Old Fogies

Recently, a pastor friend of mine said to me, “you are just an old fogie.” I had just said to him that statistics prove that 91% of all “supposed” Christians do not have a Biblical perspective on life.

Often, young people will talk to me about things which they know should be exposed, which they know are wrong, and which they know will bother them the rest of their lives. A young man told me about a police chief at Wrightsville Beach...I later had the chance to meet the man. He said, “on this beach where so many illegal drugs are circulating, so many college students using illegal drugs such as marijuana, when he and his officers make a raid, he always confiscates the illegals.” The students know ahead of time what he will say, the news has got around, “if you do not want to go to jail, you will stay quiet about this. I will dispose of the drugs. Since you are young, with your whole life is ahead of you, I am going to forget about this incident.” Of course, then what happens? He and his law enforcement officers sell the drugs to someone else. Once or twice a year, this chief would make a big public-relations deal for the “secular, sick, socialist” news media saying he was burning all these drugs that he had “confiscated” at the incinerator.

To the uninitiated, everything is obscure. For the uninitiated, stupid, older voters in this beach town, these practices from the pit of hell continued because they did not know, and they did not want to know about the corruption in their government. Most young people know about the corruption in government, have little respect for law enforcement, judiciary, politicians or pastors, and feel that corruption and hypocrisy is the rule and not the exception. For the rest of our lives, we see it on every hand, locally, state-wide, federal, we will spend our lives just trying to protect ourselves from those hired to protect us.

Further, in discussing law enforcement at this beach town where I owned ten rental units. Since I am totally blind, I cannot always see what is going on, but hear much. I understood that there was a house of drug-dealing across the street from me. One of my neighbors told me that young people would ride up on their bicycle, and leave with drugs wrapped in toilet paper. I knew that police were involved so I went to see the woman commissioner responsible for the police department. I asked her not to involve me because of my physical condition, but she did anyways. One of my neighbors who had difficulty sleeping at night because of a stroke, would sit in the dark and watch the streets. She told me that she saw two police officers put an icepick into my tires. Of course, this was many years ago, but I still have a house there, and the conditions have not changed.

For a long time, farming communities across the nation could predict “corn knee-high by the fourth of July”. This year, there is very little corn growing in the nation. As I have written a thousand times over the years, God talks to us, but we do not listen. Not just in climate changes, but a total change in morality. This year, solar flares, unusual winds from many directions, over-land hurricanes (tornadoes), drought (Texas) and floods (mid-America) just arriving anywhere, anytime, usually without warning, such as this week's tornadoes at Churchill Downs, Kentucky and earlier this month in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Old fogies trusted in the grace of God, but for several generations now: witchcraft. JK Rowling's Harry Potter book has became the Bible of the new-age crowd. Printed in 40 countries, movies still being released, Harry Potter merchandise taking over the market. Adults, who at one time received guidance from God's Word are now reading Harry Potter. A recent poll tells us that a 20 year-old male has spent thousands of hours playing video games. Witchcraft is even recognized in the military, wiccan chaplains.

“I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.” Roger Baldwin, founder of the ACLU, could not imagine when he made this statement, how fast Americans would grab at it.

Neutral you cannot be, agnosticism and globalism is on the attack. We know that old fogies are not welcomed at the courthouse, schoolhouse, church house, or I am sorry to say, many times, even their own house, by their own families. The Christian, the patriot is becoming an endangered specie. Our fellow citizens groping and groveling in the deceitfulness of Satanic nonsense, wanting to please the world. The politician, pastor, parent, all seek to please the world.

The one great sharing experience of those who have aged: being able to remember America the beautiful, land of the free, home of the brave, people rejoicing in opportunity, even the responsibility of decent living while aging.

Hubris

I approach this subject with trepidation. Many years ago, before he was a senator (and he represented North Carolina in the US Senate for 38 years), I was asked to introduce Senator Jesse Helms at a law enforcement appreciation dinner. Helms had become a very famous radio personality, outstanding public speaker. He had interviewed me, and I admired him greatly.

In my introduction, I remember that I said, “law enforcement is the only thing that separates the hard-working, god-fearing, tax-paying citizens of this country from chaos.” I remember later, he whispered to me, “in your lifetime, you will see law enforcement change totally.” He was right, in my lifetime, I have seen it change, mostly for the worst.

My father had two uncles in law enforcement, my grandmother's brothers. One, Lloyd Lucas, was a sheriff in a nearby county, I remember as a small child, walking with my father and he, my uncle speaking with disdain to every black person he met on the street (how things have changed, today the sheriff, usually Democrat, considers every black person his main source of votes).

