Disgusting Corporate Policy, The Response

Update to this post.

Thank you for contacting us and making us aware of your concerns
regarding our SuperAmerica store located in Roseville, MN.

Confronting a potentially armed robber could have serious consequences
for employees and customers. While it is regrettable this situation
occurred, it is important that we have and enforce policies to ensure
the safety of all our employees and customers during a potentially
dangerous situation.

Please understand that personnel issues are very sensitive and strictly
confidential. Be assured that appropriate management personnel have been
made aware of your comments and concerns.

We appreciate your concern as well as your patronage, and hope that you
will continue to be one of our valued customers.

Sincerely,

Speedway SuperAmerica
Customer Service

My response:

Be that as it may, confronting a robber who is potentially beating a coworker to death is a heroic action that should be rewarded, not punished.

SuperAmerica should be ashamed of itself for punishing Mr. Beverly.

Study: We publish results with no data

Blacks in the Badger State are 42 times more likely than whites to be sentenced to prison for drug convictions, according to studies by Human Rights Watch and The Sentencing Project.

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According to the research, blacks are sent to prison for drug offenses at a rate at least 10 times that of whites in 16 states, with the disparity the greatest in Wisconsin.

The article says nothing about the details of the study. Are blacks sent to prison for the same drug offenses? Are whites being given lighter sentences, or are they committing more of the minor offenses? A study like this only has merit if the blacks in the study are being sent to prison for the

exact same offenses

for which white people are being sent home. If that's not the case, then the study and the article are doing nothing but promoting racism.

My Vow

I was reading this article and the associated comments. The article, for the benefit of the lazy, was about a recent home invasion and the comments discussed potential vs proper responses to violent thugs breaking into your house.

In the invasion in question, the phone line was out, probably cut. The police, therefore, were not coming.

This comment was made:

dont forget even those 'old' cell phones that are turned off (no service plan), can still be used to dial 911. Keep one in the bedroom on the charger. Hear the perp break down the door, dial 911 drop the phone, grab the gun.. and very loudly yell for the intruder to leave or they will be shot, that 911 recording will make for a good defense in court.

The response, by someone calling himself(or herself) 'Rational Radical', was this:

Maybe, but how will your soul feel when you found out you just blasted a teenager that is starving.

A timely(unfortunately) posting on Kim's site, quoting this article prompted my response in a discussion on another site:

Better than my soul would feel if some feral teenager raped my wife before strangling her, then raped my daughters before burning them alive, while I'm bound and trying to squirm to the neighbor's house for help.

To be perfectly clear: I did not invent that. It happened, in the NY Times article linked above.

You may want to stop reading. The details make me want to do unpleasant things to criminals. The details keep me awake at night, every time I hear the story. The details make me weep.

Last August, two feral thugs in Connecticut broke into a family's home. They tied up the entire family. The raped and strangled the mother, then raped and burned the daughters alive to hide DNA evidence.

I told you that, I put you through that horrible experience, so I could tell you this:
I swear this, on my life, my freedom, and my honor: Evil like this will not touch my family while I draw breath.

I will shoot, stab, kick, scratch, paw or otherwise destroy, anyone trying to harm my family, without reservation.

I do not care if the feral thug in my living room is starving. I don't care if he's stealing my television to feed his starving kids. I don't care why he is my home. I have to assume, for my family's safety, that he is there to do us harm.

Another man's poverty, another man's addiction, another man's unfortunate lot in life, is not enough for me to surrender my life, or that of my family. It is not enough to cause me to subject my family to any form of torture or terror.

If you come near my family with intent to do harm, I will come at you with everything I have. I will fight you with my dying breath, and if you manage to overcome me, I will do my best to rend your soul.

There is nothing that I won't do to keep that terror out of the hearts of my children.

You have been warned.

News Roundup

State Senate disapproves of a free market.

The Minnesota Senate backs a ban on software used by ticket brokers to jump in line and buy up blocks of concert tickets.

Because it, of course, wouldn't be fair. Fair is a myth, folks.

Rapist gets warm fuzzy from the court system.

A Rochester man convicted of raping three different women has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Rapists, especially the serial variety, should be sentenced as follows:
1. Nail the fun bits to the floor of a shed.
2. Proved scumbag with a rusty axe.
3. Set the shed on fire.

After that treatment, I'm pretty sure recidivism isn't an issue.

Child molester gets a hug from the court system.

VIRGINIA, Minn. (AP) ― An Eveleth man was sentenced to eight years in prison for sexually assaulting a boy in a school bathroom.

Molesting a child.
Molesting a child where they are supposed to be protected by the government.

The possibility of ever seeing daylight as a free man should be denied to this freak. I hope he dies in prison from fissures created when he receives his 'just desserts' from Ms. Bubba over the next 8 years.

If it was my son, he'd be begging to be allowed into prison. He would not want to be near me. If you molest my son, I will make the shed treatment look like a BJ over breakfast.

Jim Ramstad doesn't approve of voter expectations.

Two area state legislators should not have been punished for parting company with Republican Party powers over a transportation bill, U.S. Rep. Jim Ramstad said in Bloomington Friday.

"That is just plain wrong," Ramstad said at a town meeting at Bloomington City Hall.

Ramstad, who is not seeking re-election, said he was shocked at the rebuke issued to State Reps. Neil Peterson and Ron Ehardt after they voted to pass the bill and then to override a veto by Gov. Tim Pawlenty.

Peterson, who represents House District 41B, and Erhardt, District 41A, lost committee chairmanships after they cast their votes in February. Later, both were denied their party's endorsement for re-election.

Mr. Ramstad, I understand you stopped pretending to be a conservative a long time ago. Your liberalism allows you to interpret reality in any way you wish, so I'm sure you will miss my point.

They were denied the party endorsement by the caucus system! That means, for those unfamiliar with the process, that the delegates elected by the voters decided they weren't worthy of calling themselves Republicans. The VOTERS and their DELEGATES decided to banish these wallet-rapists from the party, NOT the Republican machine.

Ramstad said both men voted their conscience and should not have lost their committee leadership assignments.

Both men voted their politically expedient option, abandoning conservative principals and betraying their constituents. When people elect a Republican, they expect certain behaviors. That's not 'bowing to the party', that's called 'keeping your word'. Interesting concept, huh?

Ramstad is chief Republican author of the Climate Stewardship Act, which aims to reduce greenhouse gases and deal with global warming.

Damn. I was hoping you'd have a grasp of reality and possibly some critical thinking skills. Unfortunately, you drank the AGW(Anthropomorphic Global Warming) kool-aid.