Tough Toni was a young man that I had dealt with on many occasions while a patrolman in River City. I gave Tough Toni his Street moniker My Self. Toni was not a bad kid at heart. He was undisciplined and lacked a sense of personal worth. Tough Toni was adopted into a well off River City family. The Mother was a sensitive woman who decided to adopt because she felt sorry for Toni. I don’t know what the circumstances were of Toni’s life prior to his adoption. I just know that whenever Toni would screw-up and I would take him home . Mom would sit me down and make the excuse that Toni was special because “ He was adopted you know” This woman was not unique I had three of these boys in the district I patrolled. All were about the same age and all had moms that felt sorry for them because they were “adopted” Toni was not the worst one of the three. The worst was the preachers son that was discussed in book one.

The fact that Toni was adopted may have been a righteous act, but I believe it was done for the wrong reason. By the time Toni was 15 he had developed the notion that there was something wrong with him personally. If I caught him doing something wrong He was starting to bring up the fact that he was adopted as if that was a valid excuse.

By the time Toni was 18 the family had had enough and moved him out to an apartment. He had fallen in with burglars.

One evening I got a call to a local tavern. The bartender said a customer had taken one of the chairs from the tavern and drove off with it. He had gotten the license number of the car. I tracked it to Toni who was living at a small apartment several blocks from the tavern.

My partner and I went to the door and knocked. Toni opened the door. We Saw the chair in the living room and advised him of his rights and asked Toni about it. At this time I also noticed a rifle through the crack behind the door. We went in and secured the weapon. I ran the serial number on the rifle. It Came back stolen. At this point Toni did not want to talk. We looked around the apartment and saw numerous antiques. We had just been told of a burglary of the local museum at briefing. Things were starting to go really bad for Toni.

We sealed the room and I went and got a search warrant. The Judge was so pleased with the circumstances surrounding the warrant that he asked if he could use the affidavit in his search and seizure class at the local college.

Now things go from bad to worse for Toni. We search the place and recover stolen weapons, museum pieces, and two pounds of Marijuana from a closet in the bedroom.

As all this came together and Toni Started feeling the heat, He tried the old I’m adopted routine on me. I looked at Toni and Said “Toni that’s tough really tough. Toni from now on I’m going to call you tough Toni because every time you ask me for a break I’m going to say Tough! Toni!” When I Booked him I wrote under his AKA TOUGH TONI . As far as I know he got the message I never heard from him again.

When I was a young man about 15 years old, I was having a lot of trouble with being picked on. My Uncle took me aside and told me this (Nil Bastardy Carborundum) He said It is Latin meaning “ Don’t let the bastards get you down” I don’t know Latin or weather that is the real translation or not but it sounds kind of right so I use it. It was strange coming from him as he was one of the biggest offenders when it came to picking on me. He was forever getting his younger brother who was 3 months older than me to wrestle me. If I started to get the best of the match he would intervene and reverse the outcome. Most of the time he was a good guy and we learned a lot from him and the wrestling sessions helped me to overcome many of life’s setbacks.

I told this story to Toni and to many other young miscreants over the years in the hopes that they might see that everyone that Craps on you is not doing it because they want to hurt you. They may be just trying to get your attention. Hardships can be a blessing in disguise if you use them to motivate and enlighten your path through life’s troubles.

Blog 51

Should the president resign?

I believe the President of the United States should resign for the good of the nation. we all need to demand it. Over the last six years this President has consistently used the power of his office to stifle the will of the majority of the people to please a minority constituency. His world view is insufficient for the responsibilities the world requires of an American President. There are no qualities of leadership that exist in this man. His style of leadership, if you can call it that is to obstruct, incite, and vacillate.

He has obstructed the economic recovery by holding up the keystone pipe line, allowing a flood of illegal emigrants to flood the job market, failed to press infrastructure upgrades, over regulated the business community and is pressing phony claims to justify raising taxes.