Another uncle, Ernest Lucas, was a member of the secret service during the Hoover and FDR administrations. I remember him telling my father how much FDR hated the blacks, and how they would take him into a large parking garage in Manhattan, and strip him of his wet clothes during a parade, because he always rode in an open car, even in the rain (scared of being assassinated).

My mother's cousin, the greatest bully-police officer the world has ever known, Tom Garris. In his city, Detective Garris made life for miserable for the blacks and poor whites, as well as his own family. Life crushed by this obstinate father, his own son committed suicide.

As a college student, in the summer, I lived in a boarding house with one highway patrolmen (Brunswick county) who bragged how he would take young women in the woods for sex to keep him giving them a citation. Of course, today's Democrat party, considers all law enforcement as their protected “covey”.

After the war, with some sight still in my left eye, enough to drive. Traveling from the army hospital in Fort McClellan, Alabama, I was stopped by a SC highway patrolmen, outside Georgetown, South Carolina. This patrolman kept me for one hour at a service station, trying to get a service station man to cash my check because he was a determined to collect money from me on the highway.Of course, with this as well as the Brunswick county incidents, I had written authorities; nothing was done.

In recent years, more blatant examples, matters I have discussed on talk radio, such as drug activity in a building I own, transporting a weapon in my camera bag. If interested, law enforcement would have anxiously interviewed me about such. The telephone wires to my house were cut, disabling my security system; both local police and sheriff's deputies said that only in the event of my death would any investigation take place.

Sgt. Buster Yotes, in uniform, came to my house and told me to stay in my house with the doors locked, not to walk on the streets. You see, the disabled blind veteran is not allowed to get exercise and sunshine while the criminals have access to the streets. As I have said on the radio, those of you not interested now about my imprisonment, will get interested after you are imprisoned in your own house.

With every incident involving law enforcement, the break-in and trashing of two of my buildings, talking with a young man who had been in prison, one of my drivers having been “nailed by a traffic light camera”; I become more convinced of the bullying and conniving of law enforcement. I become more convinced of the lack of integrity in law enforcement.

Citizens have been taxed to the limits, it is now a matter of fees and fines. The most lucrative sources of this income has become the so-called red-light cameras, it takes few employees, pays such large dividends, particularly to the company that manufactures and operates them. Like girl scout uniforms which are now manufactured in China, so these cameras are now manufactured there. With the increased traffic problems, particularly at intersections, cities have found a gold mine in frustrated drivers.

Regardless of who you voted for, November 2nd represented a major win for everyone who opposes the use of red light cameras. In a handful of pockets across the nation, voters decided they were sick of the automated machines and by voting against the use of these devices, sent a message to law enforcement, as well as the companies that manufacture red light cameras...Many feel that red light cameras even represent a violation of our constitutional rights. On election day, cities and districts across the nation decided to ban the use of these cameras, adding to a growing list of towns that have already voted to do so.

Dalton, Georgia, the country's largest carpet manufacturing city, have dumped the red-light cameras. The felonious assertion and sales-pitch about preventing accidents and saving lives has proven to be an absurdity...just another pick-pocket exercise by law enforcement. Tyranny always starts with a police state, usually combining military forces with state police. This is happening rapidly in America. The greatest problem is not in the quantity of military and police forces, but the quality of individuals selected for enforcement. We know that this is not a job for the sissy intellectual, but neither is it a job for the bullying, sadistic roughneck. In the early American family, faith and decency came first, a father would take a bullet for a child, a father would never have allowed his child to be naked-scanned at an airport; his wife or his son to be fondled by police, TSA employees. Today's mothers, working full time jobs, homemakers, caring for children, do not have the time or neurology for the sadistic abuse of law enforcement officers.

The Tea Party movement is about 20 years too late, many of us have written and talked about the inequities of government for a long time. Our fellow citizens just yawned and thought we were “nuts” at best, and “conspiracy theorists” at worst. Welcome to the knowledge that your government, your police forces, while you were asleep, have geared up to enslave you. After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as life wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.

Cowboys and Indians

Reared in the Hinterlands, very much away from civilization, we never had any contact with law enforcement. I understand that now law enforcement officers visit the schools, talk about illegal drugs, even though law enforcement are known for having much to do with their trafficking. In many large cities, police corruption, especially dealing with illegal drugs is more the norm than the exception. I will not go into the accusations made against the CIA and their participation in bringing illegal drugs into America via Mexico.

