Thou shalt not steal!!!!!
Yesterday I had the day off work, I had a number of errands to run, and was really tired after the weekend away, I had breakfast with an amazing lady, one of the many admirable people that I have the privilege of calling "friend", and had then planned to spend the afternoon with another really good friend who I have not seen in a while.
We had arranged to meet at 1 o'clock, so as I arrived at her house to pick her up, she and her husband had just arrived home from a morning of running errands, my timing was to say the least perfect, but then again it always is .....................
She popped inside quickly to go to the ladies, and the next minute we heard her shouting "We've been robbed"...................... my heart stopped, her husband and I rushed inside, unprepared for the absolute devastation we would find inside............
They had not been robbed, this was more that a robbery, their home had been violated, their home had been almost raped, by some unfeeling, uncaring, inhuman, beings ................... you cannot call them human, because no human is capable of the destruction that these "beings" caused, the rooms had been torn apart there was not a drawer or cupboard that had not been torn apart obviously looking for hidden firearms and money...........
The safe had been torn out of the wall, and in doing so the entire cupboard had been destroyed whole pieces of the wall, had been ripped off, the sides of the cupboard were reduced to splinters ....... the main bed room was almost inaccessible the passage littered with suitcases that had been discarded in their attempt to find the "Mother Lode"...........
Memories, pictures, artifacts gathered during years of marraige, family heirlooms, gone forever something that would mean nothing to the perpetrators of this crime, but which means a memory forever taken away from these amazing people........ camera's full of images that cannot be replaced taken ............ the cases of protection discarded like rubbish outside as they loaded there "shopping" into a waiting vehicle, a calculated well planned crime ...............
The inconvenience is mammoth .............. passports gone.......... birth certificates gone........... deeds to the house gone......... keys to every thing that has a lock, neatly labeled for use gone............. but more that that your security, your peace of mind , gone............ your ability to sleep gone ..............
The sad part is that, we are to blame, if no one would buy things "off the back of the truck" then there would be no market for crime, there would be no one to buy other peoples heirlooms, there would be no robbery there would be no crime ....................
The inconvenience is mammoth .............. passports gone.......... birth certificates gone........... deeds to the house gone......... keys to every thing that has a lock, neatly labeled for use gone............. but more that that your security, your peace of mind , gone............ your ability to sleep gone ..............
The sad part is that, we are to blame, if no one would buy things "off the back of the truck" then there would be no market for crime, there would be no one to buy other peoples heirlooms, there would be no robbery there would be no crime ....................
Give AFFIRMATIVE SHOPPING a good name .. start shoppping yourself only at small preferably one outlet retail shops ... help create many small business opportunities instead of mindlessly allowing monopolies to control your life and your power to choose
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