He has demeaned the police and incited riotous behavior by his false and misleading comments on a number of occasions. He has stood by while his attorney general literally looked the other way while thugs intimidated voters, and has used the power of the office to intimidate police agencies all over the nation. He has allowed the IRS to intimidate his opposition.

Internationally he has vacillated and failed to lead and by his inaction he is pushing the world towards world war III. If something is not done and done quickly a terrorist nation with a suicidal mentality will create an atom bomb; they will use it in the belief it will bring about the second coming of their holy one. Our ability to retaliate means nothing to them.

This week he gave a speech to Christians and admonished them for the sins of the past, saying that whenever Christians get on their “high horse’ they do bad things too, seemingly in defense of radical Muslim terrorist who had just burned a human being to death in violation of international law a WAR crime.

I say every time Christians got on our “high horse” in this nation it was to stop things like slavery, and the KKK. The crusades, Mr. President; were started by Muslim invaders, and that has little to do with the here and now!

It is high time for every good person in this nation to take up the cry for Justices and the resignation of this president.

I’m not politically active but I’m ready to join citizens for Joe Biden.

S. Henry Knocker
theknockerblog.com

February,4 2015

Blog 50
The presidential flat spot

Americans are being beheaded, our allies are under attack and being beheaded, and Muslims are being burned alive for taking a stand. Our president says to the press he is taking measured actions, and it would not be good to get all up in their face. We might escalate the situation and start a WAR?

Why did this man run for office? Was it for the free golf lessons? He has blocked every legislative effort to improve the economy. He won’t stand for any changes to his fool hardy venture into the health care industry. Do nothing seem to be his answer to every situation he is faced with. He is A W O L from his responsibility to do the nation’s business. Everything he is advocating seems to be things that are against the will of the American people. He interferes in domestic state law enforcement with an overzealous justice department while letting the IRS target his political opposition.

If you don’t want to do the job Mr. President resign and we will deal with the other fool on your ticket. Doing nothing is as bad as desertion in the face of the enemy.

A human being was burned alive by a bunch of war criminals it is the duty of all the leaders of the free world to bring to bear the full weight of the world down on their heads that means boots on the ground with fixed bayonets. The fleets of the world need to be turned to the Middle East and this nonsense needs to end now. We the people need to lead. That means you Mr. President Do your Job or get out of the way and let someone with a backbone do the job.

S. Henry Knocker
theknockerblog.com

Blog 49
What the heck is going on?

The American education system, is it in shambles? You would think so watching Jessy Waters on fox ask Americans simple history questions like who was the first president of the United States of America? When the answer is I don’t know or Bill Clinton there seems to be a problem in America.

I have started asking my grandchildren a few simple questions regarding our American history.
Who was our first president? Who was president during the civil war? What were the reasons for the civil war? Which side won the war? Who was the president during the World War II? What happened to John Kennedy? Have we ever had an actor become the president? And the real stumper: What the difference between an elephant and a pussyfor?

I know I’m going to get smacked for the last one but if you can’t answer the others you deserve that one.

So far as I see it the biggest dummies come out of our most elite colleges. I do question Mr. Water’s choice of locations to grab people and ask his questions, the beach at spring break or the campus common. Maybe he would get a better result if he made his inquiries at the campus library?

This Water’s world thing has been going on for several years and the results have been less than one would be expected of college level students. I wonder why the educational community would put up with it without starting a counter effort on PBS or one of the NEA touting lefty networks. It makes me think, is that the goal of the left, to dumb down the nation to better control us?

Well Mr. Waters will you check out the libraries or a real collage like Liberty, or Seattle University, or maybe the kindergarten at Highland Park elementary?

S. Henry Knocker
theknockerblog.com

Blog 48

A Sunday Sermon: To the far left and the far right and all of us in-between.

If we do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy, He will again have compassion on us; He will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.
For if we forgive men when they sin against us, your heavenly Father will also forgive us. But if we do not forgive men their sins, our Father will not forgive us our sins.

