Never Be Without A Camera

This video can actually serve as a tutorial for the reporting of abusive police officers. A very polite citizen telephoned the appropriate person for correct information concerning the individuals involved in an incident which, unfortunately, involved law enforcement's abuse of authority. The citizen got the stated his reason for calling, got the information he needed in order to share his video footage with his community, and promised to share it with the police department as soon as it was compiled on the proper website.

Judge Straightens Out Teen Who Sues Parents

In a completely unmerited and absurd case, a New Jersey young adult has moved away from home and taken her parents to court in a silly-assed attempt to sue for tuition for private school, car insurance, and....of all things.....allowance. Where is the eye-rolley when I need it? This young woman reached the age of eighteen in October, yet is still in high school. Because her parents impose a curfew and insist that she do chores, she moved away. Not wanting to play games with their daughter, the parents decided that since the car is not garaged at their home (sound familiar, Laura?) and since their daughter is not living with them, her car insurance and tuition are her responsibility; and they have duly stopped paying. They also stopped giving her an allowance.

Bravo to the judge for taking a common sense stand on this nonsense! Laura McNish, county attorney of Marshall County, Kansas should really pay attention here. Insistence upon respect from one's children for laws and policies concerning automobile insurance is not child abuse, and neither is the imposition of curfews and the requirement of chores. Parents also do not owe their children cell phones and Ipads, McNish. Restricting the use of such devices may make human trafficking more difficult for predators, but it is not child abuse. Conversely, unrestricted use of motor vehicles granted by negligent parents to unlicensed drivers does not, in any way, equal love.....Laura!

At least in Kansas, there is a case in Marshall County, styled State of Kansas v. Keith Lynn Henry, setting a precedent in cases involving these elements. Anyone in Kansas who is accused of child abuse for not giving a child a cell phone or an allowance, or for establishing curfews and rules; should refer to this case.

How did this case even moot court? Has the entire nation gone completely insane?

New Jersey Tremor

In addition to all the cleanup from Hurricane Sandy that New Jersey still must accomplish, there was a small earthquake this morning in the northern part of the state. Normally, a tremor of 2.0 would barely be noticed, but while repairing downed utility lines, and clearing debris from buildings that are already damaged from a violent storm, a tremor is much more significant. Remember the earthquake last year that the East Coast experienced? That one was not a big deal either, as earthquakes go, but if it were added to a major storm, it could certainly become a problem. Why would the Republican party ask Americans to vote for someone who wants to dismantle FEMA?

 

If You Skipped Church This Sunday

If you skipped church this Sunday, perhaps I should shed some light on what's been going on in this country outside of church. I may not have to.....it should all be obvious by now. Here is President Obama, surveying the damage done by Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey. Notice that he does not care what position the Republican governor has taken on issues in the past; President Obama is only worried about the storm victims and repair of the storm damage. Quite unlike President Bush, immediately after Hurricane Katrina. Obama has helped, Bush held people hostage in the Astrodome.

But Mitt Romney, on the other hand, has bought food to use as props for photography sessions, (the food was later thrown away, rather than donated to any of the forty-seven percent who may reside in homeless shelters) and pandered! Door to door Mormon missionaries always carried a vacuous message, yet Romney actually found a way to hollow that message out even more.

 

Another Cold Case For Terri Horman

It's Monday again. Already. And it's time for me to tell Terri Horman, stepmother of Kyron Horman and defacto kidnapping suspect, who will not cooperate with authorities and help find her stepson, about a cold case that baffled authorities but was solved either by painstaking detective work, statements made by witnesses, or just good, old fashioned luck. Here's a recent story; it's about a kiddie-porn perp. His name is  Eric Antwan Bell, and he apparently began his life of crime sometime in 2007. It came to the attention of law enforcement in Florida that he was using adult prostitutes (who sound like accomplices to me) to lure underage girls into his home. Then he would molest them, and film this activity. He made his living by selling this footage on the internet. But when victims helped police put together a profile, with a name and face.......something other than Santana, which he used as an anonymous moniker...........he fled. But he had connections to New York and New Jersey, and probably several other places up and down the East Coast, and since his trade involved selling kiddie porn online, he left an electronic trail. His pattern of abuse followed by victims' statements also spoke for itself. He was finally caught in New Jersey earlier this month, where he had moved and established residency.

So what do things like this have to do with people like you, Terri? Oh......I don't know. Perhaps nothing. But; if Kyron's kidnapper and any accomplices use the internet, or leave any type of personal or electronic trail anywhere, and everyone does-it's the nature of existance on this plane, details will eventually work their way into the open. The sooner Kyron comes home, the better it will be for everyone, including the person who took him.

                                                                    Eric Antwan Bell

                                                                         Kyron Horman