Anatomy of Terror

If you are close enough to see a badge number, keep your hands in your pockets.

They will bag your personal effects including rings, phones, and gifted family lockets.

It has less to do with evidence, and is more about provoking you.

The game is premised on self-control, fail once and trained hands will be choking you.

Watch out for the questions they ask you twice to spot a fabrication.

You will receive no warning, just stiff muscles and a burning sensation.

Tasers are not lethal, so when they have their fun, it is no big surprise.

Wilt under the voltage, and a prepared autopsy will say your health was already compromised.

They're not looking for guns or dope, they want to take your dignity.

In any courtroom your chance at a fair shake is one out of infinity.

You know your right to keep silent and to be afforded an attorney.

But the D.A. is on the take and the look he gives the arresting officer is wormy.

Some lessons are not ones that you ever expected to learn.

Certain Americans can loose their citizenship with one illegal U-turn.

If its their word against yours, they will drudge up your sins from the second grade.

Any cowboy that discharges his weapon will get the type of suspension that is fully paid.

If you fight back, the playbook mandates you be called a communist for some odd reason.

It doesn't matter how much you go to church, your clenched teeth are tantamount to treason.

They will rattle off doctored statistics to convince you the problem is in your head.

However, the numbers they crunch to impress public opinion mean absolutely nothing to the dead.

A couple of bad apples are good for a glass of hard apple cider.

Caught in a web of lies, it took me half my life to realize I'm not the spider.