![]() I never had an outburst like that again, most of my disobedience was more planned and subtle. ![]() I spent the night vacillating between shame because I lost control and pride because I stood up and fought this insanity. I promised him that I would do better to control my temper. Ben and I had a long talk about the incident. That scared me to think that I jeopardized his safety with my outburst. If I was ever arrested, Ben would have no one. Most everyone was supportive but they reminded me to not get into too much trouble and control myself. When we got back home, I called my friends to tell them what happened and to decompress. I didn’t know if someone called the police and I just wanted to get out of there. I finally snapped out of it and we started to leave the park all the while the homeless couple were berating me, telling me what a terrible parent I was. I don’t think he had ever seen me so angry or worked up. He just kept saying, “MOM!!” I know he must have been scared. I honestly don’t know what was going through my mind or what I was yelling at them, but I was ready to throw down.īen grabbed me by the shoulders and started pulling me back. I started walking towards the homeless couple. You’re teaching your son to disobey the law”īy this time I had removed all the tape, the signs were on the ground and Ben was telling me to calm down. They replied, “You should be ashamed of yourself. I was so mad, the only thing that came out of my mouth was, “this is bullshit” “Hey, stop doing that! Those are there for a reason!” As they approached me, they started yelling. While I was in the midst of my righteous indignation, these homeless people that live in their van started walking towards me. I don’t know what snapped inside of me, but it was at that moment in front everyone, I started throwing the signs on the ground and ripping the tape off the swings and jungle gym equipment. I walked past the tennis court that had the nets taken down, the playground equipment that was all tapped off to prevent kids from having fun, and countless plastic signs warning us of the dangers of covid. When I got to the park, it was full of people just sitting in the grass, talking. I literally ran the entire way to the park. ![]() He spent hours on the court everyday, it was the one thing that kept him sane through all of this and now these bastards took it away. Basketball was the one thing Ben loved more than anything else. But they’re probably more concerned about getting the taste of boot polish out of their mouths.Basketball hoop at Colonel Summers Park, Portland, Oregon People who feel obligated to defend the largest and most powerful organization on the face of the planet ought to consider that an abusive father can still make his kids macaroni and cheese for dinner after he has spent the past half hour throwing empty liquor bottles at them. We’re sure a lot of the kids in those concentration camps had direct lines to Hirohito himself. In all fairness, perhaps a government can be tyrannical for the right reasons sometimes. You could say the same about one which roasts children alive, places its own citizens in concentration camps, codifies racism, and spies on Quakers. You might also argue that any government which reads its citizens’ private correspondences is oppressive. And giving me a speeding ticket for doing 62 in a 55 is absolute horse****. Maybe she offered seed and stem removal for an extra dollar?) Had the CIA carried out its 1962 plan to commit terrorist attacks in order to drum up support for war against Cuba, the alphabet boys would have acted with exceptional cruelty. (Although we do wonder why she didn’t just charge an even thirty. Sentencing a mother of four to 12 years in prison for selling $31 of marijuana is arguably very cruel. It is awfully good of the police to arrest perpetrators of property crimes, when they are allowed to, and we’d certainly be happy to see the Coast Guard if we just flipped the official Libertas Bella catamaran 12 miles off the coast of Naples Beach.īut the government does check the tyranny boxes when it wants to. Tyranny (n): cruel and oppressive government or ruleīefore we dive into the tyranny quotes, let us first ask: Is the United States government tyrannical? Not constantly, no.
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