Posts Tagged "police"

Poor Representation of Liberty: Catherine Bleish Case

Posted by on Apr 17, 2010 in Activist | 6 comments

The pur­suit of polit­i­cal lib­erty is dif­fi­cult; the pur­suit of lib­erty is made dou­bly dif­fi­cult when the rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the bat­tle are irre­spon­si­ble. The cur­rently pro­cess­ing case of Catherine Bleish is an excel­lent exam­ple of irre­spon­si­ble behav­ior that is a) pre­sented as being rep­re­sen­ta­tive of lib­erty and lib­erty activists and b) defended by fool­ish, unthink­ingly loyal activists. Such behav­ior harms the cause of liberty. Miss Bleish is from my home­town, Kansas City, and is now based in my home State, Texas....

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Citizen’s Arrest: Adventures in Bolivian Babysitting

Posted by on Sep 28, 2008 in Explorer, Missionary | 0 comments

Citizen’s Arrest: Adventures in Bolivian Babysitting

7:40am I woke up to an extra­or­di­nar­ily loud “Screech! Chunk! Thud. CRASH!” from Simon Lopez, our busy city street. I run down the stairs to hear “Lorien! Camera!” and my sib­lings yelling, “The van! The van?” The crash was not our van, but instead a drunk dri­ver crash­ing into one of our large metal gates. Juan, the drunk dri­ver, had swept the side of his car into a tree by the road. He was dri­ving so fast that he had enough momen­tum to go for­ward into a lit­tle park­ing lot off the street and swerve hard left. He crossed the raised cement and grass...

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