are enforceable to or for the average person, which some scholars note has created a two tiered justice system in the “democratic” USA.

John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute noted this curious modern paradox in 2013, but it has been going on longer than that:

We now live in a two-tiered system of justice and governance. There are two sets of laws: one set for the government and the corporations, and another set for you and me.

The laws which apply to the majority of the population allow the government to do things like rectally probe you during a roadside stop, or listen in on your phone calls and read all of your email messages, or indefinitely detain you in a military holding cell. These are the laws which are executed every single day against a population which has up until now been blissfully ignorant of the radical shift taking place in American government.”

Calling modern western democracies either “liberal,” or “democratic” is a total misnomer in every way, which is all established fact, getting worse by the hour, and as such, there cannot be democracy in such a situation. Regardless of whether we decide to call the current system a Plutocracy, Oligarchy, a surveillance capitalist sytem, or a police state, regardless, it is a system designed solely to obstruct those who insist upon equality before the law, and constitutional democracy, yet who do not have social power or connection to enforce such a system.

Must Read on Background: Freemasonry and Black Nationalism, by Fred Milliken is a stunningly well documented examination of the roots of Black Nationalism, and the intellectual base of the earliest black freemasons who eventually established in modern Liberia “The United States is a dizzying kaleidoscope of religious belief and practice, a situation rooted in the country’s originsin part, anywayas a haven for religious dissidentsBut not all of these strangers arrived by choice. African slaves first arrived in Jamestown in 1607, the same year the colony was founded.”

In fact, western democracies appear to the outsider to be little more than localized gangs of police, working within a secret surveillance capitalist system, whose main tools of social engineering are exploiting religion, race, gender and privilege; who work at the behest of wealthy, privileged persons who are primarily of white, European and Jewish descent*; and whose funding derives from institutional and corporate power with the sole goal of vigorously policing the mutual protection societies of the poor, the disenfranchised, the marginalized, and the immigrant.

This is such a “truism” that entire portions of our national narrative now regularly highlight these facts, and the re-establishment of one or another form of peonage, debt bondage, or slavery, regardless of what our constitution grants us, and as you yourself can watch in the PBS documentary “Slavery by Another Name.”

I recall learning firsthand that modern policing of the individual (which historically derives from the wealthy classes containing and policing peons and slaves, throughout all of history) begins when those individuals attempt to aid their communities outside the structures and purview of the “higher powers” such as state and local governments that have failed their people (which American blacks notoriously suffered from), and the various “charities” and related NGOs that do the bidding of eugenicists and other mayhem; that community aid given freely and deliberately without certificate or approval of the local community authorities is itself a threat to such societies.

That is what a “threat narrative” is in such societies-organized or self sufficient communities that do not take top down orders from the echelons of local power that takes its orders from hidden “high police” who have other agendas. And, that community organizing and self-policing is somehow a threat to institutional policing, because it subverts the anti-democratic nature of policing itself. The case of the missing and murdered Ferguson activists, and that some point the finger to the Ford Foundation (not-ironically founded by Henry Ford, a Nazi sympathizer; even less ironically headed by a gay black man who will never procreate) clearly demonstrates that this problem has not disappeared.

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For example, the Black Panthers started policing their communities exactly as ghetto dwellers had done for centuries, because in fact, it was the police from outside their communities, coming into their communities who were waging racially charged cultural war on them, and targeting the little resources they had, starting the most basic civil rights, like freedom of association, and even the right to maintain basic family units. Then, extending to issues much larger, like food security.

Infamously, while the mainstream media fed my generation image after image of the BPP holding weapons as they policed their neighborhoods, and highlighted only the imagery of black people who had been gang stalked by the police and the Klan–it was something far more innocuous that the Panthers did, and became highly targeted for: they tried to feed people in those communities, highlighting the link between food security and self-sustenance as a “threat” to those who did not reside in those communities, but who policed them relentlessly.

But the BPP weren’t the first to be declared enemies of the state for trying to feed people in the US, which is now and has always been a bastion of anti-democratic forces that hide their pseudo-religion in leveraging food against freedom. The Great Depression revealed that America was under the influence of the forever war, which came to that shore in 1913, and by 1929 had busted its banking system wide open. At that time, the rally cry of “the communists are feeding people!” was deployed at every soup kitchen and work camp supper table. Indeed, communism was filling a need that capitalism was not in that era.

