Dec 30, 2009
Harm another one, Officer!
I'm Finding it very interesting that one can find stats of how many officers have been harmed in the line of duty, but one can never find the definite numbers of people harmed by them! Looks more and more like a police-state-of-affairs to me! The USA Today let us know that fewer and fewer officers are getting harmed at work. (This is great news!) But they do not mention that the # harmed by officers has had a gross increase in the same span of time! The punishment for officers who inflict harm onto victims has also decreased greatly. We need to hold them accountable while we still have a voice. If we wait around too much longer we will not be able to right the wrong. Let us stand and use the freedoms that this country was founded on.
Dec 12, 2009
So Long to the Independence Center from a LOOOONG time shopper.
Dear Independence Center;
I was quite upset after last night’s attempt to shop at your mall. I have been going to your mall as the central arena for my shopping needs since I was a child in the 1980’s. I still remember the mezzanines, with their burgundy carpet, that were the centermost part of the mall up above the food court. I always loved walking up and down them as a child with my mother pushing my sister in a stroller. I even made games of thinking what toys I’d wish to race up and down the ramps that I got from the Children’s Palace on the 3rd floor.
Though I may not have set any records in the amount of money that I have spent in your mall, I have spent a great deal of my hard earned money in your establishment, year after long year. I practically kept Sam Goody in business, all by myself, during Junior High and High school. As I grew up, I was always buying books at Border’s, scented things at Nature’s Niche, and taking my wife to get clothing at Torrid and Hot Topic. I have also been a regular shopper at Kay’s and have bought my suits and other nice clothes at Sears for almost all of my adult life along with all of my sports jerseys and jackets.
But last night while I was in your mall I was not greeted well or treated like a long time shopper. From the time I walked out of Sears and into the main area I was made to feel unwelcome to spend my money there. I was followed by two different officers patrolling your mall. They did not even try to make it look as though they were not directly watching and following me. It was so bad that one time I walked out of a shop and the officer was still standing outside the shop from where he’d stopped to watch me enter it. It got to the point that I did not ever wish to shop anymore in a mall where I was profiled with no probable cause.
I have never been kicked out of your mall; and having been alone I was certainly not breaking the: You cuss, You Yell, Groups of 5 +, or dress code rules that you have up as a standard of conduct. (I was wearing a button up white shirt with pens in the breast pocket, blue work slacks, and black shoes with a matching leather belt.) I was not causing any kind of scene, nor was I acting in any way outside of a normal shopper trying to choose the right gifts for their loved ones for the coming holidays.
I have to say this experience has made me want to never shop at your mall again. This kind of harassment of people who come to your mall wishing to spend money has been the down fall of other malls such as “The Mall of the Great Plains” and many others in recent years. In hard economic times one should never try to keep a patron, who wishes to spend money, away from any retail store. Retail has been one of the hardest hit industries and needs no further damage done to it.
I make part of my living making the community aware of injustice and wrong doing done to individuals. You have just added another issue for me to aware the public of Kansas City to. I will miss your mall, but I think you may miss the patrons of your mall much more greatly now that I will try to keep them from being harassed by those who are paid to protect shoppers like them, and myself, in your mall.
No Thank You,
Former Guest.
I was quite upset after last night’s attempt to shop at your mall. I have been going to your mall as the central arena for my shopping needs since I was a child in the 1980’s. I still remember the mezzanines, with their burgundy carpet, that were the centermost part of the mall up above the food court. I always loved walking up and down them as a child with my mother pushing my sister in a stroller. I even made games of thinking what toys I’d wish to race up and down the ramps that I got from the Children’s Palace on the 3rd floor.
Though I may not have set any records in the amount of money that I have spent in your mall, I have spent a great deal of my hard earned money in your establishment, year after long year. I practically kept Sam Goody in business, all by myself, during Junior High and High school. As I grew up, I was always buying books at Border’s, scented things at Nature’s Niche, and taking my wife to get clothing at Torrid and Hot Topic. I have also been a regular shopper at Kay’s and have bought my suits and other nice clothes at Sears for almost all of my adult life along with all of my sports jerseys and jackets.
