Don't Use Sentences Beginning With 'You'.
Sadly, our magic controllable world is an illusion bearing little relation to the one we actually inhabit, where bad things sometimes occur for no reason. But rather than come to terms with it, we stubbornly refuse to accept the entire concept of risk, hence our neurotic hunt for the nearest scapegoat the moment anything goes wrong - or even looks as if it might.
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Anti-War Antics
I went to a County Circuit Court Room yesterday to witness a fellow anti-war protester get scolded for acting like a 'petulant child' in trying to cross a police line and show his banner to the war criminal, George Bush. I think the defendant was older than the Judge.
The court room was filled with petulant children, as the recipient of the alleged aggravated battery, the Deputy Superintendent of the Police Force, claimed he was "bumped" by said defendant. It wasn't exactly an F-16 screaming over his head terrorizing him, it was a man who collided with his Segway. That really must have hurt, Officer.
The Horsey cop, the other witness to alleged assault, showed up in his white shirt, very proud of his promotion in the meantime. He tried to act like he wasn't sufficiently prepped by the utterly cry baby like attorneys the City has on payroll to screw the little guy. Funny thing is, neither officer filed a report on this felony and the two that did sign their names to the accusing document were no where to be found.
The bailiffs, all ten of them, were a scream, hovering over the supporters with their bitchiest nun-like voice, scolding for reading, confiscating pencils, looking with adoration at the cops. I was wondering who is it they go home to and what kind of person would live with these gun toting bullies? First they disarm you coming in the court house, then surround you with people with bad attitudes and revolvers. I wish Lady Justice would take off that damned blindfold.
The Judge really stole the show as far as petulance goes. He was agonising internally waiting for this political show trial to end, putting his face in his hands, sighing audibily throughout, as if the golf course was calling and this was a complete waste of his precious time, as it was.. To his credit, he didn't have much use for any of the nit picking attorneys and cut them short often. He believed the cops without question, in fact stating that they had affection for the defendant and they were the ones victimized and endangered, regardless of their bullet proof vests, guns, horses and oak sticks. A person holding a protest banner - without behavior modification drugs running through his system and outraged that the mayor and the Cardinal, behind taxpayers protection , sat to lunch with a war criminal - he was the threat to society, but not guilty of aggravated battery of a police officer.
Sign me up for the Petulant Children Society.
