My tag line in my profile of the PGR and why I used the verse from John 15:13
Ten years ago on 9/11/2001 A day we’ll all remember, I know I won’t because if it had not been for a bad part on my heater at home I would have been in NYC that day. I am one of the few truck drivers that would volunteer to go there with my company. I had just returned after delivering a load of air duct work to a high school on Manhattan and was supposed to actually relay a load that was to deliver at the same school on that fateful day.
My neighbor had come over to take me to the hardware store to get the part I needed, but when he walked in he told me an air plane had flown into one of the towers at the WTC. We watched the TV for a few minutes and the whole time I’m thinking that this was an attack because you had to really try to hit a building in NYC. It couldn’t be an accident and then we watched the 2nd air craft fly into the second building. I didn’t have to guess who might have done this and I wasn’t wrong.
NYC was closed to traffic so I was given a load and was sent on a short load close by and on the way back I called and talked to my dispatcher about setting up and getting a load of relief supplies to go to ground zero as I had been hearing about other towns doing this.
She told me they had started it and because I am THAT guy that will drive to NYC I was given the load to get there ASAP.
It was collected by Clear Channel Communications who had an office in the WTC and lost a lot of people that day but has several stations here in town. The load was supposed to be delivered to NYC but because my company had reloaded and palllatized the load it was redirected to Stewart AFB in Newburg, NY just north of NYC. I met with the FEMA director of the area there and the base Commander both who couldn't believe that there were truck loads of things just like on my trailer coming to Stewart and down to other drop sites. I was unloaded and sent on my way.
It wasn’t until a week later that I was sent back to NYC and as I drove along the Brooklyn Queens expressway the view I was so used to seeing across the river was not the one I knew. As I looked at the drivers of cars and trucks around me as we looked across the river I saw sadness and hate at what had happened. I was shaken also and I had a few tears drop from my eyes for the destruction and the memories I had from 1972 while stationed at Ft Dix for an MOS school and coming to NYC on weekends and remembering standing at the foot of the WTC as they were still building them and also of delivering there over the years and going up to the observation deck. They are only memories but they hold those views in my minds eye.
My company in thanks for me asking about gathering supplies and volunteering to take the load at no pay bought a new truck for me and I got to decide the design for the truck. I decided on what looked like bullets but in the Red White and Blue of our flag. I also designed a plaque in memory to the men and women of the FDNY, NYPD, EMTS and the Civilian Volunteers that ran in to the World Trade Center but never came out.
I dedicated that truck to those who died trying to rescue so many people they never knew.
The plaque was a star in a red circle and on the points of the star was Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard who guard our borders and protect us from dangers from outside our borders, and in the center around a silver circle is written Police, Fire, EMT and Civilian Volunteers for those who protect us and help us at home inside those borders.
But in the center on the silver background I put a verse from John 15:13, “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
There were also 2 ribbons on both sides of the star one black for those who will never return and one yellow for them to come home to.
Then a church in Topeka started their hate and out of their hate the Patriot Guard Riders arose to stand in honor for our KIA’s and to protect the families from this hate.
I joined this group in either late 2005 or early 2006 I believe I was about #32,186 or somewhere in that area. And when I joined I put in my signature or tag line these simple words: There is no truer love than when a man gives his life so that others may live. Taken from John 15:13
I took the words from John and changed the verse from how John wrote in his letter so it reflected my feelings for those who gave their life freely for others.
I did a lot of postings in the PRG web site but it wasn’t until a news reporter that joined us used my tag line in a story he did on the PGR and John 15:13 started to be used in many posts, news stories, and funerals.
I hope that it was me that brought this verse into the lives of many as it stands so true for those who volunteer their lives so that we may live on.
As many of us in the PGR, when we were in service to our country we were drafted but as time went on and that dirty war, spelled police action in SE Asia was over and the draft ended many men and women kept joining the armed forces and giving freely, their lives when it came to it.
They still, to this day write a check to us with their lives by volunteering their service to America and yes to the world even though we are hated by many we still answer a call for help.
We will continue to give the lives of our sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, husbands and wives so that others may live.
Thank you disciple John for your letters about your Lord and Master’s sayings as you learned at his feet and thank you for a verse that has so much meaning if not to me but a nation under God.
George “Rollover” Purdy
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Thursday, July 14, 2011
18 year marrage anniversity
Today marks 18 years of marriage to my wife. She married an over the road truck driver who was home on an irregular schedule. Then when the nasty stuff hit the fan and she kept her oath to me where it says in richer or POORER In SICKNESS and in health. Until 2008 all was going fine for us until the worst word in the human language CANCER came into our lives. We never had to ask for anything as I had a job and was able to get anything we needed.
