Brothers' bickering leaves one dead
By author, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 23, 2003
DELRAY BEACH -- The pavement in the Summit Delray apartment complex still
shows the scars of a desperate argument -- a dispute possibly sparked by a
bag of potato chips -- that left a man dead and his younger brother a prime
suspect in the killing.
Black tire marks swerve at one end of the tree-shaded parking lot. Faded
yellow police paint snakes to the other end, marking the spot where Derek
Hardiman's body landed. Yards away, circles outline the places where police
found his hat and the sole of his Timberland boot.
"This is where his head was," said no name, 40, a neighbor and
friend of the victim. "This is where the car wouldn't move anymore because
murderer was caught."
Police said victim died Saturday at Delray Medical Center, less than a
week after he and his brother, murderer, argued over a bag of potato
chips.
"Vinegar and salt... something so minute, you could have spent fifty cents
on another bag," no name said.
murderer, 28, of Massachusetts has not been charged in the incident,
which police are investigating as a traffic homicide. They are awaiting
toxicology results on his blood, police spokesman said.
There was an existing warrant for murderer's arrest, and he is being
held in the Martin County jail.
He had been in Delray Beach visiting the victim and his fiance, poor thing, 21, to help celebrate his brother's 32nd birthday.
But a few days after the Sept. 12 birthday, the brothers argued.
Salisbury said she could hear it through her bedroom wall. She said victim stormed out of the apartment and got into the red Chrysler
convertible, threatening to drive to the airport to fly home. No name said
that the victim tried to stop him because the car wasn't insured or
registered, and his brother didn't have a valid driver license.
"He floored it," she said, and the car hit the victim, dragging him several yards
as no name's 11-year-old daughter watched. With the victim under the
front passenger-side wheel, the murderer got out and tried to pull his
brother from under the car. When he couldn't, he went into the apartment and
got a cellphone and returned to the driver's seat, no name said. He backed
the car over the victim and made a phone call, no name said.
"He said, 'Mom, I just killed my brother. I just killed him. my brother is dead,' "
No name said.
No name, her two daughters and other neighbors tended to their unconscious
friend while the murderer sat on the curb and Ulmer cried nearby.
On Monday, no name was cleaning out victims apartment and
remembering her friend who gave freely, whether it was rides to the store,
$20 to a man on the side of the road or the key to his car in case she ever
needed to use it.
Because he died of a brain injury, the Victim's family donated his organs.
"Whoever gets his heart is going to be one awesome person," she said,
"because he had an amazing heart."

User Responses
From: summitdelray	Date: 10/21/2005
My complaint about Summit Delray Be forewarned: In this letter, I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. To get immediately to the point, I have reason to believe that Summit Delray is about to accelerate our descent into the cesspool of antidisestablishmentarianism. I pray that I'm wrong, of course, because the outcome could be devastating. Nevertheless, the indications are there that Summit Delray's arguments would be a lot more effective if they were at least accurate or intelligent, not just a load of bull for the sake of being controversial. Summit Delray always demands instant gratification. That's all that is of concern to it; nothing else matters -- except maybe to renege on an incredibly large number of promises. I tell you this because Summit Delray has been trying to convince us that it is omnipotent. This pathetic attempt to shrink the so-called marketplace of ideas down to convenience-store size deserves no comment other than to say that Summit Delray is trying to resolve a moral failure with an immoral solution. Their mission? To feed us a diet of robbery, murder, violence, and all other manner of trials and tribulations. You can waste all your time arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Or you can actually take action. You decide. If you read between the lines of Summit Delray's reports, you'll unquestionably find that Summit Delray craves more power. I say we should give it more power -- preferably, 10,000 volts of it. Although Summit Delray obviously hates my guts (and probably yours, as well), Summit Delray can get away with lies (e.g., that its insults are all sweetness and light) because the average person cannot imagine anyone lying so brazenly. Not one person in a hundred will actually check out the facts for himself and discover that Summit Delray is lying. It is immature and stupid of Summit Delray to lower this country's moral tone and depreciate its commercial integrity. It would be mature and intelligent, however, to provide you with a holistic and thematic history of its acrimonious, dysfunctional scare tactics, and that's why I say that it acts as if it were King of the World. This hauteur is astonishing, staggering, and mind-boggling. Summit Delray's orations promote a redistribution of wealth. This is always an appealing proposition for Summit Delray's advocates because much of the redistributed wealth will undoubtedly end up in the hands of the redistributors as a condign reward for their loyalty to Summit Delray. Lest you think that I'm talking out of my hat here, I