The following is an unedited rant about life in America today; I am posting it here without the author's permission or knowledge. I can track him down if needed, but his words speak well; I think the writer is a recent immigrant.
'...They tried to break into my car for the third time; my neighbors car has been stolen. My other neighbors car has been broken into. I have reported to the police but they don’t do nothing. Actually the last time I called they hung up on me. This is getting ridiculous. They’re just going around breaking into peoples cars stealing packages. This is all I see on this app and the ring app and yet the police choose to do nothing they say they can’t do nothing instead of sitting wherever they’re sitting, they should come sit over here.
This is the third time they tried to break into my car the first time they even came back and tried to threaten my wife and my brother who was by the front door. there’s no telling what they will do. Shoot me shoot my family. Obviously these people are scared of anything because nothing happens the police. They only care about causing problems in the street. All I see is the police harassing innocent people on social media all the time pulling over people that don’t need to be pulled over asking for licenses and registration for people who don’t needed to be shown yet we are constantly getting robbed our packages. Our vehicles, nothing is safe ..[here] no more, every single day I hear about people getting robbed or their cars getting stolen or their cars getting broken into and still nothing has been done until we start taking matters into our own hands.
That is the only time that the police will react and more than likely instead of taking or looking for the people who stole the car, they’ll take you to jail, this is a goddamn joke. I have to stay up all night and watch my car so no one breaks into it I honestly have no faith in our judicial system, nor do I have faith in our government.
Feds are raising interest rates. Banks are collapsing. All I hear is commercials about buying gold and silver to protect the dollar and buying survival food. And all of this is connected because once the country starts doing bad, people start breaking into cars and houses it’s just how it goes ever since the move of all the people leaving the area only crackheads and bombs are left here and also people who haven’t been here their whole life. The bay area is no longer. What it used to be? The police don’t do nothing not once have I heard of any cop or police enforcement, helping anybody we work hard for our things I know it’s materialistic, but this is my hands and feet without my car. I am nothing I need it to feed my family. And to take care of responsibilities. If whoever is reading this, and you decide to still break into cars, I’m telling you that if the police won’t do nothing, I will take matters into my own hands to protect my family and their assets.'
The follow up:
'All I did was speak about my car being broken into and people in the comment section were telling me that I will go to jail for protecting my family. How does that make any sense and then my account was suspended, but I did not say anything discriminated, nor did I bullied a single person I stayed respectful to the very end, even though the person continuously telling me that I will go to jail and that I should call a lawyer, being sarcastic and making smart remarks on how a criminal can break into your home and if you shoot them, you can go to jail the continuous breaking’s are getting ridiculous I work very hard for the Little that we do have we’re not even middle class.
We’re barely making it living check . by check. Bills are barely getting paid. Food is barely brought on the table and now I have to deal with someone taking the Little that I do have recently I just lost my best friend which is my cat of 22 years I had posted about it. I’m sure that some of you remember after that, I had posted that my car was broken into about three times and that I had chased them and they were going about 100 miles [per hour] on H..on the opposite direction so I stopped because it became too dangerous.
The comment sections was nothing but a couple people telling me that I will go to jail for protecting my family that if someone breaks into my house and I shoot them, I will go to jail. Every single week my car, or my neighbors car has continuously been robbed; the police, they will never do anything about it. The area is not what it used to be. People most of the people that are here are new, rich and stuck up. Most of these people all they will do is complain on social media instead of making a real difference.
By getting up and voting for our city officials, if real change if you want to see you real change. I think we should vote on a different mayor for the city ... because nothing is being done. I see so many people so many victims of this senseless acts and then you got your people that are protecting these people honestly, the person that was in my comment section saying that I would go to jail if I protected my home, it seem like that they were one of the people going around breaking into cars again next-door.
You disabled my account on grounds that we’re not clear. Do you allow bullying trolls on your app? Instead of punishing the aggressor you punish the victim; never did I discriminate, nor did I say not one curse word. I was completely respectful to the very end, even though they were telling me that I will go to jail for protecting my family. I still wish them nothing but the best.
This is becoming increasingly difficult to take care of my family to live to be alive to breathe to eat. I don’t make a lot of money and now someone is trying to take the little that I do have I will start taking matters into my own hands since the police doesn’t want to do anything about it.'
E. K.