Cancer ruined that for a while as we went through our savings until I could get back to work but during this trial of the summer of 08 she was there for me as I was on my knees due to chemo and radiation fighting the best way I could.
Then after getting back to work an accident and I lost my job. Got a new one at a Big Box store until another company hired me. Things started to look up except for the bankruptcy due to losing more than a few cancer cells.
Them something goes wrong inside of my head that made it where I had to fly home from California and left my bosses truck behind me as I could not or would even think of driving.
I get home and they find a "little" spot in the head that they said not to worry about but it turned into something to worry about that 5 doctors decided needed to come out. They had no name for the "thing" which grew to the size of a marble. That was in Feb 10. Brain surgery and now the added costs from surgery and the past year of trying to learn how to stand and walk. She was still standing there for me.
Now a letter from Social Services and the bad news that we'll lose our medical insurance because of changes made by both sides of the house and a POTUS who has no clue. The next time I g to vote I’ll be making hard decisions on those who took and take the easy road.
I wake up today and come in to turn on the computer and there is a anniversary card on the keyboard.
For the past year I have not spent any money on cards but print something for her. There has been NO Christmas tree or presents under it for her and the boys. It’s gotten to the point if we can’t eat it we don’t need it.
Like an Oath Keeper she has honored hers like I do. The sickness and the poorer she promised me. To bad the newer ages are finding it easier to break their oath than honor it when it life gets hard.
Thank you Barbara for staying by my side.
I Love you,
George
Cancer ruined that for a while as we went through our savings until I could get back to work but during this trial of the summer of 08 she was there for me as I was on my knees due to chemo and radiation fighting the best way I could.
Then after getting back to work an accident and I lost my job. Got a new one at a Big Box store until another company hired me. Things started to look up except for the bankruptcy due to losing more than a few cancer cells.
Them something goes wrong inside of my head that made it where I had to fly home from California and left my bosses truck behind me as I could not or would even think of driving.
I get home and they find a "little" spot in the head that they said not to worry about but it turned into something to worry about that 5 doctors decided needed to come out. They had no name for the "thing" which grew to the size of a marble. That was in Feb 10. Brain surgery and now the added costs from surgery and the past year of trying to learn how to stand and walk. She was still standing there for me.
Now a letter from Social Services and the bad news that we'll lose our medical insurance because of changes made by both sides of the house and a POTUS who has no clue. The next time I g to vote I’ll be making hard decisions on those who took and take the easy road.
I wake up today and come in to turn on the computer and there is a anniversary card on the keyboard.
For the past year I have not spent any money on cards but print something for her. There has been NO Christmas tree or presents under it for her and the boys. It’s gotten to the point if we can’t eat it we don’t need it.
Like an Oath Keeper she has honored hers like I do. The sickness and the poorer she promised me. To bad the newer ages are finding it easier to break their oath than honor it when it life gets hard.
Thank you Barbara for staying by my side.
I Love you,
George
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Something funny about politicians, movie stars,rich people and technology
I would think that any politician or celebrity or person with any kind of money would get off of every internet social site and quit taking pictures that they KNOW will become common property on the internet! You would also think that most of these people have at least 2 brain cells to rub together and would think that if they know of something as in “I have a mistress” or "I have a ‘love child’" or I like to surf the internet for little girls and boys or anything else, that someone out there also knows about it!
I mean how freaking stupid can a politician or movie star or rich person be to think or know that in this day and age thieves don’t have to break into your HOUSE or office anymore to steal pictures or documents from you! If you have a cell phone, a smart phone, a tablet, a laptop, tower unit or a digital camera someone out there is going to get some embarrassing or something worth money off of it somehow! It’s happened too many times for you idiots to think it won’t happen to you!
To think that a legal copy of a virus protection or a lifeline is going to stop some low life or a child with a computer and more knowledge of how things work and protect you from their prying fingers is pure idiocy!
Heck, even those morons who fixed the current copy of the maybe President of the USA did such a piss poor job a child can see it’s fake! So it’s not hard to take a fake picture and hack a stupid Twitter account and post something to make you look stupid and the media even more so as they go insane over a fake picture while the moron wasting my TAX dollars making congress critters scream and demand an investigation goes beyond belief!
It’s about time that all politicians drop their twit head accounts, wipe their facial books off line and get rid of all that No Space they’re taking up!
Having anything that cn be hacked while holding a political office is pure suicide! Having one if rich can cost you in some stupid lawsuit or payoff. Let the peons out here have this fun and you go your route in having a stable life away from twit heads and faced booked and on Spaced out and whatever!