But last night while I was in your mall I was not greeted well or treated like a long time shopper. From the time I walked out of Sears and into the main area I was made to feel unwelcome to spend my money there. I was followed by two different officers patrolling your mall. They did not even try to make it look as though they were not directly watching and following me. It was so bad that one time I walked out of a shop and the officer was still standing outside the shop from where he’d stopped to watch me enter it. It got to the point that I did not ever wish to shop anymore in a mall where I was profiled with no probable cause.
I have never been kicked out of your mall; and having been alone I was certainly not breaking the: You cuss, You Yell, Groups of 5 +, or dress code rules that you have up as a standard of conduct. (I was wearing a button up white shirt with pens in the breast pocket, blue work slacks, and black shoes with a matching leather belt.) I was not causing any kind of scene, nor was I acting in any way outside of a normal shopper trying to choose the right gifts for their loved ones for the coming holidays.
I have to say this experience has made me want to never shop at your mall again. This kind of harassment of people who come to your mall wishing to spend money has been the down fall of other malls such as “The Mall of the Great Plains” and many others in recent years. In hard economic times one should never try to keep a patron, who wishes to spend money, away from any retail store. Retail has been one of the hardest hit industries and needs no further damage done to it.
I make part of my living making the community aware of injustice and wrong doing done to individuals. You have just added another issue for me to aware the public of Kansas City to. I will miss your mall, but I think you may miss the patrons of your mall much more greatly now that I will try to keep them from being harassed by those who are paid to protect shoppers like them, and myself, in your mall.
No Thank You,
Former Guest.
Dec 10, 2009
Why?
A story has broken out of two Kansas City Police officers who have spent over a year in jail because of a shooting that took place in a park they were patrolling. The story goes that they were patrolling the park when a gun man opened fire on them. He charged at them while continuing to fire on the officers, and the officers returned fire, killing the man. The main evidence in their favor is footage taken from the squad car. It shows that this man was coming after them, and they were firing back in self-defense.
That! Is the reason we give police the right to carry guns! They were protecting their own lives from a man who was trying to harm them. These police did not act maliciously or try to inflict harm as their first, minute provocation. Their firing on this man was in self defense.
Why did this go this far into the trial procedures? I loved that they saw jail time like any other citizen would have. But, a year later they are just getting cleared? They had footage of a man firing on them while running towards them. Unless there were other elements to the story (like not trying to get a hold of emergency medical assistance, or shooting at him when he was down and no longer a visible threat) this seems exceccive. By what I have found, these officers used lethal force when it was a serious incident where their own lives were at serious risk.
I found all of this asinine! Especially when one is to consider the numbers of times police have shot someone in the back and killed them. Or when they killed an unarmed individual because they were scared. Or when a minor is killed when nonlethal force could have/should have been used. Or the instances where a loved one calls for assistance because someone they cherish is suicidal; but the police do not try to help this person save their life, but shoot them instead. With all of these cases where justice was not served, and innocent members of our society were killed by those sworn to protect us, tax dollars and court time have been wasted on a case that should have never gone on this long. These officers have had the one commodity that can never be returned to them, taken from them. (Time)
I wrote this article from my true feelings. For all those who try to use a broad brush and paint me as a “cop hater”, I am not. All I ask for is justice and accountability of those who take the oath to serve and protect the community and citizens where they serve. They should never be rewarded for instilling fear onto those in their jurisdiction or killing them without serious cause.
If an officer kills out of anything but self defense they should see the consequences of their actions. And when we have good cops, who got into bad positions, let’s not make them wish that they did not defend themselves. Let us not keep good cops off the streets because of politics, or a lack of "brotherly love" within the police fraternity. Real “Blind Liberty” Justice needs to return. It was what our country was founded upon, and we need to return to it, one step at a time, with each and every day making us closer and closer to that goal.
