The rabbi who is neighbor to Mark and Patricia McCloskey speaks out:

[elleng]

‘They are bullies’

When Rabbi Susan Talve heard that Patricia and Mark McCloskey would be among the speakers addressing the Republican National Convention, she decided she could no longer stay quiet.

“It’s so upsetting that they have a national audience,” Talve said. “It’s upsetting we make heroes out of people who hate.”

The McCloskeys are Talve’s neighbors. Their property’s northern wall abuts the property of St. Louis’ Jewish Central Reform Congregation, where Talve is the rabbi.

In 2013, the synagogue placed beehives along the wall to produce honey for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. One morning they found the hives destroyed and all the bees dead. Mark McCloskey had taken an ax or sledgehammer to them.

His issue? The fence between them sat six inches inside the McCloskey’s property line. The hives were his to wreck.

“He could have picked up the phone and said, ‘Hey, those beehives are on my property,’ and we would have happily moved them,” said Talve.

She said children at the synagogue wept when they heard the news of the hives. The synagogue maintains raised bed gardens on its property that supply some 2,000 pounds of fresh produce to a local food pantry, as well as pear, fig and apple trees.

“We were going to have our own apples and honey for Rosh Hashanah!” she said.

She said the McCloskeys didn’t contact the temple at all before lashing out.

Instead, McCloskey left a note threatening to sue the synagogue for damages if the shattered hives were not removed at once.

“Civility,” Talve said. “I’m willing to speak out now because there’s such a lack of civility that’s happening, and I don’t feel like I can be a part of that, and silence is complicity.”'>>>

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[muriel_volestrangler]

1. He's a psychopath.

OK, bees aren't human, but to go straight to killing them, rather than just saying "move them", indicates a careless lack of thought for others, whether animals or the humans who obviously intend to do something constructive with the hives.

He might even be worse that Trump. I'd have expected Trump to threaten legal action first in such a case. Trump's narcissism at least means he looks for what people think of him. He occasionally has to fake looking as if he cares.

[BeckyDem]

2. Sometimes things are not complicated at all. There is good and evil.

These two personify evil.

[onethatcares]

3. and they have guns

that's scarier than hell. What slight will trip that trigger?

but they have money, gauddam money, money, money and feel entitled

There was a post yesterday about we've all been subject to a "DeJoy" in our lives, Well, in that vein
we've all been subject at one time to a "McCloskey".

[PCIntern]

4. May the plagues of the pharaoh descend upon them

And destroy them and what is theirs.

The philistines must be Annihilated.

You fuck with the Jews at your own peril.

Never again, motherfuckers.

[maxsolomon]

5. this is a duplicate thread.