The police in Somerville, Massachusetts recently arrested a guy they’d been looking for for some time now. There’s been a rash of graffiti around the city, and it’s had quite a few people concerned. But after a few breaks, they caught their guy, and he’s charged with defacing public property.
According to 19-year-old Jason Cutler, he wasn’t the only one responsible for it, but admits to being a part of a group of about 10 young people who didn’t care for the way the city was changing. Somerville is moving upscale, with poorer people moving out, richer people moving in, and old stores making way to such things as coffee shops.
So, what was the response of Cutler and his friends?
They started tagging the city with the rallying cry “KILL A YUPPIE.”
I’m glad he’s been arrested, but I have one niggling question:
Why isn’t he being charged with a hate crime?
He freely admits he was calling for the murder of people based solely on their economic and social class. In my book, that qualifies as a hate crime, as is commonly defined.
But I guess yuppies aren’t considered a “protected class” under the law.
P.S. Has anyone seriously busted William Tighe’s chops over Ryan Sullivan? Here’s an idiot who spent a year out of circulation for harassing and assaulting a couple of teenage women, and his first night out of the pen insults some women, gets into a fight with their men and ultimately winds up in Ryan’s stabbing. Does he get a pass because “he’s one of us,” too? Just curious.
Dose Billy Tighe get a pass hell NO, and he’s not one of us. Billy Tighe is looked at as a bitch and a punk by his peers and get’s no respect by fellow Somervillians. After Ryans death many people wanted a peace of Billy, but it was Ryans brothers who said that he dosn’t want that. Billy Tighte gets no pass in Somerviile he is one of the most hated Somerville kids around. To answer your question fuck no that bitch dosn’t get shit I hope he stays locked up.
Posted by: Random Thoughts at October 26, 2005 11:41 AM
One more thing I’d like to add Billy Tighe get’s no pass from his peers. Billy gets no respect from the community or the youth and I hope he stays locked up.I grew up with him and he’s scum.
hello, ive just found out about this thing and as you all know because you are ALL talking about me (good or bad) i am the one an only the famous jason cutter i guess…well i guess ive created quite a stirr here so if anybody has anything to say questions coments anything please ask me or tell me because im pretty sure that I will know what I feel and i can give you some answers, i would like everyone to know the real story if they WANT to thats why im not gunna bother the ones who dnt care an jus like writing crap for the sake of crap so if you really are wondering about all the stuff that went on you are more than welcome to hit me up my email is [email protected] i will gladly tell you anything you want to know and i would like to hear your comments an how you fell as well so feel free to e mail me okay…
oh yeah one more thing…LONG LIVE THE KING
lol see ya lada
Hi Cutter!
How dare any of you utter the name of some one you dont know that died and tell people to move on. Matty is an example he was the first in a rash of deaths you idot thats why thew pain still lives. Im glad you have kids in the city. they will suffer the same as we have then spew your bull shit on them, you wanna talk big get big. i dare you to go to lexington, lincoln or kelly park and say any of this to the kids there. good luck walking home with broken legs
i grew up with billy tighe and was good firends with him until i was about 16. this kid is no good. he has always been bi-polar. the kid can be happy and out-going one moment, and the next he’s trying to fight you.
for a better insight into why billy acts this way, refer to this page, written by someone who used to live upstairs from billy. zeitgeist.numachi.com/katt/letters/gangs.html
^this is an interesting read.
god bless somerville. yuppies, and all. especially my peers who never made it to see today. R.I.P. boys.
thanks, teele sq for mentioning the katt h posting – she says a lot about a lot of things that nobody really wants to talk about… and thanks for hanging in there smcl and SOSvillens.
I stumbled onto this thread, or googled on to it, because I saw in the Glob today a front pager in the City Weekly about an Arlington High student who killed himself and surely drugs were part of the mix and thought, hmmm, here’s a kid, jock, loved, drugs, cops in the family and killed himself with family gun. Sound like someone from Somerville? Arlington makes page one of City Weekly (Lexington would probably get top headline Front Page), ours…well, I was googling around to see if David M.’s story showed up anywhere besides the Journal, guess not, but I did wind up here so it was worth it. Good discussion.
I thought the same thing. Someone in Somerville kills themself, or O.D’s, and its in the death log. Someone from Arlington, they get a front page of our paper! But of all the Ville’s deaths how many got the front page of anything, even in our own paper? I dont think its simply because its so rare in Arlington , but because death and scary things of this sort dont helpthe real estate industry. A yuppie sees this in their morning paper find it hard to avoid, some grafitti on the street can be cleaned away, and forgotten.