That! Is the reason we give police the right to carry guns! They were protecting their own lives from a man who was trying to harm them. These police did not act maliciously or try to inflict harm as their first, minute provocation. Their firing on this man was in self defense.
Why did this go this far into the trial procedures? I loved that they saw jail time like any other citizen would have. But, a year later they are just getting cleared? They had footage of a man firing on them while running towards them. Unless there were other elements to the story (like not trying to get a hold of emergency medical assistance, or shooting at him when he was down and no longer a visible threat) this seems exceccive. By what I have found, these officers used lethal force when it was a serious incident where their own lives were at serious risk.
I found all of this asinine! Especially when one is to consider the numbers of times police have shot someone in the back and killed them. Or when they killed an unarmed individual because they were scared. Or when a minor is killed when nonlethal force could have/should have been used. Or the instances where a loved one calls for assistance because someone they cherish is suicidal; but the police do not try to help this person save their life, but shoot them instead. With all of these cases where justice was not served, and innocent members of our society were killed by those sworn to protect us, tax dollars and court time have been wasted on a case that should have never gone on this long. These officers have had the one commodity that can never be returned to them, taken from them. (Time)
I wrote this article from my true feelings. For all those who try to use a broad brush and paint me as a “cop hater”, I am not. All I ask for is justice and accountability of those who take the oath to serve and protect the community and citizens where they serve. They should never be rewarded for instilling fear onto those in their jurisdiction or killing them without serious cause.
If an officer kills out of anything but self defense they should see the consequences of their actions. And when we have good cops, who got into bad positions, let’s not make them wish that they did not defend themselves. Let us not keep good cops off the streets because of politics, or a lack of "brotherly love" within the police fraternity. Real “Blind Liberty” Justice needs to return. It was what our country was founded upon, and we need to return to it, one step at a time, with each and every day making us closer and closer to that goal.
Dec 9, 2009
The Top Has the Real Vote.
A country could be in grave danger and in turmoil. But as long as those with the power are unaffected by this turmoil. They will tell everyone that everything is just fine and there is no need for change. They don't want to see that.
The president is only the human being on top of the political system. He is only the face of a huge government. The fuel is money. Money is brought in through funding by big business. Those who provide the funds/fuel are those who run these large businesses. So, for good or bad, big business runs America and the average tax payer gets the smallest voice of all in a system built upon representation by citizenship.
The president is only the human being on top of the political system. He is only the face of a huge government. The fuel is money. Money is brought in through funding by big business. Those who provide the funds/fuel are those who run these large businesses. So, for good or bad, big business runs America and the average tax payer gets the smallest voice of all in a system built upon representation by citizenship.
Dec 8, 2009
A Dead Body for Another Dead Body is Not Right... It's Just Right.
The man who killed four police officers in a Washington coffee house is dead. When he was found, he ran, and was shot in the back until he died. The gun was empty and the police officer had had his revenge. He was just as dead as those officers, and he was killed in a very similar fashion. The blood thirsty will say it was justice. But how is killing without trial justice?
The days of criminal hearings are going out the window when these kinds of acts are allowed. He wasn’t stopped. He was gunned down. He was killed just like his victims, and the officer will be praised, not reprimanded.
This is further proof that we let those with badges get away with anything. They do some good acts of selfless heroism, and all the bad things just go away and are unnoticed. It just shows once again how a Christian society is a flawed society. No matter what one does, as long as they pray, they are all-right in the eyes of the Lord, and will see no punishment. Just the same in our society, the only difference is these guys have guns and badges instead of a book and a pulpit.
Kill a man with orders; you’re a hero. (We won’t mention Nazis here….) But if one kills because they feel like they have a need, they are the worst criminals on Earth. I do agree with the last statement, but those in the first category are viler to me than any killer in passion. These people kill because they can, and get away with it. All they need to do is put up a face that they don’t like to do it. (If they don’t, why do they keep the jobs they say they hate so much?)
