Comments on: Member Submission: Results of punitive, ineffective laws drafted out of unfounded fears

By: CherokeeJack

CherokeeJack — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 21:52:34 +0000

In reply to TruthandScience. Truth I am secretly Superman so shirts usually rip soon after putting them on HAHA

By: TruthandScience

TruthandScience — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 11:20:57 +0000

In reply to CherokeeJack.

CHEROKEEJ….AWESOME DUDE

I AM GOING TO GET SOME T-SHIRTS PRINTED

GREAT HELP TO ME AS I SUFFER IT…BUT IT MAKES IT A POSITIVE WAY TO ACCEPT IT AND DEAL WITH IT

WHAT SIZE T-SHIRT DO YOU WEAR?

HA!

By: CherokeeJack

CherokeeJack — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 14:29:22 +0000

In reply to MannyS..

Manny

Amen

I was going to add to it but I think you said all that needed to be said.

By: CherokeeJack

CherokeeJack — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 14:27:28 +0000

In reply to Edward A Ruggles.

We should all have an altered form of it

P roud
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S tay
D etermined

(No offense to anyone suffering from PTSD)

By: CherokeeJack

CherokeeJack — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 14:24:25 +0000

In reply to Tereto. You should have gone to trial even if you had to represent yourself. The prosecutor in my case was so evil I knew I was well done on the grill when my attorney physically left the court room to vomit in a garbage can in the hallway. My Goose was cooked. It did not help that the female prosecutor and the female judge were good friends in college. HOW did my lawyer not asked for a change of venue I will never understand. Talk about conflict of interest. When I got to prison I filed the appeal myself but she herself denied it saying it was "frivolous in nature and has no merit".

By: Capt Charles 'Bob' Munsey Jr. USN Ret

Capt Charles 'Bob' Munsey Jr. USN Ret — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 12:05:11 +0000

Justice is no longer the basis for treatment of citizens. Anything that can be conceived as a violation of something is a reason to justify someone else’s reason for being and that person’s paycheck. Minor human error is no longer acceptable as long as it can be applied to justifying someone else’s superiority. It does not take a ‘rocket scientist’ to see that many of today’s laws are established to create an ‘under-dog’ and ‘over-dog’ class of citizens. If only we could establish the same level of excellence as many of these LEO’s…or at least the level that they think they have attained, we could be perfect just as they are!

By: MannyS.

MannyS. — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 06:29:27 +0000

In reply to CherokeeJack.

Thank you Cherokee Jack, I appreciate your words and your concerns.

No, I am not planning such a thing, I have already tried 3 times before and it seems very obvious to me that The Man Upstairs, my dear and very loved My Lord does not want me dead. He made it clear to me, so, there is no point for me to try it again.

Thanks to my Dear God, I am currently living a great life, I have a wonderful support structure, with an amazing wife who values me for the man, husband and best friend that I am to her, to my kids, to my family and friends.

However, I now live in constant fear, something that not that long ago, was kind of foreign to me. Fear was something I knew not much about, even when bullets and damn rockets and mortars were blowing around us day in and night out for over two years, in two deployments. Now, I had to feel fear to survive years of probation, time in jail, retaliation from the community, bias, unfairness among so many other things. That things could it be a lot worse?…of course it can !

The upside is, as you mentioned, I have a wonderful life and looking into the future, I have the hopes that one day, not too far in the distance, there will be changes that will make our lives a little more bearable.

By: Edward A Ruggles

Edward A Ruggles — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 04:41:49 +0000

How could any of us not have PTSD???

By: Tereto

Tereto — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 03:26:21 +0000

For me it was at the county jail where we register that I was arrested for failure to register. I didn’t even know what I failed to register. It was later that I find out that it was related my Facebook account. The same account I have always registered with the sheriff’s office in my home county, and when I moved to another county I provided it to them, but because the paperwork they provide didn’t show it due to only being able to list 4 at a time, they neglected to register it. So here I am facing 3 years, and when it came time to take it to trial, they offer me time served. Now here’s the real kicker, DOC agreed to 13 months time served in the county, but I actually spent 18 months + 2 days. So who owes me for the other 5 months 2 days? I could have proven my defense, but the dip shits who were supposed to help, instead stole my stuff, and never turned over my evidence which is lost now. I was ripe for a civil suit, and this is how people you are supposed to trust, stab you in the back. It wasn’t until my recent release, that they started providing the full paperwork I have asked for since I was first placed on the registry. The paperwork that shows every detail that the FDLE have. Funny how it could have all been prevented, if they simply provided accurate paperwork from day 1.

By: James

James — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 22:11:30 +0000

In reply to DS. If only every registry office had that attitude! We would have a lot less frivolous prosecution and incarceration and more people moving forward with their lives productively.