Tsunami Surfing
It's 11:16 PM, and I am posting this to follow up after all seem to have quieted down. I never really expected that I would wake up to see a media truck outside, camera trying to get a shot of me through the windows. Jon, by brother told me that I held off Chris, the reporter for 5 hours! Gawrsh, I honestly don't mean to cause such a tsunami of events stemming from a couple innocuous, albeit serendipitous photographs. I don't want to see any harm done, like suspending the officer. The image of him with a huge grin is seared into my mind. He really seemed like he was having fun. I would too, to be honest! I love "flying" and moving at 27 mph really is a thrill!
*clarification here: my calculations had the cop cruiser going at 27 mph, NOT 27 mph ABOVE the speed limit, making that 52 mph! That would be SCARY, and the cop would be totally terrified, not totally excited, grinning like he was riding the best roller coaster at Six Flags! *
The news on TV made it seem like vengeance should befall the DC police department, but I honestly don't want it to seem that way. All my friends (and my folks, too) tell me I should be on the lookout for some sort of retribution from the cops. I know that DC's finest wouldn't sink that low and that the officer honestly didn't feel like walking the 2 blocks with a sore ankle.
What I wanted to go on to say on TV was that I really think that the morale of this situation should be that you should simply never, NEVER go car-surfing. That means riding on the hood or top of the car. Even if it is just 5 mph! Like Ricky mentioned on his blog, the first thing that came to mind when I first glimpsed the cop surfing was Darrell Ritter, my lifelong buddy. Right before we were to go to Gallaudet as freshmen, he went car surfing and got hurt. He sustained a significant crack on his skull behind his ear and experienced bouts of seizures, causing short-term amnesia. Thank God, he is OK now, but what if a drunk driver ran the stop sign at I and 8th street right when the cop cruiser crossed the intersection? I would really hate to think about whether if the officer had family, a wife and kids? That should be the bottom line, the lesson of all this, not some petty suspension or conduct unbecoming a police officer.
This incident also made me realize that the power is really in the people, not the government and/or reigning powers. We all know that "Big Brother" is watching over all of us. Right now, there must be a Keyhole satellite snapping pictures of the bum sipping coffee at the I-395 on-ramp cardboard mansion. But, it is US, the people, who are watching the government at work. We catch them doing good and bad deeds like they do us. The problem is that "they" are able to deny everything, while we carry the burden of proof. Alas, technology has progressed to the point where parity between the government and its citizens can finally be achieved - for the time being.
There is one thing that I am really, really afraid about. What if a really big, bad catastrophe hit DC? That supposed tsunami from the Canary Islands? Some nuke set off in the middle of DC, small enough for a high survival rate, ensuring that chaos will reign? What we witnessed in New Orleans, we will see all over again. Mass evacuations gone awry. Teeming hordes of poor citizens crossing all racial lines begging to be helped amid all the mass lootings, riotings and shootings.
DC has experienced big riots, right after MLK was assassinated, necessitating the deployment of the DC National Guard onto Gallaudet's campus. There were soldiers camped out all over the football field. Mom tells me that several Guard soldiers impregnated some Gallaudet women students! Not only that, there were snipers shooting at Gallaudet from West Virginia Ave. Mom and Dad tells me that at the cafeteria, the army told them they had to move all over to one side so the bullets that were hitting the cafeteria windows wouldn't hit anybody. Steve Vollmar tells me that his father, Larry, experienced getting shot at while at track practice. Imagine that happening today! Gallaudet would virtually close down, and it would become a media frenzy.
What I am really concerned about is the fact that the deaf will be in a bad spot if all his happens again. If that apocalyptic black militant Islamic-Christian fatigue-wearing group preaching Armageddon at H and 8th St. NE every weekend incites some kind of rioting, whites will be targeted, whether deaf or hearing. I am really scared to think about what might happen, if they start looting, breaking into houses. It is a fact that most deaf homes don't have TTYs. Technological miracles have given us video phones, pagers, the Internet, AIM, etc, but one crucial thing we all often forget about is the fact that most of us have an inability to dial 911. I don't have a telephone. Yes, I do, but it is for DSL, and I do not have a TTY. If someone was to be breaking into my home, I would have no way to call 911, nor defend myself adequately.
The DC police are infamous for messing up the relations between the police and the deaf. Recently, there was this strange mass "rioting" that went on at the football field at Gallaudet where 300+ students swarmed the football field in waves, trying to tear down the football goalposts amid a number of DC cops swinging batons, hitting students at random. Communication was a problem, a student was handcuffed behind his back and unable to communicate with the police or the campus security.
That also brings up to mind some other incidents. The Gallaudet campus security killed Carl Dupree. The police shot and killed Eric Smith. The police bungled the investigation, of the first murder at Gallaudet thereby resulting in the unnecessary murder of Ben Varner. All would have not happened if not for simple communication breakdowns.