Anyway, the only law enforcement I can remember as a youngster were two uncles, one an eastern NC sheriff, another uncle, his brother, a member of the secret service. Since my relatives were all Republican, all law enforcement as well as other bureaucrats, there would be no reason for law enforcement to seek out my relatives about anything.

My first real contact with law enforcement was with a highway patrolman, Patrolman Wilkie, I was then a university student selling books door to door in Brunswick, Pender and other counties. I stayed at a home in Shallotte, where the highway patrolman also stayed, room and board. Perhaps, he was trying to shock a young student, a Christian boy with some character, but he told me how let on young woman whom he stopped for speeding, tourists passing through on Highway 17 S, the girl could pay her fine and go on her way without getting arrested if she submitted to sex with him in the woods. This evidently went on everyday, he seemed to despise everyone, especially the people he was extorting. He was pleasant to the local politicians.

I was just an uninitiated, poor student, I did not particularly fear him, but I did not feel compelled to engage in any controversy, then as well as now, it is a matter of survival. Some men think they look big by cursing, some men think they look big by immoral acts. Later in life, as with the highway patrolmen in Bennetsville, SC who tried to shake me down as a young army officer, just returning from the war. The officer stopped me outside Bennetsville and must pay him the fine. I told him I would have to write a check, he took me to a service station where he tried to get a man to accept my check. I reported the incidents included the time, place, officer's name, and the name of the service station. I have reported worse recently, nothing is ever done. The honor among thieves, as well as political jobs, is in protecting one another.

Sargent Buster Yost, from the local police department came to my house one day in uniform, he told me that the chief did want me walking on the streets. He said, “everyone knows you have money, everyone knows you are blind, the chief wants you to stay in your house with the doors locked.” You see, if you know something like this is going to happen, you can get your recorder set up ahead of time. I would like to have recorded that a totally blind, 100% disabled, service-connected veteran is not allowed to walk on the streets where he pays taxes of 6 figures a year, while criminals are allowed to roam the streets. You see, until then, since I need sunlight and exercise, I would walk around the block each day, I was familiar with every hole in the sidewalk. People were accustomed to my walking around the block, and a few would come out to spend some time with me. I stayed on the sidewalk, because so many of these fine, ecological citizens walk their dogs toward the river each day, and since dogs do not defecate in their own yard, their dogs are trained to defecate in the yards of their neighbors around the block. It is difficult for a blind person not to step in such, but dogs, like criminals are entitled more decency than taxpaying, blind veterans.

This week, Governor Perdue met with the leadership of the state highway patrol in NC. Recently, highway patrolmen have been accused of drunk driving, animal abuse, having sex on duty, profiling women during traffic stops, and inappropriate text-messaging, we have heard it all before. Governor Perdue said, “there will be zero tolerance for bad behavior, if you betray your oath to uphold the law or betray the patrol code of conduct, you will be dismissed.”

Lets face it, you do not get a government job in NC unless you are a Democrat...even to driving a school bus. Judicial watch published the ten most corrupt politicians in Washington, DC...all Democrats except for one, the Republican senator from Nevada. Four, including the President, and members of the cabinet. Think of North Carolina, Dr. Black, Representative Wright, Representative Ballance, and others, all Democrats, all in prison. It is my conviction, from having watched NC politics for most of my life, if all NC politicians who were criminals were in prison, government would come to a stop, and this would probably be good for the public.

Sitting at a table, at the hotel Sir Walter in Raleigh, forty years ago, Governor Sanford and US Representative LC Fountain said to me, “North Carolina will always vote Democrat, Democrats control the blacks, the teachers, the unions, the liberal minorities such as gays, academics, Jews and most people who get government checks.” This is proven to be true every time, every election.

Face it, bullies and thugs become law officers, one tazed a man recently for not wearing his seat belt, one tazed a pallbearer at his father's funeral, one killed an inmate at the local jail, one shot a student in the head behind his own front door, then shot his dog. The local county is paying millions to settle this lawsuit. One tazed a man seven times, the officers said, “the man would not stop moving after he hit the ground.” The federal government through homeland security is laying down federal rules, it has become an us-against-them attitude with law enforcement. As in Germany, before WW2, they first came for the gays, then the gypsies, then the disabled, then the academics, and when the came for the rest, there was no one to defend them. Mark Twain said, “nothing improves a mind like travel.” It would be good for some politicians to travel around the world and see what happens in police-controlled countries.