It’ll be a lot safer in the long run and will also help you all to keep your woodies hidden and your legs closed to any humans that you aren’t attached to by a ring or a promise! We WILL find out about it! There is nothing secret any more and it’s about time you all figured that out! From presidents down to movie stars and billionaires! If you do it or even think it we’ll see it on You Tube or on Yahoos front page by next week!
Not to mention the morons who commit crimes and then just have to post it on some social site! That’s as stupid as getting a hummer in a round room in a white house!
Now the real embarrassing thing about the weiner picture is when they finally figure out who did it and who the picture is as well it IS the internet and experts will figure out where it came from, that tiny little thing hiding behind those children's shorts will be named and that will lead someone into hiding and to maybe actually click on one of those links for a body enhancement device because as I’ve read from quite a few women out there, “WOW That’s a LITTLE thing! Why would he send a picture of THAT to a woman? I thought he wanted to empress her?!?” with the usual ROFLMAO or LOL behind the post!
I can’t wait to see who he is!
I mean how freaking stupid can a politician or movie star or rich person be to think or know that in this day and age thieves don’t have to break into your HOUSE or office anymore to steal pictures or documents from you! If you have a cell phone, a smart phone, a tablet, a laptop, tower unit or a digital camera someone out there is going to get some embarrassing or something worth money off of it somehow! It’s happened too many times for you idiots to think it won’t happen to you!
To think that a legal copy of a virus protection or a lifeline is going to stop some low life or a child with a computer and more knowledge of how things work and protect you from their prying fingers is pure idiocy!
Heck, even those morons who fixed the current copy of the maybe President of the USA did such a piss poor job a child can see it’s fake! So it’s not hard to take a fake picture and hack a stupid Twitter account and post something to make you look stupid and the media even more so as they go insane over a fake picture while the moron wasting my TAX dollars making congress critters scream and demand an investigation goes beyond belief!
It’s about time that all politicians drop their twit head accounts, wipe their facial books off line and get rid of all that No Space they’re taking up!
Having anything that cn be hacked while holding a political office is pure suicide! Having one if rich can cost you in some stupid lawsuit or payoff. Let the peons out here have this fun and you go your route in having a stable life away from twit heads and faced booked and on Spaced out and whatever!
It’ll be a lot safer in the long run and will also help you all to keep your woodies hidden and your legs closed to any humans that you aren’t attached to by a ring or a promise! We WILL find out about it! There is nothing secret any more and it’s about time you all figured that out! From presidents down to movie stars and billionaires! If you do it or even think it we’ll see it on You Tube or on Yahoos front page by next week!
Not to mention the morons who commit crimes and then just have to post it on some social site! That’s as stupid as getting a hummer in a round room in a white house!
Now the real embarrassing thing about the weiner picture is when they finally figure out who did it and who the picture is as well it IS the internet and experts will figure out where it came from, that tiny little thing hiding behind those children's shorts will be named and that will lead someone into hiding and to maybe actually click on one of those links for a body enhancement device because as I’ve read from quite a few women out there, “WOW That’s a LITTLE thing! Why would he send a picture of THAT to a woman? I thought he wanted to empress her?!?” with the usual ROFLMAO or LOL behind the post!
I can’t wait to see who he is!
Sunday, May 29, 2011
A Memorial Day story that happened to me a few years back.
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On Sunday the day before Memorial day I was once again heading out from home on my weekly run to NYC. I usually stop at the Walmart in Marshfield, Mo. but missed the exit completely as I was thinking about something or the other (and I'm a trucker!) so I decided to stop at the store at St. Robert close to Ft Lenard Wood.
I had ridden my scooter to work as I do every weekend and I was still wearing my leather vest with my PGR, MIA, US Army, and Fallen Heros patches.
Of course being in the over 50 group and having beaten my self up over the years and actually getting an extra day at home to do some of those "honey do list thingies" I had pulled my knee again (allergy to work maybe??) and was using my trusty cane (laugh and I'll beat you with it!) to get around!
I hobbled on down to the store to get a few supplies for the truck and while I was going down an isle I came apon another "older" vet with his Viet Nam ribbon on his cap. I stopped and put my hand out to shake his and welcomed him home as I do with every Viet Nam vet and talked to him for a few minutes and we went on our merry ways.
I turned the corner at the end of the isle and started up the next when I heard a voice from the isle I had just vacated say "Man did you see that? The way that one vet welcomed the other vet home" and the reply he got " Yeah, dude it was so freakin cool"
Then, as I was in the check out line several young troops came up to me and shook my hand wishing me a good Memorial Day. I told them I actually never have a "good" Memorial Day as I think of the reason we do have this day and that I prayed that if they do get called up and go "down range" that they come home so that we NEVER have to "remember" them on Memorial Day. I did wish them all good luck and keep your head down as that's the only thing I can think of to say to any young person going into harms way.