<p value="<amp-fit-text layout="fixed-height" min-font-size="6" max-font-size="72" height="80">Pure capitalism has always failed at feeding the masses, much less allowing them to create their own food gardens in "public" spaces. And it is a failure– if for no other reason– than that its multi headed hydra of racialized, genderized peonage, oriented to guiding or coercing the masses towards one or another <em>mystery religion</em>, upheld by <em>mystery policing</em>, all of which stem from Freemason origins. This form of society deliberately refuses to allow the poor to exist outside of their peonage systems, believing as they do that its their sacred duty to chisel away at "ruffians" and unhewn stone in order to use persons as tools and as sustenance to feed its own sense of order–to hammer each person until they become a building block to be cemented somewhere.Pure capitalism has always failed at feeding the masses, much less allowing them to create their own food gardens in “public” spaces. And it is a failure– if for no other reason– than that its multi headed hydra of racialized, genderized peonage, oriented to guiding or coercing the masses towards one or another mystery religion, upheld by mystery policing, all of which stem from Freemason origins. This form of society deliberately refuses to allow the poor to exist outside of their peonage systems, believing as they do that its their sacred duty to chisel away at “ruffians” and unhewn stone in order to use persons as tools and as sustenance to feed its own sense of order–to hammer each person until they become a building block to be cemented somewhere.

While discussing Fremasonry in terms of gang stalking often invokes charges of “conspiracy theory” from the heathens and the ignorant (and unsurprisingly, lots of Freemasons), it is well established fact that this is what western social structures are built upon, though its difficult to explain to the uninitiated. Far more easy to understand this then, is to observe the modern sense of order that has arisen in the years since slavery, and to observe Freemasonry in action within other societies. LIberia is a good example of that, but there are many more.

Further Reading: Mind Controlled Black Assassins is one of my favorite blogs on these topics

*no unbiased, rational person, or evidence based historical narrative disputes or denies this, though we now see wealthy Asian and Middle Eastern power establishing itself in the US too.

Gang Stalking Cases and Lawsuits: they are starting to happen, and the feds are indicting gang stalkers

Nearly 100% of gang stalking involves current and retired police, military, intelligence, and security personnel, violating the law. In my own case, I traced and tracked many of my personal stalkers, sued a few of them, shut down a security company, and won a settlement. These shitbags need to be in jail.

Most curiously, nearly 100% of my personal stalkers were current and retired police, military, intelligence agents and their flying monkeys in the community ranging from college professors to NGO’s from the right and left wing “save the whales, wimmin, and chillren!” foundations. All of them derive funding from the various “official narrative” schemes of western governments to socially engineer a “narrative of culture,” while hiding their crimes against humanity (the Iraq war, the prisons for profits scheme, the Total Surveillance state, etc. Silent Holocaust indeed.).

I have since spent two decades informing the public of the facts and intricacies of these cases, and have learned that the harassment, violence, stalking, and other completely bizarre activity is organized at a level beyond the reach of “the law,” although the recent Department of Justice brought a case against a “gang” of “stalkers” who are in fact current and former police, military, and intelligence related persons (spies)–and eBay executives. And, as can be expected–one of those executive level gang stalkers that has so far skated from prosecution, and gone forward to head the Boys and Girls Clubs of America in –of all places–Silicon Valley.

This uptick in prosecutions offers a bit of hope, as does the prosecution of the murderers of Ahmaud Arbery, who was murdered by a similar “gang” of police, and police affiliated stalkers–and nearly 100% of ALL gang stalking claims involve exactly that configuration–military, police, intelligence agents and their community assets.

All gang stalkers act with a sense of entitlement and impunity, imagining that they will never get caught or prosecuted, because of their “connections” in government and police. But that’s not the case, as more lawsuits are coming forwards every week now. Search my blog using the tag “gang stalking lawsuits.”

Here are a few more cases in the courts right now, some of them brought forwards by the Department of justice and others:

  • An IMDB gang stalker is indicted in California. She was indicted after she and her “unnamed” co-defendant, likely her daughter, harassed and stalked three boys. This is a typical left wing type of stalking, and that women’s friends and allies are also well known gang stalkers too.
  • the eBay Gang of Stalkers case is significant because it was led by executives from that company; and any personal injury attorney knows that eBay is a large target; but the feds indicted one case because it is a widespread practice on eBay. I am betting that it will be a flagship case.
  • a low level sex offender who was entrapped by the hidden practice of state police pornography distribution is suing several gang stalkers in northern Mississippi. Many state police, and state or federal investigative bureau’s,high level DHS employees, Pentagon employees, “war on terror” private contractors, and others regularly distribute child porn, while monitoring millions of internet users without a warrant, and there are many cases of other nations agencies doing this too, in an odd attempt to regulate morality, which is another topic entirely. But note the importance of the numerological display of the numbers 12 and 13 in these cases, which is quite striking This type of hidden distribution and its political implications is the very centerpiece of the “war on terror,” and speech taboos on the internet and other moral posturing in the west
  • Citizens including former police officers are suing the Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco over his spy racketeering, called “intelligence led predictive policing,” and he even targeted children in true pervert sheriff fashion. He claims that he is working for a “higher power” and that he is beyond the reach of the law itself–as gang stalking programs violate every single civil rights statute ever written, but because they do it in covert fashion under “color of law” and pseudo-law such as the judge created, never voted on, never challenged “qualified immunity” and “investigation privileged” claims. they anticipate they will not get caught, due to their “webs of connections, as we see below.
  • The case of Ahmaud Arbery is a 100% ROGS Bingo, and a validation of the utility of adopting ROGS Analysis of Gang Stalkers. He was murdered, and the local police and prosecutors literally conspired to NOT charge his murderers. But, his mother was persistent in using social media monitoring (SOCMINT) and open source intelligence (OSINT) to track down the connections between seemingly random stalkers, and she succeeded in finding a prosecutor to pursue the case, because she linked that gang together, with evidence.