I don’t buy it as a real estate interest plot (although who knows?) – nobody but nobody wants to talk about it. After the first memorial meeting for Matty O’Brien at KP and all the SHS and authorities left, everybody lit up and did one for Matty, not a good solution – I wasn’t there but heard this from one of his cousins the next day. She was furious. And then the afterhours drinking club at the Little League, nothing happened about that either. Sometimes a community has to stand up and fess up and take charge. Too many people are sitting back and saying oh, Somerville’s always been like that. Maybe some piece of the truth there, but it doesn’t have to be that way.
17 deaths of young people under the age of 20 in between 2001-04 years that is the number. Non of witch where even talked about in any paper not even the Journal. When Matty died there was something in the Journal but that was quickly swept under the rug. Afer Matty and Elliot no body would talk about the rash of OD’s, Sucides, 11 pharmacy roberys for Oxys or ever the 4 murders that occured in 2004. Somerville dosn’t like to talk about it peoblems, sounds like some place many of us know ie: Southie Boston’s gem neighborhood with some of the highest Suicide and Over dose rate in the state. Just like Southie Somerville is looking past this problem thinking it will pass. While in the mean time those kids that where using Oxy’s in 2001 are now the same herion users that are getting swept under the rug. But hay this new money is making people forget who is in the real pain here not the yuppies it’s our youth. People need to step up and be roll modles for youth. Stop bashing or talking about kid you don’t know and step up and help the citys youth
well said, good sir, well said.
Okay im sick of everyone blaming ryan sullivans death on billy. i doubht ryan would. i think its sick how ppl blame billy for ryans death more then the 2 scumbags that actually took the effort to stab ryan multiple times, Billy isnt the reason ruans dead, its the people that actually murdered him. billy didnt want this to happpen, i seen billy at ryans funeral and if he dint care about this he wouldnt be seen outside by himself absolutly distraught. it seemslike the 2 that did this to ryan areforgot about,well thats bullshit, blame them once in a while, not billy, And what about Danielle Leblank? the girl that told the 2 guys to do it? shes off scott free, maybe we should start thinking about her scumbag ass, instead of billy. i understand trouble foolows billy around, hes a kid with troubles, but none of you who dont know him, or ruan have any rite to blame him for the death of his dear friend thanks- karissa
HEY MY VILLAGE why dont you state your name for all of us here on this pussy chat sight anyone can sit at a key board and talk shit or even pick up a gun and shoot someone but it takes a real man to “shoot the fair ones” so when billy gets out why dont you say it to his face and u 2 can bang the ones or if u cant wait that long and your lookin for a fight come on down to lexington and get handled by all us “youngins” (if your man enough that is) and when billy does get out i would love to see u say it to his face and when he’s done beatin your ass YOU CAN GET YOUR SOMERVILLE PASS REVOKED OFFICIALLY by all of us and if your offended by this round up all your boys and come and find me its not too hard im at the park everyday so bring the ruckus mo’fucka
HEY MY VILLAGE why dont you state your name for all of us here on this pussy chat sight anyone can sit at a key board and talk shit or even pick up a gun and shoot someone but it takes a real man to “shoot the fair ones” so when billy gets out why dont you say it to his face and u 2 can bang the ones or if u cant wait that long and your lookin for a fight come on down to lexington and get handled by all us “youngins” (if your man enough that is) and when billy does get out i would love to see u say it to his face and when he’s done beatin your ass YOU CAN GET YOUR SOMERVILLE PASS REVOKED OFFICIALLY by all of us and if your offended by this round up all your boys and come and find me its not too hard im at the park everyday so bring the ruckus mo’fucka
I think that dude “my village” as well as everybody else in here thats talkin shit about things that they dont even kno anything about. This is OUR village includin Billy Tighe and everyone from Lincoln to LP. And if you people eva wanna come out from the front of that keyboard and show your face you can easily find any of us anywhere, but specifically i would want you to come to LEXINGTON PARK and find me and tha rest of tha hoodlums u just love to write about so much u fuckin nosey ass bitch made motha fuckas if you havent lived in Somerville for at least ten years you cant say shit about it and if u do say it(not type it on a gay ass chat room) to a real somervillens face, u betta protect ya self motha fucka ~1~
ONE LOVE TO MY VILLENS
LP Kid your a funny one. I am “from” Somerville, still in Somerville. Why can’t I experss my opinion on the matter of Billy if all the people on here that don’t know him can??? I was just answering a question that was asked. You don’t know me, and I guess I don’t know what’s going on in this city I grew up in right?? Your joking thinking I wont walk down LP anytime of day no matter who is there. Shoot the fair one’s with Billy that’s old, buddy grow up, If I feel that way about the kid it’s my right, but if you want to be a fool and start shit that’s your right too. One more thing, you wanna call me out saying I’m not using my name, use yours, I bet I know you. Kid.
I didn’t think people still posted on here. Then I saw this.
