{"id":1204,"date":"2006-06-21T10:33:43","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T18:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/06\/rebekah_stop_the_madness.html"},"modified":"2006-06-21T10:33:43","modified_gmt":"2006-06-21T18:33:43","slug":"rebekah_stop_th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/rebekah_stop_th.html","title":{"rendered":"Rebekah, Stop The Madness!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rebekah Johnson, accused of shooting Ganas commune founder Peter Gross, is on the loose, perhaps in Staten Island, and is sending fucked up communiques to the Staten Island Advance<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The manila envelope, which bears a June 15 Staten Island postmark, contains copies of fliers demonizing Gross, as well as clippings about the May 29 shooting and previous articles about the Ganas commune.<\/p>\n

“Patrol car was stationed by 127 Corson for 2 weeks — 24\/7,” is the blue-pen jotting on an article from the May 31 Advance. “They left June 12th. June 13th Ganas cut all the vegetation by 127.”<\/p>\n

Whether Johnson continues to pose a threat to Gross is open to interpretation.<\/p>\n

Next to the headline “Commune stalker: Who’s next?” in that same issue of the Advance is an arrow pointing to a picture of Gross with the words: “Just him!”<\/p>\n

Another scrawl reads: “Expecting return of shooter? No way!”<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

The fliers contained in the packet branding Gross a “rapist” and a “pimp” first surfaced in 2004, and also appeared on a Web site in a rambling diatribe that compared Gross to Charles Manson and accused Ganas of practicing mind control.<\/p>\n

It’s believed that Ms. Johnson was the woman who disrupted the Staten Island Ferry centennial celebration in St. George last Oct. 25, distributing fliers branding Ganas a “cult group” that “rapes women to force them into fraudulent immigration marriages.”<\/p>\n

A copy of the flier — which depicts Gross in a photo — is included in the packet with a sarcastic note on the bottom-left corner: “I think someone don’t like him.”<\/p>\n

Stretched across the bottom of the page is a question in red felt-tip pen: “Could she be telling the truth?” The word “she” is underlined.<\/p>\n

A woman who answered the phone at the Ganas compound yesterday said, “It could be a good thing — if it helps the police catch her.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, Advance reporter Jeff Harrell pleads with Johnson to turn herself in<\/a>:<\/p>\n

You have reached out to me with a packet of assorted clippings and scrawled messages in an effort to get your message out. And your message brings out very serious problems that merit public attention.<\/p>\n

I am apparently your designated public messenger.<\/p>\n

That’s good. Communication is a key that can unlock the thickest of doors.<\/p>\n

But how can we communicate if you’re a fugitive in hiding?<\/p>\n

How can we find peaceful solutions to the severe problems you have posed if you’re being hunted down like a hardened criminal?<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

Nobody wants to see anybody else get hurt. Nobody wants you to be harmed, either.<\/p>\n

So let’s do this the easy way. Put down your gun. Walk into the police station.<\/p>\n

Surrender. Please. For your sake. Nobody will hurt you if you don’t give them a reason to.<\/p>\n

Turn yourself in.<\/p>\n

Then we can talk.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Backstory: You Win Some, You Lose Some<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rebekah Johnson, accused of shooting Ganas commune founder Peter Gross, is on the loose, perhaps in Staten Island, and is sending fucked up communiques to the Staten Island Advance: The manila envelope, which bears a June 15 Staten Island postmark, contains copies of fliers demonizing Gross, as well as clippings about the May 29 shooting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order","category-staten_island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}