Well the Library School isn't working out. I can try again, but there's something in the back of my head...
You see, right now I'm working a job. Jobs are great, but they're not careers. They're not vocations. Vocation comes from the same word as voice. Makes sense that it would. I should have seen that a long time ago. Anyway, the idea of vocation, means that you've followed that inner-voice, not the same thing as the voice in your head, but an inner voice that tells you what to do with your life.
Read below and you'll see that my sister and her family were crime victims about two years ago. I've always been sickened by those who commit horrible crimes and then whine about their "rights" being violated because they don't get enough channels on their cable TV in jail etc.
To me, criminals give up all but their most basic rights. PERIOD. But, then there are the victims. Those left behind to pick up pieces of their life after some price of sub-human garbage takes something from them. It doesn't matter if its money, car, or a sense of security, it does not belong to the criminals it belongs to victims.
I am leaning towards a victims rights advocate. I need to check into this big time. I may even try to do something via my church when they start the new campus. I'll have to check.
Anyway, please pray for me. If you happen upon this and you don't believe in prayer, then don't. Hwoever, I think God's got something bigger for me. I just want to know what it is.
Sunday, August 5, 2007
Saturday, August 4, 2007
Justice is Served
OK below is the story of the home invasion on my sister and two other robberies by the same men.
They were arrested in 2005. Our wonderful justice system being what it is, they did not have their trial until this week.
They were facing 27 charges. I can't name them all right now, but here's how it went down. All three family members testified on Monday and Tuesday.
During the playing of the 911 call [which was very emotional] one of the defense lawyers and his client started laughing. During a break the victims rights advocate told the DA what happened and this little spitfire of a woman caught up with the other lawyer and demanded to know what was so funny. I don't know what it was, but she came to us and told us that it was not the call.
Anyway, long story short they're guilty. The sentence has not been passed down yet, because in GA the families of the guilty have a right to tell the judge what good boys they are and how it will hurt their feelings that they will have to go to jail.
They'd already turned down two plea bar gin offers, and one of them had their sister and 16 year old niece lie on the stand saying that he'd been with them. Even though that was disproved.
My sister doubts the judge will be too moved. You have to understand something here. They took very victim and bound them up with duct tape. When they bound my sister and her husband, they did so in the front hallway. According to GA law, that is the crime of false imprisonment. When they took Sarah from her room and did the same thing, that became kidnapping.
In GA law, if you are moved from point a to point b it is kidnapping. It does not matter if you are moved from your bedroom to the kitchen or in the case of the Applebees employees from the back room to the bar area, or in the case of the Fuddruckers employee, from the restaurant to the truck, it is still kidnapping.
There were 27 charges against them. Kidnapping, false imprisonment, assault, robbery etc. One charge was for taking a bank card out of the purse of the Applebees manager and then they put it back when she told them she had no money. That was a charge of robbery and was dropped since they did not keep the card.
HOWEVER ALL 26 OTHER CHARGES STAND.
When sentenced in a week or so, they will probably be given MULTIPLE life time sentences. THEY WILL NEVER SEE FREEDOM AGAIN.
If you feel sorry for prisoners, fine. I don't care and I don't feel any sympathy for them. One of them appeared to have a good mother, so I feel for her, but the other had a mother that was quite obviously a baby making, crack slut. Is that harsh? Yes. Do I care? NO!!!
I may even want to become a victims rights advocate myself now, just because I think that victim justice is way more important to me than criminal justice.
They were arrested in 2005. Our wonderful justice system being what it is, they did not have their trial until this week.
They were facing 27 charges. I can't name them all right now, but here's how it went down. All three family members testified on Monday and Tuesday.
During the playing of the 911 call [which was very emotional] one of the defense lawyers and his client started laughing. During a break the victims rights advocate told the DA what happened and this little spitfire of a woman caught up with the other lawyer and demanded to know what was so funny. I don't know what it was, but she came to us and told us that it was not the call.
Anyway, long story short they're guilty. The sentence has not been passed down yet, because in GA the families of the guilty have a right to tell the judge what good boys they are and how it will hurt their feelings that they will have to go to jail.
They'd already turned down two plea bar gin offers, and one of them had their sister and 16 year old niece lie on the stand saying that he'd been with them. Even though that was disproved.
My sister doubts the judge will be too moved. You have to understand something here. They took very victim and bound them up with duct tape. When they bound my sister and her husband, they did so in the front hallway. According to GA law, that is the crime of false imprisonment. When they took Sarah from her room and did the same thing, that became kidnapping.
