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In those occupations where force may be required to solicit co-operation, some things may be better left unspoken.
While your words have a ring of truth to them, to all who will interpret them as an excessive use of force, you will come away smudged by those words.
Yes, but there can be a point where so much is left unspoken that communications become impossible without a dictionary/Interpreter. Illumination by translation is called for.
Allow Me:
"In those Occupations where force may be required."
Trans: Police/Security/Armed Citizen with a carry permit/Firearm's instructor.
"force may be required to solicit co-operation"
Trans: You might have to pull a gun to save your life.
"some things may be better left unspoken."
Trans: Don't SAY ANYTHING or you will end up defending those words in court to people with political, financial and racial agenda's. Whole books have been written on how to talk (or not talk) to the police/witnesses/in court in a case of self defense. Be certain you read them.
"While your words have a ring of truth to them"
When you shot Jamal/Juan*, he had 27 priors for robbery, assault, weapons violations; his body is covered in gang tattoo's. His car is filled with anti-white RAP music albums, his blood alcohol was twice the legal limit for driving and he tested positive for cocaine, heron and Meth. Three of the four friends of Jamal/Juan admit they were out looking for someone to "Jack". You have defensive cuts on your arms and the security camera in the area backs up your story.
to all who will interpret them
Jamal's family, their Attorney, Black/Hispanic Activist groups, Political/Anti-police/Gun Hating Liberals
, Newspapers, TV.
as an excessive use of force
I could write 50,000+ words here.
The attorney for the family will twist everything trying to extract money out of you or send you to jail. Caliber of gun (If small caliber you were firing a short barreled "Saturday Night Special" that is inaccurate and a danger to bystanders, not useful for defense but a "killers gun"; if 40, 44 or 45, you were a Dirty Harry Vigilante trying to get even with someone), You level and type of training ("Please explain to the jury just what is a Mozambique Drill and how does an African country relate to gunfighting nomenclature seeing you shot an African-American?"), number of shots fired (how many did you fire and how many hit), the possibly of retreat, you age, sex, armor, could anything you said have provoked Jamal/Juan, what your blood alcohol level was, what did Jamal/Juan's friends say you said (Can you prove you didn't say a racial slur, because his friends will say you did just before you shot him in the head) what you were doing out at night, everything!
, you will come away smudged by those words.
They will try to carve you up like a roast. The family will say that Jamal/Juan was "just turning his life around and was getting ready to go to college" or "that he was a good boy who always loved his mother". Sobbing family members will gleefully be shown on television talking about how Jamal/Juan positively affected their lives while you will be shown in the most negative light. If you are a private citizen and have any personal or inherited property it better be in the mattress or in carefully crafted Trusts because their first move will be "get your money frozen" so you can't sell anything or hire a decent lawyer. If you are a regular Cop, odds are 1 in 3 that you will be retired from the force or transferred to desk work. The case may drag on for years, in fact it is in the assailants' families best interest to drag the case out as long as possible so as to put as much time and doubt between the incident and settlement to get as much money out of you (or the force that hired you) as possible. You will be physically affected by the stress of this constant rehashing of a self defense incident and the threat of being found guilty of murder, causing blood pressure and heart problems, depression, marriage problems, a whole list of physiological and psychological issues. You picture and family life will be portrayed on the internet, maybe every your street address, forcing a move. You associations and Website Memberships (Like OPEN CARRY.ORG) will be examined. Websites like (
http://underprivilegedjournalism.wordpress.com) will watch you, slander you and wish for your death. If you have a job meeting with the public you probably will lose it as the company you work for may suddenly no longer require your services. On and On. It may never end.
But you will be alive.
Translation concluded...
*As 90% of interracial incidences are Blacks/Hispanics attacking Whites/Asians (according to FBI crime statistics) and nearly 60% of ALL violent crime, I have used the combined name Jamal/Juan to represent both black (meaning Americans of indeterminate percentage of African extraction) and Hispanic (which is technically not a race per se but may be an illegal Alien person or American citizen whose first language is Spanish but originated from South America, Middle America (Such as El Salvador) or Mexico) as representation of an "Average" gang member/mugger/Armed Robber/burglar/criminal assailant. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
