In 2013 Ms. Lawson (who is diabetic) was eating dinner when Officer Shane Sawyers and partner arrived at her home to serve a warrant for contempt for allegedly violating a no-contact order. He refused to allow her to finish her meal, and the incident soon degenerated into physical abuse. Sawyers grabbed one of her arms and bent it behind her back, resulting in excruciating pain to a shoulder previously injured. Then the officers gang-tackled her to the floor, where she was punched in the face and kicked, then maced in the punched face. The incident resulted in a civil rights lawsuit by Ms. Lawson against the Department in general and the officers in particular.<\/p>\n
Fast forward to 2015, where on March 31 Ms Lawson was dragged from her car, pepper sprayed, had her already crippled shoulder re-injured, and was thrown face-down to the pavement. She recognized the officer who conducted the stop as Officer Shane Sawyers.<\/p>\n
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Patrol vehicles in Bridgetown (pop. 25,000) are equipped with ALPR scanners which allow officers to know up front which vehicle in the area belongs to whom. Their use is automatic. Tisiphone, it seems at least extremely likely that this officer targeted the woman who is suing him and his Department. Please check it out.<\/p>\n
Megaera<\/strong> – There are many grudging people in the world today, grudging many things to many other people, but the State of Kansas has become so grudging with a young mother who has Crohn's disease that it has attracted national attention.<\/p>\n Crohn's disease affects about 3.2 per thousand people in Europe and America. If you are like me, you probably have a vague idea of Crohn's as a combination of Republicitis and Republicosis. That's fairly accurate as far as it goes, but it doesn't go nearly far enough. It can also present with anemia, skin rashes, arthritis, eye inflammation, mouth ulcers, and fatigue, and can lead to bowel cancer. There is no cure. Cannabis oil has been shown to alleviate it, at least in some patients.<\/p>\n One patients who gets some relief from cannabis oil is Shona Banda<\/a>, who has been charged with endangering a child, distribution or possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of school property, unlawful manufacture of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. She's facing up to 28 years in state prison for trying to treat her illness. Pretty stiff for a substance that was in every American medicine cabinet until the government decided to demonize it in the early 1900's in order to smear Mexican immigrants.<\/p>\n To add insult to injury, the state has also taken her son, placing him first with his father, then in "protective custody," then back with his father. Now Banda has only limited access to her child. Incidentally, he is considered a witness, and will be put on the stand to testify against her if, as she intends, she pleads not guilty. Megaera, isn't this taking stinginess and grudging a little too far?<\/p>\n Alecto<\/strong> – It's unceasing. It never stops. Fearful people spreading more and more fear (and hate) about innocent people who "look different" from them, and if they also "believe differently," well, that's just more proof. It's in the news again – now the targets are Syrian refugees, who are thought to be terrorists, but who in reality are refugees in the first place because they are RUNNING AWAY from those same terrorists.<\/p>\n Some in particular are claiming that if refugees are to come to the US, we should isolate them in camps as we did with Japanese Americans during WWII. These include Roanoke, VA mayor David Bowers, Tennessee state House GOP Caucus Chairman Glen Casada, Rhode Island State Senator Elaine Morgan, and others.<\/p>\n Unsurprisingly, this does not sit well with Japanese Americans who have been there and done that<\/a>. <\/p>\n In 1988, President Ronald Reagan apologized to the surviving Japanese Americans and paid them token reparations of $20,000 over a 10 year period. The federal commission studying the WWII camps said they were the result of “prejudice, war hysteria, and the failure of political leadership.” No<\/strong> Japanese Americans committed espionage or sabotage during the war. Now, the “prejudice, war hysteria, and failure of political leadership” are being repeated.<\/p>\n So these Japanese Americans are holding a news conference today at the Buddhist Chursh of Florin, in Sacramento County in California, to denounce the whole idea. Not coincidentally, this church is the place where, in 1942, local Japanese Americans were notified of their impending imprisonment.<\/p>\n In the Japanese Buddhist pantheon, there is a god, Fud\u014d My\u014d\u014d, who is described as a sword-brandishing angry wisdom king. Alecto. maybe if you asked nicely, he would be willing to help you with these individuals and groups who are attempting to dehumanize refugees as they did to his people long ago. There are plenty of creatures, such as tengu (wise bird-like demons – you may have heard of them in D&D or Guild Wars, but they are originally from very, very, very old Japan), he could send as reinforcements.<\/p>\n Here is another installment of stuff that happens that is so outrageous it deserves intervention by the mythological Erinyes (or Furies). Just as a reminder, though no one really knows how many there were supposed to be, the three names we have are Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone. 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