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| June 25th, 2001, You know, I've finally gotten something to say. It's taken a whole month of me building up thoughts, but I've got one, right fucking now. It's got to do with wonderful authority that all of this country is ruled by. All the way from that philandering son-of-a-bitch that has been removed from the office of the presidency (but oh, how could he be mindwiped from my brain?) Bill Clinton and that real winner we put up in his place, god... I can't even remember his name.. George Bush, Jr. to the little dicks that control MSN's chat rooms.. I'm about sick of authority figures that are corrupt and worse than the people they are meant to control. I understand that there is just so much evil you can take before getting tainted yourself. But we need people who can work PAST their own criminal thoughts. I have a friend who's uncle was driving along the other day, minding his own business. He pulled out in front of a truck full of teenagers and got knocked the fuck out. The accident was his fault, and No, I don't expect him to not reap the benefits of that, but... what occured afterward is just absolutely ridiculous. The old man, my friend, had been knocked loopy by the accident, his vehicle was stopped. When the police arrived on the scene, they beat him, dragged him, and threw him in the car. This old man was nearly unconscious in the first place. It was broad daylight, 11 am in a residential neighborhood right beside a railroad track. The old man now is laying in a hospital, he's unconscious, has 20% chance of survival and is certain to have brain damage from wounds received. He had internal bleeding, open wounds, and had lost his shoes somewhere between the throw into the police car at the accident to him arriving at his nephew's work. They took him to his arraignment with no shoes, no clean-up or anything even though he was clearly bleeding and the arresting officers, who are required to be there, didn't show. The judge ordered the man out of the court and to get him some medical attention. Instead the officers dropped him off on the side of the road and made him walk over 6 blocks with no shoes and internal bleeding with a concussion to his nephew's work. NOW.. I ask you. Is this what we want our police to be? Should we ignore this? I live in a small town with small minded people. Everyone knows everyone, the church might as well be God.. and this still happens. What is HAPPENING to us? Are we animals? Do we deserve to be beaten like this? What does this say about our communities when this happens and NO ONE IS INSULTED BY IT?!?! It wasn't even reported on in our own town's newspaper. No one was punished for their actions. No one WILL be punished for these actions, yet a man, 4 days from retirement lays in a hospital bed, his wife and other living relatives worrying the entire time, and all for nothing. Does this make me respect the authorities of this town, of this state, of this nation, of this WORLD and of mankind anymore. No. It seriously makes me doubt myself as a human being, that I allowed this to happen by my own inaction, my own apathy, my ownself. I've seen injustice done before, but it has always happened to somebody else... somebody farther away, somebody NOT ON MY DOORSTEP. And still, it's not something that I'm too involved in, but what if that was me in that car accident. What if it had been me sitting in that car, getting beaten for causing an accident? Do we want Gastopo? Is there a reason our police need to be soldiers in the civilian arena? Last time I checked, the criminals were reactionary to what the authorities did. If the authorities carried bazookas, I don't believe that would stop someone from breaking the law. But a badge never NEVER gives someone a license to beat anybody senseless. Necessary force, they called what they did to him NECESSARY FORCE. They called internal bleeding, necessary, on an old man who was unconscious. That's NECESSARY!! What happens when a 21 yr old young man reacts with force? Do we KILL him then and consider it necessary? UGH. I'm so sick, you know what this makes me want to do? It makes me want to physically revolt... to kill the system, to bear arms and create a militia. There is something fundamentally wrong here. Something dangerously wrong, and if we, as the lambs of this system, do not recognize it in time, we will be lead to the slaughter. and I'm out! |
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