I got to thinking as I was back in the truck heading down the road looking thru the windshield how when we went to Vietnam those so many long years ago how the people of America were starting to get tired of warfare after having just come out of Korea it seemed like. We didn't welcome those we drafted or the ones who volunteered home from that "police action" and actually didn't until after September 11th when the horror we saw on television slapped us in the face and we were back at war!
We now clap and cheer when our boys and girls, yes, to those of us from an earlier era, we see our selves, young, not ready for the things we do in war but still young boys and girls coming home from the sand box, the look in the eyes that only those who have seen battle have, walking down the isle in the airports and we clap and cheer, not as conquering heros, but as our children and our futures coming home.
I just pray that as we try to bring something to a people who have never known true freedom we don't travel back to the years my youth saw and we stop cheering as our military come home. They didn't start the war, but they hear the calling we have all heard at one time or another and answered that call not as boys and girls but as the warriors they will become!
Welcome Home............because I will always remember you
On Sunday the day before Memorial day I was once again heading out from home on my weekly run to NYC. I usually stop at the Walmart in Marshfield, Mo. but missed the exit completely as I was thinking about something or the other (and I'm a trucker!) so I decided to stop at the store at St. Robert close to Ft Lenard Wood.
I had ridden my scooter to work as I do every weekend and I was still wearing my leather vest with my PGR, MIA, US Army, and Fallen Heros patches.
Of course being in the over 50 group and having beaten my self up over the years and actually getting an extra day at home to do some of those "honey do list thingies" I had pulled my knee again (allergy to work maybe??) and was using my trusty cane (laugh and I'll beat you with it!) to get around!
I hobbled on down to the store to get a few supplies for the truck and while I was going down an isle I came apon another "older" vet with his Viet Nam ribbon on his cap. I stopped and put my hand out to shake his and welcomed him home as I do with every Viet Nam vet and talked to him for a few minutes and we went on our merry ways.
I turned the corner at the end of the isle and started up the next when I heard a voice from the isle I had just vacated say "Man did you see that? The way that one vet welcomed the other vet home" and the reply he got " Yeah, dude it was so freakin cool"
Then, as I was in the check out line several young troops came up to me and shook my hand wishing me a good Memorial Day. I told them I actually never have a "good" Memorial Day as I think of the reason we do have this day and that I prayed that if they do get called up and go "down range" that they come home so that we NEVER have to "remember" them on Memorial Day. I did wish them all good luck and keep your head down as that's the only thing I can think of to say to any young person going into harms way.
I got to thinking as I was back in the truck heading down the road looking thru the windshield how when we went to Vietnam those so many long years ago how the people of America were starting to get tired of warfare after having just come out of Korea it seemed like. We didn't welcome those we drafted or the ones who volunteered home from that "police action" and actually didn't until after September 11th when the horror we saw on television slapped us in the face and we were back at war!
We now clap and cheer when our boys and girls, yes, to those of us from an earlier era, we see our selves, young, not ready for the things we do in war but still young boys and girls coming home from the sand box, the look in the eyes that only those who have seen battle have, walking down the isle in the airports and we clap and cheer, not as conquering heros, but as our children and our futures coming home.
I just pray that as we try to bring something to a people who have never known true freedom we don't travel back to the years my youth saw and we stop cheering as our military come home. They didn't start the war, but they hear the calling we have all heard at one time or another and answered that call not as boys and girls but as the warriors they will become!
Welcome Home............because I will always remember you
1st Responders worldwide... please respond. Pass this around..Repost!
This is a question for 1st responders who have worked in SAR after tornadoes, hurricanes and if any from Japan or Indonesia after an earthquake and mainly a tsunami.
When you have found bodies can you tell me in a few words what pieces of clothing or maybe jewelry is still on them? Which piece is the one mostly missing or still on or the average as YOU see it.
My dad made it a point that as a boy growing up that I always have my wallet on me in case I needed to prove I was who I was or to tell someone who I was if not able to.
I also made it a habit when I flew to write my social security number on my chest in ink in case my wallet got lost in case of that accident. My wedding ring has my last name inscribed in it as does my dentures.
Being identified after an earth shattering event should be important to us all and being close to Joplin, Mo. I've heard the stories of the problem of identifying family members and friends.
It's gotten to where our children think that a stupid cell phone is all they need in case of an emergency and they are about as wrong as they can be! Cell phones rely on electricity to function. After an event like Japan, Joplin, Katrina and so on where is the electricity at that those toys need to operate? Not in the power grid that's laying on the ground!