If they had caught on the right clues, it would have led them to Jose Mesa, killer of both Eric Plunkett and Ben Varner. Should I also add that the DC police has Muslim blood on their hands? Ben was a Muslim. Where was the outcry from Islamic groups when Ben was killed in cold blood, stabbed to death? Whenever a Muslim is killed, Islamic groups often vent their rage. Where were they when Ben was killed? Is it because Islam looks upon the deaf as the living proof of God's wrath? More on this later.
*clarification here: my calculations had the cop cruiser going at 27 mph, NOT 27 mph ABOVE the speed limit, making that 52 mph! That would be SCARY, and the cop would be totally terrified, not totally excited, grinning like he was riding the best roller coaster at Six Flags! *
The news on TV made it seem like vengeance should befall the DC police department, but I honestly don't want it to seem that way. All my friends (and my folks, too) tell me I should be on the lookout for some sort of retribution from the cops. I know that DC's finest wouldn't sink that low and that the officer honestly didn't feel like walking the 2 blocks with a sore ankle.
What I wanted to go on to say on TV was that I really think that the morale of this situation should be that you should simply never, NEVER go car-surfing. That means riding on the hood or top of the car. Even if it is just 5 mph! Like Ricky mentioned on his blog, the first thing that came to mind when I first glimpsed the cop surfing was Darrell Ritter, my lifelong buddy. Right before we were to go to Gallaudet as freshmen, he went car surfing and got hurt. He sustained a significant crack on his skull behind his ear and experienced bouts of seizures, causing short-term amnesia. Thank God, he is OK now, but what if a drunk driver ran the stop sign at I and 8th street right when the cop cruiser crossed the intersection? I would really hate to think about whether if the officer had family, a wife and kids? That should be the bottom line, the lesson of all this, not some petty suspension or conduct unbecoming a police officer.
This incident also made me realize that the power is really in the people, not the government and/or reigning powers. We all know that "Big Brother" is watching over all of us. Right now, there must be a Keyhole satellite snapping pictures of the bum sipping coffee at the I-395 on-ramp cardboard mansion. But, it is US, the people, who are watching the government at work. We catch them doing good and bad deeds like they do us. The problem is that "they" are able to deny everything, while we carry the burden of proof. Alas, technology has progressed to the point where parity between the government and its citizens can finally be achieved - for the time being.
There is one thing that I am really, really afraid about. What if a really big, bad catastrophe hit DC? That supposed tsunami from the Canary Islands? Some nuke set off in the middle of DC, small enough for a high survival rate, ensuring that chaos will reign? What we witnessed in New Orleans, we will see all over again. Mass evacuations gone awry. Teeming hordes of poor citizens crossing all racial lines begging to be helped amid all the mass lootings, riotings and shootings.
DC has experienced big riots, right after MLK was assassinated, necessitating the deployment of the DC National Guard onto Gallaudet's campus. There were soldiers camped out all over the football field. Mom tells me that several Guard soldiers impregnated some Gallaudet women students! Not only that, there were snipers shooting at Gallaudet from West Virginia Ave. Mom and Dad tells me that at the cafeteria, the army told them they had to move all over to one side so the bullets that were hitting the cafeteria windows wouldn't hit anybody. Steve Vollmar tells me that his father, Larry, experienced getting shot at while at track practice. Imagine that happening today! Gallaudet would virtually close down, and it would become a media frenzy.
What I am really concerned about is the fact that the deaf will be in a bad spot if all his happens again. If that apocalyptic black militant Islamic-Christian fatigue-wearing group preaching Armageddon at H and 8th St. NE every weekend incites some kind of rioting, whites will be targeted, whether deaf or hearing. I am really scared to think about what might happen, if they start looting, breaking into houses. It is a fact that most deaf homes don't have TTYs. Technological miracles have given us video phones, pagers, the Internet, AIM, etc, but one crucial thing we all often forget about is the fact that most of us have an inability to dial 911. I don't have a telephone. Yes, I do, but it is for DSL, and I do not have a TTY. If someone was to be breaking into my home, I would have no way to call 911, nor defend myself adequately.
The DC police are infamous for messing up the relations between the police and the deaf. Recently, there was this strange mass "rioting" that went on at the football field at Gallaudet where 300+ students swarmed the football field in waves, trying to tear down the football goalposts amid a number of DC cops swinging batons, hitting students at random. Communication was a problem, a student was handcuffed behind his back and unable to communicate with the police or the campus security.
That also brings up to mind some other incidents. The Gallaudet campus security killed Carl Dupree. The police shot and killed Eric Smith. The police bungled the investigation, of the first murder at Gallaudet thereby resulting in the unnecessary murder of Ben Varner. All would have not happened if not for simple communication breakdowns.
If they had caught on the right clues, it would have led them to Jose Mesa, killer of both Eric Plunkett and Ben Varner. Should I also add that the DC police has Muslim blood on their hands? Ben was a Muslim. Where was the outcry from Islamic groups when Ben was killed in cold blood, stabbed to death? Whenever a Muslim is killed, Islamic groups often vent their rage. Where were they when Ben was killed? Is it because Islam looks upon the deaf as the living proof of God's wrath? More on this later.
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Together, we rock. Don't we, jason? :-D
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