Continuing writing to Kevin:
In London, for example, police are now allowed to shoot to kill on sight before they have even detained a person, let alone given them a fair trial and found them guilty.
I am still deeply appalled by this thing. The Brazilian national was going to work and gunned down. Tackled and shot dead.
I have heard a lot of people say, "Why did he run? Why did he not stop running and talk to the cops?"
Here is what recently happened to some teenagers here in Buchanan.
They were out driving in a very rural area rather late at night. They had heard that there were some ghosts to see out there in the woods. They wanted so see these things. Out on a narrow, rural road, a man in a small car started chasing them. He came so close on their bumper that the kids were very afraid. They thought of calling the so called cops but their cell phones were out of range.
On this very narrow road, the man pulled beside them and came very close to hitting their car. The kids swerved to avoid wrecking and slowed down to let the mad man pass. The mad man pulled into a rural driveway and spun around on the grass and came out on the driveway after them again.
At another turn around place, he turned and ran into them head long. They had a collision and took out the head light of the kids' car. The kids took off and headed back to civilization.
They were at a gas station buying gas when two Botetourt County cops swarmed at them and a Roanoke County copstress and a state cop. Made them get out of their car and questioned them roughly and accused them of many things.
Shined lights in their pupils. No sobriety tests were given because the kids were not drunk.
They were accused of "hit and run."
When they tried to tell how they had been chased by this man, their stories were completely discounted and they were accused of lying.
The kid driver has now been charged with hit and run and has to go to court.
Coincidentally, I heard of a tale of a young girl coming home from her job who was also chased on a rural road close to here by a single man in a car. This incident occured a day before the kids were chased.
No charges in her case. She managed to make it home before he turned around and hit her.
The cops asked the kids, "Why did you not stop your car and get out and talk to this man?"
So, if this terrorist had had a gun and killed these kids, would that have made the kids' story more believable?
Probably not. Justifiable homicide. "That boy and those two girls were trying to rape me."
Why did the Brazilian national run from the London cops?
That was the only thing that made sense. I would have done the same thing. The minute they "made" him, he was a dead duck. His only chance was to run. His skin was brown and he had on a heavy coat.
Fuck that. He could have been white and wearing a sun suit. It did not matter.
They are probably doing the right thing, since individual bombers are yielding more and more power - but it's a hell of a world to live in.
I agree with you that it is a hell of a world to live in. I do not agree that they are doing the right thing. They are not doing the right thing. They are thugs.
Recently, I had to go to court about my daughter's dog, Cato.
Cato got out and ran up to my neighbor's house. She nipped a ten year old girl on her shoe -- did not even penetrate the shoe, let alone the skin. Late that night, there came a dog catcher to my door. Long before that, I had tied the dog up and promised to keep her tied up. Cato is an Australian cattle dog with a strong herding instinct. The girl was riding a bicycle.
The so called dog catcher declared her to be a dangerous dog. He told me that if I cooperated, he would not take the dog. I told him what happened and nicely did not behead him. I thought I was cooperative.
Then, he said that he had to take the dog to the pound. My daughter put him into his truck. The pound cost me about two hundred dollars.
In the meantime, I spoke to my neighbor and asked him if he thought that my dog was dangerous. He said that he did not think so and that he and his girlfriend would testify in court that she is not dangerous, that she is a puppy and that the child was not hurt. I told him that I would keep the dog inside or on a line in my yard. He said that it was his sister in law who insisted on charges and that his sister in law was "trailer trash."
A couple of weeks later, I called the bitten girl's mom and asked her again if she was willing to say that Cato is not dangerous in court. She assured me that she would.
At any point, had anyone said that he or she considered Cato to be dangerous, I would not have gone to court. I was assured otherwise. I should have recorded the conversations.
Needless to say, I went to court and the girl's mother testified under oath that Cato not only bit her daughter's shoe but also bit her and her sister in law and attempted to bite everyone else in sight.
This whole matter has cost me about five hundred dollars that I do not have. I am behind in my house payments. I may lose my house. It is nearly paid for.
Because the dog catcher was ignorant of the law, I had to pay two hundred dollars to the pound when I could have gotten the dog out the same day she was charged.
He did not know that.
When I was finally allowed to get her from the pound, the staff brought her out and played with her while I wrote my check for two hundred dollars. That is how dangerous she is.
I had to put signs on my property stating, "Dangerous Dog on Premises." The dog had to have a microchip injected into her. I had to pay for fifty dollar dog tags. Plus court costs. The microchip cost seventy dollars. I cannot even tie her outside. If I take her off my property, she must wear a muzzle. I intend to order her a rhinestone and emerald muzzle.
My kids grew up with this asshole's kids. They have been together since they were babies. My best friend was the asshole's wife who was killed seven years ago. I used to baby sit these kids for days.
His boys and my son have still been close up until the time their so called father fucked me over about Cato. They had not called Buster until today. They called him today to tell me that someone had lobbed a rock through one of their bedroom windows.
I reckon I will be in court again soon.
It was hard to get down but I swallowed their lies. I never said a nasty word toward them. I certainly would never have broken one of their windows with a rock or anything else. Neither of my kids did that either.
I will not go to court over his stinking window. The cops will have to shoot me first.
Dramatic? I don't think so.
If I had it all to do over again, this is what I would do:
When the dog catcher came, I would have thrown myself on the dog and screamed, "YOU WILL HAVE TO SHOOT ME BEFORE YOU TAKE MY DOG!!"
He would have called for back up and every cop in the county would have shown up. They could not have talked me off my dog.
As soon as one of them had laid a hand on me, I would have resisted arrest forcibly. At the first touch, I would have flung myself onto the hard gravel and made sure that I bruised my head. I would have also beaten myself in the head to cause as much bruising as possible. Then, I would have beaten my head and shoulders against my car and their cars and hard dirt. I would have bloodied my own nose.
From jail, I would have called a woman's advocacy group and accused all the cops of rape. I would have called the ACLU and accused them of police brutality. I would have used my imagination most convincingly.
Think I would now have a dangerous dog?
I doubt it.
I hate to have to resort to terrorist tactics but I will. Law enforcement do not understand reason. They don't want reason. They hate it. They like drama. I've got drama. The very last thing they want is truth.
Truth is not cost effective.
Last week, when my daughter and I were asleep, someone tried to break into my house. Very intimidating. Stupidly, I dialed 911. Took them forty minutes to get here. About four a.m.
Cop asked, "Well, didn't you have an idea who it was?"
Well, no, we did not. We had no idea who was trying to get in our back door; banging hard on the glass and rattling the door knob.
He said, "Well, if you could tell us who it was, that would make our job easier."
So, next time someone tries to break into our house, I will just open the door and yell, "Come on in. We know you, I reckon. Come on in 'cause you can rape us and everything 'cause we know you. The cops say we must know you. So whatever you do is all right because the cops say we must know you. It's all right with them if you kill us and what not because we must know you."
It is important to remember that at some time we will probably need to become terrorists ourselves in order to survive.
When, Kevin? When will we need to become terrorists? Will we need to become terrorists against the alien invaders or will we need to become terrorists against the law enforcement that we pay to protect us?
I have no faith whatsoever in law enforcement. I have no faith in law. I have no faith in oaths taken for truth. I have no faith in judges.
Conversely, I have no faith in lawlessness.
The matter is fast becoming one of survival.
How?
Since you are a very wise sage, I think you must have some answers.
Faizi