“but specifically i would want you to come to LEXINGTON PARK and find me and tha rest of tha hoodlums u just love to write about”
I’m from Lexinton park, was there when ‘WE” came up with the name LP, still go down there, I’m working hard to see that the kids down there can get a full Basketball court with art work in tribute to Ryan Sullivan done on it. LP kid, what ever you beef is with this guy, kid, woman, what ever just forget it, the cat posted it in 2005 it’s nothing new don’t waste your time with it, but I have a problem that your calling the kids down that park “hoodlems”, and calling people out to fight,in an attempt to bring senceless beef the nieghborhood. The kids I know from that park, and I know most of them, are SOLID SOMERVILLE kids not a bunch “hoodlems”.I’m not one to type much, but I do stand up for those kids down there when some people do like to talk about them. I’m working to make positve change down that park, and having a kid claim LP telling people online to get there boys AND COME DOWN LP is just stupid and imature, Especially when SOS is trying to do good things for the kids from LP.Help me out just drop it.
Is this serious? You guys obviously have way too much time on your hands. Yuppies….villians or whatever you call yourselves, who cares. You people do not own the city. Any you should not be speaking of the ryan sullivan case when not ONE of you had a clue about it. All you know is what you hear. It is a tragedy but you can not point fingers. You were not there. Niether may you judge. Back to reality.
12spin88, Your right non of us on here was there, but we do know the people who were there that, and hear there first hand account of what happend.
SHUT UP! you idiots, none of you no nothing of anything, and you do a terrible job at pretending to care, all of you, you disgust me, hiding behind your alias’ alowing a monitor to sheild you from truth, bunch of knuckle dragging self endulged backwards walking morons, are you that bored?? i mean really?? you sit and talk about each others rights and so forth but who are you to speak of someone who is not here?? what gives you that right to throw around peoples names as if they were your close and dear friend?? and yet you cannot even give your own name when speaking of them?? HOW DARE YOU! you people have some nerve…you all make me want to throw up so go back and hide behind your fortress of keyboards and cute little nick names, and false ideas, i am truly disgusted.
hi i’m katt- thats my real name.
i’m not from somerville- i’ve lived here about nine years, but i’m from a different place, and i’m moving to roxbury in september.
my town, ann arbor michigan, it was DESTROYED, MUTILATED, and utterly rendered UNRECOGNIZABLE by GENTRIFICATIOn– or, in short- YUPPIES. I don’t like killing or violance, sure, but i do a DANCE whenever i see one of those “Kill the Yuppies” graffittis still up. its like a bomb went off where i’m from, a bomb that leaves the buildings but kills all the people, and replaces them with yuppie-monsters. . . . . fucking horrible, oh yes, no erudite language for it, it is FUCKING HORRIBLE. I’m not there because there’s nothing left- my friends, my friends’ businesses, homes, apartments, the hangouts, haunts, god, everything’s been gentrified all to hell.
same thing in cambridge, where i tried to move cause it reminded me of home, until it happened there, too.
i help run an art gallery in cambridge- its called the zeitgeist gallery, and its always been run almopst entirely by people who don’t have much money or resources. . . . . its supposed to be a gallery for PEOPLE, not snobs and rich people and yuppies. and sometimes it IS and sometimes it ISN’T .
for those from somerville, i wanted to know your thoughts, if you’ll grace me–
whenever an art space opens, it seems to attract the dreaded, horrible, evil, un-caring, don’t give a shit YUPPIES!!! UGH!!!! how, how, how can a community make places like that that dont’ bring about their own destruction? I’m particularly interested in hearing from people who’ve lived here their whole LIVES, yes. . . .
what does this have to do with the really heavy stuff being talked abut here? well, its no exageration, i know it sounds cheezy as shit, but its TRUE as shit, too, that when i was growing up the musicians and artists in my town SAVED MY LIFE. they encouraged me, and showed me places to go and play my little fiddle, and people to play music with, and people to play music for. and the college in my town was way cheaper at the time, and i was able to go there. . . . . they took me in when i had no place to go, and my life was going to be one long horrible disaster.
i know not everybody is at all interested in music and art and stuff, some people are interested in science or sports or history or traveling or cars and machines what have you, and there should be spaces for people to learn about ALL of that, so we can all do things that make us tick, but thats what i know how to do, its about all i’m good at.