In GA law, if you are moved from point a to point b it is kidnapping. It does not matter if you are moved from your bedroom to the kitchen or in the case of the Applebees employees from the back room to the bar area, or in the case of the Fuddruckers employee, from the restaurant to the truck, it is still kidnapping.
There were 27 charges against them. Kidnapping, false imprisonment, assault, robbery etc. One charge was for taking a bank card out of the purse of the Applebees manager and then they put it back when she told them she had no money. That was a charge of robbery and was dropped since they did not keep the card.
HOWEVER ALL 26 OTHER CHARGES STAND.
When sentenced in a week or so, they will probably be given MULTIPLE life time sentences. THEY WILL NEVER SEE FREEDOM AGAIN.
If you feel sorry for prisoners, fine. I don't care and I don't feel any sympathy for them. One of them appeared to have a good mother, so I feel for her, but the other had a mother that was quite obviously a baby making, crack slut. Is that harsh? Yes. Do I care? NO!!!
I may even want to become a victims rights advocate myself now, just because I think that victim justice is way more important to me than criminal justice.
Justice Is Served
Saturday Oct. 22 at around 08:00 AM in Snellville GA my sister and her family were victims of a home invasion.
Here's what happened:
First thing I need to point out, is that they had their home up for sell at the time.
\On that date, my sister Melanie, her husband Gary and my then 6 year old niece Sarah woke up at around 0745 or so. Sarah was playing with her Barbies or watching TV or something like that. At around 0800 they saw a truck pull up in their driveway and saw two men get out. They saw most of this on their security monitor.
One of the men knocked on the door. Gary answered, while Melanie put on something to wear. The one who knocked talked to Gary about the house for a few moments, while the other walked around in the yard.
Gary told them about the contract they already had and that it wasn't a good time to see it, but they could come back with a Realtor later on. The one that stayed at the door, then pulled a gun, and held it to Gary's chest.
Gary tried to fight him off and get back into the house. He was shot in the left arm. Had he not knocked the man's gun hand partially away, he'd of probably been shot in the chest and killed.
The men then made their way into the house. Melanie and Sarah came running out to the hallway. Melanie told Sarah to run and hide. One of the men followed her into her room and dragged her out at gun point. They were then all made to lay in the floor, the front door [which can not be seen from the road] was closed and they were all bound with duct tape.
While doing this, they kept kicking Gary in the ribs and taunting him. They told my sister they they had her id cards and if she called the police, they'd come back and rape, molest and kill Sarah in front of her.
The men then took as much as they could including jewelry, money, guns, bank cards, Gary's SUV etc.
About three weeks later there was a late night robbery at a Fuddruckers. It was closed and the only person there was a delivery guy. They robbed him, and then bound him with tape and put him in the back of his delivery truck. He was able to escape.
Those robbers went right to a Applebees and robbed the employees that were cleaning up. They made the manager remove all of her clothes, but her panties. They tied them up as well.
As they were escaping that robbery, they saw a police car and panicked. Their erratic driving caught his attention and he chased them. A second car joined that chase, and the men were pulled over.
Around that same time, the police got the APB on the robbery. It was them. They were arrested. A search of the revealed my sister's credit card, SS card etc.
That's the story of how they were caught. Next post will be the trial.
Here's what happened:
First thing I need to point out, is that they had their home up for sell at the time.
\On that date, my sister Melanie, her husband Gary and my then 6 year old niece Sarah woke up at around 0745 or so. Sarah was playing with her Barbies or watching TV or something like that. At around 0800 they saw a truck pull up in their driveway and saw two men get out. They saw most of this on their security monitor.
One of the men knocked on the door. Gary answered, while Melanie put on something to wear. The one who knocked talked to Gary about the house for a few moments, while the other walked around in the yard.
Gary told them about the contract they already had and that it wasn't a good time to see it, but they could come back with a Realtor later on. The one that stayed at the door, then pulled a gun, and held it to Gary's chest.
Gary tried to fight him off and get back into the house. He was shot in the left arm. Had he not knocked the man's gun hand partially away, he'd of probably been shot in the chest and killed.
The men then made their way into the house. Melanie and Sarah came running out to the hallway. Melanie told Sarah to run and hide. One of the men followed her into her room and dragged her out at gun point. They were then all made to lay in the floor, the front door [which can not be seen from the road] was closed and they were all bound with duct tape.