So, little irony is lost in the stories reported in the nation’s narrative gatekeeper, the New York Times, are contradictory, as they have a long history as a CIA and FBI disinformation and black propaganda. That outlet is on record flip-flopping about the legitimacy of targeted individuals complaints, on one hand gas lighting them in an infamous article about the “United States of Paranoia,” and on the other, reporting cases such as those mentioned above, or the case of “electronic microwave weapons” causing brain damage to United States diplomats in Cuba, a case now being investigated by a congressional task force, and the CIA itself.

Likewise, the Ahmaud Arbery, Pasco County, and Demirovic cases highlighted above are contradictions of the bad journalism we see in most NYT reportage, and the “paranoia” piece written at that time by the now discredited “journalist” Mike McPhate too.

Bizarre activity by police and those in the related fields of intelligence, state security, the prisons and other similar and related fields is the norm, not the exception ; it is very well documented, and a vast body of evidence exists that these types of persons feel that they are beyond the law. A recent case of prison torture, where a mentally ill man died from being blasted with 109 degree heat in an isolation cell in Alabama provides a glimpse of the sadism inherent in the “police personality,”: and the deviant and bizarre nature of their gang stalking activity:

Montgomery, AL — Tommy Lee Rutledge, 44, spent the last moments of his life shoving his face as close as he could to the window of his cell gasping for cooler air. Heat was being pumped into his prison cell in the mental health ward and he had no way to escape it, causing his body temp to skyrocket to 109, killing him from hyperthermia.

The Alabama Department of Corrections has refused to answer any questions as to why Rutledge’s cell was so hot given the fact that on the night he died, the outside temperature was 31 degrees.

So, in these cases, tracing gangs of police and police affiliated stalkers online and off, it is important to connect linguistic and other clues that are easily found in the extant literature, news stories and other data. In the case of the tortured and murdered prisoner above, we can easily connect the actions of the torturers to many blogs where claims of “heating up skin,” and other similar claims are made, and often, we find those claimants are not in fact actual “targeted individuals” but in fact, are police and others masquerading as victims, and bragging about their crimes in a bizarre fashion. The case above with Mr. Rutledge is one case where an actual gang can be traced, tracked, and prosecuted.

And again–there is no irony in the sadism of these guards who killed Rutledge either, because we see the crime of the state mirroring the crime of the man: he had murdered some people and burned them in a fire afterwards. These gangs can be monitored, tracked, and prosecuted for their crimes, and any savvy prosecutor or personal injury attorney will see the value of ROGS Analysis in these cases.

Use my search feature to find other writing about “gang stalking lawsuits,” “gang stalking case study” “elements of gang stalking lawsuit” and so on. And get those briefs before the judges–but not before you also study the vast network of current and former intelligence agents, military trolls, political operatives and others who have polluted the internet with garbage and “psychobabble” about gang stalking, flat earth, demon sex and electronic weaponry. Start here and here, and here to see a few bad sources from those groups.

Then, follow the Pasco Cty sheriff cases, and especially the eBay gang–each of them is a ROGS Bingo.

UPDATE: Apparently Mrs. Demirovic’s– one of the indicted stalkers above, from the IMDB gang, is very popular, and many people read this post every day. Only the case of Everton Brown in Baltimore rivals the number of hits that posts about this “Diasporess” gets every day.

You can read more about her case here, where she ruthlessly and mercilessly stalked a few young boys. Weird, I know, right? But middle aged white women stalking pubescent boys is a “thing” in western countries.

If you are reading, Mrs. Demirovic, please feel free to contact me. I would love to hear your side of the story. And be careful with those plea deals–the feds are going to try to have you entrap other people, and much of their current entrapment schemes involve “manufactured terrorism,” which is what mass shootings are.

I invite all of you who are concerned about Mrs. Demirovic’s to write or comment on this post, instead of just “stalking” here. What have you got to hide, right? Lol.

And, because you are affiliated with many of the Jewish groups via the Holocaust Industrial Complex, ranging from Hollywood billionaires to any of the many well known gang stalkers in their Octopus of nightmarish international cabals, please, try not to let them use you like a puppet with their hand up your….oh, never mind.

Please, Internationale’ Jewish gang stalking groups, leave me alone! DO NOT STALK ME!!! …This ain’t my first Purim, folks.