'What Would You Do?'

Live - White, Discussion

"I talk of freedom
You talk of the flag"

Anonymous Prank Caller - July 2009

"Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship." -Fyodor Dostoevsky

Where is the help?

Where is the help?
by Erik B. Anderson
06-15-2009


Do we actually have people we can go to for help in this country?
She wants me to get help.
I want to get help.
Who wants to help me?
The help that she wants me to get does not exist.
Okay, I'm looking.
[Looks to the horizon on one side] Help!
[Looks to the horizion on the other side] Help!
Well?
Where is it?
Where is the help?
Well. It's official.
I don't see any help around.
What should I do now?
Nothing, I guess.
Would it be all right with you if I asked you to leave me alone now?

I abstain!

I abstain from this mundane apathy.
Committed to "all for red, white and blue" in effect you're fighting =
for what's really fighting you.
"Grit those teeth, push out those chests" tears only for the flag.
Always the brave patriot as you slip to second class.

Know Your Rights

Harassment¹


  As defined in federal statute providing for a civil action to restrain harassment of a victim or witness, is "a course of conduct directed at a specific person that causes substantial emotional distress in such person and serves no legitimate purpose." 18 U.S.C.A. § 1514(c)(1). Term is used in a variety of legal contexts to describe words, gestures and actions which tend to annoy, alarm and abuse (verbally) another person; e.g. the use of "obscene or profance language or language the natural consequence of which is to abuse the hearer or reader" is unlawful harassment under the Federal Fair Debt Practices Act. 15 U.S.C.A. § 1992(d)(2)....
  A person commits a petty misdemeanor if, with purpose to harass another, he: (1) makes a telephone call without purpose of legitimate communication; or (2) insults, taunts or challenges another in a manner likely to provoke violent or disorderly response; or (3) makes repeated communications anonymously or at extremely inconvenient hours, or in offensively coarse language; or (4) subjects another to an offensive touching; or (5) engages in any other course of alarming conduct serving no legitimate purpose of the actor. Model Penal Code § 250.4

¹Black, Henry Campbell, M.A. Black's Law Dictionary Sixth Edition. St. Paul Minn.: West Publishing Co., 1990.