While doing this, they kept kicking Gary in the ribs and taunting him. They told my sister they they had her id cards and if she called the police, they'd come back and rape, molest and kill Sarah in front of her.
The men then took as much as they could including jewelry, money, guns, bank cards, Gary's SUV etc.
About three weeks later there was a late night robbery at a Fuddruckers. It was closed and the only person there was a delivery guy. They robbed him, and then bound him with tape and put him in the back of his delivery truck. He was able to escape.
Those robbers went right to a Applebees and robbed the employees that were cleaning up. They made the manager remove all of her clothes, but her panties. They tied them up as well.
As they were escaping that robbery, they saw a police car and panicked. Their erratic driving caught his attention and he chased them. A second car joined that chase, and the men were pulled over.
Around that same time, the police got the APB on the robbery. It was them. They were arrested. A search of the revealed my sister's credit card, SS card etc.
That's the story of how they were caught. Next post will be the trial.
Friday, July 27, 2007
Blake
I teach special needs kids at my church.
One of our kids is named Blake. He's been sick for some time. This is an update that I recived from his mother recently:
Hi Roger,
Blake is not doing well. He was in the hospital for 18 days in June. He went in for a different treatment and while there his swallowing muscles became uncoordinated, and he was aspirating food/drink into his lungs. So he was treated for pneumonia and had to have a feeding tube. He is now solely fed through his tube. He recently had a swallow study that showed he was no longer aspirating but still had trouble coordinating those muscles and he refuses to eat and drink anything now, so is still fed through the tube. On July 9, he was admitted to the psychiatric hospital because he was uncontrollable. He stayed 5 days and they increased his medication. He is a little calmer, but still has outbursts and extreme oppositional defiance and ocd. Physically he still can't walk but has shown some improvement with fine motor skills. He talks but only to say opposite things - no real functional language.
We are going to John Hopkins in Baltimore Maryland August 2 for a second opinion. He has had two treatments that didn't work at all. Before he receives a 3rd more invasive treatment, his doctor wanted us to get the 2nd opinion to make sure he doesn't have something in addition to sydenham's chorea. Hopefully the doctor there can give some answers and treatment suggestions that will work.
Please pray for this wonderful child
One of our kids is named Blake. He's been sick for some time. This is an update that I recived from his mother recently:
Hi Roger,
Blake is not doing well. He was in the hospital for 18 days in June. He went in for a different treatment and while there his swallowing muscles became uncoordinated, and he was aspirating food/drink into his lungs. So he was treated for pneumonia and had to have a feeding tube. He is now solely fed through his tube. He recently had a swallow study that showed he was no longer aspirating but still had trouble coordinating those muscles and he refuses to eat and drink anything now, so is still fed through the tube. On July 9, he was admitted to the psychiatric hospital because he was uncontrollable. He stayed 5 days and they increased his medication. He is a little calmer, but still has outbursts and extreme oppositional defiance and ocd. Physically he still can't walk but has shown some improvement with fine motor skills. He talks but only to say opposite things - no real functional language.
We are going to John Hopkins in Baltimore Maryland August 2 for a second opinion. He has had two treatments that didn't work at all. Before he receives a 3rd more invasive treatment, his doctor wanted us to get the 2nd opinion to make sure he doesn't have something in addition to sydenham's chorea. Hopefully the doctor there can give some answers and treatment suggestions that will work.
Please pray for this wonderful child
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
North Charleston Campus
I saw the first look at the coming North Charleston Campus tonight for Seacoast
It's so weird knowing that I am going into a church that wants to focus on inner city ministry. The church I grew up in avoided doing that in their own 'hood. But, this church is going into it.
Part of me wants to drop out of it, but I've got to rebuke those thoughts. I must embrace this and change, transform, be renewed, be blessed and be a blessing.
With my co-depededent ways, that's hard for me. Mostly because I have a desire to make sure that those who will raise an eyebrow are happy with me. In other words since I don't want anyone to wag a tounge at me, or shake a finger I want to runaway and say "Sorry...can't do it." But, that's not true. I can and I want too.
Jesus help me with doing this. Let me please only You.
In Jesus Name...so be it.
It's so weird knowing that I am going into a church that wants to focus on inner city ministry. The church I grew up in avoided doing that in their own 'hood. But, this church is going into it.
Part of me wants to drop out of it, but I've got to rebuke those thoughts. I must embrace this and change, transform, be renewed, be blessed and be a blessing.
