The Mercers sat before a Channel 7 TV camera and whined:


Jeff Mercer:    "Every day is a constant, you know, is he gonna come out and video tape them, is he gonna come out and yell at them, is he gonna hurt them?" Donna Mercer:    "And it makes you feel bad that your kids feel like they're hated and that, you know, they can't even play in their yard without someone being bothered or yelling at them."

Can't play in their yard without someone being bothered or yelling at them?

  • Maybe if you put the playground somewhere else than just 8' from my home and back yard, maybe there wouldn't be a problem. YOU created the problem, and only YOU can fix it.

  • You warned me it was going to be problem long before you ever started your landscaping, but you did it anyway, Surprise, Surprise, Surprise -- YOUR prediction came true.

  • Maybe if you were a good neighbor and were willing to share the neighborhood airspace, maybe there wouldn't be a problem.

  • With the help of Jefferson County Mediation Services in 2001, we worked out an agreement that allowed us to live peacefully, by sharing the neighborhood, sharing the airspace. But your selfishness and total lack of integrity got in the way. You constantly cheated on the provisions and finally just refused to honor the agreement, to even pretend to share, to honor your signature, to live by your Word.

  • Maybe if you worked on teaching your children to not scream and shriek every second they use the playground, maybe there wouldn't be a problem. Obnoxious Kids can be taught to share.

  • Yes I see that you feel bad, you and your co-conspirators feel bad that your attempts to take and take and take my privacy and peace and quiet has not gone the way you wanted. You have not driven me from my home.

  • However bad your children feel, you are totally to blame. Your children have become pawns in your selfish desire to have the playground "out of your way".

  • Your unsafe and unsupervised playground is dangerous to your children and your guests. Your selfish desire to have the playground and noise away from your living area puts your children at risk, but then as always it's always all about you.

  • Jeff and Donna Mercer > you are both, Liars and Bad Parents. Lying vs. Truth: What does the Bible Teach?

There they go again with the "hate" word. I have never used that word. I've clearly stated that it's the parents who are guilty for putting the playground so close to my house and out of THEIR way, and their failure to honor a mediated agreement. They love to distort the facts to gain acceptance from the community. But the Facts are stubborn things.

This is the first time he's used the "hurt" word. His constant use of the "hate" word and now the "hurt" word only continues the pattern of his unwillingness to accurately describe the situation. He tries to enflame people's emotions with his antagonistic rhetoric. There has never been any prior accusation of "hurt", or any action on my part to cause him this concern. No action, no threats, no implied threats, nothing. But when he gets on TV, more illogical and baseless accusations are made.

If he can get people to emotionally focus on "children" and "hate" and "hurt", then maybe they won't notice all the actual facts, like how he warned me about the playground noise before he put it in, he knew in advance it was going to be a problem and he did it anyway. Or how they lack the integrity to honor a mediated agreement, which gave all of us 3 years of [mostly] peaceful co-existence.


Considering his statement "is he gonna hurt them", why does he continue to allow his children to use the play area for longer and longer times into the evening? Their barefoot pre-school child is left outside to play riding his tricycle up and down the sidewalk and street in front of my house, other houses and at houses across the street. The parents are nowhere to be seen, meaning they have no idea where their young child is at. They are not afraid of me or anyone harming their child, else they would not allow such a young child to roam the streets without any supervision. They will however, swear in court of their "fear" of me simply as a form of harassment against me.

I see only two possibilities here,
either he's is a Bad Liar or a Bad Parent.

... or both ...

Just how LOW will the Mercers go to avoid having to accept reality?

(read about how low they will go...)


If he's that concerned and continues to allow his children to use the playground, then he is clearly not showing good parenting skills.

The more likely explanation is that he is simply lying for the camera in a futile attempt to gain public support.


In Iraq, the so-called insurgents are murdering our soldiers and Iraqi citizens. They are committing horrible crimes against mankind. To prevent the other Arabs from condemning their actions, they wrap themselves in religion, and like cowards, they hide in a Mosque.

They attempt to make it a discussion about Islam and not their actions. And they succeed, since they know that Islam is a hot word, a hot button, an emotional word.

Their constant calculated use of these hot words, gets the Islamic public angry against America, and somehow controls the conversation, away from the horrific acts against humanity they commit.

The Mercers are employing similar tactics to prevent an honest discussion of the facts.

They refuse to discuss

Instead, they hide behind their children. They know if they claim that their children are threatened, that it will enflame peoples emotions. They can control the conversation away from the facts and their embarrassing dishonest behavior.


This is not the first time he has lied about me and things I've said or not said.


Jeff even seems to send his children out to scream on the playground equipment and stare into my backyard over the 6' privacy fence whenever I try to use my back yard. Their childish pattern continues.




Contributing to the population is not the same as contributing to society.