The Joys of Being a Hypnotist (w/ 2nd update)

Today I am thankful for covert hypnosis.

Today I had a little bit o'drama.

I was at, of all places, the dollar store. 

I wanted fake Woolite for my Aphrodite costume.  I found it in red.  It is hot.   Maybe I'll upload a photo for you....if I can figure out how to do that on this broke ol' computer.

I'm using Explorer.  For some reason, I cannot upload pictures using Explorer. 

It's weird...

Then I realize that I want a mop, floor cleaner, cheap coffee, finger nail polish, pepperoni, wrapping paper and some diet pills that will probably make me chunk out. 

I get in line with my arms loaded full of stuff. 

There is a German guy fussing about returning a 50 cent greeting card. 

If I had a place to put my stuff, I would have given him 54 cents (the cost of the item plus tax).

I didn't. 

The store does not accept returns.  They'll allow you to do exchanges but absolutely no returns. 

I waited. 

I waited.

They guy made his case.....continually....for ten minutes.

That was okay.

Then he started verbally abusing the three young women behind the counter.  The line behind me was forming. 

This is in the scary part of town.  The thugs live there.  There was a thug behind me.....saggy pants and all.  I thought for sure he'd take care of it.

Nope...

Then the guy said something that reminded me of what Steve said to me.   

"You call yourself a manager!  You're stupid!  "

That was it. 

I put my stuff on the counter in front of the guy. 

I handed my credit card to the clerk. 

In my best authoritarian voice, I said, "ring up my order."

I spun on my heels,

looked the man in the eye and said

"STOP causing a scene.  START walking with me out the door NOW and go home or I will call the police myself."

He did as I asked telling me not to worry about him.  He'd be okay.  He was drunk and he swore he'd make it home okay.  That sentence I uttered as a pattern interrupt managed to turn his attention away from his anger at the manager to getting himself home. 

He left.

The thug and I watched him go home.  He lived across a field.  We didn't leave until we were sure he was long gone. 

I came back into the store.  I was cheered.  I found my merchandise bagged.  I spent $19.06 on cleaning stuff and fake diet pills.  Thank goodness I'll never need another pregnancy test!  Those don't work!

The manager thanked me. 

That was too much excitement for me.  That's the first time I had to use that particular pattern on a troublemaker.  I usually use it for political purposes.  It tends to work to create change.  I think the stop, start, now pattern is the one I get the most mileage out of. 

*****

I don't know what has gotten into me but I'm really tired of dealing with a-holes.  Another Anarchist  attacked me on my party's political page.  He claimed that a cop threatened to rape his child.  I offered to help figure out who it was and report it.   Pedophilia is something most cops don't tolerate.  Many cops are parents.  Many politicians have kids.  There are few people with a soft spot for that kind of thing.  They WILL investigate.  They probably won't touch wife beaters but child molesters....oh yeah....they'll look into it.  A couple of years ago our former sheriff was arrested for molesting under age boys.  He's not going to see the light of day for a long time!


I told him this.

This guy went on the attack.  He claimed that I was a cop's wife.  Nope....just a community activist who has complained so much that I know who to b!tch to and how to motivate people to action.  He said he didn't know me and told everyone not to take me too seriously.  That didn't go over very well with my friends.  No ONE knew who he was.  I told him to Google me.

I don't care what the peanut gallery says.  I know how to get things done.  I'm a hypnotist.  I know the magic words.

I hate Facebook.  I want to catch a pedophile.  If he works in law enforcement, he needs to go.  If he doesn't, I'm going to bet that the cops know who he is.  They usually know who the troublemakers are.

It was probably a kid or some drunk guy dumb enough to use his own profile to threaten a kid.  It could have been a cop.  Who knows?  Why didn't the Anarchist report the threat when it happened a month ago? 

That will be his undoing.  You need to report these things!  Seriously!!! 

Still....I'm going to bet that this guy does it to other people.  I'm going to bet he focuses on certain types of people.  I'm going to bet that the cops know about him already. 

*****

Anarchy is a nice theory but you cannot ignore the system we have now.  We live in the now.  We have to navigate what is in existence in the now.  We pay for the police now.  We need to consider using them now. 

LEOs don't want a black eye.  They want people like that off of their team. 

I have a way of getting things done.  I'm not sure I want to say what is going on.  I think the Anarchist made it up.  I'll check into it. 