With my co-depededent ways, that's hard for me. Mostly because I have a desire to make sure that those who will raise an eyebrow are happy with me. In other words since I don't want anyone to wag a tounge at me, or shake a finger I want to runaway and say "Sorry...can't do it." But, that's not true. I can and I want too.
Jesus help me with doing this. Let me please only You.
In Jesus Name...so be it.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
I am SO Walter Mittyesqe. He's a character by James Thurber. He lives in his own fantasy world. He always pictures himself in some other situation, A surgen; a pilot; a spy.
I didn't make into library school. I'm waiting to find out why now. In the meantime I'm thinking of going back for another degree instead. So I'm constantly wishing I was somthing else. I'm praying that God will show me where He wants me.
Maybe when Seacoast starts it's North Charleston campus, I'll do something big there.
Who knows
Read The Walter Mitty story here
I didn't make into library school. I'm waiting to find out why now. In the meantime I'm thinking of going back for another degree instead. So I'm constantly wishing I was somthing else. I'm praying that God will show me where He wants me.
Maybe when Seacoast starts it's North Charleston campus, I'll do something big there.
Who knows
Read The Walter Mitty story here
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Library School
Thanks for asking for an update Lori.
Well I got my letter yesterday...and they've turned me down.
I'm a little disapointed, but I'll try to call on Monday to see if I can find out why. In the meantime, I'll now be able to pursue some other things.
I'm the newly appointed Area 62 Governer for District 58 Toastmasters.
Also in September Seacoast will start its North Charleston campus, and I'll be involved.
One more, but very important thing. About a year and a half ago, my sister and her family were robbed in their own home.
In later July or early August, my neice will have to testify in court. She's scared.
Mom brought her up for a visit to Unky Roggie and Grandaddy Mel a few weeks ago. I had her at a local playground and Granddaddy came to pick us up. We saw some real rough looking types comeing up and using foul langauge etc. We went home and when Sarah asked why we left I made the mistake of tellng her. She was then scared that they may follow us.
Needless to say that didn't happen. But, she said several things that weekend that told me that their robbery is on her mind.
She's 8 now and was 6 when this happend. She saw her daddy laying on the floor shot in the arm. She had a gun put to her head while this trash said they'd rape and then kill her if my sister didn't give them everything.
THIS SUCKS!!!!!
I won't go into what I want to see happen to the scum that did this, but let's just say that I hope they drop the soap in the shower.
On the other side of the issue of crime in America, my cousin is in jail
He is in his 60s but a couple of years ago he was caught raising and selling pit bulls for dog fighting [no, I'm not related to Michael Vick]
Anyway as much as I hate what he did, he's still family. And his mom is one of my favorite aunts and she deserves better.
We're hoping he'll be paroled soon.
It burns me up to see those who can hurt kids and shoot people get off and those that committ less horrible crimes get years in prison.
Well, now I'm babbling, but I needed this chance, and it's my blog so there.
Well I got my letter yesterday...and they've turned me down.
I'm a little disapointed, but I'll try to call on Monday to see if I can find out why. In the meantime, I'll now be able to pursue some other things.
I'm the newly appointed Area 62 Governer for District 58 Toastmasters.
Also in September Seacoast will start its North Charleston campus, and I'll be involved.
One more, but very important thing. About a year and a half ago, my sister and her family were robbed in their own home.
In later July or early August, my neice will have to testify in court. She's scared.
Mom brought her up for a visit to Unky Roggie and Grandaddy Mel a few weeks ago. I had her at a local playground and Granddaddy came to pick us up. We saw some real rough looking types comeing up and using foul langauge etc. We went home and when Sarah asked why we left I made the mistake of tellng her. She was then scared that they may follow us.
Needless to say that didn't happen. But, she said several things that weekend that told me that their robbery is on her mind.
She's 8 now and was 6 when this happend. She saw her daddy laying on the floor shot in the arm. She had a gun put to her head while this trash said they'd rape and then kill her if my sister didn't give them everything.
THIS SUCKS!!!!!
I won't go into what I want to see happen to the scum that did this, but let's just say that I hope they drop the soap in the shower.
On the other side of the issue of crime in America, my cousin is in jail
He is in his 60s but a couple of years ago he was caught raising and selling pit bulls for dog fighting [no, I'm not related to Michael Vick]
Anyway as much as I hate what he did, he's still family. And his mom is one of my favorite aunts and she deserves better.
We're hoping he'll be paroled soon.
It burns me up to see those who can hurt kids and shoot people get off and those that committ less horrible crimes get years in prison.
Well, now I'm babbling, but I needed this chance, and it's my blog so there.
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