[Indigsol] Evan Dalrymple's Only Friend Is The Police:

[mattm-b at resist.ca]

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Evan Dalrymple’s Only Friend Is The Police:

On Saturday, August 11th both Dan Sawyer and I were arrested after an
anti-Security and Prosperity Partnership demonstration by the People’s
Global Action Bloc Ottawa.  The result for me was one charge of assaulting
a cop and 11 charges of mischief under $5000.  It is the 11 counts of
Mischief under $5000 that I want to talk about.  At the time I was charged
I didn’t think much about the allegations against me; I had already been
arrested once before and released without charges in relation to graffiti
which I allegedly put up.  I assumed that the reason that I was being
charged was an attempt to get me for graffiti that the police believed I
had done.

It turns out, though, that Evan Dalrymple, a local fake, liar, thief and
all around jerk-off had called up the Ottawa Police and accused me of
engaging in mischief to property.

Although I am, of course, curious as to know why Evan would accuse me of
these crimes, the reason that he called up the cops was that we had a
little argument.  To give you all some background, Evan, me and some other
folks had all been living together at 84 5th Ave. (Evan still lives there
with several other innocent roommates) when things in the house between
Evan and I got so bad that I was forced to leave.  Evan would steal my
shit, go into my room, lie and tell stories and generally engage in
psychological abuse
and head games.  I wasn’t the only person to suffer these attacks, at
least 4 other people were also treated similarly.  It got bad enough that
they also moved out.

Evan is now making a lot of misleading statements (lies) about exactly
what was going on.  It should not be hard for everyone to understand that
Evan is lying; he is a liar; that’s what liars do.  However it seems that
some people do not know him, or somehow have not yet learned their lesson.
 So let me explain.

Regarding the “rumors” e-mail he put out across the ACA list.  One, no one
“confiscated” my knife, Evan went into my room without permission –while I
was staying at my partner’s prior to moving out completely- and stole it. 
To be clear, I was not living in the house when he did this.  How could I
be threatening him when I wasn’t living there?  Later some of my roommates
went into Evan’s room in order to get some of the many things he had
stolen from them.  On one of these excursions they also found my knife
which they kindly liberated from Evan and eventually returned to me.

In a letter to Exile Infoshop Evan has written:

“Fact- People in my house were scared of matt- my roomates took away his
buck  knife.(the people that are giving all of this information)

Fact- matt though i was a cop and my roomates  tara and alyssa (can
testify) were nazis. He apologized for that.

Fact- i had lent matt money to matt for rent and accepted his apology and
after a conflict wiht my other rommates he bagan to write me harrasing
messages every single day- ask Kara and others, while he was
thanking me for my food he was eating.

Finally I had a enough when he assaulted me infront of Manon- threatening
to beat me up. No one did anything for me. This is when i lost faith in my
roomates and began to make mistakes. What recourse did I have? I said
after he shoved me around I would call the police- but no- i did not want
to collaborate.”

Now something a little closer to the truth:

Fact – I have been diagnosed as Schizo-effective, although I prefer the
label “crazy”.  For me this means that I have “psychotic episodes”, mostly
audio hallucinations, sometimes visual hallucinations.  Also, what
doctor’s call “persistent false belief” which essentially means reaching
wrong conclusions based on little or no “objective” evidence, evidence
which naturally can also include hallucinations.  In hear voices.  Many of
them are pretty funny, some of them are cruel, and most of us are on
pretty good terms.  I may have thought Evan was a cop, I don’t really
remember.  I should have realized that he was a dirty fucking informant,
but who knew, eh?  I also thought Alyssa and Tara were Nazis.  Eventually
I realized this wasn’t true.  To be clear, I don’t feel even a little bad
about this.  I am crazy, and this is some of what it means.  If you can’t
understand, then fuck you.  It is like Evan to respond to any criticism
(to put it mildly) of his actions by attacking the person or people who
are raising the issue.  He has done this many, many times before.  In
fact, I really don’t like that I need to respond to any of this since I
feel it is really very ableist of him.  I was not “in crises” when this
happened.  And in fact, the fact that he informed was told to me, not
something that I made up or would have believed if I hadn’t been told that
it happened and that it was certain that Evan had been talking to the
cops.  This was not a false belief, or a result of any craziness.

