Dean's gone silent! Normally he's an obsessive FB poster. When he has nothing to say he compulsively reposts his prior posts, some from years ago. He last posted February 27th with nine posts, all just reposts, most from 2016. Since then, nothing. His last posting discussing his personal situation was this on February 25;
Dean Kory The R.C.M.P. showed up at my door again with the landlord banging on my door. The landlord put his key in the lock and tried to enter and our dog started to bark...guess these cops had no actual authority to enter cuz they didn't force entry and shoot the dog, they just went away...now the R.C.M.P. are clearly acting "Parties to offence"...Time to file.
As in, I assume, file lawsuits against the police. Then the batch of reposts on the 27th. However the comments from the reposts are enlightening about how much real chance his followers think he has to actually change anything.
First this proposing direct action;
QiHiyealthanoolth TimoyKin KanMethqa Hey Dean Kory I have so much respect for you...and you are a fighter!!! You are most difinately in the right!!! There needs to be a line drawn...you know I look at how they are on you to crumbel and because you most definately know what is shaken!!!! Don't allow them to coral you with there b.s. can keep you down!!! Tell them all how it really is through the web, radio taik show , media!! Watch em back off !! Just don't go where they have full control of you!!! Realize this is thier last attempt to shut you up !!!
That's right, watch them back off when Dean rants even more than he's doing now! He's been telling "them all how it really is throughg the web" for years. Net result? Abject total failure. A conclusion not lost on one of his followers.
Darby Gallagher Ya those are great talking points, but whoever has the guns makes the rules. So unless you are going to focus on organizing people; you're energy spent as a lone warrior against a battalion of dragons is futile. Work smart not hard, sort of thing.
Darby Gallagher I guarantee, if you posed a meaningful threat on your own, we would never hear from you again. The fact that you are years into this, and still yelling as a voice in the wildnerness means by default, you are not a meaningful threat. 1 stick is weak. 3 tied together much more powerful. Enroll people to an idea that they can believe, passionately, and a small number of people can change the world. I do not believe a lone warrior against an army can do ANYTHING.
Darby Gallagher You'll notice I have never said anything you have ever said is actually wrong. Being "right" has nothing to do with be victorious.
But Darby, unlike most of Kory's followers, has a constructive suggestion!
Darby Gallagher Then I recommend you go to some country in the british commonwealth thats in the tropics, and have all the same fights. But IN THE TROPICS. You can live in hammock on the beach and eat coconuts, bananas, and mangoes
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Sounds sweet! But, a nitpicking question. How is Kory, dead broke and living on welfare, with a criminal record and, I assume, without a passport, going to be allowed into any of the potential tropical paradises? Darby seems to think Kory has a open-arm welcome wherever he wants to go.
Then more words of encouragement from Darby;
Darby Gallagher I hope 10 years from now you haven't aged 25 years, because being right doesn't mean you'll win. Do you really want to fight every day for whatevers left of your life. I'm not saying you are wrong to do what you do, I'm asking you to consider the quaility of your life. Are you happy/realized battling around every corner. Is there a balance that can be had from picking your battles? Do you believe you will beat "them"? Do you think they can afford for you to "win"? I find your stuff to be invaluable, and you to be a phenominal resource, but when you have nothing recognizable as a "life", whats the point? On the other hand, if you are enjoying the fight, then by all means. Art of War by Sun Tzu says, only start a battle you know you can win. I hope you recognize that I have great admiration for you, and that this comment is rooted in caring about you, and you having a life for yourself. (I have to tell myself all these things everyday)
Paul Fiorio, mentioned elsewhere on Quatloos (mainly here
viewtopic.php?f=48&t=9579) seems to have given up;
Paul Fiola I've often wrestled with this dilemma, it just hurts my soul to go along to get along. I feel like I'm shoveling coal on the hell fires. Contributing to the evil that so hurts me.
I did over ten years hard battle, I am back 'on the books' and complying because the only battle I've won are the ones where I had others standing with me. Standing alone I lost. So many leave us standing alone out of fear.
But not Dean!
Grow some balls people! it's just business...learn the rules! Stop doubting and be real and stand as a MAN!
- Dean
Then total silence from February 7th until yesterday when he did a single share of somebody else's post without commenting. It's very uncharacteristic for Dean to be off the air this long. Even if he has absolutely nothing to say he at least has manic bursts of reposts. The last time I remember a gap like this it turned out he'd been in jail. So a few guesses. First he said in a prior post that he planned to voluntarily leave the Alberni Inn at the end of February. His landlord seemed to be trying to speed that up and I'm guessing that he's finally out. However he hasn't, at any point in the past month or so, noted any potential replacement accommodation. As I previously reported he recently tried to get into the Warmland House homeless shelter in Duncan and was blocked from even going in the building by the RCMP. He's burned so many bridges on Vancouver Island (tossed out of Victoria, Qualicum Beach, Nanaimo, Tofino, Duncan and hanging by a thread in Port Alberni) that he might well face a very tough challenge getting new accomodation anywhere on the island. So here are the possibilities;
1 - Best case - He's given up on Vancouver Island and heading back to Ontario. Or at least somewhere outside of British Columbia.
3 - He's in jail. Perhaps as a result of a confrontation with the RCMP.
4 - He's scrabbling to find accomodation anywhere on Vancouver Island.
5 - He's moving to the mainland. Hopefully not Burnaby.
So all I can do is wait, with baited breath, for the next exciting installment of Dean's Excellent Adventure.