Terrorized By Dennis Rader? (2005)

When Dennis Rader was first arrested as the suspect in the BTK murders, the media heard complaints about Rader’s role as the compliance officer in Park City. But none perhaps has been so shocking as the story told by a former Park City resident. The woman says she lived in fear.

Park City was a nice place for Misty King and her two children to live until something simple happened. She and her husband divorced and then she says something strange happened. Dennis Rader came knocking at her door.

“He said, ‘I read in the paper that your divorce was granted,’ and I was like, ‘OK,’” says King, a former Park City resident. “He asked me if I was going to move or if Greg was going to move and I said, ‘No, I was going to stay in the house and the kids were going to stay and Greg was moving.’”

Rader told her since she didn’t have a man in the house, he’d keep an eye on things and he did drive by frequently.

That was until a male friend moved into her home. Then King says everything appeared to change.

“He came to the door and asked me if I had another man living in the house and then I [wondered] what is wrong with him?” King says. “I said, ‘Well, I have a person staying at my house,” and he said, ‘Another man?’ and I said, ‘Well, yeah. It’s a guy,’ and he just left.”

Rader was outside the next day, measuring the edge of her grass. It was too tall. She trimmed it. Then it was the woodpile out back. She got rid of that. Then it was the car that needed a tarp. She complied. Then, the color of her garden hose was too bright. King was getting the feeling there was no complying with Rader or Park City.

“And then, he started sitting outside the house,” King says. “Day after day and then I’d call the police and they’d say he’s in the neighborhood doing a job.”

Jack Whitson is the director of compliance for Park City. He was Rader’s boss.

“I don’t know why I was never notified of the situation,” says Whitson. “I was never notified of the situation, because had I been notified I would have taken it very seriously.”

King, who has worked for the same doctor for 10 years, says she started taking things very seriously when she says she caught Rader window peeping. Again, she called police.

“And, they said, ‘Mamm, there is a difference between looking in windows and walking by windows,’” says King. “I’m like, ‘Well, I think you know when someone steps in front of your windows.’”

King was then issued citation after citation, all for issues surrounding an inoperable vehicle in her driveway.

“I’d always ask him, ‘Why are you doing this? What did I do that was so wrong?’ says King. “And he just said, ‘Get rid of that boyfriend and everything will go back to the way it was.’”

Rader’s “explanation was he felt the boyfriend was working on these inoperable vehicles in the car and felt like if the boyfriend would leave, that so would her problems and complaints the city would have against her,” Whitson says.

Whitson says the Park City council got complaints about King’s property and asked Rader to investigate. But, King says there are other incidents that had nothing to do with vehicle violations.

“And then I came home from work one day and Dennis was outside and he said, ‘I just want you to know your side door must be broken, because it’s open’ and I said, ‘What do you mean?’ and he said, ‘It doesn’t shut,’” King says.

To this day, King says she doesn’t know how the door got open. Soon after, King didn’t open the front door when Rader came knocking with a citation.

“That’s when he’d walk around the house and bang on the windows,” King says. “’I know you are there, I need to talk to you.’”

As far as the city’s concerned, Whitson says it’s not procedure. He says he would’ve talked to Rader had he known about it.

King says the last straw came when Rader picked up her 8-year-old daughter’s dog, Jasmine. Three days later, when King went to pick up the dog, Jasmine had been put to sleep. That day, King packed up her kids and her belongings and left Park City for good.

“I didn’t know what he was going to do,” King says. “I figured he’d already killed my dog, so I just left.”

It’s upsetting that King felt like she had to leave Park City, Whitson says. If some of King’s allegations are true and other complaints that have surfaced since Rader’s arrest, he wishes he would’ve known about them earlier.

“I’m angry because they allowed it to happen,” King says. They believed “if you work for the city, you can do no wrong.”

"Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against - then you'll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens' What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."
- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957.

Yes, the Atlas Shrugged quote is great. This kind of thing is what Rand said that no one else wuld nad it’s her contribution to the casue of liberty.

Here is another piece that describes very well the same liberal and government mindset:

http://www.vex.net/~smarry/oldbbs/bread.html

The Incredible Bread Machine
By R.W. Grant

This is the story of a man whose name
Was a household word: a man whose fame
Burst on the world like an atom bomb;
Smith was his last name; first name Tom.

Now, Smith, an inventor, had specialized
In toys, so people were surprized,
When they found that he instead
Of making toys, was BAKING BREAD!

The way to make bread he’d conceived
Cost less than people could believe!
And not just make it! This device,
Could in addition, wrap and slice!
The price per loaf, one loaf or many,
The miniscule sum of under a penny!

Can you imagine what this meant?
Can you comprehend the consequent?
The first time yet the world well fed,
And all because of Tom Smith’s bread.

A citation from the President,
For Smith’s amazing bread,
This and other honours too,
Were heaped upon his head!

But isn’t it a wonderous thing,
How quickly fame is flown?
Smith, the hero of today,
Tommorow, scarcely known!

Yes, the fickle years passed by,
Smith was a millionaire,
But Smith himself was now forgot,
Though bread was everywhere...
People, asked from where it came,
Would very seldom know.
They would simple eat and ask,
“Was not it always so?”

However, Smith cared not a bit,
For millions ate his bread...
And everything is fine, thought he,
I am rich, and they are fed!

Everything was fine, he thought,
He reckoned not with fate.
Note the sequence of events,
Starting on the date,
On which the business tax went up.
Then, to a slight extent,
The price on every loaf rose too:
Up to one full cent!

“What’s going on!” the public cried,
“He’s guilty of pure plunder!
He has no right to get so rich
on other peoples hunger!”

(A Prize cartoon depicted Smith,
With fat and drooping jowls,
Snatching bread from hungry babes,
indiferrent to their howls!)

Well, since the public does come first,
It could not be denied
That in matters such as this,
The Public must decide!

So Anti-Trust now took a hand,
Of course, it was appalled
At what it found was going on.
The “Bread Trust” it was called.

Now this was getting serious,
So Smith felt that he must
Have a friendly interview
With the men in Anti-Trust.

So hat in hand, he went to them.
They’d surely been misled;
No Rule of Law had he defied.

But then their lawyer said:
“The Rule of Law, in complex times,
Has proved itself deficient.
We much prefer the Rule of Men,
It’s vastly more efficient!

Now let me state the present rules,”
The lawyer then went on,
“These very simple guidelines,
You can rely upon:
You’re gouging on your prices if
You charge more than the rest.
But it’s unfair competition if
You think you can charge less!
“A second point that we would make
To help avoid confusion...
Don’t try to charge the same amount,
That would be Collusion!
You must compete. But not too much,
For if you do you see,
Then the market would be yours -
And that’s Monopoly!

Price too high?
Or Price too low?
Now, which charge did they make?

Well, they weren’t loath to charging both,
With Public Good at stake!

In fact, they went one better!
They charged “Monopoly!”
No muss, no fuss, oh, woe is us!
Egad, they charged ALL THREE!

“Five Years in jail,” The Judge then said
“You’re lucky it’s not worse!
Robber Barrons must be taught,
Society comes first!”

Now bread is baked by government.
And as might be expected,
Everything is well controlled.
The Public well protected.

True, loaves cost a dollar each,
But our leaders do their best!
The selling price is half a cent..
Taxes pay the rest.

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