2010 Census

2010 Census


With the U.S. Census process beginning, the Better Business Bureau (BBB) advises people to be cooperative, but cautious, so as not to become a victim of fraud or identity theft. The first phase of the 2010 U.S. Census is under way as workers have begun verifying the addresses of households across the county. Eventually, more than 140,000 U.S. Census workers will count every person in the United States and will gather information about every person living at each address including name, age, gender, race, and other relevant data.

The big question is - how do you tell the difference between a U.S. Census worker and a con artist? BBB offers the following advice:

If a U.S. Census worker knocks on your door, they will have a badge, a handheld device, a Census Bureau canvas bag, and a confidentiality notice. Ask to see their identification and their badge before answering their questions. However, you should never invite anyone you don't know into your home.

Census workers are currently only knocking on doors to verify address information. Do not give your Social Security number, credit card or banking information to anyone, even if they claim they need it for the U.S. Census.

REMEMBER, NO MATTER WHAT THEY ASK, YOU REALLY ONLY NEED TO TELL THEM HOW MANY PEOPLE LIVE AT YOUR ADDRESS.

While the Census Bureau might ask for basic financial information, such as a salary range, YOU DON'T HAVE TO ANSWER ANYTHING AT ALL ABOUT YOUR FINANCIAL SITUATION. The Census Bureau will not ask for Social Security, bank account or credit card numbers, nor will employees solicit donations. Anyone asking for that information is NOT with the Census Bureau.

AND REMEMBER, THE CENSUS BUREAU HAS DECIDED NOT TO WORK WITH ACORN ON GATHERING THIS INFORMATION. No Acorn worker should approach you saying he/she is with the Census Bureau.

Eventually, Census workers may contact you by telephone, mail, or in person at home. However, the Census Bureau will NOT contact you by Email, so be on the lookout for Email scams impersonating the Census.

Never click on a link or open any attachments in an Email that are supposedly from the U.S. Census Bureau.

For more advice on avoiding identity theft and fraud, visit www.bbb.org

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Addition by Dr. Morris

As is always the case, what are blind people supposed to do??? I have an intercom on my house and I do not allow anyone in my house unless I recognize their voice. I have been robbed and abused too many times. This is the thanks I get for having given my eyes for YOUR country. Never once, during hurricanes or any other catastrophe has a government agency ever shown me any consideration at all...NOT ONCE. This country's largest minority is the disabled...about 32%. At least those in a wheel chair could see the identification card of the investigator but, generally speaking, those of us who live alone are at the mercy of anyone who can get inside your house...but who cares, all the government wants is just out cooperation as we pay insidious taxes like the normal and healthy. Two police officers broke into my back door and searched my house...evidently trying to find something with which to embarrass me...since I had been alerting the public via radio to certain tactics. My driver and I found them in my house...my driver, and still my driver Joe Rush said, "What are you doing in this man's house? He is a blind veteran?" One said, "I know he is a veteran, he has a uniform in his closet." Please tell me what he was doing in my closet?

Old Man and the Sea

The year I graduated from college, 1952, Ernest Hemingway wrote one of his greatest novels, The Old Man and the Sea. I had promised myself, as a hard-working student, years before, that eventually I would own a house on my favorite beach, Wrightsville Beach, NC. So, in my real estate adventures and misadventures, in which, thank God, I have managed to make more money than I have lost, and now have a nice income from rentals, I own a nice home on the beach. And, like Hemingway, I feel like an old man by the sea.

I was not always an old man and I did enjoy the beach when I was younger and more energetic. I would walk at least three miles on the beach each day. But, as the beaches changed, and as the people who are on the beach have drastically changed, it is no longer safe for a totally blind, disabled person to navigate the beach anymore. Young people, these days, will run over you and not even say one thing. Thanks to Doctor Spock, political correctness, and atheist teachers and leaders, the youth of today, and I hate to say parents of tomorrow, are callous in their attitudes and actions. One former school teacher told me recently that the third time she was hit by a student, she had had enough. In the socialist society in which we are living, it will become as difficult to hire school teachers, as well as healthcare caregivers, including doctors.