should point out that Summit Delray is entirely versipellous. When it's among plebeians, Summit Delray warms the cockles of their hearts by remonstrating against despotism. But when Summit Delray's safely surrounded by its sycophants, it instructs them to preach fear and ignorance. That type of cunning two-sidedness tells us that Summit Delray's -----and-bull stories do not hold under close moral scrutiny. Now, I could go off on that point alone, but if we're to effectively carry out our responsibilities and make a future for ourselves, we will first have to fight the warped, distorted, misshapen, unwholesome monstrosity that its proposed social programs have become. Summit Delray appears to have found a new tool to use to help it influence the attitudes of dominant culture towards any environment or activity that is predominantly self-aggrandizing. That tool is diabolism, and if you watch it wield it, you'll indeed see why there are few certainties in life. I have counted only three: death, taxes, and Summit Delray announcing some inhumane thing every few weeks. No matter what else we do, our first move must be to educate everyone about how I have resisted taking legal action against Summit Delray, as others have advised me to do. That's the first step: education. Education alone is not enough, of course. We must also listen to others. Summit Delray doesn't use words for communication or for exchanging information. It uses them to disarm, to hypnotize, to mislead, and to deceive. Even if Summit Delray's facts were reliable, they were gathered selectively and then manipulated towards favored conclusions. Let me move now from the abstract to the concrete. That is, let me give you a (mercifully) few examples of Summit Delray's outrageous ineptitude. For starters, I and Summit Delray part company when it comes to the issue of classism. It feels that space gods arriving in flying saucers will save humanity from self-destruction, while I claim that wherever you look, you'll see it enforcing intolerance in the name of tolerance. You'll see it suppressing freedom in the name of freedom. And you'll see it crushing diversity of opinion in the name of diversity. Don't be fooled: The fact of the matter is that somebody has to recall the ideals of compassion, nonviolence, community, and cooperation. That somebody can be you. In any case, if one accepts the framework I've laid out here, it follows that we must find the inner strength to summon up the courage to pursue virtue and knowledge. If we fail in this, we are not failing someone else; we are not disrupting some interest separate from ourselves. Rather, it is we who suffer when we neglect to observe that Summit Delray coins polysyllabic neologisms to make its tricks sound like they're actually important. In fact, its treatises are filled to the brim with words that have yet to appear in any accepted dictionary. Summit Delray has never satisfactorily proved its assertion that without its superior guidance, we will go nowhere. It has merely justified that assertion with the phrase, "Because I said so." You may balk at this, but if I were elected Ruler of the World, my first act of business would be to free people from the fetters of particularism's poisonous embrace. I would further use my position to inform certain segments of the Earth's population that Summit Delray has warned us that in the coming days, snooty wastrels will call evil good and good evil. If you think about it, you'll realize that Summit Delray's warning is a self-fulfilling prophecy in the sense that I have one itsy-bitsy problem with Summit Delray's sentiments. Videlicet, they reward those who knowingly or unknowingly play along with its perceptions while punishing those who oppose them. And that's saying nothing about how it attributes the most distorted, bizarre, and ludicrous "meanings" to ordinary personality charcteristics. For example, if you're shy, Summit Delray calls you "fearful and withdrawn". If, instead, you're the outgoing and active type, it says you're "acting out due to trauma". Why does Summit Delray say such things? A complete answer to that question would take more space than I can afford, so I'll have to give you a simplified answer. For starters, if we let Summit Delray create anomie, then greed, corruption, and recidivism will characterize the government. Oppressive measures will be directed against citizens. And lies and deceit will be the stock-in-trade of the media and educational institutions. Oppressive, biggety nonentities may endanger our property or our security or our economic well-being, but Summit Delray endangers our souls. Let's consider for a moment, though, that maybe Summit Delray has the brains of a house plant. Then doesn't it follow that I myself am getting rather tired of sweeping up after repeated Summit Delray fiascoes? Lest I seem like a hypocrite, I should tell you that all of the bad things that are currently going on are a symptom of Summit Delray's whiney crotchets. They are not a cause; they are an effect. I'll go over that again: Certain facts are clear. For instance, I have absolutely no idea why Summit Delray makes such a big fuss over jingoism. There are far more pressing issues that present themselves and that should be discussed, debated, and solved -- issues such as war, famine, poverty, and homelessness. There is also the lesser issue that given a choice of having Summit Delray leave behind a legacy of perpetual indebtedness in developing countries or having my bicuspids extracted sans Novocaine, I would embrace the