Killing is wrong on all counts. The taking of a human life should be met harshly when taken by a person who is sworn to “preserve life at all costs”. This should be the most true when they have sworn their lives to serve and protect. This man showed that he did not wish to harm anyone but police. He had more than enough opportunity to harm others, but he made it a point not to harm them.
From this situation, the police across the nation took it as the opportunity to say, “Hold on! Once we feel safe (by killing this man), we will go back to doing the job you pay us for. But not before. We just like getting paid, and wanna feel safe doing it. Fuck you all unamred civillians till then!"
The days of criminal hearings are going out the window when these kinds of acts are allowed. He wasn’t stopped. He was gunned down. He was killed just like his victims, and the officer will be praised, not reprimanded.
This is further proof that we let those with badges get away with anything. They do some good acts of selfless heroism, and all the bad things just go away and are unnoticed. It just shows once again how a Christian society is a flawed society. No matter what one does, as long as they pray, they are all-right in the eyes of the Lord, and will see no punishment. Just the same in our society, the only difference is these guys have guns and badges instead of a book and a pulpit.
Kill a man with orders; you’re a hero. (We won’t mention Nazis here….) But if one kills because they feel like they have a need, they are the worst criminals on Earth. I do agree with the last statement, but those in the first category are viler to me than any killer in passion. These people kill because they can, and get away with it. All they need to do is put up a face that they don’t like to do it. (If they don’t, why do they keep the jobs they say they hate so much?)
Killing is wrong on all counts. The taking of a human life should be met harshly when taken by a person who is sworn to “preserve life at all costs”. This should be the most true when they have sworn their lives to serve and protect. This man showed that he did not wish to harm anyone but police. He had more than enough opportunity to harm others, but he made it a point not to harm them.
From this situation, the police across the nation took it as the opportunity to say, “Hold on! Once we feel safe (by killing this man), we will go back to doing the job you pay us for. But not before. We just like getting paid, and wanna feel safe doing it. Fuck you all unamred civillians till then!"
Dec 1, 2009
Scared Cops = a High Body Count of Innocent Lives.
What happened in Washington was awful. But those people did not die without being shown a huge amount of sorrow and sympathy towards their families. As Mark A Clements put it best, “All cops are good cops when they die”. I am sure if Harvey Keitel’s character in Bad Lieutenant were real, even he would have been memorialized.
The news did not make a huge issue of it, but the female cop, Linda Griswold, had actually had a pretty good body count herself during her time on the planet. She had killed several people, and was able to justify her actions through being a police officer. Did that make her death right? Probably not. But maybe if the God that everyone keeps telling about me is real and actually exists, there might just be justice in the world after all. Karma was served.
I feel that human life is sacred and our society has devaluated it more and more with each passing year. Linda showed this herself through her actions. It has been said time and again she was very aggressive and would use violence and force any time she was able to justify it. Others will ask, “What about the other three?” I will say that it is still tragic. But in a case where someone is shot incorrectly by the police; if they are close to an assailant that is posing a threat to the police their death is deemed justified and the officers are not punished. This is even true in the case of children. (I may get flack for this one. But if you do not believe me, fine. Look up some cases yourself. You will see firsthand what I mean; some were rather high profile investigations.) Maybe these other officers were just in the way, and in the wrong place, for a rogue servant of God.
Was God simply doing justice that could not be served in a court room? Maybe… When the plagues came down upon Egypt, not everyone who lived there was guilty of the Pharaoh’s sins. But they suffered more cruelly than the royalty did just for living in that country during his misdeeds.
This should also turn our attention to the fact that now police are more scared than ever. The Kansas City Star reported that one office said, “He was scrutinizing every one he saw walk in and out of the convenience store he went into grab a Mountain Dew that morning”. The Seattle Times reported that a police chief said, “Now police see why it is so dangerous to work in the community.” As if any one (or all) of us have a hatred for police so volatile that we will just walk up to one and kill it.