Yes, the new style of clothing of gym shorts and sports clothing is just fine but these people calling themselves fashion designers forget that pockets are needed to carry that cell or wallet in! Listen up! A pocket hidden on the inside will work! make it so! Save a life or keep a mother from grief as she looks for her child!
Please feed my curiosity as this problem in Joplin of not being able to identify people is bothering me needlessly as waiting for a DNA test can drive a grieving mother or father or children crazy waiting on answers!
When you have found bodies can you tell me in a few words what pieces of clothing or maybe jewelry is still on them? Which piece is the one mostly missing or still on or the average as YOU see it.
My dad made it a point that as a boy growing up that I always have my wallet on me in case I needed to prove I was who I was or to tell someone who I was if not able to.
I also made it a habit when I flew to write my social security number on my chest in ink in case my wallet got lost in case of that accident. My wedding ring has my last name inscribed in it as does my dentures.
Being identified after an earth shattering event should be important to us all and being close to Joplin, Mo. I've heard the stories of the problem of identifying family members and friends.
It's gotten to where our children think that a stupid cell phone is all they need in case of an emergency and they are about as wrong as they can be! Cell phones rely on electricity to function. After an event like Japan, Joplin, Katrina and so on where is the electricity at that those toys need to operate? Not in the power grid that's laying on the ground!
Yes, the new style of clothing of gym shorts and sports clothing is just fine but these people calling themselves fashion designers forget that pockets are needed to carry that cell or wallet in! Listen up! A pocket hidden on the inside will work! make it so! Save a life or keep a mother from grief as she looks for her child!
Please feed my curiosity as this problem in Joplin of not being able to identify people is bothering me needlessly as waiting for a DNA test can drive a grieving mother or father or children crazy waiting on answers!
Thursday, May 26, 2011
The cost to protest in the USA!
OK the USA is going broke and yes the "Freedom of speech" is very important to us BUT it's getting to the point when morons protest at a funeral because they think their "message" is that important and for some reason like most over the top insane religious leaders who as a "head of a church" or preacher , inman or priest think it might not be what the deity above actually wants!
Anyway the USA being broke the way we are freedom of speech is great but nowhere in the constitution does it say it can't cost the speakers to have a protest as it costs to PROTECT those protesters!
Look at the middle east and a few funerals where a group from one faction of a religion of peace is burying a lost one and another faction of the same religion of peace storms the first group and there is mayhem and death and damages.
Well America is about to explode.
It's coming and it's going to be hard to stop.
People are being pushed due to unemployment and healthcare and recently natural disasters like tornadoes and flooding and well being at war again or actually on a continuous basics.
The following is a plan that protesters should have to go through. Ain't nothing free any more. Yes, the US Constitution states and gives us freedom of speech BUT who protects these people when they open their mouths insert foot or head up ass and offends others and the others decide to go stomp a mud hole in the protesters?
Who protects the municipality from some Bull crap law suit because they used their "right" to freely open their mouths and got stomped because they city didn't provide protection for them? Is this supposed to be free? Do they not get paid to protect?
And when these protesters come form outside of their "tax" zone and expect the police to provide protection for people who don't live there?
Besides, a show of hands of anyone who was so moved by a group of protesters that you joined their cause or even paid them any attention unless they were dressed like morons or held stupid signs or there were some hot bodies in there? No, not those of you who wanted to go stomp the holy crap out of them even if they so deserved to have it done and in my case go save a burning flag which I have to be held back, as, well it's their right to burn it but not mine to save it even if I throw $50US at them to pay for the flag as I run by!
OK here we go! MY plan to make Freedom of Speech affordable for all!
.............The Rollover Protester Bill...................
Here is MY way to make it hard for them to show up. Please cut and paste this AND even print it and go to your next city or county council meeting and bring it up and even put it on a ballot after the proper gathering of voters signatures.
They make their money through law suits. Yes they are REAL good in court as that’s the main source of income being a lawyer family.
In this day where the economy is very hard and money in the city and county coffers is getting very low it's time that ANY group wanting to stage a protest, they must pay a NONREFUNDABLE deposit! We do it for airline flights and for sporting events, apartment and home rentals and even for consumer goods so why do they not have to pay a non refundable refund for a protest?
The reason it is non refundable is it costs each little city or county MONEY for the tax paid worker to take the information type it in some manner on a typewriter or computer so there is equipment costs and then the paper it’s put on. Then they will have to file it so there is storage costs and then the postage to mail the permit to the group that files it.
