It was raining and approaching dark and a dilapidated house trailer had broken down on a county road just around a corner. The trailer mover truck driver had driven off and left it. Our constable, a Republican, had to do something to get that off the road. He called the county commissioner, a Republican, and the commissioner himself drove a front end loader to push it off the road before someone crashed into it coming around the corner. Naturally, the pushing off the road did some damage to the old trailer.
The brought in lawyer got the grand jury made up of the District Judge's relations and friends, to indict them on a charge of intentionally committing a HATE CRIME by damaging the trailer. The owner of the trailer was black. The lawyer contacted the press from Houston and there was the press at the jail to see the two “criminals” taken to jail to make bail. They actually had to go to trial and were found not guilty. This story is as ridiculous as it sounds. The other cases were just as ridiculous.
A hate crime? Geez, how ridiculous.
That’s how they’ll set us up if Obama’s Gestapo is allowed to continue their reign of terror. They’ll create false charges, based on what they ‘say’ we are thinking (very Big Brother of them!).
I ordered 1984 and Animal Farm last night. I searched all our used bookstores for copies yesterday - and the neat thing is one store said they had a lot of copies but they’d all sold recently. We ARE at 1984; Orwell was just off 20 years or so.
My sign at the Tea Party IRS protest simply said ‘1984’. The organizer of the event said that was his favorite sign of the day. And there was a lot of fancy ones that people put a lot of thought and hard work into. But we were talking about how very few of our youth would even get the reference.
Things being what they are today. If taken in for questioning, just invoke your right to remain silent. The best thing to do is to do under oath is take the 5th. Anything else they wind up making your life miserable, and try to convict you of perjury.
Lots of people live to regret opening their mouth.