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Death and the priority of a vacation
The sad news in Spokane these past few days has been news about the innocent killing of a pastor - green-houseman one evening in the Spokane Valley. A young sheriff’s deputy was on patrol in an unmarked car looking for prowlers. He parked in the parking lot of pastor’s green-house. The pastor came out to investigate — he must have been thinking there was a prowler. Shortly thereafter, there was a death. The owner - pastor was dead. No one knows why. The shot(s) which killed him were from the gun of the sheriff’s deputy.
The next day (why not that night) The deputy could not come in and explain because he already had planned a vacation. He did not want to miss it. The sheriff had approved the vacation ahead of time (ahead of death of the pastor — green-houseman?). The sheriff did not press the point.
The whole town wants to know what happened.
Now, the whole town also wants to know why a vacation has more meaning than the need to deal with the tragedy. That the vacation has taken precedence over the need to deal with, understand, respect and revere, the tragedy of the event, is more than the human mind can bear. That the vacation is more important than the need to immediately explain why a beloved soul lost his life is beyond comprehension. It is more than the human mind can understand.
No doubt there is a tragedy here. But, now there is the freightening notion that police officials take their jobs so objectively, so clinically, that a vacation is more important than the need for the community to understand and come to terms with the reality of what has happened.
One senses there is a dark movement taking place these days in the evolution of our community. I wish it were that I that I am wrong. But, I think not.
Who would take a vacation when he had just been involved in the death of another human being? When the bullet(s) from his gun had caused the death of an innocent soul! My Lord, what are we coming to!
Abortion and Viagra
Senator Boxer (D CA) said this a day or so ago: “Why are women being singled out here? It’s so unfair,” Boxer said on the Senate floor Tuesday. “We don’t tell men that if they want to … buy insurance coverage through their pharmaceutical plan for Viagra that they can’t do it.”
Quite unbeleivable. And, terribly sad. What are we becoming?