[lit-ideas] Re: Busted by an unknown dog lady

  • From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 21:20:35 -0500

LH:
>>As I was about to send this off, I wondered what Mike would make of it.  
>>Oppressive brown shirts, using anti-terrorism as an excuse, knocking down my 
>>door over specious accusations?<<

I really do hate to disappoint you, Lawrence, but I have no problem with the 
police checking you out.  In fact, I support it.  :  )   Seriously though,  I 
do hope you're able to board the next airplane you want.  Once your name makes 
the Suspected Terrorist List, it's apparently there forever.  That would be my 
worry if I were you.   

It is scary when the authorities come knocking.  Long ago my wife and I left 
the house in the late afternoon  to go shopping, we left our 12 year old 
daughter to watch the 5 and 3 year old.   Within the next day or two the 
Children's Protective Service came calling.  There was an anonymous complaint 
that we left our children unsupervised.  I was livid.  I was furious.  I was 
ready to take down the Government.  "Bring it on", I was shouting.  But then I 
made the mistake of thinking about it.  It's good to know that there are people 
out there concerned about the welfare of children.  Would that they could 
prevent more of the horrible abuses that happen than they do.   Much later it 
occurred to me that maybe it was my 12 year old daughter who called in the 
complaint.  That really made me mad.

Mike Geary
Memphis

 
 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Lawrence Helm 
  To: Lit-Ideas 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 7:31 PM
  Subject: [lit-ideas] Busted by an unknown dog lady


  I've been in a lot of debates over the years and thought I had been attacked 
in every way imaginable, but in a Rhodesian Ridgeback discussion group I was 
attacked in a new way.  One unidentified but obviously very angry lady turned 
me in to the Sheriff's department.  A couple of lines of one of my notes taken 
out of context was provided to the Sheriff's department along with the 
suggestion that I was a possible terrorist.  So out comes a deputy sheriff and 
someone from the Banning Police Department (both part of the task force) to 
check me out.

   

  Actually, the accusation sounded fishy to them, but they had to make sure  I 
wasn't a terrorist.  I introduced them to Ginger, one of my Rhodesian 
Ridgebacks.  They didn't think she was a terrorist either. 

   

  I would have liked to have questioned them a bit more about their task force 
and what they did in our region, but since I hadn't let them in the house and 
since they rather quickly concluded I wasn't a terrorist, they were anxious to 
leave.  

   

    They didn't actually knock down my door; just pounded loudly on it.   They 
gave me the impression that they knew they were wasting time.   A CYA detail 
just in case I did turn out to be a terrorist of some sort.  They wouldn't want 
it on record that I had been reported but they hadn't checked me out.  

   

  Okay, Mike.  What do you make of this?

   

  Lawrence Helm

  San Jacinto

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