"Fatti maschii, parole femine" - state motto of Maryland (Italian for "manly deeds, womanly words")
So Friday I woke up early (having trouble sleeping because of jet lag), and went down early to DC, and caught the red line out to the Montgomery County circuit courthouse.
Prep ads in Union Station!
At first I had trouble looking up Tony's case. I don't know what
@garbage cake did to find
the divorce case, because when I searched for his name (both Erin and Tony), it wouldn't come up. I even put in the case number listed in the screenshot directly and that didn't work. Only case I could see was Tony's name change case. Maybe sometime I'll grab that too.
I just winged it and talked to the clerk, handed him the case number, and lo and behold, they had the actual hard copy of the case. I paid for copies and was on my way.
Today I went by the library and scanned all 378 pages. They're attached as PDFs on this post. I ocr'd them, so you can nominally do ctrl+f's or copy and paste text, although it's not perfect ocr. But it's probably good enough for basic use.
Now the clerk said that some items in the case were private, so there might be missing exhibits (?). Not sure though.
Now let me explain what you're looking at.
They gave me the ~400 pages in two big manila envelopes. I'm not sure which envelop comes first, chronologically, so I just scanned them. The file order I have is:
Code:
1. Tone_06042022112919_ocred.pdf
2. Tone_06042022113039_ocred.pdf
3. Tone_06042022113321_ocred.pdf
4. Tone_06042022113617_ocred.pdf
5. Tone_06042022113856_ocred.pdf
6. Tone_06042022114149_ocred.pdf
7. Tone_06042022114326_ocred.pdf
8. Tone_06042022114450_ocred.pdf
So half of those are one envelope, half are the other. It might be that docs 1, 2, 3 are envelope 2 and 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 are envelope 1. I don't remember where the dividing line is.
Also, some submitted court documents can be stretched across several pdfs. So if a document just ends abruptly, check the next one in order. The scanned documents are in order as far as that is concerned. So if a document on pdf #4 ends mid sentence, it should continue in pdf #5.
If any other documents abruptly end, then they were perhaps redacted or were entered into the file improperly or something.
If you have any questions, let me know.
I briefly went through the docs on the train ride home. A lot of legal stuff I don't understand, but I saw a couple snippets that I found interesting:
The (a) of this is pretty key for something to actually be a genocide, at least from my view. I’ve yet to see anything showing trans people are getting anything close to this, in fact I’ve seen they have lower rates of being murdered than the average US citizen. I can give Tony part of his argument on (b) with the conversion therapy, but it’s pretty flimsy considering some view the transgender movement as a way to fix gays and lesbians (basically what the Middle East does with trans). (c) is complete horseshit from Tony, I’ve yet to see a detransition bill, just bills preventing transition. The bathroom part of this point is a joke. (e) is basically what happened with the aboriginals in Australia, I don’t think that is what is happening in Texas. The scale is also much smaller.
Any one of those individual points can suffice to qualify as genocide. So like mass sterilization of an ethnic group would qualify as genocide, even if you didn't then march them to the gas chambers.
The real fuckup Tony makes is at the top, "intent to destroy ... a national, ethnic, racial or religious group". The reason why genocide is such a big deal is because it's an action taken against a group of people who reproduce largely through genetic factors. It's eliminating a "people", not just a crowd of weirdos with common hobbies.
Trannies simply cannot be the targets of genocide because they aren't an ethnic group. They don't have family trees of trannies and tranny lineages. Even if it's some big human rights violation to gas all the trannies (just as much as it'd be to gas all the bronies or weebs or gays), it's certainly not genocide.
(Religions are kind of a funny edge case, because technically religions that permit conversion don't strictly have a 100% genetic heritage, although I'd argue that the spirit of the definition of genocide includes religion just because it's often tightly entwined with more straightforward ethnic identities. So like Sikhs are often Punjabi and an ethnic cleansing of Sikhs in some area might just be a proxy for genociding Punjabis. With this approach, I wouldn't consider Scientologists to be genocideable.)
