About this user
I enjoy teaching and learning. Among my favorite things is conversation.
I am just a person with ideas about how things are and/or ought to be. Also, I have five children from three women. But I was a scapegoat long before I had "illegitimate" children (that is a hell of a term); so feel free to vent your half-ass social philosophy about how I am "what is wrong with society". But can you imagine how desensitized I have become to arguments such as yours - weak, capricious arguments?
Years ago, I was assaulted by four gentlemen of African-American descent. I suffered a concussion and a fractured skull. To them, it was about race; to many who have heard the story (in full) - it was about race; to me, it was about four people who would do better if they knew better. Moreover, if anyone should be pitied, it would be the next two people (years later) who attacked me. I vented a lot of my frustration and fear on their faces. Though it was self-defense, I am extra-lucky that they were both gentlemen of Caucasian descent... so I was never in the running for a hate-crime.
Another time in my life, while working as technical internet support for Cox Communications, I was sexually harassed by a female supervisor, then fired. Her name was Toni Savoy. Her name is probably still Toni Savoy ;) The story, in full, is quite unbelievable.
Also unbelievable were my experiences in bootcamp for the United States Navy. I was in bootcamp for about nine months (long story). I personally met hundreds, if not thousands, of people and heard their personal life stories. Especially, they would tell me their motivations for joining the military. In bootcamp, I was clear-headed and skeptical... amidst innumerable mercenaries-in-training. Nearly each and every one of them wanted to quit. They wished for a way out. But nearly none of them found a way out - they did not know how to leave; because they were told that - if they were to quit - they would face criminal charges: a two hundred-fifty-thousand dollar fine and up to five years in prison. That was not true. Still, nearly all of them were too scared and sleep-deprived to question anything. That was in 1999. Those people are, now, your United States military personnel, after having endured some of the same mind-altering tactics which are used on those whom we hold as prisoners of war, including - but certainly are not limited to - meticulously implemented sleep-deprivation, and participation in raucous, hyperbolic chants of psychopathy: "If I am captured, I will die trying to escape; or, if I have information that may compromise my mission, I will kill myself so that I am not tortured to the point of sharing what I know. And if I must kill myself, then I will also kill as much of the enemy, before I die, that I am able to". Many who chanted things such as these will hardly remember having done so (at least not consciously). Instead, they will have compartmentalized their mind away from the experiences.
Age
33
Hometown
San Diego (Lakeside)
Country
United States
Occupation
I am nationally certified in fitness training and massage therapy.
Companies
I am unemployed. I am on welfare. May I date your daughter?
Schools
Really, the last grade that I finished was 3rd grade, at Winter Gardens Elementary School in Lakeside. Then I went to Tierra Del Sol middle-school a little, then to El Capitan High for half of a semester (poorly). I got my G.E.D. through the juvenile correctional system.
