Strike back in silence
Cosmoline,
I as a responsible Christian and business owner do not condone or support vigilantism at all but I have come to a similiar conclusion as yourself that enough is enough. I have two small children and a lovely wife, and my wife and I have worked hard to establish our business and create a living for us. Everyday is a struggle for us to keep the bills paid and stay off the government support system as we are proud people and refuse to take charity, although for my children I have often thought of getting food stamps, but somehow we manage to do without. I tell you this because I want you all to know I find it offensive that some people chose to steal and torment those of us who work hard for a living.
For those of you who tell Cosmoline to move, I find something fundamentally wrong with that. When my business was broken into the policeman spoke with much consternation and advised me to bar up my windows and to make my business less attractive so that the crook will move onto another business. What is wrong with us, when we care about nothing but our own welfare. I was shocked at this statement as I did not want my neighbor to suffer instead of me. Whatever happened to looking out for each other and the sense of common goodness coming together to rid the town of the rats of society. Instead of all working to get rid of the rat, we hope that our neighbor and his family becomes the cheese. In a free God fearing country, we should not be forced to move by the actions of those who care little about others and have no morals. I was watching the "White Pride" speech on tv yesterday and I heard the Grand Dragon say, "I love it when people tell me they dont condone violence because if I see that person sitting on a pot of gold I am going into his lair and I'm taking it." This is what all the criminals are seeing, they see pots of gold all over the place being watched by video cameras and guys with hands in their pockets yelling, " Go away and rob my neighbor instead, but if you do decide to rob me, oh well". You all should read this article from this very website:
http://www.thefiringline.com/Misc/library/cowards.html
One night as I was about to leave my business, I decided to get out of my car and double check the deadbolts on the doors. When I came back 5 minutes later, someone had taken my backback full of company info, $100 I saved for my families movie night, and my company checks. The officer that responded to this was a nice guy and was disgusted at this incident and he told me that the worst thing about this whole thing is that the chances of catching this guy are 1 in a 1,000 and if they do catch him, he will receive a $50 fine and will receive no jail time. There is nothing to deter this kind of crime as a criminal will scoff at a fine and never pay it because he is not going to worry about his credit history. At my business I have had a rash of stuff stolen, such as powertools, my front door mat, a water basin, rocks, my flag, airless painter, all kinds of stuff and half of the time I was there during business hours. For those of you who tout the whole video camera thing, get real. Havent you seen all the crime videos where the criminals walk in with no regard for the camera. I have caught 4 different people on camera, and tried to prosecute one. All that happened was I wasted 2 days of my life getting this guy a court order for him to pay me back, which he never did. No jail time for this in Oregon. Move my business you say. Well believe it or not I set up my business in one of the ritziest places in Oregon just to get away from this. Eastmoreland is where I am at and the houses average 5,000 square feet and $750,000.
Neighborhood watch? Not with people who have pacifist views like alot of you guys. The only person interested in a neighborhood watch out of the 10 homes I approached was my next door neighbor on the south side of my home. My other next door neighbors hymmed and hawed and were lukewarm with it, but never helped in any crisis. Only my next door neighbor has been vigilant and supportive. Even with my one neighbor and I watching we have had a string of car vandalisms and car theft. My car was entirely gutted of all audio equipment and it had an alarm system in it. If I could afford it I would move, but it is just not feasible at this time.
Get a dog? Well alot of us cant afford a dog, nor have the expertise to care for a dog and that is utterly irresponsible. I have two dogs, a staffordshire and a golden. My neighbor had a wolf dog mix and a collie mix. His wolfdog was poisoned in his front yard. My dogs are part of my family and I dont want them hurt any more than myself. Its not that hard for a crook to walk by and give my dogs a sausage full of rat poison.
What has worked well. Me I am a pacifist so I have done nothing, but a friend whom I have borrowed his acronym for my screen name has done some effective things. He is an avid hunter and archer and thus we call him WOD(W=Whisper O=Of D=Death). He received that name because he shoots traditional and thus he can instinctively hit a milk jug 12 times with 12 arrows in less than 1 minute. To solve my car burglary problems he left my car unlucked with a few tools in view. Low and behold a dark shape appears and begins rummaging through my stuff. WOD sends a Judo Point into his rear end. The guy shreiks in pain and begins to book out of there and gets a rubber blunt to the small of the back for his quick reactions. WOD recovers his bloody Judo point and his blunt tipped arrow. No witnesses, bad guy gone, whooping given.
At the business WOD puts my shop vac next to the front door. WOD waits on the flat roof top. As darkness comes he sees a beat up pickup pull to the curb. A man gets out from the drivers side and grabs the shop vac. As the man turns towards the pickup, he gets a .177 pellet through the hand and drops the vacuum. He yells and gets into the pickup and WOD sends another pellet through the passenger window. The car screeches off but is stopped at the stoplight about 50 yards down the road. WOD sends another pellet through the rear window and another through the passenger side tail light for identification purposes. I have seen that car in town on occasion and have on occassion done my part to put nasty notes on the car.
WODs recommended non-lethal discreet weapons
Roof top stake out:
http://www.pyramidair.com/cgi-bin/model.pl?model_id=135
Judo Points to make a Point:
http://www.hoddywell.com.au/BROADHEADS.html#ZWICKEY CONDOR UNLOSABLE MIRACLE POINT
Blunt Points to put it bluntly:
http://www.yeoldearcheryshoppe.com/....html?osCsid=e32f061d14b07e8cfb2407fd864145fe
How long should we all watch, do nothing, and move again? This is how terrorist got a hold of 4 Boeing aircraft with boxcutters. Only one group in one of those planes chose to fight instead of waiting for somebody to do something. We should all be ashamed of this wanton pacifism thats going around.