Tasing

One thing that has come out of the billions spent in the space program, NASA, is the weapon of tasing. Used now almost indiscriminately, although in the past ten years it has killed 150 people, to control anyone, anytime, about anything. In November of 2004 Miami police tased a 6 year old child because, according to the police, they were afraid he would hurt himself. In Manassas, Virginia, at a baptism party, a grandfather and a pregnant mother were tased after police responded to a noise complaint. This method of control execution and manipulation of the public by fear, started with the NASA invention in 1969 but was not used until 1991. The taser damages the nervous system, sensory and motor, by causing strong involuntary muscle contractions. Such abuse, indiscriminate used on someone treated for physiology, which cannot tolerate such a horrendous encounter, can result in instant death. A former officer, Dan NeSmith, 22, tased a 15 year-old in the back at a party where they were all drunk, after the teen wanted to know what it felt like to be tased. This child will never recover from this officer's 'drunk' party, in which all activity was illegal.

The blue line, which at one time was the demarcation of protection and respect in this country, has become a line of deceit and destruction. I know very few people who have respect for law enforcement people anymore. Law enforcement officers have themselves completely destroyed their status in the community. Many of us saw this developing as early as the 1960s when a president, his brother, a national civil rights leader, and others were murdered without any police protection or remorse. I was asked to introduce citizen Jesse Helms, this was before he became a US Senator and a national political dynamo, thinking that giving a police officer's appreciation banquet would help bring some element of prestige back to law enforcement. (I had a photograph of Senator Helms and myself, but I gave it to the Helms Library.) I remember stating in my introduction to Senator Helms, “The American ideas of safety, beauty and hope rest entirely with our dependence on protection from law enforcement.” Senator Helms at that time, and much later as senator for 38 years, held out the baton of cooperation between the political and judicial arms of political direction. He could not have believed how low law enforcement has sunk in their attitudes toward the public, whom they are supposed to serve. On one building in this town, which has been empty during the recession economic times, the letters of the company have been taken off the building but you can still tell the name of the company because of the weather worn shadows where the letters once hung. Much like the words in our hearts as Americans that we were once the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Over 50 years ago, my mother loved one first cousin who had married a crooked police officer (Tom Garris) and she told my mother that her home had been paid for by the crooked payoffs of prominent people in the community who knew they could never have any police problems as long as her husband was on the police force. A great uncle, brother of my grandmother, police chief in an eastern North Carolina city (Lloyd Lucas), was well known for the same police practices: the taking of payoffs from tobacco warehouse men, bankers and other elitists in his city who did not want to get embarrassed when caught with local prostitutes. I heard him tell my father, “Police officers are always those who were too mean to be educated in school but rowdy enough and tough enough to keep the citizens in a state of fear, particularly the intimidation of the blacks.” His brother, another great uncle, was with the Secret Service in Washington during the Hoover and FDR administrations. FDR could only walk 37 steps with the braces of his day. So, in political campaigns, such as in New York City, he always rode in his famous open car, even in the rain. They would take him inside one of the parking garages, strip off his wet clothes and try to keep him dry. This was this uncle's responsibility and he told how easy it would be to eliminate a president. Certainly this has been proven several times since (Kennedy, Reagan, Ford). George W. Bush, was lucky enough that the man who had enough time to throw his shoes, did not have a taser.

Yesterday, my secretary's birthday, she was in the car with her five small children and local police emptied her car and searched her car peeking into her food and gifts, ruining a birthday celebration, with her parents following her (mother in a wheel chair) went through the same exasperating police brutality. This type of exercise goes on over and over each day and most citizens have been so harassed and manipulated by police brutality that they find it useless to complain.

On a beach recently, just a few miles from my house, a police officer came upon two women trying to get a stalled car started. He did not offer to help with the car, but, in uniform, was busy flirting with one of the women, even to the extent of going to her and checking to see if she had on a wedding ring. This type of despicable behavior of police officers in uniform is an insult to the tax payer who pay their salaries and an embarrassment to the politicians who hire them.
Custer County Sheriff Mike Burgess has been accused of raping one drug court participant. He allegedly told her that he would have her sent to prison if she didn't comply with his sexual demands. The allegations are similar to some of those detailed in a federal lawsuit filed in October by 12 different women.
In 1949-1951, as a student selling books door-to-door in Brunswick county, N.C., trying to work my way through the university, I stayed in a home at Shalotte, N.C. (Mrs. Minnie Holden). Also staying in the same boarding house, was the local highway patrolman, who described to me in detail, how he would stop a woman speeding on Highway 117 South and give her the choice of going into the woods with him for sex and letting her go on her way, or taking her and putting her in jail at the county seat of Southport (at that time). It was obvious to me then, and it is more obvious to me now, that law enforcement officers have no regard whatsoever for human beings but express their hatred for the public in a variety of ways, the latest of which is the taser gun.

It was not until medical school, that I learned the meaning of the word holy, when a physiology professor, almost in words of sacred honor, described the metabolism of the human body. It is now that Psalm 139, in which God tells us of the beauty of our body and its creation, means so much to me. I have seen, in 8 around the world trips and travels though many countries of the world, including both poles, the beauty of God's creation: mountains, flowers, ice sculptures in the Paradise Valley of the Antarctic, but nothing compares to the beauty of God's chief creation, the human body.

Today, we hear of the government's legislation against hate speech. I want to warn media, government and particularly law enforcement officers about God's law and bill of indictment against hatred and hate speech, and they are the ones who should worry about this law, written by almighty God. Law enforcement cannot hate God's most precious possession, abuse the disabled, children, and even those who have flaws, and escape God's judgment.

Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise; For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue. They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause. For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer. And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin. Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places. (Psalm 109: 1-10)

Law enforcement, through their hypocrisy of fear and intimidation has made such cowards of decent citizens, that no one stands up to their treachery anymore. Like meek mice, we just take what they dish out. This thrills them because the bully always knows and likes cowards.

No one believes this and no one has publicized the incident. This totally blind, 100% disabled, service-connected veteran used to go outside his house and walk around the block because I know my need for sunshine and exercise. The police chief in Wilmington, NC, sent Sargent Buster Yost, in uniform, to my house, and told me, “The chief said for you to stay inside your house with the doors locked. You are not to walk outside on the sidewalks because you may get robbed.” In other words, crime has so taken over the downtown area of this city, that those who respect the law, those who pay the tax, those who have defended our country are to stay in prison while the criminals enjoy the streets. Other such unbelievable, despicable acts have occurred and I have talked about such on talk radio across the nation. Many have called in and said, “This should be reported.” I ask you, reported to whom? They may tase me next time.