He claims a cop threatened to rape his child. He never reported it to the police.  If the cops won't touch it, the Child Internet Crime Task Force might.  If the children's activists won't touch it, the feminists will.  They've been after Facebook for a long time because they allow rape threats to be made against female users.  If, for some reason, the feminists won't touch it, I'll go to child protective services. 

Let's see how far I get.

I'll bet the Anarchist will admit to not wanting it investigated before I get too far into it.  I really think he made it up for attention. 


Just watch.....


There is always someone ready to fight.  You just have to know what to say. 

Oh....and you must be persistent!!! 


Love ya,

S. 

Edit A:  I tracked down the name on the screenshot the Anarchist A-hole shared.  It turns out that it is a video game designer, in my home town, who is in his early twenties.  Many video game designers have a reputation for threatening to rape female game designers via cyber-harassment.  It is an issue that the women in the industry are trying to resolve. 

So....I believe the rude Anarchist who posted the image is telling the truth.   I have two possible theories here (1) The video game designer posted the same threat he posts to female video game designers thinking that the child in the photo was a woman -or- (2) A cop has arrested the video game designer in the past and set up a fake profile to frame him for a crime he's already committed against other people. 

I still think if the Anarchist reports it to the police, it will be investigated.  I don't think they could resist the positive press.  Can you imagine the headline?


Cops Bust Man who Threatened Anti-cop Activist's Child


That would be such a departmental ego boost.....don't ya think? 

I'm trying to think of how I used to get cops investigated.  Thinking back on it, it usually involved learning about departmental politics and sharing tidbits with people who were adversaries of the wrong-doer.   It worked with the cop Shannon was using to stalk me in Montbello; They found a lot of crap on him (paperwork errors, false arrests, that kind of thing).  I spoke to a cop who was vying for the same promotion as the stalkerish cop.  The other time, I threatened to go to the press with information that I had.  I also wrote a letter to the District Attorney.

There are methods of getting things done.  you just have to be....you know....creative.

I don't know enough about this particular department to know how to proceed.




I will contact the female gamers I know to see if they have a group that will take the guy down. 


There is always someone itching to fight....always. 




Love ya,

S.

Edit B: I spoke the detective from the Children's Internet Crime Task Force.  The guy who got the threat is going to have to file a report.  He waited 36 days.  The detective is concerned that the trail has grown cold.  They do keep records of these things. 


The laws aren't really there to deal with rape threats against women.  The cop knew about the problems with the male game designers threatening the women.  He said that he would investigate it whether or not it was a cop who made the threat.


I was left with the impression to talk to my State Senator and Representative.  I will meet with them in two weeks.  I have to talk about the temporary driver's licenses and how it is creating an issue for local voters.  I'll add the rape threat laws to the list, too.


I promised to put together a post on how to report threatening things we see on Facebook.  You know, I pay for the cops.  I expect them to do their jobs. 


I grew up in a scary part of town.  Many people think that cops are thugs. 


That may very well be the case.  I am terrified to call them when someone hits my car.  If the damage in minimal, I tend to let the other party go.  I don't know when they'll arrive with guns blazing. 


You have to weight the pros and cons when it comes to such things.  You have to ask yourself "what is the worst that can happen?"


With my car?  Well....the worst that can happen is I lose a car that only cost me $1,500. 


With a kid?  Well....the worst that can happen is a young life is irreparably harmed or cut short.


I'll call the cops for the latter but not the former. 


I hope that makes sense. 


A lot of people compare cops to thugs.


I have to tell you that even thugs will kill child molesters and pedophiles. 

The worst fate a child molester can have is a prison sentence.  They typically don't make it out alive, if you know what I mean.

I'll still do some checking....seriously, there are some things you need to call the police for.  Rape threats and stalking are a couple of those things. 

Don't be like me and let some idiot harass you for twenty years before you make the call.


I was literally shocked that the cops knew exactly what was going during my first call.  They had been on the case since June of 2008. 

I'm still unclear as to what happened there.  I don't know if it was because I was stalked while meeting with the mayor's friend or what.....


They knew....

Cops tend to know who the thugs are and what they do. 

Until we get a different system in place....


because acting like The Punisher is illegal....


and we are most likely too poor to behave like Batman....


just effin' call the cops when kids are threatened. 


You could be saving other lives in the community because these creeps target just about anyone.


Love ya,

S.