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Whenever you don’t give 100% fawning support to cops no matter what they do or say, the cops and their hangers on will accuse you of “hating cops.”

Whenever you don’t run around screaming ACAB and hating on all cops, those who do hate them will accuse you of being a jackboot or a boot licker.

In reality, there is a middle ground. I don’t hate all cops, I hate shitty, cowardly, or crooked cops. Some examples:

• cops who use their positions in order to get away with committing crimes
• cops who take sides and help some criminals break the law while arresting others for the exact same crime
• cops who are cowards, for example- “taking cover” behind soccer moms or hiding when children are being slaughtered just yards away
• cops who abuse their power to bully and harass citizens
• cops who know about other cops behaving like those above, but are either staying silent about it, are actively covering for them or are harassing cops that are brave enough to take a stand. Cops call this “professional courtesy” but most people call it “accessory to a crime” or “witness tampering.”

Each and every one of the above is an example of a “bad cop” and covers about 90% of them. OTOH, that doesn’t mean that I support criminals- quite the opposite. I am opposed to criminals whether or not they wear a uniform and a badge. See, each of the above examples is a crime and if cops want to be “good cops” they can start by policing their own ranks.

To the cop haters who think ACAB and are not needed: There are criminals out there. SOMEONE has to not only catch criminals, but needs to protect the rights of those criminals to due process. If there isn’t such a class of people, you get mob rule, vigilantism, and all of our rights are subject to the lynch mob. In other words, you get social credit scores, along with Twitter and Facebook style justice.

So here is my invitation to people on both sides of the debate: I am inviting one cop supporter and one cop opponent to submit posts for my consideration. I will select one post from each side of the debate for publication on this blog. This is the very first time that I have considered allowing anyone else to write a post for this blog. Explain to me how I am not being fair to your side and how I have it all wrong. Here are the rules:

• Your post must be a minimum of 250 words, maximum of 600 words.
• It cannot contain ads or attempt to sell anything.
• It cannot contain personal attacks against individuals.
• Pay attention to spelling and grammar. If the post is filled with errors, you just look stupid.
• Examples that support your argument look better if you link to your source.
• Your post can’t advocate for committing illegal acts.
• I am the sole judge of what gets published on this blog, but your opinions remain your own, even if you and I disagree. I may suggest edits. If you don’t agree to making those edits, I won’t put words in your mouth. If you refuse those suggested edits, I may decide not to publish your post at all, but I won’t make the edits without your approval.
• All posts submitted remain the property of the LLC that publishes this blog, and that LLC retains all rights to those submissions.

This is your chance to have your say. Prove that I am wrong. If you are cool with those edits, submit your posts by email to divemedic (at) areaocho.com. All submissions are due by Tuesday, September 19 at 11:59 pm. The winners will be picked the following day.

I am getting tons of spam users registering for accounts but never posting any comments. If you have registered for an account and have not yet commented, please comment to this post. That is how I will know who is and isn’t a spam account.

Any registered users that have not posted a single comment by Monday will be purged from the site. If you DO get purged, you can reregister.

I don’t typically concern myself with hurricanes unless they are Category three or higher. The reason being that I am more than 50 miles from either coast, and hurricane damage with smaller storms is pretty much restricted to a mile or two of the ocean. Honestly, Florida gets thunderstorms every afternoon in the summer, and they often have winds of tropical storm strength. This far inland, it just isn’t a problem unless you live in a flood prone area or a mobile home, which I do not.

With that being said, the forecast on Sunday night isn’t looking good, and it looks like this hurricane will be a Cat 3 when I arrives in a couple of days. I spent Sunday before bed picking up all of the outdoor stuff. I am working for the next few days, so the wife is on her own.

At the hospital, we clear out a section of the hospital normally reserved for elective surgeries, and make it into a dorm of sorts for the staff who must work during the storm. That’s where I will be staying for the next three days. There may or may not be any posting. I have a couple on deck that I have already written, and they will likely be the only posts for the time being.

Quite a few people have been asking me in comments and by email for a list of the blogs that I host. I can’t do that unless the blog owners themselves are willing. Confidentiality is another service that I offer. I will let them do so themselves.

After all, word of mouth is the only thing I have for letting people know that I am willing to host.

Ever since moving to my own server, this blog’s visibility has skyrocketed. I am getting 4500 unique visitors a day- over 1.4 million hits in the last year. Big Country is even busier than I am, if my resource counters are any guide. I can’t see how many hits he gets, but his disk access and I/O usage is awesome.

The blogs that I am hosting are actually touching on 100% of available I/O and memory resources. We aren’t running short on disk space, it’s processing that is getting close to max. I may have to add some processing power. The seven blogs that are hosted here are surprisingly popular.

That’s the goal- free speech.

For the first time ever in my blogging career, I am thinking about having a guest post or a collaborative post from another blogger. It came about from a question posed by commenter Joe Blow at this link.

I used to wonder, like what would be the sign, how would you know the communists really have taken over, bolshevism is coming, etc , etc… like, how would you know that balloon has gone up?

My answer was:

I posted on that just after the 2020 election. You can read it here.
https://areaocho.com/vzyali/

The trials have begun.
https://areaocho.com/cia-insurgency-manual/

The show trials MUST happen. I outline why here:
https://areaocho.com/show-trials-4/

You bet your ass that I am closely watching the lists of Republican donors and prominent political figures. If the disappearances begin, you will know that its time to disappear before you hear the knock at your own door.

My experience is all on research and guesses on my part. I would be interested in hearing from anyone who isn’t from the US, and experienced it firsthand.

So here is my request to all of my readers:

If you have any first hand experience or memories of what this would look like from your own past, it would be an honor if you could share some firsthand experience with all of us. You can either share them with me so that I can do a post, or post it on your own blog. If you are interested, please email me at the link in the sidebar. Divemedic at areaocho.com. I have also reached out to another blogger to see if he would be interested in this project.

I just banned an entire IP address: 104.165.169.245

A fake user registered from that IP and spammed this site with over 200 comments last night. They were deleted in moderation before they were published, but that is annoying. If you are using that IP, you won’t be able to comment on this blog.

Now that we have registration, there has been a large number of users attempting to register from fake email domains, and there are even a few that have registered from government accounts in the Ukraine. I went through and deleted a large number of fake registrations. If I deleted you by mistake, please let me know by email. I got an alert from my server that someone attempted to install malware on the site, so I am going to tighten security a bit.

I have installed a number of security plugins that should be invisible to readers, but will greatly enhance the blog’s resistance to spam and to malware. Email me with any concerns or problems.