To My Neighbors Dedicated to Defending Our Beloved Governor Inslee

I miss Texas. Somebody comes onto your property you don't have to wait for them to actually shoot you. Your home is your castle and if someone comes into your castle, they take their lives in their hands. Governor Inslee is a pathetic governor in my opinion. It is only my opinion. He is in no danger from me. Whether he told the cops not to arrest people or not? I don't know. But Democrat run cities all over the Pacific Northwest have hobbled their cops, cut their budgets so they have inadequate resources, and decriminalized shoplifting, burglary, assault (depending on what organization you belong to), arson and have ordered their law enforcement people not to pursue criminals (unless they are spray painting the mayor's house or something heinous like that). You can walk into any Seattle store and so long as you only swipe $25 or less in merchandise, the store can't arrest you and the cops won't come, nor will the courts prosecute you. Why do you think people from Seattle are pouring into Puyallup, filling up all those new apartment complexes and McMansions as fast as they can build 'em.

You can say what you like, call folks trolls, accuse them of lying, but the fact is we've got criminals pillaging our neighborhoods and we're seeing the courts do catch and release or worse, do nothing at all even if the cops do arrest them. Remember the guy last year that set fire to the median on the highway going south from Puyallup?  He was arrested, released in a few hours and walked down the street and broke into a business. Then this Spring he got caught thanks to some neighbors looking out for each other as he was running around our neighborhoods stealing from cars, mailboxes, and houses. You can rave on about how it's not the fault of our overlords in Olympia that Seattle, once a beautiful city, is beginning to look like a war zone. If it stayed there in Seattle, well, they asked for it. But chaos, destruction and crime tend to leak out into neighboring cities.

So defend the powers that be if you want. I mean many of you defending the governor and his minions voted for the guy and it's very hard to admit you may have made a mistake. I get it. But the fact that people perceive the big guy as the problem, is a fairly common response. When Trump was president, the same people defending Inslee were confident that Trump was the root of all evil.

We're playing politics while our neighborhoods are becoming less safe, we've got thieves cruising our streets, perverts exposing themselves to children, porch pirates and mailbox thieves operating with impunity. Something's wrong and if we don't do something about it, it's going to get unlivable around here. Someone broke my mailbox and stole my wife's medication - something she critically needed. As I said, I'm from Texas, and down there, the neighbors would have delivered these hoodlums hog-tied to the cops in short order. It's incredible to me that we have video of these crimes being committed and of the perps who committed them and all anyone can do is say "Watch out."

Flight out of this state has begun in earnest. You can pick up a house full of furniture on Facebook Marketplace for free because people can't get big enough U-Hauls to take all their stuff, so they are giving it away. This state is going to run out of taxpayers in short order, just like California and Oregon are. If our governor and legislature successfully disarm us all, it's going to get really interesting here in the neighborhood. There's an old Chinese curse that goes, "May you live in interesting times." Well, it's getting more interesting all the time.

I'm old and crippled up, but I will stand watch if someone will organize such a thing. The elderly and those with children, like the mother of the kid a pair of perverts tried to run down and abduct last week (caught on camera), are particularly worried. And we're hearing no sign that this state's government has any intention of doing something about the rampant crime and the threat to our most vulnerable citizens other than remove the ability of citizens to defend themselves with firearms. I'm too old to take a refresher karate class, so hand to hand combat is no longer a viable way to defend hearth and home, especially when, unless you're about to shoot a home invader, the cops may or may not come.

So please before you dismiss the concerns of people you call trolls, how about responding to their concerns with some compassion. Calling a person, a troll is as much hate speech as their anger at Inslee. I suspect the governor isn't worried about the people who are angry with him, anyway. He has enough people in Seattle alone, both the living and the dead, to get himself reelected. He doesn't need anyone to defend him to the rubes out in the hinterlands.

We're neighbors for crying out loud. This forum is one way of getting communication going in an age where we live in boxes, commute to work in boxes with wheels, and work in cubicles. We don't sit on the porch much and if you want to meet your neighbors, you need to walk about 3 miles a day. You'll run into some lovely older folk and their dogs and have nice friendly conversations. Oddly enough, most face-to-face encounters don't include anything upsetting about Jay Inslee so you shouldn't have to defend him.

I will tell you this, if I see flashers, porch pirates, thieves and child abductors operating around my area, I won't stand quietly by. I've taken a more militant path to neighborhood security. Take whatever meaning you wish from that.

Have a lovely summer day. I'm looking forward to the summer heat we are being promised. My joints like the heat and the reduced dampness and I'm a lot less cranky when my arthritis isn't trying to beat me into submission.

See you around the 'hood, folks.

© 2021 by Tom King