Then there is the cost of police EMT and emergency crews that may have to be on standby due to the type of protest. Those who protest at a funeral could make the family upset and the family and friends could take their grief out on the ungrateful group who were thoughtless and thought that the family and friends actually wanted to hear their silly freedom of speech drivel or it might be a gay group protesting in a anti gay area and they might be attacked or a anti gay group in a gay area and so on so forth!
The police, EMTs, fire department and even the stand by ambulance all cost a lot of money and should be paid for. Why should any municipality have to foot the costs?
Yes it’s called “Freedom of Speech” but it doesn’t mean it has to be cost free! Nowhere did I see in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights or any Amendment where it says they have to be heard OR that it comes free of charges.
If the group thinks and feels that their movement is worthy of being heard and it can cause violence on their group and members then they should pay for their protection. Movie stars and political types do so a protest group should also!
Case in point being a certain Church group from Topeka, Ks. has on their web site and can be seen on open forums on the internet an assault on them which was violent enough that they had to escape in their van and it was beaten on and windows were broken out.
As to them paying for their protection the police get paid by the hour or on a salary as do the fire department and the EMTs. Their uniforms cost money and if they are damaged in any confrontation who pays for them? The wearers, the city, county or the protesters? The same with their equipment. If damaged who has to foot the cost? How about injury to the protectors? Medical costs as we all know are going out the roof which brings up another problem.
Proof of insurance for all protesters! Proof of insurance must be shown for each member of the protest group. If the police protection can not stop a mass assault on said group and some are injured, who pays the medical bill because they thought their message was worthy of their freedom to speak?
This non refundable deposit should cover the costs on an hourly or ½ or ¼ hour schedule. If the group wants an hour then add the costs of say 5 officers, 1 ambulance and 1 rescue department and their equipment and if SWAT or any other specialty group is needed then throw that payment in also! In fact send them a list of items they MUST have or the minimum and then a list of extras that they can ask for like a menu at the restaurant! 5 officers at this cost but each added one is this and the cost of an ambulance which I KNOW is about $750 per ride as I’ve paid for 2 in two different locations in America and that was the cost for both! 1 was for 2 miles and the other for almost 15 both to a hospital! I can’t imagine how much a rescue unit or a swat team costs but hey it’s your message, pay to play!
I can hear certain lawyers in a certain group screaming now! BUT hey if your message is so important then foot the cost! It’s your message so put up or shut up!
The world is in a financial bind, especially America and it’s your right to protest but it ain’t free!
All cities and counties that have any military members in a war zone should have your lawyers look at this proposal and decide if it’s feasible. It’s only a matter of time before someone gets more than hurt as the attitude towards these types of groups is going to cost you more than the costs of protection. Look at the world in general and what’s been happening at some protests by counter protesters. Does your town have the man power to stop a large group? Unless you are a large city it’s doubtful you have the man power OR the training in protest control.
If any violent actions are taken against a group there will be a law suit! Then the costs of medical care to any of YOUR personnel and equipment. Not to mention a possible law suit from them.
If a group refuses to pay for the permit, then cover your self and have a waiver written and have it checked by a constitutional lawyer also! Make it air tight that any injuries to any members of a protest group will be their fault and you are not liable BUT even if they have paid to demonstrate and get injured you are covered as you did the best that you could in protecting them.
Now don’t make the costs to far out of range as it could bring some money into the coffers but make it a fair representation of what you feel their protection is worth!
This is just another idea I came up with sitting here looking at the world through my monitor!
George “Rollover” Purdy
Pass this around and if it happens call it the Rollover Protester Bill!
Anyway the USA being broke the way we are freedom of speech is great but nowhere in the constitution does it say it can't cost the speakers to have a protest as it costs to PROTECT those protesters!
Look at the middle east and a few funerals where a group from one faction of a religion of peace is burying a lost one and another faction of the same religion of peace storms the first group and there is mayhem and death and damages.
Well America is about to explode.
It's coming and it's going to be hard to stop.
People are being pushed due to unemployment and healthcare and recently natural disasters like tornadoes and flooding and well being at war again or actually on a continuous basics.
The following is a plan that protesters should have to go through. Ain't nothing free any more. Yes, the US Constitution states and gives us freedom of speech BUT who protects these people when they open their mouths insert foot or head up ass and offends others and the others decide to go stomp a mud hole in the protesters?
Who protects the municipality from some Bull crap law suit because they used their "right" to freely open their mouths and got stomped because they city didn't provide protection for them? Is this supposed to be free? Do they not get paid to protect?
And when these protesters come form outside of their "tax" zone and expect the police to provide protection for people who don't live there?
