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June 11, 2006 Rocking the boat can get you thrown off, and saying something weird can get an article writer kicked off the staff, but hey. I seems like Da Thought Police are everywhere these days. The English in this article is a bit chaotic tense-wise, but hey, today has been a tense day for me. What's up? Well, I've been APPREHENDED BY THE POLICE on the HSU campus. In fact this has happened twice in the past two months. Hey. Folks must be getting Paranoid around Arkata. Fear is the enemy. It's because I'm an odd looking fellow and I have rather odd ways. I normally wouldn't clutter up this magazine with a personal tale of woe, but it's happened again. I got stopped by a KOP just for being myself. I was sitting eating some lunch on a quiet bench when all of a sudden this lady kop appears. She tells me to show her my ID. I wonder why. I'm not smoking weed. I don't even have any weed on me. I'm not stalking women, although there are plenty of pretty young women around for a stalker guy to stalk. I'm just walking around the campus, enjoying the spring air and the fragrant gardens and the hum of insects. Suddenly I'm surrounded by KOPS. I engage the woman, whose name (Dare I disclose her name???) is something like Tee Dee, and I ask her why she needs to see my ID. Am I not free as an Arkata resident to come walking up to the University Kampus and enjoy the landscaping and eat my lunch away from the noisy and smelly 101 Freeway? Well the lady kop becomes firmer in her voice tone. It's clear that we cannot have a discussion. She holds up her left hand high as a signal for backup reinforcements. A dark-skinned kop fully three times her bulk appears. My ID is in a large sack at my side. She says, "DON'T REACH INSIDE OF YOUR BAG!!!" I recall reading a news article describing how an innocent man was SHOT TO DEATH by a kopper for doing nothing except reaching inside his coat pocket!!! F_ck. These koppers are REALLY DANGEROUS. My hands begin to tremble. In reality, this encounter was a total farce. I am a totally innocent person. All I did was walk up to the campus Gymnasium with the hopes of washing myself. I found the doors locked, and walking back to the computer lab I decided to pause for a bite to eat. This kop kar passed by. I guess I looked suspicious because hey. It's because I'm an odd looking fellow and I have rather odd ways. Anyway, I do engage these two black-uniformed OFFICERS OF THE LAW in a conversation, because my brain tells me to ENGAGE with the enemy. Do not fear a FIREFIGHT. Even so my hands are trembling. Dare to be philosophical! Dare to question! The kops ask me for MY ID, so don't I have a right to know THEIR ID? Tee says "look at my badge." However, all I see is a fricken blur because I am partially blind. I try to get closer to Tee so I can see her badge. DONT COME CLOSER TO ME!! Terri says in a loud voice. She lifts her arm for backup reinforcements. The GANG is here. Fear is the enemy. THE MAN appears! I explain that I do not have a gun in my bag, and that to show my ID I have to reach inside my bag to fetch it. Slowly I reach down into one of my bags and fumble around with trembling hands. It takes me at least fifty seconds of fumbling to find the small bag where my ID is. I imagine that one of those kops will panic and pull out a gun and shoot me! Hey, such things DO happen. My day is totally disrupted. I've got to get some of this down in writing. The issue. I want to know WHY the kops came after me. I want to know WHY I can't just be on the university campus and feel SAFE from KOPS. What have I done wrong? Why are kops coming after ME? Well, the kops explain to me that it's because I'm an odd looking fellow and I have rather odd ways. That's all it is. There is no other reason. I guess the KOPS just want somebody odd to chase and intimidate, someone who is totally harmless. Meanwhile off in the distant bushes lady stalkers wait. But the lady stalkers don't stalk me. The KOPS stalk me. Why? Because they say I am a "suspicious-looking" character. Fear is the enemy. Tee was bothered by the fact that I come on campus carrying two large bags. She wants me to tell her WHAT I am carrying in my bags. I ask her if it is any of her business? What CAUSES her to have the right to know? On what BASIS does she have the right to know? Finally the truth comes out. She IMAGINES that I am stealing recyclables out of the recycling bins. I'm really glad that I don't stink of POT and that I don't have a few ounces on my person. My main sin is that my old green raincoat is rather soiled and patched with DUCK tape. I guess I look something like a BUM. You know, a homeless person, a wastrel, a worthless man who doesn't belong. So what? Maybe I should come to town dressed like a 1930s German Jew and wear a Star of David. Oh, and by the way. There is so much POT in Humboldt County it's a joke, and a lot of people around here just LAUGH at the kops. But I don't laugh at kops. Kops frighten me. I hope you are having a safer and saner Saturday. Fear is the enemy. I am still trying to find the way to REACH people, even though I'm an odd-looking fellow and I have rather odd ways. In fact, to dodge the bullets and avoid the KKK or its paranoid equivalent, I follow The Way. Whether we are in white uniforms and roam in gangs or not, fear is the enemy. Shades of Portland, Oregon in Arkata, Kalifornia. The kurrent kop trend isn't good. Shalom. ------------ About the author: John L. Waters is an amateur psychologist and independent researcher on self-healing, integration, and problem-solving. John has created art, music and songs, prose and poetry, and helped people solve a difficult problem. For more information, read: John's letters of recommendation: http://members.tripod.com/johnlwaters/recommendations about John's self-healing and integration: http://members.tripod.com/johnlwaters/index.html about John's independent research: http://www.humboldt.edu/~jlw47/index.html about John's seeking an agent or a publisher: http://www.writers.net/writers/39295 Email: blueguntwo@yahoo.com Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com. Please link to this article rather than copying and pasting it onto your site (which would be unauthorized and illegal). |
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