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....Time 2006 Man of the Year :>Mother and Son Open Fire on a Group of Youths Looking for Fight
2007-02-27
My goodness! I saw this news article online and thought, "Holy Cow, what is this world coming to" - that would cause this kind of response from a mother and her teenage son? I'm thinking what an over-reaction to a group of young men, anywhere between 12-30 (30 is pretty scarey), according to witnesses, showing up at another teen's house looking for a fight. Why didn't the mother call the police or something less radical? Please read the article here to get pertinent information.
Further down in the article it states the family had been harassed for years because the father is an out-spoken community activist engaged in trying to improve his neighborhood and crack-down on crime. Therefore, he had installed a suveillance camera on his premises, I guess, to film this alleged harassment. He turned the video over to the police and claimed his wife and son were defending themselves.
Okay, I'm thinking - how long before we see copycat scenarios of this nature? In one sense, it's good. Good, decent, honest-working people are fed up with crime and the laws set up to favor the perpetrator and are going to take care of business themselves. On the other hand, it's really bad because this kind of taking-the-law-into-one's-own-hand can get out of control like wild fire! How did we come this far?
How do y'all feel about this?
Parents Sue Deputy Found in Daughter's Room After Warrantless Home Invasion
2007-02-25
I'd like to know what others think about the $10M lawsuit coming out of Roanoke, Virginia concerning a couple waking up after 1:00AM to their 10 year old daughter's screams and rushing into her bedroom to find Deputy J. A. Woods with a flashlight aimed on the bed and another man (civilian) yanking the covers off the girl. Please read the article here and then my comments below. [It'll just make more sense, you know? :]
There's just got to be something missing from this story. Apparently, according to the story, Deputy Wood knocked on the [front?] door for 30 minutes [hard to believe knowing that LEO's don't tap-tap-tap on doors, but rather beat the living daylights out of them with their nightsticks] before breaking into the girl's bedroom, while a number of LEO's were positioned outside the house. NOW GET THIS. Apparently they had no warrant. The wife announced she was going to call the Police when the Deputy responded by saying, "I am the Police." The parents demanded, as far as I'm concerned, the reasonable question as to what the hay they were doing there in their daughter's bedroom and the Deputy said they had a reason but he wasn't going to say anything more. -oo- [Well, that surely would have satisfied my
curiosity - NOT.] The parents then ordered them to leave. Other details can be learned from the article, but it should be noted the parents filed the lawsuit and the Deputy's office sent them a letter stating they were looking into it. However, the parents haven't heard a peep since then. What gives?
Something's wrong here. Even if there was a "reason" - why no warrant? Why was the Deputy accompanied by a civilian and not another LEO? What mischief could have been perpetrated there under the color of authority?
How do you get this kind of story out there in the Public Eye to insure the proper scrutiny of this totally bizarre happening? Under the so-called Patriot Act - no one is safe from home invasion by the LEO. Just think. If that father had shot those men in his daughter's bedroom because he felt threatened and was defending his family, don't you think the LEO's outside the house would have shot that house into sawdust leaving no witnesses to the bizarre home invasion?
Does this sound like America to you?
WHAAaaaaa' hoppened?
2007-02-12
To My Dear Friends,
I've been told I have my head up my posterior at times, tricksy titters, and I'm the brunt of a lot of jokes, but I have not been able to post on my tBLOG account in, well, foreVER! Or at least it seems so. I can't even bring tBLOG up. It's like it doesn't exist. Either that, or I don't (exist). And I'm in heaven. However, this doesn't l-oo-k like heaven to me. I mean the blizzard and all, cabin-fevered in an RV stuck in the Michiganian tundra...frozen pipes, no water, no shower, no washy-clothesy, no tblogging, no tBLOG friends stopping by to chat :( Nope. You can't convince me this is heaven.
Soooooooo, this must all mean I've been verrrrrrrry, verrrrrrrrrry bad. Cuz, this seems like Hell!.
What gives?!?
Somebody help me?
Laying-down-waiting-for-the-truck-to-run-over-me-PuC
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