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December 30, 2009: Here we go again, according to Dayton Daily News, Douglas Boucher, 39, died from a skull fracture he received when he fell after being shot with a Taser Gun. It was reported that no drugs or alcohol were found in Boucher’s body. Officers Daniel Fry and Sean McCormick stopped at a store for a drink, when the female clerk asked them to talk to Boucher because she claimed he had propositioned and harassed her. Apparently, he did the same thing the night before, so the two officers approached Boucher and asked him to go outside. The officers were attempting to handcuff Boucher when he wrestled away and hit Fry in the head with his one handcuffed hand. When he tried to go after the clerk again, because she had come outside, McCormick attempted to use a Taser on him. The first shot failed, but the second one employed the shock. This is my point, this man should not have died. His life should not have ended because he hit on a woman, or because he resisted arrest. Taser guns are LETHAL and should not be used any longer. Read the Full Story Please go to www.petition2congress.com do a search for Taser Torture, and sign the petition for congressional hearings…thanks.
Reality TV star Jon Gosselin has been targeted by “mean-spirited” burglars over the holidays: He returned to his New York City apartment after Christmas to find it had been ransacked. Read The Full Story
This episode of a Taser related death occured in Springfield, MO. City police are now investigating the death of this man, Michael Hawkins, 39, who had been arrested for burglary, Sunday morning December 20, 2009. According to a person claiming to be the brother of the victim, Mike was staying in the hotel with his girlfriend. He and his girlfriend had a rocky relationship, and on this day they probably got into one of their arguments, said the relative. Mike according to the report, went into a utility closet and locked the door and would not come out. Police were called, and rightly so. When the police tried to get Mike to come out of the storage closet he went up into a crawl space. Police tried to talk Hawkins down but he refused to leave the crawl space. Police entered the crawl space, along with a police service dog. The dog engaged the suspect in the crawl space. While doing so, dog broke through the ceiling and fell on a balcony. But Mike was able to hold on to a rafter and climb back into the crawl space. After he refused to obey several police commands to surrender, an officer used an electric stun gun on him. Someone who claimed to be the Mike’s brother said that Mike didn’t steal anything, he was not a burglar, but was staying at the hotel. Once in custody, an ambulance took Mike to a hospital to be treated for a dog bite on his upper thigh. Mike died at the hospital. An autopsy is pending to decide the cause of death.
There was a young man, who lived behind my house in the home of his father. I didn’t know the young man personally, but I knew that he would cut the grass from time to time for my father, so I hired him for the same purposes. One day, after cutting the grass he asked if I wanted him to trim the hedges. I specifically said no because the sun was going down. I asked him to come back the next day and do the hedges. Well, unknown to me he was clipping the hedges around my house that night, and a neighbor saw him and called the police. A knock at my door, revealed about three police cars with flashing lights and a handful of police officers. They wanted to know if I knew the man they had in cuffs, the guy who had cut my grass. This person knew I told him not to cut the hedges that night. So did the young man have evil intent in his heart? Did he forget that I had said no? ? Of course I don’t know, but I was sure glad that my neighbor saw him and called the cops, and I am yet grateful that the cops were on the case protecting me and my family. Now, let’s say that this young man was tasered and died, like Mike did. This young man should have known better, his activities were suspicious looking, but is that any reason for this young man to lose his life. As it turned out the police in my story handled the situation well, the young man was subdued and no one lost their life. I appreciate police protection. I just don’t like it when people, who are clearly using poor judgement, but are not hurting anyone, have to lose their lives. It is happening too often, not to warrant reevaluation of the Taser Gun.
- HOME ALONE YIPPEEEEEE!
I have been mothering since the age of TWENTY-FOUR. And I am still mothering just from a distance, but as any mother will know that once a mother always a mother. I want the best for my daughters, and I want them to make the right choices, right? But today, DECEMBER 17, 2009, I don’t have to mother ANYBODY. BECAUSE ALL OF MY CHILDREN WENT OUT OF TOWN. For the first time in my life, for real, I can just about do what I want to do. It is just me. This is so weird and exhilarating. My little munchkin isnt calling mom mom every 5 seconds, I’m not cooking breakfast for anyone. I don’t have to duck hormone imbalances. I don’t have to be a rutter for anyone’s ship. I don’t have to be a sounding board. I want to see how long I last before I miss all of this and begin to drop tears. Never!!!! I refuse to miss them and cry…stay tuned!!!!!!
Elin and Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods is first a man, and every man has a story to hide. We all know that what Tiger has done is wrong, and we also know that he and his wife, Elin, are suffering, and I pray that they come out of this, eventually, whole. But what I am most curious about is the fact that Tiger’s dad passed back in 2006, at which time Tiger said that his father was his best friend. I know that I never felt more “grown up,” or more alone than at the death of my parents. Until then, my parents were my shield and sense of “safety.” No matter how far life flung me from them, which wasn’t very far, I could always go home. At their deaths, my life changed, my concept of myself changed, and a part of me, just a part, died too. So I am wondering if the death of his father has affected him perhaps in ways that are just now surfacing. The anniversary of the death of Earl Woods is approaching. May 3, 2010 is the fourth year mark since his passing. Did Tiger Woods sabotage his career? Did he create another way to walk away from the sport that was such a dominate presence in their bond as father and son. Is he punishing himself for some reason? I’m interested because I heard one of his mistresses say that he was so out in the open with their affair. Was Tiger trying to get caught?
