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.

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.

Everyone has an opinion. My view of blogs.

Who really has something to say? Everyone has opinions. Of course. Only a lobotomized individual is totally bereft of any ideas, and there is evidence that they still have thought. But the part of the brain that makes anything of these ideas is now gone, along with each and every part of their personality. Maybe they could make for the best thinkers because their individualistic thought processes do not affect them. They would be much like the pre-cogs in Philip K. Dick’s short story “The Minority Report”. These individuals only gave the information that came to them. It was totally unaltered by their personal preferences. But is this best? It worked well for them because they were provided all that they needed while some one of their caliper would usually have been left to die because they could not care for themselves, and those that used their information were considered heroes in their community. But in our world those that are usually listened to are those that are highly educated and have taken the time to try to bestow information on those around them along with the world that they live in.

Opinions are everywhere. Just pickup a news paper and you will find a whole section of opinion and advice. Blogs have become a popular way of expression. One does not need any form of education. One simply needs access to a computer and the internet. I once read of an individual believing that blogs were the gradual destruction of the Rome that is professional journalism. Each informed and articulate blogger is much like the terroristic faction who eventually caused the demise of that great city. They do not need to have spent the time and money on a journalism degree or strive hard for a job, but they are also rarely paid for their insight unlike the professional journalist. They are really only doing it to vent. So does that make it a waste of time?

Maybe it is. These people devote hours out of their lives just to put into a public forum how and what they feel. So many opinions and dissenters are like looking into a world of “Special Olympic Athletes”. There are not always nearly as informed as one should be if they are going to allow the public to be let into their thoughts. They may have not learned the ethics that go into telling certain details of certain stories; but that could be argued away vey easily by pointing out news shows such as “Inside Edition” that is known for going out of its way to dig up the worst of the worst of the world’s best know people. Maybe the days of keeping certain topics out of the view of the public are gone. Even Voltaire spoke of not defaming some one’s name until they have been proven guilty. The days of “innocent until the proof of guilt” seem to be totally gone because of news media like these. But the ability to blog opens up the voice of those who are accused. They are able to put their thoughts into print, and those close to them can speak of how they feel. Just because one is charged with doing something does not mean that they did it. Charges are only there so that there is potential of prosecution. We can only hope that if they are innocent they will be found to be so. Blogging allows this innocent voice to come out, or at least the voice of the side fighting to keep their non-defamed name. With the old news media the public only hears the voice of the legal system. How often have you watched the news and only heard of charges and arrests without even hearing what the arrested individual had to say? Usually if we see a news story like that we automatically see them as guilty even if they may not be.

This can have huge psychological damage. I am sure we all read about the group of black college students that were arrested on charges of group rape. The ‘victim’ seemed to felt dirty for what she did or later regretted it for whatever other reason and then went to the police. These men were arrested and held for a lengthy time. Interviewed after they got out, one said that he knew he was innocent but being held in jail and constantly being told he was guilty started to wear on him and he even stated to believe that he may have been guilty of his charges.

It was not until a detective told the ‘victim’ that there might be a video tape of the incident did she recant. This is a perfect case of the real victim being those in the correctional system unjustly. When this story broke many were up in arms and a veritable lynch mob was unleashed mostly because the woman was white and the ‘rapists’ were black. Pictures came out in the papers and these men where guilty just because of racist views and the ideal that” No woman would lie about being raped”; and “No woman would ever wish to go through that kind of ridicule.” If only this were true.

Many women have come to learn that they become "heroic survivors" when theycome forward about this crime and restitution is now paid to rape victims. These women also know that the one who raped them will forever suffer with a grave stigma and a heinous record that not only the legal system looks down upon strongly, but so does the populace once they may get to be released. (Lest we forget that they will be sex offenders and will have to tell everyone in their neighborhoods what they were found guilty of.) Blogs are what allowed the true victims of this horrible crime to have a voice. So maybe blogs are good. We need to be able to let all of our voices be heard even if we do not have a large amount of education and get paid to put out voices on the internet. Maybe those elements really have become secondary when it comes to the real search for truth.

The Dr. David Stagg mess. Based on the evidence... How did it come to this?

This is a must read for every 1 interested in justice. Current mood: angsty Category: News and Politics
Here is the article itself. Please check it out. I knew the man professionally. This is the un-just justice system @ work. Please take time to read this. You will see why the evidence was not used to find truth, but to create the story law enforcement wanted.