Thats the MAIN thing thats changed, in my poor destroyed little home town, is that there are fewer and fewer and fewer people who GIVE a FLIYING F*&K about what happens to their neighbors anymore. . . . . the next kid like me who comes along, those people who helped me won’t be there, cause no one can afford to LIVE there anymore. . . . . no one who doesn’t spend all their time and energy making HUGE PILES of money to afford the MAD EXPENSIVE houses.
anyway, what helps alieviate all this horribel stuff, kids dying from drugs and fighting? what makes the world les frustrating? affordable housing, things to do, places to hang out, jobs, alternative schools, community gardens, parks, classes with no grades(oh what are they called, afterschool things), fencing clubs, marching bands(they have one in JP called Stick and Rag), circus training classes(like the unicycle lessons i see arund here), open mics for youths, art shows, radio stations, invention clubs, parent support groups, what? can you envision an arts place that woudl be helpful, or are they all, always, an invasion?
there so answer here, if you want, or write me if you want, too:
[email protected]
Sorry but if you want a better life, you need a better neighborhood. If you want to have thugs, townies, brats and noise, you get what you tolerate. You get loitering kids who should be at home studying so they don’t end up as deadbeats like their townie parents. You get litter and rats and then blame the city for not holding your lazy McDonalds soda cup tossin’ ass hands. You get killing and crime because the bum parents should never have been allowed breed. Listen up, quit the “I’m a townie an’ I’m here all my mofo life” maoning and get your act together. Let the yuppies bring money and flowers and clean streets. My tax as a yuppie pays for your schooling. I’m sick of it being wasted by resentful brats that think everyone owes them a living while they bitch and whine, threaten and fight and show no respect. I work hard. You should too.
Jason Cutter is in the news again. This time it was a metaphorical right hook to the jaw.
http://somervillenews.typepad.com/the_somerville_news/2006/08/yuppie_hater_pe.html
Alright tom or whoever, you people are so mad that kill a yuppie isn’t a hate crime or whatever. How many yuppies have to die befor it is considered one? oh please. WHEN DO YUPPIS GET KILLED? NEVER! DO YOU KNOW HOW MAN TEENAGERS WE LOSE IN SOMERVILLE, AND YOU WANT US TO GIVE A SHIT ABOUT YOU? WE’RE LOSING OUR OWN TEENAGERS THAT ARE ACTUALLY FROM SOMERVILLE, AND HAVN’T EVEN LIVED THEIR LIFE YET, AND YOU WANT THE CITY TO GIVE A SHIT ABOUT YOU? These kids are young, growin up, and have to deal with shit you probably never had to deal with, and theyre dying, HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU YUPPIES GONNA DIE WHEN YOUR SITTING ON YOUR COMPUTER ALL DAY OR AT STARBUCKS? STOP CARING ABOUT YOUR SELF, WAIT UNTIL TEENAGERS STOP DYING FOR NO REASON ALL THE TIME THAT WE LOVE, THEN YOU CAN OPEN YOUR MOUTHS.
“yuppies die”, please Watch the news or read a boston herald and you tell me whose dying.
karissa
Alright tom or whoever, you people are so mad that kill a yuppie isn’t a hate crime or whatever. How many yuppies have to die befor it is considered one? oh please. WHEN DO YUPPIS GET KILLED? NEVER! DO YOU KNOW HOW MAN TEENAGERS WE LOSE IN SOMERVILLE, AND YOU WANT US TO GIVE A SHIT ABOUT YOU? WE’RE LOSING OUR OWN TEENAGERS THAT ARE ACTUALLY FROM SOMERVILLE, AND HAVN’T EVEN LIVED THEIR LIFE YET, AND YOU WANT THE CITY TO GIVE A SHIT ABOUT YOU? These kids are young, growin up, and have to deal with shit you probably never had to deal with, and theyre dying, HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU YUPPIES GONNA DIE WHEN YOUR SITTING ON YOUR COMPUTER ALL DAY OR AT STARBUCKS? STOP CARING ABOUT YOUR SELF, WAIT UNTIL TEENAGERS STOP DYING FOR NO REASON ALL THE TIME THAT WE LOVE, THEN YOU CAN OPEN YOUR MOUTHS.
“yuppies die”, please Watch the news or read a boston herald and you tell me whose dying.
karissa
If you teen thugs spent some time at a computer in a Starbucks instead of spray painting public property and hanging around loitering in parks, then you wouldn’t be getting killed. Being poor is no excuse for being stupid.
to thugdnbrats
what would sitting at a computer in a starbucks do other than turn us into a bunch of whining do-nothings like you.Yuppies, hippies, college students, you all sit and sip youre lattes and type on youre blogs and do internet petitions and davis square based protests against Bush thinking you are changing the world. You look down on us “poor kids” who write graffitti and hang out in parks but when you think about it, whats the difference? We hang in parks you hang in cafes, we have graffitti, you have blogs, we are just a low-rent version of the coffee shop revolutionary except, wait, Bush is still in office, where as we are making headway to getting somthing done for us. i”m aware of the scale difference but the fact is we have the balls to do somthing and you dont.
This one is in response to “staydirty.” Yes, I am a product of Somerville, born and raised..4 generations of my family have grown up on the beautiful streets of Somerville, Massachusetts…I don’t recall any one of us ever complaining about the condition of our wonderful city..We seem to be extremely proud, as is…We don’t need money or flowers, as it is apparent that you do…So feel free to take your precious tax dollars somewhere else..No one would be complaining..