Besides, a show of hands of anyone who was so moved by a group of protesters that you joined their cause or even paid them any attention unless they were dressed like morons or held stupid signs or there were some hot bodies in there? No, not those of you who wanted to go stomp the holy crap out of them even if they so deserved to have it done and in my case go save a burning flag which I have to be held back, as, well it's their right to burn it but not mine to save it even if I throw $50US at them to pay for the flag as I run by!
OK here we go! MY plan to make Freedom of Speech affordable for all!
.............The Rollover Protester Bill...................
Here is MY way to make it hard for them to show up. Please cut and paste this AND even print it and go to your next city or county council meeting and bring it up and even put it on a ballot after the proper gathering of voters signatures.
They make their money through law suits. Yes they are REAL good in court as that’s the main source of income being a lawyer family.
In this day where the economy is very hard and money in the city and county coffers is getting very low it's time that ANY group wanting to stage a protest, they must pay a NONREFUNDABLE deposit! We do it for airline flights and for sporting events, apartment and home rentals and even for consumer goods so why do they not have to pay a non refundable refund for a protest?
The reason it is non refundable is it costs each little city or county MONEY for the tax paid worker to take the information type it in some manner on a typewriter or computer so there is equipment costs and then the paper it’s put on. Then they will have to file it so there is storage costs and then the postage to mail the permit to the group that files it.
Then there is the cost of police EMT and emergency crews that may have to be on standby due to the type of protest. Those who protest at a funeral could make the family upset and the family and friends could take their grief out on the ungrateful group who were thoughtless and thought that the family and friends actually wanted to hear their silly freedom of speech drivel or it might be a gay group protesting in a anti gay area and they might be attacked or a anti gay group in a gay area and so on so forth!
The police, EMTs, fire department and even the stand by ambulance all cost a lot of money and should be paid for. Why should any municipality have to foot the costs?
Yes it’s called “Freedom of Speech” but it doesn’t mean it has to be cost free! Nowhere did I see in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights or any Amendment where it says they have to be heard OR that it comes free of charges.
If the group thinks and feels that their movement is worthy of being heard and it can cause violence on their group and members then they should pay for their protection. Movie stars and political types do so a protest group should also!
Case in point being a certain Church group from Topeka, Ks. has on their web site and can be seen on open forums on the internet an assault on them which was violent enough that they had to escape in their van and it was beaten on and windows were broken out.
As to them paying for their protection the police get paid by the hour or on a salary as do the fire department and the EMTs. Their uniforms cost money and if they are damaged in any confrontation who pays for them? The wearers, the city, county or the protesters? The same with their equipment. If damaged who has to foot the cost? How about injury to the protectors? Medical costs as we all know are going out the roof which brings up another problem.
Proof of insurance for all protesters! Proof of insurance must be shown for each member of the protest group. If the police protection can not stop a mass assault on said group and some are injured, who pays the medical bill because they thought their message was worthy of their freedom to speak?
This non refundable deposit should cover the costs on an hourly or ½ or ¼ hour schedule. If the group wants an hour then add the costs of say 5 officers, 1 ambulance and 1 rescue department and their equipment and if SWAT or any other specialty group is needed then throw that payment in also! In fact send them a list of items they MUST have or the minimum and then a list of extras that they can ask for like a menu at the restaurant! 5 officers at this cost but each added one is this and the cost of an ambulance which I KNOW is about $750 per ride as I’ve paid for 2 in two different locations in America and that was the cost for both! 1 was for 2 miles and the other for almost 15 both to a hospital! I can’t imagine how much a rescue unit or a swat team costs but hey it’s your message, pay to play!
I can hear certain lawyers in a certain group screaming now! BUT hey if your message is so important then foot the cost! It’s your message so put up or shut up!
The world is in a financial bind, especially America and it’s your right to protest but it ain’t free!
All cities and counties that have any military members in a war zone should have your lawyers look at this proposal and decide if it’s feasible. It’s only a matter of time before someone gets more than hurt as the attitude towards these types of groups is going to cost you more than the costs of protection. Look at the world in general and what’s been happening at some protests by counter protesters. Does your town have the man power to stop a large group? Unless you are a large city it’s doubtful you have the man power OR the training in protest control.
If any violent actions are taken against a group there will be a law suit! Then the costs of medical care to any of YOUR personnel and equipment. Not to mention a possible law suit from them.
If a group refuses to pay for the permit, then cover your self and have a waiver written and have it checked by a constitutional lawyer also! Make it air tight that any injuries to any members of a protest group will be their fault and you are not liable BUT even if they have paid to demonstrate and get injured you are covered as you did the best that you could in protecting them.
Now don’t make the costs to far out of range as it could bring some money into the coffers but make it a fair representation of what you feel their protection is worth!
This is just another idea I came up with sitting here looking at the world through my monitor!