There is a tendency for us mortals to think that we are always right, so we tend to grow cross when confronted with honest disagreements. We call one another names like, lefty Lunes, or righty uptighties. Hopefully it is all in good fun with one and other. But when it is not we need to remember the preceding admonitions from the good book. For those of you who have no faith just change the references to God and father to Mother earth or some such thing you will get the picture. I hope some of our Muslim brothers and sisters would remember this, it’s in your book too.

This forgiveness thing; don’t mean that we all have to sit down and have dinner together. Just respect each other’s point of view. The dinner thing is optional. The forgiveness thing is not.

To all those I may have offended in the past, and all those I will offend in the future, I beg your forgiveness. For all those that seek to offend me I forgive you.

Let’s keep the dialog going.

GO HAWKS !

S. Henry Knocker
theknockerblog.com

Lefty lunacy: The blind ideology

Gitmo; a prisoner of war camp on the island of Cuba, used principally for the housing of war detainees in the war on terror, is on the lefts agenda for elimination. The left holds the mistaken belief that this camp is a recruiting tool for a group that they are hard pressed to even admit exist. All of those with their eyes wide open call this group, “Radical Islamic Terrorists” The left seemingly believes that if the western nations would stop antagonizing the peaceful Muslims of the world with this camp they will settle down and stop killing anyone that doesn’t think like they do.

This is not going to happen. The only way the lefty lunes can save themselves, short of war, is to convert to the brand of religion the terrorist are espousing. That will require the lefties to bomb the innocent or kill a bunch of kids for watching TV. Whatever saves their cowardly butts I guess? It’s not too farfetched to say that; don’t they kill babies in their mother’s wombs? They let poor disadvantaged kids in the cities they run kill each other because they are too cowardly to impose a little discipline in the schools that are run by them. I call this the blind Ideology but it may be better described as the cowardly ideology.

The Left seems to love the constitution when the message is freedom to do whatever they please. The concept of personal responsibility is foreign to their understanding of freedom. Free this free that free,free, free. Free love, free school, free milk and cookies for mom and the kids. All this free stuff is paid for by freewheeling tax hiking lunes that have spent the nation into the possession of having to borrow to pay the interest on the national debt.

We are a nation that is in deep debt. The lefts response is to eliminate business education from elementary schools and replace it with sex education. We are a nation that sees its inner city youth killing each other. Our answer, we eliminate discipline in the schools and legalize drugs. You have to be BLIND to not see the correlation.

Today on the news here in the once great State of Washington the progressive Marijuana law has begun to reap a huge spike of overdose calls to the poison control center with children ingesting the drug in the eatables left lying around by the I don’t give a dam parents.

So what did you expect?

S. Henry Knocker
theknockerblog.com

Blog 46

Pens, Phones, and Erasers

There is nothing in the constitution that gives lefty agnostics any direct protection from government, but there is protection for religious institutions and persons of faith. So when I read some lefty lunacy on twitter about how folks just need to get over the attacks from the left over our first amendment rights to believe in God, I get a little perplexed. They seem to think the first amendment is all about free speech. If we have to rank according to the order they are articulated in the first amendment, religious freedom comes first on the list. The others are put in there because without them the government could have said you are free to think what you like, but they might stop you from assembling in a church or tell a preacher what he might preach, or prohibit the press from reprinting sermons which was a regular practice back in that day.

Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

If you notice the religion thing comes first. The speech thing come second, then the press, then assembly, and it is peaceably assemble. It is not ok to exercise civil disobedience and burn the town down. Assembly is only to petition the government for redress of your grievances. The civil disobedience notion comes from an essay by Henry David Thoreau not Saul Alinsky.

If you had an eighth grade education in the fifties you knew that. Most of the young kids popping off on twitter don’t know who these people are or why this country was founded in the first place.

The liberal Press is about to get a dose of the very social disorder they seem to champion. The attack on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo is just the first Salvo. The anarchist movement in this country most probably will get around to similar tactics against our news outlets in this country. It will serve some of them right because they are the champions of anarchy.

