I thought for sure by now I would have been stopped, searched and jailed. Or left by the road to die.
I went for a haircut on Saturday, the day after the "Letter to the Editor" and my barber said to me, "Not all cops are bad, you know"! I thought it was odd because my letter didn't say I thought they were.
I guess had the editor left in the sentence about the "CHP assuming this willl happen" which gave the CHP credit for their training, been put in, it would have read entirely different. Oh well!
Life in the Wild West! What can I say!
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Friday, February 19, 2010
Wow, I've been published...and edited!
Today, the Union Democrat printed my letter to them regarding the story regarding the attack on the CHP officer with the heading, "More to story?". At the time of this writing, there was no online link but you can read what I wrote in the previous blog.
They left a sentence out which I felt gave credit to the CHP for being trained to "assume this will happen" at every stop. Fair or not fair? You be the judge.
The newspaper does reserve the right to edit for brevity, taste and style and I don't intend to make an issue of it. Just know that what you might want to convey might not get completely conveyed.
Thank you to the Staff for publishing me and I hope you will continue to do so.
They left a sentence out which I felt gave credit to the CHP for being trained to "assume this will happen" at every stop. Fair or not fair? You be the judge.
The newspaper does reserve the right to edit for brevity, taste and style and I don't intend to make an issue of it. Just know that what you might want to convey might not get completely conveyed.
Thank you to the Staff for publishing me and I hope you will continue to do so.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Safety, Service and Security
That’s the motto of the CHP. This letter is written concerning the recent article in the Union Democrat about an attack on a CHP officer (2/5/2010).
An 18-year-old boy driving with his mother doesn’t seem to be the setting for belligerence unless an element of fear was present. I believe a thoughtful question would be – what would cause an element of fear in an 18 year old, driving with his mother?
This boy would hardly have had many previous encounters with the CHP so I believe it is reasonable to assume the element of fear comes from the perception of the public at large. We aren’t told how the encounter began. There seems to have been more to this than was furnished such as, “Was Mom wearing a seatbelt?”
While it’s another stop to the CHP “assuming this will happen” when I think about what this incident does to this young boy, it leaves a horrible mark on his record at this young age. The CHP says they provide, “Safety, Service and Security” on our highways as there is an overwhelming vast majority are law abiding citizens who need to drive on our roads and this incident seems to have turned into anything but.
On a side note, many people think my father, the long-time CPA, is the author of these letters but they are written by his son, to clarify.
An 18-year-old boy driving with his mother doesn’t seem to be the setting for belligerence unless an element of fear was present. I believe a thoughtful question would be – what would cause an element of fear in an 18 year old, driving with his mother?
This boy would hardly have had many previous encounters with the CHP so I believe it is reasonable to assume the element of fear comes from the perception of the public at large. We aren’t told how the encounter began. There seems to have been more to this than was furnished such as, “Was Mom wearing a seatbelt?”
While it’s another stop to the CHP “assuming this will happen” when I think about what this incident does to this young boy, it leaves a horrible mark on his record at this young age. The CHP says they provide, “Safety, Service and Security” on our highways as there is an overwhelming vast majority are law abiding citizens who need to drive on our roads and this incident seems to have turned into anything but.
On a side note, many people think my father, the long-time CPA, is the author of these letters but they are written by his son, to clarify.
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