I have heard that Tiger has continued to contact one of his mistresses, while his wife is moving out of their home together, if this is true, he hasn’t skipped a beat. His high school girlfriend, was kind enough to come out of the background into the limelight, to let us know that Tiger was devastated, by his father’s philandering. Yet, Tiger is doing the same thing, and seemingly with a vengeance-14 women! This is so psychologically, interesting to me. I would love to just sit down and talk with Tiger Woods. He is destroying his marriage and public life with his reproductive organ, but I don’t believe Tiger is a Sex Addict, because I don’t think this is just about sex. Remember he said he was leaving golf to work on his marriage and family situation, but he is still contacting women??? According to MedicineNet.com, the term “sexual addiction” is used to describe the behavior of a person who has an unusually intense sex drive or an obsession with sex. Sex and the thought of sex tend to dominate the sex addict’s thinking, making it difficult to work or engage in healthy personal relationships. Could Tiger Woods become the athlete of the Decade, and still have the time to devote to an addiction? What do you think?
UPDATE: I just read this…”Tiger and Earl were incredibly close and his father’s death must have been a severe emotional blow, but there is little to suggest that his father’s death participated in his philandering,” said Larry Londino, a broadcasting professor at Montclair University and author of “Tiger Woods: A Biography.” “If anything it seems he was doing it before Earl’s death,” he said. READ MORE
MORE UPDATE: I just read in an article today in News.com/au, that TIGER Woods’ wife Elin Nordegren wants a divorce, sole custody and half of his estimated $671 million fortune, according to a newspaper report. I read in the article that the reason Elin now wants to go ahead with all of this, after stating that she would wait until everything came to the surface about Tiger and his mistresses, is because Tiger is refusing to go to rehab. Tiger apparently reneged on a promise he made to his wife to go into rehabilitation to get off the prescription drugs Ambien and Vicodin. A close friend of Ms Nordegren told the News of the World, instead Tiger hasn’t checked into rehab, but gone to a friend’s house to kick the habit himself. A source told News of the World: “Tiger is a broken man, on the edge and unable to come to terms with what’s happening in his life.
Now I was also reading in an article on Sexual Addiction at 4Therapy.com that said Depressed men turn to sex for relief from distress. Sexual acting out is a magic elixir, transforming shame into grandiosity and moving him from a sense of helplessness to a sense of omnipotent control. The feelings associated with depression vanish with the experience of having an inordinate powerful sense of self. The article also said In treatment, the addictive defense must be confronted and stopped. Then, the hidden pain emerges as depression, and underneath the depression lies childhood trauma. It is only when these traumas are worked through that there can be true freedom from addictive slavery. Only after the shame cycle has stopped, after the addictive pattern has been broken and the person has moved into “recovery” can the pain of hidden depression be addressed and resolved. Could the devastation that Tiger felt when he found out that his father was cheating on Tiger’s mother and the eventual breakup of his family that it caused, be at the root of depression? Could it be that Tiger internalized that, perhaps took the situation a bit more personally, because of the strong bond with his father. Children under most circumstances feel that divorce is their fault and that parents are falling out of love with them as well, how much more perhaps for Tiger? What do you think? Could Depression be the villian that made Tiger jump?
(Linda Hicks) toledoblade.com
I am so angry about Taser Torture Murders that I am almost numb. I have signed a petition for Congressional Hearings. I have directed my readers to other sites that have current information about this problem. but it’s far from enough. I am seeing the numbers of deaths, from taser torture, rise.
And I’m not surprised because the history of America is riddled with violence and wars. The culture of America is full of violence. When we don’t agree, we assassinate. When we want to end relationships, with spouses, lovers, parents, children, we kill them and stuff their bodies somewhere. When we are angry and vengeful, we point guns, and swing bats, and wield knives. But when a civil servant puts on a blue uniform, a badge, and is assigned a gun, I immediately hold them to a higher standard than the rest of us. I thought police officers were taught to handle their weapons. I thought that police officers were trained to disarm escalated situations. And I also thought that their main goal was to subdue a person and not kill. This situation involving Taser Guns really reminds me of the ‘Old Jim Crow South’, the KKK and Lynching, because nothing concrete has been done to solve this problem. The young, the old, black, white, hispanic, male and female are dying without due process of law. Ironically, when I first heard about these new taser guns and saw them subdue a suspect, I thought that lives would be saved. Well lives are not being saved.
A woman, Tanya Murphy, operates a home for the mentally ill, and Linda Hicks (62) was one of its residents. Ms. Hicks, had supposedly stopped taking her medication and allegedly became agitated and violent. Ms. Murphy called 911 and asked specifically for a crisis team. Moments later Ms. Linda Hicks was shot in the head by one of the two police officers who responded, because she was allegedly threatening people with scissors. This is a NATIONAL TRAGEDY. And it also the end of someone’s life. Life can deal anyone of us a difficult hand, but it is our life, and that is precious. People’s lives are being stolen, and lives in America are being stolen in many different ways everyday, but this way affects me most. Read some of the more peculiar aspects of this story. Please, go to www.Petition2Congress.com and do a search for Taser Torture and sign the petition that comes up.
This blog is all about me sharing my thoughts on past experiences, current events, and the ups and downs of a life in motion. Please know that you are always welcome, and I hope that your experience here is uplifting. Be Blessed!
