Ensuing this introduction is a letter written for Simon Wood by David-Matthew Strunk after the release of an article that Wood wrote for New York Magazine about the life and death of Aaron Bushnell. Wood had reached out to Strunk because of his brief history as a correspondent with Bushnell in order to gain information on Bushnell and subsequently decided to paint Strunk in a negative light and include it in the article.
For further context, please read:
‘Aaron Bushnell’s Self-Immolation’ (nymag.com)
‘Shepherds’ by David Matthew-Strunk (mongoosedistro.com)
Open Letter to Simon Van Zuylen-Wood
of New York Magazine
Mr. Wood of New York Magazine,
I got the magazine last night. Exhausted, I feel asleep before reading it. Here it is noon on July 4th and I’m reading the (Aaron) Bushnell piece. Not sure I’m a fan of being characterized as “David-Matthew Strunk, a murderer”.
A friend of mine I showed it to said, “You should be thankful you’re not in here for getting caught with a 17-year old girl, because then the guy would’ve wrote ‘David-Matthew Strunk, a sex offender’. You would’ve ended up in the hole (solitary confinement) for the fights that would’ve caused.”
Unfortunately, my friend is right. In prison, a murderer is not frowned upon, but a sex offender is worse than an actual leper. I would’ve gotten beat up for it, had I been labeled as such. I guess my point is “David Matthew-Strunk, a convicted felon” would have been a lot better, especially considering that I’m still fighting my case in apellate court.
I did not intentionally hurt anyone. The victim in the situation I’m in here for was a friend of mine. When the paramedics showed up I was trying to administer CPR to the victim and they had to pull me off of him. I learned CPR in a class where we train on rubber human medical dummies.
I am certified and have saved three lives with CPR, two on heroin users experiencing overdoses. It was before Narcan was available to the public. They were starting to lose color and turn blue from lack of oxygen because they quit breathing. The third was a woman experiencing a cocaine overdose. With cocaine, you have to get the person into an ice bath, because cocaine kills you by raising your body temperature dangerously high. So I got all the ice out of my freezer and put it all in a cold-water bath and put the woman in the bath, because she injected too much cocaine and went coma on me. She woke up and came out of it. And no, I’m not the one selling these people these drugs in the first place, I’m just the one bringing them back to life after someone else sold them the drugs. So, I really resent the “murderer” label.
Also, “Agenda 21” isn’t some conspiracy-nut thing that went viral on kook websites, it’s an actual set of protocols suggested at a United Nations meeting. It’s a set of “articles”, it’s a list of items. They got together and wrote up a list of items that they would like to see happen in our future society. The “Agenda 21” list is sort of like the “social credit score” system in place already in China. You may have heard already, but basically China has surveillance cameras literally everywhere, and for example, if you smoke a cigarette and then throw the butt in the street instead of extinguishing the cherry and putting the butt in your pocket for later disposal, well the camera can use facial-recognition technology to identity you, which notifies the social credit network, which can then notify your bank, which lowers your “social credit score” by 10 points.
Just a week ago I saw on the Discovery Channel that there is technology in China in which there is a screen you smile at, and if your smile isn’t “happy” enough, the computer’s security-tech won’t let you open the refrigerator in the break room at your place of employment! This is all “Agenda 21” type social engineering ideation.
I once had a copy of the actual Agenda 21. It is literally a list of proposals created by members of a council attached to the United Nations. I remember one of the articles proposed was to make seating options in public places to be functional but less comfortable so that homeless people won’t feel free to nap or sleep in the daytime in the public areas, forcing them to find approved bedding in approved homeless shelters. Keep in mind, cities big enough to have homeless shelters have a homeless population five times what the bedding space is at the shelters.
Not long after reading this thing about “uncomfortable seating options”, I noticed that a popular coffee shop in my area of Fort Collins, Colorado decided to replace the couches and the stuffed chairs surround the tables in their seating area with wooden pews, salvaged from a defunct Catholic church, and wooden straight-back chairs. Homeless people were coming into the coffee shop, purchasing a coffee, then napping for an hour or two on the couches and stuffed chairs, which probably made the yuppies, who are shop’s “target demographic” uncomfortable. Yet, these same yuppies do the same: they come in, buy a coffee and then sit on their laptop for an hour or two. What’s the difference? Both groups are spending the same amount of money. But, one demographic, the napping bums, make customers uncomfortable, and the other group, the laptop yuppies, does not.
This same coffee shop gets a 501(C)3 tax-break for being counted as a “church” because they clear the tables out and set up 40 to 50 folding chairs in the middle of the shop for the owner to do an hour-long “sermon” on Sundays. Then they put the chairs away and go back to business as usual, selling coffee tax-free. So, I guess the guy wouldn’t feel comfortable just kicking the bums out like Starbucks would, because it wouldn’t be very “Christian” of him?
The point is, this “Agenda 21” is a real thing, not just a tinfoil-hat nut-job conspiracy. It’s not law, yet, but it is being implemented by businesses and whole “test cities” like Fort Collins, Colorado. Every square inch of Fort Collins is on camera, just like in China. There’s a cable channel you can get on TV in Fort Collins that shows the cameras. It’s like a version of the TV show Cops because on this channel you can watch homeless people in alleyways stepping behind a dumpster to take a piss in private, and even before the guy gets done peeing, here comes the cops out of nowhere to catch the guy and arrest him, or at least ticket him. In Denver, if they catch you by yourself peeing behind a dumpster in an alleyway, they charge you with “public exposure”, the same charge that the trenchcoat perverts get for flashing children, then you are a lifetime “sex offender” and have to register on the sex offender website and can’t get a job or live in many places.
So, yes, things have gotten out of control with law enforcement and how homeless people get treated, and Aaron Bushnell was right to agree with me about the things I wrote. Our United States Supreme Court just decided that homeless people can be fined up to $1,000 per day and jailed for sleeping outside. These people are homeless. Where are they supposed to sleep? If they had $1,000 they most likely wouldn’t be homeless! What say you?
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In closing, the problem with the Simon Woods of the world is, they are situated to be able to reach such a wide audience and could do a lot of good with a tool at their disposal like New York Magazine, instead of just sensationalizing people like me, people like Aaron. Or can he? He probably could’ve wrote his article in crayon and it wouldn’t matter. No one reads magazines anymore.
David-Matthew Strunk 102504
Sterling Correctional Facility
PO Box 6000
Sterling, CO 80751
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