Fact - I did write some messages on the blackboard.  They were always in
response to some new attack by Evan.  I probably could have been more
constructive, but Evan’s abuse was making me a little angry.  And it is
more or less impossible to be “constructive” with Evan since the guy never
listens, never changes and is always simply trying to manipulate people
and events for his own benefit.  He has, in my opinion, serious personal
problems which he “deals with” by hurting and abusing the people around
him.  Why he does this is unclear to me.  At this point I really don’t
care.

Fact - I did borrow money from Evan to pay rent.  I always paid him back. 
So what?  Up until the very end I was always trying to mend fences with
Evan.  I may not have done a good job, or been very good at it, but any
apologies or agreements or thanks that I made or gave were done in the
hopes that things would work out.  This was never the case.

Anyways, I left the house in mid-July, but I had to go back several times
in order to get my things: bed, clothes, books, etc.  The day that I came
back for the last of it, Evan happened to also be there.  I yelled at him,
he ran up the stairs and then yelled back at me from the bathroom.  I’m
not super happy with the way i behaved, but you have to understand what a
fuckhead Evan is.  Or not.  In any case, he made me mad, we yelled a bit,
and I ended up shoving him.  That was it.

To put it bluntly, Evan deserves a serious ass kicking, for this and for
many other things.  About the only reason I can see not to is that it will
let him play the victim some more, not change his behavior, and might land
some good person in jail.

Feel me: I was being abused by Evan over the course of months, and in the
end I got angry.  Is this wrong?  I don’t think so.  Like I said, I still
feel that Evan deserves a good ass kicking.

In the days that followed Evan contacted the Ottawa Police and accused me
of committing some crimes, presumably mischief to property.  A former
roommate of Evan's and mine, was present in the room when one such
interaction with the Ottawa Police occurred. In another instance shortly
following my argument with Evan, they answered a telephone call from
someone who identified themselves as a member of the Ottawa Police who
wanted to speak with Evan.  The ensuing conversation was about me and the
accusations against me. Furthermore, Evan spoke openly about the fact that
he'd tipped off the cops about the alleged mischief to property to them,
and at least one other roommate, as a way of seeking revenge against me
over the argument that we'd gotten into. He also bragged about delivering
a compact disc full of documents that were mine to the Ottawa Police.

As far as these criminal charges go, the thing to remember is that Evan
Dalrymple is a known liar, a man who lies constantly –daily, several times
A day- and a man with very little respect for others, and an deceitful,
foolish, abusive and nasty person.  Just about anyone who knows him on
more than a very superficial level knows this.

Evan Dalrymple is a security risk.  If Evan decides to go to he cops with
other allegations against members of the anarchist or activist community
there is a risk that someone will be unjustly imprisoned.  Because of this
risk, and the fact that he cannot be trusted in any way (plus the fact
that he never does any of the work anyways) I encourage any and all
anarchists or activists to refuse to work with him, or to associate with
him or to even talk to him aside from telling him to fuck off.

Exile Infoshop has banned him from the space. They have also passed a
motion stating that they will not work with OPIRG-Carleton while Evan
remains on the Board of Directors. Exile will post the reasons for its
decision on their website shortly.

Although every individual has to decide for them self what is an
Appropriate response to Evan’s actions, I think it is important to keep in
mind that The worst result for me is likely to be a few months in jail. 
As the person most directly affected by Evan’s behavior, I would urge
people not to be to extreme in any response they feel compelled to make.

Finally, if Evan publicly and in detail admits that he called the cops and
made groundless accusations for which he has no evidence, publicly
apologizes and sincerely and honestly wants to make reparations, then some
other course of actions could be taken.  Of course his behavior towards
everyone in the community would have to change significantly over the long
term.