Sweet Coastal Tourist Community or Den of Prejudice, Hatred, and Murder?

I totally agree that we should all be able to help our fellow man, without seeking reward or notice, and at least know in our hearts that the smile on someone’s face is the only reward we need and that a “Thank You for your kindness” goes above and beyond what we ask in return.  This was my creed from an early age in 1955 all the way until now.  But for a few years, 2000 – 2008, I had a slightly different understanding.  I have since forgiven those who persecuted and prosecuted me maliciously and did try to end my life in a most vicious and malicious manner.  They considered me a threat.  They considered my gaymonterey.com website a threat.  And they considered incoming global gay people to be a threat.  Gay money was apparently not the same green as everyone elses.  For 23 years I owned Dave’s Cycle World, a motorcycle shop that catered to all two wheeled motorcycles, Harley, Triumph, Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki, Suzuki, BSA, Royal Enfield, and even Hodaka.  My customers included kids in the Dirty Dirt Rider Motorcycle Club, mostly dirt bikes, all the way up to the Hell’s Angels and the Fort Ord Fogbuster Touring Club.  Everyone came in and told me everything about everyone and included judges, lawyers, all police departments, sheriffs, highway patrol including the chief, and a visit from Clint Eastwood when he required a part for his Triumph.  We made his day! 

I owned and operated my motorcycle shop from 1974 until we were burned in 1997.  In 1989 I had added bicycles, Cannondales and Scotts to be exact, since many of my customers and I as well, wanted to get back into shape and bicycles were much less harmful to the body as opposed to jogging on the concrete bicycle paths that joined the cities.  I had always believed that if you gave people top n

Jesus Christ was the PERFECT example of what happens when we try to help humanity.

When I lived in Monterey all my life, pretty much, (moved there when I was 5), I had a motorcycle shop for 23 years and helped the poor and impoverished will cheaper forms of transportation and gave everyone super prices and then after 23 years the landlady and her husband died and the lil weens (brats) took over and wanted me to leave.  They tried all sorts of harassment within the law and then my shop was arsoned.  The landlady’s husbands truck was the last vehicle seen leaving the area.  I was under insured but even so the DA tried to pin arson charges on me.  The land lady collected a huge sum but was Italian descent as are most of the local govt people so I was targeted but when I passed a lie detector test they dropped the charges and the insurance gave me a piddly $43,000 to cover the $250,000 in losses.  I moved on and took a job telemarketing.  A few years later I ran into a gay friend who told me that the gay community was in chaos since they discriminated against gays in work and everything else so I told him I would start a website to organize the events and let everyone know about the gay volleyball games on sunday and the baseball and movie events and the pride festivals.  A friend warned me to associate with a corporate charity to avoid responsibility on my part.  I thought he was nuts.  Why would the govt come after me for helping gay people?  But after about a year my site was getting some advertisers and finally had some money coming in and my site was recognized by GayEurope, a feather in my cap.  Shortly after that the District Attorney called me in again and asked what I was doing?  Helping out, I said.  Those poor people are in such trauma, kids are committing suicide and people are afraid to mention their gayness at work for fear of being fired.  I told him that I had actually been talking with teenagers who emailed me and that I had helped 8 of them avoid suicide.  HE said “WHY?  They are just going to be persecuted and hassled and eventually murdered anyway!  Why prolong it?  I considered him sick and ended our conversation and left.  He later called me in again and said that I was STILL promoting this gay “thing”.  I was happy that we had be recognized in Europe and had received kudos from a French visitor and tow guys from Wales and told the DA.  He stood up, all upset, and said ” WE DO NOT WANT those kind of people here in Monterey!”  He then went on to say “The ONLY reason for YOU to have a gay website is to lure people in for sexual exploitation.”  I told him that was nonsense and that when I had my motorcycle shop I helped people from 8 to 80 and no one ever said anything about my good deeds then.  He said “Well, THAT’S different … most bikers aren’t GAY!”  I later found out that Monterey refused to allow gay cruise lines moor in the bay but allowed ALL the straight cruise lines access.  Monterey blamed it on the sewage toxicity on the gay ships but the ship owners cited the fact that the ships were all made my the same manufacturer as were the sewage systems.  Monterey shrugged it off as “The gay ship just doesn’t pass … not our fault … we’re just giving you the results.”
Anyway, to make this short Monterey filed charges against me for Internet Obscenity to Minors since anyone over 13 was allowed to go to our G rated pages, of which ALL of my website was G rated.  I offered a Teen Page where they could play games and interact with other gay teens and I had links to the Gay Teen Alliance and all sorts of kewl stuff.  In fact, our Teen page was getting more hits than ALL the other pages.  The teen page was also protected by a very simple access code that kept adults out of it.  The DA asked for the code to enter and I told him that it was not even a code.  You just had to click on the invisible access point and told him that it was so simple that ONLY the kids knew how to get into it.  IN the two years I had the page, there was not one instance of pervs or pedophiles accessing the page and bothering any of the teenagers.  I told the DA to see if he could get in and if he couldn’t that would prove that the kids were safe!  A few days later he called and said that he could NOT get into it, even though there were instructions to the kids on how to get into it.  You just had to click on the second “L” in the instructions.  The obvious link color was changed to blend with the other colors so it was not obvious but the instructions were clear.  The DA could NOT figure it out.  So, I told him how to do it.  He checked and found the page very “G” rated and commented how the games were interesting and how his own child would probably like them.  I told him that the games were not just for gay kids … I did not want them to feel like they were different from anyone else so I made their games “normal” like everyone elses. 

Nevertheless, The District Attorney continued on with their threats and after nearly TWO years they had NO evidence and our website gave them nothing to prosecute over and our seized computers were above reproach.  And yet they took it to the next level and threatened that they would file 80 midemeanors and felonies and that “any jury” would give them at least one conviction and with that they would put me in prison and spread a nasty rumor and the inmates would kill me.  My attorney explained that I was innocent of all the charges, even the one they first filed, but that he was a Public Defender and as such had to ask the DA for the money to defend my case and that it would take about $250,000 to do so, and that Monterey did NOT have the money to give him to defend me.  He said that I should not plead guilty since I was innocent, BUT that a wise man would weigh his options and proceed accordingly.  He said that if I pleaded “nolo contendere” to two charges that they would drop the rest and I would do time served and be released.  No death sentence.  But that I would most likely have to leave the county and live elsewhere since the DA had targeted me and would be trying to murder me “accidentally”.  I would end up “swimming with the fishes” on other words.  So I took the plea bargain and when the judge asked me if I had been threatened or coerced I looked at my attorney and he shook his head and I said “No your honor”.