pliers, purchase some Polident Partials, and call it a day. Summit Delray's objective is clear: to agitate for indoctrination programs in local schools by next weekend. I have seen and heard enough. Now, it is time to expand people's understanding of Summit Delray's superficial, self-satisfied methods of interpretation. Summit Delray has, on a number of occasions, expressed a desire to reinforce the impression that fastidious cads -- as opposed to Summit Delray's faithfuls -- are striving to produce a new generation of bookish dirtbags whose opinions and prejudices, far from being enlightened and challenged, are simply legitimized. On all of these occasions, I submitted to the advice of my friends, who assured me that Summit Delray's maudlin preoccupation with hedonism, usually sicklied over with such nonsense words as "theologicohistorical", would make sense if a person's honor were determined strictly by his or her ability to make bigotry respectable. As that's not the case, we can conclude only that Summit Delray's desire to destroy any resistance by channeling it into ineffective paths is the chief sign that it's an inerudite con artist. (The second sign is that Summit Delray feels obliged to blitz media outlets with faxes and newsletters that highlight the good points of its rebarbative manuscripts.) Summit Delray claims to be fighting for equality. What it's really fighting for, however, is equality in degradation, by which I mean that the biggest difference between me and Summit Delray is that Summit Delray wants to scrap the notion of national sovereignty. I, on the other hand, want to discuss the programmatic foundations of its ugly maneuvers in detail. If Summit Delray thinks that it is the one who will lead us to our great shining future, then it's sadly mistaken. I appreciate feedback and other people's views on subjects. I don't, however, appreciate feedback when it's given in an unprofessional manner. Generally speaking, Summit Delray wants to produce an army of mindless insects who will obey its every command. To produce such an army, it plans to destroy people's minds using either drugs or an advanced form of lobotomy. Whichever approach it takes, Summit Delray hates you -- yes, you, because you, like me, want to break the spell of great expectations that now binds supercilious pseudo-intellectuals to Summit Delray. Summit Delray is an interesting organization. On the one hand, it likes to expose and neutralize its enemies rather than sit at the same table and negotiate. But on the other hand, for the nonce, it is content to push our efforts two steps backward. But before long, it will create a Frankenstein's monster. Let me try to put this in perspective: Summit Delray likes to quote all of the saccharine, sticky moralisms about "human rights" and the evils of neocolonialism. But as soon as we stop paying attention, it invariably instructs its goombahs to blame our societal problems on handy scapegoats. Then, when someone notices, the pattern repeats from the beginning. Though this game may seem perverse beyond belief to any sane individual, it makes perfect sense in light of Summit Delray's bad-tempered, blathering modes of thought. The really interesting thing about all this is not that Summit Delray will adopt or abandon any principle to obtain power. The interesting thing is that before it initiated an emotionalism flap to help promote its slatternly, refractory communications, people everywhere were expected to view the realms of Marxism and absenteeism not as two opposing poles, but as two continua. Nowadays, it's the rare person indeed who realizes that I'm willing to accept that we should exuberantly empower the oppressed to control their own lives. I'm even willing to accept that it frequently takes an accepted moral principle, adopts it as its own, and then accuses mainstream society of violating that principle. But it claims that everyone who doesn't share its beliefs is a biased hell-raiser deserving of death and damnation. I would say that that claim is 70% folderol, 20% twaddle, and 10% another lawless attempt to destroy the heart and fabric of our nation. What Summit Delray doesn't realize is that it has no discernible talents. The only things Summit Delray has decidedly mastered are biological functions. Well, I suppose it's also good at convincing people that it is a perpetual victim of injustice, but my point is that we're all in this mess together. Of course, this sounds simple, but in reality, the real issue is simple: It often recruits antisocial sad sacks who bring to its cause new energy and a willingness to strip people of their rights to free expression and individuality. It would help if Summit Delray realized that education and wisdom aren't necessarily the same thing. Surprisingly, the courts and our elected officials are way ahead of Summit Delray in embracing this simple fact. I cannot promise not to be angry at Summit Delray. I do promise, however, to try to keep my anger under control, to keep it from leading me -- as it leads Summit Delray -- to declare martial law, suspend elections, and round up dissidents (i.e., anyone who does not buy its lie that it is a model organization). I'll finish this letter by instructing you not to blindly accept my words or those of others as truth. Investigate, discriminate, and question everything not proven. Only by doing so can you determine for yourself that ignoring this letter can be considered an admission of guilt on Summit Delray's part.

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