Ok...lemme put in the TL:DR first, summarize, then show details.There is a pattern of violence against women who are politically active in Alabama. My wife is the only multiple victim but there are other victims who seem to fit the same pattern. The attacks are spread out over...decades. All of the attacks involve lethal force but apparently not lethal intent, with some exceptions(?). I cannot find a male victim.When I met my wife in 2012 she had already been attacked twice. I was hired as her research assistant and bodyguard on an election monitoring project.Still with me? Wild ride ahead.First attack: early 1990s, detailed here:https://ift.tt/3CZcQWe a gal in college running for student body president takes a knife to the face over it. Weird part is, whoever wins that seat in college has a strong likelihood of making high state office later. Gal in question is the daughter of a now-former state governor.Second and third attacks: 2007, victim was Dana Jill Simpson, Alabama attorney (now retired).https://ift.tt/2Ymb0zR goes into why she was attacked - one vehicular ramming, over house blown up (both early 2007, shortly after she started to support Gov. Siegelman. We know who did the ramming, an off-duty cop. They fired him but no prosecution and he was never asked who hired him.Fourth attack: Jill again, house fire bombed in late 2013. Three days before I married her and officially became Jim Simpson. Yeah, I know, indicates a "personal element"?Fifth attack: 2014, victim was Dana Siegelman, daughter of former Alabama governor Don Siegelman. Another vehicular ramming, but she was on a bicycle and barely survived.https://ift.tt/39YONKw me, it had a lot of the same hallmarks as my wife's ramming attacks: SUV or pickup, reinforced bumper guards, tinted windows. Likely motive: shut her father up. See the Nation article.Sixth attack, 2016. My wife was repeatedly rammed in Texas. Minor injuries. Kia Soul held up surprisingly well. She got a look at the guy, years later recognized him as a disgraced Texas lawyer with Proud Boys ties.Seventh attack, 2017, threatened vehicular ramming against my wife. No actual contact.Eighth attack: 2021, Cesaire McPherson is the former GF of the (married) Alabama Secretary of State who has complained about his abuse and hilariously described his enjoyment of dildos. No joke. A reporter covering the story says she was deliberately rammed in her car:https://ift.tt/3B9txxz minutes 5 seconds into it...Ninth attack, no details...I emailed a reporter covering the McPherson/Merrill story (Conner Sheets at AL.COM) with "hey, there's a pattern here". He replied that there's another female whistleblower he visited in the hospital after another vehicular ramming. No idea who or when but doesn't match any other case I know of.Tenth attack, 2021, Alabama state senator Vivian Figures:https://ift.tt/3D8B7ZX idea if it's connected to the rest.What in the fuck is all this?It's all lethal force attacks but with no deaths. First victim was terrified out of politics forever. Did somebody learn you could terrorize women into silence from that case? More than one paymaster?I'm...beyond pissed. via /r/CCW https://ift.tt/3BaDuuH
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