It seems to this observer that the qualifications to become a constitutional law professor in this country hit rock bottom with the current occupant of the White House. It seems now he is determined to drag the office of the president down the same rat hole. He needs to remember that he may hold the presidential pen and phone, but the people hold the eraser.

S. Henry Knocker
theknockerblog.com

Blog 45

Is Social Security going to run out of money?

Seems we constantly hear Social Security is running out of money. We never hear about welfare or food stamps running out of money? What’s interesting is the first group “worked for” their benefit, but the second did not. I am a bit tired of the game Congress plays with the entitlement blackmail system.

The con-game works like this; first they make the pronouncement that this or that program is running out of money. Then they offer a fix that will kick the can down the road a generation, but not really fix the problem. By not really fixing the problem they guarantee that this event will resurface in a few years. The congress does this deliberately, in my opinion in order to have a vehicle by which they can attach the boondoggles that we all complain about. Why do we let this happen?

Why in this electronic age do we send our representative to Washington DC in the first place? Why can’t we give them offices in the state capitals and they could vote online and meet online. We the people could do our own lobbying. They could make their deals with us. I would be willing to bet there would be a lot less pork in the budget

We could better control the national purse if the federal representatives were paid by the individual states. Each state could make rules restricting lobbing to those their representative is elected to represent. Would that end a lot of the D C shenanigans? We insist the states balance their budgets maybe that should rub off on the feds.

Why is Washington D.C. located on the east coast anyway? Should it not be located somewhere in the middle of the country? It’s downright unfair that the folks on the east coast have ready access to our representatives and we on the west coast don’t. It seems to me that in the age of missiles and nut case terrorist that it might be safer some place in the middle. How about this: The white house gets moved to say Nebraska. The Senate to the west coast and leave the representatives in their respective states. Just something to think about.

Why are we cutting benefits for our veterans, denying pay raises for our military, and reducing our army to a level that is lower than before WWII? Why are we not stopping the payments or benefits to illegal aliens?
It may be time to really shake up Washington D. C. That long talked about constitutional convention Might just be in order.

S. Henry Knocker
theknockerblog.com

January 10, 2015

Blog 44

Lefty lunacy The magic ideology

We are advised not to judge all Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge all gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics.

Communism becomes socialism becomes progressivism. As soon as the public gets on to an ism they change the language the aim stays the same. The aim is to enslave us. They intend that we the people should be a rubberstamp for the excesses of the human condition.

The poor in America are the instrument by which the middle class are to be enslaved. The left uses the poor to soften the hearts of a doddering American electorate. There are no “poor in America”. The average American has never seen the poor. The average poor person in this country can get, food, shelter, medical, a free phone, clothing, and legal help, and never work a day to get it. It is the middle class worker that has to struggle for these things.

The straw that is really breaking the back of the middle class is OBAMA CARE, Affordable Care Act, and whatever else they decide to name it. I have already been smacked with this one. The rest of you are about to be face planted by the cost of this albatross.

By April 15 the first shutters of realization will sweep over the nation. Those that have stuck their heads in the sand will be blasted into the realization that medical care is not free and never will be. The other guy can’t pay for it all. The I R S will stick its gun in your faces and say GIMME SOME!

What can we do? We could recall every politician that voted for this boondoggle. We could start calling the whack jobs and letting it rip at them. Oh no I tried that. They won’t take our calls or answer an email unless you are a big donor. I did get in to see my representative but he just pulled the old guilt trip on me. His mother you know died of cancer. Well so did my great grandpa. We all have that story to tell. Some of us had affordable insurance all ready and now we can’t afford what the government wants to shove down our throats. I haven’t had a vacation in twenty years but I had Health insurance for me and my family.

Lefty lunacy The magic ideology has taken care of our hopes for that vacation for the for seeable future.

S. Henry Knocker

theknockerblog.com