Early on the morning of Wednesday, January 24th, two delivery men arrived at a home in Accocreek, MD to make a routine furniture delivery. The delivery was being made to the home of Kevin A. Washington, who happens to work as an official for the Dept. of Homeland Security and as a Corporal in the Prince George County’s Police Dept.

Little did the two movers know that they would both be shot, and that one of them wouldn’t live to talk about it.

As reported by the Washington Post:

In the statement, White said he waited in the movers’ truck Jan. 24 while Clark met Washington in his home. He said Clark, 22, returned and said, “Man, this guy is looking for a fight.”

White said Clark then telephoned a supervisor. Officials have confirmed that such a call took place, and Clark’s girlfriend has said the supervisor instructed the deliverymen to give Washington whatever he wanted.

Washington directed the movers to an upstairs bedroom, White said, where they set down the new bedrails. White said Washington pushed Clark, who was then on his knees, and crudely ordered him to leave the house.

White said Washington grew angrier when Clark asked him why he had not disassembled the other bed, parts of which were to be taken away by the movers. Washington shoved him again, White said, and answered: “Man, now you are going to tell me what to do in my house? Get the [expletive] out of my house.”

White said he and Clark headed for the stairs. Clark, walking backward and holding up his hands “in the surrender position,” told Washington he did not want to fight, White said.

Washington opened fire. Clark was struck first, White said. White laid his injured co-worker down and began to search for a cellphone. “I then heard a few more shots and realized I had been shot,” White said.

When Washington stepped back into the bedroom, White said, he tried again to locate the phone.

“The customer must have seen me move because he shot me in the knee and said, ‘I told you not to move,’ ” White said.

Washington, his gun still pointed at the two men, then telephoned someone he appeared to know, White said. ” ‘These two dudes just broke up in my house, and I shot both of them and they are here bleeding all over my carpet,’ ” White quoted Washington as saying. ” ‘They beat me up real good. . . . Yeah, they hit me with a pipe.’ ”

County police have said Washington was injured seriously enough to require treatment at a hospital but have declined to describe his injuries.

As they lay bleeding, White said, he and Clark pleaded with Washington, asking that he give them a phone or call for help. The first police officers to arrive appeared to believe the deliverymen were intruders, White wrote. One handcuffed Clark, White said, and the other told White, ” ‘Man, what are you doing in this house? You know you just broke into a cop’s house?’ ”

It was only then, White said, that he realized Washington was a police officer. White said that the responding officer looked surprised when White said he and Clark were deliverymen and that the officer then ordered another officer to remove Clark’s handcuffs.

Winkelman said White, who was shot in the chest, knee and abdomen, was readmitted to a hospital yesterday because of a possible infection.

To date Washington has been administrative leave with pay. Wait, maybe you didn’t catch that. This guy shot two people, killing one, and then he tried to lie and cover up his actions, claiming he’d been attacked and he’s on paid vacation?

We have a serious problem in this country. Hardly a day goes by where a police officer doesn’t kill an unarmed American, whether in the line of duty or not. The reports of police using tasers, chemical weapons, and excessive force are even more common. The only thing that hasn’t increased is police being held accountable, whether by being fired or prosecuted. Half the time they are promoted after being cleared.

I have a question. What ever happened to “protect and serve”? I still see it on the side of cop cars, but no in the actions of the police. In fact the trend is going in the other direction. More and more police are working against the people, at the local level all the way up to the federal authorities.

The bottom line? Our police our out of control, and we need to take steps to put them back in their place before things get any worse.

About six or seven months ago when the first real talk of Window Vista I started seeing articles about the DRM present in the new operating system. At that time I didn’t really know what DRM was, but it sounded bad so I decided to check it out.

After researching DRM (Digital Rights Management) I must say I was scared. For those of you who don’t know what DRM means let me simplify it. DRM makes it so you can not buy and own a digital copy of media (music, video, etc), instead, you may buy permission to use the file as long as you follow the rules and observe certain limitations that benefit the seller, which in turn makes them more powerful, and able to come up with even more restrictive policies.

Yeah, not my idea of fun either.

So, now that I’d become aware the restrictive anti-features of Vista I needed to figure what I was going to do to prevent myself from being subjected to this. Luckily, in the comments of a lot of these articles I saw people saying so what, they were running Linux so they didn’t have to worry about it.

Linux? Not worry about it? Sounds like a plan to me.

So I start doing some research on what Linux is. Turns out it’s the name of a whole other operating system you can use to run your computer. Only catch is, it’s not made by some big evil company. Instead, it’s maintained and advanced by a huge community of developers who work on the different distributions (distros) of linux, that are like customized versions for people with different preferences. Sound crazy? I haven’t even gotten to the really crazy part.

They give it away for free. Not just free as in beer, (though in most cases it is) but also free as in freedom, like free speech. When you use this system you are free to use it however you want. You are actually encouraged to tinker with it and make it better, and then share your discoveries with your fellow users, so they might use it if they like too.

What could better demonstrate the reason freedom works so well. People from around the world taking advantage of the free network that is the internet, and using it as the platform to share and distribute everything you could ever need for your computer for free.

The whole idea behind the truth movement of today, whether it be anti war, anti new world order, anti gun control, anti big government, is to spread information to as many people as possible, so that we may reach the critical mass necessary to create real change in this country. One of the greatest assets we have in spreading this information is through the internet, using our computers. Why should we trust this great task to a computer that isn’t going to do what we want when it conflicts with what these giant corporations want it to do.

What happens when they have tools that will turn our computers off when we try to post an unapproved blog?

By then it will to late to win this battle, and much, much farther from taking back our nation.

Lets not see that day.

Sites to look at when thinking about linux:

Ubuntu – This is what I use, and it works great

http://distrowatch.com/ Information about the different linux distros

Youtube video of the Beryl 3-D Desktop Once you see this you’ll want it