Have we forgotten what a police officer gets for their work? A rookie cop gets $50,000 a year, some of the best health care in America, bonuses, major training, gets armed to the teeth, and has armor provided for them. Even when people say, “They rush in when everyone else is running out,” one must realize that they are not going in like some average person. They go in as protected as any one can be. In situations where “They are rushing in while everyone else is running out” they almost never die. Even when one is shot it is only a superficial flesh wound.
It really looks as though we as artists and political activists will be the ones who should be scared now. We have already seen what these Fascists do, when they are not openly scared, to those who speak their minds or wish to not look like the rest of the sheep in the flock. I know I had a state trooper put a gun to my head when he stopped me for “A plastic cover over my license plate” when I knew full well it was the political sticker I had on my car that stated that I felt George Bush was “An American Errorist”. All that happened in Washington was give police an excuse to be even more violent than ever before. I will promise you that we will see an increased body count at the hands of the police. But the saddest part of all is that these innocent Americans will not have millions looking for justice in their deaths.
The news did not make a huge issue of it, but the female cop, Linda Griswold, had actually had a pretty good body count herself during her time on the planet. She had killed several people, and was able to justify her actions through being a police officer. Did that make her death right? Probably not. But maybe if the God that everyone keeps telling about me is real and actually exists, there might just be justice in the world after all. Karma was served.
I feel that human life is sacred and our society has devaluated it more and more with each passing year. Linda showed this herself through her actions. It has been said time and again she was very aggressive and would use violence and force any time she was able to justify it. Others will ask, “What about the other three?” I will say that it is still tragic. But in a case where someone is shot incorrectly by the police; if they are close to an assailant that is posing a threat to the police their death is deemed justified and the officers are not punished. This is even true in the case of children. (I may get flack for this one. But if you do not believe me, fine. Look up some cases yourself. You will see firsthand what I mean; some were rather high profile investigations.) Maybe these other officers were just in the way, and in the wrong place, for a rogue servant of God.
Was God simply doing justice that could not be served in a court room? Maybe… When the plagues came down upon Egypt, not everyone who lived there was guilty of the Pharaoh’s sins. But they suffered more cruelly than the royalty did just for living in that country during his misdeeds.
This should also turn our attention to the fact that now police are more scared than ever. The Kansas City Star reported that one office said, “He was scrutinizing every one he saw walk in and out of the convenience store he went into grab a Mountain Dew that morning”. The Seattle Times reported that a police chief said, “Now police see why it is so dangerous to work in the community.” As if any one (or all) of us have a hatred for police so volatile that we will just walk up to one and kill it.
Have we forgotten what a police officer gets for their work? A rookie cop gets $50,000 a year, some of the best health care in America, bonuses, major training, gets armed to the teeth, and has armor provided for them. Even when people say, “They rush in when everyone else is running out,” one must realize that they are not going in like some average person. They go in as protected as any one can be. In situations where “They are rushing in while everyone else is running out” they almost never die. Even when one is shot it is only a superficial flesh wound.
It really looks as though we as artists and political activists will be the ones who should be scared now. We have already seen what these Fascists do, when they are not openly scared, to those who speak their minds or wish to not look like the rest of the sheep in the flock. I know I had a state trooper put a gun to my head when he stopped me for “A plastic cover over my license plate” when I knew full well it was the political sticker I had on my car that stated that I felt George Bush was “An American Errorist”. All that happened in Washington was give police an excuse to be even more violent than ever before. I will promise you that we will see an increased body count at the hands of the police. But the saddest part of all is that these innocent Americans will not have millions looking for justice in their deaths.
Jesus is Southern Comfort.
Jesus is alot like Southern Comfort. At first consumption it feels great and peaceful; every one is your friend. One drinks more and then becomes angry. Eventually, with enough consumption, one becomes so enraged with another's dissagreement that some one evetually gets badly injured or kill.
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