The greatest problem with blindness is that the general public thinks that you have not only lost your eyes, but your brain. I hear more, than most people will ever see. A few years ago, I had walked out to the beach just a few yards, and on returning to my house, went under my house instead of up the steps and I heard some drug activity which I felt should be reported to the authorities. A male, which later turned out to be a police officer, was instructing a female in transporting some illegal drugs to the town of Jacksonville, where the Marine base is located. She was evidently transporting the drugs in a “cooler,” which is used by the fishermen. He told her the drugs were in the bottom of the cooler, that fish and ice were on top of the drugs, so that if she was stopped by law authorities, she had been fishing and she had the fishing equipment and the fish in the cooler.

I knew there was much activity going on in that particular house. I actually was concerned enough and stupid enough that I took one of my very small cameras, which could hardly be seen in my hand, and who notices an old blind man with a cane wandering around a house anyway? I made pictures of the license numbers on cars coming to that house and actually went to the expense of having them developed. I sent the pictures to the police department and told them what was going on. I further told them that I had been told that uniformed police officers frequented that house. Once before, when I had made such a report concerning officers, my tires had been slashed, so I rode to my beach house by cab for a few weeks. Nothing whatsoever was done about this situation.

Sometime before that, I owned a large nightclub building on Oleander Avenue, and I received word from several sources that my building was being used as a “drugstore”--that much illegal drug activity was going on in the building (now I have told this on the radio, so I am not disclosing anything new). Since I had keys to the building, I always have the same security code on all the buildings I own, including both residential houses, I had called the club ahead of time and there was no answer, but I knew the employees went to the gym in the afternoon.

My driver was hesitant to take me out on this mission, but he was not scared enough to want to lose his job, so we drove to the back of the building, I unlocked the back door, I turned off the alarm, I unlocked the office in which my furniture, my desk, etc. were located. I owned every nail in the building; I had a right to be in the building. The middle top drawer of the desk was full of money. The side drawers were full of packets of dope. At least this non-dope user assumed that. I knew the combination to the safe and a blind man can open a safe. All the cash register drawers were in the safe. I told my driver to bring me two garbage bags from the kitchen. I put all the money from the top desk drawer in one garbage bag. I put all the packets in another garbage bag. I closed up the office, armed the security system again, locked the door, and had him drive home a different way. He helped me count out all the money on my return, which I later put in my lock box at the bank. I put the bag of dope in a dumpster at another building. And then I went down to visit the head of Vice, who is now the sheriff of the county.

I told this man that I did not want anyone in the room except the two of us. I told him I had reason to believe that illegal drug activity was going on in the nightclub, in this building which I owned on Oleander Avenue. He said, “Oh, Dr. Morris. There’s nothing going on at your building.” I told him nothing else, but the manager and other employees were terminated.

Now, unless the sighted people of the world cannot become concerned enough and bring enough pressure on law enforcement, the illegal drug activity, which is taking over this country and has already filled the prisons, will only get worse. I am totally blind, 100% disabled, service-connected veteran. I thought enough of my country to go to a war, I love my country enough to support it with my tax dollars, warts and all. Gilbert Holland, American poet, wrote a poem some years ago, which goes as follows:
 
GOD, give us men! A time like this demands
Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands;
Men whom the lust of office does not kill;
Men whom the spoils of office can not buy;
Men who possess opinions and a will;
Men who have honor; men who will not lie;
Men who can stand before a demagogue
And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking!
Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog
In public duty, and in private thinking;
For while the rabble, with their thumb-worn creeds,
Their large professions and their little deeds,
Mingle in selfish strife, lo! Freedom weeps,
Wrong rules the land and waiting Justice sleeps.

Manhood is more than physical plumbing. God always called a man, not a committee. In this day of corrupt politicians, pansy preachers, and spineless fathers, it will take a real man or group of men, not only to alert, but to avert the complete destruction of this nation by illegal drug activity.

Belligerence

Winston Churchill, after an initial victory in a British North African campaign, said “This is not the end, it may be the end of the beginning.” Perhaps, we do not know who we are. I believe that this is the beginning of the end of our great nation and particularly the state of North Carolina. At the Legislative Building on Jones Street in Raleigh, built in 1960, and as a totally blind 100% disabled service connected Veteran, in full uniform, I was invited to attend the dedication of this magnificent Legislative Building; with all its red carpet, its great glass doors. (and it was in all the papers about the blind veteran who walked into the big glass door). At the front of the building, on the pavement, bears its motto, Esse Quam Videri. (To be rather than to seem) If there has ever been a state, if there has ever been a people, since our blessed Lord created this marvelous universe, who have shown, as if by intention, hypocrisy in its most BLATANT belligerent form, it has been the state of North Carolina. Irascible, belligerent, callous, are just a few of the adjectives that describe the treatment of the citizens of North Carolina, and you don't have to go back into slavery, poor tenant farmers, poor cotton mill workers, etc. I attribute most of this attitude to the Democrat party, which has been totally in power for over 100 years. Since all the people, in places of leadership, in places of management, know that their job is secure within the tent of the Democrat hierarchy of nepotism, they can treat people any way they wish. (I just went through that recently at the Department of Motor Vehicles)

