I am also not talking about denying them your services. I believe we all have the right to choose who we give our services to.

I used my GI bill to get my Masters in Addictions Counseling. Never did make a penny from it. I do volunteer for a crisis line for Vets. Far too many of us are addicts. Plus I think it helps that they know I also saw a lot of stuff.

Groups do help and so does having someone to talk to. It’s also really good if you can find friends who are not addicts or should I say no longer using.

Out West, with obvious exceptions for California, Western WA & Western OR, cops & state troopers are not too obnoxious – have a more libertarian bent, tolerate reasonable victimless infractions more so than other regions, don’t get freaked out when they see a gun in your car(most of the West is gun friendly, probably because of the long distances if you’re attacked by a criminal)and so on. In much of the South and the East Coast it’s been my experience that they are more petty, write more tickets on the slightest pretext and are overall just more abusive of their powers and I think it’s due to the higher population density.

If you want to see the future, if people don’t wise up, just look at what’s going on in Tennessee, a beautiful state ruined by VIPER checkpoints, unreasonable searches and seizures.

I suspect when they go too far you’ll see more violence between cops and civilians, regardless of the odds of resistance, starting from those with nothing to lose.

I don’t mean this as criticism because I hate rap music, fact is I’d go so far as to not call it music since it doesn’t seem to have a melody. It has cadence,which is cool, but having a beat doesn’t mean ya got music if ya know what I mean.

Do you guys ever step back and listen to yourselves