George “Rollover” Purdy
Pass this around and if it happens call it the Rollover Protester Bill!
Friday, February 11, 2011
Warning to all men! Valentines Day is very soon!
Valentines Day is around the corner!
Let me help you to save your life!
Sunday is Valentines day in case you missed ALL the hints she has given you, the billboards, TV spots, Radio spots, and the newspaper and internet ads!
A short list of what to get that woman who puts up with your crap all year that so deserves a wonderful and loving present FROM THE HEART NOT from your ARSE!
WARNING! If it has an electrical cord attached to it you are a DEAD MAN unless she drug you to a store and pointed at it or pointed at it in a magazine, on the computer monitor, cut the ad out and pined it to your shirt or TOLD you to your face she wanted it DO NOT BUY ANYTHING that plugs into a wall electrical outlet! Nothing good will come from it! Cookware falls into the same category!
Never ever buy makeup or exercise equipment! These things tell her she's ugly or fat in your eyes! I KNOW you do NOT answer that 1 question of "does this make my butt look fat" so why do you buy things that have to do with beauty or weight?
There are only a few things you buy the one woman who looks you in the face during those intimate moments when you havent shaved, fixed your hair, killed the smell coming out of the mouth and who also has had your children for you, cleaned your house while you sat there watching sports,cooks for you or puts up with you at parties!
DIAMONDS are first on the list.
A sweet card is next NOT A FUNNY ONE!
A car!
A Motorcycle
A P/U Truck
A years filled up Bus/Subway Rider card
A gun
Dinner and show
A single or dozen flowers WITH the above but not alone as they DIE! Then she has nothing to show her girlfriends about the wonderful man she has! NEVER PLASTIC FLOWERS!
DO NOT BUY Victorias Secret as that's not for her but you! She knows that also! BUT, a gift card does work as she makes the decision on what to get and that way it IS for her! BUT that's an add on to all the above! Also you won't buy the wrong size because you were not smart enough to go look at sizes in the drawer before you let your eyes and little buddy do the shopping!
Just remember if it has an electrical cord and I even mean a computer or anything just do not go there!
Now, times they are a changing and a cell phone or the smartest one on the market just might out do a diamond with teenagers these days!
Just make the right decisions for the woman who puts up with you all year and maybe you'll have a wonderful evening! SMILE !
IF she does ask for anything with a cord attached to it get it in writing and signed with a drop of her blood on the paper to COVER YOUR ASS!
Let me help you to save your life!
Sunday is Valentines day in case you missed ALL the hints she has given you, the billboards, TV spots, Radio spots, and the newspaper and internet ads!
A short list of what to get that woman who puts up with your crap all year that so deserves a wonderful and loving present FROM THE HEART NOT from your ARSE!
WARNING! If it has an electrical cord attached to it you are a DEAD MAN unless she drug you to a store and pointed at it or pointed at it in a magazine, on the computer monitor, cut the ad out and pined it to your shirt or TOLD you to your face she wanted it DO NOT BUY ANYTHING that plugs into a wall electrical outlet! Nothing good will come from it! Cookware falls into the same category!
Never ever buy makeup or exercise equipment! These things tell her she's ugly or fat in your eyes! I KNOW you do NOT answer that 1 question of "does this make my butt look fat" so why do you buy things that have to do with beauty or weight?
There are only a few things you buy the one woman who looks you in the face during those intimate moments when you havent shaved, fixed your hair, killed the smell coming out of the mouth and who also has had your children for you, cleaned your house while you sat there watching sports,cooks for you or puts up with you at parties!
DIAMONDS are first on the list.
A sweet card is next NOT A FUNNY ONE!
A car!
A Motorcycle
A P/U Truck
A years filled up Bus/Subway Rider card
A gun
Dinner and show
A single or dozen flowers WITH the above but not alone as they DIE! Then she has nothing to show her girlfriends about the wonderful man she has! NEVER PLASTIC FLOWERS!
DO NOT BUY Victorias Secret as that's not for her but you! She knows that also! BUT, a gift card does work as she makes the decision on what to get and that way it IS for her! BUT that's an add on to all the above! Also you won't buy the wrong size because you were not smart enough to go look at sizes in the drawer before you let your eyes and little buddy do the shopping!
Just remember if it has an electrical cord and I even mean a computer or anything just do not go there!
Now, times they are a changing and a cell phone or the smartest one on the market just might out do a diamond with teenagers these days!
Just make the right decisions for the woman who puts up with you all year and maybe you'll have a wonderful evening! SMILE !
IF she does ask for anything with a cord attached to it get it in writing and signed with a drop of her blood on the paper to COVER YOUR ASS!
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