People do what they do because they believe what they believe. The Democrat party in this state believes that it will be in absolute charge of every dollar and every state job as long as the world stands. I can remember the time, when you need not even apply for a job teaching school, highway department, state hospital, or anything else, unless you were recommended by a member of the Democrat hierarchy. Nothing has changed, one of my cousins wanted to drive a school bus. In order to get the job driving a school bus, he had to get approval from the local, Democrat establishment. The belligerence toward those of us who are Christian and who choose to vote another party, is the most UN-American, inhuman, practice known to man, something you would not find even in police state countries.

Having traveled the world, I thought I had seen humanity at its worst, but just the living example of what happened to one college professor in the most liberal state, the most liberal university, in the nation, gives some indication of what goes on in one of the most backward, hostile states in the nation. Professor Gates was not unknown on the Harvard campus, nor in his community. Not only was he disabled, walked with a cane, but he was a source of stability to the minority community. It is obvious to me, that the illiterate, Cambridge police, were just awaiting their opportunity to bring this 'black man down to size'. Can one even imagine, (it takes a totally blind man, such as this writer, who must walk with a white cane) to understand the decadent mind who would handcuff this man, on his own property. He had already proven to the police officers that he was in his home and was breaking no laws and yet they saw fit to 'haul him' (downtown) and harass him for 4 hours. The American people should rise up in absolute indignation toward the treatment of ANY human being in this manner. The police officers involved, the city who hired them, should pay and pay dearly for this humiliation and these officers should not be allowed to work for any other municipality except perhaps as a garbage collector.

I have encountered the same type harassment as a totally blind, disabled citizen, living alone, who must depend on law enforcement, not just for protection, but for help. The mentality of this nation has been so corrupted and manipulated that the police officers feel that they can 'man-handle' and treat without consequence, anyone, anyway, anywhere and at anytime. Twice in one year, the telephone system to my house was disconnected, evidently by someone with the idea of breaking in to my house, but knowing I had a security system, depending on the police department, has not yet been successful. I have had the security system disconnected from the police department because I found, much to my dismay, that the police department DID NOT support the contract I had with the security system. So, as in the many years, before the Army installed the security system in my house for my protection, I have gone back to the old system of propping my doors. For years, I placed cement blocks against the inside of my exit doors.

An old man told me many years ago, that I had more to fear from the termite man than from the termites. I really feel, in this day of police intimidation, brutality, corruption...that I have more to fear from the police than I do from the criminals. It has been a long time, since I heard anyone say one good word about law enforcement. When the lines were cut to my phone, and I finally received some assistance (blind people have great difficulty using a cell phone) Deputy Owens, from the local Sheriff's department and Lt. May from the local police department, both told me something would be done about my problem IF the criminal got into my house and KILLED me! But, until there was more evidence, there was nothing more that law enforcement could do.

Three times in the past year, I have dealt with identity theft, due to the theft of the password to my computer. One man, used my online system to place 5 automobiles for sale on my eBay account. Another, university student, used my password, took my ID, and ordered things, charged to my account, but delivered to his address. In all these thefts, the accounts of the activity, easily available from the sellers, etc., were sent to the local district attorney, chief of police, Sheriff's department, chancellor of the University and I am still waiting for the first answer from either. People simply do not care about crime anymore UNLESS, as in everything else, it affects them directly. With law enforcement, the criminal gets much more attention than the citizen.

Totally disabled, house-bound, I do not use your jails, parks, concert halls, theatres, sidewalks, you do not spend any tax funds on any of these things for me! But, I get no help, whatsoever, from law enforcement. We all know, that if Professor Gates had not been black, NOTHING would have been said about the Cambridge affair. (IF it would have even happened) But, since he is black, since we have a black president, since this minority has more clout than any other, it is a matter of national importance. The largest minority, THE DISABLED, (estimated 38 million in the US, blind, deaf, crippled, etc.) get no attention whatsoever from law enforcement. Like the unborn (abortion), most people just wish we were not around.

Suicide has always been a tragedy. This country, so blessed of God, is trying so hard to commit suicide.